"Time" Weekly recently selected the top ten movies of 2019.
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", which was supposed to be released in October and was finally withdrawn by Bruce Lee's daughter, was included. In addition, it was also included in this year's Cannes Palme d'Or film "Parasite", which was originally planned to be introduced to the mainland theaters.
Yesterday there was news that "Little Women", which was also selected as one of the top ten, was confirmed to be introduced. What made the audience even more excited was the seventh place in the "Times" list, "The Blade Out" was released on November 29.
This time "The Knife Out of the Sheath" was released in mainland China. Two gimmicks hit people the most. The first is the above-mentioned "Times Magazine's Top Ten Movies in the World in 2019".
, the world's number one magazine, "Time", is self-evident with its popularity, influence and authority. The only criterion for being included in its list is quality. Therefore, "Knife Out of the Sheath" is very worth looking forward to.
Two is "one cut without cutting". Those who can hang the dragon badge smoothly, and have all their tails on the big screen in the mainland, haven't gotten all over with their fingers. This shows that there is nothing wrong with this film in terms of three views.
is just that the film has been circulated on social media for a while, because of its high reputation when it was screened and screened at foreign film festivals.
, but the name "Sharp Out of the Sheath" sounds a bit like a gift film or anti-Japanese drama. After checking
, there is really a play called "I Am a Special Forces 2 Sharp Out of the Sheath" that fits my imagination. The protagonist is Wu Jing who matches the name of the play very well.
and "The Knife Out" is a modern murder mystery that pays tribute to the universally recognized queen of mystery novels, Agatha Christie.
audiences who have watched it said that this movie is more appropriately called "Fatal Legacy".
Simply put, this is a story of a detective novelist's last wish and a detective PK.
It tells the story of Howard, a rich novelist, was found to commit suicide in his own manor on the second day of his 85th birthday, leaving behind hundreds of millions of inheritance. Detective Blanco was suddenly hired by an anonymous person to investigate the case. At the same time, Howard's grandson Lanson is also under investigation.
And when Blanco talked with the rest of the wealthy family, he discovered that everyone has an ulterior secret, everyone wants an inheritance... Is this murder a suicide or a homicide? Everyone seems to have a suspicion...
looks like Aunt Sha from the outline of the story, and the familiar Murder on the Orient Express, The Tragedy on the Nile, etc., seem to be the same.
However, if you are playing old stalks and old routines, then this kind of movie may be selected as one of the top ten "Times", which is a bit disappointing readers' expectations.
In fact, the film, which was released in North America two days earlier, has already harvested 100% of the freshness score of rotten tomatoes, and the score on Douban is also 8.5 points, which is better than the 95% suspense film and crime film.
This is what attracted us to the theater to enjoy it, and we really haven't seen a good suspense mystery film for a long time. There is no need to mention the domestically produced suspense mystery films, and even similar foreign films have been extinct for a long time.
is not only wonderful, but the script is still original. With this, it can kill the domestic directors who rely on IP to eat but can’t make films.
is such a big cow is the director of "Star Wars 8: The Last Jedi" released last year, Ryan Johnson, and his more popular work is the director of the third and fifth seasons of the drama "Breaking Bad" . The cast of the
movie is even more known as the "King Fried" cast. In addition to the two super big names,
also has a bunch of unpretentious stars who combine strength and fame:
powerful actor Michael Shannon ("The Shape of Water"), "horror film queen" Jamie Lee Ke Tis ("Moonlight Panic"), Ana de Armas ("Blade Runner 2049"), Toni Colette ("Genetic Doom"), Le Cass Steinfeld ("Escape from Death") Town"), Ricky Lindham ("The Big Bang Theory"), Christopher Plummer ("Golden Pond"), Jayden Martel, "The Clown", Don Johnson ("Freed The Jiang Ge")......
and the two superstars who play the big detective and the rich grandson in the film are all familiar to usOld faces.
They are the outgoing 007 Daniel Craig, and the "Captain America" who "retired" from the Marvel Cinematic Universe-Chris Evans.
It can be seen that the film is completely all-star lineup, top configuration.
Craig's last 007 "No Time to Die" has been filmed for nearly two years and will be released in April next year.
and Evans' "American Team" completely bid farewell to the audience after "Reunion 4".
are two popular stars who have become superheroes on the screen, leading the star in "The Knife Out of the Sheath".
007 is a detective in the film, and the US team is a rich second-generation, dude, the two people are facing each other.
, especially Evans, is deeply rooted in the cool image of the US team. The playboy role this time reminds people of the pushy fire-thrower in his famous work "Fantastic Four".
It is said that although it is a pure literary play, the duel between 007 and the US team is still full of flames, and it is enjoyable to watch.
Therefore, some simple and rude self-media described "Knife Out of the Sheath" as "for 007 and the US team."
My expectation is indeed for 007.
Craig’s 007 is my favorite 007, more than the favorite Pierce Brosnan in the eyes of many people.
In my opinion, Brosnan lacks the toughness of the former, and there is still a bit of idiot.
However, it must be admitted that the best in Craig's 007 movie is the theme song "Skyfall" sung by Adele.
Among his four 007 movies, only "Ship Royal" is acceptable, and overall it is not as high as Brosnan. Although
doesn't like Brosnan very much, you have to admit that "Golden Eye" and "Black Sun Crisis" are the most classics in the 007 series.
Craig’s daughter-in-law, Rachel Weisz, has the same character as him. She resolutely stopped acting after two episodes of "The Mummy".
repetitive performance is sometimes the biggest incentive for actors to enter the pit. The same is true for
Evans.
The remake of "Reunion 4" in the autumn of 2018 was the last time he put on the US team uniform. He euphemistically expressed to the public that he did not want to play the US team again: he wanted to get off the car before he was pushed off the car. Actors like
are hard to see in the Chinese-speaking world.
Of course, on the one hand, the Chinese-language film and television industry is now in the winter, and it is a blessing to have jobs, but on the other hand, our actors rarely have demands for the quality of scripts and their own improvement.
Most of our actors have a good degree of professionalism, but they lack a lot of professionalism.
From small to large, many of the entertainment news we often see is that Hong Kong actors are very hard, often do not sleep for a few days, play several studios a night, shoot a dozen movies a year, punctuality and so on.
If an actor makes a major change in appearance in order to act in a movie, it is simply touching the audience.
is like Lu Liangwei's fattening for the performance of "The Cripple". Later, which actors gain or lose weight will become the highest judgment of professionalism.
For example, in Zhang Yimou's "Shadow" in 2018, Deng Chao played two roles alone.
plays normally first, then drastically reduces the other one.
It is not easy for an actor to use willpower to control his body for role-playing.
is like Matthew McConaughey in "Dallas Club" that you can hardly see, and Amir Khan who is normal and gaining weight before losing weight in "Wrestling Daddy" is also considered one, and so on.
But I think dedication in performance is easy to achieve, but to touch the audience, you need a higher level of dedication, that is, professionalism, which is much more difficult than appearance to change for the role, such as accent.
Gao Xiaosong once said in the show that none of Hong Kong and Taiwan actors can speak Mandarin fluently enough to perform directly in mainland movies.
Even Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, and Leung Ka Fai, who speak the best Mandarin, still fail to meet the performance requirements, so there is no need to mention other cats and dogs.
So we can look at the performance of 007 in "The Knife Out of the Sheath".
Craig, who has a pure London accent, is here for a good filmFrom the role of a detective in the southern United States, he just learned a southern accent according to the script.
The Chinese audience may not be able to hear it, but the foreigners were shocked.
In fact, this is equivalent to letting a Cantonese speak Beijing movies, speaking like their mother tongue. This is an actor who has done a relatively advanced level of dedication, which is called a professional.
In addition to the star and plot, "Blade Out of the Sheath" has a lot of highlights, and it is not an exaggeration to use the full range of high energy.
, for example, in the film, there is also a somewhat familiar and somewhat horrifying "artwork", all made up of knives, axes and saws, which is a tribute to the "Iron Throne" throughout "Game of Thrones" .
has this blockbuster film again, which can be featured in "Time", and it is certainly not only the business part of reasoning and suspense, but some of its bridges are also regarded as metaphors for today's American society. Among them,
sprays populism and screams Trump without evasiveness. Let a suspenseful reasoning movie begin with the murder of Aunt Sha’s country house and end in a microcosm of American class society.
It is now conceivable that soon many media articles will use "sharp out of the sheath" in the title when reporting news.
If this film did not explode, then I think "Knife Out of the Sheath" may have only been destroyed by this mediocre title that is habitually indifferent.
Of course, there are also many netizens who have seen it first, saying that it was obviously better in the second brush than the first time.
