Chapter 525
From x-Dragon login to Hollywood, to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The Matrix", Chinese Kung Fu, which played very beautifully, once caused a gust of storm in Hollywood.
And this does not include Bruce Lee (Bruce Lee), who has long been well known to Americans.
However, just like other cultural elements introduced by Hollywood, the kung fu craze has only been around for a while.
After the local Hollywood action guides mastered the required parts, the kung fu tide quickly subsided.
After all, all movies need is external expression, and often it’s enough to master some of the skin.
What's more, Hollywood is indeed good at learning.
Later, DreamWorks even launched Kung Fu animated movies like "Kung Fu Panda", which is apart from the spiritual core, is full of Chinese style in all parts.
This left many Chinese filmmakers and animation practitioners speechless.
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Of course, at this time of 1999, Hollywood had a very superficial understanding of the fighting methods in Chinese Kung Fu movies.
However, at this time, the kung fu tide has already emerged.
Against the backdrop, the lightsaber fighting in "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghost's Threat" seems very low-level and fake.
This naturally further reduced people's evaluation of this movie.
In fact, compared to Charlotte's detached mentality, people who are more considering which hotel to go to after watching the movie, some real Star Wars fans have more serious complaints.
Such as Emily's math teacher in high school, Andrew Spark.
As a party member who even fills in religious beliefs with the "Force", Andrew naturally cannot miss "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghost Threat".
This time, he was going to line up in front of the cinema early so that he could see the first game.
For this, he even prepared the tents he had waiting in line.
However, because of his girlfriend Diana's call, he had to give up.
The result is that he can only watch "The Threat of the Ghost" in the ordinary scene.
This was already enough to make him depressed.
What's even more annoying is that this new movie "Star Wars" series that he has been looking forward to for more than ten years is not as good as he imagined.
"Although the special effects have improved, in other aspects, they cannot catch up with the old version of "Imperial Strikes Against"!"
Andrew muttered,
"Did George Lucas have so much less grasp of the movie story without Irving Kshner?"
Although as a loyal Star Wars fan, Andrew has always worshipped George Lucas as God.
But he also knew that "Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back" could become a classic, and in addition to the sentence "I am your dad!", George Lucas's teacher Irving Kshner also made an indelible contribution.
It was his directing that raised the level of "The Empire Strikes Against".
However, due to contradiction with George Lucas's philosophy, Irving Kshner was already squeezed out when the third "Return of the Jedi" series was filmed.
Coupled with the conflict with the directors' union, George Lucas had to invite a young director Richard Marcond from the UK to be a puppet vest to film the third "Return of the Jedi"...
These factors accumulate together, and eventually make "Return of the Jedi" the worst-known one in the main trilogy of "Star Wars".
Many fans also vaguely realized that George Lucas's directing ability as a director may not be as powerful as they imagined.
Now, this "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghost Threat" directed by Lucas himself seems to prove this.
"No wonder among the four major directors in Hollywood in the past eighty years, only Lucas has no call for Oscars!"
Andrew's mind was filled with a trace of disrespect for his idol.
However, this is also a fact
Among the four major directors in Hollywood in the 1980s, Francis Coppola and Steven Spielberg have won the Oscar for Best Director.
Although Martin Scorsese has a bad relationship with Xiao Jinren, the statement that Oscar owes Old Martin a Xiao Jinren has become a joke, and people say it almost every time.
Just like Woody Allen, who comes to Oscars from time to time to show his presence.
But no one ever said that Oscar owed George Lucas a little golden man.
In fact, if Andrew was a time traveler like Charlotte, he would know that when Martin Scorsese finally won the Oscar for Best Director for "The Walker" adapted from "Infernal Affairs" and George Lucas also made a fool of himself.
This is not because he became the only one of the four major directors in Hollywood in the 1980s who had never won an Oscar.
To be honest, judging from Lucas's previous behavior, he didn't care about this little golden man as much as Martin Scorsese.
He would make a fool of himself because the organizer of the Oscar at that time invited three other members of the four major directors in the 1980s, including him, to present awards to Old Martin.
As a result, as soon as Francis Coppola opened his mouth, he cheated Lucas
"You know, everyone on this stage has won the best director..."
Faced with such lines, George Lucas had to honestly admit it.
"No, I don't."
This is embarrassing!
Although to a greater extent, this is a joke written by the Oscar organizers in advance, Lucas doesn't mind at all...
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In short, because of his dissatisfaction with "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghost Threat", Andrew lowered George Lucas' level by one level in his mind.
It's no longer God, but it should still be an angel.
Even if it wasn't Gabriel, it was Michael. Although Andrew felt that Lucas's villain boss style was more like Lucifer...
While he was despising his idol in his heart, he continued to watch the movie attentively.
However, this did not prevent him from sending blades to Lucas' Skywalker Farm after reading it.
Andrew gave up the second brush he had originally prepared for the time being.
"Unless Diana comes with me!"
...Anyway, the mentality of the loyal fans of "Star Wars" is very contradictory.
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As a Star Wars fan who is not that bad but not too bad, Charlize also had a mentality collapse after watching this "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghost Threat".
She also talked about the shortcomings of the movie in front of Charlotte for a long time.
However, this did not stop her from buying the popular Star Wars peripherals in the cinema.
In addition to the newly emerged Darth Moore's double-headed red lightsaber, Charlize also bought the strange crown of Queen Amidala, the mother of Luke Skywalker in the future, and bought a helmet of the black warrior Darth Vader for Charlotte.
Charlotte originally refused such gifts as a believer, Buchan.
But after Charlize told him that he could play a special osplay game with this helmet...
He accepted it.
Moreover, he was inspired by this and finally came up with a way to safely solve the shadow of the killer in Charlize's subconscious mind...
Chapter completed!