Here it comes.
After waiting for 4 years, "Thor 4", which has a global box office of 755 million, has finally been online for streaming.
After a night of revelry.
But it left a more glaring number: Douban 5.7, the second-to-last in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In fact, since the release of the north American release, the word of mouth has not been too good.
△ IMDb 6.6, Rotten Tomatoes freshness 65%
Is it really that ugly?
Did Marvel really collapse after the third phase?
Sir is still a bit skeptical.
No matter what others say, you must personally plate a plate.
Thor 4: Goodbye, Ex
Thor 4: Love and Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder
Fans who like Thor even more must admit it.
The "Thor" series has been awkwardly positioned in Marvel movies from the beginning.
As the first three elders:
Iron Man, with a playboy personality and cool sense of technology, breaks the traditional super-British image, debut is the peak;
The US team, taking a detour, just debuted in the dark political thriller style, poor box office results, and then turned around and slammed the action scene, with the real combat sense of blow as the biggest point of view.
What about Thor?
The background relies on Norse mythology, the characters are too "suspended", the story is bitter and vengeful, and it seems a little dull at the level of the public, which can only make Loki, who originally had a complex life, gradually "comedic" in the movie universe.
Starting from "Thor 3", new directors joined, the style was more grotesque, the human settings were more flying, and Thor himself directly cut off his long hair and incarnated as "Comic".
This stylistic shift has indeed breathed new life into the collection.
However, in "Thor 4", everything was a little too strong.
If the last one is just a change in style, the direction of the story still has a strong mythological color - about family ethics and the blurred boundaries between gods and demons.
Then, "Thor 4" is almost completely moving towards "younger age".
The action scenes are sloppy, under the colorful color palette, the plot seems to be barely patched together, not to mention that the theme of "Love and Thunder" is shallow and almost no theme.
Who would have thought that the climax of the movie would be a group of children fighting with a teddy bear.
Of course, the effect will definitely vary from person to person – if your expectation is to look at the big names, look at the special effects, and smile and be refreshed, "Thor 4" is passed.
However.
When the movie completely sucked away the classical background of the series and downgraded the gods to an entertainment background board, "Thor" was also reduced to an ordinary person in the Marvel series.
But.
Yes, Sir has to say but.
Is Thor 4 really useless?
Spit and Easter eggs, it is estimated that the poisoned rice has also seen more, Sir today wants to say something different.
Merit.
Watching the whole film, Sir really remembers, and is moved by, not Thor's muscles, not the goat's crazy cry throughout the film, nor Natalie's ageless countenance (well, it has been dreamed a few times).
It's him.
Oh wrong.
It's him.
The villain, the old Batman Christian Bell.
In Sir's view, "Thor 4" can be called a villain who saves a group of protagonists.
Before introducing him, let's briefly tell the story.
The time follows Thor 3 and Avengers 4.
Thanos snapped his fingers, half of the life in the universe disappeared, and Thor, the strongest of the Avengers, failed to stop the evil deeds and blamed himself.
Self-abandonment and self-abandonment into a big fat man.
Later, the alliance members mouth cannon + cross home mom's enlightenment, a baptism down, hammer brother epiphany, wearing Forrest Gump hat, carry forward forrest Gump's spirit, reinvigorated, an axe hammer exploded Thanos.
Half the life in the universe is back!
Thor's mind also grew.
No longer obsessed with temporary power gains and losses, after giving the territory (Asgard) to the Valkyrie to manage, he returned to the garden and meditated.
The above is the previous situation and the last word.
The first shot of the film falls on another man.
Slayer Ger (Christian Bell).
Deserts, fierce winds, barren planets.
The tribe of Gel prayed reverently for miracles to come and save their people, who were on the brink of extinction in the drought.
Pray a thousand times, where is God?
One by one, the relatives around him starved to death.
The most beloved little daughter breathed in her arms.
Gel couldn't take it anymore.
Does the god who is said to shelter his people really exist?
Ger lost hope and lay desperately in front of his daughter's grave.
In a trance.
An oasis and the voice of God appeared ahead.
Apparitions?
Gel wandered into the oasis, where a pile of melons and fruits was piled up in front of him.
Apparitions!
Before he could finish eating a melon, God spoke.
The general meaning is as follows:
1, I will not bless you;
2, you are dead has nothing to do with me;
3, you believe in me, just wishful thinking, in my eyes you are not even as good as a dog.
Gehr was stupid, stunned, sad, desperate... And then.
Angry.
Coincidentally, the Necromancer Sword on the ground sensed the killing qi, smelled the blood of revenge, and automatically flew into Gel's hand.
The first step of the god killer, with the help of the sword, is easily completed.
God's neck sprang up with golden blood and left Gehr with a prophecy:
This sword has chosen you
You are now cursed
Yes, when the Necromancer Chooses Its Owner, it can control them to complete the sword's mission: the Slayer God.
To be precise, it does not choose the owner, but only the host.
This setting adds a subtle layer to the villain:
He simply changed from one enslaved state (belief in God) to another (believing in revenge).
The only difference is that he gains (ephemeral) power.
Will this be the end for all ordinary people?
Keep looking.
Geer, who opened the killing ring, his body and mind were no longer under his control, and he met the gods in the universe to kill the gods.
Originally, all he hated was the evil god of inaction and regarded his followers as grass.
But the sword qi was on his upper body, and he could not choose.
Whether they were evil or genuinely guarded, they all died at his hands.
There's a scene in the film.
Thor sadly looks at a giant beast on the ice stone, exactly like in the comics.
This beast, a good god who dutifully guarded one side, was also brutally killed by Gel.
In the comic, this previous affair is much more tragic.
The first is Gel's family.
The son starved to death in his arms, the mother was bitten to death by the beast, and before she died, she was praying to the gods, and the wife died in an earthquake, one body and two lives...
And his people, still believing in the gods, prayed intently, and even exiled him because he was not ashamed of his words to God.
When the miracle is revealed, it is also more cruel.
(Didn't even give him a piece of fruit)
The two gods appear to be fighting, and Gehr witnesses God's disregard for his people.
It was not far away, listening to the call of its people, watching the misery of their people, but never thinking of saving them.
Despair brings anger, and anger breeds killing.
It can be said that this is a race cursed by the gods and demons.
Therefore, the malice carried by Riegel in the original book is greater than in the movie:
He travels through the timeline of the present and the future, killing all the gods in the timeline with a god-slaying bomb.
Prior to this, he was sometimes a slaughterer and sometimes killed by brutal methods.
His wife (after resurrection) was also killed by Gel, and the son, who witnessed his evil deeds, helped Thor kill the Slayer.
The film deliberately weakens the intensity of the characters.
Only a few images remain:
Thor whispered in front of the beast, "That's the god of the mana plus, one of the friendliest gods."
The scene of the gods' deaths flashed in the distress signal.
Although it is for the sake of scale considerations, it also allows the film to have a happy ending logically.
But at least in the few key scenes where the villain appears.
The audience can still feel the complexity of the character's tragedy.
For the first time, the sides fought.
After retreating, Thor takes over the mission of the old man "Guardians of the Galaxy" and goes to a certain planet to fight monsters.
Cause of the dispute: Gole killed the biggest god on the planet, and the dragons were leaderless and lost their shelter.
So the alien villain came to invade.
Thor ended the fight with three strokes and two blows, knocking the villain to death.
It's just that......
The monster ran away, and the home was gone...
Here's a subtle shot:
The leader of the planet has repeatedly stressed that don't tear down the house, don't build a temple, the temple is our spiritual pillar.
And then.
This also corresponds to the later period, when Thor personally experienced the hypocrisy and selfishness of the gods, and staged a "great disturbance in the heavenly palace" in the temple of Zeus.
Foreshadowing Gel's true purpose:
Not to kill a certain god, a certain group of gods, but to personally dismantle a rigid and decaying order.
Second head-to-head encounter.
At this point, Thor can still giggle and joke with the old guys.
Immediately he couldn't laugh.
The Slayer killed his hometown.
It also took away God's children.
One, to attract Thor and the gods, so that they can be netted.
Second, he needs Thor's axe to unleash rainbow energy to help him open the door of eternity and fulfill a wish.
(How suddenly a little bit of Ba La La little magic fairy inner taste)
It is also here that the female Thor first appears, the protagonist squad is assembled, and the villain begins to fight, and the main story really unfolds.
And the progress bar, it is already more than halfway through.
In order to save the children, the protagonist and his party have to come to the shadow field, a place where all colors will be swallowed up.
The picture becomes thick black and white.
This is in stark contrast to the colorful, playful and angry children's film style of the front.
(In the whole film, only the villain is seriously acting in a super British movie, tearful)
This time, it was the foreplay of their pinnacle showdown.
As soon as Gel came up, he pointed out that they were in the same situation:
You seek God's help, and God ignores you.
(Previously, the Norse god Thor had sought the help of the Greek god Zeus, but failed))
But in fact, can they be the same?
Even if Thor doesn't get help from the gods, he's a god—he has the power of the gods and the aura of the protagonist and the blessings he was born with.
Gel, on the other hand, is just a poor flesh under the control of the Necromancer Sword.
The harder he tried to slaughter the gods, the more it seemed that his life was a joke.
The question is, does he have a choice?
Shrouded in God's lies, He is the only awakened one.
But awakening, bringing him hurt and loneliness.
So, when confronted with the protagonists, they were bound by Gel.
Gore desperately wanted to pull the Thors into the same camp as him.
Three conversations.
It reflects the helplessness in Gel's heart.
He first questioned the Valkyrie:
Also go poor female Thor.
For they are not God, and they are humble people.
When it came to Thor, he was in fact helpless, for he himself was the king of the gods.
You can only threaten him with the people you love the most.
Now.
The three "gods", looking at him, are more like seeing three mirrors.
Illuminate the hollowness in the heart of the Valkyrie as the "agent Thor", illuminate the fear of the female Thor as an ordinary person after obtaining divine power, and illuminate the nothingness of the Thor god who cannot court.
Gel which is a powerful villain.
He killed gods, made contracts with the devil, and even risked his life... All this is nothing more than the incompetence caused by his long-term aphasia as a low-level person in the world of the Heavenly Gods and Buddhas.
After that, Sir no more spoilers.
The reason why Sir wants to re-talk about the character of Gel is because the villain is a weakness that Marvel can't get around.
How many impressive Marvel villains do you have?
Thanos was successful.
After all, his strength, his motives for evil, and Marvel's years of laying the groundwork for him are unprecedented in the Marvel Universe.
A ringing finger wiped out half of the people, terrible and contemptuous.
Unfortunately, when the final chapter appeared again, he forcibly lowered his mind for the sake of the reunion, and gambled that he had to live and die with the reunion.
△ Snapping your fingers is the shape of love you
Looking at other series, not many people really have character arcs.
Or, it's profit, evil is the guts of the guts — like Iron Man Tony's business rivals.
Or, a natural antisocial personality– a natural love of evil, but often failing to give compelling reasons.
All that's left is a pure killing machine.
Like Ultron, like the Red Skull...
However, one of their major characteristics is that they are initially rendered very strongly, but at the end, they find that there is a villain behind the villain, just an infinite nesting doll of power level.
Of course, there are a few exceptions occasionally.
Like Baron Zemo played by Daniel Bruch and Vulture played by Keaton, the strength is not very strong, at least the IQ and personality are online.
And the Thor series is carefully polished in this link of the villain.
Hela, the goddess of death, loki, the god of tricks.
These two are not only more plump characters.
At the same time, behind their evil genes, the audience can often glimpse the cracks under the holy light of the entire Norse god clan.
And the god slayer Gehr in "Thor 4" is different from them.
He has no great power, no intelligent brain, and the pattern is very small.
In his eyes, he could only put his own family behind him.
He kidnapped the children and ripped off the head of a monster to scare them.
Three sentences and two harsh words are finished.
Thought of his own daughter.
But it is this kind of simple, true love.
Only in the end did Thor be influenced by him, give up his ambition to save the universe, give up his identity as a god, and choose to embrace the lover in front of him.
Did the protagonist group win in the end?
Truly.
In fact, the victory did not belong to them, but to the self-inflicted wounds of a poor man.
Superheroes, win the nest.
Unfortunately, this nest is still diluted by the "positive energy" of the ending.
One detail:
Two days ago, Marvel released a deleted clip, Zeus found Thor and personally taught the use of the weapon Thunderbolt.
Thor asked, "Are you really not going with us?"
Zeus spread his hands and said:
If you want to go there, you have a pure heart
Zeus had many faces
But he cannot be called pure in heart
This meaningful dialogue did not appear in the movie in the end.
As the head of the gods in Greek mythology, zeus's complex two-sidedness in his personality has not been reflected.
Just watch the movie content now.
Zeus was purely a hypocritical, lustful, cowardly greasy uncle.
But, how is that possible?
I have to say that compared to a "Thor 4", Marvel may indeed have a longer-term blueprint and a more magnificent movie plan.
For example, the "Young Avengers" program is clearly accelerating.
When the world's largest entertainment kingdom has set its sights on the next generation of audiences, the next consumers.
We walked into it again.
The experience is no longer a new project, a new thrill, a new toy.
It's just a memory that I don't want to lose.
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Editorial Assistant: Kitano Martial Arts Master