Although director Yin Qijun has repeatedly stated that this is a film that is different from Hollywood disaster films, Koreans are still walking step by step in the "footprints" of American disaster films, just like a maturely designed film. The mold is there, and what the Koreans do is to press their own things in and press out a Korean version of a "Hollywood disaster movie". Americans have long abandoned the stereotyped personal heroism in disaster films and added more family love. What the Koreans have done is to increase the family line, and the filming of this aspect has always been a The strength of the Koreans. Hence the storyline and character setting of "Haeundae". It's almost no stranger to audiences familiar with Hollywood disaster films. The disasters that have happened before, the animal disturbance before the disaster, the tried-and-tested family cards in the disaster, the scenes of the flooded city... All of these can find similarities in "The Day After Tomorrow", the director of "Haeundae" seems to find Far more than just the special effects team of "The Day After Tomorrow".
A qualified disaster film must meet at least two major requirements, one is the special effects technology that conforms to the technology at that time, and the other must have a large number of dragon roles and extras killed in the disaster in addition to the protagonist. The former is to satisfy the audience's visual stimulation, but if there is no death of a large number of victims, this kind of visual stimulation will completely become a heartless pleasure, and the disaster film will lack the sense of fear it should have. This is the importance of the latter. It can be seen that the domestic disaster film "Super Typhoon" has almost set a rare and insurmountable negative benchmark for disaster films.
In today's increasingly mature computer technology, as a disaster film with big scenes as its selling point, visual effects are the debut factor that determines the success or failure of the film. The things other than the scene are the added value of this film. If you do it well, it will be good, but if you do it badly, if there are visual effects to support the scene, those things will be criticized at most and called cliché, and will not cause too much to the overall quality of the film. Influence. If a disaster film does not have special effects scenes, the disaster film itself will become a "disaster". The tsunami effect produced by the special effects team of "The Day After Tomorrow" even surpassed the stormy waves in "The Day After Tomorrow". From the perspective of visual effects, "Haeundae" really has the momentum of a blockbuster.
Another shock of the film comes from the countless people who died in the disaster. The most terrifying thing about disasters is that life appears vulnerable in the face of disasters. As long as it is a disaster film, the death of life cannot be avoided, otherwise, this is an extremely irresponsible practice in itself. Therefore, whether it is a Hollywood disaster film or "Haeundae", a large number of shots are used to express death, and this time "Haeundae" adopts a close-up method rarely used in Hollywood to express the cruelty of the disaster. For example, although "The Day After Tomorrow" has scenes of floods flooding New York, the description of death only stays on the big scene, and there is no description of individual death, because it will cause some discomfort to the audience. However, this time in "Haeundae", clicking on the surface of the water caused the people in the water to be electrocuted, but it was hard to forget. Spectacular "turned into a "sense of fear", such a close-up obviously has a great effect on the improvement of the meaning of disaster films, so that disaster films will not be reduced to a film that allows audiences to experience alternative pleasures purely in disasters. It's a shame that our movie still makes a "zero-death" disaster blockbuster for the wiseness of Acura leaders when our neighbors have begun to shy away from disaster deaths!
Because there are too many main lines and the film takes an emotional line, the first half of the film is slightly procrastinated. It is not as cool as "The Day After Tomorrow" from the beginning of the film, which makes "Haeundae" not enjoyable enough, and the first half of the film It still follows the route of traditional Korean romance films, and the character settings are still commonly used in Korean dramas such as rich girls, poor children, and divorced men and women. In addition, the special effects scenes are similar to "The Day After Tomorrow", which makes "Haeundae" not so distinctive as a whole. But from the two criteria mentioned above, "Haeundae" is fully qualified, and there is still a certain distance from Hollywood's well-made disaster blockbusters, but as far as Asia is concerned, "Haeundae" is already a first-class movie. Disaster movies, Koreans have set a benchmark for disaster movies in Asia by cloning Hollywood. And where is the real disaster blockbuster in China? I have to say, the Koreans really made me jealous this time around.
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