When it comes to the hottest French film works in recent years, it is surprising that it is 2011's "Untouchable". This french annual box office champion, with 17.6 million viewers, is equivalent to one in every 4 French residents who have entered the theater to see the film.
To this end, the famous it entered the territory of China, was respected by many literary and artistic youth, quickly reached a score of 9.2 in the Douban scoring system, directly rushed into the Douban movie ranking Top30, and finally stabilized at 25.
<h1>Two people meet, making the distant distance within reach! </h1>
"Untouchable" tells the story of a Rich French man named Philippe, who after enjoying a happy life in his life, was fatally injured in a parachuting accident in his old age, not only losing his lover, but also causing his own paraplegia, the normal people who were originally full of spirits became bad at walking, and they needed special care for food, clothing, and living.
But Philip was proud all his life, arrogant, and depressed, looking at the personal care staff who came to apply for the job, looking at the nose and raising his eyes, and finally the ghost made God send a black derrick with a previous crime. The reason for this is that Philip is somewhat unable to convince Ang Lee himself — Derek's mind is to get a sufficient commission, but he does not regard Philip as a patient at all.
So, unlike the careful professional nursing staff, the thick-leafed Derek scrambled to take care of Philip. From the initial extremely unprofessional behavior, to the little bit of opening Philip's heart knot, this dazed young man treats Philip as a completely healthy companion, enjoys the small and trivial happiness in life together, softens Philip's polite rejection thousands of miles away, and also makes the secret knots in Philip's heart gradually disperse.
In fact, there are some traditional and old-fashioned stories, but in the current world where human feelings are gradually indifferent, they exude precious warmth and softness. So, such brilliant results and good reputation aroused the interest of Hollywood, and five years later, "Untouchable" was remade by Hollywood, and the Golden Globe Emperor "Old White" Brian Cranston, and star Kevin Hart, came to repeat the story.
Moreover, after the Hong Kong filmmakers who have always had a keen sense of smell are not willing to be left behind, Chen Xiaojuan, a producer who is only 30 years old, also holds the original script of "Untouchable", combined with his experience and local characteristics of living in Hong Kong for many years, and transforms this story into the most Hong Kong-made taste of "The Fallen Man", winning the 2019 Hong Kong Film Awards Best New Director.
However, after watching the three stories with completely consistent themes and cores, personal psychology will still be divided into high and low. The three versions are chained down, the most shallow and exaggerated of course is the American version, he is basically the original according to the French version of the plot, so that the story that originally took place in Paris took place in New York exactly.
But the problem is that the atmosphere of Paris as the capital of romance cannot be copied, and the simple fashion of New York has not penetrated into the plot, and in general, the whole has become ambiguous, has no regional characteristics, and has no special humanistic representation.
The American version downplays the subtle and trivial psychological superpositions in life, and adds a lot of relatively deliberate and prominent dramatic conflicts to show the theme.
Without distilling the nuanced feelings of everyday life in New York, the dramatic conflict becomes the most prominent theme of skin color in the bones—the white rich and the black caretaker, and then, the same level as Philip are white, and the fatal thing is that the subordinates who serve Philip, except for agent Yvonne, are white French, Dale is black, the rehabilitation nurse Maggie is a typical descendant of Central Asian descent, and even the cooks, drivers, and concierges who do not show much are all colored.
So the subtext of the American version of "Untouchable" is obvious - the traditional white elite is stuck in itself, and black people are needed to open up ideas and bring relationships closer. Uh, thinking about it, there was suddenly a foul smell in the air.
<h1>Breaking through a cognitive point, why Philip fell in love with Derek, who wouldn't do anything</h1>
In the plot of "Untouchable", there is a very puzzling bridge section for the audience - why did Philip reject so many professional and skillful professional nursing staff, and single-handedly fell in derek? Is it because of love?
In the field of psychology, patients are the most difficult to speculate on their minds, because they know the weakness of their bodies and want those around them to treat them equally. For the sake of this equality, they will subconsciously disguise themselves or bluff, expose their strong side, and let others dare not underestimate it. By extension, the patient is still like this, and the disability and defective people are more obvious in their psychology.
Any person with an acquired disability initially does not want others to see the injured person as a disability. Whether you care or discriminate, the moment you treat them as weak, you invisibly form a bullying, allowing them to be forcibly placed in a different position from normal people.
Whether it is the motivation of love or discrimination, to give them a completely different way of life and attitude to life than before, but never think that it is not your attitude and way of life that can return to their previous state of life, fixed in the way of life that needs to be cared for and restricts freedom, they do not need.
So, Philip chose Derek as his personal life assistant because he never treated him as a patient or even a disabled person. Even if Dale's later work revealed that he completely lacked sufficient knowledge of first aid and nursing, it was only by treating Philip as a rich ordinary person that really moved Philip.
This made Philip see Derek's bottom line clearly, and made countless old masters feel at ease to entrust their bad bodies to him. What's more, in fact, Philip estimates that he wants to end his life with an accident through Derek's unskilled care, which is his subconscious need!
<h1>The details are not enough, so I had to repeat the old version of the bridge, and as a result, I missed the unique charm of New York! </h1>
The problem with the American version is obvious, he abandoned the environment of Paris that exudes a humanistic aura at any time, and came to New York in the style of business simplicity, but did not want to understand the inner meaning of the new cultural center of New York's fashion avant-garde, copied and copied the details of the French version, and as a result, the formation of water and soil, unable to impress people's hearts.
First of all, Kevin Hart has the grace of Omar Shee, but not the aura of his indulgence in front of the camera. Therefore, Derek, who was originally at ease in Paris, became secular and trivial when he came to New York. Kevin Hart's performance focuses on the humor of the lines, lacking the physical and personal release of Omagh Shee.
The audience tries very hard to grasp the black jokes in Hart's lines, but does not feel Hart's own emotional investment. Just like a stand-up comedian, shaking his baggage in his self-conscious speech, the audience is busy filling their boring time with popcorn and coke, each busy with their own satisfaction!
And the "old white" who regards the emperor as a noble has been tepid in the development of the film circle. This time, the character who has a lot of potential to explore does not show Philip's sense of hierarchy. As a veteran inspirational novel writer and a well-known investor, Lao Bai strongly expresses Philip's business sensitivity and reasonableness in dealing with people, but does not show the audience the psychological trauma after Philip endured that major accident.
Philip's indifference to everything, like the decision to choose Derek, shows that he actually has a wish to die. So, he wanted to live inadvertently with a life that he was crippled beyond repair. From beginning to end, the French gentleman's psychology has a sense of mortality, and Lao Bai's state of decadence from beginning to end is not felt, and he does not feel any guilt or sadness about the death of his wife and his own paraplegia.
As the two protagonists, they lack any reason to need each other. In the American version, Philip himself is very strong, especially with the help of the decathlon business assistant Yi Fang, who basically does not need a personal assistant. And Derek, played by Kevin Hart, is not charismatic and infectious enough to reverse the heart of a death-seeker.
Therefore, the plot had to break away from the beauty of the new era of literature and art constructed by modern art in New York, and forcibly repeat the small happiness that France had experienced and experienced - for example, to go to the art center to see the art exhibition, to listen to the opera, and even to force the asexual romance of French men, so that the Wall Street elite also lay in bed and enjoyed a special service...
Repeating the French clips at a glance does not let the audience feel the unique taste of New York, but often makes the audience feel that it is very low to do this in New York. Just like the bridge section of the wheelchair in the less pedestrianized area of Paris, the crowded streets of New York, the audience will not feel the relaxation of that moment, only feel that bumping into people can do?
<h1>On the details, it is better to go to the Hong Kong version of "Fallen Man"</h1>
The American version of "Untouchable" makes itself the weakest link in the trilogy because of the lack of attention to detail. Even his latecomer, "The Fallen Man", can get an award on the other side of the ocean as an encouragement for his own grounding.
The pattern of "The Fallen Man" is much smaller than that of "Untouchable", and there is no Philip who is rich and invincible, and there is no Derek who is optimistic by nature and does not know the taste of sorrow. Only Leung Chang-wing, who lives in low-rent housing, and Evelyn, who worked in Hong Kong from the Philippines to escape his family, two people at the bottom of society, are in a small space, dependent on each other and constantly frictional because of status and many other things.
Chen Xiaojuan, 30, uses the most local way to show the interdependence between the local underclass and the huge base of migrant workers. A man who is as bad as Philip meets a Filipino maid who depends on his low wages, and there is an innate sense of hostility between the two. Therefore, the first half highlights the distrust and condescension of local residents for the foreign population. Then, the girl with the dream, with her own tenacity, persuaded the mean employer a little bit, so that he was willing to support himself to realize his dream.
From the beginning to the end of the pure employment relationship, because of the relationship between the two protagonists of men and women, so the two people in "Fallen Man" have a plausible ambiguity, sometimes like a father and daughter and sometimes like a lover, the director is very restrained in expressing emotions, and the second half of the plot is always tentatively touching on the point of male and female defense, but retains the last sanity and warmth.
"The Fallen Man" eats through the essence of the French version of "Untouchable", using the most plain technique to outline how two people go from contradicting each other to mutual understanding and promotion. The bottom of the tightness is not a reason to prevent people from getting closer to each other, but because of the calculation of chai rice oil and salt in a day, so that there are more opportunities for communication between each other, but can supervise the communication that the two must communicate, forcing each other to reveal their hearts, comforting and warming each other in pain.
If the American version of "Untouchable" can have this patience and meticulousness to experience life carefully, it is estimated that it will continue the glory of the French version and become a masterpiece that can represent the spirit of the New York era. Unfortunately, hollywood's pure commercialism prevented the packaging and display of the core of the international metropolis of New York, and only became a reproduction and vassal of the French spirit.
Like a New York taxi driver, he wants to infect the audience with the dream of Paris, but because of the different places, he can only use the Eiffel Tower of Paris, which is ten times smaller than Las Vegas, to masturbate, but he cannot impress the audience.