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Hollywood is a magical land, and it's both a desert for martial arts action movies, but it's also a mecca for gunfight action movies. There are not only the "Mission Impossible Series" that constantly challenges the difficulty, but also the "Spy Shadow Series" that takes the realistic route, as well as a series of spy action movies such as "Avenger", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "Shocking Rescue", "Hurricane Rescue", "Fallen Universe" and so on.
It may even be thought that the United States is full of active, retired or defected agents, but these agents all have one thing in common: they are rough. In the Hollywood action movie universe, there was never a spy action movie that looked extremely elegant until the arrival of 2014.
And this action movie that vividly shows the image of the British gentleman is "Ace Agent: Secret Service Academy", which officially opened the elegant agent series after Pierce Brosnan!
"Ace Agent: Secret Service Academy" is adapted from Mark Miller's comic book of the same name, directed by Matthew Vaughn, starring Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, and Tarren Edgerton, which was first screened at the BNAT Film Festival in the United States in 2014, and then released in March 2015.
At a cost of $81 million, the film earned $407 million worldwide, making the filmmaker make a lot of money, and it also made "Uncle Face" popular again after "The King's Speech". Even because "Uncle Face" was too out of the circle, he was directly resurrected in the second part after being shot in the head, which also made the sequel rotten to a high level!
On Douban, 687,000 people gave the film a super high score of 8.4, which is equally famous as "Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol", second only to "Spy 123", which can be ranked in the top ten of Hollywood or European action movies. On IMDB, 716,000 people also gave it a high score of 7.7.
It can be said that "Ace Agent" is an out-and-out god-level action movie, and will even create an action movie series, carrying the banner of British gentleman's action movies after "007 Series". But who would have thought that the setting that "Ace Agent 2: The Golden Circle" allows headshots to live, which directly makes the masterpiece a bad movie, and ruins the future of "Ace Agent" as a masterpiece series.
In terms of Luo Xue's personal viewing experience, "Ace Agent" is a movie that combines the elegance of a British gentleman with the ruffian atmosphere of the American streets very well.
And the fights in this film are extremely exciting and good-looking, in addition to Uncle Face's bar scene being repeatedly praised, the church massacre scene, and the fight scene of the villain female killer are extremely dramatic, very feeling! The use of a large number of bloody scenes in the movie not only makes people feel disgusting, but also gives people a sense of excitement.
At the same time, the film is extremely exquisite in costume design and photography lenses, especially the church killing scene, and the photography style is too novel.
In addition, this film can be linked with "Eliminate the Three Evils Around the World" to create an anti-cult alliance, because Uncle Face's church killing scene, Luo Xue really likes it so much!
The following is a serious spoiler, it is recommended that friends who have not watched it go to the movie first, and then watch the falling snow recommendation!(Remember to watch the online piracy, don't watch the genuine version of the streaming media, the domestic genuine version is the deleted version!)
1. Interesting story
In terms of the story itself, the story of "Ace Agent: Secret Service Academy" is relatively complex in the entire Hollywood agent action movie. For example, "Spy Series" is basically a story of being hunted down and killed, and "The Beekeeper" is even more simple enough to be summarized as someone bullied Guo Da, and then Guo Da is over after a fight.
In addition, including "Mission Impossible Series" and "Shocking Rescue Series", they all knew the goal of action from the beginning.
But "Ace Agent: Secret Service Academy" takes a different approach to the story and adopts a two-line narrative structure, on the one hand, it is about the redemption of "Uncle Face", and on the other hand, it is about the growth of the male protagonist Agesi. While telling a secret agent story, it is actually telling a family story.
In terms of story, this film tells the story of Lancelot, a member of the British underground secret service organization who is not controlled by any state, and when he is investigating a case, he is killed out of kindness to save a kidnapped climatology professor. In order to fill the position, the secret service organization decided to recruit new agents, and in the process of investigating Lancelot's death, they discovered the plot of "S.H.I.E.L.D. Valentine", and the new agent Eggesy challenged Valentine in order to save the world and take revenge.
Although the story itself is more complex than other spy films, it is because the film adds a lot of comedy elements, and mainly highlights individual heroism, coupled with the film's extremely gorgeous special effects production and strong style of cinematography. all give this film a charm that borders on conflict.
That is, the story of this film is more complex than that of "Spy Series", but the viewing experience is more relaxed and enjoyable than it, and it hardly takes any effort, and it is an excellent popcorn movie.
It's not nutritious, but it's really cool to watch! It won't be like action movies such as "Illness 4", "Surprise 2", "Beekeeper", and "Megalodon 2", which are confined to the brain-dead logic of movies.
What's more, what's even better about this film is that the overall rhythm of the movie is very good, and the audience can always feel the relaxed rhythm. And the black humor style presented in this degree of relaxation can make the audience feel the charm of laughter when they are full of thrillers or tense atmosphere.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, there is a solo show of former agent Lancelot, a very standard British gentleman and handsome uncle, well-dressed, meticulous, and his movements are smooth, full of relaxed and freehand feeling. Even tasted the 1962 Dalmore whiskey elegantly.
It can be said that this X was completely loaded by him, but in the next second, he was directly split in half by the "Knife Girl", and the wine was also given to the "Director", and just one scene directly filled the black humor of the whole movie.
And this kind of tension and intensity, turning and humor are presented in a large number of films, which ensures that the film can give the audience strong sensory stimulation on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also convey happiness through the picture, and even grasp the overall rhythm of the film more accurately and effectively. Let the audience neither feel as tired as watching "Spy Shadows", nor as boring as watching literary films.
Movies are always in the comfort zone that stimulates your excitatory nerves without overworking you, which enhances the comfort of watching movies.
Whether it is the story or the rhythm, it is only one of the reasons why the movie is good, and the super high score of 8.4 can be maintained in the score of 687,000 people on Douban, which is actually largely due to the integration of the movie's conflict effect.
2. Conflict and integration
There is probably no other film that can set up so many conflicts and antagonisms in a single story, and finally skillfully blend them together to form a very unique effect of black humor.
For example, this film looks like an action movie about an English gentleman, but the "F" word in this film is extremely high, and it is a very authentic "Ma Provoke Fake" movie. It brings together the English gentleman and the American hooligan very organically, and this extreme contrast also contributes to the most reversals and jokes in the movie.
In addition to the aforementioned Lancelot pretending to be X laughing fruit, there are many such scenes of pretending to be X in the movie, and even Douban netizens exclaimed: "McDonald's with 45 years of Lafite, look at how professional people are in X." ”
At the same time, when the "director" killed "Uncle Face", he said: "Do you know what it looks like now? It's like an old movie we all love to watch, I'm going to tell you all my plans now, and then I'll come up with some ridiculous, complicated ways to kill you." And then you'll come up with an equally sophisticated way to escape."
"Sounds good."
"It's a pity that there is still a difference between reality and movies" After saying that, "Uncle Face" was directly shot in the head by "Director", and the drama of the movie was directly filled, which can be said to be an extremely merciless mockery of traditional old-fashioned action movies. But the more ruthless ridicule is that the "director's" plan to destroy the world must have a sense of ceremony, and the plan has been completely stopped. and the "director" mocking the old movie, and formed an extremely ironic echo.
But the anti-traditional conflict and unity of this film are not only like this, such as the female protagonist and the male protagonist have experienced growth together and come to the end of the selection competition. In the skydiving competition, the two cooperated with each other, and landed safely without one of them opening the parachute, and successfully landed at the designated place. And in the end, the important task of saving the world was also completed by the two of them.
If you change to another movie, the male protagonist and the female protagonist must be a very compatible pair. For example, in "Spy 1", Bourne is with the heroine who helps him, but in "Ace Agent", the two are only friends and colleagues, which is really unexpected.
But the biggest surprise of this film, or the best way to do the conflict and integration, is actually the shaping of the Scandinavian princess character.
On the one hand, the princess is a righteous image who resolutely disagrees with the lobbying of the "director", and still sticks to her heart when the "director" tempts her with McDonald's. But when facing the male protagonist who wanted to save her, he said: "If you save the world, I will let you enter my chrysanthemum", which simply shocked the audience.
How serious the previous image of the princess was, how slutty her completely bare buttocks action was when she was with the male protagonist Hanppy.
It can be said that she presents her courage and perseverance on the major issues of right and wrong with the sexiness and openness of a woman, and also integrates the two personalities of extreme conflict and unity very well in the movie.
It is precisely because of this conflict and fusion that the whole movie is not so much an action movie as an excellent comedy, or an extremely good black humor action movie. It has laughter, but it is not deliberate and crazy, and it always puts the audience in a kind of contrasting pleasure, which makes people extremely comfortable. But even if the comedy component of this film is aside, its action scenes are among the top 5 in the entire Hollywood.
3. Amazing action
There are many action movies in Hollywood, but pure martial arts action movies are extremely rare, and they can only be regarded as glimpses in "Spy Shadow", "Mission Impossible", and "Avenger". And the action scenes of movies such as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Mad Max 4: Fury Road" have returned to the "anti-beating" road.
The martial arts action in the "Kill Bill Series" is the most authentic, but it was in the era of Shaw Brothers martial arts films, and now it seems extremely fake and boring. Therefore, looking at the action design of "Ace Agent" in turn, it is extremely amazing!
There are a total of 3 classic action scenes in this film, which are "Uncle Face" educating gangsters in the bar, "Uncle Face" "eliminating the three evils" in the church, and the action scene where the male protagonist enters the villain's base camp to kill at the end.
Among them, the action scene of the bar education gangsters shows the elegance and handsomeness of the agent, and it is an extremely popular clip on the short video platform. But Luoxue prefers the scene of "Uncle Face" in the church to "eliminate the three evils", and it can even be linked with the dream of "Removing the Three Evils Everywhere". What's more, in this paragraph, all the action scenes are extremely violent and bloody, but in addition to being violent and bloody, they are handsome to the extreme elegance.
"Uncle Face" single-handedly wiped out the entire church, and pistols, daggers, fists, lighters, scabbards, sticks, and axes all became his killing weapons, and the whole action was smooth and shocking. Just the right amount of large-scale gore and passionate rock 'n' roll music make this killing a supreme visual action enjoyment.
At the same time, the church killing scene is also the scene with the strongest cinematography style in the whole movie, with a large section of large-scale long-lens shaking photography, coupled with deliberate half-cutting of characters, etc., as well as the presentation of the "Uncle Face" glasses perspective shot. all aggravate the feeling of this scene similar to the subjective perspective of playing a VR game. It not only aggravates the sense of realism, but also strengthens the sense of joy in the sense of reality, making people hover between reality and game.
Although I can't tell whether it's reality or a game, I can be infected by this ultimate aesthetic experience of killing + large-scale + rock + subjective lens + long shot.
It's no wonder that some Douban praised and commented on this film: "The comedy and comic sense of the groove is too burning, and the headshot exploded into big fireworks! The two generations of Kingsman are so handsome that they fall off the scum, especially Uncle Feith in a suit and leather shoes, I can't wait to donate my knees on the spot when I cover my heart with my hands! Don't ask "which one is stronger to kill like a gentleman" in the future, the popcorn of the year must be it!"
Compared with this killing feast, the battle of the entire fortress soldiers in the last battle of Eggesy was not only unscathed, but also did not even sweat a drop of the battle, which seemed extremely deliberate and false. Although it is still very burning, it is far inferior to the church killing scene.
On the contrary, it is a few fights of "Knife Girl", and Luo Xue likes it very much. Swift, sharp, powerful, and designed, very distinctive, quite popular with falling snow. The processing of action special effects and the display of shots are just right, but it is a pity that it was lost to the "protagonist halo" in the end, which is a pity.
Moreover, the film's photography style when presenting the violent fights after Valentine's demise is in the same vein as the church scene, and I like it very much.
On the whole, this film is perfect in many aspects such as story, rhythm, conflict, comedy, humor, action, photography, etc., although Eggey's action scenes are a bit of a lag, but I can't help but "Uncle Face" is really handsome!
In the end, it was kindly suggested that when the film was released that year, it was a deleted version, including the church killing scene and the princess welfare bridge, which were directly cut. So if you want to feel the pure coolness of action movies, I personally recommend you to look for resources on official websites such as non-"Aiyouteng". Moreover, the second part and the prequel of this film are very ugly, so you can not watch it! (Luoxue can't accept the setting that a headshot can be resurrected)
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