Martin Scorsese has made a gangster epic film, The Irishman, in 2019, and some netizens have rated it highly, even listing it as the pinna perche of another gangster movie after the Godfather series.
Indeed, Martin Scorsese's film reveals some of America's unknown secrets from a gangster's perspective, and they're really good, fake, and they attract a lot of attention whenever someone tells them. There seems to be an interest in revealing, and this interest seems to go beyond the secret itself.
Martin Scorsese's film, about a battle between the forces behind a legendary gangster, does seem grand, but it doesn't really appeal much.
The story itself is not attractive enough to match the acting skills of these stars. The reason for the high ratings is to give Martin Scorsese a face. After all, the twilight director's uncomfortableness in the modern film system can only be balanced by one or two songs, as is Quentin's "Hollywood Past."
And we recommend today this film is about the same thing, but this thing for us more resonance, don't get me wrong, this resonance is not to say that you want to be a triad, but that this is a bottom-up sense of the jump composed of the film, such a film, to a large extent, will make a lot of people feel comfortable, this comfort is a kind of grounding comfort. Because it's enough to ward off the consternation of the audience that the star isn't so well known.
"To Kill the Irishman" is a tragic epic-level gangster movie, and the value of this type of gangster movie lies in telling us the story in a near-heroic way, and eventually the story will have a hero-like ending. This is not the same idea as Martin Scorsese's. The former brings us a sense of revelation, and this film brings us a heroic and tragic atmosphere, this breath in a certain sense and that sense of disclosure is common.
Both directors can minimize the discomfort that the hero's crime creates by creating such a feeling or atmosphere. Simply put, it's "whitewashing." By creating a special atmosphere or the tragic atmosphere of the characters, in order to achieve the negative image of the characters weakened. As a result, this has been achieved.
Killing the Irishman is about an Irishman who grows from an unknown labourer to a mafia boss whom both the police and the gang see as a nail in the coffin. And the gang's repeated assassinations have failed. Just when people thought he was an undead man, he died in a legendary way.
This is a simple story, but the story itself does not have too many twists and turns, the reason why we think this story seems very exciting, very interesting, the reason is that the film will be some people's hearts of those brilliant criminal psychology through the hero's behavior reasonably displayed.
Danny Green is a bad guy in himself, and that attribute is certain, and there's no doubt about it. How to let this bad person play the personality charm and how to let the bad guy's personality charm to the extreme, this is to distinguish a good gangster movie and a good gangster movie the biggest reference point.
We think that very good gangster movies will generally give the bad guys an explanation, this explanation can be the bad guys why bad people become bad, can also be bad people become bad after is not simply only bad.
By explaining the rationality of bad guys' behavior, we can give bad guys some other labels, such as this person is more honest, more loving, and so on. When such a label, which is usually only available to good people, is projected on the bad guys, the bad guys have a contrast, so the impression left on the audience is deep.
This is a method, if this approach is to the extreme, as in this film, we see the legendary story of the characters and the character's personality charm has reached the peak. At this time, the criminal nature of the character's behavior is diluted, almost everyone will ignore the fact that the character itself is a bad person, but for the character's spirit at first glance a kind of "heroic" behavior to wave the flag, and then let this behavior grow into anecdotal legend.
Martin Scorsese's The Irishman uses the same set of logic. He explains the mysteries of great concern to the people to the greatest extent, and finally achieves the goal of attracting the audience. This is a far cry from the way the film appeals to audiences.
If the two works were measured only from the point of view of gangster films, the film would undoubtedly be even better, since "The Irishman" has, to a certain extent, given a gang boss a thorough promotion, which can be called gilded. You can think about why Du Yuexuan is legendary, the reason is still to participate in the republic's politics, otherwise, he is even more powerful is just a gangster.
And Danny Green in this film, just the pinnacle of power that a gangster can reach, is, of course, a little bit worse, because going up again it's The Irishman, so you can't trigger the Robin Hood switch. Thus, his sphere of influence stays on the legendary edge that everyone can think of, and the final death echoes it, and the film's character, Ma Sein hua, becomes excellent is also reasonable.
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