The last film in the "X-Men" series, "Dark Phoenix", suffered a double waterloo of word-of-mouth and box office, which caused a lot of creative pressure on the "X-Men" series, so the highly anticipated "New Mutants" changed the superhero movie route and tried the teen horror thriller genre for the first time.
The reinvigorating of X-Men fell on the shoulders of Josh Boone, director who directed Cardboard Boxer and The Fault in Our Stars, who picked five young up-and-coming actors to try to take a wave of heroes out of the mainstream and start a new generation of bold operations.
To put it simply, "New Mutants" is the original acquaintance of the five young mutants of Moon Star, Wolf Poison, Secret Guest, Cannon cannon, and Sunspot, how to run into each other, understand each other, and finally overcome each other's inner demons, discover their inner strength, unite to defeat the villain Dr. Reis, who also has superpowers, and finally achieve self-growth and awakening, escape the secret research institute controlled by Issers Enterprises, and break Mr. Shock's attempt to cultivate and use mutants to fight against the X-Men.
Unfortunately, this idea of using fear to promote the self-awakening of superheroes has been cut and tampered with by various terms and regulations of the producers. As a result, the "New Mutants" horror film is not scary enough, the youth film is too much nonsense, the superhero film is not playing enough...
The three major crimes were listed, and finally I made my own good idea the worst reputation in the whole series!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > could have built a juvenile version of the mutant universe</h1>
"New Mutants" actually has a large and delicate plan, wanting to take advantage of the fact that Marvel Studios and Twentieth Century Fox jointly produced the two classic projects of "Spider-Man" and "Deadpool" to break the gradual decline of the "X-Men" series and start another line of thoughts.
After all, from the very beginning of its birth, it has the lofty ambition to surpass the self-proclaimed orthodox X-Men of the Charles School of Genius and stand on its own! ——"New Mutants" is adapted from the spin-off of the same name in the "X-Men" comics of the 1980s, which belongs to the derivative works of Marvel movies, although it is related to the system of Professor X Charles-Magneto Rancher, but with a stubborn mentality, trying to establish a new portal and establish its own camp.
In the past two years, with the continuous expansion of the Mickey Mouse Group, Marvel and Baby Dee have joined forces to push the "Avengers" universe in full swing, taking advantage of this favorable trend of big gains, and even acquired the "Old Fox" Twentieth Century Fox, which is also a major six studios. As a result, the filming rights of several sets of superheroes originally leased to the old fox were taken out to merge, and "Spider-Man" reshaped the golden body, and also returned to the "Avengers Universe" and interacted with the entire series;
"Deadpool" gag jokes, selling cute criminals in the anti-hero series is particularly popular... Therefore, "New Mutants" thought of taking advantage of the fact that after the Charles Genius School trilogy, Brian Singer was plagued by negative news, and the overall planning was temporarily without a follow-up, using its own advantage of starting a new stove to hook up with the mainstream plot of the "X-Men" series.
As a result, the production company decided to use the original team to promote the "three fools" Sophie Turner, gathered the original team and the original screenwriter for the director, and launched the "Dark Phoenix" known as the "Mutant Haifeisi Advertisement". And "New Mutants" did not delay, with "second lady" Maisie Williams as the leading character, gathered Anya Taylor Joy, a new generation of actors with considerable potential, into the filming process.
Then, as we all know, the final box office reputation of "Dark Phoenix" was weak, frightening the producers to stop the "New Mutants" that had already been filmed, and then after a year of release, make-up and deletion, and other storms and waves, "New Mutants" that had been sewn up for three years had become a completely unrecognizable mutant in the original and the original intention of the screenwriter!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the most obvious problem, PG-13 is still inconsistent in the positioning of all ages! </h1>
As a young director, Josh Boone has no voice in the entire production system is vividly reflected in the production process of "New Mutants".
According to his previous shooting and screenwriting path, he has his own overall plan for this film - he wants to build the entire story by breaking the unfathomable demons in the hearts of the five protagonists, and in this mode, presenting the demons of the five protagonists and the ensuing horror atmosphere is a necessary and indispensable important link.
However, because of this gloomy and terrifying atmosphere, when facing the audience's audience, dealing with a strict American film rating system will inevitably reduce the size of the audience. Considering the box office revenue, the production company will force the film to add more peaceful and positive things from the horror atmosphere, improve the rating, and attract more age groups to enter the cinema!
Therefore, such a game, "New Mutants" in the process of narration is inconsistent - lack of control and greed, want to terror and encourage teenagers both, but also to cater to the production company for what feminist ah, marginal groups (this is not, women and two strong into a pair - and double standard, the feelings of two boys who were originally a pair of children have been diluted) various correct statements, mixed in all directions, made into a four-different synthesis.
So that in the end, the intention to make youth, terrorization, and completion of the "New Mutants" deconstructing the "X-Men" series after the nirvana reshaping completely failed, wanted to put three young and strong female protagonists into the male-dominated movie, neutralized a new female color of the plan is also noisy, and finally this resurrection did not get what it wanted, but fell deliberately, and also lost the quality and reputation.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > its proportion distribution is extremely unreasonable! </h1>
After the original intention of "New Mutants" to use horror to promote the young mutants to face their own lives and abilities was overturned, it fell into the traditional path of increasing the mutual enlightenment and mutual promotion of teenagers for the sake of harmony.
To put it bluntly, it is to overturn the integrated plot of the original horror film that frightens the children into a counterattack, and then use the small motifs in it, such as the content of each of the three styles of teenage drama, teen fantasy and horror thriller movie, to piece together, and use a method of forced positive encouragement to complete the positive guidance of teenagers. Because the overthrow of the original purpose and the tough mixture similar to the gambling gas in the later period, the overall effect looks different.
Such an outcome is like the unceremonious evaluation of The Hollywood Reporter — a rolling-eyed déjà vu.
And the veteran film critic pointed out the problem of plot distribution - Boone mistook the balance of multi-genre mixing and matching:
If you pursue horror, you have to make that atmosphere to the extreme, and it takes a process to be scared; if you want to make a teenage film, you don't have to cut so many awkward and clumsy conversations, because teenagers are energetic, and their enthusiasm for talking is not as good as letting them fight with each other with superpowers; say it's a superhero film, you give a reason to leave enough time for them to play with the villain...
But Boone lost himself in his original motivation and the requirements of the production company, and used a most secure but most incapable of showing his own philosophy of the routine process to show the growth and face of the five protagonists in the plot, and, in the rhythm of the process, stuck to the accumulation of a large number of literary dramas (pinching the stopwatch calculation, the middle of the five people psychological rescue team sitting together to exchange ideas, plain and lengthy accounting for three-fifths of the entire film, those unconscious and actual internal conflict lines, I really can't build the inner emotional conflict that should be there)
So it's no wonder some people say, "If this is a pilot episode of a TV series, viewers may be willing to watch it, and it's a big deal to watch it metamorphose season by season." But now, as a big movie, "New Mutants" is an independent individual, so this long process of special mutation looks loose and lengthy, like the water and soil are not satisfied, and finally walk into a dead end. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > once sweet, now Mrs. Cow. </h1>
Moreover, the new mutant's choreographers didn't find an overall trend —not only was the X-Men system heading for a gradual decline, but even the Avengers they wanted to integrate into, and even the entire superhero system, were experiencing a gradual decline of strength and humiliation.
The superhero genre has passed its heyday after more than a decade of glory. With the total war of "Avengers 4" and the withdrawal of the original giants as the boundary, the trend of dominating the box office is bound to form a decline.
The audience's familiarity with this subject has reached a certain degree of saturation. This weakness, in "Dark Phoenix" has shown a kind of inability to break through, can only be in some corners of the small repair of the cramped, "New Mutants" want to make a new era of groundbreaking feats under this trend, you need to have "Wolverine 3: Death a Battle" to kill the biggest hot spot, and then slowly cultivate the determination of new hot spots!
Unfortunately, "New Mutants" does not have this kind of boldness, and can only be a once tender, now red-faced and old-looking complaining woman, and use all her strength to dodge and move in a limited range. Like the little sweet lady who was plump under the moonlight, she was boiled alive into a sallow-yellow-faced cow lady with upside-down eyebrows!
What is even more unfortunate is that Mrs. Niu actually has her own advantages, but the choreography team has not discovered her mature and feminine, a thousand turns, and is still forcing her to never go back to the little sweet state, forcing youth, tough beautiful girl!
In this way, "New Mutants" has become the worst in the series, and it is not wrong to think about it!