What is the most important thing for a film series to achieve market success and even audience recognition?
The answer is positioning.
There are children's shoes that may wonder, isn't it quality? Do you position it accurately, but if the quality of the shot is not good enough, it will not fail?
In fact, an accurate positioning affects the shooting direction of the film and the quality of the final product.
A very simple truth, take the Marvel Universe that everyone is familiar with, this is a very typical entertainment film series, if one of the movies has to take a deep route similar to "The Dark Knight", what will be the consequences?
The answer is a high probability of hitting the street, because the depth route has never been a strength of the Marvel Universe, and "The Dark Knight" is not something that anyone can shoot.
On the contrary, if you continue to make entertainment films according to the positioning of the Marvel Universe, it is most likely to be successful, and even if it is not good, it will definitely reach the passing line (the passing line of entertainment films).
Of course, it is not easy for a series to find its own positioning, and there are many people who find a path that suits them from stumbling.
The "Mission Impossible 2" that I want to talk about this time is such a typical example.
Although the film series "Mission Impossible" is a secret agent film, its iconic highlight is a variety of thrilling actions.
This is also the element that distinguishes it from another traditional secret agent film, "007", because "Mission Impossible" and "007" itself actually have many similarities.
For example, the protagonists are all handsome agents who are fascinated.
There is no shortage of beautiful luxury cars around.
Basically, one part changes a heroine ("Mission Impossible" can be considered to stabilize the heroine until the sixth part)
The protagonist has a high degree of charm, even if caught by the enemy, he will be able to overcome the danger for various reasons.
In the end, it was all about saving the world.
In this case, for Mission Impossible to go its own way, it must have something that is not in 007.
And the thrilling action brought about by the desperate efforts of Atang Ge's "Jackie Chan style" is one of the biggest selling points.
The reason why Wu Yusen's "Mission Impossible 2" is the lowest evaluation of the series is that it is mispositioned, and the film has been completely made into an "enhanced version" of "007".
The signature thrill of the series? Yes, it is the beginning of the Atang brother climbing the mountain.
However, the whole film is basically such a few minutes of thrilling clips, and it is completely a showmanship, and it has nothing to do with what drives the story development.
Next is the full 007 mode.
Let's start with some "commercial snippets."
For example, there will be such "commercial shots" in 007, which are generally specially contributed by the heroine and the girl.
Disc 2 has a similar story.
It is normal for commercial films to have these shots, but most of the time they are very short, so that there is no sense of being too deliberate, that is, the fifth part of the "Mission Impossible" series itself, there are also such shots, but it is only about 1 second before and after.
007 and "Disc 2" are a long shot that lasts a long time.
And what the role of these shots is presumably need not be said more, to be honest it is very sad, a special agent film known for its thrilling action, does not focus on the script and action scenes, but to engage in these shots as a point of view.
The human aspect is even more disastrous.
The protagonist of 007, James Bond, likes beautiful women and goes to pick them up when he sees them.
Ethan Hunt, the protagonist in "Disc 2", sees that the heroine is a thief and does not care, but also runs to pick it up.
This kind of plot is a very obvious "handsome link", although the appearance of Brother Tang does not have to play very handsome, but if you put it in the present, this is a very typical idol plot section, handsome brother and sister, if this is not Brother Tang but an older actor, then you can also add the word "greasy" into it.
Even, in order to make Brother Tang handsome, the movie uses an excess of slow motion, Brother Tang is to pull a gun, stroke the hair or something to give a slow-motion close-up, slow-motion when racing, slow-motion when the car explodes, and even use slow-motion when playing bosses.
Saving the world is an extra task, the story script is not important, the focus of the shooting method is not the film itself, the main thing is to see how the protagonist plays handsome, and the focus is to defeat the bad guys and hold the beauty.
Put the focus on these things, don't expect the script to be perfect, the story of "Disc 2" itself is quite general, and in order to make the protagonist play handsome, the film also has all kinds of disregard for logic, and the protagonist is even brighter than 007.
Dozens of gunmen on the opposite side could never hurt Brother Atang's hair no matter what, on the contrary, as soon as Brother Tang drew his gun, there were definitely a few who were going to die.
When the highway is racing, Atangge's motorcycle is simply a god to block the killing of the god Buddha, that is, to drive to 200 miles per hour, the gun method is the effect of locking the target.
On the other side, no matter how many people are dispatched, they are all deadly goods, and they can't feel a sense of crisis at all.
The final boss battle is completely turn-based, Brother Atang punches, the boss falls, then gets up, punches, Brother Atang falls, then Brother Tang gets up, punches again, boss falls again, and so on.
In the back, Brother Tang's blood is not enough, and suddenly remembers the tragic heroine, the small universe erupts, and picks up a gun to knock down the boss.
When this film was filmed, the times had entered the new century, and it was humiliating to have such an old design.
There are many other shots and details that are very exaggerated, and there is no way to point out the number here.
The "007" series was originally a very typical "big male protagonist" movie, and "Mission Impossible 2" not only imitated the model of others, but also expressed this model in several times the intensity.
If James Bond's protagonist's aura intensity is 100, then at least 500 or more in Disc 2.
The consequence of overemphasizing the protagonist's aura is to cause the film to be seriously inaccurate, although the film certainly has an element of artistic exaggeration, but you can't leave all the physical laws or logical common sense behind in order to make the protagonist play handsome.
The audience looks at this film and feels like watching "007", but it is different from "007", after all, it is exaggerated too much.
As for Mission Impossible? If you don't look at the title, does this film have a little to do with that series?
The performance of this film is not very good, with the help of the limelight of the previous work and the appeal of Atang Ge, although the box office is acceptable, but the ratings of both the audience and the film critics are very low, and they all fail.
Just imagine, if "Disc 2" still follows the positioning of the previous game, with exciting action scenes as the selling point, and shoots in accordance with the usual direction of secret agent films, it will not be successful, but the overall quality is better than the current "Disc 2" is a high probability thing.
Of course, fortunately, the production side realized this mistake later, and has been back on the right path since the third part, and now the series is also developing better and better.