火焰在电影中的艺术与危险

FOR OVER A CENTURY, CINEMA HAS EXPLOITED THE POWER OF FIRE TO BURN UP THE SCREEN, AND TODAY, FILMMAKERS AFTER THE REAL DEAL ARE TURNING UP THE HEAT. WE MEET THE FLAME-THROWERS ON THE FRONTLINES Hollywood’s big action movies are often built on escalation: knives give way to bullets, bullets to grenades, until there’s nowhere left to go but fire. By the time 2025’s John Wick spin-off Ballerina lets Ana de Armas’ assassin Eve complete her revenge fantasy, all restraint has been tossed aside, the last half-hour an orgy of retribution. Rifling through a hidden cache, she uncovers something labelled simply, “Front toward enemy”. …