It's time to come back.
Marvel's new work is also the final chapter of the series:
"Guardians of the Galaxy 3" was officially released with a score of 8.6.
About the promotional slogan in the trailer that seems to be a little big - "Marvel is best after "Avengers 4".
Sir felt quite objective after watching the film.
On the one hand, "Silver Guard" has always been one of the most stable series in Marvel's reputation under the blessing of the distinctive personal style of the rolling guide, and the first two Douban films are above 8 points, and the final chapter can be played stably.
On the other hand, behind this sentence, it also represents that Marvel admitted that the movies after "Avengers 4" are not bad.
Both the audience and the official finally agreed:
Only "change" can change one's life against the heavens.
So Sir's expectations for Marvel are not just "Silver Guard 3" in front of him.
Also, the "big move" that has been held back for nearly five years.
01
In the past, when I mentioned Marvel movies, the first thing that came to mind was definitely the box office.
This is also Marvel's increasingly solidified label - the theme park of crazy money printing.
But it's different.
When it comes to it, you may not think of a Marvel work at all, but the long list of awards behind it is a heavy one:
The 91st Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the 76th Golden Globe Award for Best Animation, the British Film Institute for Best Animated Feature Film, the 46th Animation Annie Awards...
Can you believe it?
A Marvel work that won almost all the animated film awards that year.
It has maintained a high score of 8.6 on Douban, surpassing 96% of cartoons.
The movie is called Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
And next month, June 2, its sequel:
"Spider-Man: Across the Universe" will be released simultaneously in China and North America.
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In Sir's view, it is about to start a new variation of the Marvel movie:
Let the audience forget the label of "Marvel" solidification.
The "Marvel" brand must be rebuilt first.
That is, outside the more burning, cooler, more exciting assembly line.
Let's get back to the original throbbing as a Marvel fan, those whimsical strangeness.
The first "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" did it.
The movie concept is fresh.
For example, this is the first time we have seen the "Spider-Man Multiverse."
And this diversity is not a nostalgic diversity of a limited time return.
It's really a different timeline, different experiences, different genders, and even different "species" of Spider-Man.
The world of the protagonist Miles, who undergoes strange changes in his body after he is accidentally bitten by a spider that has suffered radioactive contamination.
Even involved himself in the chaotic "Spider-Man" parallel universe.
There are Spider Gwen, Shadow Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Two-dimensional Spider Sister Penny...
These Spider-Men don't just look different.
The world they live in also has a distinct "character".
Spider Gwen:
It's like coming out of a cyberpunk movie.
The world has many silhouettes of repeating vertical stripes, and there are almost only two colors.
Red is her generous and full mood, and blue is her low and gloomy mood.
Alan Hawkins, head of character animation, said: "Gwen's world is made up of a whirlwind of colors. We will see the scene gradually disappear into the distance, leaving only color. In tense, highly dramatic moments, it can give a feeling of out-of-body experience. ”
Protagonist Miles Morales:
From Earth 1610, this is a paradise for American classic comics.
In his world, the style of "Ben-Day dots, a printing method that uses small colored dots to create shadows and colors of an image through spaced and combined" is most prominent on the picture.
For example, the dialog boxes in his mind are all represented by "Ben Dai Point".
Subsequent appearances, one by one, surprise:
a black-and-white detective film with Shadow Spider-Man strolling through "Old New York" in a gentleman's costume;
Two-dimensional world, a pair of big watery eyes, spider sister Penny with a super mecha;
There is absolutely no spoof homophonic meme, inspired by Warner cartoon Pig Brother's "Spider-Man"...
For Spider-Man, who has only had one "Marvel" taste over the years, the audience may also be aesthetically fatigued.
Suddenly the "Spider-Man" universe appeared in front of you, which was definitely a big surprise.
△ In 2021, "Spider-Man: Homeless" brought three generations of Spider-Man together in a parallel time and space.
But.
For the sequel, all this is still too "pediatric".
02
Just look at the trailer to see how ambitious the movie can be.
It is not like the first one, which only gives you a few different types of Spider-Man in time and space.
Direct imagination pulling:
Spider Alliance.
It can be said that here, the "spiders" are already overwhelmed.
When the "Stop Spider-Man" alarm sounded in the mansion, all "Spider-Man" were collectively dumbfounded:
Block whom? Which Spider-Man?
Hahaha.
Don't panic.
When the camera pulls in, it focuses on each specific Spider-Man.
Sir just looked at the previous information, and he was already full of excitement.
Pick a few heavyweights to introduce to you:
Miguel O'Hara.
The future New New York City from Earth 928 is also the leader of the Spider-Man team that formed the parallel universe.
But the Earth here is not the Earth we know.
The future ruling class has built a palatial, AI-controlled "perfect" paradise here. This new New York consists of a blue pencil draft, a rough marker composition, and a final acrylic paint style.
Justin S. Director K. Thompson said: "The surface of the new New York is hard and cold, and there are many problems hidden underground, which completely reflects the portrayal of Miguel in the film. ”
Indian Spider-Man, Pavita Paralabahaka.
From Earth 50101, the mandala world is composed of patterns and colors.
Unlike many Spider-Man, he was not bitten by a spider, but obtained the ability of "Spider-Man" from a mysterious shaman. Moreover, the patterns and clothes on his body are also drawn from the face painting style of the traditional Indian dance taiyam.
Hobby Brown, punk Spider-Man.
A world from the mixing of London and modern London in the 70s and 80s is a Spider-Man with a head, leather clothes and ripped jeans.
He often holds an electric guitar in his hand, turning the resulting sound waves into weapons.
On Earth 332, Jessica Drew, who rides a motorcycle, has a pregnant Spider-Woman.
Her fight scene is crisp and clean, crushing vultures with a motorcycle, wearing Spider-Man's tights, and does not hide the curves of her abdomen.
After the first movie was released, all the little girls and teenage girls wanted to be Gwen.
And Jesca's appearance will soon be the "spider hot mother" that all mothers want to be.
These dazzling scenes, Spider-Men with different personalities, put on the big screen, are simply a visual feast.
More important:
This is not only a gathering of "Spider-Man", but more like an underground party of a global niche culture.
In addition to the visible imagination, there is also "invisible" technology.
The animation technology of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" was almost crushing in the mainstream market at that time.
close-up, fine lines and texture on Spider-Man's coat;
mottled street surfaces and reflective headlights, or plastic film on sofas;
Perspective:
When the space-time collider is started, brilliant light spots rendered in 3D appear;
Miles' faith awakened and jumped into the brilliant city night;
When fighting bosses, the city is divided little by little and dissipated.
These details and textures are the ubiquitous "careful machine" of the main creator.
In the sequel "Spider-Man: Across the Universe", Sony used CG process production, combining traditional techniques with futuristic modern technology.
Anything you can imagine and depict can be made into an immersive 3D scene.
More realistic and more detailed.
Sony has built a new design team and new painting tools that allow creators to outline characters with ink lines as they move through space — no longer shaders fixed to the character, but permeate and blend like wet watercolors.
This new technology helps bridge the gap between stylized 2D looks and CG visuals.
Sir can't wait to rush into that gorgeous big screen.
03
Of course, no matter what kind of Spider-Man, any period of Spider-Man, or, any style of Spider-Man.
It all discusses a core issue:
Heroes, how to become heroes.
There is such a scene in the trailer of "Spider-Man: Across the Universe":
Every Spider-Man in time and space will face a problem.
Choose the death of a loved one or friend, or save more people?
Sacrifice is Spider-Man's "destiny".
Although cruel, this is the "only way" for everyone to become Spider-Man.
Even, this ordinary "death" has become the "hell terrier" in "Spider-Man: Across the Universe".
The depressed Spider-Man, lying on the sofa of Spider-Man's psychiatrist, said with a crying voice:
—"I looked at my uncle..."
—Spider-Man's psychiatrist says, "Let me guess, he's dead..."
However, in the sequel, Miles shouts out the grandeur of "I can save both".
Sir speculates that Miles will turn against the "Spider-Man Organization" because of this.
This may also be a truly adventurous experiment in Marvel movies:
Stories with the oldest IP.
Rebel against that old, safe set of values.
For so many years, Spider-Man is still the most people-friendly superhero in Marvel.
Throughout the background of Spider-Man, it is always inseparable from the "ordinary people" who appear in the city.
No matter what time and space Spider-Man is, he/she has the closest and familiar side to us.
He is timid.
After knowing that he has superpowers, Miles, who wants to become Spider-Man, comes to the top floor and wants to try Spider-Man's "floor leap".
But because of his fear of heights, he went downstairs again.
He is weak.
After saving the world countless times, he lost his family, lived on pizza all day, and hid his cry under the shower in the bathroom.
He is also careful with his eyes.
In Sony's first "Spider-Man" played by Tobey Maguire, it was he who had a dispute with the owner of the boxing club, which led to the release of the robber, and as a result, the robber killed his uncle Ben by mistake.
He even, too, wavered.
When he lost his Spider-Man powers, he threw away his Spider-Man suit.
Compared with Iron Man, Batman, Superman who were born with "power".
Spider-Man, more like anyone in the city.
And cartoons dig deep into this meaning.
The first part has such a detail.
When Miles witnesses Peter Parker's killing, he goes to the store to buy a Spider-Man suit to attend his funeral.
At the store, he asked the clerk who looked like Stan Lee, "Can I return if it doesn't fit?" “
The old man turned to him and said, "It will always fit, and it will eventually be."
Is it about uniforms?
Actually, it's about becoming Spider-Man.
If we talk about the Spider-Man live-action movie, it is about how small people in a specific era and a specific background deal with a grand sense of mission.
Then, Spider-Man's animated series is presenting the dilemma of ordinary people being widely suppressed and disciplined in different cultural backgrounds.
To put it more bluntly.
Once, the motif of Spider-Man IP was "Can I be worthy of this suit".
It is only by truly facing one's own vulnerability and coexisting with it that one can truly become a strong person.
And now.
It became "can we wear our own suit".
It is to accept a special self, and then break through yourself, and finally become a "strong person" who is recognized by oneself, not recognized by some standard size.
True, such films are not so "Marvel".
It does not have a huge world view, heavy special effects, and even the entanglement, love and hate of characters in other movies.
It also doesn't roll out heroes and villains in a step-by-step manner.
But it may allow us to find the reason why we need Marvel again:
Can a movie still be made like this?
Can a hero still be such a bastard?
Can Easter eggs still be buried like this?
……
It's not that Marvel has been away from us for too long.
It's that these "question marks" with offense, unknowns, and shocks are too far away from our big screen.
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