A few days ago, I just revisited Daniel Craig’s first work "Casino Royale" under the direction of Daniel Craig. Thirteen years ago, Craig played the reckless and reckless agent Bond. His voice was soft and turbulent. Not surprisingly, it is a world of difference from the private detective Blanco played by him in "The Knife Out of the Sheath". Bran's subjects are as bright as a torch, and the voice is extensive. Craig changed his old English intonation and opened up his Kentucky accent, often unexpectedly hitting the psychological line of defense of the parties. In the latest reasoning production released in November 2019, Craig The image of a rough guy who looks like a careless man is certainly due to the changes in personal age over the past ten years. A more convincing explanation should be his high recognition and perception of the character itself. It was precisely in the eastward attack that Blanco easily resolved the dispute and murder suspicion caused by the sudden death of the old reasoning writer Harlan, which resembled the classic detective Polo written by Agatha Christie.
There are many surprises like this in "Knife Out of the Sheath". For example, the writer played by Christopher Plummer, who plays Harlan, is agile, and "Captain America" Chris Evans plays the third generation son of the family Lanson. Youthful, like an American idol in the 1950s. The film’s reasoning method has an obvious tribute to Christie, and the visual modeling is also extremely classical. The ageization of the characters and the scene of the story-Harlan’s deep house compound-are full of exquisite two in one. The portraits of the owner hung on the wall, the books of the owner piled up in the attic, and the dagger seat resembling the Iron Throne of the Ten Thousand Swords in "Game of Thrones", etc., are replacing the audience into the British atmosphere of the post-Victorian period but jumping at any time Come out and realize that it belongs to the time and space background of modern America. The beautiful and mixed set style is like pulling out two very important expression systems in the film: Hitchcock and Christie.
Christie's style has long been revealed in the process of solving the case by Blanco, and Hitchcock's taste comes from the various characters arranged by director and screenwriter Ryan Johnson in the intricate Harlan family three generations and the foreign female nurse Marta. The chaos that broke into. In the process of exploring the truth about Haran’s death, the truth of the incident has been revealed very early. For the rest of the time, the party in charge of the truth and the investigating party who urgently need to solve the mystery will confront the audience directly. Expecting to be placed in the context of "whether the murderer can be exonerated" is too easy for people to connect with Hitchcock's works including "Sabotage" and "Scary".
I hope that all viewers will directly see this film as a re-enactment of the Hitchcock spirit in the process of watching the film, because this can not only create a pleasant sense of involvement, but also help to obtain in the predictable reversal. Higher levels of satisfaction. The film does not have too strong conflicting action scenes. The only car chase scene is processed into a very simple rhythm, which creates an uncontrollable humor during the investigation time. Marta's body response to the question not only constitutes the character's own action characteristics, but also deeply participates in the entire narrative process, and even creates a very unexpected effect at the end of the film. In essence, "The Knife Out of the Sheath" is not only a tribute to the past classic texts, but also a dangerous step away from the routine traps set by the experienced audience, touching the classic style, but it can't completely follow the existing ways. Therefore, what the audience sees in the film is not only a model of "property-murder" reasoning that may be narrated thousands of times, but also a narrative mix based on this model. The family members appearing in the film have different postures, including Michael Shannon, Jamie Lee Curtis, and other senior technical players who are able to show the internal and externalization of the characters and effectively integrate them with step by step. In the shocking narrative situation, almost every turning point mobilizes everyone's unique reaction. Therefore, although the rhythm of the film has been kept flat, the attraction to lead the audience into the maze is getting stronger and stronger.
Compared with Ryan Johnson’s previous works such as "The Ring Messenger", "Star Wars 8", "Breaking Bad", etc., "Blade Out of the Sheath" really restores the rhythm of the classical reasoning text, and at the same time uses "Knives Out" to point fingers and swords. His family relationship and the final breaking of Wan Xu’s return to the clan meant that he had refined techniques and a clear purpose. It can be said that the director’s self-portrait of himself in the contemporary Hollywood business environment. For Chinese audiences who have watched too many American-style visual productions in theaters, it has a relatively important annual summary significance. It is almost synchronized with the audiences on the other side to witness the authorization efforts in the Hollywood industrial system (Hitchcock also won this Evaluation), such opportunities are not too many, but the important thing is that such works deserve to be seen more.
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