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Action movies are already like a desert in Hollywood movies, and almost none of them can shoot the texture of Asian action movies in hand-to-hand combat, and female action movies are even rarer in Hollywood. Moreover, even if a female action movie is made, most of them end up not looking good.
If you don't count the treasure-grabbing adventure action movies like "Tomb Raider", then there are even fewer Hollywood female action movies to watch. But there are two female action movies, and their action coolness is directly comparable to excellent male action movies.
Of the two films, one is Quentin's "Kill Bill Series", and the other is "Mint", which is a pure revenge film. There is also a "Extremely Cold City" that is also good, but Luoxue feels that the overall sense of strength in the fight is still lacking, and I don't like it very much.
"Kill Bill" is directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, etc., and was released in the United States in October 2003. At a cost of $55 million, it won $180 million at the global box office. It has been nominated for a large number of film awards, with 556,000 people giving it a rating of 8.3 on Douban, and 1.2 million people giving it a super high score of 8.2 on IMDB, ranking 151st in the IMDB top 250.
The following year, Quentin released a sequel, Kill Bill 2, which premiered in the United States in April 2004 and grossed $154 million worldwide at a cost of $30 million. It has also received a large number of award nominations, with 327,000 people giving it a rating of 8.1 on Douban, and 807,000 people giving it a rating of 8.0 on IMDB, ranking 250th in the IMDB top 250.
It can be said that the "Kill Bill Series" is second only to the "Spy Series" in the entire field of action movies, especially on IMDB, and is a god-level action movie series far beyond the "Mission Impossible Series" and "007 Series".
In terms of Luo Xue's personal perception, the audiovisual language of this film is extremely excellent, especially the soundtrack, and even the highlights that far exceed the movie itself. The movie picture is restrictive enough, with severed limbs and beheadings, plasma shooting, and a large number of bloody scenes presented, making the movie more visually shocking. And this film is extremely rare to use martial arts tricks, and it is no longer like other Hollywood action movies, relying on resistance to beating.
However, from the story itself, the story of this film is extremely simple and uninteresting, and there are even many bugs, the overall story is hazy and false, and the bugs are forced for the sake of the story. Moreover, the score of this film abroad is much higher than that at home, because foreign audiences have not seen real action movies.
Especially after Chinese action movies came out of the era of "Shaw Brothers Martial Arts", they paid more attention to the sense of strength, coherence and ferocity, while "Kill Bill Series" is still using tricks and softness, which is completely outdated!
It can be said that in terms of audio-visual language, "Kill Bill Series" is a god film, but in terms of story and martial arts action, this film is very ordinary!
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! (Generally speaking, Luoxue prefers the original online movie rather than the domestic release version of Aiyouteng!) ）
1. God-level soundtrack
Compared with the story of this film, the soundtrack of "Kill Bill Series" is obviously more advanced and more widely circulated, and even listening to the soundtrack without watching the movie is a kind of enjoyment.
To some extent, Falling Snow even thinks that the music of this film has been detached from the story.
The music was supposed to supplement and render the story, but because the story of the "Kill Bill Series" was relatively weak, and the film score was too distinct and stylized, the rendering of the soundtrack obviously overshadowed the story itself, and the soundtrack was so good that people would remember the soundtrack and forget the plot.
In particular, the whistle soundtrack "Twisted Nerve" created by the famous soundtrack master Bernard Herrmann for this film. The simple, tactful but changeable whistle has both an ethereal and desolate feeling, and at the same time a very pleasant sense of oppression and banter, which can give everyone a very different feeling.
Even the whistle soundtrack of this film has influenced a large number of later film scores, and there have been a lot of whistle soundtracks in movies ever since.
However, the more classic soundtrack of this film is "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" composed by Budai Yintai, which can be said to be not only the most classic soundtrack of "Kill Bill Series", but also rooted in the indelible memory of every post-80s and post-90s generation.
After all, which post-80s and post-90s generation does not have a movie channel in their lives? If you often watch the movie channel, you can't forget that every time the movie channel makes a movie program preview, the music used for the trailer is the song "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" from the "Kill Bill Series".
In the movie, as the soundtrack sounded, Lucy Liu appeared in a kimono, coupled with the editing effect that fits the soundtrack very well, making Lucy Liu's appearance the most handsome clip in the whole film, and also paving the way for the heroine to be able to kill Lucy Liu later. After all, only if the villain is strong enough, the final battle will be more interesting and reflect the strength of the heroine.
But this song "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" not only made the "Kill Bill series", but even in 2007, in the sci-fi and comic book series "Transformers 1" launched by Mayer Bay, Bumblebee transformed from a small broken car into a luxury supercar, and when he appeared in front of Shia LaBeouf again, this soundtrack was used to directly fill the luxury temperament of Bumblebee.
At the same time, the soundtrack of the alarm, another in the film when danger is approaching (the name is not found), is also extremely classic.
It's great for a movie to have a soundtrack, such as "Pacific Rim" in "Pacific Rim", "Alfred Moves To Helena" in "Burning Years", "Where Is Armo" in "The Last Emperor?" Wait, it's already great for a movie to have a classic soundtrack, but "Kill Bill" has a full 3 songs.
But success is also a soundtrack, and defeat is also a soundtrack!
After listening to the soundtrack of the entire "Kill Bill Series", you will find that the soundtrack style of the movie is extremely changeable, and there is no fixed tone and mode, which will make each soundtrack extremely independent and cannot form a very perfect whole with the movie. Even to a certain extent, the film's excellent soundtrack is cutting off the entire movie story, disrupting the audience's viewing mood, making the movie unable to become a whole, and the sense of patchwork is very strong.
If the director wants to increase the absurdity of the film through the soundtrack, then the director does do it through the soundtrack, and if it is just a serious story, the soundtrack is extremely fragmented.
You can find a random movie and listen to the unity of the tone of the original soundtrack! But "Killing Someone Series" is not only excellent in the soundtrack, but also in terms of visual design, which gives the Chinese audience a little shock.
2. A visual feast
Although the story of this film is not very good, the lens design is indeed very amazing, especially the lens design of the scene where Lucy Liu appeared is extremely outstanding, not only linking the screen switching between different scenes with music, especially in creating a sense of mystery.
Then the back, then the back foot, then the front foot, and finally the long shot, it can be said that the mystery and amazement of Lucy Liu's appearance are directly filled, and with the soundtrack of "Battle Without Honor or Humanity", the visual enjoyment of the whole movie has reached a certain height.
In the scene of the slaughter of gangsters, the movie uses a lot of black and white images. This black and white design, on the one hand, dilutes the bloody feeling of the large number of plasma splash scenes in the movie, so that people will not be disgusted by the blood splash scenes; On the other hand, the use of black and white adds to the texture of the picture in the movie, so that this fight scene can stand out from the whole color story and become the focus of the audience.
At the same time, the silhouette in the film also has a very strong stylization, and the battle between a group of people and the heroine on a blue background forms a silhouette effect, which is very prominent in this story. Coupled with a very huge blue background, this scene has a sense of contradiction between physical discomfort and feeling very cool, and it has a touch of experimental film temperament.
And in the full 7-minute minion battle, it is precisely because of the visual design of color + black and white + silhouette + color that it can be unique in such a lengthy and single-form martial arts, giving the audience different visual stimulation and avoiding aesthetic fatigue.
When telling the story of Ishii Tail Lotus played by Lucy Liu, the director used a lot of 2D animation to explain, making the storytelling technique of the movie extremely changeable. And it can also better show the changes in the scene and age in Ishii's story, which is a very clever way.
But the core reason why this film is the most amazing, and even the best female action movie in film history, is the film's use of large-scale lenses, presenting a taboo film full of flesh and blood.
There are not a few movies with restricted lenses, but there are not many good movies that can be as bloody as this one.
In particular, the director bit off the sexual predator's chin from the heroine and slammed the male medical staff's head with the door, which made the audience feel a hearty feeling. Since the story of Ishii in Japan, the movie has begun to be filled with a large number of scenes of decapitation, amputation, waist beheading, and plasma splattering, turning the movie directly from R grade to B grade, this design full of plasma also gave the Chinese in 2003 a small shock.
Even in the end, the scene of the heroine cutting off half of Ishii's head with one knife made the bloodiness of the movie reach its peak, and it also changed from the refreshing feeling of violent aesthetics to the disgusting feeling of physical discomfort.
It can be said that this film is very unique and ingenious in terms of audio-visual design! But whether it's the story of the movie or the martial arts design, it's really a bit underwatched.
3. Bad garbage films
The "Kill Bill Series" is excellent in terms of audiovisual language, but there are many flaws in the presentation of the story. For example, Bill shot the heroine at close range, but the heroine was stunned and did not die.
The movie version of "Sherlock: The Abominable Bride" used the duration of a movie to tell the audience that after shooting the head at close range, the person who was shot cannot be resurrected; Even if the movie can not fully follow the logic of reality, "Ace Agent 2" still used ghostly high-tech to explain it when resurrecting "Uncle Face", but this film survived without explaining anything, and the falling snow really can't be understood.
The heroine woke up after 4 years of sleep and her upper body could move, but she killed two people and ran into the car in the basement, and there was no setting for the police to search until her legs recovered function, which was too much.
In the second part, Bud has already caught the heroine, and Al didn't say that he wanted to keep the heroine alive, but Bud just tied up the heroine and buried her alive in the coffin, and the coffin was also broken by the heroine's magic skills, which was exactly the same as being buried alive, allowing the heroine to escape, and also making the whole movie full of an extremely serious sense of deliberateness.
It can be said that the story of this film is full of flaws and deliberateness, and the story type is actually a very simple upgrade and monster fighting type, which is not complicated, nor is there deep social pathology and human complexity.
Basically, everyone's character personality is very simple, there is nothing to think about deeply, and compared to action movies like "The Dark Knight", this film is more than 108,000 miles away. At the same time, the proudest martial arts design of this film, except for the advantage of blood, is a slot.
The overall fight is extremely routine, soft, and forceful, and the action design does not have the exquisite sense of Hong Kong action movies, nor the violent sense of Indonesian action movies, it can be said that this film is completely the classic routine of Shaw Brothers action movies before Bruce Lee, and the action design of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen and others is too far away.
It can be said that in terms of action design, only in terms of the release era at that time, there is a gap of at least 30 years between this film and Chinese action movies. Today, the gap is even greater. However, the only advantage is that the action of this film is indeed designed, and it is still much better than Hollywood's pure anti-beating genre.
And in the first part of this film, when the heroine killed the Japanese underworld of nearly 100 people by herself, the feeling of the group actor deliberately paddling and being killed in order to win the heroine was too strong and people couldn't like it at all.
In general, "Kill Bill Series" is very amazing in terms of soundtrack and picture style, but the story is boring and there are many bugs, and the impression is soft, and the strokes are serious are the shortcomings of this film. Both of them can be ranked in the IMDB top 250, which may be true that American audiences have not seen much real action movies and "domestic" protection.
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