"Taxi" (Taxi) is a well-known action comedy film written by a well-known French director Luc Besson in 1998. The film had a global box office of more than 40 million U.S. dollars that year. There were four sequels, one in the United States. A remake of the movie version and a 12-episode series co-produced by the United States and France to continue the taxi trend of the series.
In 1998, "Taxi Express" was directed by Gérard Pirès and Luc Besson was the screenwriter. It was about a taxi driver Daniel with super high racing skills and a clumsy driver. The story of police officer Émilien teaming up against a group of bank robbers. The pleasing setting of the two male protagonists, the steady director skills of Gilar Pires, the script escort of Luc Besson, the smooth action racing scenes and the interesting comedy sections make "Taxi Express" It really made a good start for this series.
At that time, Marion Cotillard (Marion Cotillard) was still a fresh and sexy new generation star. Through his performance in this work, he won the 24th César Awards (César Awards for 1999) Best New Actress (Meilleur). espoir féminin). For male non-fan audiences, the highlight of this film is basically her.
In 2000, "Taxi 2" (Taxi 2) came back with the same wonderful script, another level of jokes and the return of the original crew. The story was transferred from the bank robbers to the kidnapping of the daughter of the Minister of Defense of Japan. Obviously The upgrade (internationalization) of the plot means the expansion of the layout. At the same time, directors Gérard Krawczyk and Luc Besson worked together to increase the description of the action scenes, and they also controlled the whole film well. The rhythm makes it more compact than the first part, and the high-energy part is relatively concentrated, so the look and feel will be appropriately improved.
Of course, playing the same routine too much may not be good. Gérard Kvazk brings the same elements to the next two sequels: "Taxi 3" and "Taxi 3" and "Taxi 4" "(Taxi 4), to some extent, can be considered a good thing. After all, the same main creator can ensure that the quality of the finished product will not be too bad. In fact, it also proves that "Taxi 3" is not the worst in the series. But it will not be better, because most of its elements have already been played in the second part. Even if some action elements are added or replaced, the core line is still the two main creators gag-like to solve the case smoothly.
When I came to "Taxi Express 4", it was obvious that the main creator had already played the world, and the ratio of the two male protagonists was obviously out of balance. From the perfect fusion of the original racing car and the entanglement of the police and the robbers, to the fourth part. A large number of scenes of criminal investigations and other characters. Although this is not a new story for the old audience of the series, it is a self-poke tire for the whole series itself; the brave Daniel retires to the second line to take care of the children. , The clumsy and stubborn Emilian and the director of the series Evergreen Gibert (Commissaire Gibert) acted as the executors of most of the highlights and scenes. By then, Marion Cotillard had already realized that the series was getting worse and worse and chose Withdrawal, all these hints seem to indicate that the series has gradually come to an end.
In fact, this is basically true. It was not until the appearance of "Taxi 5" 11 years later that this conclusion was really true. In 2018, the young director Franck Gastambide picked up this not-so-bright sign again, determined to polish and color it, and restart the series, but in addition to being able to call back the division's distribution corner, Luc Bay Song is only returning to the production position. The main positions of director, starring, and screenwriter are all taken by Frank Gaston Peter himself.
Then Frank Gaston Peter held the mentality that if the fifth part sells well, he will continue to shoot the sixth part, and finally shot the work of "I'm just staying here temporarily, and I will leave soon". Perhaps it is the lack of experience. The overall story of "Taxi Express 5" is seriously fragmented, and the logic is not matched. It is more like an ambiguous compromise in the direction of the comic style of the script and finally completely deformed; at the same time, the character design is lacking in polishing, and the two heroes The number one character has changed from a taxi driver to a policeman, while the number two character still has the same clumsy character as the previous Emilian, but to some extent it is more like changing such a number two character from "clumsy but But I want to do everything well" is written as "mentally retarded and has no motivation to act"; of course, the main problem is still the lack of core driving force of the contradiction between the two male protagonists.
Although "Taxi Express 5" did not cause a big wave in the final box office reputation, Frank Gaston Peter still plans to start filming the sixth part, and the first four Daniel's actor Samy Naceri (Samy Naceri) said if Luc Besson was able to summon the old team to return to the remake. He would choose to continue to play Daniel, but he also firmly stated that he would not cooperate with Frank Gaston Peter because he thought Frank would ruin the series again.
The final form and lineup of "Taxi Express 6" will not be known on the big screen, but what is certain is that the series once shined (even attracted Hollywood to repeat the same trick) to gradually go away. Downhill, to the inability to restart and further smash the signs, whoever wants to regain this taxi that has gradually emerged from the audience's vision no matter in real life or in the movie, will face an extremely difficult road in the future.
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