Chapter 99: Will it break box office records?
In the last forty minutes, Donn cuts the entire movie into four parts: the Jedi Armageddon, the Space Armageddon, the Out-of-City Armageddon, and Queen Amidala's Escape.
In particular, Queen Amidala, played by Natalie, is crucial, and she is the key figure who connects several threads.
Don controlled the rhythm very steadily, and basically every scene was maintained at three minutes long.
After three minutes of exciting, blood-boiling battle between the out-of-city indigenous Gangas and the Trade Legion robots, the scene shifts back to the battle of the Jedi Knights.
The dark warrior Darth Moore is armed with two lightsabers, and his red face, cold eyes, dashing movements and sharp editing make him invincible with an overwhelming advantage.
The sound of "bang" lightsaber strikes is like orchestral music, stirring the audience's eardrums, and the wonderful action pictures are pleasing to the eye.
Among the two Jedi knights, Kui Gang is Obi-Wan's master, and seeing that the two have joined forces, they are still not Darth Moore's opponents, Kui Gang immediately made a decision: "Obi-Wan, pay attention!"
His eyes flickered sharply, not at his enemy, Darth Moore, but at Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized, his face was shocked, and he said in a lost voice: "Master!"
"Remember, we are Jedi Knights! Faith is greater than death!" Kui Gang, played by Liam Neeson, finally showed some acting skills, and his righteous oath made the audience feel bad.
Immediately afterward, Kui Gang never gave Obi-Wan a chance to speak, clenched his lightsaber in both hands, and charged towards Darth Moore.
Two Jedi Knight joined forces, and they were not his opponents, how could he be afraid of Kui Gang alone?
The two lightsabers in his hand, the sword shadow flickered, and after a few moves, the left hand lightsaber easily blocked Kui Gang's attack, and the right hand lightsaber seized the opportunity and stabbed straight at Kui Gang's abdomen.
"Be careful!"
Obi-Wan was shocked!
The three-minute wonderful fight made the audience unsatisfied, and the movie screen immediately switched, and it turned to the battle outside the city.
Queen Amidala has been rescued by the Ganga natives, but the robot army is growing and ...... They drove dozens of chariots loaded with huge cannons and rumbled towards the natives armed with bows and arrows.
The situation of the Great War has taken a sharp turn, and the natives have lost the spirit of the initial charge, and they have no clue in the face of the lifeless and painless robot army.
Death is approaching step by step.
"Her Royal Highness ...... Queen"
At a time of stake, Queen Amidala became the backbone of everyone.
Queen Amidala looked into the distance, looking in the direction of the castle, two lines of tears slid down her face, and wiped them away very stubbornly, her voice was cold, with a hint of determination, "Go back, go back to the grassland." There is a bath guard, and the robot army can't attack it. ”
"But what about you?"
"I am the queen of the planet Naboo, and I will live and die with the planet Naboo!"
"No, we will not withdraw! If we live, we will live together! If we die, we will die together! The Gangas may have nowhere else, but keeping our promises and keeping our covenants have been our tradition for thousands of years!"
"Boom, boom!"
The cannon roared, the terrifying cannon fired, and the smell of death spread everywhere.
At this time, the picture turned again, and the prophesied "balance", Anakin Skywalker appeared again!
In order to save the slightly sad scenes in the first two scenes, Don added a lot of jokes here, and the young Anakin wanted to find a convenient place because of his urgency. By mistake, he broke into the interior of the robot control ship.
Outside, the Royal Air Force of Naboo is storming a heavily guarded robot-controlled ship, and inside...... Anakin was in a hurry, he stopped the fighter plane and unbuckled his belt, only to find that it happened to be the circuit generator of the robot-controlled ship......
The smell of a burnt short circuit frightened Anakin, and he realized that the situation was not good, and quickly boarded the fighter plane to escape, and when the robot controlled the ship, there was a huge explosion here.
The explosion emitted a dazzling light, lighting up the entire black universe as if it were day.
With the big explosion, the robot fighters that were still fighting the Royal Naboo Air Force lost their source power and crashed one after another.
And outside the city, Queen Amidala and the Gangas, who are preparing to be martyred for the planet Naboo, also see hope of survival.
The Trade Legion's army of robots all stopped, turning into a pile of dead things, and even many of the robots withered and turned into a pile of scrap metal.
"Success, Anakin succeeded!"
Queen Amidala finally smiled joyfully.
The Ganga people raised their long fur and cheered.
Then, the screen shifts to the Jedi Armageddon, which worries the audience the most.
Darth Moore's lightsaber stabbed straight into Kuigang's abdomen, but Kuigang looked firm, reached out and grabbed his wrist suddenly, shouting, "Obi-Wan, do it!"
He's going to die together!
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Alone and back in the Presbyterian Church, Obi-Wan informs Master Yoda of the condition of the planet Naboo, explaining that Master Quegon was killed by Darth Maul.
At the same time, he also made a request, "I will inherit his legacy, I will take Anakin as an apprentice, he is the prophesied 'balance', he will be a very good Jedi!"
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Kenneth Turan, a film critic for the Los Angeles Times, looked at the cast and crew scrolling on the big screen and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Humanity, freedom, good and evil, faith, life, slavery, equality, and even racism, Donn's ambition is really big, and he has to express so many themes through a science fiction film.
Especially in the last 40 minutes, behind the wonderful and dazzling special effects, there is no lack of human thinking and philosophical judgment.
Kenneth Turan rubbed his eyes unnaturally, he couldn't believe that this was the work of a young 21-year-old director.
This is definitely the most stark theme and the most exciting story of Star Wars!
There are not a few film critics and film professionals who think the same way as Kenneth Turan, and they seem to have seen the future box office of the film.
After "Titanic", will there be another box office miracle?
It's Star Wars, and nothing is impossible!
In the screening room, the ceiling lights were lit up one by one, and when Tang En and the crew turned around to prepare the thank-you gift, they found that the fans and critics had all stood up.
Thunderous applause!
Star Wars Episode I: The Ghost Man Menace and Done Walker, deserve such respect!
James Cameron leaned into his ear and whispered, "Can you break the Titanic record?"
"Breaking the record?" Don glanced at him, "I'm afraid that will require our second collaboration." ”
"Haha!"
Cameron laughed.
Don's words are undoubtedly the greatest compliment to him.
In front of the box office, even if George Lucas created an unprecedented Star Wars culture, he would not be Cameron's opponent!