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Let movie fans around the world see the hard "truth" behind the surface brilliance of middle-aged men, there is nothing wrong with it.
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Text | Wen Hua
Chinese mainland premiere, at 11:00 a.m. on weekdays, the audience in the giant curtain hall was dominated by middle-aged men with gray hair. The ending of this episode 007 is a bit tragic, I will not spoil, but the middle-aged man next to him cried out.
It should have foreseen this reaction, and the film had already prepared a preventive injection, allowing Bond to repeat a sentence in it: 007 is just a symbol. Yes, it's just a symbol, but the middle-aged audience who grew up watching 007 grow up and grow old still can't stop being sad for the hero Twilight.
Anyway, the Bond in front of you is a bit strange. The former playboy 007, not only has a heart to belong, but also has children, bent on living a happy life of a good man at home, leaving the world with a big love back. In short, this 007 is very different from 007.
When I was a child, I watched 007 and always felt that he was not only dashing, but also "invincible". Over the years, the details are ever-changing, the routines are consistent, and 007 will always be the "big hero" of men, the "good lover" of women, and the legends and fairy tales shared by the audience.
But fairy tales are only fairy tales after all. The first 007 movie was born in 1962, and by all accounts, the dude is now nearly 60 years old. Fragrant car beauty plus global travel, gentleman dress and superman hand, unspimbled vodka martinis, all go.
Now his problem is not just that he is old and old. Men do not obey the old, but can not but face their own "mid-life crisis". It's like an old leader in the office, who loves to tell his young subordinates about his glorious past, but the sadness in his words can no longer hide his inability. This era no longer belongs to him.
Since the first "Casino Royale" starring Daniel Craig, 007, which was the perfect tool for action movies, has been injected with more elements of humanity, and the original 007, which came out of nowhere, gradually has its own personal history and inner secrets. He was born into an aristocracy, his parents died early, and a mysterious past has yet to be revealed. "Ghost Party" and "No Time to Die" repeatedly render the impact of the Internet and artificial intelligence on real agents, so that 007, a lone hero who saves the world in the flesh, repeatedly faces challenges.
Isn't this a living occupational crisis? Yes, middle-aged men have experience and experience, but you have to admit that the energy is not as good as before. The back wave has been filmed, you are 007, and the legend cannot be eaten as a meal. As a result, middle-aged men are still running around in the workplace, desperately supporting decency, but inside, they are already vulnerable.
Once upon a time, Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan were only responsible for saving the world in the movies and flirting with beautiful women by the way. Show all the straight male charm, there is not much realistic trouble.
But now Bond is losing his lover and falling into a love network. In short, the old man really doesn't have that much charm. 007, who has always been free and haunted, gazed at his wife with affection in the cabin, made breakfast for his daughter, and jumped out of this warm family drama scene in a crisis, which really surprised the old movie fans.
A youth no longer has a lot of 007, alas, is not a true portrayal of a middle-aged man. No wonder the reticent big brother next door reacted so strongly.
Dating back to the time before Ian Fleming became famous, Graham Green, a famous militant, had long used the form of spy novels to portray the ordinary people of secret agents, and launched a series of spy images that were either weak or clumsy, unable to fight and had no face.
He told us: "Conventional violence (with the exception of James Bond) is not a feature of British agents ... Men go to the office every day to earn their pensions, come from backgrounds much like any other profession (whether bank clerks or business managers), routinely and without danger, and more importantly for each character is a private life. ”
Green said James Bond was an exception, and most British agents were nothing more than dragging their families to their pensions. As a result, Bond is no different from them now. This shows that middle-aged men all over the world have the same destination.
Hearing this, the middle-aged men, are they all sad and angry to greet the director and screenwriter: We just want to have a romantic heroic dream, is this all wrong?
Not really. When Daniel Craig first started acting in 007, he was disliked by many fans. Now that he has stepped down, it has caused a wave of nostalgia and reluctance. The reason for this is because he played a character who used to look very distant, flesh and blood, which made people feel empathy.
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with letting movie fans around the world see the hard "truth" behind the surface glamorousness of middle-aged men. What kind of 007 will we see later? Will there be a female 007? If so, I hope she's not another "strong woman" who shouts and kills, that's too stereotypical.
Imagine a top female agent, middle-aged, who wants to save the world and fight the most dangerous enemies, while taking care of her husband and children who have not seen each other for a long time, and saving the emotional crisis. Doesn't it sound quite emotional?
Editor| Shen Bin
Typography | Gan Qiongfang
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