Although the reputation of "Wanda's Vision" and "Rocky" and other episodes is good,
But the two films "Black Widow" and "Shangqi" did not please most of them.
Marvel's fourth phase started somewhat unfavorably.
The fourth phase of the investment of more than 300 million US dollars in "Eternal Family", the pioneering work of the new IP.
Since the announcement of the director, it has been expected to become a god work, and I did not expect to lose both at the box office in the end.
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The Eternals
People walk into the theater for fun, but it must be admitted that watching movies is a manual work.
Some time ago, the re-screening of "The Lord of the Rings" suffered from spitting, and the time was too long to hold back the urine.
And this two-and-a-half-hour "Eternals" challenges everyone's bladder, not to mention, but also requires the audience's full attention.
Because there are too many characters in the scene, the "Eternals" protagonist group alone has ten characters.
Played by Richard Madden, Jama Chan, Angelina Jolie, Kumel Nanjani, Ma Dongxi, Salma Hayek and other big names.
Everyone has their own complete storyline, as well as intricate emotional relationships.
The main story outside of them is also an extraordinary, large-scale fantasy epic.
Audience perception ↑↑
The film opens with the biblical language narrating the story.
The first beings born in the universe were the Celestial Gods,
They were incredibly tall, and their true faces were hidden under the armor, but no one knew what was under the armor.
Arisamu, the supreme of the Celestial Gods, created humans for earth.
All things coexist in harmony in balance, and human beings are gradually evolving wisdom.
At this time, predators such as the "mutants" suddenly appeared, and they fed on humans.
In order to save humanity, Alisem summoned the Eternals from Olympia to confront him.
They have the same appearance as humans, but they are able to live forever and have excellent skills.
Behind the countless exciting stories in human history, there is a struggle between the Eternals and the Mutants.
When they destroyed the mutants, they did not wait for the news that Alisem had let them go home.
At the same time, there was a gap between the people and the people who wanted to interfere with the pits and deceptions brought about by the ugly side of human nature.
One of the members, Diana, also suffered from "Holy Demon Disease", and almost overthrew all her teammates when she ran out.
The spiritual leader Azak decided to dismiss the people and let them live in the ordinary human way, to perceive their own lives.
Five hundred years later, Cersei, who was living in London, stumbled upon the reappearance of mutants who were supposed to have disappeared and gained the ability to heal themselves.
By the time she found Azakh, he was dead and Cersei had been chosen as the new leader.
Now she must find all her friends and destroy the "mutants" together.
And she learns all the truth in her conversation with Alitham:
Earth, like several other planets, has been sown with the seeds of the Celestial Beings.
The birth of these gods depends on the wisdom of intelligent life, and human beings are only their nourishment.
At first, Alisem designed the Mutants as the guardians of humanity, but they became predators due to design flaws.
The Eternals are nothing more than mass-made machines whose real mission is to assist in the birth of the gods.
When a deity is born, they are recycled and sent to the next planet.
There are enough people today to support the gods in the depths of the earth's crust to break out of the shell, but it is also doomed to the destruction of humanity and the earth.
Cersei, who loves human life, decides to gather the strength of the members of the Eternal Clan to prevent the birth of the gods.
The members, represented by Cersei's former partner, Icarris, are more like performing their original mission and do not want to save humanity.
Such a large-scale story, not into a TV series, but also to make a trilogy.
When condensed into a movie, it seems incredibly crowded.
Many times, the emotional behavior of the characters is not promoted to a procedural turn, and it seems flat and blunt.
For example, Icaris, who is also good and evil, jumps repeatedly, but his anti-water always comes inexplicably.
Compared with the long story prelude, the end of the story is also much sloppy.
In the process of killing the members of the Eternal Clan, the mutants also absorbed various abilities, and even spoke human language.
When the Mutants knew the truth about everything, I thought it would join hands with the Eternals to defend the Earth and rebel against Alithom.
Unexpectedly, the image of the villain was still the same, and finally died at the hands of Diana in an extremely absurd form.
Perhaps when Marvel found director Zhao Ting, it wanted to find someone to control such a complex proposition.
To be honest, this different Marvel does have something that attracts the audience.
For example, each fight scene is incredibly smooth, which can invigorate the audience's sleepy nerves.
The sloppy and fancy way connects human history and Marvel stories, and the imagination is incomparably rich.
The gray tone of the literary film, the delicate technique of capturing emotions, these directors are good at not pleasing all audiences.
After all, in the eyes of most viewers, Marvel is just a popcorn movie for fun.
These chapters do not meet the psychological needs of the general audience.
In addition to constructing a worldview and highlighting the hero's personal image, the director wants to present too many things.
Mutants have resurfaced due to melting glaciers, which is a hot and current climate warming issue.
The gods were born from the ocean with volcanic eruptions, just like the natural disasters that occurred in Tonga these days.
The "Eternals" protagonist group also includes all kinds of people, Asian blacks and other minorities, LGBT, deaf and mute, girls...
This is the correctness of the Western style, and it is also in line with the director's original intention of "finding the place of human beings in the world".
Not everyone will respect and understand the blessing.
The first same-sex kiss in Marvel's history made "Eternals" banned in many countries.
What has aroused the indignation of countless audiences is to reflect on the entrainment of smuggled goods in war.
Fastos, the negro brother of the Eternals, was a great inventor, architect, and engineer.
He wanted to use technology to boost human development, but found that human beings used technology for war.
When the mushroom cloud of Hiroshima rose, he knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, human beings are not worth saving.
In fact, in the entire film in the narrative of human history, more than once mentioned the relationship between war and technology.
Fastos met her husband after this collapse and was healed by human love.
He also concluded that war is a double-edged sword, which not only caused damage, but also allowed the rapid development of post-World War II technology.
It's just that the screenwriter chooses to reflect on the historical node, which is unacceptable to the vast majority of the audience.
After all, the dropping of the atomic bomb is an important node in the world's anti-fascist struggle.
Instead of reflecting on who started the war first, the screenwriter emphasizes the pain he endured, which is tantamount to washing the ground for the invaders.
Abroad, not only Koreans don't buy it, but many Americans can't recognize it.
As the saying goes, walking in the rivers and lakes is inseparable from wheat resistance to lodging.
Even without this atomic bomb, Eternals wouldn't have been a film with positive feedback.
The movie also has a lot of Easter eggs, which also reveals the meaning of the sequel.
Whether or not you can take back a city next depends on Marvel itself