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Hollywood is a magical land. It is not only a desert for martial arts action movies, but it is also a holy land for gunfight action movies. includes both the "Mission: Impossible" series, which constantly challenges the difficulty, and the "Bourne Supremacy" series, which takes a realistic route, as well as "The Vengeance", " Mr. and Mrs. Smith ", "The Rescue", " Hurricane Rescue" ", "The Fall of the Universe" and a series of spy action movies.
It even makes people think that the United States is full of active, retired or defected agents, but these agents have one thing in common, and that is roughness. In the Hollywood action movie universe, there has never been an extremely elegant-looking spy action movie until the arrival of 2014.
And this action movie that vividly displays the image of the British gentleman is "Kingsman: The Secret Service", which officially opens the elegant agent series after Pierce Brosnan!
"Kingsman: The Secret Service" is adapted from Mark Millar's comic book of the same name, directed by Matthew Vaughn, starring Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, and Taron Edgerton, and was released in 2014 It was first screened at the BNAT Film Festival in the United States and then fully released in March 2015.
With a cost of US$81 million, this film earned US$407 million globally, making the film maker a huge profit. It also made "Uncle Face" popular again after "The King's Speech". Even because "Uncle Face" was too out of the circle, he was directly resurrected in the second part after his head was shot, which made the sequel extremely bad!
On Douban, 687,000 people gave this film a super high score of 8.4 . It is the same name as "Mission: Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol", second only to "The Bourne Supremacy", and it can be ranked as a Hollywood or European action film. The existence of the top ten films. On imdb, 716,000 people gave a high score of 7.7.
It can be said that "Kingsman" is an out-and-out god-level action movie. It will even create an action movie series and carry the banner of British gentleman action movies after "007 Series". But who would have thought that the setting of "Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle" that allows headshots to survive would directly turn the masterpiece into a bad movie and ruin the future of "Kingsman" as a masterpiece series.
Based on Luo Xue’s personal experience of watching movies, "Kingsman" is a movie that combines the elegance of a British gentleman with the gangsterism of the American streets. On the one hand, Uncle Feng is very serious about dressing up in British style. On the other hand, listening to the constant blast of "Mom's Fake" forms a conflict between elegance and gangsters, which makes people feel a shock and contrast that is completely different from what they expected.
Moreover, the fighting scenes in this film are extremely exciting and beautiful. In addition to Uncle Face’s bar scene that has been repeatedly praised, the church massacre scene and the fight scene with the villainess are extremely dramatic and emotional! The use of a large number of bloody scenes in the movie not only does not make people feel disgusted, but also gives people a sense of excitement.
At the same time, this film is extremely sophisticated in terms of costume design and photography, especially the church killing scene. The photography style is so novel.
In addition, this film can be linked with " Weekly Elimination of Three Evils" to create an anti-cult alliance, because Luoxue really liked Uncle Face's church killing scene!
The following contains serious spoilers. I suggest friends who haven’t seen it to watch the movie first and then read Luoxue’s recommendations! (Remember to watch the online pirated version, not the streaming version. The domestic version is the abridged version!)
. Interesting stories
From the story itself, the story of "Kingsman: The Secret Service" is the most popular among all Hollywood spy action movies. It is relatively complex. For example, "The Bourne Series" is basically a story of being constantly hunted, while " Beekeeper " is so simple that it can be summarized as someone bullied Guo Da, and then Guo Da beat him up. That's it.
In addition, including the "Mission Impossible Series" and "The Rescue Series", the target of the action is known from the beginning.
However, "Kingsman: The Secret Service" takes a different approach in the story, adopting a two-line narrative structure. On the one hand, it talks about the redemption of "Uncle Face", and on the other hand, it talks about the growth of the male protagonist Eggsy. While telling the story of an agent, it is actually also telling a family story.
From the story, this film tells the story of Lancelot, a member of the British underground secret service organization that is not controlled by any country. While investigating a case, he went to save a kidnapped climatology professor out of good intentions but was killed. In order to fill the gap, the agent organization decided to recruit new agents, and in the process of investigating the death of Lancelot, they discovered the annihilation conspiracy of "Director S.H.I.E.L.D." Valentine. In order to save the world and take revenge, the new agent Eggsy asked Valentin to The story of Lundin’s challenge.
Although the story itself is more complicated than other spy films, it is because the film adds a lot of comedy elements and mainly highlights personal heroism, coupled with the film's extremely gorgeous special effects production and strong style of photography. All give the film an almost conflicting charm.
That is, the story of this film is more complicated than that of "The Bourne Supremacy", but the viewing experience of is more relaxed and enjoyable, and it hardly consumes any effort. It is an excellent popcorn movie.
It doesn’t have much nutrition, but it looks really good! It won't be limited by the movie's brain-dead logical settings like action movies such as "Epidemic 4", "Scary 2", "The Beekeeper", and "The Meg 2".
Moreover, what is even better about this film is that the overall rhythm of the film is very good, and the audience can always feel the relaxed and measured rhythm. and the black humor style presented in this kind of relaxation can make the audience feel the charm of laughing when the atmosphere is full of horror or tension.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, there is a solo show of former agent Lancelot. He is a very standard British gentleman and handsome uncle. He is well-dressed and meticulous. His movements are smooth and flowing, and he is full of a relaxed and freehand feeling. There was even a taste of the 1962 Dalmore Whiskey.
It can be said that this x was completely faked by him, but the next second he was directly split in half by the "knife girl", and the wine was given to the "director". In just one scene, the black sense of humor in the entire movie was directly revealed Laman.
And this kind of tension and intensity, turning points and humorous presentations exist in large numbers in movies, which means ensures that the movie can give the audience strong sensory stimulation on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also convey happiness through the picture, and even more. In order to accurately and effectively grasp the overall rhythm of the movie. allows the audience to neither feel tired like watching " The Bourne Supremacy ", nor feel bored like watching a literary film.
movies are always in a comfort zone that stimulates your excitement without making you overworked, which improves the comfort of watching movies.
Whether it is the story or the rhythm, it is only one of the reasons why the movie is good-looking. The reason why the movie can maintain a super high score of 8.4 out of 687,000 people on Douban is actually largely due to the movie’s integration of conflict effects. .
. Conflict and Fusion
There may be no other movie that can set up so many conflicts and oppositions in one story, and finally integrate them skillfully, forming a very unique black humor effect.
For example, this film looks like an action movie about a British gentleman, but the "f" word in this film is extremely high, and it is an extremely authentic "Fake Man" movie. organically brings together British gentlemen and American gangsters. This extreme contrast also contributes the most twists and jokes in the movie.
In addition to Lancelot's costume as a laughing fruit mentioned above, there are so many scenes of such costumes in the movie, which even made Douban netizens exclaim: "McDonald's is paired with a 45-year-old Lafite, look at how professional they are in costume."
At the same time, when the "Director" was killing "Uncle Face", he said: "Do you know what it's like now? It's like the old movies we all love to watch. I'm going to tell you all my plans now, and then I'm going to come up with something ridiculous. , complicated ways to kill you.Then you will come up with an equally complicated way to escape."
"Sounds good."
"Unfortunately, there is a difference between reality and movies." After finishing speaking, "Uncle Face" was directly shot in the head by the "Director", The movie is full of drama, and it can be said that it is a ruthless mockery of traditional old-fashioned action movies. But the more ruthless mockery is that the "Director"'s plan to destroy the world has a sense of ritual, and the plan was completely blocked. "It mocks old movies and forms an extremely ironic echo.
But the anti-traditional conflict and unity of this film is not just that. For example, the female protagonist and the male protagonist experienced growth together and reached the end of the selection. In the skydiving competition In the movie, the two cooperated with each other, landed safely without one of them opening an umbrella, and successfully landed at the designated location. Moreover, the final task of saving the world was also completed by the two of them.
If it were a different movie. , the male protagonist and the female protagonist must be an extremely well-matched pair. For example, in "The Bourne Supremacy", Bourne was with the female protagonist who helped him, but in "Kingsman", the two were just together. The relationship between friends and colleagues is really unexpected.
But the biggest surprise of this film, or the best way to combine conflict and fusion, is actually the portrayal of the Scandinavian princess. , the princess is a righteous image who firmly disagrees with the "director"'s lobbying, and is a good princess who still sticks to her heart when the "director" seduces her with McDonald's. However, when faced the male protagonist who wanted to save her, she said: "What if." You saved the world, I’ll let you come into my anus”, which shocked the audience.
How serious was the previous image of the princess? Her completely exposed buttocks movements when having fun with the male protagonist How slutty it is.
It can be said that she perfectly presents her boldness and perseverance in matters of right and wrong, as well as her sexiness and openness as a woman, and also blends these two extremely conflicting and unified personalities very well in the movie. .
It is precisely because of this conflict and fusion that the entire movie, , is not so much an action movie as it is an excellent comedy, or an extremely excellent black humor action movie. . It has laughs, but it is not deliberate or crazy. It always puts the audience in a contrasting joy, which makes people feel extremely comfortable. But even if the comedy elements are put aside, the action scenes of this film are the best in Hollywood. The existence of the top 5.
. Stunning action
There are many action movies in Hollywood, but pure martial arts action movies are extremely rare. They can only be found in "The Bourne Supremacy", "Mission Impossible" and "The Vengeful Man". It's a glimpse. The action scenes in movies such as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Mad Max: Fury Road" have returned to the "anti-punch" approach.
The martial arts action in "Kill Bill Series" is the most authentic, but that was in the era of Shaw Brothers martial arts films, and now it seems extremely fake and boring. Therefore, looking at the action design of "Kings Agent" in reverse, it is extremely amazing!
There are three most classic action scenes in this film. They are "Uncle Face" educating the gangsters in the bar, "Uncle Face" "eliminating the three evils" in the church, and at the end, the male protagonist enters the villain's base camp to kill. Action scenes.
Among them, the action scene in which the gangster is educated in a bar shows the elegance and handsomeness of an agent. It is an extremely popular clip on short video platforms. But Luoxue prefers the scene of "Uncle Face" "eliminating the three evils" in the church, and it can even be linked with "Zhou Chu's Eliminating the Three Evils" in a dream. What's more important is that in this section, all the action scenes are extremely violent and bloody, but despite the violence and bloodiness, they are also extremely handsome and elegant.
"Uncle Face" killed the entire church by himself. Pistols, daggers, fists, lighters, scabbards, sticks, and axes all became his murderous weapons. The whole action was smooth and extremely shocking. 's appropriately large-scale blood and passionate rock music make this killing a supreme visual and action enjoyment.
At the same time, the church killing scene is also the scene with the strongest photography style in the entire movie, with large-scale long-lens shaking photography, intentional half-cutting of characters, and the presentation of "Uncle Face" glasses perspective shots. All of this aggravates the feeling that this scene is similar to the subjective perspective of playing a VR game. not only enhances the sense of reality, but also enhances the sense of joy in the sense of reality, making people wander between reality and games.
Although I can't tell whether it is reality or a game, I can still be infected by this ultimate aesthetic experience of killing + large scale + rock + subjective lens + long lens.
It’s no wonder that some people on Douban commented highly on this film: “Oh my god, this comedy is so combustible, the headshot exploded like a big firework! Both generations of kingsmen are so handsome, especially Uncle Faith in suits and ties, I can see it I put my hands on my heart and wished I could donate my knee on the spot! Don't ask again, "Which one is better at killing like a gentleman?" , it must be the popcorn of the year! "
Compared with this killing feast, in the end. Eggsy fought against the entire fortress soldiers. Not only was he unscathed, he even fought without even a drop of sweat. This seemed extremely deliberate and false. Although it is still very hot, it is not as good as the church killing scene.
On the contrary, it was the fight scenes of "The Sword Girl", which Luoxue liked very much. is fast, sharp, powerful, well-designed and very distinctive, and is very popular among Luoxue. The processing of action special effects and camera presentation were just right, but it was a pity that it lost to the "protagonist halo" in the end.
Moreover, the film’s photography style when showing the violent fights after Valentine’s death is in the same vein as the church scenes. I like it very much.
Generally speaking, this film is perfect in many aspects such as story, rhythm, conflict, comedy, humor, action, photography, etc. Although Eggsy’s action scenes are a bit delayed, the unbearable "Uncle Face" is real handsome!
’s last friendly suggestion is that when this film was released, it was an abridged version, including the church killing scene and the princess welfare scene, which were directly cut out. So if you want to experience the pure excitement of action movies, I personally recommend you to look for resources on non-official websites such as "Aiyouteng". Moreover, the second part and the prequel of this film are both difficult to watch, so you don’t have to watch them! (Luoxue can't accept the setting of resurrecting with a headshot)
Okay, that's all for today. I think what Luoxue said is somewhat reasonable, so please give it a thumbs up and give it a thumbs up. I want to understand this movie from different dimensions. If you want to watch a good movie, please pay attention to Luoxue, thank you!
Thanks to all the teachers for the reward. Compared with the few yuan, Luoxue is more pleased that my ideas and knowledge can be affirmed by you. In the vast sea of people, it is a rare happiness in life to be appreciated by you. I have no words to thank you, but I can only say, thank you!
’s previous recommendation: Anyone who doesn’t understand these three movies is either ridiculously stupid or ridiculously bad!
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