A good movie is not just a simple dependence on the story of ups and downs, but also needs to look at the selling points designed by the director.
Of course, film art, the sale of things in the cultural category, some focus on the sale of war, some of which are the sale of humanities, some of which are the sale of faith, and some of which sell fantastic ideas, so there are films that deviate from traditional science fiction, fantasy, mythology and other themes.
Crazy to the extreme, the exploration of human nature is no longer a profound topic, max series to do madness all the way, literary and artistic feelings can not stretch the most rebellious cells in our human bones. Literature and art is only a traditional narrative method, if you don't get it right, the movie is easy to fall into a bland routine, "Mad Max 3" is like this, the apocalyptic feelings may be a selling point in many science fiction movies, but the black and white and somber painting style, today to see it is like a glass of boiled water. At that time, "Terminator 1", which was also a wasteland action movie, should be able to beat Max 3.
Empire magazine experts and readers have selected the top ten films of the 21st century. Mad Max 4 managed to top the top, and Teen Idol Batman: The Dark Knight came in third.
The breakthrough lies in the novel idea of selling points, European and American action movies sell mostly personal heroism, but Australia's George Miller sells wasteland madness this time, as well as wonderful aesthetic photography art, what are the highlights to praise?
Australian madness, at least a continuation of Western culture, and American Western cowboy movies can be described as the same ancestors, the vast land, always awe-inspiring and yearning. "Mad Max 4 Furious Flying Car" Plot is concise and concise, there is not much literary and artistic film feelings worth scrutinizing, because it is not needed, there is no time for the audience to think, the film is 120 minutes long, the whole process has no urine point, what he does is to directly carry out the visual storm.
Although wasteland movies generally do not trace the origin of the disaster, the anemic war boy, the zombie-like crippled and haggard hungry man, the undead old Joe with a respirator, and his various stunted sons, plus the wasteland where the grass does not grow a single root, scarce energy and water are enough to explain everything.
The film revolves around five women and two rebels. The undead old Joe controls the water source in the fortress, and Max, who has lost his family, is captured and captured, and unfortunately, he is the almighty O blood, hanging upside down to become the living blood bag of the undead old Joe and the anemic war boys.
One of the protagonists, Friosa, as the right-handmaiden in the fortress, secretly escaped with five beautiful wives of old Joe, including a pregnant woman, the healthy offspring that old Joe dreamed of, and the undead old Joe was furious, which directly affected his prestige and plan, and he led his men, without a moment's hesitation, driving all kinds of scrapped modified vehicles to pursue, and the best madness began.
The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Mixing, Best Art Direction, etc. Let's talk about the most beautiful and moving part!
In the face of the words desert, Gobi, yellow sand, and Yadan, naturally, people will take the initiative to associate words such as desolation, vicissitudes, sadness, loneliness, loneliness, desolation, etc. to match it, with an ancient and long charm, sadness and poignancy, and the blending of situations, and the desert seems to always be a melancholy prince.
But Director Miller does not like melancholy, he gives the desert another atmosphere, he releases only wild, unrestrained, and desire, rock, mania, heavy metal friction, perverted calls, floating freely in the vast wasteland world. Yellow sand tumbling, fiery passion, the earth becomes hot in a tense rhythm, there is no depression here, only a blood-boiling journey to survival, the wasteland is ruled by male domineering, with the anxiety of victory as king.
The appearance of several beautiful women is the only feminine beauty, but also become the only weakness of various monster cars, if it were not for them, the escaped blood bag Max and the one-armed Friosa, under the pursuit of the three-way people, could not win.
Like all adventure movies, the Apocalypse Carnival uses four traditional colors of red, yellow, blue, and gray in tone, and presents a dark light. Just like the Western adventure movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, the canyons and ravines, the desert yellow sand, the yellow and green in the bright light, projecting a sense of majesty and three-dimensionality, full of passion and hope, enhance the tension in the wilderness, increase the visual activity, so that the picture has achieved full attention, but also does not hesitate to bury all traces of negative emotions of the end.
Brilliant film art is inseparable from exquisite environmental rendering. In the background of the magnificent scenery, the chase and the fight are coming, the hormones are drunk and awakened, and they have not yet eased up from the crisis of thrilling fighting and running, such as the storm of the curtain, the human beings are small enough in the desert, in the strange scene, the huge fire tornado with lightning roars, the brave are invincible, chasing in the gears of wind, fire and electricity, explosion and combustion, strongly stimulating vision, no less than the desperate escape plane in "The Sea of Fire".
Friosa's hometown, the legendary oasis, was polluted and depleted, turning into a swamp in the night, flocks of crows, a deep and short-lived Gothic wind that flickered by, and fierce battles and explosions continued to construct the main theme. After dawn, Freoosa and her party, who had escaped from the pursuit, found the old man in the oasis, and the result of the run was finally disappointment, and she fell to her knees on the yellow sand, the desperate cry of this strong woman. There is a beautiful moment, in the harmony of light and dark light, the clearly defined and layered sand dunes, Frioosa sits on his side. The photographer did not let go of the details, inadvertently briefly still, frozen into a beautiful desert oil painting.
Visual effects also include shooting techniques, although the whole process is a violent flying car, but people are completely unaffected by the speed, the mirror is smooth and excessive, although it is in the speed of various attacks, overturning explosions, bullets flying and human hand-to-hand combat, but in any one of the fast moving process, have achieved visual extreme comfort, calmly experience the crazy limits of speed and passion.
Ninety percent of the action scenes in the whole film have not used magical computer special effects that can be made out of nothing, and every tumbling impact, every volley, and every tongue of fire is chaotic, all relying on the stunt performers themselves. The director has repeatedly stressed that as a science fiction film, in order to ensure the real film texture, there are not many special effects parts of this movie.
Special effects supervisor Andrew Jackson introduced a new technology, scanning the entire mountain with an aerial camera and high-definition cameras, then building a model exactly like the mountain in 3D modeling, and then pasting the image captured by the camera as textured material on the 3D model. "This way of scanning images was put up four years ago, and no one even heard of it, but I like it because it can recreate the whole scene with the most realistic textures, and I hate the peaks and stones that are drawn with computers, it's too fake."
Successful films have one thing in common, that is, aesthetic visual arts, picturesque, whether it is the quiet fantasy forest in "Avatar" or the empty space journey, in fact, action movies in the violence and blood can also have, success lies in the details.