Taboo (2017)
At the moment when domestic theaters and serials are full of small fresh meat, the public's aesthetics of men have tended to be feminine, melancholy or handsome. The box office appeal of a small fresh meat has become more important than the plot, actor acting skills, and shooting methods of a movie itself. This is the sadness of the current domestic film and television market.
Now, for the audience with severe aesthetic fatigue of the small fresh meat and dog blood plot, BBC has issued benefits to everyone at the beginning of this year.
Today to introduce this year's male hormone explosion of the British drama "taboo", the drama by BBC one and fx co-production, BBC TV series and documentaries have always had high quality guarantees, this year's blockbuster is naturally no exception, Douban score 8.5 points.
The show is over, but not many people have watched it
The show's creators are also very engaging, and the screenplay is co-authored by Tom Hardy and his father Chapshardy. Teacher Tang must be no stranger to everyone, when he first met Teacher Tang, he was still the gentleman-like dream actor in the dream space. (The gentlemanly feeling is probably because Teacher Tang did not take off his clothes, by mistake ~)
Feel the temptation of Teacher Tang when you were young
Then there's Bane, who wasn't recognized at all in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (people don't show up, they already feel the acting skills), and Max, who is super man in voice and personality in "Mad Max: Fury Road" (Mr. Tang's voice is really very manly).
Wearing a mask tells me how to recognize it!
Probably the mask is addictive
Then last year, he assisted Little Plum to take the little gold man, the villain in the film "The Revenant". This film is really the peak of Teacher Tang's acting skills, people are for The Little Plum to get the award to see, but I think in this film, Teacher Tang's acting performance can cover the Little Plum (but the Little Plum is taking his life in the filming This is really incomparable).
Teacher Tang: My eyes are full of drama!
Let's feel the flesh in this "Forbidden" introduced by Teacher Tang today.
What is this for!!! And the King's Law!!! And the law!!!
Other starring actors are also surprisingly good, including the Cannabis Sparrow in "Game of Thrones" and sir Stuart, the governor of the East India Company. (Spoiler: The Way to Die is exactly the same as in Game of Thrones!) Ona Chaplin, who died in the final tragic death of His wife in "Game of Thrones", played the protagonist's half-sister. In Sherlock, Sherlock's brother Mark Gatis plays the king.
The tone of this film has always been presented to the audience in a dark and taboo tone, so audiences who are accustomed to watching American dramas will be a little uncomfortable, but this is exactly the theme that the film critics want to express.
The protagonist of this film is very interesting, because his personal background and behavior are definitely a "big villain" in other scenes. The protagonist, James Delaney, was first an accomplice to the slave trade by the East India Company, and was later rescued in Africa after the slave ship sank, where he learned old forbidden witchcraft and did many unimaginable things according to his own account.
The evil of the male protagonist lies in his cruel violence against enemies and traitors, incest with his sister and has illegitimate children, the use of forbidden sorcery (supernatural powers, the ability to predict certain things, and various indescribable abilities), collusion with the Us empire, the private refining of gunpowder, and the fear in his eyes and actions.
But he will vigorously protect those on the same front as him, and he will pay his debts: protect his father's last lover under his own roof, help his sister the butcher to finish, protect her mother from England because of Wendy's death, serve him as long as there is no sacrifice or betrayal in his final escape plan, and leave the last of the family to the most loyal butler, and the last black lawyer is no exception to justice for African slaves in his plan.
Such a two-sided role, and with the power of a single person in the royal family, the East India Company and the Us Empire in the middle of the three sides, this role is really no more than Teacher Tang.
The costumes and sets in this film are also very elaborate, and have a sense of age. The story is set in London in 1814, which coincided with the early days of American independence, and the relationship between Britain and the United States was constantly in conflict, and the two sides even went to war again in 1812. The protagonist has the humble Nootka Bay, which is a strategic place that both Britain and the United States are competing for, and the machine trade value. The tripartite game between the royal family, the East India Company and the United States against Nootka Bay gives the plot a very obvious sense of substitution.
British Royal Family
The film also has no shortage of depictions of the religions of the time, such as the protagonist's African witchcraft, which was very taboo in the context of mainstream Catholicism in Europe at that time. The protagonist's mother, also a foreign pagan, was bought by the protagonist's father, and later, the protagonist's father put his mother under house arrest as a spiritual person, which indirectly led to her death, which also confirmed that the society at that time could not tolerate paganism. In the film, the protagonist's brother-in-law invites a priest to exorcise evil spirits for his sister Zelfa, which can also be seen that the priest at that time was not a good kind.
Ironically, the complex social context at the time was surprisingly rule of law, so much so that the protagonist James made a will in The Gulf of Nutka that was automatically classified in the United States of America after his death, and neither the royal family nor the East India Company dared to risk James's life. And the black lawyers who wanted to do justice for the 280 slaves in the shipwreck, using the support of the royal family and their own complaints, could also make the East India Company dare not act rashly.
The play is also interspersed with many scenes such as duels between gentlemen, forbidden rituals, undercover American spies, male prostitutes and erotic places, and avid chemical scientists making gunpowder. I have to say that the setting of the era and the background of the characters is quite rich.
The main thread that runs through the show is that the protagonist maneuvers among several factions and completes his plan through the ownership of Nootka Bay. The dark line is actually that the protagonist served for the East India Company ten years ago, and eventually 280 lives sank with the ship, and only the protagonist survived.
Ten years later, when the protagonist returns to London and steps into the land, his family has changed beyond recognition. The father dies, the sister marries, and various forces secretly compete for the father's Angry Carter Bay. So the protagonist began to recruit soldiers, using all the resources he could use, such as hooligans and prostitutes, to establish his own advantage little by little, and what shocked everyone was not an African freak, but an extremely difficult enemy.
The narrative structure of this show is to lay the groundwork for characters and stories in the early stage in a relatively slow and hot way, and gradually enter the climax, and then usher in a big explosion in the last episode. This kind of narrative will make the audience who has just watched a few episodes feel that the preparation is too long, and the relationships and story are particularly slow to move forward.
But if you can stick to the last episode, you can only describe the show in one cool word, especially for male audiences. When all of Mr. Tang's plans were successful, he finally lowered the British flag on the ship and replaced it with the American flag, and said: "We are Americans". All I can say is:
this. he. meow. target. just. be. man. person. see. target. electricity. look. drama!!!