From the arrival of X-Dragon in Hollywood, to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The Matrix", Chinese kung fu, which is very beautiful, has caused a wave in Hollywood.

And that's not counting Bruce Lee (Bruce Lee), who has long been known to Americans.

However, like other cultural elements introduced by Hollywood, the kung fu trend has only been around for a while.

After the local Hollywood action directors mastered the required parts, the kung fu tide quickly receded.

After all, movies only want external performance, and many times mastering some fur is enough.

What's more, Hollywood is indeed good at learning.

Later, DreamWorks even launched "Kung Fu Panda", a kung fu animated film that is full of Chinese style in all kinds of places except for the spiritual core.

This has left many filmmakers and animation practitioners in China speechless.

Of course, at this time in 1999, Hollywood still had a very good grasp of the fighting methods in Chinese kung fu movies.

However, by this time, the Kung Fu boom had already risen.

Against the backdrop, the lightsaber fighting in "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" seems very low-level and fake.

This naturally led to a further decline in the evaluation of the film.

In fact, compared to Charlotte's detachment mentality, who thinks more about which hotel to go to after watching the movie, some real Star Wars fans have more serious complaints in their hearts.

- Emily's high school math teacher, Andrew Spark.

As an S-party member who even fills in his religious beliefs as "The Force", it is naturally impossible for Andrew to miss "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Phantom Menace".

This time, he was going to line up in front of the cinema early so that he could see the first show.

For this, he even had the tent he was waiting in line ready to wait.

However, because of the call of his girlfriend Diana, he had to give up.

As a result, he could only watch "The Phantom Menace" in a normal scene.

That would have been enough to make him depressed.

What's even more annoying is that this new movie in the "Star Wars" series that he has been looking forward to for more than ten years is not at all as good as he imagined.

"Although the special effects have improved, in other aspects, they can't catch up with the old version of "The Empire Strikes Back"!"

Andrew muttered and grumbled,

"Isn't it so much worse for George Lucas to grasp the story of a movie without Irving Kershner?"

Although a loyal Star Wars fan, Andrew has always worshipped George Lucas as a god.

But he also knew that "Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back" could become a classic, in addition to the phrase "I'm your dad!", George Lucas's teacher Irvin Kershner also contributed a lot.

- It was his directing that raised the level of "The Empire Strikes Back".

However, because of the contradiction with George Lucas's philosophy, Irving Kershner was already excluded when the third part of the Star Wars series, "Return of the Jedi", was filmed.

Coupled with the conflict with the directors' union, George Lucas had to hire a small director from the United Kingdom, Richard Marquend, to be a puppet vest to shoot the third "Return of the Jedi......

These factors have accumulated together, and finally made "Return of the Jedi" the worst reputation in the "Star Wars" trilogy.

Many fans are also vaguely aware that George Lucas's directing ability as a director may not be as strong as they imagined.

And now, this "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Phantom Menace", directed by Lucas himself, seems to prove it.

"No wonder among the four major Hollywood directors in 80 years, only Lucas has no call for an Oscar at all!"

Andrew's mind swirled with the idea that he was rather disrespectful to his idol.

However, it is also true -

Among the four major directors of Hollywood in the 80s, Francis Coppola and Steven Spielberg have already won the Oscar for Best Director.

And although Martin Scorsese has a bad relationship with the little golden man, the statement that Oscar owes the old Martin a little golden man has become a stalk, and someone will say it almost every year.

- Just like Woody Allen, who comes to the Oscars from time to time to brush up on his presence.

But no one ever said that Oscar owed George Lucas a little gold.

In fact, if Andrew had been a time-traveler like Charlotte, he would have known that it would have been when Martin Scorsese finally won the Oscar for Best Director for "The Departed," which was adapted from "Infernal Affairs." George Lucas also hacked himself because of this.

It's not because he became the only one of Hollywood's big four directors in the '80s who didn't win an Oscar.

- To be honest, judging from Lucas's past behavior, he doesn't care as much about this little golden man as Martin Scorsese.

He will blacken himself, purely because the organizers of the Oscars at that time invited three other members of the four major directors of the 80s, including him, to present awards to Martin Sr.

As a result, as soon as Francis Coppola opened his mouth, he pitted Lucas -

"You know, everybody on this stage has won the best director ......"

Faced with this kind of line, George Lucas had no choice but to honestly admit it,

"No, I didn't. ”

- That's embarrassing!

Although to a greater extent, this is a joke written in advance by the writers of the Oscar organizers, Lucas doesn't mind at all......

In short, because of his dissatisfaction with "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Phantom Menace", Andrew downgraded George Lucas's level by one notch in his mind.

- No longer God, but still an angel.

- if not Gabriel, then Michael. Although Andrew thinks that Lucas's villain boss style is more like Lucifer......

In his heart, he despised his idol a little, while continuing to watch the movie intently.

However, this did not prevent him from sending blades to Lucas's Skywalker Farm after reading it.

And the second brush that was originally prepared, Andrew also gave up for the time being.

"Unless Diana comes with me!"

...... In short, the mentality of "Star Wars" fans is very contradictory.

And as a not-so-iron, but not too much Star Wars fan, Charlize's mentality also collapsed after watching this "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Phantom Menace".

She was also in front of Charlotte and chattered about the shortcomings of the movie for a long time.

However, that didn't stop her from buying the "Star Wars" merchandise that was selling well in the cinema.

In addition to the new Darth Maul's two-headed red lightsaber, Charlize also buys the eerie tiara of Queen Amidara, the mother of Luke Skywalker in the future squeeze, and buys a helmet of the dark knight Darth Vader for Charlotte.

Charlotte would have refused this kind of gift from the believers.

But after Charlize told him he could play special cosplay games with this helmet on......

He accepted.

And, inspired by this, he finally came up with a safe solution to Charlize's subconscious killer shadow......