Grimm brothers film review

Any work that is released late is definitely not good. This film proves this truth again.

This film has a very good original intention: to redeem the fundamental value of fairy tales on the basis of subversion. This is very appetizing for adults, because if you "educate" adults with the original cavity of fairy tales, they may feel too naive. Just as pretentious adults look down on wet behind the ears, it is easy to attract adults by doing what they like first and making themselves look ridiculous.

This film often makes fun of the brothers grimm: the original promoters of the so-called fairy tale standard meanings such as innocence, kindness and integrity are just two liars who eat mixed women! They make up some witch gods and then perform a "town demon" drama to make money. This setting is very popular with modern people, not only adults who are unfamiliar with fairy tales, but also teenagers who are in a rebellious period will be interested.

Unfortunately, the director didn't do it thoroughly on this road and was distracted by other feeder lines. He has to take care of brotherhood for a while, add political factors for a while, and take into account magical elements. By the middle of the film, I had completely given up hope. On the contrary, it is very relaxed, and it feels like watching a harmless peep show. Say what you like, comrade director, and I'll watch. The story that lacks the main line and out of control makes the film look like mud in the film. It looks heavy, but you can't find anything after careful fiddling.

There are still two actors who have problems in choosing. It can be said that neither Matt Damon nor Heath Ledger can co-star in such a dirty movie, which makes them even more confused. Somehow, after watching Team USA, Matt was a fool in my mind. Although I know this guy has a high IQ, he still acts like a clown in Brothers Grimm, a clown without any connotation. Coupled with Hu Jiao's obsession with Leger, the whole thing was a farce at the year-end summary meeting of the madhouse. Unfortunately, Monica's sister's enchanting posture is not even a vase-like role in the end.

Such movies are basically a waste of money; This kind of work can basically be regarded as a waste of the talent of Trigilliam who directed Brazil and 12 Monkey. I'd rather watch 1000 times than watch Brothers Grimm again.

Strange-looking alternative fairy tales

Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, such a pair of brothers grimm, look a little weird, but since they are not biographies, they are quite fantastic, so naturally they don't have to be serious. In addition, the classic fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the highlights of the film. For director terry gilliam, who is deeply influenced by Grimm's fairy tales, remaking the classic Grimm brothers' fairy tales is not the purpose, but he is interested in shooting a fairy tale about the Grimm brothers from a brand-new angle as an outsider.

His enthusiasm, excellent script and unique style soon infected the talented Matt Damon. Damon, who is getting better and better, took the film at the risk of conflicting with the schedule of Bourne ultimatum 2. As for the handsome and wild Australian handsome boy Heath Ledger, the most eye-catching thing in the film is not these two handsome boys, but the sexy and beautiful monica bellucci. Although she plays a slightly evil witch-like role, her charm is still moving. Don't expect this film to please conservatives. In addition to the changed personality, the actual situation of the brothers Grimm in the film is not a little bit worse. Although the background is set in the corresponding period of France's invasion of Germany, even the ages of the two brothers have changed.

This movie has many surprises. Except for the classic fairy tale images from Grimm's fairy tales that we are familiar with since childhood, it seems that we have returned to childhood. The story takes place in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. As a famous historical city in Europe, there are countless Gothic or Baroque ancient buildings in the city, which naturally reveals a magical and strange taste. Even terry gilliam, who always attaches importance to visual effects and is very picky, is satisfied!

The brothers grimm were magic wands?

Two brothers, in the turbulent era of France's invasion of Germany, swindled and cheated everywhere. Iron teeth and sophisticated liars who cheat for a living; The other is an unrealistic pure dreamer who really believes in fables, fairy tales and happy endings. They hired people to make trouble everywhere disguised as monsters, and then appeared in a big way to destroy monsters for local residents and collect rewards. The fame of these two "monster hunters" reached the ears of the French king, who immediately called two brothers to the town of Marbaden on the French border to destroy the real monsters. Those who disobeyed orders were guillotined for cheating the king. The unlucky brothers Grimm had to embark on a dangerous journey and start a thrilling ghost-hunting trip.

Awei (Matt Damon) and Ajie (Heath Ledger) are actually diametrically opposed in character and thought. One is an iron-toothed, sophisticated liar who lives by deceiving others; The other is an unrealistic pure dreamer who really believes in fables, fairy tales and happy endings. When they arrived in Marbaden, they fell in love with the same woman, which made the already gloomy plot more complicated.

This time, the performances of the two protagonists have made breakthroughs, and Matt's manners have completely changed. Heath, who often plays the role of a traditional hero, played a neurotic, nervous and introverted role this time.

Behind the scenes:

The Hollywood magic film Brothers Grimm, nominated for this Venice Film Festival, will be released in North America tomorrow. The film named after the German fairy tale master "Brothers Grimm" did not reproduce the fragments of their classic works, but spoofed their stories such as Little Red Riding Hood, Frog Prince and Rapunzel. Director terry gilliam also said, "A little darker is closer to the real world".

Terry gilliam admits that this is not a true story about the Brothers Grimm. "I have been thinking that they have written so many fairy tales, which is far from reality. They are very serious scholars and wrote the first German dictionary. They are also great men, but we still shape them into the most ordinary people around us. " This long-awaited fantasy adventure masterpiece is the latest work of talented director terry gilliam after experiencing fear and disgust in Las Vegas seven years apart. He added wonderful visual effects to the film, created mysterious magical forests and strange monsters, and created a colorful, dark and exciting fantasy world with a retro tone. Matt Damon, a Hollywood A-list movie star, Heath Ledger, a handsome young Australian, and monica bellucci, an Italian glamour actress, play the gorgeous devil. Brothers Grimm was released before going to Venice, so it must have taken the lead.

Spoofing records:

Many scenes in Brothers Grimm come from Grimm's fairy tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, Frog Prince and Rapunzel. The audience who grew up watching Grimm's Fairy Tales can see the "dark version" of these stories this time. In the film, these stories are not cute or beautiful at all.

The frog prince became grandma frog.

The kind girl kissed the frog, and the frog immediately got rid of the witch's curse and returned to the prince's body-this is the plot of the original book. In the film, the frog is the "grandmother" who helps the beauty hunter to show the way. The surface is slippery and greasy and looks disgusting. Every time a beauty hunter asks for directions, she should kiss her hard-oh, it should be "licking".

Rapunzel became a long-haired witch.

The original Rapunzel was cursed by a witch and imprisoned in a heavily guarded jungle. She came across a magic brush and took her to meet a handsome young prince. Being teased by the director of Brothers Grimm, Rapunzel became a "long-haired witch".

It is said that in the German countryside at the beginning of19th century, a beautiful rich girl locked herself in a high tower to avoid catching the plague. By chance, she won eternal life, but her face will still be aging. In order to stay young and beautiful, she cruelly looked for young girls to absorb aura. She is the biggest enemy that the brothers Grimm will conquer. The witch has a magic mirror, which is obviously a copy of the scene in Snow White.

Brother Green has been in my hard disk for a long time. I saw him yesterday. Overall, I feel that this film is very general and my IQ is a little low.

Director and Plot: terry gilliam is a great director. He has made many classic minority films. To tell the truth, I wouldn't have gone to see the film if it wasn't for the director's name. I want to see what he thinks of a boring story. The result didn't surprise me. It felt like shooting with a little director. The plot is simple, gentle, abrupt and unnatural, and some flashbacks are too abrupt. It seems purely to illustrate the plot. For example, the scene where the woman's father was fascinated by the witch's magic flashed without foreshadowing. It's too abrupt and uncomfortable. This film is just a short story. The scene is small and there are few characters, so there is no need to show the director's control. But I still think the director's control is not good. I think terry gilliam is playing with tickets. The box office of the film also reflects the quality of the film. The only highlight of the film is to put some scenes or characters or props from the classic phone into completely different scenes in the film, which feels quite fresh and cordial. Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hans, Gretel and Rapunzel all appeared here. Ha ha.

Actors and Performers: Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are regarded as the first-class stars in Hollywood. The performance of the former is like this, there is no joy, but it is also a place where he is not allowed to play. As for Matt Damon, I have thought about why he is famous, why he has such an ordinary appearance, and I have never seen him play any amazing roles. I don't think it's classic or amazing. Later, I found out that this boy can perform whatever he likes, ordinary, obscene, modern, ancient, chic and injured, and he can complete the task. Mm-hmm, maybe that's why the director likes to use him. Heath Ledger plays a neurotic man here, but his performance is OK because of the role setting. The two protagonists hide the American accent and the Australian accent.

Look at the whole film, that is, 10 thousand warm water, just look.

Brothers grimm: Sleepy Valley murder again.

Cloudy sky, wet back, ancient medieval castles, muddy and simple European villages, mysterious exorcism paintings, cursed dark forests, chilly silver iron axes, panicked rural villagers, bizarre disappearance cases ... gloomy pictures, scary music, everything at the beginning of the film, very tim burton-like "Wake Up Together in Sleepy Valley (1)".

However, Brothers Grimm is obviously darker and scarier than Sleepless Valley. Sleepless Valley is an abnormal stepmother and an unforgettable sleepy Valley. In Brothers Grimm, the cursed black forest is full of evil spirits, including a werewolf who kills trees, eats horses, grabs clay figurines, and a female mummy who keeps her appearance from rotting for 500 years. This time, it was no longer a neurotic agent Joseph Needham who believed in scientific case handling, but two swindlers who played tricks on the villagers and used their superstitions to make money. Under the coercion of the French general, this time they will directly face the mysterious disappearance of these girls and carry out a live-fire exorcism.

Brothers Grimm, under the guise of Grimm's fairy tales, is definitely an independent film noir. Although the events in Grimm's fairy tales are reflected in the film, most of them are just a flash, slightly ridiculous, and not as arrogant as Shrek. This movie has some similarities with other types of horror movies. Except for the landscaping, atmosphere and story structure, which are somewhat similar to Sleepy Hollow, others, such as a large number of beetles crawling all over the sarcophagus, give people the feeling of reappearance of carnivorous insects in the mummy, while the appearance and behavior of the general's servants, on closer inspection, have the feeling that the role of Johnny Depp is not so glorious and slightly neurotic.

The film also produced many novel things: for example, torture devices. There are often torture experts in 007 movies to torture our heroes. There are such professionals in the movies, with novel and unique torture instruments and unique craftsmen. When the brothers grimm played tricks, they ate: silver armor like fish scales; A slender prop resembling an earphone when hearing a ghost. In front of rural people, they can skillfully and implicitly use physical principles such as levers and pulleys to form the original Weiya with ropes, all of which have the characteristics of the emergence of western science and technology in the19th century, and are classical, novel and interesting.

In view of these slightly physical sciences, the computer special effects of movies are also a major attraction. For example, walking trees have branches tangled like octopus; The clay figurine who catches people has the same ability of waist cutting and reorganization as T- 1000. A crawling werewolf has evolved into a standing hunter. There is also the appearance of an old witch who has not rotted for 500 years, like a mirror. Everyone tells people that this is a film shot in 2 1 century.

The Brothers Grimm are played by Matt Damon in Bourne ultimatum and Heath Legg in Brokeback Mountain. I believe that under the guidance of terry gilliam, a director who is famous for his paranoia, his acting skills will make great progress.

Note: ① Sleepy Hollow: tim burton's masterpiece Sleepy Hollow was translated into Sleepy Hollow according to the film content, and its literal translation in English is actually Sleepy Hollow.

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The film Brothers Grimm can't stimulate the imagination (2005-09-0816:12: 20). Terry gilliam's Brothers Grimm is a creative work. But this idea is unorganized, and the whole movie can't find a clue even if the plot goes on. Therefore, watching movies is a bit difficult. If every scene in the movie is used to serve the story, it should still be worth watching. However, this film looks like an experimental work to help the director seek a certain purpose.

In the process of exploration, Csorian started with Grimm's fairy tales. Adapted from Hollywood's Grimm's fairy tales, some disturbing dark elements in the original work are often lost. The modern version of Little Red Riding Hood is not as scary as the original. The wolf in the movie or TV is just a computer synthesis, and the wolf in the book is my own imagination.

Although some characters from Grimm's fairy tales are interspersed, gilliam's Brothers Grimm is not a traditional fairy tale. He portrayed the Brothers Grimm as two charlatans who traveled around Germany and cheated money through tricks. Later, their trick was discovered, and as punishment, they were sent to a horrible forest to perform a task, where children disappeared one by one. It turns out that this forest is indeed enchanted by the evil mirror queen (Monica monica bellucci) who has lived for 500 years. There is also a romantic plot. They had to face the mirror queen's deadly "kiss of death", and Jack Green was tempted ... Because the mirror queen was over 500 years old, I suddenly remembered Mark Twain's first sentence when he saw an ancient Egyptian mummy: "He, is he dead?"

The film Brothers Grimm contains more than that, but it is hard to see clearly. The elements that make up the whole movie look great individually, but the combination is chaotic. One more question: What does Csorian think of the Brothers Grimm? Sometimes they are like romantic heroes, sometimes they are like clowns, sometimes they are like fake wizards, and sometimes they are like real people. Their code of conduct is missing in the film, and they rely on the unpredictable moral quicksand.

Creating rich visual effects on the screen has always been gilliam's specialty. In Brazil, monkey 12, the ultimate angel and his past and future works, his world is always full of rich and psychedelic details. The ghost forest in Grimm's fairy tales is really impressive, but what is its purpose? The darkness and shadows in Sleepy Hollow directed by tim burton create a real sense of terror, while the Woods in Brothers Grimm are more like an idea of the director than a threatening prop. Generally speaking, all the absurd ideas in the film just stay on the screen and can't stimulate our imagination.

Brothers Grimm, a familiar stranger.

I saw a film called Brothers Grimm starring Matt Damon, so I bought it. I like Matt Damon's ex-girlfriend winona ryder, so I like him. Because I always believe that the person I like and the person I like are birds of a feather. In this film, some people can't see what kind of person Matt Damon is, because I can't see what kind of person my favorite Brothers Grimm is. The brothers grimm here are a pair of liars who travel around the world. They are not promiscuous, romantic, compassionate and unconstrained. I don't know what they cheat all day, but they are kind, helpful, free and easy, stop and go, and have a lot of knowledge.

Maybe this is the virtue of the brothers grimm? When I was a child, I liked to read their fairy tales best, which were better than those of Andersen and Wilde. In Andersen's Daughter of the Sea, the poor princess becomes a bubble in the sea for her beloved prince, and Wilde's happy prince sympathizes with suffering and has a sad ending. Think about the stories in Grimm's fairy tales. They have no long space, no human suffering, no unforgettable sacrifice, but they are full of magic. There are always beautiful princesses and princes, wrinkled by witches living in the depths of the forest, who have experienced many tortures that sound absurd. Only-finally, the prince and princess lived happily together-this is the most frequent ending in Grimm's fairy tales, which made me fall asleep heartlessly when I was a child.

Those stories are a bit old-fashioned, but they always make me wonder what kind of beautiful clothes the blonde princess will wear next time, whether she will have glass shoes and what kind of strange magic she will encounter.

The truth is, don't be eager for quick success and instant benefit, judge a book by its cover, because in Prince Frog, an ugly frog kissed by a girl turned into the most handsome and kind prince, which really opened my eyes.

Therefore, perhaps the Brothers Grimm are such a pair of stooges, who, like the film directors, tell us magical stories and simple truths with strong colors and wonderful imagination. It's just that in the movie, the color is a bit depressing and the imagination is a bit scary. Director Terry Csorian is famous for his bizarre style. He attached great importance to the visual effects of movies and wanted to bring people back to the atmosphere of Prague Renaissance, so we saw many Baroque buildings shrouded in gray and yellow light. Of course, there are unfathomable, dense fog, traps everywhere and cursed forests. I'm waiting for the mirror queen to appear, because I want to see what the real version will look like, a mixture of Rapunzel and Snow White's stepmother, the second most beautiful woman in the world. Surprisingly, it was monica bellucci who interpreted this world-famous role. However, I'm afraid she always shows up in less than five minutes. Looks like beauty can only be a flash in the pan.

This is all because Monica hiding in the tower wants to restore her former beauty in the mirror. That's why those children are missing, that's why there is a magical forest, and that's why the brothers Grimm changed from pretending to be exorcists to being worthy of the name. It's also ironic Just for the illusion in the mirror, so fierce, but completely vulnerable.

Because we have grown up and seen a lot, we should be moved, magic should be more exciting, torture should be darker, and the truth should be deeper. I heard that this film was greatly criticized at the Venice Film Festival, because the special effects were dull, the actors' performances were too animated and there was no horror atmosphere. A little, the film is really not extreme. The director also said that Johnny Depp should play it, and finally the producer asked Damon to play it. Johnny Depp's Green will definitely be stronger. But what's wrong with that? The demonized brothers Grimm, who are idle and just right, are exactly what I imagined, hiding themselves in the story, but pure and kind.

Just to be honest, the first half is really boring. Just get through it. As soon as we meet, it is inevitable to be embarrassed. We will soon find that we may fall in love at first sight. The director is really innovative, which keeps the critics from making the meanest remarks. The New York Journal said: It is "sometimes pleasant, sometimes dull, sometimes creative".

In my opinion, "Brothers Grimm" is a bit like a child named "Grimm's Fairy Tales", and it is inevitable that he will be at a loss and confused. Sometimes he doesn't know what he's talking about, but sometimes he's kind and cute, a little bad, a little pushy and playful. However, he still insists that good people will be happy in the end.