There are 3 "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and the English names are like Indianna Jones and XXX. Indianna Jones is a young, handsome, brave, and adventurous archaeologist. The whole story is about him and the bad guys. Struggle and finally find the ultimate treasure.
The composition of the whole film belongs to: handsome man + wealth + adventure + a little history + a little religion + a lot of mystery + war background + oh, and most importantly, like a Bond movie, one beauty per episode .It is
basically the model of Hollywood box office films. The most important propaganda of American culture in the film. The
first part: Christianity in "Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Last Crusade" - the mainstream religion in the United States, other exotic How small and absurd the believers are in front of it. The old knight who has served his duty for 700 years, and the Holy Grail is just a very simple wooden cup, which is undoubtedly a strong propaganda of Christianity.
The third part: "Raiders of the Lost Ark- -Legend of the Devil's Palace" This is the worst of the 3 Indiana Jones movies in my opinion. In the film, some local religions in India are portrayed as cults. They sacrifice human beings and believe in evil gods. The local nobles in India are insensitive. Eat beetles and treat monkey brains as dessert. And the British colonists in India showed a decent image of being civilized, civilized, advanced, and finally to rescue the hero. True, from a historical point of view, the British colonial rule of India Promoting the historical process of India, the United Kingdom brought a unified official language - English to India, built the iron system throughout the country, and brought culture and education to India. However, this is all at the expense of local valuable resources and labor. It comes at a price. If you fall behind, you will be beaten. This is the trend of historical development, and it is also a rule that promotes the overall development of mankind.
When it comes to Indians eating monkey brains, I think of Cantonese. Many tourists must try this "famous dish" of raw monkey brain when they come to Guangdong. In China, most normal people do not have the habit of eating raw monkey brains, and most normal people would consider it very barbaric and cruel. But why do most foreign tourists don't forget to eat it when they arrive in Guangdong? It is because they do not believe in their own culture, but are assimilated by the local culture of Guangdong, thinking that eating raw monkey brains is a fashion. In the culture of most foreign tourists, eating raw animal brains is a manifestation of brutality and ignorance.
Speaking of Guangdong, I think of Hong Kong movies. Hong Kong films are first and foremost a product of local films and commercialization, and the most important thing is to at least earn back the box office of the investment in the local market. This determines that Hong Kong films must first meet the needs of local culture in order to survive. What kind of culture is Hong Kong's local culture? Hong Kong has only a history of more than 100 years and was originally a small fishing village. After being colonized by the United Kingdom, although the British brought advanced science, advanced management system and Western culture that was incompatible with Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, like all colonies, mainly regarded Hong Kong as a free trade port and a navy. Supply base. As a ruler of a different culture, the more ignorant the ruled, the better the rule, but this is at the expense of labor productivity. Some people say that the British did not bring the products of advanced culture, Christianity? Yes, but there are not many people who believe in Christianity in Hong Kong, and most of the local residents who have been assimilated by British culture immigrated overseas. The better ones immigrate to the UK mainland, the lesser ones immigrate to the farm country Australia, Canada, etc. If Dancing God and Wong Tai Sin can be regarded as a serious religion, then it is the local religion of Hong Kong.
So the cultural history of Hong Kong is like this. It was originally a small fishing village. The British colonized only brought technology and refused to bring culture. Hong Kong films have to please this local audience to survive. As a result, each shot is getting shorter and shorter, averaging only 6-7 seconds. How do you attract audiences in a movie where the camera cuts are so fast? By gimmicks, by action, by fights, by market slang, by dirty jokes. In such a short time of 6-7 seconds, there is no need to give the audience time to think logically. Just follow the rhythm of the movie. The movie makes the audience laugh, and the audience laughs; the movie makes the audience cry, and the audience cries. This gave birth to the style of Hong Kong cinema - nonsensical. Before the 1990s, most Hong Kong films were martial arts films, ghost films, and tertiary films, which could provide the audience with visual stimulation in the rapid switching of the camera lens. In the 1990s, Chow Yun-fat was popular. He was an actor who could smoothly switch between extremely serious roles and hippie dirty roles in a film. He guided and shaped the nonsensical style. Later Andy Lau and others all learned this style. Maggie Cheung has also made a similar film "Chasing Boys" where the female hooligan switched to a lady, and in "New Dragon Inn", the 5 big and 3 rough switched to affection. The actor who brought this to the top should be Zhou Xingchi, and the director should be Wang Jing.
Going back to the beginning, I didn't realize until after watching the three "Raiders of the Lost Ark" films that in the first and third films, the bad guys were all German Nazis, and they were beaten up by American heroes in the film. I'm wondering why the Germans still recommend this film to me that makes them less glamorous? Either they have been very comfortable with that history, or they have just accepted the strong culture.
who knows
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