Today, let's talk about the movie "Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origins".
Title Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021), Nicknamed Snake's Eye Revenge (Hong Kong) / Special Forces: Battle of Snake's Eye (Taiwan).
Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origins is a reboot of Paramount Pictures' Special Forces movie series.
Paramount Pictures, in partnership with Hasbro, wants to create a shared cinematic universe, including the reboot of Special Forces, as well as several future films: Micronauts (2023), M.A.S.K. ,2025) Visionaries (2027) and Rom The Space Knight (2030).
You see, this is another new cinematic universe.
Marvel created the Marvel Cinematic Universe to make a lot of money, DC also created the DC Cinematic Universe, relying on the care of fans, word of mouth is not bad, the box office is ok. Then Universal Pictures wanted to replicate this model and create a dark cinematic universe, only to lose several movies in the beginning, the universe was not built, and the scolding gained a large piece. Warner also made a monster movie universe, relying on the popularity of several big monsters, and it is quite similar.
It can be seen that the establishment of a cinematic universe requires a highly successful opening work, as well as a follow-up work that maintains word of mouth.
Judging from the performance of the rebooted "Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origins", the cinematic universe of Paramount Pictures is estimated to be unopened.
Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origins replaces Special Forces 3: Forever Alert (G.I. Joe: Ever Vigilant) released.
The original planned release date for Special Forces 3: Forever Alert was March 27, 2020, but has been repeatedly postponed due to the pandemic. Now "Special Forces 3: Forever Alert" has also been labeled as "rumored", and the specific release date has become unknown.
You see it's screwed up, Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origins rebooted the series, and Special Forces 3: Forever Alert was followed by Special Forces: Rise of the Cobra (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra ，2009）......
The extent of the chaos can be seen before it is released.
Since it is a reboot, this film has created many precedents that the original series did not have.
First of all, the male protagonist Snake Eye is Caucasian in the comics, cartoons and two live-action movies, and in this film, he changes to a mixed race character. One of the bigger reasons is that the actor Henry Golding Golding) is of mixed British and Malaysian descent.
It was also the first time Snakeeye had been portrayed as a talking character. In the first two films, he was a silent character without words.
Asian-American writer Larry Hama was instrumental in creating the "snake's eye" character.
Speaking about the race of the film's characters, he said: "Some people say that Henry Golding 'tinkered' with the role of Snakeeye, but I disagree. Until Hasbro listed Storm Shadow as the only Asian character and made him a villain, I always wanted to be ambiguous. I decided to gradually turn him into a good person by digging deeper into his background. That's why Snakeeye is a white man. ”
As can be seen from Larry Hama, writers initially saw whites as decent and Asians as villains. The fact that Snakeeye has now changed from white to a mixed race can be seen as a compromise on political correctness.
In the world of Special Forces, Snakeeye and White Ghost were originally good brothers who grew up together and were absolutely loyal to each other. Even if they are not related by blood, the two are the closest partners.
But in this reboot film, there is no shadow of this setting at all, and a completely new relationship is established.
You don't have to grow up together, you can be born into death together and become brothers who have passed away. However, in the film, the snake's eye and the white ghost suddenly become friends, the film lacks the necessary explanation at the beginning, and the friendship between the two develops too jumpy.
"Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origins" is a random fight, the snake's eye is a left and right horizontal strip, and the last thing to pick up is the cobra.
The Special Forces recruited the less brazen snake eye, and the cobra managed to take down the White Ghost.
In terms of the amount of contribution to the cobra, the biggest contribution should be the snake's eye. This honey plot is simply too confusing.
The subtitle of "Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origin" will be Snake's Eye Origin, and the protagonist of the story is naturally Snake Eye.
But throughout the film, I really feel that snake-eyed people are not kind, and they lack the positive energy needed for the protagonist of a movie.
The white ghost plucked his heart and lungs out at him, and he came backhand to this one, and for the temptation of not being able to prove the truth, he did not hesitate to betray those who were really good to him. Moreover, snake eyes have made incredible moves in the face of their father's murderer, so the question is, snake eyes have been busy for half a day, what is it busy?
Seeing the end, how do I think it is whitewashed white ghost, this movie should be called "Special Forces: White Ghost Origin".
At the end of the film, Tommy describes himself as "Storm Shadow", and the domestic translation is "White Ghost".
"Storm Shadow" This is a literal translation of the "Arashikage" family name.
Arashi equals Storm and Kage equals Shadow.
Tommy's grandmother Eri Ishida's character design was inspired by Obake Obaasan, white ghost's aunt " Demon Grandma " in the comics.
The old lady is old and strong, and although the movement is not large, she can still fight the miscellaneous soldiers to find teeth.
I was not worth the yellow action actors in the film, I originally thought that I could enter Hollywood when I met a big company, but I didn't expect to pick up such a bad script.
The action actors themselves are fine, the problem is the script and martial arts instruction.
Andrew Koji, the actor of the American drama "Warrior", Iko Uwais, the actor of the "Thug" series, and Peter Mensah of "Spartan 300 Warriors", all of them are tough guys, and it is a pity to be here.
If you look at it according to the standard of ten points, the overall feeling of this film is probably one point more than "Judo Star".
The intention is to restart the IP to open a new universe,
Actual word of mouth is ruining the popularity of passers-by.
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