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Chapter 21 Refreshing

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"ah……"

The elevator fell rapidly, and the female passenger screamed in horror. Perhaps it was stimulated by the continuous flashing scenes. A young woman's scream even sounded in the theater.

Sitting with his mother in another cinema in Los Angeles, Duke was very calm. He cut off many transitional plots of the film. For example, after killing at the beginning, the film directly switched to a group of people walking into the elevator while chatting and laughing.

Yes, rhythm, what he wants is a continuous and fast pace, so that the audience never has the opportunity to completely relax, and several transitional plots have also been mentioned in one stroke.

There is also Jack's sedan's exaggerated appearance, with a distinct Hollywood style from the 1980s. Duke did not hesitate to change it to a sedan that swung its tail after it rushed forward.

The next plot of the film is to save people, find bombers, shoot Harry, the first large-scale explosion, etc., there is nothing surprising. It is simply a scene that Hollywood has used badly. The only difference is that these scenes take place in an extremely confined space in the elevator. The narrow environment and urgent time bring the audience an urgent sense of oppression!

Just on the other side of Mrs. Leah, starting from the elevator sliding down, a female audience member's hand was pressed on her chest, and her quick breathing also showed her nervous mood at the moment.

Nervous, breathless...

This is the biggest feeling that the beginning of the film brought to Kunitz. In the past twenty minutes, he fully recognized Jones's absolute wonderful evaluation of the film. The opening scene of these twenty minutes alone is enough to be worth the ticket price of $5.

"boom……"

The explosion that wished to blow up the entire building was simply the best ending of the opening scene of the film.

“Hu…hu…”

The companions around them breathed quickly one after another, as if they had forgotten their breathing nervously during those twenty minutes, especially the middle-aged audience in their thirties in front of them, who took off their coats and the thick breathing sounded like a bull from Texas.

After taking several deep breaths in a row, Johnson's chest gradually calmed down. As a movie fan with more than ten years of watching movies, this was the most exciting opening scene he had ever seen after entering the 1990s. Apart from "Terminator 2", he had seen it!

In terms of excitement alone, this beginning is indeed not as good as "Terminator 2", but when it comes to thrilling, it is definitely not under the masterpiece of James Cameron.

The picture gradually entered a transitional plot. The mayor of Los Angeles was awarding Jack and Harry. Johnson's nervous mood recovered a little, and his expression gradually relaxed. He took the Coke placed next to him and prepared to take a few sips. According to the general situation, the video will definitely enter a relatively dull buffer period in the next period of time.

However, before Johnson could deliver the straw to his mouth, the picture suddenly changed. The bomber was sitting in front of the TV and applauded the male protagonist Jack. The camera switched several times between him and Jack, telling him in the most easy-to-understand lens language that there would be a good show between the two people in the next place!

"He shouldn't be stupid enough to go straight to Jack's fight, right?"

Looking at the obviously old and weak bomber, the only female companion asked Jones, "If this is the plot next, it would be too cliché and there is no difference from those action movies that show off muscles. Although Keanu Reeves...well, very handsome, but he doesn't have muscles to sell, right?"

"This is not a traditional action movie!" Jones replied casually, signaling his female companion to watch the screen, "Look, the showdown is about to begin!"

Although the voices sounded behind him, it could not affect Johnson at all. When he saw the bomber, his nerves became tense again. The plot of the movie changed rapidly again. Jack walked out of the coffee shop on vacation and said hello to a middle-aged man skillfully, watching him walk onto the bus and drive into the distance, then...

It was an explosion that could only be described as earth-shaking. The firelight spread throughout the screen. The camera surged out from inside to outside with the explosion, creating the illusion that an explosion occurred in front of people's eyes. After the flying bus ceiling smashed a car into scrap iron, the window glass splashed in all directions against the firelight, presenting an alternative glass explosion.

Although the people in the car must have been blown away, Johnson still heard a sound of admiration coming from nearby.

"The explosion scenes shot by this director are so exciting."

"He seems to have special experience in this regard."

"How did the whole explosion take place from the inside out?"

The rapid breath sounded again, and Johnson realized that he had opened his mouth wide at some point and felt a layer of sweat on his body. This was simply an explosion that surpassed the nuclear explosion scene in "Terminator 2"!

The plot of the movie is very fast, and the rhythm is like Jack driving down the wheels. A tourist bus is installed by a bomber. The bomb will start as long as the speed exceeds fifty miles per hour, and then the speed is less than fifty miles per hour and someone will explode when he gets off the bus. The bomber is forcing Jack, who destroys his first action, to join this game of speed and life.

Later, the film also explained the bomber's purpose of such a crazy purpose - he was originally a bomb disposal expert at other state police departments. After being injured and forced to leave his job, he was unable to get his pension and wanted to extort pension money in this way.

Seeing this, Johnson suddenly felt a little sympathy for the old man. This was not a natural bad guy, but because of some real helplessness, he embarked on the road of madness. This was not a completely stereotyped villain in other action movies. He seemed extremely real in the confrontation with Jack later.

He was taciturn and looked like an ordinary retired old man, but occasionally he showed a fierce look, it was very terrifying and seemed quite rational, but as long as he went against his will, his evil inner being would burst out immediately! Especially in the close-ups that were explained several times by the camera, he always had a madness, and it was not the madness that was revealed outside.

In Johnson's eyes, the bomber is even more realistic than Jack who always has a tight face.

By the way, I remember that the screenwriter and director are the same person on the subtitles that I vaguely pay attention to, and the villain he sets is simply excellent.

"Everyone's misfortune comes from the federal government?"

In another theater, Mrs. Leah whispered to Duke, and Duke shrugged, "The Washington authorities will always be the best blame target in Hollywood movies."

In the movie, under the premise of political correctness, you can smear the federal government as much as possible. It is the federal government’s fault if the unemployed people are unfortunate! There are too many homeless people, which is the federal government’s fault! Bombs cannot get pensions, which is also the federal government’s fault!

At this moment, a slight complaint came from the few black people sitting in front of them, "It's the white people who save the world again!"

Indeed, the bus driver was a black man at the beginning, but soon became a white heroine due to injury. Jack, as the savior, was naturally a white police officer, and among the passengers behind, there were a large number of Asian, Latino, African and other minorities.

Duke paid great attention to this when shooting. Although the transitional plot was shortened and many large scenes were shot using models, there was a Naomi Watts in the rear compartment who made a so-called "compromi Watts" because of compromise, but the distribution of the saviors and the saviors has not changed.

The distribution of passengers in the bus can be said to be a microcosm of North American society.

“Wow, cool!”

There was another burst of amazement in the theater, followed by a warm applause. Mrs. Leah couldn't remember how many times it was. Although there were not many viewers, she was often cheering for the movie and cheering for the people who made the film!

A hint of pride gradually appeared on her calm face, which was the pride that belonged to a mother alone!

Now, she gradually believed that Duke would become her greatest pride!

"The director is Duke Rosenberg!"

Next to Dunn, Jones's voice suddenly rang out, and he was reminding his companions, "This young guy is an excellent director! Guys, his explosion is unparalleled. Even if there is no plot suitable for the explosion, he can still find alternative explosions!"

In a shot just now, the bus hit a cart loading with water. The water splashes floating all over the sky were as wild as the Caribbean Sea under a hurricane. It was like an explosion filled with water as explosives!

The rolling wheels always hover at a little over the 50s. Because the various crashes and chaos created by the buses stimulated the nerves of Jones and others. They cheered and applauded, and even ignored the popcorn shower on the ground. They only had this video in their eyes!

Only "Speed ​​of Life and Death"!

"The Speed ​​of Life and Death" did not disappoint them. The tense and exciting plot was linked together, and the speed and rhythm of soaring make people breathless. The life and death decisions must be made in high-speed movement. Isn't it exciting enough?

"This is definitely a rare top action movie!"

As a veteran movie fan, even though the film is far from over, Johnson made a conclusion in his mind that the positive and negative factions of the film rarely have direct confrontation scenes, and it is completely a battle of wits and courage through a bus. This is an alternative action film and a strange action film. The rhythm and scenes that can make people feel excited seem to have no end. They were placed on the big screen with the most glamorous, most beautiful, exciting and fastest shots.

The film has flaws. If you look for loopholes in the plot, Johnson can even easily find a few things, but the film's rhythm and pictures that are so shocking and exciting that they are gorgeous and colorful, are enough to cover up the flaws that young directors have in storytelling.

This is how Johnson really thinks of the film.
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