Speaking of the history of remakes of internal entertainment, it can basically be said to be a history of blood and tears. Not to mention
, take the most powerful "remake master" Bao Bell as an example, he is simply staring at an audience and moaning.
"Northeast Love Song", " Sunshine Sister Tao", " My Robot Girlfriend ", " Fat Man Action Team ", " Lu Yaozhi Ma Li " none of them can pass the passing line, the only one that did not roll over Yes, it is " "big" character ", but it is barely qualified.
Bao Bell's remakes frequently overturned, that is, because of the lack of a mapping of performance opportunities. For Huang Lei , who also lost a wave of popularity because of the remake,
seems even more inappropriate.
was born in a professional class and is also a teacher. He has high-quality works and honors. However, his directorial debut " Trouble Family " was a remake of Japan's " Family Suffering ", and he lost fans.
copied the tone, environment, and plot as they were, and was directly criticized by China Youth Daily for "stealing and cheating".
, but people's traffic is there, and they still don't want to repent. In the second year,
came to a more thorough "Late Night Cafeteria". The service, food, and plot were basically copied and imitated. The Douban score was 2.9, which was a black spot in his life.
Izakaya is the "late night canteen" in China?
slippery and lazy , maybe a good label for the actor.
Of course, the remakes of domestic films are not useless, and some good ones are occasionally produced. For example, "Twelve Citizens" and "Manslaughter" are good representatives, but more or less, there are more or less flaws.
We accept remakes, but they are not remakes that have no idea and are sneaky and slippery. Such films are just a waste of resources.
, for example, a remake that came out recently, can almost be said to be another role model in the remake world.
This is a remake masterpiece that can make many domestic entertainment filmmakers reflect on it. It is:
" All Quiet on the Western Front "
This film is a remake of the Oscar-winning film of the same name released in 1930, which is still available on the rating website. With a high score of 8.9, it is considered to be the ceiling of 20th century war films.
Since the new version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" landed on the streaming platform, it has achieved excellent playback data. In the first week of its release,
won a total viewing time of 31.5 million hours, and became the world's most watched non-English movie on the Netflix platform, and it was directly airborne "world first".
and netizens who have always been harsh on the remake also gave high praise this time. In the rating website, the film directly scored 8.8 points, which is almost the same as the original.
For this reason, many viewers said:
This is the best movie of the year!
So, is this Netflix remake really that awesome?
Let's let Qingshi, who has slowed down after watching this film for a day, let's talk about how strong it is?
1. The opening chapter of
Through a strong contrast, the main perspective of the story of Hot-blooded Recruits & Cold-blooded Battlefield
"No War on the Western Front" was placed on the German frontline during the first World War .
Due to geopolitics, , the German battlefield at that time was divided into east and west.
German soldiers on the eastern front fought with Russian troops, while the Germans on the western front were mainly Anglo-French allied forces, the casualties of this line were extremely heavy.
The protagonist of this film Paul is a student soldier on the German Western Front.
Encouraged by the headmaster who advocates chauvinism (note: a kind of nationalism that advocates external expansion), Paul's school is shrouded in the atmosphere of pen and army.
Paul was also moved by the headmaster's passionate speech, and was ready to give up his studies to become a soldier.
faced the principal's slogan "captured Paris in a few months" , the young young people's eyes were full of light. He signed up for the army without telling his mother. Although
has not yet set foot on the battlefield, at this moment he and his friends are even fantasizing about a better life after "March in Paris".
It's as if they were on vacation in Paris instead of going to war.
is the so-called ignorance is power, this enthusiasm is obviously difficult to last for too long.
No, Paul "woke up" within the first 24 hours of arriving on the battlefield.
first encountered the moment of life and death during the night vigil.
, who was in charge of duty, curiously and desperately showed his head slightly from the trench, but he was shot in the next second...
If the helmet was not of excellent quality, Paul would have to get a lunch box at the beginning.
was followed by the French bombardment;
was bombarded by the French in turn at night, and Paul and other recruits could only hide in the house and couldn't move.
Under the extremely intensive bombardment, this group of recruits was frightened and called their mothers.
As the French continued to bomb, Paul's house was eventually destroyed by .
Fortunately, Paul was lucky and was rescued from the rubble by his comrades.
But after the disaster, he picked up his classmate's glasses on the floor and learned of the other party's death.
Accompanied by Paul's stunned eyes, the entire Western Front also sent greetings to the recruit in a unique way: Can
survive tonight?
This is war.
In just one day, Paul completed the transformation from full of anticipation to to full of horror, to and without love. This huge sense of contrast has also become the highlight of the previous plot.
Second,
The brutality that penetrated into the bones, reproduces the cold "meat grinder" battlefield
A recruit who knows nothing is put on the battlefield, and the hardships he has experienced can be imagined.
But in the follow-up plot, the director deliberately skipped the growth of the male protagonist Paul, but took the timeline by fast-forwarding 18 months.
In the next scene of the plot, Paul has washed away the jerkyness of joining the army and has become a soldier who looks like a soldier. A design like
skips some routine "protagonist battlefield growth plots", and explains in a more direct way what the audience wants to know more: How cruel is
's "Western Line Meat Grinder"?
follows Paul's point of view, and the film also swipes wildly with a more straight-forward style.
For example, soldiers who were instantly "erased";
In the follow-up plot, Paul and others were ordered to find a group of recruits who disappeared. After
searched, they found 60 corpses lying crookedly in the warehouse.
It turned out that this group of recruits all died from the enemy's gas bombs, and the "war" that belonged to them ended before it even started.
and 60 heads are so worthless to zero.
Another example, Paul and his party fought in the position; after
was sent to the front line to attack a French army position, Paul felt the feeling of fighting each other with his life. At the beginning of
, Paul's company took the lead in winning a French position.
But winning first is not a win. After the French tanks rumbled over, the offensive and defensive sides quickly changed hands. Under the huge equipment disadvantage of
, Paul and others reluctantly fled. Soldiers who didn't escape in time to
could only be brutally murdered by the French army...
was either crushed by the tank , or was burned to pieces by the gun , one by one was unbearable. The visual image kept popping up.
The German army's mourning one after another is endless, and you can feel the breath of hell on earth through the screen.
Even if the soldiers chose to surrender, the red-eyed French army still would not treat the captive well, but continued to spray fire on him ragingly.
's mind reverberates with the figure of his comrade-in-arms, who is about to be burnt to charcoal. Paul's eyes have revealed the tiredness and fear of war...
The two sides saw the battle of positions dozens of meters, and countless lives became opponents in the battle. gambling chips. How can a picture like
not make people feel suffocated?
has to say that this extremely eye-catching style has achieved the established effect of the director's team, making us feel the horror of a real war.
3.
It is thought-provoking, who is the war for?
After some tragic painting styles, the director team immediately turned back to the male protagonist's perspective.
Here, the director team used the death of two people to "awaken" Paul's character.
First dead - a French soldier;
During Paul's rout, he met a single French soldier in a stinky puddle.
, who witnessed the merciless slaughter of his compatriots, had long regarded the French as demons, so he vented all his anger on the French army in front of him.
attacked first, he took the dagger and stabbed the opponent hard to struggle, and Paul's face at this time gradually became hideous.
But as his emotions recovered, looked at the other party's dying appearance, but young Paul couldn't bear it. When
killed him at close range for the first time, he instantly felt extremely guilty. For this reason, he even wanted to make up for the other party's wounds.
But it was his action that accelerated the death of the other party, which made Paul feel extremely guilty...
And in the process of unbuttoning the French army shirt, Paul also found that the other party was just an ordinary worker, and he also Like ordinary people, he hides letters from his family.
And this also made Paul unable to tell whether the French army in front of him was a "devil", or whether he was a "devil" with a grim face.
followed by the second deceased, the German veteran Kate;
, a veteran who took Paul to the farm to steal geese, reunited with Paul during the escape.
was hungry, and the two were forced to work together to steal geese again.
The exhausted two made some mistakes this time. The old soldier was shot by the farmer's youngest son and died unexpectedly.
Veteran stole the goose for the first time, so he diedThe ending is somewhat self-inflicted.
Whether it is a veteran who stole food in a state of war, or a good person who killed each other in the war between the two countries, they died for a reason that should not have been there, which is undoubtedly a pity.
Under the sudden brain wave, Paul's eyes began to be confused.
Who is this endless war fighting for, not only Paul at the moment has no answer, but the audience outside the camera also has no answer.
4. The ending of
is more "cold" than the original version. During the war, people are not as good as dogs. Compared with the slightly poetic ending of the male protagonist Paul in the 1930 version, the 2022 version is particularly cold to the bone. In
in the 1930 edition of "All Quiet on the Western Front", the male protagonist Paul has resolutely opposed the war in the later period, and tried to use his own strength to call for peace.
But when he returned to the army, he exposed his target because he wanted to catch a butterfly that his loved ones liked. Unfortunately, he was hit by stray bullet . The ending was full of poetic sadness.
And in the ending of 2022 version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" , the director team arranged a colder ending for Paul, which also highlighted the character's powerlessness in the context of the times. In the plot of
, when Paul and his comrades were bloody killing the enemy and suffered heavy casualties, the marshals of Germany and France refused to give in for the sake of personal reputation.
was cold-blooded at first by the superior French marshal;
faced the rising number of casualties, and the marshal didn't care too much.
On the contrary, he was aggressive with the German officials who came to negotiate and demanded that the other party meet his demands within a 72-hour time limit.
Facing the officials' unbearable advice, the marshal's words "Then sign (surrender)!" revealed his cold-blooded nature.
The French marshal is a cold-blooded monster, while the German marshal is a paranoid;
The German army lost again and again, and the German emperor Wilhelm II also abdicated for this reason, and Germany finally chose to surrender to the allied country .
But even if the defeat is decided, the German marshal still wants to "enjoy it" .
At this time, he forced to assemble the last wave of soldiers, ready to conquer a certain plain before the official surrender.
In other words, the marshal wanted to use a worthless "victory" to put an end to the loss of the entire battle.
And unfortunately, our protagonist Paul was in this wave of assembled teams...
, who had seen the dawn of peace, became a victim of the marshal's face saving before the end of the war.
At this moment, his eyes are full of despair...
Compared with the ending of the original book, the ending of the new version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" is even more cold.
Life during the war is either reduced to a lamb to be slaughtered at gunpoint, or like Paul, a pawn that can be thrown away at any time, manipulated by the upper echelons at will.
Here, Qingshi has to mention a very contrasting scene at the end of the film.
While Paul was tired but had to fight bravely, on the other side was the picture of the marshal sitting in the mansion and enjoying dinner. Compared with the
lens, even the marshal's dog is more comfortable than Paul. The ending of
also reminds Bluestone again of Hemingway's famous saying:
In modern warfare, you will die as a meaningless dog like a dog.
From the bloody style to the extremely profound theme, to the chilling ending design, this new version of "No War on the Western Front" is full of anti-war thinking.
And colder than the movie comes from a more terrifying reality.
is like the paranoid German commander who launched an attack in "All Quiet on the Western Front". Throughout human history, crazy militaristic thoughts have also seriously affected world peace.
In the "Christmas Truce" mentioned at the beginning of the article , there were voices against the truce in the German camp at that time.
According to German media reports, Hitler , who participated in World War I as a soldier, was very dissatisfied with the truce, believing that this move seriously reduced the sense of honor of the soldiers.
After he came to power in 1933 and became the head of the German state, Hitler not only promoted militarism, but also banned the anti-war "All Quiet on the Western Front".
And this also caused the earliest version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" to be banned for 12 years.
But obviously, the unilateral and brutal ban cannot stop mankind's yearning for peace, and the germ of anti-war thinking has not been stifled.
's anti-war works such as "All Quiet on the Western Front" are passing on the "light of peace" like a baton, and the outside world has gradually seen the cold and biting truth behind countless wars. Behind
, all kinds of hypocrisy and evil deeds done by careerists for their own selfish desires are exposed, revealing the ugliest side of human nature.
In the context of the war, ordinary people used their lives to support the top , but it also created a dead end that the losers were already doomed.
Just based on the pattern of this film, Qingshi dares to assert that "All Quiet on the Western Front", which has been determined to represent Germany's impact on the Oscars, is the best contender of the year!
5. Conclusion:
Attitude
Let's go back and talk about the remake, the production attitude alone is enough to make people admire.
looked at the makeup of the actors,
was disgraced, his fingers were chewing with dirty fingers, and the eye scene was even more amazing;
looked at the actor's attitude, the starring directly rolled in the mud, the whole face was buried, and the enemy was still pressed by the enemy in the film. The mud was rubbed hard, and the little fresh meat in China was probably shivering when he saw it.
Not to mention the scenery and photography, the conscience makes people feel that it is a pity not to watch it on the big screen.
remake classics with such an attitude, may I ask those remake masters in the entertainment industry, don't
blush?
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