Chapter 65: The Ending and Trivia
Hans was armed with bandits from all over Europe, including former members of the German 9th Frontier Brigade and the French Gendarmerie Intervention Force, as well as those of the French Foreign Legion who had been expelled for disciplinary reasons.
It stands to reason that these bandits from the elite army would not have allowed Marx to kill so many people, and there was nothing they could do with him, first of all, these people were not very old, at least they looked much younger than Marx, and they obviously did not serve for a long time.
They have not served for a long time, but now they are following Hans as robbers, so it is worth thinking about their training time, technical and tactical level and the reason for their retirement.
On the whole, these robbers belong to the category of professional soldiers who are not of high quality.
These explanations, verbose, are reflected in Caesar's film as just a few shots.
The young faces of these robbers in close-up, the hidden and unique tattoos that Marx found when he searched for the corpses belonged to the special forces.
Those who know how to see this are clear at a glance, and the audience who doesn't understand can understand it after a little thought.
Some filmmakers can't help but applaud Caesar's rigor.
The two FBIs cut off the power supply according to the anti-terrorism tutorial, helped the robbers a lot, and the vault with six locks was automatically opened, and the film was nearing the end.
Unable to bear it anymore, Hans used Ho Li as a hostage to force Marx to show up, and arranged for all the remaining men to ambush him on the way.
The scarred Marx once again made a live advertisement for the close-quarters shooting instructors of the Hunter Academy with an extreme shooting show.
From the beginning until Marx flew through the sky with a burst of bonds, he shot Hans out of the window of the skyscraper in slow motion with two guns.
Some filmmakers were surprised to find that this movie didn't have a single confrontation shot!?
Yes, this film does not have a bridge of "the two sides raise their guns and confront each other, but they don't shoot", nor does it have a scene of "the villain takes hostages and forces the protagonist to appear, but he is killed by the protagonist because of his broken mouth".
Too many "classic" scenes that are constantly used in action movies or police movies are not in this film.
Caesar has made Marx and Hans use both the mouth cannon in the film, and the two sides have already shown their IQ on the walkie-talkie, since they have put down the microphone and held the gun at each other, let's talk less nonsense.
After meeting, just pull out the gun!
Not adapting! Whether it is the audience or the filmmaker, I feel uncomfortable with Caesar's style of putting the nonsense of the pros and cons on the walkie-talkie, and when they meet, they are silent and draw their guns and die.
From 007's "Dr. No" to "Star Wars", from Bruce Lee's "Raptors Cross the River" to Chuck Norris's "Lone Hero", from "Mad Max" to "Indiana Jones......
The audience has become accustomed to the villain dying from nonsense, and they have long been surprised by the fact that the protagonist was captured, and they can't even mention the slightest tension.
Anyway, no matter how evil the villain is, he won't be executed immediately if he catches the protagonist, right? The villains are used to beeping first and then thinking about other things.
In the villain's heart, it is much more important to liberate himself from the protagonist, dissect his scheming, and open his heart than to destroy the miè world, right?
Is the villain who shoots a gun without saying a word when he sees the protagonist really a qualified villain?
Caesar's non-routine director really surprised the audience.
But even if you don't get used to it, no matter what, the story continues.
As soon as the dust settled, because Marx and the Chinese police officer chatted over the walkie-talkie, they had a deep friendship, so they hugged with emotion after meeting, which can be regarded as a self-counterattack to the "damn Californian" at the beginning.
When the male reporter came over to interview Marx and his wife, he was knocked to the ground by a Chinese police officer and the kind female reporter.
This plot was deliberately arranged by Caesar.
As the darling of the California media, Caesar can't and has no reason to blacken the California media in the movie.
At the beginning, in order to rationally advance the plot of Marx's identity exposure, he had to set up a ** male reporter to mock media people, so he had to use a righteous female reporter to clear the hatred value.
This approach may not be clever, but at least the posture is there, so that people can't find fault.
When the female reporter returned to interview the Marx couple, Holly introduced herself and said, "Yes, I am Holly Payne, Marx's wife. ”
The music started, the subtitles rose, the camera slowly zoomed out, and the audience gave a standing ovation.
However, the three Caesar and most of the crew sat still.
At first, the audience was puzzled, but soon they found out that after the black screen, the real "feature film" began.
Yes, the real "feature film" is the legendary "shooting tidbits".
It is said that the first movie to show filming footage at the end was a Jackie Chan movie.
There is no such thing as a trend in Hollywood.
Why is it called "feature film"? This comes from a joke from Jackie Chan.
He said: "I'm most afraid that you (the fans) will say that the tidbits are better than the feature film. ”
Since then, some Jackie Chan fans will shout "feature film" every time they reach the end of the tidbits.
Caesar's footage of himself is very small, and most of it is a mistake shot of Willis and some supporting characters.
A documentary about him has been released on videotape, detailing how Caesar made his debut film as a director.
It is estimated that after the release of the film, the sales of this documentary can set a record.
Not to mention that Caesar has a lot of fans, students who are interested in film production, enthusiasts, Hollywood practitioners, and even fellow directors will definitely buy it back to study and collect.
Caesar alone knows of several big names who have been booked are Coppola, Cameron, Spielberg, Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Martin Sixes, etc.
The least booked was Kubrick, who asked for five tapes, and the most were Coppola and Cameron, each with ten tapes.
It's not a show, it's just a side function, and as a work with a unique style that can create an era, it's just normal to buy a video tape and go back to pull the film one by one to study.
What's more, this is not a movie, but a professional documentary that records Caesar's creative process, which requires patient research back and forth.
The videotape is not like the disc that appeared later, every time the videotape is played, it is a consumption of magnetism, and this thing really can't withstand the study and study of the pull-out film one by one.
In this era of videotapes, any student or practitioner studying film will not buy just a tape when studying and researching a movie.
In fact, the tidbits of any movie are funny enough, because humans can always find laughter in the "stupid failures" of their kind.
And playing tidbits is a very "down-to-earth" behavior, looking at the various bizarre ng ways shown in the tidbits, as well as the seemingly tall superstar actors and mysterious directors also have an unknown funny side, the psychological distance between the audience and the main creators will be invisibly pulled in.
A lot of black passers-by, passers-by turn fans, it happens after watching tidbits or similar videos that expose the comic value of celebrities.
For example, in the memory of Caesar's previous life, the famous "Venus Orange Juice Terrier" when Chinese actress Jiang Xin took a selfie at the Little Coffee Show immediately attracted a large number of passers-by to fans at that time.
Trivia has a similar effect.
Of course, if you have idol baggage, you can't do this kind of thing, you feel that you are too **, how can passers-by fan you?
The audience sat down again, watched all the tidbits in laughter, and stood up again to express their love for the movie with more enthusiastic applause.
The most impressive thing for everyone is Willis in the "Dancer Under the Moon" set of shots.
In the light of the silhouette, the first time Willis made the action of turning around and changing the magazine, because of the excessive force, the angle of the guide turned more than 360°.
He was supposed to face the actor playing the enemy at the end of the turn and face the camera sideways, but Willis found himself facing the back of the window at the end of the turn......
The most interesting thing is that when he turned around, he slammed his head on the window glass and made a "poof" sound......
At this moment, the whole set fell silent, Willis laughed at himself, only to see him lying on the desk with a gun in both hands, trembling with laughter, and finally he couldn't hold it back, so he simply stood up and smiled freely.
Then the whole crew was like a boiling pot, and they all laughed at once.
When the audience saw this, the reaction was basically the same as that of the crew members.
Caesar released the tidbits, also out of consideration to soothe the audience's feelings.
You must know that although this movie has some American-style humorous lines, the overall style still tends to be cruel, so it is rated R, especially the action of the protagonist Marx on the battlefield to make up the gun on the head of the fallen person, which still makes this movie too strict and cruel.
So much so that some critics immediately began to discuss whether this act of making up guns should be deleted after the film ended.
They do not understand why, after the enemy was shot twice in the chest by 1911 of 12 mm caliber, the protagonist had to refill the gun in the head.
Thompson, Caesar's military adviser, would have spat him in the face when he heard the critic's words.
Let's not talk about World War II, let's just say that after the Vietnam War, the American army was killed by the enemy who he thought was already a dead body.
People can be vulnerable, and many can even commit suicide with their minds.
A person who forcibly makes himself think that he is dead with strong psychological cues can make his body obedient to the end of a qiē physiology.
In some news, even if there is only one slap in the face, some people will fall to the ground and die, and the autopsy will not find any reason.
However, some people's vitality is simply cockroach possession.
Especially in battle, not to mention the large-caliber pistol bullets as two shots in the chest, some people can still hold the gun and run out of bullets even if a third of their heads are blown away by shrapnel, and then kill an enemy in hand-to-hand combat.
A series of bloody lessons make the veterans instinctively replenish the head of the fallen enemy.
Caesar adopted Thompson's suggestion and had Max Payne use the refill maneuver as well.
Of course, Caesar deliberately shot such a set of shots.
When the protagonist Marx is refilling an enemy, there is an enemy on the floor behind him who he has not had time to refill his gun and suddenly opens his eyes, and when he picks up the gun and is about to kill the protagonist, the protagonist who hears the voice turns around and shoots his head.
Caesar is using this lens to emphasize the importance of refilling, but these critics still can't help it.
Caesar never treated film critics as normal people.
It's not a neurosis, how to be a good film critic?
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