Hollywood Road

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In recent years, Tom Cruise's career is not limited to being an actor, but has entered the ranks of producers. Whether it is "Mission: Impossible" or "Vanilla Sky", in the column of producers, there are can find his name.

This is not only the inevitable result of investing in the film, but also the best embodiment of the super A superstar's own status and power.

Although this kind of producer is more of a name, but Tom Cruise can get to the current position, he naturally knows that in a certain position, he must have the corresponding ability. There is also some research on the film, shooting and production, and even the director.

In addition, he has been famous in the industry for 20 years, and he has almost never missed a movie starring in it. He still has the most basic judgment vision for a movie.

The film uses black and white, no, in fact, there are red, yellow, and green that are rendered to the extreme. Whether it's the blood-red sky, the golden monster, or the emerald green eyes of a beauty, they all look more imposing in the pure-color world of black, gray and white.

In addition to being able to fully fit the two-color world of the original manga, the director has several advantages in doing so--without losing the visual impact, moderately reduce the negative effects of violence and blood on the audience, and even make some bloody scenes appear quite humorous.

Even so, the bloody index of the film is still heinous, with blood splattered, limbs and heads flying around... The director seems to have ignored the legitimately popular aesthetics of violence, deliberately raised the boundaries, and rendered crime with purer visual and psychological illusions violence in the city.

The monologue is another feature of the film. The more or less monologues of the three protagonists—the deep and cold voices, while showing the characters of the audience to the audience, it just fits the dark, cold and instant fanatical background of the film.

Among them, Muffle has the most monologues, which is also in line with his lonely character in the fallen city; Dwight has the least monologues, which happens to be his cold sign...

Suddenly, Tom Cruise realized that the film wasn't without its problems.

After it is released on a large scale, some people will inevitably criticize the film for its low moral content. Apart from meaningless images and a storyline that lacks connotation, the film seems to have nothing to say, advocating violence? You must know that even Spiderman told the whole United States meaningfully: With great power comes great responsibility. The world needs heroes, and heroes also need faith.

There are almost no heroes in Sin City.

Ma Fu risked his life for a prostitute, and Hardy shot himself in the head for the girl he loved deeply-the film used the most basic character emotions on the basis of being almost completely divorced from the real world,

Even **** to maintain subjective justice, which is not advisable in the moral view of the real world.

It is precisely because he has suffered these criticisms that Tom Cruise will think of this aspect. Isn't this the case in his past works? He is always criticized by some moral people on the commanding heights of morality as a violent garbage who can only play handsome and show off his face.

So the question is not what you learned after reading it, what enlightenment you received on the moral level, but what you "enjoyed"!

Thinking of this, Tom Cruise put a trace of sarcasm on the corner of his mouth, fuck those moral people who always stand on the commanding heights!

It is enough for him to enjoy this film. On the screen, there are super cool shapes, exaggerated expressions and action scenes similar to high-speed slow motion. A cult film like this is not as hysterical as punk music The violent roar is not like the mockery of reality with the imaginary world in absurd literature.

"Sin City" can be said to be perfect at this point - try to be as faithful as possible to the shape of the original comics, put the picture frame on the screen, and then use more exquisitely designed action shots and bloody scenes to bring visual impact, supplemented by excellent special effects and backgrounds Music, intensifying the performance of violence to satisfy the inherently crazy human nature.

How can audiences who like this kind of similarity not be ecstatic?

"The movie runs through the narration of the three men. When they killed people, when their hands were covered with blood, or in their calm, confused or painful voices, they never forgot the woman who made them live like human beings."

Sitting next to Avi Niwo, Ziyi Zhang Jiujiu couldn't get rid of the impact of the movie. Until now, she couldn't believe that the film she participated in had such an effect in the final film!

Her anticipation for "Sin City" is almost akin to anticipation for the first rain on the dry North American box office this spring. Although I know that director Murphy Stanton, like Quentin Tarantino who made "Kill Bill" at the beginning of the year, is obsessed with producing cult movies; The wildness of the characters and characters was magnified to the extreme, which also made her understand that this is another movie with advanced style.

However, it turns out that the finished film made by Murphy Stanton is more stylized than imagined. Although the bold image has brought a huge impact when watching the movie, what makes her even more frightened is that the film came as scheduled. The rainwater was black with a strong fishy smell. When she was shuddered by the chill conveyed by the unobstructed violence in the film, the significance of "Sin City" is not only a creative video experience, but also a disillusionment of hypocritical moral standards under crazy violence.

In the city of sin, the sky is eternally dark, and the falling snow cannot cover the streets full of sewage.

Cruel? Movie didn't even want to give her even one chance to take a deep breath.

Even with comics as a reference, for her, this effect is still unimaginable!

"It turns out that movies can still be shot like this!"

Zi Yi-Zhang made no secret of the surprise and surprise in his eyes. He seemed to have participated in a very remarkable work, cooperating with a director with a very, very unique style in a film that might be recorded in the annals of North American film history.

What fascinated her from the beginning to the end was the death-style environment design and lens performance of the film, which can be said to be the best restoration of the art of comics seen in movies so far.

The contrast brought by the strong black and white colors, coupled with the scheduling of the shots and the angle of the light, many shots can be taken out as an independent picture or even a work of art such as oil painting, especially the use of black in the film is rich in layers. It even achieves an image quality that cannot be achieved by color movies.

And compared to comics, Murphy Stanton has endowed the film with more. The advantages of the film art form in action scenes and the free use of color are completely superior to the original comics, which directly leads to a sharp visual effect.

Most of the time the film is in black and white, only the blood splattered is red and tragic, which makes the blood of the characters especially shocking.

At the same time, all the associations related to love and beauty make red the director's favorite, so in the movie, there are red and crystal evening dresses on women's white skin, shining like beautiful stars in the sky; there is also a golden red velvet heart-shaped bed A young woman with hair, which seems to represent a pure and loving eye.

Murphy Stanton gave the film similar inspirations endlessly. Nancy's green eyes, which became darker after smoking, and the rotten breath exuded by the yellow villain, have always brought her sharp visual impact.

The characters and stories in this movie live in an unscrupulous, indistinguishable manner, and the unscrupulousness of violent catharsis complements the unreality of the scene. Elements, many times, she can feel the extreme chill similar to the extreme violence in "Pulp Fiction".

The movie has been caught in an unstoppable state from beginning to end, just like Uma Thurman's unstoppable revenge journey in "Kill Bill", the violent violence in Sin City finally put her Sent to a screeching end with the characters.

At that moment, snowflakes fell quietly, and all the bullets and blood, life and killing before that were exchanged for helpless mourning.

Is it unbearable? The people in the movie don't think so, because that's the true face of the city.

"The old man died, but the young girl survived," said Zi Yi-zhang's mind, "survive tenaciously and with difficulty."

Not far from Ziyi-zhang, sat Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

When the subtitles came down, the couple stood up and clapped their hands vigorously like the people around them. Even though they didn't like this type of movie very much, they both knew that it would be a masterpiece!

"This movie," Michael Douglas whispered to his wife, applauding, "is not something that any mediocre director could have done."

"When I was in Cannes, I met Murphy Stanton and talked to him once," Catherine Zeta-Jones continued to applaud, but put her head in Michael Douglas's ear, "he joked at the time that he would Using "Planet Terror" to vent the ruthless irony of the loss and disillusionment of social good values, I think he, like Quentin Tarantino, is a very crazy film director."

"Obviously, this movie will never get a moderate reaction from fans and audiences," Michael Douglas continued, "either they will fall in love with it the moment they see the movie, or they will resolutely dismiss it as garbage. , there can be no moderation at all.”

Catherine Zeta-Jones nodded, agreeing with her husband's view very much.

At the end of the film screening, there was continuous applause in the Hollywood Chinese Theater filled with 2,200 spectators. Gal Gadot also stood up with the others, watching Murphy's continuous applause, even if his palm hurts, he didn't want to stop .

Her state of mind is completely different from that at the preview, when she was just a bystander, but now she feels proud, proud of the one she loves!

The pride grew as celebrity after celebrity came to hug Murphy.

Tom Cruise, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and many others she looked familiar but couldn't name.

With sincere smiles on their faces, they kept praising the movie they just watched. Gal Gadot believed that at least half of what they said was true. (To be continued.)