Chatty Hollywood

From the arrival of X-Dragon in Hollywood to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The Matrix", Chinese kung fu, which is very beautiful to fight, has caused a trend in Hollywood.

And this does not include Bruce Lee (Bruce Lee), who has long been known to Americans.

However, like other cultural elements introduced by Hollywood, the kung fu fad only lasted a while.

The kung fu fad quickly receded after local Hollywood action directors mastered the required parts.

After all, what movies want is only external performance, and in many cases it is enough to grasp a few superficial aspects.

Besides, Hollywood is indeed good at learning.

Later, DreamWorks even launched "Kung Fu Panda", a Kung Fu animated movie that was full of Chinese style except for its spiritual core.

This left many Chinese filmmakers and animation practitioners speechless.

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Of course, at this time in 1999, Hollywood had only a rudimentary grasp of the fighting styles in Chinese kung fu movies.

However, by this time the Kung Fu trend had already arisen.

Against this background, the lightsaber combat in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" seems very low-level and fake.

This naturally led to a further decline in people's evaluation of the film.

In fact, compared to Charlotte's detached mentality, who is more thinking about which hotel to go to after watching the movie, some real Star Wars fans are more serious in their complaints.

——For example, Emily's high school math teacher, Andrew Sparks.

As a member of the S-Party who even fills in his religious belief as "The Force", it is naturally impossible for Andrew to miss "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace".

This time, he originally planned to line up in front of the cinema early so that he could watch the first show.

To this end, he even prepared a tent for waiting in line.

However, because of the call of his girlfriend Diana, he had to reluctantly give up.

——The result is that he can only watch the regular screening of "The Phantom Menace".

This was enough to make him depressed.

What's even more irritating is that this new movie in the "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 keep up with the old version of "The Empire Strikes Back"!"

Andrew muttered and complained,

“Without Irvin Kershner, would George Lucas’ ability to grasp the story of the movie be that much worse?”

Although as a loyal Star Wars fan, Andrew has always worshiped George Lucas as God.

But he also knows that "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" can become a classic. In addition to the sentence "I am your daddy!", George Lucas's teacher Irvin Kershner also played an important role.

——It was his direction that raised the level of "The Empire Strikes Back".

However, due to conflicts with George Lucas' concepts, Irwin Kershner had already been squeezed out when the third part of the "Star Wars" series, "Return of the Jedi", was being filmed.

Coupled with conflicts with the Directors Guild, George Lucas had to hire a young director from the UK, Richard Marquand, to be a puppet vest to shoot the third "Return of the Jedi"...

The accumulation of these factors ultimately made "Return of the Jedi" the worst-received part of the "Star Wars" trilogy.

Many fans have also vaguely realized that George Lucas's directing ability as a director may not be as strong as they imagined.

And now, "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace," directed by Lucas himself, seems to prove this.

"No wonder among the four major Hollywood directors of the past 80 years, only Lucas has no claim to win an Oscar!"

A rather disrespectful thought about his idol came to Andrew's mind.

However, this is also true——

Among the four major Hollywood directors in the 1980s, Francis Coppola and Steven Spielberg have both won the Oscar for Best Director.

Although Martin Scorsese has a bad relationship with the statuette, the saying that Oscar owes Martin Scorsese a statuette has become a joke, and someone will say it almost every time.

——Just like Woody Allen, who comes to the Oscars from time to time to brush up his presence.

But no one ever said that Oscar owed George Lucas a statuette.

In fact, if Andrew is a time traveler like Charlotte, he will know that when Martin Scorsese finally won the Oscar for Best Director for "The Departed" adapted from "The Departed" . George Lucas even shamed himself for it.

This is not because he became the only one among the four major Hollywood directors in the 1980s who did not win an Oscar.

——To be honest, judging from Lucas’ past behavior, he doesn’t care about this statuette as much as Martin Scorsese does.

He would make a fool of himself simply because the organizers of the Oscars at the time invited three other members of the Four Great Directors of the 1980s, including him, to present the award to Martin Lao.

As a result, Francis Coppola tricked Lucas as soon as he opened his mouth——

"You know, everyone on this stage has won the best director..."

Faced with this kind of line, George Lucas had no choice but to admit honestly,

"NO, I have not."

——This is embarrassing!

Although to a greater extent, this is a joke written in advance by the writers of the Oscar organizers, but Lucas does not mind it at all...

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In short, because of his dissatisfaction with "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", Andrew downgraded George Lucas by one notch in his own mind.

——No longer God, but still an angel.

——If not Gabriel, then Michael. Although Andrew feels that Lucas’ villain BOSS style is more like Lucifer…

In his heart, he despised his idol a little while continuing to watch the movie attentively.

However, this did not prevent him from sending the blade to Lucas' Skywalker Farm after reading it.

Andrew also temporarily gave up on the second brush he originally planned.

"Unless Diana comes with me to see it!"

...In short, the mentality of die-hard "Star Wars" fans is very contradictory.

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As a not-so-hard-core Star Wars fan, but not too far behind, Charlize's mentality collapsed after watching "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace."

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 "Star Wars" peripherals that were on sale in movie theaters.

——In addition to the new double-headed red lightsaber of Darth Maul, Charlize also bought the strange tiara of Queen Amidala, the mother of Luke Skywalker in the future story. And I bought a Darth Vader helmet for Charlotte.

Charlotte originally refused this kind of religious gift.

But after Charlize told him he could play special games with this helmet...

He accepted.

Moreover, he was inspired by this and finally thought of a way to safely solve the killer shadow in Charlize's subconscious...

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