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Chapter 38
After waiting on the side of the road for nearly 10 minutes, Gemma hired a taxi to start her journey home.Leaning against the car window, Gemma was in a daze. Obviously, her mind was still on the movie "The Departed" which had just finished its trial screening. The film lasted nearly three hours, but until the end of the screening, Gemma I'm sure she wasn't the only one who thought "how could it be so fast?" because it's such a wonderful movie that it doesn't make you sit on pins and needles or keep watching you A timepiece that only affords you the luxury of even the chance to wander off and draw your undivided attention into the story.
Gemma recalls the two scenes that stood out to her the most in the whole movie, one is the confrontation between Nicholson and Alex - Frank has reached the end of the road due to Colin's betrayal, and he may have been arrested by the police long ago. He realized something during the siege, so he dragged his tired body after being shot, but dialed Colin's number heavily, until the monotonous ringing echoed in the warehouse, accompanied by a burst of getting closer, Like clear footsteps on people's hearts—
At that time, Gemma had a premonition that the next confrontation between Nicholson and Alex would be very exciting, but Gemma was still a little worried. As we all know, Nicholson is a very good actor, and the immature When the real Alex is playing against him, will he be suppressed by this old drama player, so that he will be at a disadvantage, causing the picture to become unbalanced, and even ruining this originally wonderful scene?
However, Gemma watched, and when the next scene switched, Colin's figure appeared in front of Frank the moment he turned around, and Gemma couldn't help but breathe heavily, because this is really an extremely exhilarating adrenaline rush. lens.
In the movie, Nicholson fell to the ground and was in a mess, but despite this, Nicholson's performance made people feel that Frank, the leader of the underground organization, did not think he had come to an end, nor was he trying hard The aura of a strong person emanating from the inside out, but in the face of these, Alex made Colin look like a young and strong lion coveting the next leader of the lion group, he Knowing that the previous leader was already very old, so he came aggressively, and his steps were extremely firm.
In this confrontation, Nicholson portrayed Frank perfectly. Every little action of his can capture the essence of Frank and make the film critics sigh. However, I have to admit that even so, everyone's The eyes are still attracted by Alex, and his interpretation of Colin is even more fascinating.
Gemma noticed Alex's emotional performance towards Colin in this scene. When Colin approached the former step by step with the mobile phone called by Frank, he was happy and happy. Because everything that Frank suffered at this moment, his failures, all originated from Colin, and Colin finally seemed to remove the oppression and shadow brought by the powerful Frank in the past.
And when he pointed a gun at Frank to end the former's life, Alex made Colin weak and cowardly, and everything he did was like a kid who couldn't wait to prove himself in front of his father. In fact, he didn’t want to kill Frank. After all, this gang leader occupied his entire childhood and became his leader. Colin still remembers the graduation gift given to him by Frank, who has always been cruel but not warm, on the day of his graduation. And like a father to him, I'm proud of you.
The trembling of Colin holding the gun exposed his inner struggle. Just like the metaphorical protagonist in the novel written by his girlfriend, his personality began to split, and his heart was in torment. The feeling he revealed gave movie viewers a sense of suffocation from drowning.Until, Colin gradually regained his composure from an expression similar to madness, the director inserts a picture of the opening scene here, Frank is talking to the child who seems to be heavy even when he lifts the gun, and now, it is Colin Lin remembers that quote to this day: "People always say, you can be a cop or you can be a criminal—but when you're dealing with a loaded gun, what difference does it make? "
After a gunshot, the sense of suffocation gradually dissipated, but followed by a kind of refreshment that made the whole body tremble. Yes, this is the feeling that Colin played by Alex brings to people.
What impressed Gemma deeply in the second act was the rivalry scene between Alex and Leonardo. Frank was shot and killed by Colin, and the underground organization he built fell apart. Naturally, Billy's undercover identity also fell apart. Seeing the light of day again, he came to the police station and waited silently at Colin's desk.
When the two met, they just smiled at each other with tired greetings. Colin raised his eyes to Billy: "How long have you been an undercover agent?"
And Billy also said at this moment: "I just want to restore my identity—"
The voices of the two overlapped, and then fell silent at the same time.
It was Billy who spoke first. He answered Colin's question as if he was talking about the bad weather outside the window: "In the beginning, I only said three years, but who knows, three years later, three years later..." Billy He smiled self-deprecatingly, but his smile made people feel the bitterness of tears, "Three years later and three years later."
Colin averted his gaze, he seemed a little dazed, but his habits for many years were enough for him to cover up, he said again: "So you just want to restore your identity? However, I can call up your file and even give you a commendation ..."
"No, I just want to be an ordinary person." Billy spoke quickly, with some impatience, and then he calmed down, "Sorry...but you haven't been an undercover agent, you don't understand."
Colin's lips trembled slightly, as if he wanted to say something, there was a strong desire driving him at this moment, but before Billy's gaze came over, Colin hung up on him again. With the mask of disguise for many years, he seems to have another self standing behind him watching all this calmly, watching him smile and say: "Okay, I will help you."
Gemma knows that this is a remake of a movie that bought the copyright from China, and she is also very interested in the meaning of "Infernal Affairs" in this movie, so Gemma consulted the explanation about "Infernal Affairs" beforehand, It refers to the most of the eight hells, called the endless hell, which means suffering without interruption.But this scene is the most profound interpretation of this theme.
Just before Gemma was about to start her film review, she still couldn't help but find out the "The Duchess" starring Alex that surprised everyone. Alex's first appearance made him dizzy, but this intoxicating scene is actually more due to the director's control of the screen, which magnifies Alex's delicate and beautiful facial features .
But it is different in "The Departed" this time. Martin Scorsese has always had a down-to-earth style, and Alex deliberately shaped himself into a rough image to fit the theme, but Ji But Ma still remembers the way Alex walked through the long office, the way his unbuttoned suit opened back as he strode forward, and Gemma also felt for Alex. But this kind of charm is not only because of his appearance, but the temperament that he endows the character with personal emotions, mature, full of male hormones, with a heavy mission Sensational temperament——
And just after this small test screening, "The Departed Walker" held another test screening that was more oriented towards the audience. A few film critics also commented on "The Departed" on their columns and blogs.
And these comments make it very difficult to get tickets for the premiere of "The Departed Walker", even if it is only a pre-sale, it has reached a crazy number.
Gavin of "Entertainment Weekly" gave a very high evaluation: "This is a successful film with the characteristics and style of Martin Scorsese, we can shout excitedly, Martin Scorsese is finally back! His superb ability to control the police and gangster genre has been fully demonstrated, and it is completely comparable to "The Godfather", which is the most must-see movie of the year."
And David Manning also published his film review on the "New York Times", he said: "Martin Scorsese has reached the level of Shakespeare's tragedy, and Jack Nicholson is worthy of his title of actor. The ability to do things with ease brings people a different enjoyment, and the undercover policeman in the gangster is Leonardo. He fully understands the intention of the role and the director. The surprise is Colin, this is a relatively introverted and deep character, he doesn't have too many iconic outbursts, the whole movie is more about showing his forbearance, but Alex makes this Everything is particularly tense, he can clearly let the audience feel everything about him, depression, pain, struggle, he brought Colin a new life, everyone once again underestimated Alex's acting skills, he It's just perfect here—"
In the first week of October, "The Departed Walker", which has already whetted everyone's appetite, was finally released. However, when everyone learned about the box office of "The Departed Walker" in the first week, some people felt incredible again.
The weekend box office of 2700 million made "The Departed" go directly to the top of the rankings, and the reason why this figure makes people feel terrible is that although the film critics and audiences gave it high praise, but because Warner had already negotiated with the theater in advance, In order to please the line dealers, they adopted on-demand screening, which was neither released nationwide, but only pre-screened in individual cities, because there are only about [-] theaters that have opened.
Of course, after seeing the excellent results in the first week, Warner was overjoyed, and the theater immediately came to talk about it with a new contract, but this time it was the turn of Warner's distribution department to start arguing With this attitude, he no longer has to think about selling "The Departed Walker" hard, but it's the turn of those theaters to come and compete, and he will definitely get a higher price.
Therefore, this has led to a curve of zero decline in the box office of "The Departed Walker" after increasing the number of games.And so far, Rotten Tomatoes is still [-]% fresh. "The Departed" is like a hurricane blowing in Hollywood, making it the center of heated discussions, and the creators who made it all naturally It has also been mentioned repeatedly by the media.
"Chicago Report" even claimed that "The Departed" is a big hit for this year's Oscars, and the exquisite acting skills of every actor in it have the strength to compete for the Olympics...