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Hollywood director Roland Emmerich, who is good at making disaster films, can almost merge similar items with Michael Bay, director of "Transformers"—they are crazy about scenes of destruction, and they have the ability to control literary drama. Often fall below the gutter cover. Judging from his work history, Emmerich is even more boring than Mibe. Except for his first film "Independence Day" in 1996, his movies usually only have the selling point of "big scene", and Mibe will at least use it. Fancy Sensational establishes a unique aesthetic logic.
However, Emmerich’s latest war film "The Battle of Midway" is surprising in terms of viewing. The precise restoration of historical details in the film almost makes "Pearl Harbor" taken by Maibei 18 years ago look so frivolous.
From the story, "The Battle of Midway" can be counted as a sequel to "Pearl Harbor"-in 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and dragged the neutral United States into the smoke of World War II. The film "Pearl Harbor" At the end, the scene of the bombing of Tokyo by the U.S. military was taken in a stroke. "The Battle of Midway" focused on the "revenge war" in 1942. The United States launched a costly but memorable Jedi counterattack against Japan on Midway, completely reversing the situation of World War II.
Although the historical events that the two films focus on are closely connected, the narrative methods are quite different. The unbearable love triangle story in "Pearl Harbor" can't erase the dog's blood so far, and it is more like an idol drama with a grand war as the background. "The Battle of Midway" has given up on fictional character relationships to instigate the expression of historical events. The script is very close to historical facts, and there is no extra romantic plot. is enough for war fans to find the highlights of Mi Mizaza.
This movie created a flying scene for the dive bomber. Let us follow the engine propellers to pounce on the Japanese warship. The powerful and excellent subjective shots show all aspects of this war from the air, ships and underwater. We may never These images will be mistaken for real things, but Emmerich’s ability to capture details is terrible-starting from the cryptanalysis of the Japanese intelligence officer Edwin Leighton, the amount of information in the film has become like The American news films in the 1940s were as full as the American news films, and the whole war was clearly outlined. Judging from the performance effect of the war film, it does not have the depth of "Dunkirk" nor the ingenuity of "Lebanon", but the narrative level is not lost at all.
Emmerich doesn't know how to make literary dramas, so he may be playing straight here. Compared with the 1976 version of "Midway Island", this movie, except for the pilot Dick with the highest "bombing scoring rate", is basically dominated by group play characters that end at once. Compared with the classic war films of war, it seems that it is difficult to detect the depth that hits people's hearts more directly. However, the lack of depth does not mean that the film lacks the seriousness and aftertaste value that it deserves. Emmerich failed to focus on the portrayal of individual characters, but used creative means to implant many small and wonderful characters-such as in The Hollywood director John Ford filmed desperately in front of the Japanese bomber, the American soldier who survived the lifeboat but was executed by the Japanese army, the young Japanese soldier who tried to sink the ship with the officer, the naughty soldier cheering on the water, and so on. Different dimensions gradually enrich the film.
Of course, the shortcomings of "The Battle of Midway" are also very obvious. The screenwriter of made a mistake in judgment in the choice of the main event. The feeling of film is that the second half of the film is getting better, and the first half is slightly lengthy-Emmerich does not want to miss any opportunity to show the scene of the war. At the beginning, the grand scene of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was thrown out. . Those familiar traversing shots and expected character states make people mistakenly think that "Pearl Harbor" has cut a "experience summary". It is also the climax of the war scene that came too early, which made it difficult to throw the audience into a higher emotional point when the critical moment of the decisive battle on Midway came.
In the mid-1990s, special effects-driven Hollywood blockbusters rose rapidly. Emmerich enjoyed the dividends because he understood how digital technology can solve the problem of authenticity of virtual images. The production scenes produced unresolvable harshness, and Emmerich also fell into the empty special effects movies like "2012" and "Independence Day 2," and the story elements were greatly weakened. "The Battle of Midway" is Emmerich’s most important script in recent years. The narrative ability seems to be correct.In recovery. When the war genre film bottomed out in the Hollywood market, Emmerich was able to make such a movie is quite remarkable. Of course, the courage of the producer behind it is comparable to the pilot Dick who coughs up bleeding.
