Outlaw grossed $180 million worldwide. The Chinese market grossed $3.85 million. Cost $0.44 billion. Genre: Plot, Action, Suspense, Thriller. Director: Andrew Davis. Producer country: United States. It was released in 1993.
The film is the first American film in China to be distributed in the form of box office sharing with foreign investors, and was screened for a week in 6 cities including Shanghai and Zhengzhou, breaking the box office records of Shanghai, Chongqing, Tianjin and Zhengzhou, with a total box office of 3.85 million US dollars. At that time, the average ticket price of Chinese films was about 6 yuan, but the highest ticket price of "Outlaw" sold for 15 yuan. Since then, Hollywood import blockbusters have fired their first shots in the Chinese mainland market.
The structure of the film is somewhat similar to "The Shawshank Redemption", at the beginning of the film, his wife is killed, he is unjustly imprisoned, and then he begins to escape or pursue the murderer. The difference between the two is that one is a prison and the other is a pursuit.
The male protagonist is Harrison Ford, one of the most famous actors in the United States, "Star Wars", "Blade Runner", "Air Force One", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" are all works he starred in.
Using flashbacks, it is a good idea to break the complicated narrative into small fragments and put them into multiple flashbacks of the male protagonist to avoid the boring narrative.
The male protagonist escapes from the prison car, which is the difficulty of the plot. Designed to cause the prisoners in the same car to escape and cause the car to overturn, the prison guards open the handcuffs to let the male owner save people, so that the male owner can get the opportunity to escape. At the same time, it also shows the precious quality of the male protagonist who gave up running away to save people, and won the sympathy of the audience.
The film features a number of blockbuster scenes: a train crashing into a prison car, a helicopter chase, aerial photography, and a thrilling jump from a reservoir spill. It's commonplace today, but it was certainly shocking in 1993.
The police met the man who shaved and changed his clothes in the corridor of the hospital and asked if he had seen the suspect. The male protagonist deliberately replied: Isn't that just me? Shaved. When the man was about to leave, the police called out to him again. The man asked what was wrong? The policeman pointed to his lower part—it turned out that he had forgotten to pull the zipper. Such small details are terrifying and vivid. When the male protagonist left the hospital, he met the prison guard who was injured in the wrecked prison car and was sent back to the hospital on a stretcher, and the prison guard was about to speak (identify the male protagonist), and was held on his mouth by the male protagonist with an oxygen mask. Very nice point to look at.
The film does not only unfold the story from the perspective of the male protagonist, but also unfolds in parallel from the perspective of the sheriff, making the film more three-dimensional and vivid.
The charm of the film is not only limited to the scenes of hunting, fighting, detection and so on, but more importantly, it introduces the medical professional field, involving prosthetics, hearts, medicine and other professional knowledge, which undoubtedly increases the thickness and authenticity of the film.
The downside is that the music is slightly rudimentary. The picture quality is poor. Because compared with the same year's "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994), it is known that the picture and music are much worse.
The only regret of the film is that the ending part is slightly flat. But the whole film is too wonderful to hide. If the ending is a little more intense, and then there are some reversals, it's even more perfect.
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