Hong Kong has started the police to shoot sharp. Since the weekend she sieged the Campus of the Polytechnic University of with water cannons and tear gas. The picture was taken on Sunday on a hill on the University campus, where a Student was with a sporting Recurve bow on police officers. According to Reports died in the last few days, a protester on the run from the police; a police officer who worked for the media work, was hit by an arrow in the leg.
The activists in Hong Kong use inventive methods; on Internet forums such as Reddit, you will be referred to as “cyber punks”. Laser pointer, mounted in part to gun similar Devices, dazzle police officers and turn off the facial recognition technology, and some of the protesters using catapults to fire rates shoot.
Katniss Everdeen is hunting in the dystopian “Hunger Games”- films with bow and arrow. Image: PD
The student Archer combines archaic hunting weapon and modern technology, he used arrows with blunt tips and is wearing a gas mask and a Smartwatch. His protective vest offers space for a Walkie-Talkie and, if not mistaken, an Arsenal of eye drops; on the Utility belts of the arrow hanging bottle holder and water.
The dye mask and arms probably originates from the water from the police cannons, which was mixed with blue dye to the masked protesters identify. Now it looks like war paint.
Each Protest has its Aesthetics, this is somewhere between “The Hunger Games” and Outdoor adventure.
According to the estimates made by the protesters are set to shoot the bow, because their projectiles can reach a larger range. The stylization is not only reminiscent of Shooter games in which the aim is to go unnoticed enemies to kill, but also to the Blockbuster cinema, where the bow and arrow belong at the latest since “Robin Hood” to the weapons of the Underdogs.
In the “Avengers”films of Jeremy Renner played Hawkeye uses a technically upgraded bow, also in “Avatar,” is being hunted with the bow and arrow. Is connected to the gun with notions of Wilderness, in the Western Genre, the sky darkens as soon as the Indians loss their arrows chicken. For the Fire there needs to be a stoic inner calm that showed backwoods Thriller “Deliverance” by John Boorman, what happens if you are missing: The hands are shaking, the attacker is injured with his own arrow.
The excerpt from “Deliverance”. Video: Youtube
of Course, the Hong Kong cinema has to shoot a reference to the bow. In John Woo’s American debut, “Hard Target” (1993) lit-rods a member of the Cajun in Louisiana with a single shot the fuse on some dynamite and chasing a whole rogues hiding in the air. The Film was regarded as greatly exaggerated.
Created: 18.11.2019, 16:01 PM
