Company Activision back in November 2015, she announced the creation of a film based on her most popular annual series Call of duty. The project was supposed to be directed by Stefano Sollimawho previously worked on a not-so-successful sequel “The killers”, And was preparing to become a screenwriter Scott Silverresponsible for the Oscar-winning “Jokers” Unfortunately, the project was frozen, and then completely postponed until better times.
However, the players should not be upset, because the Call of Duty series has actually already had its own film version for a long time, which is similar to the creation of Activision, but somewhere surpasses it. It’s about a trilogy Fallen about secret service agent Michael Benning.
The series began in 2013 with the picture “Olympus Has Fallen“continued in 2016 in”The fall of london“and ended last year”Angel Falls“. The trilogy exploits the popular themes of the fight against world terrorism, surrounded by whistling bullets and massive destruction.
Unlike the Call of Duty world, films with Gerard Butler, with all the heat of American patriotism, have enough balanced realism and much-needed story neutrality for the action movie. And these lessons would be very useful for Activision and its studios, where recently the leftist agenda and hype have been blocking the eyes of screenwriters, forcing them to issue propaganda of the level of the late USSR.
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Russians are not bad
The acute theme of Bad Russian for us was solved in the Fallen trilogy without due grace. In the first part, there is simply no Russian. In the second, the Russian president, citing personal problems, simply does not come to London, where terrorists kill the leaders of five countries – from the Prime Minister of Canada to the Chancellor of Germany. In the third part, Russia is accused of attacking with drones, increasing its military presence in the world and of interfering in the elections, but viewers throughout the film understand that the Russians are not to blame.
At the end of the picture, our bright name is cleared, the US president personally apologizes to Putin, and they are photographed together at the international summit. Putin is pleased. Love, peace, chewing gum. On the other hand, there is Call of Duty with the execution of Russians at the airport, white helmets and a drunken soldier.
Enemies must be finished
Oddly enough, but there are very few films and games where the main characters or terrorists finish off the wrecked opponents in the head. Offhand you can remember “John Wick”And the trilogy Fallen. In the first part of the last, terrorists during the assault of the White House finish off the wounded with shots to the head. Butler’s hero does the same. Only in the second part does he miss one of the terrorists, but this can be explained by the severity of the moment.
In the Call of Duty series, enemies have been dying from a shot in the leg for almost two decades, and the enemy, as in the films of the 80s, is painting the hostages or other soldiers from the machine gun in the chest, including special forces in modern bulletproof vests.
Realism matters
For all attempts to show a modern war Call of Duty lacks realism. More reminiscent of an attraction in the park Disney, the game robs the violence of its disgusting bottom behind a veil of special effects. Mowing hundreds of enemies in one mission, along with annoying scripts, does not produce the desired psychological impact.
In the series “The fall”Each enemy is individual in its own way. Even if Michael Benning kills him in a few seconds of screen time, he does it differently in the vibrant dance of death with naturalistic details. And even the street battles in The Fall of London look much better than any part of the game series. And ordinary skirmishes with finishing off and using improvised objects or surroundings are at the highest level. And that’s exactly what the modern Call of Duty lacks.
Gray morality should be gray for everyone
Filmmakers Fallen They’re not afraid to show the corrupt elite of the United States, corrupt directors of intelligence departments and local military companies who are ready to sacrifice their citizens and unleash a war with a nuclear power. The creators of Call of Duty, despite all the assurances of the speakers, have recently lacked the courage to do something similar. Making games about Syria with Russian sadists and perverts is safe swimming.
Better less, but with meaning
Call of Duty tries to surprise the player by offering him the maximum number of activities for different characters in different parts of the world, but as a result, the levels are felt only with cardboard decorations, the integrity of the plot suffers, the story is torn to pieces, and with it the motivation of the heroes and immersion.
Each of the films about Benning is a complete story, albeit with a minimum number of locations, but quite rich in action, shootings and large-scale effects. And it’s much better to storm the White House than crawl through the mountains, hunt gophers and jump with a parachute wing in missions added for the sake of diversity.
Each of the opponents and traitors in the films has its own unique motivation, and it is quite understandable, acceptable and explainable. They also try to implement this in Call of Duty, but it doesn’t work out very well, not to mention the double bottom and serious losses. But if “war never changes”, then the story in Call of Duty is getting weaker from part to part.
Author: Alexander Loginov (xtr)
Editing: Mikhail Shaginyan (ACE), Denis Korolev (Skyerist)
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