Competitive movies have always had a place in the market.
From the early "Forrest Gump" to "One Ball fame" to 2020's "Win the Championship" and other films, movies about competitive dreams have been outdated.
There is such a movie, which makes robots a competitive object, replacing live-action fighting with machine intelligence, which has a sense of science fiction under the creation of special effects, but its film core does not lose its bloody essence.
It's the movie starring "Uncle Wolf" Hugh Jackman:
Ironclad Steel Fist
Released in 2011, Iron Fist is a science fiction film produced by DreamWorks and released by Disney, directed by Sean Levy, who previously directed "Museum Wonder Night," and Spielberg as executive producer.
"Uncle Wolf" Hugh Jackman starred in the film, and his partner father and son played by child star Dakota Goyo, who was selected by the director among hundreds of auditions and eventually worked with "Uncle Wolf".
The lead actress is "Wasp Woman" Evangeline Lily, who has a kiss scene with Hugh Jackman in the film.
Russian beauty Oga Fonda is the villain in the film.
The storyline of this film is relatively simple, mainly telling the story of the former boxer played by Hugh Jackman who controls robot fighting to achieve boxing dreams.
The story is set in the future (the film is set in 2020), when live-action boxing has been replaced by robot fighting, and the former second boxer in the world, Charlie (Hugh Jackman), has become impoverished and survives by controlling robots to play games.
One day, two lawyers approach Charlie and inform him of the death of his ex-girlfriend, who needs to take custody of his 11-year-old son Max (Dakota Goyo), and Charlie, who has just lost the game, gives up custody without thinking, and in exchange for 100,000 yuan from max's ex-girlfriend sister who wants to raise Max.
The other party agreed to Charlie's request, but hoped that Charlie would temporarily take care of Max for 2 months, so the father and son who had not seen each other for a long time finally met after many years, but Max was very dissatisfied with Charlie's abandonment of custody, and there was a gap between father and son when they first met.
Charlie used the 100,000 pieces obtained from selling custody to buy the robot, but due to the good bet personality, Charlie directly increased the challenge of the boxing gym full strength robot, and finally his new robot debut was the final battle, was completely blown up by the opponent, and Charlie's money was also adrift.
By chance, Max and Charlie find a discarded robot in the abandoned factory, and despite Charlie's objections, Max pulls the robot back to the residence.
This abandoned robot is just a sparring robot, capable of carrying but extremely weak in actual combat, but despite this, Max still uses the robot's mapping function to train the robot by hand and name it Adam.
Unexpectedly, under Max's tutelage, Adam magically wins an amateur game, which impresses Charlie with Max, and he joins the ranks of "teaching" Adam's boxing moves.
With the concerted efforts of father and son, Adam made a name for himself in the amateur arena, and Charlie and his son gradually moved towards understanding.
Later, Lancôcôva (Oga Fonda), the controller of the "world's first robot", offers 200,000 yuan to demote Adam to zeus's sparring partner, but Max refuses and openly challenges Zeus after a professional boxing match.
Charlie, who has a deep affection for Max, knows that he cannot give his son a better life, and at one point decides to send him back early. However, persuaded by his girlfriend (Evangeline Lily), Charlie decides to recover Max, and the father and son work together to usher in an endgame battle with Zeus.
In the battle with Zeus, due to the disparity in strength, Ya was unilaterally hanged in the current period, and after Adam's voice system was broken, Charlie decided to control Adam in a mapping mode, controlling the robot by hand to fight, and between one move and one style, there was a shadow of his former self.
Unlike Avatar, which puts motion capture performances into the virtual world, Iron Fist is a real world after the action capture. Although from the perception of a group of robots fighting, but from the feeling of fighting, this almost original restores the feeling of real people fighting.
Third, realistic background sound + hardcore rap! The sound bonus is quite good
In addition to the creation of visual effects, this film has also made great efforts in sound effects.
The director team has done a great job in detailing the sound effects, the mechanical collision under the robot confrontation brings people a very distinct auditory impact, a sound of machine collision produces a cracking sound and excellent special effects scenes, which is not the standard of popcorn movies?
The background music adds a lot to the film, "Iron Fist" invited the well-known rapper Eminem, and Eminem contributed two hardcore rap songs in the film - "Till I Collapse" and "Fastlane".
When Charlie's father and son lead Adam to win consecutive games, the prelude to the song Fastlane (fast lane) sounds, and the rapid drum beat is accompanied by Amu's wild and indiscriminate fast mouth, with the protagonist's state of mind of continuous battle, how can the audiovisual feeling be a cool word?
It is worth mentioning that this super high-burn point Fastlane is also the theme song of NBA2K12, and game fans will certainly not be unfamiliar with this song.
The warm core under the cloak of science fiction films
In addition to the presentation of the special effects scene, this film is also commendable for its inner expression. The director also said in an interview that the science fiction scene is the secondary content of this film, and he prefers to express the core of the thing.
Judging from the content of the film, "Iron Fist" can be regarded as a family film, as well as a sports competition film and an American main theme movie.
First, the feeling of family films: the warmth of father and son
The film is mainly based on robot wars, but the warm father-son scenes between Charlie and Max are not much.
Hugh Jackman plays Charlie, who starts out as an incompetent father, who can't remember the age of his children and even wants to sell custody for robots, which makes the father and son estranged from the beginning.
But under the relationship, due to the nature of flesh and blood affection, the father and son finally understood each other. The father gradually understands the responsibility that should be fulfilled as a father, and the child understands the other party after feeling the transformation of the father, after all, blood is thicker than water, and the reconciliation plot between the father and the son has become a warm scene in the whole film.
The warmest scene of the film appears near the end, Max with tears begging his father not to let him go, and Charlie loves the child deeply and is worried about the child, under this back and forth, I don't know how many people cry?
Second, the sense of sports competition: the spirit of a sportsman who never gives up
In essence, "Iron Fist" is a boxing movie, which is naturally marked with the values of competitive sports: never give up.
In the film, Charlie is a real boxer eliminated by the machine age, the robot Adam is thrown away as a waste, Max is once shirked from custody by his father after the death of his mother, and all three of them have essentially feeling abandoned, but through the arena, they also release their emotions.
Competitive sports have always had the concept of "under the gram", American sports have such a term as "Underdog (lower dog)", Charlie They are undoubtedly abandoned by the times, but they through the attitude of not giving up, even if they face the strongest king Zeus, they still show their attitude like David challenged Goliath, trying to play the following gram.
Although the protagonist group finally lost to Zeus in the plot, it can be seen from the cheers of the audience that winning and losing is still secondary, and the most real competitive spirit is the most touching!
Third, the sense of the main theme of the United States: hard work, blood, the American dream
"Iron Fist" is also an American main theme film in the standard sense, and the presentation of the dream theme is very distinct.
By definition, the American Dream is the realization of the ideal after people continue to work diligently and give themselves self-recognition. This value also runs through the characters in many American movies, and the concept of the American Dream in this play is concentrated on Charlie.
In the film, Charlie has never given up on letting the fighting robot play, which is also a reflection of his old boxing dreams, even though he is poor and even depends on his girlfriend to support, he still insists on his dream, and finally succeeds in his heart.
In a battle with Zeus, the robot Adam was beaten to a broken voice, and in a critical situation, Charlie "taught" fighting skills with mapping techniques, realized his boxing dream through Adam's body, found himself confident and used the most primitive human power to defeat the invincible intelligent machine, and defeated the opponent in the next step of the hot sound effect bonus, which can be described as a complete American dream.
This also tells us from another perspective that dreams always have to be had, in case they are realized.
"Iron Fist" is a typical American popcorn movie, cool sci-fi effects plus warm core are its two main selling points, 2-hour movie experience not only brings the audience the simplest audiovisual impact, but also can touch a certain heart string of the audience in the depths of the soul.
Although there are voices criticizing the story of "Iron Fist" for being too old-fashioned, and the unfolding of the plot is easy to guess, but you know what?
In the editor's view, after all, it is flawed, the director is quite sincere in the production of special effects, the emotion is just right, with the actors' hard work, "Iron Fist" still has a high score of 8.2 points.
The sequel to "Iron Fist" is already in preparation, the schedule has not yet been determined, and the director revealed that the sequel will continue to cut from Max's point of view, and will still be projected on the presentation of family warmth.
So the question is, when the time comes, are you willing to go to the cinema to follow "Uncle Wolf" and this gang of ironclad steel fists to pursue dreams and find warmth?
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