Chapter 484: Monster Wars, Lively (Second Update)
The film continues, and the critic comfortably adjusts his sitting.
"Overall, this is a movie that doesn't need to use your brains, the plot is very simple, the hero fights monsters in order to save the beauty! ”
With such a plot, there should be tens of thousands of films with similar plots in the history of movies. But this is Hollywood, if you think it's simple, go see "Titanic". What "Big Boat" is about, it is not the theme of the princess falling in love with the poor boy. But people still broke the box office record and won the Oscar.
Sometimes the simpler the story, the more difficult it is to tell it clearly and beautifully.
Although the plot is terrible, it covers all the elements of a visual blockbuster: Handsome men and beautiful women: Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale standard handsome guys and beauties, and they are super handsome guys and big beauties, who doesn't feel eye-catching? There are also Johnny Depp and his three super beautiful vampire brides, maybe Chen Tiandu was already playing this idea before he invited them to make a cameo - he was bound to take the handsome guys and beauties to the extreme.
Secondly, there is no shortage of special effects in the film.
Basically, every ten minutes or so, there will be a battle high.
The background of the whole film is Gothic, which is very in line with the setting of the plot, and the design of various castles, houses, and castles is very Gothic, which is very in line with the characteristics of vampires. Whether it's the bell tower trolls, the giant werewolves and the wolf kings, the axe-wielding dwarf devils, and the scarecrow sentry that looks a little scary......
These are dizzying, and there are even some scenes of vampires.
Wonderful action scenes are naturally indispensable, the whole film is more than two hours, and the action scenes have exceeded 75%. Almost all of them advance the plot in fights: from the city to the countryside. Hit Bulgaria from London. Then hit Hungary.
From the mountains to the top and bottom, from the outside of the river to the river, from the sky to the ground, the audience is full of blood and very enjoyable.
There is no doubt that this is a super popcorn movie, with a strong special effects handsome man and beautiful woman mentally retarded plot = visual effects blockbuster. What's more, Chen Tiandu really made the seemingly mentally retarded plot brainless. You may sigh that Kate Beckinsale is really beautiful, and she is also beautiful after giving birth. But as a film director, Chen Tiandu will definitely make you think of him at the end of the movie.
In the final battle of the film, Anna finds the old demon in the mountains who once turned Dracula into a vampire according to legend, but unfortunately he has been betrayed by Dracula and is now lodged in a thousand-year-old tree and can't get out.
…… This strange old dryad special effect life, if the Hong Kong audience sees it, they will be very surprised. Because this is exactly the style of the grandmother in Xu Laowei's "A Chinese Ghost Story", but the level of special effects is dozens of times higher than that of "A Chinese Ghost Story".
In order to fulfill their wish to kill Dracula, they can only bring back precious items from the unkillable old dryad.
The old demon resented Dracula and gave Anna and Van Helsing a prop each. Can help them kill Dracula. Gave Van Helsing the wooden stake to kill Dracula, just by nailing it into Dracula's body. to actually kill him. At the same time, he handed Anna a bottle of serum with a weird smile.
The last big battle can be called gorgeous.
Van Helsing, Anna, and the villagers all went all out and stepped into the mountains.
Under the tragic and grand soundtrack, the whole team seems to be huge, but it is undoubtedly a grasshopper. The villagers, the warriors, and the dwarfs, Van Helsing and Anna, and the werewolves stop Oss Dracula.
Helplessly, even with the help of props, the difference in strength between the two sides is too great, and Van Helsing was almost killed by Dracula. At this critical juncture, Anna is forced to use the Blood Essence and transforms into another powerful vampire.
The goddess of the night returns to her place and begins to kill in all directions.
Eventually, the forces of both sides were gathered and the stake with special power was hammered into Dracula's heart with great difficulty.
But Van Helsing is facing a problem again, and Anna has irreversibly become a vampire.
At the end, once again faced with a choice: death or love?
Most viewers like positive characters, but there are many people who do the opposite, always hanging a heart for the negative characters. For example, in "The Return of the Mummy", there will be people who complain about the pharaoh, and at the beginning of this movie, when Dracula appeared for the purpose of prolonging the life of future generations, it was destined to attract the attention of some audiences.
Everything he does is to give life to his children, to perpetuate his race, which is the instinct of animals, but also the instinct of man, the instinct of all living things. But when instinct reaches the vampire, it becomes a crime, and it must be punished, banished, and destroyed. It shuddeers that human beings demand the natural world with its terrible standard of eradicating aliens, but they are infinitely laissez-faire with themselves. Just because he poses a threat to humanity, we want to destroy him. Very ruthless.
This suddenly makes people think about what the world would be like if the real world was really as written in magic, there were humans, gnomes, elves, orcs, vampires, werewolves, and demons.
If all races do not start wars, but simply reproduce, will human beings attack other races in order to protect themselves, and there will definitely be wars in such a world. But that kind of war, at least between two or more huge races, doesn't have a movie where a large group of humans attack a few vampires or a few monsters. The difference in numbers not only casts doubt on the justice of the war.
In fact, this is also a question of standards - what kind of race can coexist with humans, and what kind of race needs to be exterminated by humans.
Werewolf? Monster? Bloodsucker? Frankenstein? According to the normal thinking, they should all be eliminated, but in fact, everyone just wants to live, that's all.
Now, the question is back to square one.
The men and women who once fought together have once again come to the opposite side.
Van Helsing, who is bent on eliminating monsters, how should he face Anna, who has become a vampire to save him.
"Roar~~" Anna suddenly bared her fangs in the moonlight and pounced on Van Helsing, and the picture suddenly darkened.
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sp; "Ahh This is probably the most scary shot in the whole film. Chen Tiandu was actually arranged at the end of the movie.
There was also a commotion in the theater. "What's the matter, Van Helsing was bitten too?" "Wouldn't it, that kind of ending?"
The big screen gradually brightened up, and what caught my eye was a firelight.
Anna was biting into Van Helsing's scimitar, and reason prevailed over instinct at the critical moment. Anna was in great pain, her skin began to change, and her fangs grew. She needs to suck blood to complete her final metamorphosis. The only reason she had left told her she couldn't.
Van Helsing limped over, an incomparably tangled expression on his face. Anna's lifelong dream was to kill vampires, but she didn't expect to end up becoming that thing. Sorrowful!
Van Helsing's arm gripping the weapon tightened, but eventually let it go. He rolled up his sleeve and cut through the skin with his blade, dripping blood into the corner of Anna's mouth, helping her complete her transformation.
"Great!!"
This sensational scene of Chi Guoguo actually made several sensitive girls start to shed tears. A large number of people sighed and sighed.
"I almost thought I was going to fall in love and want to kill?!" This ending also seems to be handled well.
"Expected~~"
Critics were also relieved, albeit with the expected ending. But it's scary enough. I am afraid that Chen Tiandu will suddenly have something wrong with any nerve, and he will make the movie a tragedy.
Fortunately, it still ends in comedy in the end. But Van Helsing and Anna could no longer live together, and their budding love was interrupted. Van Helsing is on his way again.
He smiled and introduced Anna to London, where there was an old vampire family.
The lonely traveler hit the road again, still an old horse, dressed in an overcoat and felt hat.
At the top of the town, Anna had already changed her look, looking at her back in the distance, and gradually disappeared into the depths of the snow.
At the end of the film, it ended in such an atmosphere, and several sensitive fans suddenly felt their noses count and almost shed tears.
When the matrix opening credits reappeared, the audience in the premiere cinema was still unsatisfied, and then there was a round of applause. But it is followed by a text prompt: "More to come." ”
"Hey, and easter eggs!" The audience's fledgling applause stopped again. After a few lines of subtitles, the camera returns to the tattered battlefield. In a wooden coffin, Dracula's body lay and his face began to dry up.
Suddenly, Dracula, who had already looked like a corpse, suddenly opened his eyes, startling the audience.
The music played again, and this time it was really over.
"Wow, wow!"
In the Hollywood China Theatre, the cast and crew have not yet been played, in the sound of passionate music, the fans and fans in the audience have already burst into bursts of laughter and shouting, from a few people to a whole film, the audience stood up and applauded, and the theater suddenly applauded, and some laughter and praise and whistles were endless: "Beautiful!! "That's cool!!" "It's so exciting!!"
There are also viewers who can't wait to show their love: "Kate, it's beautiful!" ”
"Kate, I love you~~"
"No, she will definitely not accept your statement, she is mine." Chen Tiandu suddenly hugged Kate's waist and answered the fan loudly, which made the audience laugh, and Kate didn't glare at him angrily.
The fierce cheers and more than two hours of enjoyable audio-visual enjoyment made all the main creators satisfied.
Johnny Depp also had to admire, "Sure enough, there is no vanity under the fame, and being able to make popcorn movies so exciting is really Chen Tiandu's specialty." It's no wonder that his movies are box office hits every time. ”
"Chen, congratulations, you've succeeded again." He took the initiative to hug Chen Tiandu.
"Johnny, congratulations, it's a joint effort." Chen Tiandu slapped him on the back a few times.
Everyone hugged each other and celebrated the end of the premiere.
The critics section of the media is also applauding, although they have different expressions, how should they write a review of this movie? Fresh or rotten?
Looking back on the past 2 hours, a lot of information suddenly poured out of the minds of these film critics, and it seemed to be very enjoyable. There was no distraction for more than two hours, and there was no shot segment that made people willing to put down the picture to pee.
Fights, special effects, a large collection of monsters, and a violent sensational ...... at the end But there is no doubt that Van Helsing is very satisfying and worth savoring!
"It was originally a complete popcorn movie, but the ending was treated like this, echoing the temperament of the beginning. actually makes the whole movie a little more poetic. This is definitely the quality of a top director, and it is difficult for ordinary directors to do this. ”
Listening to these applause that were not unfamiliar and the vague shouts of déjà vu, Chen Tiandu exhaled with his eyes slightly closed, and it didn't seem to be messed up! (To be continued.) )
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