Chapter 479： He is a hero

The battle scene in the first 20 minutes is a standard commercial film technique. It can even be said to have been used in Hollywood epic movies. The purpose of this is very clear, to attract the audience to continue watching, and most of the audience is staring at the screen. From the perspective of both eyes, the expected effect has been fully achieved.

What is the most critical factor for a movie to sell well? Reflection, artistry, or profound themes? This is certainly not the case. Big-selling movies have the same key factors and can provide enough entertainment for the audience.

No surprises, as all the audience expected, the well-equipped and well-organized regular army wiped out the Germanic mob.

This war scene, which had little actual connection with the plot, came to an end with the cheers of "Long Live Rome" led by Maximus played by Ryan.

The film enters the conspiracy stage. Commodus personally kills his father and seizes the throne, Quintas rebels against the Legion, and the new emperor seeks to execute Maximus...

The tense plot caused the audience's tense emotions. Gene held Luya's hand tightly, but rarely spoke. As a veteran who has been watching movies for many years, he knows how to make strange admirations or sounds of wonder. What an annoying behavior around people.

As a movie theater audience, what do you hate the most?

If you ask the audience about this question, you must have seen a super bad movie. If you ask the second person, there must be people around you constantly making noises, which affect your emotions.

Gene still remembers "Screaming and Screaming", in which there was a female audience who kept making noise to disturb the tranquility in the theater, and the other audience who was irritated were dismembered. In fact, they mocked some people in the theater who could not watch the movie quietly .

In most mainstream theaters in North America, maintaining a quiet viewing state is the most basic courtesy.

In terms of the actor's appeal alone. This movie is undoubtedly too much more than the previous life, not to mention Ryan and Leonardo DiCaprio, who has entered the ranks of superstars after "Mission Impossible", and Jennifer Lopez can also attract many male audiences. , Although the only female character with a little weight. She acted as an out-and-out big vase.

no doubt. Compared to Maximus, he was highly regarded by the old emperor and loved by his subordinates. Commodes is a tragedy.

He wanted to be the great emperor of the Roman Empire, but his heir was not himself. How noble and upright Maximus is, how sinister and despicable he is.

But he is also a poor man. He is also a very real person, or reflects the other side of people-selfishness! Ambition! **!

It's just that he is more extreme and perverted.

And what about Maximus? His series of tragedies may not be caused by his own character.

However, it is this kind of personality that can show the dramatic conflict between the characters and highlight the charm of the protagonist.

Maximus' leadership style and man's sense of responsibility. The love for your family is where you can easily impress the audience.

The **** of destiny seems to be teasing this heroic general. He gave up his mission to bring the Roman Empire to the Republic and wanted to return home to reunite with his wife and children. However, he was greeted by the cruel reality-his home was destroyed and his wife and children were killed by soldiers sent by the new emperor.

After burying his family, Maximus's previous wishes and aspirations were all shattered. At this time, what he wanted was not power, status, and the future of Rome. Without courage and honor, I am afraid that he would be more of a desire to die, right?

If you die, you will be a hundred, and you will be able to reunite with your family, and you don't have to worry about the disturbances in this world.

Perhaps some viewers would have such thoughts, but the plot of the movie is tortuous after all. Maximus was rescued and fully explained what fate is about. His true mission has not yet been completed. His greatest wish is after death. Reunited with family-it is impossible to be satisfied.

However, at this time, he lost all the aura he had originally possessed, and was in a situation where it was impossible to complete the task assigned to him by the old emperor, but the gears of fate would not stop turning because of these, and he had to wake up after suffering.

From the commander-in-chief of the Roman Army of the North, to becoming a slave, what kind of change is needed?

Maximus was like a walking dead, as if he had lost all his goals, but lived a numb slave life, and was eventually bought by a gladiator merchant and became a gladiator.

The sword is held in the hand of a gladiator, and life or death depends on oneself to fight, this is the fate of the gladiator!

Slashing, slashing, and killing is undoubtedly Maximus's best skill. He won the arena again and again and became the most popular gladiator in the area. The name "Spaniard" became the king of gladiatorial fights in the region.

The arena of blood and sand, fierce battles, and enthusiastic atmosphere are undoubtedly the best way to attract audiences.

And Ryan used his own performance to show the process of Maximus gradually returning to normal from the confusion to everyone. Although it inevitably has the characteristics of expressionism, in his own opinion, it is more than Russell Crowe in the previous life at least outperformed him.

The decent protagonist will eventually collide with the despicable villain, and no movie can escape this fixed pattern.

After Commodores succeeded to the throne, in order to stabilize the people’s minds, he decided to restart the banned gladiatorial arena. News soon reached this side. Maximus agreed to the gladiatorial merchant’s request. He was going to Rome and standing on the emperor’s side. before.

It's just that he is not for freedom, but for revenge, in order to make the emperor pay the price for his crimes.

Rome, the center of the Roman Empire, its splendor represents the civilized side of the Roman Empire.

The huge arena is majestic, but like a **** slaughterhouse, it is the other side of the barbarism of the Roman Empire.

Although the film used a large number of models and post-production special effects to reproduce the great city of the year, the audience has been baptized by too many special effects and will no longer make exclamations like when the Titanic broke and sank.

In recent years, the rapid development of visual effects has become a commonplace movie technology for ordinary audiences.

Unless a huge breakthrough can be achieved in special effects, it is difficult to count on the existing technology to stun the audience.

Besides, the special effects technology shown in "Gladiator" is definitely not top-notch, nor is it the biggest selling point of the movie.

The life in the city of Rome was presented to the audience, and the emperor Commodes was not easy to do as expected. He had conflicts with the Senate and his sister, and he had to beware of others coveting his position...

The only thing to be happy about is that the lifting of the ban on gladiatorial sports seems to have won him the support of the people. Tens of thousands of people shouting in unison in the arena seem to make him feel satisfied.

In the face of this **** and brutal competitive gladiatorial battle, the sword in his hand is undoubtedly the most reliable partner. After experiencing the long-term shooting of "The Lord of the Rings" and learning specialized gladiatorial swordsmanship, Ryan fully demonstrated a man's strong and brave side, at the same time There is no lack of wisdom. The Maximus he played, just like himself, has been striving and trying again and again, constantly moving towards victory, and shaping his own personality charm!

As a result, he and Comdes stood opposite each other in the arena. After discovering his true identity, Comdes could only take some despicable ways to kill him in the arena due to the pressure of the people. , But he resolved them one by one, but won more support from the people.

However, the **** slaughter and the passionate scene of the crowd made Maximos' understanding of Rome confused. What is his ideal life in the Roman Empire? It's definitely not what it is now!

Seeing these scenes of distorted concepts, watching the blood type fight between people and the madness of death, even the admired Commodores is envied and jealous, but Maximus does not have any sense of glory. More of a roar at this real world.

The Roman Empire needs salvation and needs to move towards a republic.

It seems that this is Maximus’ mission. His former sects have come to his side. The princess and the Senator will appear one by one. Maximus must make a choice to complete the mission that the old emperor gave him, and at the same time complete his own. revenge!

Failure to escape, being arrested, being arrested for rebelling against the alliance, etc., a series of things are just to prove one point, what matters is solved in the arena.

Comdes wants to kill Maximus, more than anyone else wants to kill him, but his reason tells him that he can’t do so with integrity, because Maximus has become a popular hero, once he kills Maximus, who became an out-and-out tyrant in the minds of the people, under the current Roman system, he knew better than anyone what would happen at that time.

As a result, Maximus and Commodores, as well as all the main characters that appeared in the film, inevitably will appear in the magnificent, **** and savage arena when the **** comes.

Since the villain is sinister and despicable, before the arrival of the ***, he will naturally be sinister and despicable, so that the audience can completely hate him, so that the atmosphere that was suppressed when he killed the old emperor can be completely released!

Like all movies, the villain will eventually die in the hands of the protagonist, even if he has exhausted his conspiracy and tricks and used a poison dagger, he will definitely end up betraying his family.

And the hero? The dead hero will be greater and more memorable.

What's more, Maximus' greatest wish is to reunite with his wife and children, and his death may not be a relief.

The revenge is successful, and the film has to show what is most suitable for American values. In order to eliminate dictatorship and tyrants, heroes will do whatever it takes.

"Quintas, whoever let me go, restore the power of the Senate. The Roman Republic is a dream, and it should be realized!"

At the beginning of the film, Quintas, who says ‘people have to admit their fate’, is not the smartest character in the film from a certain point of view.

"Glory him!"

In the magnificent background music, everyone held up Maximus.

"He is a hero!"

This is undoubtedly the most true psychological portrayal of the audience at this moment. ()