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In recent years, Tom Cruise's career is not only limited to the actor himself, but has stepped into the ranks of producers, whether it is "Mission Impossible" or "Vanilla Sky", his name can be found in the producer column.

This is not only the inevitable result of investing in films, but also the best embodiment of the status and power of the super-A-level superstar itself.

Although this kind of producer is more of a nominal name, Tom Cruise can mix with his current status, and naturally knows that if he is in a certain position, he must have the corresponding ability, so in addition to his career as an actor, he also has some research on film production, shooting and production, and even directing.

In addition, he has been famous in the circle for 20 years, and he has almost never missed a shot in the films he starred in, and he still has the most basic judgment vision for a film.

The film uses black and white, no, in fact, there are reds, yellows, and greens that are extremely rendered. Whether it's the blood-red sky, the golden monster, or the emerald green beauty eyes, in the solid world of black, gray and white, they all look even more imposing.

In addition to being able to completely fit the two-color world of the original comics, the director also has several advantages - without losing the visual impact, moderately reducing the negative effects of violence and gore for the audience, and even making some of the bloody scenes seem quite humorous.

Still, the film's gore is outrageous, with blood splattering and limbs and skulls flying around...... The director seems to have no regard for the legitimately popular aesthetics of violence, deliberately raising the boundaries and rendering the violence of Sin City with purer visuals and psychological illusions.

The monologue is another feature of the film, and the three protagonists' more or less monologues - low and cold voices, while showing the audience the characters, just match the dark, cold and instant frenzy 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 fewest monologues and happens to be his cold sign......

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

After the large-scale release, there will inevitably be accusations that the film is not morally high, except for meaningless images and a storyline that lacks connotation, the movie does not seem to say anything, advocating violence? You must know that even Spider-Man 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.

Muffer sacrificed his life and death for a prostitute, and Hardy shot through his head for the girl he loved - the film uses the most basic character feelings, even ****, to maintain subjective justice on the basis of almost completely detached from the real world, which is undesirable in the moral outlook of the real world.

It is precisely because of these criticisms that Tom Cruise thinks about this, and this is not the case with his past works? It is always attacked by some moral people who stand on the moral high ground and become violent garbage who can only play handsome and show off face.

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

Thinking of this, a hint of sarcasm hung on the corner of Tom Cruise's mouth, go to those moral people who will always stand on the high ground of his X!

This film is enjoyable for him, and that is enough, and it is manifested in the picture, which is super cool shapes, exaggerated expressions and action scenes similar to high-speed slow motion presents, like this cult film, it is not like the hysterical violent roar of punk music, nor does it seem to mock reality with the imaginary world in absurdist literature.

Sin City is perfect in this regard – trying to stay true to the original comics, framing the screen like a frame, and then using more elaborately designed action sequences and bloody scenes to bring visual impact, supplemented by excellent stunts and background music, and increasing the violence to satisfy the natural maniac human nature.

How can an audience that likes this kind of resemblance not be ecstatic?

"The movie runs through the narration of the three men, when they kill people, when the blood is stained on their hands, or in the calm or confused or painful voices, they never forget the woman who once made them live like a person."

Sitting next to Ivy Nivo, Ziyi Zhang couldn't get rid of the impact of the movie for a long time, and now she can't believe that the film she participated in turned out to be like this!

Her anticipation for "Sin City" is almost akin to her hope for the first rain on the North American box office charts that have dried up this spring. Although I know that Murphy Stanton, the director, is obsessed with producing cult movies like Quentin Tarantino, who made "Kill Bill" at the beginning of the year; And appeared early in the trailer of theaters and TV commercials, the alternative black and white images and the wildness of the characters were magnified to the extreme, which also made her understand that this is another style-first movie.

However, it turns out that Murphy Stanton's finished film is more stylized than imagined, and the bold image certainly brings a huge impact when watching the movie, but what makes her even more frightened is the rain that arrives as scheduled, black with a strong fishy smell. When she shuddered at the film's undisguised violence, Sin City was not just about a creative visual experience, but also about the disillusionment of hypocritical moral standards in the face of insane violence.

Sin City, where the skies are eternally dark, and the arrival of flying snow can't cover the sewage-filled streets.

Is it cruel? The movie doesn't even want to give her even a chance to take a deep breath.

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

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

Ziyi-zhang did not hide the surprise and surprise in his eyes, as if he had participated in a very remarkable work, working with a director with a very, very unique style to make a film that may go down in the history of North American cinema.

What fascinated her from beginning to end was the environmental design and lens performance of this film, which can be said to be the best restoration of the art of comics in the movies I have seen so far.

The strong contrast between black and white, coupled with the scheduling of the lens and the angle of the light, many shots can be viewed separately 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, and even reaches the image texture that cannot be obtained in color films.

And compared to the comics, Murphy Stanton gave the film more, and the advantages of the art form of film in action scenes and the use of color are completely superior to the original comics, which directly leads to a visually sharp effect.

Most of the time the film is black and white, only the blood that bursts out is red and tragic, which makes the blood of the characters particularly shocking.

At the same time, all associations related to love and beauty have made red the director's darling, so in the movie, there is a red crystal evening dress on the woman's white skin, twinkling like the beautiful stars in the sky; There is also a young woman with blonde hair on a large red velvet heart-shaped bed, which seems to represent a desire for purity and love.

Murphy Stanton's similar inspiration for the film is endless, Nancy's green eyes that become deeper after smoking, and the rotten smell of the yellow villain, which continue to give her a sharp visual impact.

The characters and stories in this film survive in an unscrupulous, indistinguishable way, and the unscrupulous catharsis of violent catharsis complements the unreality of the scene, and the abruptness of the form sets off the black elements of the content, and many times, she can feel the extreme chill brought about by the extreme violence in "Pulp Fiction".

The film is stuck in a state of non-stop from beginning to end, like Uma Thurman's unstoppable revenge journey in "Kill Bill", and the stormy violence in Sin City finally brings her and the characters to an abrupt end.

At that moment, the snowflakes fell quietly, and all the bullets and blood, lives and killings before were exchanged for helpless lamentation.

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

"The old man died, but the young girl survived", Ziyi-Zhang's mind flashed with this sentence, "Survive with tenacity and difficulty." ”

Not far from the purple coat of Zhang, sat Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

When the credits fell, the couple, like everyone around them, stood up and clapped their palms vigorously, even if they didn't like this type of movie very much, the two of them knew that it was bound to be a masterpiece!

"This film," Michael Douglass clapped and whispered to his wife, "is not a work that any mediocre director can do." ”

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

"It's clear that this film is not going to get a mediocre reaction from fans and audiences," Michael Douglas continued, "and it's impossible for them to have a mild attitude either by falling in love with it the moment they see it, or by spitting on it as garbage." ”

Catherine Zeta-Jones nodded, very much in agreement with her husband's opinion.

At the end of the screening, the 2,200-seat audience of the 2,200-seated Hollywood Chinese Theatre burst into continuous applause, and Gal Gadot also stood up with the others, watching Murphy applaud continuously, even if his palms hurt, he didn't want to stop.

Her mentality is completely different from when she was at the test screening, when she was just a bystander, but now she feels proud, proud of the people she loves!

This pride became even more as one celebrity after another came over to embrace Murphy.

Tom Cruise, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and a lot of other people she looked familiar with but couldn't name.

With genuine smiles on their faces and constant praise for the film they just showed, Gal Gadot believes that what they say is at least half true. (To be continued.) )