Text/Ma Qingyun
On the afternoon of August 27, the online movie "Agent Carnival" was launched on the legitimate video platform. This sassy female agent movie starring Xu Dongdong was highly anticipated by the fan group before it was released. Xu Dongdong is known as the queen of the online movie box office, and the online movie works she starred in are all surging and the commercial film attributes are clear. And this "Secret Agent Carnival", obviously, is also a favor for this aesthetic expectation of movie fans.
Let's start with the inadequacies of Agent Wild Flowers. The most likely problem of this kind of film works that focus on the aesthetics of female violence is that the fight is very lively, and the heroines are also very eye-catching, but the final theme of the film is not deep enough and valuable enough. For the "Agent Crazy Flower" starring Xu Dongdong, the screenwriter obviously understands the theme of the film very well. Therefore, this film uses the story of female agents to destroy the human organ trafficking group, so that the whole fight has justice and the value of the times.
Of course, the main contradiction of the film is a good starting point, but in the specific bridge expression, both the screenwriter and the director are very clear that this plot trunk of their own is only used as a façade, and the real content cannot be developed around this. Therefore, in the specific bridge expression, the sublimation part of the film of the criminal gang that destroyed human organs is obviously insufficient. Let's use a negative evaluation, this is called hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat. However, from a fair point of view, this kind of commercial film practice is actually beyond reproach.
Based on this level, we can certainly say that "Agent Crazy Flower" is a bad film, because its film theme is not sublimated clearly, and it does not make the audience feel jealous and hateful. However, for commercial films, it may not take more into account the artistic and social value attributes of the work, but more take care of the film's viewing attributes. These viewing attributes include whether the elements of commercial films are clear, whether the narrative rhythm is fast, whether the picture beauty is enough to shock fans, and so on. From these perspectives, the commercial attributes of Agent Crazy Flower are very high.
For this film, the creators obviously understand exactly what the commercial elements that appear as commercial films are. It is a female violent beauty. Use the beauties to form violent battles and become a real positive force to deal a devastating blow to the evil team. And this kind of blow, including cool hand-to-hand combat and cool gun battles and so on. The elements of the aesthetics of female violence have long been used by Hollywood's Black Widow and Wonder Woman. This time, our sister-in-law Xu Dongdong also played with ease.
In the film, Xu Dongdong led his female combat team and contributed a large number of heroic and cool fighting scenes. And this group of beautiful women, themselves have a visual impact. Let them join a battle mode, it is easy to capture the aesthetic emotions of some fans. Specific to the actor's performance, Xu Dongdong really found his own suitable role this time, and his tough and cold style made Xu Dongdong look different in "Agent Crazy Flower".
We must focus on Xu Dongdong. This is one of the few muscular beauties among the popular actresses in China. Many of our young female celebrities, with small arms and legs, use their guns and ammunition to always make people feel that they can't move at all. And when facing the martial arts scene, this kind of small arms and legs, so it is possible to directly knock down the big man. This is a falsehood. On the contrary, Xu Dongdong's tiger-backed bear waist model is convincing, and there is a kind of healthy beauty of Chinese women. In the film, the drama of Xu Dongdong's leg battle, especially the action scene of the hanging scissors leg, the state of the fierce, is indeed different.
Xu Dongdong can become the box office champion goddess of online movies, more like an interesting cultural phenomenon. In the past, female stars were weak and windy. Only Xu Dongdong finally gave the Chinese people a sense of the beauty of a robust and full meal. This kind of healthy beauty is actually an important female beauty content in many of our previous movies, but in recent years, I don't know why, I like this kind of small arms and legs that are not enough to eat. In the online film market, Xu Dongdong has played the jianshuo beauty to the extreme while maintaining female beauty. This time, "Agent Crazy Flower" is to upgrade the concept of Jianshuo, which is a very interesting work.
And this kind of film that focuses on the aesthetics of female violence, the problem that is easy to appear is that there are beautiful women, there is violence, and the narrative rhythm is forgotten. On the other hand, "Agent Crazy Flower", in terms of rhythm, is still relatively good. The film is indeed firmly rooted in the soil of commercial films, and the dramas that can promote the sense of rhythm are one after another, and none of the literary dramas affect the rhythmic expression of martial arts.
It can be said that the attitude of this film is very clear, and the audience likes what it wants, it is what it performs. The play is tough and fierce, and the sense of picture is about to come out. Of course, we can criticize this film for using part of the content as a gimmick to attract the audience. But the use of these commercial elements seems to be the original sin inherent in commercial films. Wang Jing, a famous bad film director, is even better at this. However, this "Secret Agent Carnival" was not created by director Wang Jing, but directed by director Zeng Li. For this movie, it can only be described as rotten and good-looking.