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The premiere in Los Angeles has just come to an end, and midnight screenings are about to begin in major theaters in New York on the East Coast.

"Look, this is Christopher Lee......"

After getting out of the taxi in Times Square, Erin unfolded the poster in her hand and put it in front of several companions, "This is definitely the coolest and most temperamental old man in Hollywood!" ”

"Erin, how many times have you repeated this?"

A black-haired girl pursed her lips in dissatisfaction and beckoned the other four companions to walk towards the AMG Theater across the square, "No matter how cool and temperamental Li is, no matter how legendary his experience is, it can't change the fact that he is an old man!" What we liked was the young dudes ......"

"Oh God...... she said with a nymphomaniac expression, "my heart gets drunk just thinking of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt." ”

"So you're going to see "Interview with the Vampire"?" Erin asked, rather dissatisfied.

"yes!"

Three of the female companions said at the same time, "We're here to see 'Interview with the Vampire'!" ”

"What about you, Anna?"

As she walked into the theater, Erin asked her friend that Anna preferred fast-paced movies despite studying film at New York University, and she shrugged, "I'm not interested in those two poker faces." ”

This drew angry glances from the three girls, and Anna and Erin hurried away from their gaze and walked to the ticket office, where there were not many people waiting to buy tickets because of the late hour.

""Brave Death Island", midnight show, two!" Erin said.

""Night Visit to the Vampire", midnight show, three!"

The voices of several girls caught the attention of a middle-aged woman named Kreese, an employee of Warner Bros.'s investigative consulting firm, who had been observing ticket sales for Death Island and its biggest rival, Interview with Vampire.

She sat here for a full two hours, and there was almost no suspense in what she observed, just like the tickets of the girls just now, and at the midnight show that relied on fan support, the ticket sales of "Night Interview with the Vampire" were stable and stable for "Brave Island".

The time is gradually approaching the zero o'clock in the eastern time zone, and fewer and fewer people enter the theater, and most of the people who walk in at this time are coming for the two films that have just been released.

Most of the viewers who chose "Interview with the Vampire" because of the influence of the main cast and the original book, while the supporters of "Death Island" are mostly fans of action movies, and they have been paying attention to this film since the Super Bowl commercial.

Nearly two-thirds of the audience Kress asked said they first learned about Death Island from the Super Bowl halftime commercial, and were extremely impressed by the Hummer and Ferrari car chases and the unique 'bomb perspective'.

With targeted advertising and the right publicity platform, Warner's publicity seems to be doing a good job, and Kreese keenly captures a point from these messy messages, and the advertising of "Death Island" at the Super Bowl seems to have played a big role.

Sitting in the theater, Anna took the water handed by Erin, put it aside, her eyes wandered around, there were about forty viewers, most of them were men, and female action movie fans like them were relatively minority.

The film quickly kicked off, and like Duke Rosenberg's previous film, "Death Island" is also super fast-paced, with transitions often flashing in a flash, constantly using action, explosions and speeding scenes to sensationalize, and Erin next to her has been constantly yelling since the first action scene, and she has not been a lady from a famous family at all.

Unlike Irene, Anna majored in film production at university, and while watching the movie, she also used a cool mind to constantly analyze the plot of the movie, and when the film gradually came to an end, she also had a lot of experience.

In Anna's opinion, the storyline of this movie is full of all kinds of trial and error at any cost from beginning to end.

In General Hammer's main line, he brazenly stole VX gas missiles in order to suffer and not receive timely compensation for his subordinates, and lost one person; Stationed at Alcatraz Prison and summoning two Marine elites on the recommendation of an acquaintance was a major strategic failure and a fatal mistake; Eliminate the seals led by Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, but miss the two protagonists, and the first step in tactics is wrong; Luring out John Mason as a hostage and imprisoning Mason and Goosby, only to be escaped by Mason and defeat the elite of the Marine Corps, this is a tactical mistake in the second step; Changing the flight trajectory because the missile did not want to hit the city of San Francisco, causing infighting and dying at the hands of his subordinates, is the third tactical mistake.

Zhengfang is also constantly trial and error, such as Gusby, one of the protagonists, who almost died because of his colleague playing with dolls during the bomb disposal process; Summoned to the airport, he talks about his understanding of VX gas when he is unclear, and is therefore considered the best person to defuse the bomb; Defeated in an argument with John Mason; Because he had no training, although he narrowly won the battle, he was a little late in igniting the green smoke bomb, and was swept into the sea by the air wave of the explosion.

Although the story progresses in a trial-and-error way, it does not seem abrupt and stiff.

General Hammer knew that he could not exchange violence for the conscience of the Legion, but his final behavior attracted the attention of the president; He never killed a single civilian, and although his kidnapping, imprisonment and firing were terrorism, his deathbed words - how could this be, what did I do - is enough to show the patriotism in his bones.

What he did was wrong in form, but it was right in substance.

As a positive figure, when the Pentagon, politicians and the FBI discussed the case, they knew that the bombing of Alcatraz would kill civilians, but they had to do it for the sake of national justice; Knowing that it was wrong to imprison Mason, he still tried to detain him again after the mission was over; Knowing that Goosby was a rookie, he still ordered him to dismantle the poison gas missiles - no one but him could do it.

These decisions are not wrong in practice, but in reality they are blind, impatient, shallow, and short-sighted, especially in the bathhouse ambush, where all the SEALs face the condescending Marines, and the MP5s in their hands are nothing to mention in the face of heavy firepower such as assault rifles......

This simple and direct sensationalism left a deep impression on Anna, and if Mason's revenge on Womak represented a partial personal struggle against an unfair system, and he got away with it, the bathhouse ambush meant "the complete defeat of high-sounding justice in the face of evil"!

Of course, this is just her own opinion on the film.

At first, the SEALs tried to climb out of the sewer, but when faced with the laser alarm on the manhole cover, they used the method of reflecting the laser to try to evade detection, but they did not realize that the laser alarm was actually a vibration warning device, which would alarm as soon as contact and vibration occurred.

So all the SEALs climbed out of the bathhouse with dignity, and what awaited them was a merciless bullet, and Lieutenant Colonel Anderson's impassioned speech almost shook the morale of the soldiers, but the war never looked at the face.

Since the contradictions throughout the film focus on the starting point of General Hammer's terrorist acts, the reference of this bridge is extremely subtle.

"First, he tested the bottom of evil with the hypocritical justice of wielding the moral stick, but found that the evil ignored him, so he jumped out and sang and danced to the ......" Sitting in her seat, Anna shrugged her shoulders, "but was choked by the neck of the awakened evil and torn to pieces like a chicken"

Among them, Lieutenant Colonel Anderson and several other seals struggle before death, and the picture brings a deep sense of powerlessness, even more than his impassioned speech.

Even if the film continues to use various trial and error to promote the development of the plot, it does not mean that it cannot get an ideal ending.

Anna can see that the young director of her age in "Brave Island", the premise of trial and error is not unprepared, but prepared, and the most desirable effect is obtained.

Although after the Battle of the Bathhouse, the film returns to the old-fashioned personal heroism to save the world, but under the director's subtle technique, Anna does not feel disgusted at all, but finds it equally exciting and interesting.

After all, she studied film production for several years and quickly came up with some analysis.

In the theatrical table, the recurrence of contradictions and conflicts is limited, and the partial images explained by the lens language often have 100 angles for a one-second plot, but they cannot all be presented to the audience - the film cannot be shot like this - especially in a fast-paced action film like "Brave Island".

After the first 70 minutes of the film have fully intensified the conflict, and it is no longer possible to promote the plot through the narrative style of the big scenes, director Duke Rosenberg simply introduces a spiraling structure here, shifting the perspective from the whole to the part, and the conflict of the characters brings out the development of the overall story.

It's a very clever transformation, which seems simple to say, but it is quite difficult to apply in practice.

That young director is obviously getting more and more mature! Anna sighed in her heart.

As a result, the film has changed from the previous pros and cons taking turns to trial and error as a whole, to individuals on the pros and cons taking turns to try and make mistakes.

Next, although the picture tension of the film is not as exaggerated as the previous traffic and team battles, the details are more exquisite, the lens language and the actors' individual performances are more tense, and many foreshadowings of the plot preset are more and more brilliant when the lines and actions are unraveled one by one.

In "Brave Island", this transformation is very natural, and there is a lot of foreshadowing in advance, so the effect is ......

"It's like the addition of Gothic stained glass to Romanesque architecture, which changes the dull and oppressive feeling caused by lack of lighting in one fell swoop."

Unconsciously, Anna said what was in her heart, "If you use the concept of architecture to describe "Brave Island", director Duke Rosenberg is definitely the first-class designer and on-site director!" ”