Yesterday, a small partner left a message for The Shadow Sister: "Before the National Day, a friend and I bet that the box office of "The Climber" can break 3 billion, otherwise he will eat a bucket of ice in live broadcast! "The Climber' is expected to break 1 billion at the box office, and I don't know what mood this betting friend is in now.
Shadow Sister initially watched the point of view of "The Climber", and also thought that its box office could break 3 billion, and after the second brush, she still felt that it was a good movie. It is also because of "The Climber" that The Shadow Girl has doubled her interest in climbing Everest-themed movies.
In the past two days, Ying Xiaomei first watched the Douban 8.7 documentary "Wildest Dream: Conquering Mount Everest", and the mountaineer George Mallory, who cue many times in "The Climber", is one of the protagonists of the documentary.
Then I watched the world's most famous climbing Everest movie and the Hollywood blockbuster "Desperate Altitude" with a Douban score of 7.5.
Today, Ying Xiaomei wants to talk to you in depth about the movie "Desperate Altitude", which is based on the documentary literature "Into the Thin Air Zone", the biggest feature is realism - based on real events, most of the characters in the film are real people who exist in reality, and even the characters use archetypal names.
In contrast, the documentary nature of "The Climber" is not as strong as "Desperate Altitude", although the main characters of "The Climber" have prototypes in history, and the two successful climbs of Mount Everest in 1960 and 1975 are also historical facts, but the specific story mainly relies on originality.
Desperate Altitude chronicles the tragic mountain disaster on Mount Everest in 1996, and Jon Krakauer, the author of the original Into the Thin Air, climbed Everest with one of the commercial mountaineering teams.
Unlike the "Climber" 's intention of "climbing for the country", "Desperate Altitude" tells the story of the commercialization of Everest climbing.
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgai became the first climbers to successfully summit Everest. For nearly 40 years, only professional climbers could try the same feat, with 1/4 of them dying on the march.
In 1992, New Zealander Rob Hall first created the business concept of an amateur Everest mountaineering guide group, and over the next 4 years, his team of "adventure consultants" successfully led 19 clients to the summit of Mount Everest without any deaths.
In 1996, other business teams, including Scott Fisher's "Crazy Climber," followed in Rob Hall's footsteps, with more than 20 expeditions racing to climb Everest within a two-week "window."
"The Climber" climbs the more difficult north slope of Mount Everest, and "Desperate Altitude" climbs the relatively easy south slope.
The plot of "Breaking Bad" is very tightly paced, and the 15-minute climbing team assembled to come to Everest Base Camp.
In the next 25 minutes, the film explains the personalities and professional backgrounds of several major characters.
"Desperate Altitude" is full of stars, and the actor Rob Hall is played by Jason Clark.
Playing Rob's wife, Jane, is Kayla Knightley, who and Jason Clarke are the emotional roles of the film.
In the original novel, Rob and Jane are related to mountain climbing and have climbed Mount Everest together. In the movie, Jane has to let Rob lead the team to challenge Mount Everest because she is pregnant, and Rob looks forward to taking his daughter to the mountain in the future.
The male second Baker is even more famous - "Thanos" Josh Brolin, "Bully" performed the Texas model of both visual sense. The reason he came to challenge Everest was that he felt depressed at home and healed as soon as he climbed the mountain.
Mrs. Baker, played by Robin White, the heroine of House of Cards, threatens Baker with "divorce if she climbs the mountain again", but to no avail.
Playing the "Crazy Climber" leader Scott Fisher is Jack Gyllenhaal, his style and character personality is very uninhibited, and it is even more crazy to climb Everest without an oxygen bottle.
The other two climbing team members who can face each other, one is the blue-collar Doug, who has not saved enough for the "team fee" of $65,000 for two jobs, but Rob gave him a discount. Doug's dream of climbing sounds beautiful, "a conformist can also pursue his unattainable dreams", "I can climb the peak to see the scenery that others can't see".
Another is Yasuko Namba, a 47-year-old Japanese mountaineer, who has already reached six of the highest peaks on seven continents, leaving Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, to complete the 7th summit.
When asked why they risked their lives, their families opposed, and spent $65,000 to climb Everest, everyone spoke in unison and harmonily said George Mallory's famous quote: "Because the mountain is there." ”
At the same time of realism, "Desperate Altitude" also did a lot of science popularization about mountaineering.
"I've seen hypoxic climbers take off their clothes because they feel hot at 8,000 meters above sea level."
"You all know about cerebral edema, right?" Your brain will swell and gradually lose function and eventually die. ”
"Pulmonary edema fills your lungs with fluid until you can't, and the only way to save your life is to send them down the mountain as quickly as possible." The climbers who are tormented by pulmonary edema in the film also cough and vomit blood like Zhang Ziyi in "The Climber".
Another team member showed the foot with the toe removed, which was as shocking as Zhang Yi's display of the mutilated sole.
The two teams of "Adventure Consultant" and "Crazy Climber" marched to the summit of Mount Everest without alarm, still walking in a realistic style, there was no blood-curdling bridge section, and there was no kung fu master like Wu Jing who flew over the wall.
However, the crisis is accumulating, there is no fixed rope on the south side of the peak, and many climbers have to wait on the cliff wall, consuming oxygen and physical strength.
Doug's travel speed is too slow, but because he was 300 meters away from reaching the summit the year before, so this time he has to climb the summit, Rob risks missing the "window period" and promises to help Doug realize his dream.
It was supposed to go down the hill at 2 o'clock, but Rob dragged Doug up the hill at 4 o'clock. This is the biggest drawback of commercial mountaineering, and when you collect money, you must try to meet the needs of customers, even because of ignorance and fearlessness, this demand may be fatal!
When the Expedition Consultant team descended the mountain, they encountered a snowstorm, and tragedy ensued.
Doug, who had run out of oxygen, lost his mind and released his safety rope and fell off the cliff.
At high altitudes, Harold's mind also went wrong, treating the full bottle of oxygen as an empty bottle. Although Harold returns to save Rob, but does not bring oxygen, Harold hallucinates and feels very hot, and falls off a cliff while undressing.
Scott Fisher, who climbed without oxygen, and Yasuko Namba, who had just reached the top of the highest peak on the seven continents, both lay still in the snow.
Rob, who was in a desperate situation, and his wife Jane made two satellite phone calls and said N "I love you", which is the same as wu jing and Zhang Ziyi's tricks in "The Climber". In fact, rob and his wife called the phone, it really happened, the two phone calls in the movie in the presentation of relatively restrained, did not achieve the effect of tears.
"Desperate Altitude" also shows the miracle of life, the comatose Baker got up from the snow for a long time, staggered back to the camp, although he lost his hands and nose, but fortunately survived, "Thanos" life force is so strong.
The most sensational part of the film is the end-of-film homage to reality:
Rob's body remains on the mountain like the other victims, and the live-action photos of Scott Fisher, Andy Harold Harris, Doug Hansen, and Yasuko Namba are displayed one by one, followed by a large group photo of them as they set out, which is very sad.
In the film, the scene where Baker and his wife are reunited is exactly the same as in reality.
In July 1996, Jane gave birth to a girl, Sarah.
By 2015, when the film was made, Rob's widow, Sarah, was already so old.
"Breaking Bad" and "The Climber" chose completely different narrative styles.
"Desperate Altitude" is realistic and restrained, using relatively objective expression to show the panorama of the mountain disaster.
"The Climber" pays more attention to dramatic conflict, surpassing the former in terms of tension and urgency of the plot, and the viewing experience is more substitutionary.
However, "Desperate Altitude" is too restrained, "The Climber" is too full of emotions, and the balance of the mountaineering film is really difficult to grasp.
In terms of character portrayal, "The Climber" is better than "Desperate Altitude", several main characters are well shaped, the characters of "Desperate Altitude" are relatively flat, and in the final rescue stage of the film, there are often face blindness.
If the plot of the relatively bland "Desperate Altitude" can have a Douban 7.5 point evaluation, then the 6.7 points of "The Climber" are indeed low, perhaps because everyone's expectations for this movie are too high, and the evaluation also shows this gap.
There is also a place in "Desperate Altitude" that Makes Shadow Girl feel particularly regretful, that is, because its narrative is too objective, so the reflection on commercial climbing is not enough. The mountain disaster was not so much a natural disaster as a man-made disaster, and the profit competition of multiple commercial climbing teams not only made Mount Everest crowded, but also made the leaders make irrational decisions.
The lack of reverence for nature was ultimately punished the worst, and the 1996 mountain disaster was a heavy lesson that nature taught mankind.
"The mountain is not a training ground for my ambitions, but a holy place for my faith."
It is a blessing of nature to have the good fortune to climb the summit, and if you are frustrated for a while, you can't climb it, don't mess around, the mountain has always been there anyway.
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