Commercial cinema has been created all over the world, but whenever Hollywood ventured into commercial cinema, it tried to make the story in...
Commercial cinema has been created all over the world, but whenever Hollywood ventured into commercial cinema, it tried to make the story interesting for the moviegoers. This is the reason why we see the use of modern technology, locations around the world and local actors of these countries acting in English films in addition to the story in Hollywood films.
The said film 'Bullet Train' has been released in cinema theaters across the world this week and the film has also been released in Pakistan.
This American film made in Japan will soon be available on the most popular American streaming portal 'Netflix'. Whether you should watch this movie in cinema theater or not, here is the only detailed commentary and analysis of this movie in Urdu language.
Filmmaking and directing
The most important aspect of filmmaking is the production design of any film. The film could have been an example of brilliant production design in the modern Japanese backdrop, but unfortunately the filmmakers neglected this aspect.
After watching the trailer of the film, the first thought was that the film will feature many locations in different cities of Japan, especially Tokyo. There is no doubt that cities like Tokyo and Osaka are more modern and clean than cities like New York and Washington DC. Filming in these cities can attract moviegoers, Tokyo in particular is a great canvas for international films, but this film doesn't show anything like that.
In this regard, Hollywood filmmakers and directors should watch local films and web series in Japan, so they will have an idea of what kind of steps it takes to mirror a film here, especially in a place like Tokyo. How the magnificent canvas of the city should be used.
The film has been co-produced by 3 American production companies, including Columbia Pictures. Sony Pictures has the rights to distribute the film in cinema theaters worldwide. The film, with a budget of 90 million dollars, has been released in July in some European countries and in the rest of the countries, including the US, India and Pakistan, in the first week of August, while in South Korea and other Asian countries, the film will be released at the end of this month. will be presented.
Surprisingly, in the country where the film is made, i.e. Japan, the film will be released at the latest on September 1.
The director of the said film is David Leitch and he doesn't have much experience in film making but he has worked as a stunt worker for famous American actor Brad Pitt as well as many famous actors. This is the reason why Brad Pitt was his first choice for the lead role of the film in his direction.
The action scenes of this film are very spectacular and close to reality, but the interesting thing is that most of the stunts in this film are done by Brad Pitt himself. For these services he has been paid a handsome compensation of 2 crore dollars.
The film's cast includes actors from both America and Japan and is a very balanced cast, but some film critics have said that the quality of the film could have been better if the Japanese actors had done more. According to the popular film review website Routine Tomatoes, the film has been rated 54% by critics and 80% by moviegoers so far.
Main Idea, Story and Script
The story of this film is borrowed from a novel by Japanese novelist Kotaro Asaka. The English translator of this novel is Sam Maliza. This novel was published in Japanese in 2010, while its publication in English was possible only in 2021 last year. After it was translated into English, it was decided to make a film on it. Even before this, many films have been made on the novels of this Japanese writer.
The novel is a humorous yet terrifying action story that tells the story of a clash between indigenous gangs in Japan. It has been shown to conflict with Japan's fastest train, the bullet train. This train is called 'Shinkansen' in Japanese. The scriptwriter of this film is Zach Olkevich.
For this film, the leading movie website IMDB has a great headline that '5 killers on a moving high-speed train discover that they all have a common mission'.
The line written in bold letters on the poster of the film also gives a glimpse of the story that 'the end of the limit is actually the beginning'.
In this way, the spoken sentences of the characters in between the story, especially Brad Pitt's dialogues were interesting but he was shown speaking English throughout the film, I wish he had spoken some Japanese except for a word or two. Even where the Japanese character is addressing him in Japanese, he was found to be speaking English.
This aspect has undermined the linguistic narrative of the story in a cultural way. As for the scenes of the Japanese actors, in which they are talking to each other, all those scenes are mirrored in Japanese.
The story of the bullet train features many characters interspersed with other small stories. This technique made the pace of the story quite fast, but the length of the story in the film also created boredom.
As far as the novel is concerned, the description of the characters is fine, but in the film, the director should have been more concise. On the one hand, there is a story of a group belonging to the world of crime, on the other hand, a main character who is a victim of this group takes his revenge and protects his family from them.
The main characters depicted in the film are all chasing the same goal to somehow get hold of a briefcase containing a lot of money and at the same time get the gang leader's son to the destination safely. To be given. In this conflict of characters, the story progresses and reaches a funny ending, which you will have to watch the movie for yourself.
Acting
American actor Brad Pitt and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada are among the main actors of this film. Along with him, many other American and Japanese actors have played the main and supporting roles.
Overall, all the actors have performed well but these two lead actors have proved that they are living legends with their performances. The burden of the entire film is felt on the shoulders of both of them which they have carried very well. Well-known American actress Sandra Bullock has been wasted in the film. There were a few other actors whose inclusion felt like it was just to make the cast look bigger and wider, I think Brad Pitt and Hiroyuki Sanada were enough for that.
Music, songs, lyrics and others
The biggest surprise of this film was its music. The modern-day songs in English and Japanese impressed the audience. Especially in the climax of the film, a Japanese sad song 'Toki Niwa Haha no Naiko Niyuni', seemed to cast a spell on the screen of the film. Similarly, an English song 'Five Hundred Miles' also took off. There is sadness in these songs, the thought of missing the train and the story of human distance is life.
Similarly, fast-paced songs in English and Japanese were also enjoyed. Listening to them, one feels that the other name of life is beauty and beauty, joy and happiness and dancing.
American musician Dominic Lewis has shown his artistic talent in this film, while Japanese and American singers have created the magic of their voices.
The most outstanding aspect of this film was the music, which is rarely expected from such action films. Apart from English and Japanese, Russian and Spanish words are also used in the dialogues and songs of the film. Many complete scenes have been shown regularly in Japanese.
A word for foreign film distributors in Pakistan
It is important to mention here that as many international films including Hollywood films are released in Pakistan, there is no mention of Pakistan in the schedule of the respective websites or independent websites of these films. Even the names of very small and less popular countries are written for movies.
For example, there were even descriptions of countries like Lithuania and Cambodia for the film. If a film is being released in Pakistan regularly, then the name of Pakistan should also be there.
This aspect is ethically and professionally worrisome which the distributors of these foreign films in Pakistan have to consider. For a long time, these films are being released in Pakistan, but at the official level, the name of our country is not written anywhere, who is responsible for this?
While paying the tax for watching movies in Pakistan, Pakistani citizens have the right to see their country's name officially in the release schedule of those movies and if it is not happening, to know who is responsible for it.
final letter
If you like comedy based action movies and are also interested in knowing the details of the hidden conflict in the world of crime, then this movie is right for you, but if you want to know about the bullet train in this movie or If you want to see the locations of Japan, then this is not for you as this movie is made in the style of pure American action movies, with a light touch of Japanese flair and culture, I don't think. That Japanese moviegoers will also like this movie a lot.
Another thing is that if the American filmmakers have made this film keeping in mind the South Korean film Train to Busan released in 2016, then they have failed in this effort. If he had in mind the 1975 Japanese filmmaker Junya Sato's film Bullet Train, he could not reach the offer.
The said movie is an average American movie which can be watched to pass the time but one cannot expect anything extraordinary from it. Nothing in it for the serious moviegoer.
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