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Since the Assassin's Creed movie was released abroad in December last year, the reviews I heard were all about the movie being very bad, I couldn't understand and the narrative were unclear, so I didn't have much expectation for the movie before going to the theater. Because travel-adapted movies have always been a part of the criticism in the film industry. Therefore, the Assassin's Creed series is unavoidable and can be accepted.

But after watching the movie, I couldn't suppress the excitement in my heart. From beginning to end, every line and every shot made me feel goosebumps all over my body. This movie is a disaster for non-game players. It is even more disaster for players with light experience. But for the player audience who understands the series deeply, it is definitely a feast that cannot be missed.

The confusion and dissatisfaction of non-game players with movies is mostly due to the inability to understand the characters' behavioral motivations and lines, as well as the history of the ancient part. So much so that I think the whole movie is a magical action movie. The source of dissatisfaction with mild experience players, I think more of it is from "I have played games, but I can't understand what you are talking about in this movie. It's a waste of the game." So let's talk about the memes in the movie.

First is the finger-cutting ceremony at the opening of the film

Why do assassin break his finger? The logo of the assassin: The hug sword, which was triggered by the little finger in the earliest version, popped up after being triggered by the little finger. You can try it. When the little finger is bent towards the palm of your palm, will the ring finger bend and cannot be straightened? The blade of the sleeve sword pops up from the ring finger, so cutting the ring finger is not only for expressing one's belief, but also for the practicality of the assassination operation. Because if the ring finger is not removed, the popped blade will also cut to the ring finger.

However, this extremely obvious feature gives the assassins great convenience. As long as you arrest the person with missing ring fingers, 95% of them will definitely be assassins. Therefore, in his later years, the assassin master Altaïr improved his pendant sword without triggering his little finger, and he did not need to cut his finger. But this technology was later lost. Until the Renaissance, it was improved by the friend of the Assassin Master Ezio: Lyon Nado da Vinci. In the same era as the ancient plot in the movie, the assassins who interrupted the fingers in the film are likely to be the last batch of assassins who interrupted the fingers, because later Ezio spread the improved technology of the Xiujian to assassin organizations around the world. From then on, the broken finger is no longer the symbol of the assassin.

Next, the scene of this car hanging is briefly explained who the person who came to capture the male protagonist and his father, which is the mortal enemy of the Assassin organization in the plot, the Templar.

In fact, this plot will make loyal players feel familiar, because Desmon, the modern protagonist of the game series, also lived in a movie when he was a child.In similar farms, the farm is a stronghold of the assassin organization. Desmon, who received assassin education since childhood, could not bear such a boring life and quietly escaped. Similar to the film, Desmon also has a father he cannot understand.

This is why I say that the experience of the player's viewing experience will be very poor, because these background settings are mentioned in the game. If you don’t read the dialogue carefully or forget this setting, you will not feel the connection and similarity between the movie and the game here.

The next shot of this cell is also very interesting. The paintings drawn by the protagonists are almost all about some ancient assassins.

Assassin's logo: eagle, claw, stolen from religious trial, bald religious judge Tokmada. If you have watched the trailer, the picture on the wall will inadvertently give the audience a feeling of memory synchronization.

This way of showing how doodles on the prison wall will also resonate with players. Because in the game, Desmon's predecessor, who was also an assassin's experimental subject, was tortured by the bleeding effect, he also drew various strange images of his ancestral memories in the room.

This may be considered a bug in the movie, because the hero at this time has not yet entered Animus to explore the memory of his ancestors, so there will be no bleeding effect and these pictures should not be drawn. But this bug is harmless, maybe it is to express the line "creed in your blood".

Next, another interesting place comes. The 4-player group of Shenshendaotao, which has been criticized by the audience in the movie, is actually related to the game.

This young man is actually a descendant of Duncan Walpole, who betrayed the Assassin organization in the 4th generation of the game, and was later killed by Edward Kenway and pretended to be his identity.

This bearded brother is a descendant of Ezio's friend Yusef in the Apocalypse of Assassin's Creed.

This Asian is the descendant of Shao Jun, the only Chinese assassin who appears in the game. There is relevant evidence for this later.

This black elder brother is the leader of the witchcraft saint Domingo voodoo sect and the descendant of Baptist, which he himself said in the film. After betraying the Assassin's organization, this wizard was killed by South American assassin Evelyn during the DLC liberation of Assassin's Creed 3

Interestingly, two of the ancestors of these four Golden Apple Guardians turned against the Assassin's Organization, but their descendants still stick to the Assassin's Creed. In the game series, the previous relationship between Assassin and the Templar Knight is indeed not just a simple opposition, but also such betrayal and return. Judging from this character setting, the screenwriter of the movie has a perfect grasp of the tone of the game.

While the film, the black brother encourages the protagonistJumping down actually has two meanings: 1. Check whether the protagonist is really a descendant of an assassin, because the descendant of an assassin can use the Leap of Faith. Secondly, without knowing whether the protagonist will help the Templar find the Golden Apple, letting the protagonist die is undoubtedly the safest way.

Then it entered the ancient plot with the iconic eagle roar. Regarding the background of this battle, it may take a little European history to better incorporate the plot.

The plot of the movie took place in ancient 1492, when Christianity regained lost lands to Muslims. Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinando II of Aragon jointly fought against the Kingdom of Granada and sieged Granada for eight months. During this period, the morale of both the coalition and the Granada army continued to decline. Therefore, in order to force the last Sultan Buabdil to give up resistance, the coalition forces searched for his son as hostage to threaten his surrender. In real history, Buabdil gave up resistance and signed a contract with him in November 1491. How to interpret the supremacy of this Sudan in the film, let everyone explore it in the theater.

The subsequent bleeding effect of the protagonist is also consistent with the game, and he sees ancient fantasies in memory in the real world.

On the table in the laboratory, Edward Kenway's handwriting in the game appeared, as well as the bombs used by Ezio during Istanbul. Loyal players will definitely be able to lock in at a glance.

A lot of information about the protagonist's bloodline appears on the glass clipboard

For example, the double-breasted assassin costume in the era of photos, and the mark similar to the Russian assassin's insignia

Add some of the protagonist's bloodline clues. In other words, the protagonist may have the bloodline of a modern Russian assassin. The traceability of the assassin's bloodline is also a classic element in the series. From Altay to Ezio; or from Edward to Connor, the lineage of assassin may be in different countries, different continents, and different camps. Such elements return to the movie is very exciting for fans.

In the subsequent ancient chase scenes, climbing, jumping, and assassin attacking with bows and arrows while climbing the wall, the scenes such as the soldiers will pull the player back to the game's memory in minutes, because such a game experience is really unforgettable.

And in the next jump shot

The protagonist falls into a pigeon cage on the roof. In the series, the pigeon cage is almost always missing. It is either the contact point for the protagonist to receive the assassination mission, or the contact point for sending his assassin to the mission. When you see the pigeon cage on this roof, you probably will smile with a smile.

Of course, many viewers went to watch movies for the Fasha rather than the Assassin's Creed IP, so the film also gave fans a little bit of benefits. After the protagonist first experienced the Leap of Faith, his body could not bear the coma.This line may be the biggest excitement for non-game players.

i can't feel my legs

Me too. . .

Okay, come back to the movie, the next meme comes from the lines

The guard here says that the word assassin is from Ḥashāshīn, and the Chinese subtitles of the movie say, "People who take psychedelic drugs." This actually reveals the real historical reference prototype for the assassin's Creed setting. It is a Muslim "heretic" sect active in the mountains of Afghanistan to Syria in the Middle Ages - the Kasshin Sect. This sect is famous for its secret assassination. The mountainous area on the southern bank of the Caspian Sea is the base, and the center is located in Alamoti Fort (meaning "eagle"). The "Asasin School" is called Mulayi, Mulayi or Munaxi in ancient Chinese books.

Why is it translated as a person who takes psychedelic drugs? Because the way to recruit young people in this sect is to catch young people from the bottom of the mountain and go up the mountain, then feed them a hallucinogen extracted from marijuana, and then send beautiful women to accompany them, treat them with good wine and food. After the medicine passed, I asked them: Do you want to go to the paradise you just experienced? The young people all said they wanted to, and then told them: As long as you join our sect and carry out assassination missions, you can go to such a paradise after death. So here the Chinese subtitles of the word Ḥashāshīn are translated as "people who take psychedelic drugs". Alamoti, the earliest stronghold of the Assassin organization, means "Eagle Castle" in Arabic, which is also the origin of the assassin's Creed, the assassin's symbolic animal "Eagle".

Interestingly, it is not only the Assassin's Creed series that draws on this story, but also our Chinese martial arts novel master Mr. Jin Yong. In "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the prototype of Huo Shan, an old man in the mountain, is Hassan Samba of the Asassin Sect. The action scenes in the second half of the film are also very satisfactory for the restoration of game elements. For example, this high-level double assassination,

There is also the assassination action of cutting the throat and abdomen with the double sleeve sword, which is also very restored to Ezio's movements in the game.

After this, another scenario with a very large amount of information. The protagonist sees the illusions of his ancestors from generation to generation, and these illusions are not part of the memory. In addition to Aguira, we can see two familiar figures

The first is Thomas de Carnelon. In the opening scene of "Assassin's Creed", he snatched the Sword of Eden, one of the holy artifacts of Eden.

The other one I believe many players can see is that it is the protagonist of "Assassin's Creed Revolution": Arno Dorian. This is the biggest failure of the movie. The protagonist Lynch instantly accepted his assassin's identity setting and read the Assassin's Creed. Perhaps it is to emphasize the concept of "Assassin's Creed in the Blood", so the protagonist instantly feels after activating the Assassin's attributes.Awake. Compared to the protagonists of the game, it seems a little abrupt. In the game, bloodline can trace and experience memories, but it will not instantly obtain the memories of all ancestors. And the movie's transformation out of thin air without explanation is somewhat unacceptable.

The next scenes of the guardians choosing weapons are also very interesting.

The naval officer's sword, claw, and shoe blade were selected respectively. That is to be consistent with the weapons used by the ancestors introduced above. In the next shot, rope darts and swords appeared again.

These seriousness of details shows the video's restoration of the game.

The last assassination scene, from the scene atmosphere to the camera angle. They all have the usual promotional film style of Assassin's Creed. The calmness of thousands of troops avoiding white robes. As a non-player fan, this scene is full of incongruity. Such a large transnational organization has such poor security. Someone was assassinated and the whole audience scattered. Is this really the Templar who is about to dominate the world?

The last shot overlooking the roof is also the classic lens angle and lens style of the Assassin's Creed series. It seems like I'm back in Florence and hear the classic Venice Rooftops

"I hope this will never change"

Above, Assassin's Creed movie faithfully restores the game's plot style, settings, and even the lens angle and atmosphere. The starring actor Fasha also mentioned in an interview that game fans like this movie very much because they have a high degree of restoration of the game. Although there are some narrative problems, I also tried to put aside the game's settings and read this story. Although I would have doubts, I could still understand the direction of the plot.

This is a work that requires constant thinking and observation of the picture. If you are a veteran assassin fan, then you will find this temperament extremely attractive. It feels as if I have taken psychedelic drugs. If you are not, please read every line carefully, otherwise you will feel that the metaphor in the lines is inexplicable, and please understand the background of the story carefully, otherwise you will not be able to understand the plot of the movie.

In fact, no matter whether the movie is badly filmed or outstanding, as an audience, remember one sentence:

Everything is empty, everything is acceptable.