Chapter 559: Lynching replaces the law
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In the huge theater, the lights on the ceiling are turned off in unison, and there seems to be light on the wide IMAX screen, but it is dark again, so rich that it is impossible to tell whether the picture is black or the reality is so dark. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Suddenly, there's a soundtrack!
This sudden sounding music, mainly orchestral music, supplemented by the low violin sound, with the compact melody laid out by the orchestra, the screen picture slowly drifted through bursts of black fog, the black fog soaked every inch of space, as if everywhere, coupled with the cold piano tone that appeared at the right time, giving people a sense of oppression that could not breathe!
At this moment, the opening credits of Twentieth Century Fox lit up, and this opening was different from all previous Twentieth Century Fox titles, not only did the picture change to black and white, but it also revealed a gloomy feeling, which was even more so from the Stanton Studio logo that appeared later!
"Oh, that's what Murphy movies are like!"
Edmund Princeton couldn't help but exclaim, "Murphy is clearly back to his proper style!" ”
There is no intro, there is no verbosity, two short intros flash, and two rays of light, one blue and one red, light up in the black fog on the screen, speeding from a distance, getting closer and closer, and quickly turning into a police car.
At the same moment as the police car appeared, the sound of the walkie-talkie sounded.
"This is the ...... of the New York State Police Department, and we are close to the location of the incident!"
The police car made a sudden turn and turned into an asphalt mixing plant, and then more police cars appeared.
Patrolling, plainclothes, SWAT, there are hundreds of police officers gathered here, and the scene finally stops on Sheriff Lynch, played by Christopher Waltz, who gets out of the police car.
The film explains the reason why the police are gathered here in the most concise way.
A frenzied gang of bandits kidnapped a wealthy father and son from Long Island and took them to the makeshift asphalt mixing plant used to build roads, and then surrounded by the police in a mixing plant.
The police quickly devised a plan of action and launched a rescue operation, and the camera always follows the perspective of Sheriff Lynch, who follows behind the SWAT team and into the mixing plant.
Several of the bandits were killed one by one and the father was rescued, but the last bandits kidnapped the son and walked onto a huge asphalt melting pool, and the police operation was forced to stop.
"Aren't you asking for money?" The father stood inside the police circle and shouted, "I can give it all to you, as long as you don't hurt him!" ”
The bandit stopped the little boy's neck with one hand and pointed a gun at his forehead with the other, without saying a word.
"Please let my son go!" The father shouted again, "I can exchange with him!" ”
The two sides fought for a while, and after the police stopped it to no avail, the father walked over alone and replaced his son.
Just as the little boy came down, a gunshot rang out from the police, and the bandit was shot in the leg, but before he fell, he pushed his father into the asphalt melting pool that was emitting a foul smell.
"Daddy......"
A heart-rending voice rang out.
The picture suddenly went black, and when it lit up again, a sturdy man woke up from his sleep, and then there was a knock on the door from the outside, "Chris Dane, it's training time." ”
The outside world is dark, Chris Dane is undergoing the most rigorous training in the ice and snow, and the character of Liam Neeson also appears in the night training, he is Chris Dane's godfather.
"Whatever your purpose, Chris Dane, you've lost your way!"
During the evening training, Chris Dann was timid and cowardly, with a deep fear of darkness and blackness.
The scene flashes back, Sheriff Lynch put a coat on the little boy and handed it over to a colleague to take care of temporarily, he went to help deal with the aftermath, the little boy secretly ran out of the police car, came to the vicinity of the asphalt melting pool just now, and saw the remains of his father who had just been salvaged, it was a black object in the shape of a human, completely black, terrifyingly black......
The little boy only felt that his eyes were dark and he fainted.
Ninjutsu, climbing, fighting, tracking, ...... Chris Dane trains every day, being fierce and invincible during the day and cowardly and fearful at night......
During the night's training, Chris Dane was easily knocked down by Reina, and in the face of the thick night, he was afraid like a little boy, huddled in a ball and never dared to stand up again.
"Why did we fall, Chris?" Reina's voice always rang out at the right time, "Because that's how you can learn to stand up!" ”
Looking at the waste-like male protagonist on the screen, Daisy was a little crazy, but when she saw Reina, who was carefully taught, she muttered, "This teacher looks very good!" ”
The film flashes back again, after the funeral of the elder Dane, Chris Dane inherited a large amount of property such as stocks left by his father, and then Reina, who appeared as a godfather, did not spend much effort to get the custody of the teenage Chris Dane.
"Chris, do you want to avenge your father?"
The criminal was only shot in the leg and didn't die, and Chris Dane took Reina's advice and left New York for the north, where he began all sorts of rigorous training.
But Chris Dane was very decadent at the beginning, until he grew up, he went back to New York once, contacted the girl who grew up with the neighbor's house, and through her congressman father, he learned from the side that his father's death was not so simple, let alone a simple robbery or kidnapping, and there was the biggest underworld in New York behind it......
It also made Chris Dann more aware that it takes a lot to avenge his father.
He trained hard, learned all sorts of skills, and became industrious, but he never got over his fear of the darkness, which chilled like the pool of asphalt that had dissolved his father.
"What you don't understand, you will always be afraid!"
His godfather, Reina, was an outstanding martial arts master, not only skilled but also seemed to understand the human heart, "If you want revenge, you must defeat the strong with the weak, if you want to defeat the strong with the weak, you have to make people fearful, if you want to make people fearful, you must overcome the fear in your heart!" ”
Reyna accompanies Chris Dann to train, hunt, and lurk...... With careful teaching, he overcame his inner fear, and Chris Dane learned that the best way to defeat the enemy of evil is to become fearful!
Edmund Princeton agrees with this idea, "If you want to make a sinister and cunning enemy afraid, you have to make them feel fear!" ”
The first 20 minutes of this film shows all about how a man overcomes his psychological fear step by step, and uses concise techniques to introduce the main characters of Reina, Chris Dane, Sheriff Lynch and Jay Rachel very clearly.
At Lincoln Center, Todd McCarthy also thinks the same way, and Reyner and Chris Dane have created it very successfully, and this beginning looks like a simple revenge story, but the psychological process of the characters makes the characters flesh and blood.
If you think about it, it is also such a simple truth, how can any child who has experienced such a tragic event in his childhood not have a psychological shadow? This shadow is very difficult to overcome, and it is not said that it can fade over time, and overcoming it is definitely quite a painful process.
Murphy Stanton spent more than 20 minutes clearly explaining the impact of fear on people.
Todd McCarthy wrote the word "fear" on his notebook, and although the story now seems like a simple revenge story, he thinks it will never be that simple, and Murphy Stanton's movie is not the simple and brainless popcorn of Marvel next door.
He believes that the story will definitely be complicated, and this is by no means a simple film about revenge, and from the analysis of Murphy Stanton's style and a few trailers, this should be more of an unusually dark and heavy stylized film.
In the first 20 minutes of the film, the picture does spread this rich dark tone, but the theme does not seem particularly heavy, just the protagonist overcoming his fear.
That Reina shouldn't be a good guy!
It's not just Todd McCarthy who feels this way, Daisy thinks so too, staring intently at the screen, but her head is telling to spin, judging by what Reyna does, she looks very much like a very good godfather, but she always feels that something is wrong.
Daisy is a veteran Murphy Stanton fan, and since she watched the movie, except for comic film noir like "Deadpool", she has never seen any of Murphy Stanton's main characters who are so good people, even Superman in "Man of Steel".
After all, Superman also killed a lot of innocent people by mistake during the Superman War, and this Reina seems to be bent on only helping Chris Dane get revenge......
Wrong! Daisy immediately understands what the problem is, and when training Chris Dane and guiding him to overcome his mental obstacles, Reiner frequently mentions justice and revenge.
In particular, he encourages Chris Dane to return to New York, because his father's killer has not yet been brought to justice, and the belief instilled in Chris Dane is that if justice is to be done, revenge must be done!
This sounds true, but the question is that New York is not medieval, there is a government, there are police, there are courts, there is a perfect judicial system, is the idea of lynching justice really correct?
The people who can sit here and watch "City of Chaos" in advance are basically adults, and Murphy's kind of film has never been a dish of teenagers' brainless popcorn.
The biggest characteristic of his fans is that they have certain life experience and can think appropriately from their own point of view.
It's not just Daisy who has this idea, but many other fans.
Is it appropriate that the murderer of Dane Sr. awaits trial by law, but Reiner has let Chris Dane lynching instead of law? Is he really trying to help Chris Dane get his revenge? Didn't he know that Chris Dane would become a notorious wanted man as soon as he took that step?
Fans who watched "City of Chaos" watched and thought, and in the theater next to it, a large number of fans chewed popcorn and watched the screening of "Thor" happily. (To be continued.) )