Hollywood (我就是好莱坞) Part I

Chapter 114 - False protagonist

 After sitting in the theater seat, Eric and Jennifer chatted about what the tabloid is saying about 《Road House》 until the lights in the theater dimmed down and the movie started playing.

Richard Gere played the character of Dalton a professional "cooler" with a mysterious past who is enticed from his current job at a club in New York City by a bar owner to help him rectify his increasingly chaotic club/bar, in Jasper, Missouri.

The first twenty minutes of the film didn't make any sense, woman flirting with men, bar fights everywhere, and Richard Gere always showing a cold face in every scene, acting as if he is tougher than everyone else.

As an action movie, at least the film should start with an intense fight to attract the audience attention, right? But the screenwriter apparently didn't bother to do so, instead, in the first fight a wannabe gangster only scratched Richard's arm, and then the romance plot starts when he goes to the hospital for stitches, and end up striking up a friendship with Dr. Elizabeth, which develops into a romantic relationship.

But this scene did not cause the audience to resonate with the character because Richard Gere performance was so relaxed as if the doctor is sewing clothes, rather than stitching his wound, he didn't even make a sound, or show in his expression that he is in pain, nothing at all. So although the scene is so b.l.o.o.d.y, Eric could still hear someone behind him chewing popcorn.

Then, after arriving at the chaotic club/bar outside the city, the protagonist still didn't do a thing he just watched, after understanding the cause of the chaos. The lead actor summons all the staff to a meeting, fired several unruly and corrupt employees, then opened the bar back again, and everything started going smoothly just like that.

Then, the club/bar business started Growing, causing the small town bully Wesley to try to take over the bar, Wesley sought to recruit the protagonist to become one of his henchmen. And of course, he was rejected by the leading character.

Then, more than 80 minutes later, the film finally ushered in some fights, or maybe the director finally remembered that this is an action movie.

After the protagonist rejected the bad guy Wesley, he comes back with a crowd of thugs to destroy the club/bar, causing a clash. Although the director tried to add some Chinese martial arts ch.o.r.eography to the fights, in general, most of the fights were just punches and kicks, this was also Richard Gere first time shooting this kind of film, so as expected his fighting moves were bad, you can even say he looked ridiculous.

The end of the movie was like this, the town bully Brad Wesley, began to do some evil things in the small town, to show his status as the ruler of the small town, forcing the protagonist to come out to stop him.

First, he burned the auto parts store because he refuses to give ground to Wesley's persistent extortion demands, then the next day, car dealership owner becomes Wesley's next victim when he also refuses to pay. As a result, Wesley has one of his thugs, demolish the dealership and crush four station wagons in the showroom with his monster truck as the protagonist and his friends look on with contempt. In the last ten minutes, he finally decides to settle the score with Wesley, he single-handedly dispatched all Wesley men one by one, and finally decide to kill Wesley at the end.

When he comes face-to-face with Wesley, the protagonist gains the upper hand in their fight and prepares to finish Wesley in the same brutal manner as he did to his henchmen, but decides against it. Everyone thought the protagonist

t will resolutely get rid of Wesley and then end the film, but he let him go, he smashed his place, killed his closest friend, but the protagonist becomes soft-heart-ed and lets him go ... what nonsense is this.