The most important thing about the classic is the tribute.
The more we resist, the more we count.
The higher we expect, the faster the punch in the face will come.
This leads to the fact that in the world of "homage to the classics", there is always a category of love and audience death:
A bad film that pays homage to classic gimmicks.
For example, "Ghost in the Shell", which is difficult to balance with the literary core and commercial cloak.
Abandoning the tragic core and contemplation of the original script, it is a commercial film full of sincerity, but it is not a qualified comic film.
For example, "My New Savage Girlfriend" with no logic, no plot and no acting skills.
The whole film is purely a dick man's YY, and a "new" word immediately smashes the only desirable "single-minded infatuation" of the male protagonist.
Another example is the "King of Kung Fu" with slow pace and weak plot.
"Tribute" to "Kung Fu", "Journey to the West", "Shaolin Temple", "Drunken Fist" and many other Chinese classic films, but it is full of ignorance of oriental culture and the stupidity of the half-hanging.
It's been a long time since I've seen a "good-looking" tribute film.
Is it difficult?
Sort of.
It is necessary to pay tribute, but also to get rid of imitation, plagiarism, melting stems, remakes...
It is necessary to have their own thinking, but also not to make people feel that "where to pay tribute" is not worthy of the name.
No, there was a recent film that pays tribute to the classics, and it did both .
<h1>Sharp blade out of the sheath</h1>
<h1>Knives Out</h1>
There are still 4 days to officially be released.
Expect too much:
Starring Team AMERICA and 007.
A knife was not cut.
Rotten Tomatoes 99% freshness...
Xiao Wang was very lucky to be invited by the "Inception Movie Group" to watch the movie in advance.
Friends who have not seen it, you can first nibble on the "North American premiere word-of-mouth trailer" to enjoy it
(Hint: The following contains spoilers)
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There is a saying of one, my feelings after reading, a word to describe the words:
A bonus.
I love it because it pays homage to that person.
who?
"The Queen of Mystery Fiction".
Needless to say, the suffix can only have one —
Agatha christie.
This work is second only to the Bible and Shakespeare's Woman in sales, and is the queen of true popularity and god traffic.
I love its homage, but I want to praise its boldness – homage to Agatha, but "anti" Agatha.
Don't sell Guanzi, serve hard dishes——
<h1>Tribute to innovation</h1>
Before telling the story, let's give everyone a knowledge point of popular science: country house pie.
"Country House Pie": Agatha Christie pioneered the "Country House Pie" of detective fiction, in which the murder takes place in a specific enclosed environment, and the murderer is also one of several specific related people.
Back to the story.
A maid appears in the camera and slowly goes upstairs with her prepared breakfast and coffee.
The bedroom was empty, and the maid was already surprised, and slowly walked up to the attic.
Immediately afterward, a lifetime of screams resounded throughout the villa.
In the cramped attic study, an old man covered in blood lay on the sofa.
There were no signs of fighting at the scene, and the dead looked peaceful.
Although on the first day, the deceased had just celebrated his 85th birthday with his family and was convicted of suicide.
Maybe it's because I don't want to suffer from illness anymore and am anxious to get rid of the few difficult days left?
Maybe people just feel that life is complete and want time to stay at the happiest time?
Bullshit!
How can a speculative novelist, with logical thinking and psychological qualities, end his life for such a nihilistic reason?
A rich man who wants something, but insists on publishing a new book every once in a while, he will only feel that he has not lived long enough for the creation of him, right?
Most crucially, there came a detective.
A well-known detective who was anonymously invited to investigate the cause of death of the rich man.
The film unfolds in the form of a one-on-one interrogation by a detective, and the family members of the deceased appear one by one like a marquee -
With the help of her father's investment, she developed her personal career, and was obviously the eldest son-in-law who ate soft rice but cheated;
A keyboard hero grandson who only knows the Internet all day long, but only promises in life;
Help the father to take care of all the publication of works and other matters to waste the second son;
A grandson who despises the elders but is cynical - Tao Zong;
Daughter-in-law who dies but is still attached to her husband's family and constantly oils to survive;
Granddaughter who relies on the huge tuition fees given by the old man every year to go to school;
Everyone tried their best to hide their secrets, threw pots at others, and tore the mask of hypocrisy after the death of the Patriarch.
At first glance, there is some "script killing" meaning.
Didn't find it?
Seemingly harmonious but fallen apart of the big family, suspected of suicide but left a huge inheritance of the rich, the luxurious but oppressive closed country house, the suspects who have blood relations but push each other away, and the superficial "inheritance" of the killing machine...
These are all places of tribute to Agatha.
The director chooses to show you these "tributes" generously because he knows that the key to his victory does not depend on these.
Instead, it's about breaking them all.
For example, the "morphine" that appears in the film is the poison commonly used in Grandma's novels, but this medicine is the key to the death of the deceased, but it is not the cause of death.
The director has reversed many times through montage techniques, reversing the "truth" speculated by the viewers one by one using the experience gained from watching Agatha's film and television dramas in the past.
And the smartest is probably the ending of "no murderer, only winner".
Don't understand? See for yourself.
<h1>Closed loop breaking</h1>
At the beginning of the film, those plots with Agatha's shadow greatly interfere with everyone's judgment.
Every family member has a motive for killing, but the alibi is clear.
It was as if there really were no murderer among them.
Not really.
The confessions that everyone blamed each other actually formed a perfect closed loop:
After the heroine who finally saw the deceased leave, the grandson and the second son at the door of the house also saw the deceased who went downstairs; the daughter-in-law felt shallow, and whoever wanted to go upstairs would wake her up, and she was never woken up again after the deceased returned upstairs.
Looking at it this way, is the deceased really committing suicide?
No.
At this point, although the film gives the first round of voting for "script killing", it restores the first "complete truth" from the perspective of omniscience.
But there is also a very big bug - the deceased's caregiver and nanny.
She was close to the deceased, and what clues would she bring to break the situation?
The time is not more than halfway, and there is a hidden feeling at a glance.
Since it was poisoning, why didn't any drugs found in the autopsy report?
Since the deceased was poisoned, why did the final findings show that the deceased committed suicide?
The little nanny can't lie, how can she avoid the interrogation of the detective?
What does the dog bark that the deceased's granddaughter heard at three o'clock in the morning after the babysitter left suggest?
Is The grandson Who left first, Ranson, really not suspicious?
What are the key clues that the seemingly demented mother of the deceased inadvertently provides to solve the case?
The plot hovers over and over again between "suicide" and "murder", revealing different secrets at different stages, rather than overnight.
I love reasoning, I love it.
<h1>Tragedy and comedy</h1>
Most of Agatha's works are full of intrigue, violence, bloodshed, murder, and crime and punishment in the depths of human nature...
Whether it is full of righteous revenge or maliciously made for money, the story is always biased towards tragedy and full of dark colors.
But "Sharp Blade Out of sheath" is different.
The biggest innovation of its "anti-Agatha" is to give a tragedy a warm core and move towards a comedic reconciliation.
Even in the process of investigation, the film tries its best to dilute the serious tragic atmosphere brought about by suspenseful reasoning through "comedy".
And those comedic treatments are not vulgar, so that the viewers laugh unconsciously.
An example.
The little nanny escapes and is blocked by detectives. Faced with detective questions about the estate and Ranson, she lied.
The next second, however, she threw up under the detective's nose.
To cover up the marks, she threw up in a Coke cup.
Most comedies choose a very vulgar approach and let the detective in the car drink it (I'm going to throw up...). ）。
However, "Blade Out of the Sheath" belongs to the minority.
It throws the stem out and leaves it alone, allowing the audience to linger in the worry of "Oh my God, he won't drink it" and "Please, don't drink it."
In the end, it was found that the detective had not been tricked, the detective had escaped the disaster, and the audience would smile.
In addition to comedy, the film also has a deep meaning for the needle and time of the policy and the ridicule of immigration policy.
For example, the family's attitude towards the little nanny.
How empathetic she is, seeing the little nanny as a "family", but it is not even clear where the little nanny comes from.
She was also not invited to the funeral of the deceased. "I want you to come, but they won't let me", more than one person has said to the little nanny, so who wouldn't want her to attend the funeral?
There is also the change of face before and after the announcement of the estate. When their own interests are not involved, they are the givers who are high up, "We are a family, and we will take care of you." ”
When he found out that someone had moved his own interests, he immediately besieged and insulted the little nanny, and threatened her with her mother's identity as a stowaway.
Oh, what hypocrisy!
And such a wonderful story can be presented, in addition to the wonderful script, excellent director, naturally indispensable to the protagonists' acting skills.
007 actor Daniel Craig starred in the film as a British gentleman with a thick Southern accent but wearing a British-style tweed coat.
Captain America Chris Evans subverted to play the unruly young master Ranson, who officially debuted in the second half, but it cannot be ignored.
Horror film professional Toni Collette ("Bad Luck Heredity", "Long Wish") plays the daughter-in-law, the strong woman's eldest daughter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, "Moonlight Panic" star Jamie Lee Curtis, "Django Rescued" star Don Johnson is the son-in-law of the upside-down door, and the "villain" professional Michael Shannon plays the second son who tries to prove his status...
The gathering of coffee and the fight of the gods and immortals are not wonderful.
This does not need to be translated by many translations of the film, "The Murder of the Fabeli Mansion (Hong Kong)," "Murder in the Upper Class," "Deadly Legacy"...
But more or less, it is somewhat superficial.
My favorite is still "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath".
Chekov said, "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, then in the second or third chapter, the gun must sound." If the gun didn't go off, then it shouldn't be hanging there. ”
There are a lot of images of "sharp blades" in the movie: the dagger of the rich man's suicide, the telescopic knife that allowed the nanny to escape the disaster, the sword that pays tribute to the wall of the Iron Throne in "Game of Thrones"...
The "sharp blade" that tests human nature is sheathed, piercing the hypocrisy of human nature, piercing the stereotypes in people's hearts, and piercing the so-called truth that many people see.
And what is the truth that is obscured by the fog of lies?
Who will the cup with the symbol of rights printed "MY HOUSE, MY RULES, MY COFFEE" fall into?
The answer, November 29, you have to find it yourself.