3.7 points!
"King of Bad Films" Nicolas Cage's latest masterpiece "Prisoner of the Ghost Country", douban score fell by 0.1.
Can this rotten "god work" break through the 3-point mark? Is there still a chance to challenge for 2 points?
No difficult work, only brave Cage.
I firmly believe that it holds promise.
I am not at all surprised by this report card.
Referring to Cage's first two works this year, "Willie's Amusement Park" Douban score 5.5, "Pig" Douban score 6.0, you know the level of his current play.
He is no longer an Oscar movie emperor, but a piece of life in the hearts of movie fans.
Looking at the short review of "Prisoner of the Ghost Country", it seems to become a paragraph making contest.
"It feels like watching the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, be careful that the director of the opening ceremony of the East Olympics accuses you of plagiarism."
"Yuan Ziwen: You owe money?" Cage: You owe money too? Two: Yeah, hey, hey, hey. ”
"I can't sleep worse than that."
Prisoners of the Land of Ghosts
Prisoners Of The Ghostland
2021.9.17
The director of this film, Yuan Ziwen, is known as the "Japanese ghost director".
As a filmmaker who has been working in the field of B-grade films for a long time, his personal style is unique.
Extremely fond of blood, violence, love and other cult bad tastes, in the blood plasma and violence reflect the pathology of Japanese society.
"Exposure of Love", "Mediocre Talent", "Cold Tropical Fish", "Why Hell Is Bad" and several other inspirational works have made him famous.
Tips: Don't think of "Garden Wen" as "Wen Zi Ren".
"Exposure of Love", Douban 8.7 points
Strangely, from the beginning of "Tokyo Riot", Yuan Ziwen seems to have been lowered by someone.
Habitual rollover, bad movie after film.
Prisoner of the Ghost Nation is even more ruthless, directly creating the lowest score of a personal directing career.
It should be pointed out that this is the first English film in which Yuan Ziwen entered Hollywood.
At the beginning of his work, he was ambitious and sought to make a "mixture of Eastern and Western styles, a mixture of beauty and violence." ”
In terms of cast, in addition to Cage, who "only gives money to take any scene", he also invited Sophia Podora in "Blade Woman".
Cage himself became a queen mother," boasting, "This is probably the craziest movie I've ever made." ”
The media also praised the stinky feet, "This lineup, I can't imagine how perverted the movie will be." ”
How perverted do not know, how rotten can be imagined -
One, the king of bad movies; the other, making bad movies addictive.
The combination of double rot is simply invincible.
>>>> did something
According to normal logic, the story of Prisoner of the Ghost Nation is straightforward.
In the future, the wasteland world after the outbreak of the nuclear crisis.
A notorious thief of Jiangyang, named Hero.
Because of his crime, he was imprisoned in a small western town where Japanese culture and American culture were mixed.
One day, the governor of the town, the ruler, ordered his release.
Nothing to offer, no adultery or theft.
It turned out that the governor's adopted granddaughter had run away from home and disappeared into a mysterious ghost country.
He ordered that the hero must get the man back within 5 days.
If the mission is not completed, the self-detonation device on the hero's body will automatically start, shattering his bones and screaming for his life.
In order to save himself, the hero travels alone to the land of the ghost realm.
However, he found that the woman was related to a crime he had committed.
Later, the two did not know what to do, and cooperated to kill the common enemy, the governor.
In essence, this is the clichéd story of a hero's personal heroism who saves beauty.
However, the garden is not on the usual path.
American Westerns, Japanese Samurai Films, Doomsday Wasteland, Steampunk, Annihilation Fables...
He uses obscure lines, fragmented whispering dreams, symbols and other condiments to stew these elements in a pot.
A clear thing, shattered into the clouds.
Sprinkle some dry ice and think you're going to ascend to immortality.
In the end, only eight words were exchanged:
The sky was thundering and I didn't know what to do.
The hero is fooled by the governor and puts on a leather-clad explosive device.
The suit has nerve sensors on the arms, neck, and eggs.
As long as he has the urge to hit a woman, a sexual impulse, the sensor will sound an alarm.
Once the alarm is not removed, the sensor explodes.
There is only one downside, a broken hand, a broken neck, and a fried egg.
Sounds great, but come to think of it, it's just a leather coat.
Without impulse, did he not think of cutting his clothes and escaping this shackle?
The logic of the hero's behavior is elusive.
Obviously, there was only a short rescue time of 5 days, and he was not nervous, but he was desperately trying to show himself.
Before leaving, he first showed his drifting skills, and then suddenly got off the car and rode a bicycle.
This is a skit, right?
This sudden scene surprised the onlookers:
This is really cool, this is really cool.
As a viewer, I was confused.
What's the handsome guy? Can this also be called cool?
People can't be so praised.
As for the hero's relationship with his adopted granddaughter, the movie has been nagging.
When a man feeds a woman water, he can't suppress his sexual impulse.
With excitement and impulse, the egg was blown up.
Screaming in pain.
Falling into a coma, the hero is miraculously put on the upper body.
He actually learned of his relationship with her in his dream.
At this point, I suggest that the hero change careers.
Don't rob the bank as a bandit, be a fortune teller.
>>>> anti-American, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial?
Anti-nuclear, one of the main propositions of Japanese science fiction movies.
Godzilla, a national treasure of Japan, was created under the influence of the atomic bombing of World War II and the Fifth Fukuryu Maru Incident.
Therefore, the "Godzilla" series of movies is naturally full of anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons.
Fifth Fukuryu Maru Incident:
On March 1, 1954, the United States tested a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Island, which was equivalent to 750 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
The Japanese distant-water tuna fishing vessel No.5 Fukuryu Maru was infected with high-energy radiation from a test hydrogen bomb.
In the weeks following the test explosion, the crew suffered from acute radiation syndrome and, during treatment, accidentally developed hepatitis C through blood transfusions.
Godzilla 1954 edition
Set after the outbreak of the nuclear crisis, Prisoner of the Ghost Nation is also anti-nuclear.
Humans living in the land of ghosts are victims and survivors of nuclear explosions.
Trapped here for a long time, they suffer from radiation and lose their language, emotions and other abilities.
Fearing that the nuclear explosion would come again, they desperately grabbed the hands of the clock in an attempt to stop time.
They always believe that once the time comes to 8:15, the end of the world will come.
The clock and the time of 8:15 o'clock are not out of the garden.
First, the prototype of the Doomsday Clock was the clock of Hiroshima University at the time of the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima.
Second, at 8:15, it was the time of the Hiroshima nuclear explosion.
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, U.S. troops dropped an atomic bomb code-named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan.
Affected by this, the clock of Hiroshima University stopped at 8:15.
8:15 a.m
In addition to opposing nuclear weapons, Yuan Ziwen tried to confront "the influence of the United States and American culture on Japan."
Back to the end of World War II, Japan was defeated and American troops entered.
The Allied Forces General Command (GHQ) in Japan took the lead in drafting the Constitution of Japan, which began on May 3, 1947, and has been in use ever since.
This is a castrated constitution imposed by the United States on Japan.
Article 9 expressly prohibits Japan from having an army and stipulates that Japan, in pacifism, renounces the right to declare war and the right to maintain the armed forces of war, and becomes a non-war country.
Japan became an unnatural sovereign state.
It is the trade-off of the United States to use and use culture, politics, and so on to exert influence; it is also necessary to control and prevent the younger brother from disobeying.
Superficial pro-American, back to the United States, this is Japan's abacus.
The town is the epitome of U.S.-Japan relations
Back in the movie, Yuan Ziwen uses straightforward character settings to portray the contradictions and conflicts between the United States and Japan.
Governor, White American, Western Cowboy.
As a ground snake, he is overbearing, controlling local violent groups and fireworks alleys.
Japanese women and men, obsessed with American culture, espouse the rule of the governor.
The woman was sold to Fireworks Alley and became comfort women.
Men become the governor's lackeys, willing to be thugs.
The governor's adopted granddaughter, of Middle Eastern Arab descent, and third world spokesman.
She took on the important task of rebelling against the governor's rule.
Hero, white American man with an unbroken conscience.
Together with his adopted granddaughter, he leads the ghost country and the townspeople to overthrow the governor and regain his freedom.
White Americans ruled the Japanese, and American culture invaded Japan.
Another white American, sacrificing a hand and an egg to rebel against the white American authorities, eventually becomes a true hero.
Re-savor and make it clear.
White people are always winners.
American hegemonism and American culture are still ghosts floating in the air over this land.
This also means that resistance is always an incomplete rebellion.
American cowboy colonial rule, Japanese samurai as running dogs, Japanese women bleeding and selling meat, accusing the victims of nuclear explosions...
On the surface, this is an anti-American, anti-imperialist and anti-colonial spirit blockbuster.
But Yuan Ziwen knew in his heart that he could not pick up the bowl to eat meat, put down the chopsticks and scold the mother.
He can't take Hollywood capital and rebel against American culture.
In the end, I became a patient with severe hydrocephalus.
Ruined his fame and made a capital joke.