I haven't talked about cool movies for a long time, recently a movie sold in North America, the R-level scale of blood plasma spillage, the theme is also very curious, let's talk about it today - "Hi Bear".
The original name of the film is Cocaine Bear (Cocaine Bear), which tells the story of a 230-kilogram black bear who accidentally eats a large amount of cocaine and runs away, killing in the park and causing tourists to bleed.
Doesn't that sound crazy?
This story is still based on real events.
On Christmas Eve 1985, U.S. police found a recently dead black bear in a Georgia forest. In inaccessible conservation areas, adult black bears are considered apex predators, why do they die tragically for no reason?
After an autopsy, the police found a huge amount of drugs worth millions of dollars in the black bear's body, and then dug up a drug dealer named Andrew Thorton.
Thorton, a paratrooper, was originally a member of the anti-drug team of the local police department, but after seeing the huge profits from the drug trade, he could not resist the temptation and also engaged in drug smuggling and trafficking.
Once, while returning to the United States from Colombia to transport drugs in a small plane, he suffered a mechanical accident and crashed into the forests of Georgia with drugs. Thorton died instantly, and the drugs he was carrying were ingested by black bears.
After the truth was revealed, "Cocaine Bear" quickly attracted social attention, not only was it made into a documentary by the Discovery Channel, but other film and television works have also been based on this incident, such as the fourth season of the high-scoring American drama "Detective in the Line of Fire".
However, this "Hi Bear" takes the R-rated comedy route.
Thorton briefly appeared at the beginning of the film to receive a bento, and the scene of the black bear running away and killing all sides is the main body and climax of the film.
As an R-rated comedy, the film earned $23 million in the first weekend of release, rushing to the second place in the North American box office list, and the results were very good.
Director Elizabeth Banks is well known for the "Hunger Games" and "Perfect Tone" series, and after acting and directing, she directed "Perfect Tone 2" and the new version of "Thunderbolt", the latter box office and word of mouth, so much so that she waited two years to get the opportunity to direct again.
During the film's hot screening, Banks also took "Black Bear" to the Oscars, and presented the Best Visual Effects Award with her as a partner, which attracted the attention of the audience for a while.
But this wave of operations is more than just propaganda. The black bear in the film was produced by Weta Studio using CGI special effects, and the realistic effect can carry the close-up close-up, fluttering up and hairy,
It makes sense that it gives the best visual effects.
The story in the film adopts a multi-line narrative, starting with the clue that after Thorton crashed, several groups of centaurs entered the forest and were accidentally attacked by black bears.
The first group is two crappy drug dealers.
Thorton is only responsible for running errands, and his upline Sid hears about the crash and can't accept the loss of millions of goods in the forest, so he sends his son Eddie with one of his men into the forest to collect drugs.
Eddie had planned to wash his hands in the golden basin, but reluctantly took the task;
His subordinate is a simple-minded, well-limbed black brother, the two of them are stirring their mouths and touching fish, and by mistake they find that drugs have long been targeted by woodland punks and hidden in a gazebo.
The second group of people are anti-drug police who guessed that Sid would make a move.
In order to catch Sid, they also followed the clues into the forest.
The third group was students who skipped class and ran to sketch in the wilderness, Didi and Henry.
They accidentally broke into the scene of the incident and found a large amount of residual cocaine, because of the powder on their bodies, they unknowingly became the prey of "drug-addicted" black bears...
In addition, Didi's mother also chased her all the way to the forest because her daughter was "missing".
Together with the rangers, she searches for her daughter's whereabouts in this bear-infested location.
Although there are many characters, each entering the forest with a different purpose, this does not matter because the protagonist is a rampage black bear.
In the first half of the film, you can see all kinds of violent scenes full of plasma and limbs.
Someone hid behind the door and was slapped in the face with a bear's paw;
Someone was caught off guard and felt what it means to "heavyweight debut";
Some people thought that everything would be fine if they climbed the tree, but they were torn apart by the black bear, and they saw that their limbs landed one step ahead of themselves;
There were also people who fled by car, but they didn't expect that the black bear who was snorting spread his legs faster than the tires...
Although the scale of the bloody scene is not small, the treatment of the film is very entertaining, and the black bear can be said to be killing people while selling cute, and it does not give people a terrifying feeling.
In terms of literary drama, many comedy elements have also been added to the film.
For example, in one scene, the drug dealer followed the gangsters to the pavilion where the drugs were hidden, but they did not know that the mantis catcher was behind, and the police had already squatted here and waited for them for a long time.
However, in order to seize the high ground, the police hid at the top of the pavilion with hidden drugs in advance.
In order to avoid the attack, a spirited man ran under the pavilion.
As a result, the two parties did not know how to come down, the other did not dare to come out, and they stalemated each other for a long time, not knowing how to end this awkward meeting, until the black bear also rushed over to make fun.
But unexpectedly, at this time, the black bear had just finished taking the medicine and killed all sides, and had already begun to sleep.
It did not launch an attack on the drug dealer lying on the ground, but pressed him under him as a mattress, and fell asleep...
For example, the behavior of black bears is deliberately anthropomorphized in the film.
The reason why it went on a killing spree was only because it had accidentally consumed drugs and was in a state of high spirituality. The group that entered the forest came into contact with cocaine by chance, and thus became the target of black bears.
In other words, this black bear, like several drug dealers, is just running after drugs without losing his mind.
This is also where the film has received criticism. On the one hand, the black bear in the real incident, who died violently due to accidental drug ingestion, did not become a bear version of the "addict" as shown in the film, and went on a killing spree.
A large amount of drugs have been spilled into forest areas, polluting the environment and killing animals, and have not been recycled and cleaned up. This is a personal tragedy in itself, but it is told in a playful and humanly self-centered way, which has attracted the dissatisfaction of some audiences.
On the other hand, those viewers who feel that they don't have to go online and simply watch a cool movie are only satisfied in the first half.
The second half of the film enters the anti-drug education mode, showing the unbearable nature of drug dealers and the harm of drugs to people (bears), and a large number of human scenes rob the protagonist aura of the black bear.
In the end, several innocent protagonists managed to escape, which is too correct and safe, and does not match the texture of the brainless B-grade film created in the first half of the film.
The director said in an interview that the main purpose of this film is that humans often think that they know who the enemy is in the face of danger, just like the people in the film, they think that the danger in the forest comes from the fierce black bear. But in reality, black bears are originally gentle animals, and if they were not fed drugs, they would not go crazy and would not have attacked humans for no reason. Black Bear wanted more cocaine because someone gave it in the first place. And it was humans who gave it cocaine. This is the same as the attitude of human beings when it comes to nature, never realizing that they are the culprit for the bad situation.
Good guys, so the film is not only anti-drug, but also about environmental issues... Black bears really take on a lot.
This sudden theme sublimation makes the film have a strong sense of separation before and after, and both sets of fans with different expectations feel that they have been slipped together, and it is not difficult to understand bad reviews.
However, the ending design of the film is a return to the track of the beast killing film. After the human departing, the drug-addicted black bear family still lives freely in the forest, waiting for the next wave of unlucky tourists to arrive.
No matter how humans do their tricks to death, anyway, the bear is hi~