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Stallone escaped from 14 prisons into escape experts, and Schwarzenegger strong together deduce "escape"!

The charm of prison break movies full of thrilliness and suspense lies in the test of not only exceptional wisdom and courage but also patience and waiting

By Yan Guo LuanPublished about a year ago 10 min read
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The charm of prison break movies full of thrilliness and suspense lies in the test of not only extraordinary wisdom and courage but also patience and waiting. It takes time, patience and hard to get tools to carry out a prison break plan to succeed, and it is not easy to escape from a high-security prison. Prisoners need to make friends and trust each other to survive even if any mistake can end their lives. The thrill of the escape is self-evident, and the thrilling thrill and oppression is often not confined to the protagonists of the film, but also to the viewers across the screen, who feel the adrenaline rush flushed and the heart jump.

Since the "Shawshank Redemption," with its inspirational chicken soup flavor, was hailed as a masterpiece by movie fans, there has been a flood of stories about the bizarre and varied experiences of prison escapes. Wentworth Miller's "Prison break" has made millions of men, women and children familiar with the face they never get tired of seeing, and Leonardo dicaprio, the dream hero of Titanic, has also made the topic of "whether Teddy is crazy or not" controversial to this day because of "Shutter Island". With a rating of 7.6 on Douban, the "escape" continues the usual style of Hollywood blockbusters, with more than just a tight paced plot, no urina-free action and shoot-outs.

Stallone and Schwarzenegger, as the first two stars in the past, have long enjoyed an insurrectable status in the hearts of many action fans, and their past films have long been regarded as classics of action movies. In the 1980s classic game "Contra", the two muscle-bound protagonists were based on Stallone in "First Blood" and Schwarzenegger in "The Dragon Boat". And many action movie fans have been looking forward to seeing these two tough guys work together. Despite all the posters and lines used to mock each other in '90s movies, the two also appear together in "Expendables," which is more like a Stallone-driven hero scene than even the iconic scene where the two men march side by side.

The biggest attraction of this unprecedented "escape" to meet the above requirements is no doubt that Stallone and Schwarzenegger two heroes together in prison fighting stunt, Swedish director Mikael Haverstrom's second feature, School Rules, directed at the age of 44, was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language Film and three awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival for Best Film, Best actor and best cinematography. It is worth paying tribute to the creative team of the film. While assembling the two heroes of Contra, they also cleverly restored the eight underwater levels that do not exist in the legitimate tape through the setting of the escape process. After the highly intelligent escape strategy, it is more timely to add the violent breakthrough that the heroic character is still vigorous and the action is still vigorous.

Of course, the most important thing about having two absolute Kings in a story is not only the uniqueness of the story, but the balance between the two characters and the weight of the whole play. The film opens with Ray Breslin, played by Sylvester Stallone, successfully planning his escape from a high-security prison, not as an actual prisoner but as an escape expert who tests whether the prison's security system can seamlessly trap prisoners, A security company commissioned by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to test the safety of prisons around the country. Having conquered 14 prisons in the past eight years, he was about to retire to a mysterious international detention centre to verify the security of the facility.

It is worth mentioning that Stallone is not the first time to escape from prison and more coincidentally, the last breakout film "Raging Tiger and Fury" is also a double act, he wrote and acted in the "Rocky", "First Blood" and other film series laid the status of Hollywood action superstar, has won the 49th Academy Award and the 34th Golden Globe Award for best actor and best screenplay nominations. And with a strong body and resolute expression to become the audience's hero idol. In addition to his reputation as a tough guy, Stallone was a soccer star and abstract painter, had one-man shows at various art fairs, including the Russian Museum and Art Basel, and tried his hand at comedy in his early years, but it didn't work out well and his career went downhill.

If Mr. Stallone, in addition to his still-fiery fists, overpowers the audience with his highly calculated intelligence and a homemade instrument to measure latitude and wind direction, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays the prisoner Emil, wins with a sense of humor that packs a punch. This man has gone from fitness legend to mainstream Hollywood star with no special acting training, and is considered perfect for action thrillers with his massive body and steely muscles. Most of the action hero images are hard and resolute to make the enemy scared. The truly famous masterpiece is not "Terminator 2", but the movie that uses wit to defeat the alien killer "Predator".

Jim Caviezel, who played Hobbs, a ruthless prison officer, is no less legendary than Schwarzenegger, who returned to the big screen after a successful run for governor of California. He broke his ankle playing basketball and gave up his dream of being a basketball player to pursue a career in film. His role in the Nicolas Cage film "Island of Escape" was not well received until he was cast by Jennifer Lopez as Angel Eyes, a sensitive, charming and mysterious man. In MEL Gibson's religious drama "The Passion of the Christ", he made a great career out of Jesus Christ, and this film's performance as a villain is no ambiguity.

The narrative structure of the film is quite clever, neither introducing Stallone's true identity nor explaining exactly what he is up to. Instead, the film opens with a thrilling escape that pushes the audience to find out more about the plot. The original Stallone played the leading actor Ray is a safety management expert who makes a living by escaping from prison. Every successful escape represents the existence of loopholes in the prison and the need to provide repair suggestions to the warden to ensure that the prison is unbreakable. After escaping, Stallone told the puzzled warden that the conditions for escape were to understand the layout and daily rules of the prison as well as the inside and outside of the prison. For example, he found that the brig was a weak spot and the guards smoked cigarettes every 30 seconds. Finally, he broke the code by using wax pieces in milk cartons.

What kind of person takes pleasure in making a living out of prison custody and sees it as a challenge? Ray's career didn't begin as a prison security specialist but as a result of a sad past. He used to be a lawyer prosecutor sent a lot of criminals to prison and have a happy family of three, but the criminals held a grudge against him vowed to revenge and even succeeded in taking away his beloved wife, so that Stallone changed from then on to ensure that the criminals sent to prison can not escape the magic. This time, the CIA commissioned the challenge of the international detention center, where the prisoners are highly skilled and talented in some ways, but the operation was out of control and even out of touch with the combat team, so that they could not understand the specific location of the prison and its surroundings.

Hassle to escape when found deep in the sea died in the dark prison, trying to give up the task clear identity and a withdrawal application was ruthless prison director Hobbes completely ignored even more violence torture to him. Then ray gradually understand that the task is a trap, partner for money at all cost to put him in prison to kill, do not escape as soon as possible the end of either the warden and guards abuse to death or be beaten to injury by the criminals, but isolated he met the prisoner Emir played by Schwacingge and had to find the escape of life. However, the wardens and jailers had all kinds of weapons and tricks, such as being forced to water, heat and light.

Perhaps the cleft of the male master is that he always knows what the opponent needs, so that he takes out the place of the gangster as an exchange to get a few days of freedom, but according to the longitude and latitude sextant shows that there is almost no outsider who can help escape. So he managed to gain the doctor's trust by sending an email to the outside world and sending it to Hobbis by tapping it alerting him to the possibility of a riot in Block C so that all the guards could be removed, but the prison's defenses were far from simple and even all the ways out were cut off. Fortunately, Stallone in a hurry decided to use plan B and Schwaxing soldiers divided two ways to spread out the escape plan, hiding in the cover of devout believers in the tank was as a blockage discharge hull eventually rescued.

At the end of the film, the revelation of Schwarzinger's true identity is quite a bit like "not knowing the truth, only being in the mountain", and this arrangement also undoubtedly highlights the tension and mystery, it turns out that the so-called CIA client is actually the daughter of the prisoner Schwarzinger, and Stallone is lured into prison in order to get him to rescue his father, a mob boss. The film is different from other films in the genre that focus on blood and violence but instead emphasize brain-burning logic, plus the fact that the two men are in their late 20s and can no longer sell meat like they did in their prime. Stallone reportedly received 70 stitches for a hamstring injury in his right foot during the fight scene, so it's not too much to expect that the limited fighting is basically their limit.

Of course, some movie fans say that as a high-IQ film, the danger of "escape" is too small. However, considering the layout of the prison with the idea of spatial structure, using the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction to leave the confinement box, using the sextant to measure the dimension, and other scientific elements undoubtedly increase the wisdom and even the unprecedented innovation of the action film. It's also a good thing to take into account the modest use of technology and the simple planning and transparent plot. After all, male hormones are the main selling point, and it's not fair to use complex brain-burning standards as a yardstick, so it's not too disappointing to accept the above two premises and even call it a classic of the Prison Break series.

The unique insertion of religious elements such as the Bible and Allah that were left behind during the prison break also enhanced the film's level. For the prisoners living in the prison of extreme fear, human rights have long been empty words on paper. Only relying on faith to get inner comfort is the way to get inner peace and the last defense line of life. In other words, this so-called "prison" exists in the heart of all of us and is a mystery from which we can never escape. Therefore, the depiction of the prison mainly highlights despair with grey decoration layout and black guard clothes and other cool colors, which cleverly expresses the prisoners' feeling of depression when they live in glass grids. The red coat worn at the end when they successfully escape from prison and board the plane symbolizes the hope of surviving death.

The film ascribe the origin of evil to the persecution caused by the struggle for power and money, which is a relatively old-fashioned plot line of action films, that is, the hero is stigmatized and framed, but he can still maintain the glory of humanity in his predicament and finally get assistance and rescue. In fact, we are not unfamiliar with the "giant prison cruise ship" that seems to be distanced from life. For example, aren't we imprisoned in highly refined prisons while struggling in mediocre daily life? When I follow the protagonist to experience the thrill of evading the chase and blowing up the "tomb of the living" of the prisoners, when the jailer, as an absolute symbol of evil, is shot to death by machine gun, there is basically no grief of death, but applause instead.

The two gods of war joke with each other to embark on a new journey, and Ray also to continue the unfinished business in the puzzle of life and the fate of the fight to the end of the end of the film no doubt foreshadowed the sequel. I believe many fans know that "Escape Escape 2" which has been finished in North America is a Sino-US co-production and the lead actor Huang Xiaoming is oh, the sequel also has the return of the series soul Sylvester Stallone and the powerful "destroyer" Dave Batista joined the Guardians of the Galaxy. Unlike Jet Li and Wu Jinggui, Zhang Jin not only often drops dog food with his wife CAI Shaofen, who is once again popular in the mainland through "Legend of Zhen Huan", but also compets with Hollywood tough men in "Escape from the Throne 3", which is expected to be released next year. When asked if he can beat Stallone, Zhang says, "My concubine can't do it." There's reason to believe that two sequels can still do well at the box office without Schwarzinger...

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Yan Guo Luan

I like movies, music, science fiction and art. I am a certified graphic designer and create my own art. Things that inspire me include equality, respect and anything weird.

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