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In 2021 movie The Underground War. Actress Mayela De l'Arc plays as villainess Meigui. I really miss watching Mayela De l'Arc's movies.
The movie starts with poor workers and security guards being slaughter by Meigui and the rest of the villains, the villains apparently attacking a research facility, so, people in the lab decided to evacuate to protect themselves and make sure their researches don't end up in the hands of the villains.
Watched ten minutes now, the lighting is flickering, like, when you have the lighting flickering like that, it should serve a purpose, for example, in this scenario, one of the main character, like a hero, survive an explosion and losing consciousness and being dragged by the villains, in this case, the lighting flickering serve its purpose by mimicking the feeling of uncertainty and anticipation, or like a group of armed men facing a monster, or unknown entity, the light flickering can mimic fear of the unknown, or the character discovering something, like the character focusing or something, trying to see what it is, also the lighting mimic anticipation for the viewer, I don't know, maybe the movie using it for aesthetic purposes.
Around 12 minutes, that was a smart trap, I really liked it, I wish it took more time tho, like the idea of the heroes facing double trap, and they are expected to find out about the first to fall in the second is really cool..
We see the gorgeous Meigui around 14 minutes, the villains basically after the research of Dr Chen, who died, and the only one knows about his research is his student Enron, so now they have to find Enron and capture her.
The name Enron reminds me of this clip LOL.
Ok, this was incredibly stupid, like one of the villains manged to find Enron, and was about to kill her, but the heroes stepped in to save her, like, if she's the one they've been risking their lives till now to catch, they will never try to kill her, on the contrary, they may even protect her to get the research, so, this is actually stupid and try to enforce a sense of urgency that doesn't actually exist..
So basically, the heroes manged to get Enron, and had the chance to just go, but Enron gave Zhuoya the formula, and now Zhuoya is lost, and they have to go back for her.. All of this happened in 26 minutes, like, that was easy, till now the only challenge they faced was the trap.
Around 30 minutes Meigui finds the bodies of her comrades who was eliminated by the heroes, and figured out that the heroes launched such attack to get their attention, and for the heroes to show them that they infiltrated the facility and now they aren't alone, but there's a new player entered the game.
Around 36 minutes we see the gorgeous villainess again..
Couple of days ago I was watching Zina Blahusova's latest movie, Monster of the Multiverse, she wasn't a villainess, more like in the anti-hero area, yet, she was speaking French, and it really sound way better than English, and this movie reminded me of that, it's so obvious many of the conversations in English is being dubbed, and probably in Monster of the Multiverse the French was dubbed too, but it really sounded better than this movie.
The heroes manged find Zhuoya, now the villains have to attack with their total force to keep the heroes from escaping, as if they did, all their plans will fail, they would lose Enron, the research and the formula.
Around 44 minutes, the heroes' leader ordered Gina to go during the battle, and he would cover her exit, only our gorgeous villainess was waiting for her, the final fight starts around 45 minutes.
Mayela De l'Arc as evil babe Meigui in The Underground War
Mayela De l'Arc as villainess in 怒火
movie name : I am a Special Policewoman
actress name : Mayela De l'Arc
character name : Lina
year : 2022
In 2022 movie I am a Special Policewoman. actress Mayela De l'Arc plays as villainess Lina. Ok, I watched the movie last night, here's what I think about it.. So, the movie starts with a police raid on a criminal location, fully prepared, the movie have a great start, they end up in a trap, they kind of cut the clip to show the intro and the movie title, but if you want such scene more impactful, so the viewer share the hero's frustration, you should've really focus on such scene and the aftermath, and the impact on the heroine, maybe even push it later in the movie, show how close the team are, then show the impact of losing one of the team, with the shocking scene. This is my personal taste, but I think about having a scene in English in a Chinese movie kind of making the movie less unique, I don't miss English to hear it in a Chinese movie, especially if it became and obstacle for the actors, and on the way they show their emotion, it's a personal thing, but I think some people may like having Chinese actors speaking English as they wouldn't have to read the subtitle, me personally, I don't mind reading the subtitle. The male villain is really good actor, his emotions, and reactions is very good, I like that, In the fight with the bad guy that end up being thrown out of the building, it would be better if the fight was more realistic, if the villain hurt the heroine, it will put tension on the heroine, thus a tension on the story, making the viewer more engaging with it, many battles and somehow without scratch, the problem with movies today that is written as a confrontation between perfection and imperfection while it would be more interesting if it was like a journey from imperfection towards perfection, challenges should be like tests for the heroine getting harder and harder overtime till in the end she overcome the challenges, without that, it would feel unrealistic, like a video game with infinite lives, where your character stay unharmed, make the viewer less intersting in it, and kind of care less about the character. That's one of the reason Die Hard became popular, the hero seemed like ordinary man, facing challenges, growing over time, but once the hero reach the point of perfection, the point of being unbeatable, unchallenged, it's time either to end the movie, or kill the hero character, as he will end up being boring and uninteresting.
That's one of the reasons I hate superhero movies, they are some of the most inhumane characters to exist, yeah, you can add some plots to fix them, but the idea of watching a perfect character that have so little to grow, and so little challenges to overcome isn't my thing, that's why they always tend magnify the threat facing them, like every time with superhero saving the world, it was done too many times that it can hardly be considered a challenge, humans don't care as much about the world no more, and already thinking the idea of being enslaved by aliens from outer space doesn't seem so bad lol..
Now, the scene with the villainess killing the rest of the bad guys, here's my problem with it, you build the tension during the movie around the main villain, then you just ended the tension around them using the villainess, in order to do that, the villainess has to be a greater danger to the heroine, something wasn't established early on, so the movie kind of putting the heroine from a more dangerous situation into a less dangerous situation, and the story kind of ended, the movie could at least give the male hero a good fight with one of the main villains, once our lovely villainess killed her partners, you kind of don't engage and care about the heroine that much, as it's all went easy for her, and you don't expect much challenge, not saying I didn't enjoy her last fight with our villainess, it's just like deescalating the danger, and we could both have a final fight with the villainess and also a confrontation with the main villain.. Anyway, love you, Lina 💖💗🥰💞, what a cute villainess, and I'm gonna absolutely check more of Mayela De l'Arc movies.
