An outdated piece of news is that Sean Connery has died.
There was applause, there were flowers, there were tears, and the tribute to a generation of screen legends ended.
Sir wanted to write about him that day, after all, growing up watching his movies.
His name, like those of the other iron men on the screen, has long been written into Sir's childhood.
So this is a late memorial essay.
It wants to do more than say goodbye to him, but also to a golden age.
Gold, is once yellow.
Today's yellow is a straight male Hollywood fading yellowing.
Knights, chivalrous, agents, explorers, gangsters, rogues...
Those screen iron men are getting old, and they have to grow old.
△ All the people who can recognize it are experienced old guys
Second, writing such an article in 2020 should also have a new meaning.
Because farewell, always for the arrival of the new.
This year, Teacher Yang Kasa contributed an annual golden sentence - "Why does it look so ordinary, but he can be so confident".
In a word, it actually reveals all aspects from variety shows to film and television.
When the rise of female consciousness in the new era, the existential trend of transcendent ethnic regions dominates the screen; when the Hollywood in front of us must be "gender-oriented" from casting to proposition; when Disney's failing "Mulan" can rely on streaming media platforms to earn $260 million...
Whether you say it's nice, or maybe it's a bit overcorrected in some places.
You have to recognize that the screen design is endlessly refined, which is the manifestation of the unity and diversity of the world.
The original supporting characters now begin to "save themselves" with various personalities, and the era of unreasonable straight male charm will of course become a tomorrow.
To be able to end gracefully is its luck.
Therefore, this article has been from the perspective of commemoration and farewell.
In the article, Sir wants to review the Hollywood scenes that have made the post-70s and post-80s generations of straight men remember deeply.
They come from Harrison Ford, Uncle Toki... And, of course, today's protagonist, Sean Connery.
This may be our last chance for straight men to look back:
What is the essence of the Hollywood straight man we once admired?
By the way, think to yourself:
Are they related to the development of straight male cancer off-screen?
01
You don't need a gun to kill
"Killing" must be done with a gun?
In fact, one shot is enough.
For example, a line.
At the banquet table of the embassy, various business and political celebrities were richly dressed and sat around a table.
Serious expression, nervous tension, counting chips and cards.
"What is this gentleman called?"
As soon as the camera pans, a handsome face, slightly bowing his head and lighting a cigarette.
Calm, calm, with a slight frown – Bond, James Bond
△ "007: Dr. No"
For example, a look.
In the border town, at noon, men in capes walk towards the gangster gang.
Passing by the old man who was beating the coffin, he threw down a sentence: "Prepare three coffins." ”
Rip open the cloak, draw the gun, and shoot continuously.
Put down the cloak, smoke, and look back.
Facing the old man again, he corrected: "I said wrong, it was four coffins." ”
You laughed?
I don't think it's very good
△ Red Dead Redemption
Even, a projection.
A mixed tavern, after the drinkers disperse.
A figure in a cowboy hat with his hands in his pockets hit the wall high:
"Hello, Marianne."
The heroine turned, shocked, and dropped the cup in her hand— it was you! Indiana Jones
△ Raiders of the Lost Ark
Say handsome, shallow.
Say cool, dirt a little.
In one word, to describe these classic screen heroes, it must be the American slang:
“KILL EVERYONE.”
Don't think that these big names are very high, and you are intoxicated with them.
Sean Connery once said:
"If you get rid of the bells and whistles, he (007) is just a mediocre British policeman."
Mediocre, um.
What "magic sticker" is attached to mediocrity, and the straight man becomes a hero in a flash?
Of course, it is not only the rare identity of agents, rangers, and adventurers who win the first prize.
On the back of heroism is a dangerous male hormone that combines the attributes of elegance and violence, as well as a sexual charm that does not lose its demeanor and ends.
They certainly don't just capture women.
Then there's the growing male with young teeth – oh, how independent and dazzling, that's what I'm trying to be (that's what Sir as a child thought about it).
In the ending of "North by Northwest", Gary Grant embraces the beauty, lips and teeth, and leans down.
then...... As soon as the camera pans, the train rumbles into the tunnel.
Sigh... The car has a minimum speed of 200 kilometers per hour.
Look, there are dangerous male hormones, and there is sexual charisma.
But why is it becoming more and more ineffective today?
It may be related to the degradation of some core attributes.
As everyone knows.
On traditional Hollywood sets, the producer is the first person to talk about.
And the second in charge on the set?
(Director?) Sorry, he may not be as high a editor as a high-ranking person. This is also why the Best Editing Award is also a heavyweight award at the Oscars)
actor?
No, to be precise:
Movie star, Big Star.
There is no need to argue that Hollywood is the birthplace of the "movie star system".
As early as the 1920s, cunning capitalists had confirmed that the names of directors and screenwriters on the same movie poster, even if they had weight, were not as attractive as the beautiful faces that people loved.
For example, 90% of the people on Earth don't know the director of Breakfast at Tiffany's, but they will never forget Audrey Hepburn, who wears beautiful jewelry, velvet gloves, and has a delicate hairstyle.
And when the "star" becomes the "system".
This means that from positioning, human design, service, to story, choreography, and shooting, it is necessary to focus on the purpose of "star charm".
For straight male movie stars? In the same way, the market has already given reference coordinates - the hero in the boy's fantasy, the lover in the girl's fantasy.
But the latter is often more important than the violent nature of the former.
For example, the Red Dead Redemption series.
Although it is produced in Italy, it can plunge into the history of Hollywood film.
No one can forget the image of the cloaked fast gunner, co-created by Leone and Eastwood.
He was no slower than Xiao Li's flying knife hand—drawing his gun, shooting, and returning the enemy to the west.
In "Wilderness", the male protagonist really lifted the cloak and drew his gun to fight, only 2 times.
What shows more is the male protagonist's disgust for violence.
The main quest to advance the entire story is not the moral mission to eliminate violence and safety.
It is to save the heroine who is occupied by the gang, Mariso.
note.
In the play of sending the heroine's family on the road, the image of the male protagonist is different from the past.
Take off your cape and take off your hat – hinting at the mystery and coldness of her original disguise.
A line of dialogue, like a knife.
Gently draw out the heart.
No matter how lonely a hero is, he must also have an ambiguous and complex tender side.
Such American personal heroism, in the beginning, had a more appropriate name - chivalry.
Humility, honor, sacrifice, valor, mercy, honesty, justice, spirituality.
"The Eight Virtues of Knighthood"
The previous few items are easy to understand and have seen.
So, what is spirituality?
That's it.
Movies are reasonable and unexpected products, straight male idols have the same chivalry, so, what determines their popularity?
It is this spirituality.
Spirituality determines the difference in roles, so that various film manufacturers have their own ace male protagonists.
(If you're old enough to watch "Crocodile Dundee, like Sir," you'll think of Stephen Chow in "Domestic Lingling Paint" in which Zhou Xingchi took out a large knife to cut steak, which also stemmed from a similar spirituality.) ）
So, is the end of a straight-male movie a degradation of chivalry or spirituality?
02
You drink more hot water, I'm serious about it
Let go of the people to set the problem first, say other things.
When preparing for "Raiders of the Lost Ark," thirty-four-year-old Spielberg only wanted to do two things:
1. Use adventure stories to create a cute (not that cute) hero.
2. Beat the head of the Nacui dog (for justice).
Adventure and exploration of the world.
It is always the character belief that the "knights" seem to be forced to do but actually enjoy.
Indiana Jones, a very standard for today's Internet straight male cancer label, typical straight male representative.
Highly educated (rational male animals, rough and unreasonable against standards).
Full name Dr. Jones, professional title university professor, suit bow tie Zhishu Dali.
However, the emotional intelligence is low (the scumbag who is hanging in the river against the standard).
The tomb ruins are flying in the sky and can do everything, but in real life, sorry...
During the lecture, the fans were mesmerized.
There are more heavy bastard powders, regardless of the system, Ming sent Autumn Wave.
You look at Dr. Jones again.
Wooden, clumsy, he was engraved in his DNA.
Man-made is not omnipotent, and man-made standing on the soil is indestructible.
For Jones, the soil was particularly large, a treasure hunt for the world.
It was an era when we couldn't travel freely through the world, so this soil naturally added to the aura of heroes.
In order to carry out the treasure hunt (which he cares about), he cheekily meets with his old friend (who has a love debt).
As Sir said earlier:
A projection appeared, and the prodigal son turned back, handsome.
pity.
Handsome for only three seconds, the old man slapped him.
Regardless of old feelings, only the career, their own world is the biggest, other people's feelings are ignored - the mistakes that the typical "straight man" will make, Dr. Jones almost occupies.
Then when the heroine once again gets on the thief ship, she embarks on an adventure with Jones, but is kidnapped by the villain.
Faced with the difference between life and death, Dr. Jones actually showed his love and incompetence and went straight to his mouth.
After finishing, I threw a sentence..." For the sake of the overall situation, I can't save you yet." ”
"Jones, you must take me out of here!"
Sir must admit that I am a little confused to watch this passage again as an adult.
Admittedly, Raiders of the Lost Ark is just an adventure story, not a love story.
And all kinds of adventures in straight male movies are precisely at the expense of other real attributes of the characters - because of adventure, love can be childish, gender positions can be childish, and the opposition between good and evil can be childish...
Speaking of reality, this man's damn childishness, isn't it that he always has an adventure in his heart?
That back to the movie , the "adventure" attribute , is it obsolete?
03
How can I say I love you
Two pits were dug.
The answer doesn't need Sir to say, you may have it yourself.
Or back to the straight man model, Sean Connery.
In fact, in his body, it precisely reflects the decades of evolution of the straight male screen image (after all, he has a long life and has almost experienced the full color film era).
He retained "spirituality" and retained "adventure."
But as he grew older, he found a more contemporary attribute in his later years.
Let's talk about the classic that once swept the mainland and made a box office explosion - Michael Bay's "Brave to Die Island".
To save the crisis, the FBI asked the veteran agents who had been locked up for 33 years to come out.
It was a sean connery who was unrecognizable at first glance.
He no longer wears suits and shoes, no longer goes in and out of tall occasions, and when he appears, he is disheveled and imprisoned.
These are not "knights" at all.
In order to make the audience's old feelings high, the film must first awaken the memory.
Other price codes put aside first, the old fritters first opened the conditions: top hotel suites, high-end suits, washing and cutting blowing a dragon.
In less than 5 minutes, a dozen shots:
Well, the straight man who once killed the screen, came back in a fancy way.
But the story will never be told as it was then.
Good and evil must be complex- the agent represented by the old man has been closed for decades, and the task once lost the value of the times.
Simply fighting villains and saving the country will never work as well as they did back then — after a tense and exciting police chase, the old guy's wish is to meet the person who made him "least free".
Daughter I haven't seen in 33 years.
It turned out that this carefully prepared outfit was for the dignity of facing her daughter.
So when you say that watching a drama is hilarious, you are watching the father-daughter relationship.
But look at the doorway – isn't this a reflection on a straight-up movie and a homage to what it's been missing?
This is a man who has risked his life.
The theme of adventure is outdated, and he has almost forgotten where he came from and where he is going.
He knew his existence had once been absurd.
Not absurd, it is the theme of the new era.
"You know what?
Only you can prove that I exist."
Yes, it's the '90s, and straight-up movies aren't quite dead yet, so they're still entitled to speak up, and the initiative seems to be on their part.
Later straight male films resemble a poem by the poet Bukowski:
"I write poetry to never say I love you."
Don't say the "I love you" after that superficial, boyish adventure.
Rather, it is the most primitive, so-called love that seriously faces the problems of life and is expressed in a romantic and poetic plot in the movie.
The Eleven Arhats.
Orson the Thief (George Clooney), along with 10 accomplices, steals 150 million from the casino owner.
It's stealing money.
But the original intention of the whole plan was to "steal" back the heart of the girlfriend who had become a casino owner, Orson's ex-wife.
Django the Liberated.
Django is free, whether racist or not, whether you're black or white.
In his way to regain his lover, there is only one way to die.
“Hey，little trouble maker”
And, of course, Iron Man.
Another boy-to-man transition, and finally in a "most immodest" boyish tone, completed the sincere self-blackening.
"Love you 3,000 times".
Since we're talking about Iron Man, it's time to say now.
Straight men, even in Marvel have completed the process of replacing the old with the new, you must have noticed that the new characters have long established a new gender, race, and geographical balance.
Today's screen is no longer the stage for the old guys to "knight, adventure, and sexual charm".
On the one hand, it is the market's greasy taste for individual heroism films.
On the one hand, with the rise of all kinds of new ideas, there is little room left for traditional men on the screen.
Instead of the monolithic male story, there are more diverse, more attitudes, and more realistic voices.
Yes, it is inevitable that overcorrection is overkill, but the development of things is always the same, it is only inevitable.
Off-screen.
Sir wanted to say a few more words about his own (and his contemporaries') feelings.
Whether sean connery, Harrison Ford or Eastwood, whether these straight men have cancer or not, frankly there is almost none — commercial films are first and foremost the product of glorifying the characters.
But straight-male movies do, in a way, continue the off-screen tradition of straight male cancer.
Because the film is always the protagonist, some male audiences mistakenly think that life is also "always";
Because there are not many harsh words in the movie, some male audiences mistakenly think that the things that should be opened in life do not need "superfluous" discussion and explanation;
When the male protagonist is used to breaking the rhythm of others, saving the supporting characters from water and fire, in the reality of no water and fire, some straight male cancers are also accustomed to breaking the rhythm of others and imposing on others...
Note that some, not all.
Nor is this in black straight men – straight male cancer is always a defective product among straight men.
From the current discussion of the demise of straight male movies in the social division of labor and the awakening of consciousness, you can talk about 1 million words.
As a straight man who grew up in the 70s and 80s, starting with Sean Connelly, this topic will become specific and personal for us, full of childhood and era memories.
To commemorate him is simply to commemorate an era.
Straight men have watched the light of the screen since they were young, and more than once fantasized about being such a tough, responsible cool uncle.
But the old times will eventually return to the old times.
Sean is gone, which means that some of the rules of Hollywood are gone, doesn't it also mean that some of the real straight male norms have also expired at the same time?
Throw away what you should lose.
The world saved by cool uncles is being saved by the supporting characters, and you have nothing to do.
If you are a straight man, why do you say that the world is so cruel and forgets so quickly.
Then I would say that precisely because the essence of the world is to never cease to evolve and fresh.
Straight men, let's say goodbye to silence today.
It is not the straight man himself who does anything else, but the vanity of the past.
Only silence is worthy of this straight man game, and finally the sage time that has finally closed the curtain.
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