In recent years, I believe many people have felt that Hollywood movies are getting worse and worse.
Many of the Hollywood movies in the past were of high quality, but now they are full of various zzzq or fast food non-nutritional films.
One of the reasons is that movies are over-commercial now. The so-called commercialization means that the producers are no longer willing to spend time filming like before, but instead want to use various gimmicks to let the audience enter the theater to get the box office.
The emotional trap that I will talk about this time is a kind of off-the-scenes method that many Hollywood movies have liked to use over the years.
What is a sentiment trap?
is very simple. It is to make a movie series the latest work, so the old actors in the old movies that have achieved great success in the series, and have been separated by ten or even more than ten or twenty years, come back to play in the latest work.
These series often gain popularity through this successful old movie, and invite old actors who have been there for many years to come back, so that fans or viewers who have watched this movie saw that the former protagonist has now become white in hair or beard, sigh that his youth has passed so quickly, and missed his beautiful childhood in the past, so he supported the latest work of the series.
This is the way to add gimmicks outside the play.
Then some children's shoes may ask, doesn't this kind of sentimental tactic look good? Why is it a trap?
The answer is that some Hollywood movies that play emotional cards have focused all their energy on making gimmicks, and the quality of the movie itself is hard to describe.
"Spider-Man: Heroes Return" is a very typical emotional film. The first two versions of Spider-Man actors, Toby Maguire very Andrew Garfield are invited to come back to create a three-version of Spider-Man on the same stage.
The result is that the box office in North America is as high as more than 800 million, which has sunk " Avatar ", and the global box office has reached 1.9 billion US dollars, making it into the top six box office list in film history. From a commercial perspective alone, it can be said to be a great success.
However, most viewers who have watched this film do not have high evaluations. In fact, just talking about the quality of the movie itself, "Heroes No Return" is also below the passing line. The logic of the story is chaotic, and the protagonist's Virgin's behavior creates a lot of trouble. The whole world has to pay for the operation of naughty children. This is very disgusting.
It can be said that the biggest or only highlight of this movie is the return of Toby and Garfield. After all, these two versions of Spider-Man have a great influence. If they were not for them, the consequences would be unimaginable.
In addition to "Heroes No Return", there is a series in Hollywood that also likes to play the emotional card, and it has also played twice.
is talking about the "Jurassic" series.
1993's " Jurassic Park " broke the record in the box office list in the film history and set off a dinosaur craze around the world. Its influence and popularity can be said to be very good.
So, in 2015, I wanted to play this emotional card.
But the difference is that the card of sentiment at that time was not a trap, but a real way to treat sentiment as an auxiliary means.
The movie "World 1" sells feelings that are the Tyrannosaurus Rex in "Park", and the reality is synchronized with the timeline of the movie, which means that the same Tyrannosaurus Rex has become an old lady after 22 years.
But the old lady Tyrannosaurus Rex has not many scenes in the movie. Apart from the middle, it is the end of the film to help the protagonist team play the boss. The story of the whole movie is new and the protagonist, and there are many innovative elements, such as the mixed-blood dinosaur tyrannical dragon, the four velociraptors of the protagonist team, etc. The effect of
is very good. The sentiment is an extra side dish. It does not overestimate the main thing, and the main dish is still the movie itself.
Unfortunately, after the third part of the " Jurassic World " series, probably seeing more and more people playing emotional cards in Hollywood, so they wanted to have another emotional offensive, and even gave up the original idea of "sentiment is supplemented, movies is the main one" and devoted themselves to the army of emotional traps.
Since the first part has brought out the biggest emotional point, Tyrannosaurus Rex, if you still have to develop emotions, you will naturally have to find something else. So "World 3" invited all the actors from the Human Leader Group of "Park 1" back.
Although the feelings of these people are not as powerful as those of Tyrannosaurus Rex, it is still a point, right?
As for the poor old lady Tyrannosaurus Rex, since she no longer has the effect of her feelings, she is used by the producer as a tool dragon.
Since you have no emotional bonus, then you can be the stepping stone for the new dinosaurs.
So, the Tyrannosaurus Rex became a reference for showing how powerful the newly emerged Southern Behemoth Dragon is.
From this we can also see the attitude of the producer.
The first is very commercial. Even Tyrannosaurus Rex will be abandoned immediately once it loses its emotional value, and the remaining little value will be squeezed out.
The second is that the production attitude is quite casual. The characteristic of this operation is that it is simple and does not use brains. The disadvantage is that it is very hateful. This trick appeared in " Jurassic Park 3" back then. It was directly criticized by all viewers at that time. However, the producers thought about playing the emotional card, and everything else was simple and how to do it.
This can also be seen from the final battle. The way the Southern Giant Dragon was knocked down really makes people wonder if it was designed by a primary school student, and it is perfunctory and embarrassing.
So the quality of "World 3" is a bit far worse than "World 1".
In addition, once the emotional trap takes effect, you can indeed make a lot of money. There are also some movies that clearly do not have the conditions to play the emotional card, but they have to force their feelings to take advantage of them.
is about "Terminator: Dark Fate".
" Terminator " series is the most successful one in the second "Judgement Day" directed by Cameron , so there are only two feelings in the series.
The first one is Schwarzenegger as the terminator t800.
The second is Edward Forron who plays the leading role John Connor .
However, since Schwarzenegger has always appeared in the second and later Terminator movies, it does not constitute feelings at all.
As for Edward, because there is too much negative news, he has long disappeared in Hollywood.
Both feelings are gone, what should I do? The producer of
forced a feeling to point it out, so that the actress who played John's mother Sarah would return.
But to be honest, the character Sarah Connor is not the emotional point of the "Terminator" series at all. Of course, the effect will be very poor when pulling her out to play the emotional card.
What's more amazing is that the producer probably knows that this so-called emotional card is very hard to play, so he wants to promote new protagonists in the movie, and directly regards Sarah Connor, who is already an old lady, as a stepping stone.
So the audience saw a ridiculous scene in the film. Grandma Sarah was wearing sunglasses and carrying bazooka , driving a car, and when the protagonist group encountered danger, she appeared domineeringly. Then she got out of the car and shot a few times, but the car was secretly driven away by the protagonist group, leaving the old lady alone in the wind and couldn't help but burst into pieces.
The so-called sentiment point is just this kind of treatment? The consequence of
forcibly wiping his feelings is that this movie failed a lot, and the IP "Terminator" has also entered the hiding period.
So, if you see Hollywood movies like wearing emotional slogans during promotion and invite old actors back in the future, unless you are a die-hard fan of the series, it is better to wait and see and wait for the preliminary evaluation.
Otherwise, it is easy to fall into the emotional trap of the film company.
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