The good agent and the bad guy in “The Gray Man”: a film that will become a saga. Available on the Netflix streaming platform from 22 July
It is the film of one indicator light who spies one indicator light. In the initial Bangkok scene, Ryan Gosling, an agent who works in the gray zone and does the dirty work, is trapped in a square where human bodies fly, cars, bridges, skyscrapers. Explosions of rocket launchers, clashes that not even in video games (director brothers Anthony and Joe Russo come from «Avengers»), Fighting al heart-pounding “Exaggerated” spread over three quarters of the film that would put a strain on the mercenary more experienced, hyper realism and hyper violence with use of weapons that Putin would envy a lot. A scene action
in Prague lasts half an hour, a compendium of special effects… «It was ten days of spaces and explosions, we had a mountain of equipment, it was pure chaos»Say the directors.
The Gray Man is the most expensive movie on Netflix, 200 million dollars. A troupe of a thousand people. It is available from 22 July and in selected cinemas since yesterday. Will become and franchise
, a saga: “We have so many stories to tell about this character,” say the Russos. The crowded meeting takes place on Zoom with eleven in between actors and supporting actors talking and joking with each other, and with the protagonist, Ryan Gosling, who is already his own not very talkativethey barely touch upon two questions to which he answers as follows: «I have done a lot training, martial arts, running; you prepare differently between ironic and action parts, it depends on the directors, they are cool“. He had said: «I already miss that agent, it would be nice to come back in his shoes. It’s the movie I would have loved as a young man, pushing me to become an actor ». Conceived at the table, it was filmed in the United States, France, Thailand, Austria, Azerbaijan… E Netflix has subscribers in 190 countries.
The plot is short: Gosling must to retrieve a medallion with a USB stick inside with sensitive data on weapons of a foreign country. There is the dirty work of the CIA with its “gray men”, undercover agents, winks at James Bond. After the light step of La La Land
and waiting to see him in a doll version as Ken next to Margot Robbie’s Barbie, Gosling is a James Bond 2.0. Equal to the original as a capacity for action, due to the references to his nickname (Sierra Six, the figure recalls 007), for a whileirony. And he is an agent, but not of his Majesty: of the Cia.
It’s a ex convictpaid hitman hired by retired agency supervisor Billy Bob Thornton (shows up at the meeting with his bare arms all tattooed) who has a sick granddaughter that Ryan will take care of. “I’m a analog hero in a digital world “. The antagonist is fellow rival Chris Evans (Captain America), il villain psychopath to whom other worshiping killers seem to whisper “Oh Captain, my Captain.” Evans, lying, accuses of betrayal Gosling (who is to blame for discovering the dirty games of the CIA), flanked by Regé-Jean Pagethe handsome black duke in “Bridgerton”.
One is unleashed manhunt in which most participate ferocious killers of half the world. Ryan, in this chess game between the good spy (he) and the bad spy (Evans), he can only count on himself and on his colleague Ana de Armas, although the surname does not prove in his favor: “I’m not a Bond Girl but it is right that women have roles in action films ». The good and the bad: the ugly is missing. For the directors «it is a current film, Gray is the product of a complex political period that yes rebellious versus the system“. What’s missing from 007 (therefore Sean Connery)? The “shaken, not stirred” Vodka Martini, thesophisticated eleganceil tocco glamour.
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