The storyline of "The Seventh Son: The War of the Demons" is too simple and has been criticized a lot on the Internet. However, aside from the mentally retarded plot, take a look at the 3D picture of the movie Still
good.
At least from the point of view of the three-D effect, it is better than Tsui Hark's version of "Take Tiger Mountain by Outsmart".
Comparing the two, it can be seen that Tsui Hark's version of "Take Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" has some deficiencies in the 3D effect. The 3D effect in Tsui Hark's version of "Take Tiger Mountain by Wisdom"
lacks majestic aerial shots. It's good, although there are some aerial shots hanging above the forest, sea and snow, but, for some reason, this
shot is too short-lived , and the vast forest sea in the lens is only a small corner, and it has not been photographed all
the time. After watching it, it was really addicting. 3D movies have their own rules. If 3D movies take proper care
of the characteristics of the 3D effect in terms of the continuity of the shots, it may bring the audience a smooth, smooth and comfortable visual effect.
In "Seventh Son: The Battle of the Devil", we can see that there are quite a lot of aerial shots in the movie, and in one go, it has been
advancing rapidly from the mountains, and the overlooked mountains and castles are all under the lens. , allowing the audience to directly enjoy the visual pleasure of flying through the flight.
In addition, in Tsui Hark's version of "Take Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", there is no special emphasis on the sense of suspension of the cliff. Therefore, in Tsui Hark's version of "
Taking Tiger Mountain ", we did not see any unique teasing of the audience's fear of heights, which also made the movie less fun of the dangling visual impact unique to the 3D version.
In "Seventh Son: The Battle of the Demon", we see that when the master and the "Seventh Son" escaped from the film, there was a steep cliff under their feet, and the camera shot
straight down, immediately putting a level of danger at stake. The drop, presented under the eyes of the audience, immediately made the audience scream in shock.
It can be said that the familiarity that Hollywood movies bring to the visual stimulation in terms of speed and height is indeed something that our movies must follow up to learn and imitate.
"Seventh Son: The Battle of the Demons" is comprehensive, the visual of the entire movie is still good, and each paragraph is given a
powerful . But from the plot point of view, it is too casual.
The Seventh Son: Conqueror's plot can't escape the accusations that it's questionable. This movie cannot escape the theme of the opposition between good and evil, but the film
actually downplays the difference between good and evil. What it wants to say is that there is evil in the right side, and justice in the evil side, and the size of the threshold for this kind of value is completely taken
. It is a favorable judgment under the category of emotion. As long as you emotionally feel that you are protecting your family, you are a good person. This kind of judgment has become a purely
egoistic value judgment. It's completely a type of butt commanding the head, and feelings are clearly right and wrong.
Of course, this kind of judgment makes the movie avoid many judgments on values, and completely makes the characters obey their own emotional standpoints. This is undoubtedly a philosophical
simplification of film, because there is no easier way to get right and wrong than emotional judgment.
In this way, in the setting of the movie, the conflict between good and evil is nothing but a conflict of own grievances, not a conflict between values and right and wrong between groups at all.
In the film, we see that the master of the square and the devil had had an emotional collision, had a love affair, and even lived together. Then, there was
the brutal act of the devil killing the master's wife, but this at least It shows that the war between the master and the female devil is more like a personal grudge, which can basically be equated with the "
little three" war, rather than a war of values and beliefs.
The master then began to look for the "seventh son" and lead him to face the devil. However, this "seventh son" is also the product of the cooperation between good and evil, and his mother
is also a witch. In this way, the "seventh son" has a mix of human and demon.
And the "seventh son" encountered the seduction of the witch's niece on the way to face the witch, and this niece was also a mixture of witch and human.
It can be seen that the battle faced by the "Seventh Son" actually lurks the complexity of the mixed blood and opposition between the previous generation, that is, the human and the witch. It can be said that
the battle between the human and the monster designed in the movie is never pure separation of good and evil. Yes, the previous generation has already had the love of the demon, and the next generation, the battle of
demons , is also the battle between the hybrids of the previous generation. It can be said that the battle of good and evil in the movie is not a battle of the people to eliminate demons at all, but
a settlement of personal grievances between people and the high-level demons. This is also very interesting. It seems to reflect a revolution. In fact, it is completely the collision and
return visit of personal emotions between high-level executives.
So, we see that the battles in the movie are based entirely on personal grudges. The witch finally
had a life-and-death battle with her sister, the mother of the half-blood witch, and the reason for this battle was because the witch was going to hurt her daughter, so she betrayed her
witch class, He played a decisive role in the battle to eliminate the devil.
And the "seventh son" joined the fight against the devil because his mother was killed by the devil in order to defend the castle. In this way, the relationship between grievances and
grievances does not seem to distinguish between positions and camps at all. But it is completely based on the size of the family.
This still reflects the traditional Western cultural system that there is always no boundary between humans and demons, they can fall in love freely, and thus have a
struggle based on family affection and grievance. For example, in "Greek mythology" and "Bible" stories, we can see the emotional entanglement between humans and gods to break the difference. Since
the value judgments between humans and demons that determine their right and wrong have abandoned their positions and groups, the only reason for them to fight is to maintain kinship
over blood.
Therefore, the battle between humans and demons is destined not to belong to the people, but to be exclusive between humans and demons. The movie just repeats this theme.
As the "seventh son" of Jia Mengjin's combat team, from the beginning of the film, he was a useless mortal, called "trash", which reminds people of
Zhou Xingchi's starting point in "Journey to the West", Zhou Xingchi In the film, although he was endowed with many myths at the beginning, when he compared the
myths really felt that he was powerless and a complete "trash". To a certain extent, although the "
Seventh " is destined to be the sacred mission of the Terminator, his greatest pain is that he is powerless after the mission is displayed. He even has
his own weakness and kindness. How to solve the problem of this irresistible fate? The movie entrusts the source of the myth to the "Sorcerer's Stone".
The mother of the "Seventh Son" stole the magic stone of the female devil and gave it to her son, so he was a waste. A trash
finally becomes a hero at the last minute. In the process of this transformation, he can still enjoy the most essential needs of a complete life given to him by human nature:
he can be different from his master, give up his forbearance and sympathy for the enemy who surrendered, and can live with the female devil. The beautiful girls fell in love with each other beyond the class,
until end, when the mother died of the enemy, finally aroused the violence in his heart, and completed the final fatal blow of his demon slayer. What manipulated him into being steel
was his hatred, which was rooted in kinship. This is where the fabrication of the movie is. Let’s ask, what would he do if his
mother wasn’t killed? This is something that the film does not dare to answer. This is also a fixed formula that genre films must have, and there can be no cracks and breaks in the slightest
, otherwise the film will not be able to justify itself.
In the fighting plot, the movie is not used to being surprised, and it uses the love of two young people from the enemy and the enemy camp to evoke the contradictions of the entanglement between the good and the evil.
, this is also a dramatic tradition with a long history. Starting from "Romeo and Juliet", this tradition can be said to be deeply rooted in Western literature and art
, and its influence has been deeply influenced by Chinese literature and art works. It can be said that there is no more powerful
emotional . The love in "Seventh Son: The Battle of the Devil" can be regarded as adding a soft lubricant to the movie. Although this kind
of love has no depth and is step by step, it matches the rhyming battle scenes in the movie. The lack of depth that makes up the entire film, but more or less
serves the purpose of entertainment for the visual effects.
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