Naran Dreams/Text
In the fifth or sixth year of primary school, the most obsessed Jiangsu sports channel Jinbo hosted the "Wonders of Sports". This was the highest-rated daily program in Jiangsu at that time, and often broadcast extreme sports that were rare in China at that time. Whether it's skateboarding, rock climbing downhill or other wind-pulling sports, there is no doubt that there is an indescribable huge attraction for young people. Unexpectedly, many years later, Naran actually saw a movie in the cinema that made people adrenaline soar with extreme sports themes again - "Extreme Thief".
The story is about a once-avid extreme sports enthusiast Utah who blamed himself for losing his friends in the challenge, and it was difficult to get out of his inner shadow, turning to join the discipline force FBI to restrain himself. The first case he came into contact with was sneaking into a team of extreme sports elites who committed crimes and challenges the "Ozaki Eight" in a way that exceeded the imagination of ordinary people, looking for motives and evidence for their actions. In the process of interacting with this group of fanatical extreme sports elites, the once restless and fearless heart in Utah began to heat up again, and he embarked on the road of pursuing Ozaki Eight with the Ibodis. But in the process of pursuit, although Utah has found the most simple and primitive happiness in the past when carrying out extreme challenges, he has also fallen into an uneasiness about Bodi's paranoid ideas, and irreconcilable contradictions have also erupted.
The film's success lies in the construction of the concept of "Ozaki Eight", which does not exist in reality but covers almost all of the most thrilling events in the extreme challenge: downhill skiing, freehand rock climbing, wingsuit flying, and so on. The tribute to the forces of nature represented by the "Ozaki Eight Items" is precisely the original spirit advocated by extreme sports itself: the pursuit of human beings in the process of integration with nature, with the help of modern high-tech means, to maximize their physical and mental potential and challenge themselves. In addition to the spirit of pursuing competitive sports beyond the "higher, faster and stronger" of their own physiological limits, it also emphasizes the spirit of participation, entertainment and bravery, and pursues the sense of pleasure and achievement obtained when crossing psychological barriers, at the same time, it also reflects the good wishes of human beings to return to their true nature, return to nature and protect the environment. Therefore, there are also many places in the film that run through the spirit of "reverence for nature and giving back to nature", which can be described as true understanding and respect.
In order to ensure the visual effects, the crew used live action rather than CG special effects for many scenes, because it also used what may be the most Hollywood stunt doubles ever, some of which were the top extreme athletes on the planet, including Jeb Corliss, who was hailed as "the world's greatest athlete in the wingsuit", the legendary surfers John Hamilton and Sebastian Zietz, and professional skateboarder Bob Burnquist。 The 200 km/h wingsuit flight that appears in the film scenes is formed to form an array, crossing the canyon of Wallenstadt, Switzerland, climbing the world's largest drop waterfall of 979 meters without any security measures, The Angel Falls in Venezuela, challenging the 70-foot wave on the Great White Shark Outer Barrier Reef in Maui, Hawaii, and challenging extreme skiing in the Italian Alps are all real-life shooting. In order to shoot these live scenes, the crew filmed in 10 regions around the world, including Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Tahiti, and the shooting lasted for three years. The breathtaking beauty of the film's many beautiful natural scenery is almost an exquisite National Geographic scenery blockbuster. Pursuing integration with nature in such a beautiful scenery is really a beautiful thing that you yearn for.
Although overall, "Extreme Thief" lacks the necessary fluency and logic in the plot story narrative, the emotional changes of the characters are also slightly abrupt. But as a extreme theme film, it has taken the details of the professional field to the extreme. That alone is enough to make people pay for it.