Author/Xiaodi
In the past two years, the release of films such as "Captain Sully", "Hacksaw Ridge", "Dunkirk" and so on has really shocked us, and we have also seen a different way of telling the main theme of the film.
"Hacksaw Ridge" as the most brutal battle in the history of World War II, is also a true event adaptation, the same hand-torn devil, Mel . Gibson did a super god to restore the battlefield scene, close to the battle scene, and let the protagonist play a normal person, he is not bloodthirsty, and even desperately try to save the dying Japanese soldiers, he has some antipathy and fear of war.
"Dunkirk" is also adapted from the historical facts of World War II, which was originally a big defeat, in Nolan's lens, let the audience see that there is always a victory and defeat in war, but life is precious and equal for everyone.
Well, Peter. How did Borg come to film the recently true event "Terrorist Attack on Boston"?
(The following contains light spoilers)
Based on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, "Strike boston" tells the story of the police pursuit of the suspects after the bombing attack. The film was filmed to show the spirit of the Boston police and people who came together to cope with the crisis after the terrorist attack.
Douban score 8.0
IMDb has a score of 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness 80%
The film's director, Peter Borg, is a typical filmmaker who has struggled at the bottom of Hollywood, from small jobs on the set, dragon set actors to supporting roles, starring, directing, screenwriters, almost everything, out of artistic paranoia, years later he finally picked up the guide tube.
Peter. Borg said that there are no superheroes in the film, let alone individual heroes, some are respect for the facts, and respect for the witnesses and the dead.
The most feared word in the world is serious.
Early in the filming, Peter. Borg visited all the important sites in the area of the incident, asked the locals to verify what the place looked like at that time, and restored it during the shooting. He also personally visited every prototype that appeared in the film, spending a long time communicating with survivors and reaching out to every family that had lost their family.
Peter. Borg said that although some of the families of the deceased supported the filming of the film, they did not want their deceased relatives to be performed in the film, which would leave sad memories. Therefore, after communicating with them, the director put the deceased in the form of photos to mourn at the end of the film. He said, "We have made a lot of movies based on real people, and there are many deceased people, and we will go to visit the families of the deceased one by one, ask for their consent, and respect their choices." ”
Respect may reduce the emotional impact of the story to a certain extent, but it adds a deeper and heavier power to the work.
The film is narrated according to the timeline, there is no deliberate atmosphere rendering, many domestic and foreign audience evaluations that have watched the film, in the beginning and middle of the paragraph looks slightly slower, but closer to the real, "the film to the greatest extent to restore the real events in the characters, scenes and detection process, and the documentary is more emotional, dramatic, very appreciative of the director's respect for reality, not too much rendering attitude." ”
Not deliberately, it does not make the film look bland here, and a terrorist attack itself is a profound baptism of a city.
In this film, it is also interspersed with some of the real surveillance videos of the events of that year, the videos of Boston citizens mourning the victims on the streets, and the video materials of then US President Barack Obama arrived in Boston by special plane and delivered a speech are also truthfully presented in the movie, highly restoring the incident itself. The appearance of the president is rarely achieved in any film and television work, and there is probably no movie that can be more dominant than this in the short term.
Director Peter said that in order to restore the truth, many citizens who witnessed the terrorist attack at that time came to the scene to provide information and truly participate in the shooting, at the same time, many of the backs in police uniforms appeared in the picture were played by hundreds of real policemen, all of whom did not need any remuneration.
For the role of the policeman, the director invited the police officers who participated in the war at that time to guide the actors one by one, carefully portraying the actions of each character, and even requiring the actor's appearance to be similar to the prototype. J. Lee, who plays the town policeman, K. Simmons said that there were many police officers at the scene who handled the case, and even the posture of holding and firing guns had special guidance.
Another very revolutionary aspect of this film is that it continues to respect the facts, and in the Western main theme film, it presents the picture of Chinese heroes saving Boston.
In the film, Meng Dan, a Chinese student, is held hostage by terrorists, and he fights with the gangsters and finally succeeds in escaping, providing the police with arrest information to prevent the further spread of the terrorist operation.
Director Peter specially arranged for Ouyang Wancheng, the actor of the role, to communicate with Meng Dan himself, not only to feel his inner thoughts and mental state at that time, but even to imitate Meng Dan's "Sichuan accent" English.
In the movie "Terrorist Attack on Boston", probably the only character who has no prototype to communicate with is the actor who is killed, and he can only find the breath of the character from some influence data.
And the other and only fictional character in the film is played by Mark. Wahlberg plays Tom, a Boston cop, but the portrayal of this image is not unfounded, he is a "synthesis" of multiple police officers. "We would like to pay tribute to the police, who have been working tirelessly to arrest gangsters," He said. There is no single hero, every officer has their own important duties, they are fighting for their lives, fighting for the protection of Boston. Our most respectful approach is to make Mark a representative of law enforcement. ”
In addition to the restoration of the scene and the shaping of the characters, another major attraction of the film is the process of jointly handling the case between the local police in Boston and the FBI.
The United States is different from our country, there is no national police agency, the states and counties have great autonomy, non-major cases, important cases FBI can not be casually involved, in "Terrorist Attack Boston", the FBI is to participate in the investigation of the case on the grounds of major terrorist attacks.
In past American blockbusters, the audience often has the FBI's insight into everything, the ability to handle cases in heaven and earth, but in this movie, the director still has to present a real US FBI.
In the film, after the explosion, the FBI reconstructs the scene at the headquarters in a very short period of time, which is very important in the real case, because many details of the scene will gradually blur over time.
Next, they did not unfold the sharp reasoning of the brain hole, but first conducted forensic analysis of the explosives, and then used the most primitive method to look through the live video over and over again, and the whole process of finding the criminal suspect was low-key like the "story of the police station".
It was not until the target was locked that the thrilling police and bandit confrontation scene was reproduced during the pursuit of gunfire and bullets.
This was highly praised by local Boston Sheriff Davis, "The film truly shows the whole process of our cooperation with the FBI at that time, discussing, and arresting gangsters, which is definitely not seen in the news, and it is the first time it has been shown to the public." The pressure and tension in the film are very appropriate, because we were completely unprepared for the event. ”
When the film held a press conference in North America, Patrick Donnis and Jessica Kensky, who lost one of their lower limbs in the bombing, also went to the scene. Patrick was very optimistic that when he saw the actors in the film, his first feeling was: "That actor is much more handsome than me!" Thanks director! "Although I was always told about everything that happened before, I am really touched to see it with my own eyes."
We may not be able to feel the complex of the People of Boston and even the United States for this film adaptation, but the attitude of restoring the facts, respecting the witnesses, and not making a big deal of it is worth affirming and learning.
Through these films, let us pay attention to the presentation of the main theme of the United States, they are not deliberately not sensational, but also know how to reduce the character to an ordinary person, let them be mentally fragile, physically weak, and then sublimated, even superheroes also give them the most basic humanity and ordinary feelings, and we are always accustomed to speaking boldly in front, making an ordinary person into a superhero, and pulling down the sense of trust at the beginning. Perhaps we should give this kind of film a more accurate statement, focusing on mainstream values rather than the main theme.
However, in the past two years, our films such as "Mekong Action" and "Wolf Warrior II" have indeed expanded the new dimension of the main theme film in terms of character shaping, storytelling, shooting methods and other aspects compared with the previous related film and television works, respecting everyone, whether in the film or in reality, is a manifestation of this social progress.