Compared with the new arrival of 2022, 2012 10 years ago seems to be more meaningful to movie lovers.
This year, the Mayan prophecy of doomsday failed to come true, but the world film market expanded rapidly amid the endless stream of good films and the enthusiasm of the audience.
Throughout the international market, Hollywood blockbusters such as “The Avengers”, “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” continued to drive the box office.
This year, the IMAX screen became the new favorite of audiences all over the world.
Director Ang Lee, who is keen to explore new technologies, uses a “Life of Pi” to prove to us that visual impact ultimately serves emotions, and the most valuable thing about a movie is its power to move people’s hearts.
10 years later, let us review the works that have given us joy and inspiration, and revisit the “War of the Gods” at that time.
“The Dark Knight Rises”
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway
Nolan’s version of the finale of the “Batman Trilogy”, although most fans consider it slightly inferior to its predecessor “The Dark Knight”.
But looking back 10 years later, it’s still one of the best superhero movies ever made.
The story takes place eight years after the disappearance of Batman, and the emergence of terrorists has once again plunged Gotham into a crisis of destruction. Bruce had to shake off his decadence and once again took on the task of saving the city.
At Nolan’s own insistence, the film continued to be shot with IMAX cameras, and there was no 3D version.
In the end, it earned 1.08 billion US dollars at the global box office, ranking second in the year.
On the first day of the film’s release, a red-haired man calling himself Joker rushed into a cinema in Aurora and fired indiscriminately, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.
This vile copycat crime shocked the world and had a big impact on the box office of the movie.
“The Avengers”
Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Robert Downey Jr./Chris Evans/Chris Hemsworth
The story of “The Dark Knight” comes to an end, and Marvel opens a new era of superhero movies with “The Avengers”.
Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye six superheroes assembled for the first time to fight against Loki and his army’s invasion of the earth.
Marvel’s layout for many years, and finally with this film a blockbuster.
The film won the global box office annual championship with a box office of 1.51 billion US dollars. “Marvel fever” completely burned the world, and even “The Amazing Spider-Man” launched by Sony in the same year was also eclipsed by its brilliance.
After a lapse of 10 years, revisiting the famous scene of the first generation of six people fighting side by side still brings tears to the eyes.
“Skyfall”
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Daniel Craig/Judi Dench/Javier Bardem
This film is a masterpiece to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the “007 series”, and M played by Judi Dench also bid farewell to the screen here. MI6’s hard drive with all the agent list information was lost, and Mrs. M was fired.
In order to save the lives of the undercover agents, Bond, who had a crisis of confidence in his superiors, had to recover his identity and track down the real murderer behind the scenes.
The film not only contributed many colorful fighting scenes, but also made a thought-provoking portrayal of the situation and psychology of the role of the agent, and was finally nominated for five Academy Awards in 2013.
Fans call it “the best Bond movie ever,” which is no exaggeration. Adele’s theme song of the same name, “Skyfall”, also won the Oscar for “Best Original Song”.
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Ian McKellen/Martin Freeman/Richard Armitage
Ten years after the “The Lord of the Rings” series ended, Peter Jackson takes audiences back to Middle-earth. The story takes place before “The Lord of the Rings” and tells the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and 13 dwarves.
In this journey, Bilbo not only gained the friendship of Thorin Oakenshield, the king of the mountain, but also unexpectedly obtained the One Ring that will affect the whole of Middle-earth in the future.
The adaptation of a children’s literature into a movie trilogy has always been a little difficult, and the lengthy and bland plot makes this film hard to escape criticism.
However, the scenes, soundtracks and special effects are all trying to recreate the epic feel of “The Lord of the Rings”, and all the audience who have seen the IMAX 3D version can also exclaim after walking out of the cinema: “It’s worth the price!”
“Life of Pi”
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Suraj Sharma/Irrfan Khan/Rafe Spall
The most amazing work of 2012. Combining the visual impact of commercial films and the profound philosophical thoughts of literary films, it has aroused heated discussions around the world as soon as it was released.
The story of the film is quiet and simple, telling the magical adventure story of Pi, a 17-year-old boy who lost his parents in a shipwreck, and a lifeboat drifting at sea with a Bengal tiger.
The analysis of the metaphors in this film and the truth behind it once became a hot topic on the Internet.
Ang Lee also won the Oscar for Best Director again for this film.
Remember the tiger who walked into the forest without looking back? Letting go is inevitable in life. The most painful thing is not being able to say goodbye.
“The Hunger Games”
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
After the end of the “The twilight saga” series, Lionsgate has launched a new round of movie star making.
Popular original work + new actors + marketing campaign, making “The Hunger Games” one of the 2012 Hollywood phenomenal works.
The story takes place in the new homeland of mankind. Every year, twelve administrative regions in China hand over a boy and girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual “Hunger Games” and broadcast it live on TV, using this terrorist method to maintain authority. domination and state order.
Katniss, a sixteen-year-old girl, volunteered to take part in the hunting game in place of her sister who was drawn on the “Drawing Day”.
The dystopian theme makes the content of the film not limited to young men and women talking about love, but brings more thinking about totalitarian rule, technology abuse and human alienation.
This is the real reason for the success of “The Hunger Games” series. Hollywood has since met Jennifer Lawrence, who became famous in World War I.
“Cloud Atlas”
Directors: Tom Tykwer/Lana Wachowski/Lilly Wachowski
Starring: Tom Hanks/Halle Berry/Jim Broadbent
Based on David Mitchell’s novel of the same name, the film consists of six stories that seem to be independent but have some mysterious connection to each other.
This is a story of life, death, faith and love, a vast and delicate epic.
Although the film has received mixed reviews after its release, when looking back ten years later, it will still give out the admiration of “unconsciousness”.
“Prometheus”
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
After 33 years, Ridley Scott, the father of “Alien”, brought the “Alien” prequel film, revealing the origin of humans and aliens, adding more discussions on life, philosophy, belief and other issues, and digging for the sequel “Alien: Covenant” down a bigger hole.
Compared with the space claustrophobia that “Alien” brings to the audience, the charm of “Prometheus” is not how scary it is, but its strong sense of science fiction and profound philosophical speculation.
3D effects and realistic special effects have also become an important factor in attracting audiences to buy tickets, which makes the film still receive a domestic box office of 223 million in the case of many deletions.
“Jagten”
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp
One of the high-scoring works of the year. A divorced middle-aged man is caught up in a sexual assault scandal because of a little girl’s lies.
Even though the court acquitted him for lack of evidence, the townspeople who had found him guilty continued to hurt him…
This is a movie that is diametrically opposed to “Hard Candy”. Tong Yan Wuji can also be used as a weapon to destroy people.
After reading it, I just want to find “Hannibal” to heal.
“Looper”
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Bruce Willis/Emily Blunt
The 2012 National Day sci-fi blockbuster, with time travel and a lot of Chinese elements, achieved a good result of 129 million in the bleak National Day file this year.
The film tells the story of a professional killer who kills targets from the future for a large criminal group.
One day, he discovered that the next target to kill was actually his future self. The reason for the other party to cross is to save his wife.
With its unique “ring structure” and sci-fi texture, the film is known as “2012’s “Inception””.
Although it failed to reach the height of the latter in the end, the full entertainment and original concept still made this film an impressive stroke in that year.
“Django Unchained”
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz
Quentin probably only made this kind of film, but this kind of film may only be made by Quentin.
This film is another masterpiece after Quentin’s “Inglourious Basterds”, continuing his usual low-key and luxurious style, with whimsical humor elements and bloody wild action scenes everywhere.
Christopher Watts and Samuel L. Jackson also contributed magic-level performances in the film.
“The Artist”
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
In 1927, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), was the best actor in a silent film. Every time he is on stage, he makes the audience laugh.
His dog is a golden supporting role, and other actresses only stand aside.
Once, in the face of a media interview, he accidentally met a woman with super performance, Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo). Although the latter steals the limelight, he is still elegant.
However, this headline overwhelmed his new play, the boss was extremely dissatisfied, and his wife was jealous.
Later, Peppy Miller went to Hollywood and happened to reunite with George Valentin, which made him uneasy and acted frequently.
Later, George Valentin, who was at a standoff with his boss, decided to set up his own business, write, direct, and act.
At the same time, Peppy Miller took advantage of the opportunity of the sound film to quickly become popular and became the number one star.
In the end, his silent film collided with her sound film schedule, and a battle between old and new, emotion and box office kicked off…
The film won the Oscar for “Best Picture” in 2012.
“Amour”
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Louis Tradignan, Isabelle Huppert
Austrian film master Michael Haneke is world-renowned for his icy insight into human nature.
2012’s “Amour” also continued its accurate analysis of human nature as a scalpel, reinterpreting the cruel meaning of “love” in an extremely cold way.
The protagonists of “Amour” are an elderly intellectual couple whose wife’s sudden stroke has changed their lives, and her husband’s meticulous care cannot make her condition better.
Realizing the increasing insult to his wife from the worsening illness, the husband chose to interpret his love in the most extreme way.
The film stars two veteran actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, with Isabelle Huppert playing their daughter.
Michael Haneke uses a forbearance and restrained narrative angle, and long shots of cold tones have shaped the complexity and delicacy of human emotions, heavy and compassionate.
The film also won the Palme d’Or at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, and Michael Haneke successfully joined the Double Palme d’Or club.
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