I don't know if it's a coincidence.
Sir's articles in the past two days are all related to "farewell", the departure of Chinese-speaking directors, and the exit of great directors around the world.
Today.
There is also a group of people who deserve Sir to say goodbye.
Although they are not "great" at all:
Guardians of the Galaxy 3
The reputation and box office of "Silver Guard" are torn.
On the one hand, as a series farewell, all platforms have scored high scores, and even refreshed Marvel's highest word-of-mouth record in the past 5 years on Douban.
On the other hand, its box office performance is completely unranked in the Marvel series.
The reason behind this: Sir has also written more than once.
With more conservative creations and accelerated changes in the mainland viewing environment, Marvel has suffered internal and external attacks in the past few years.
And the appearance of "Silver Guard 3" made everyone a little stunned:
It used a very non-"Marvel" way to keep the "Marvel" signboard.
So Sir didn't want to write it in a regular film review.
Out of the context of "Marvel movies".
Just in the "Guardians of the Galaxy", a brightly colored universe full of dark and evil fun.
Answer a few controversial fan questions.
Question 1:
Star-Lord "killed" Iron Man with one punch, is it scientific?
From a conventional point of view, "Silver Guard 3" has many professional problems: genre mixture, soundtrack is too full, villain is too la...
And even in terms of rolling guide personal play, it can only be regarded as a relatively mediocre one.
A lot of vintage elements, from the soundtrack to the aesthetics, another way to say that meets expectations is the lack of surprises.
But from the point of view of the final chapter of the series.
Sir's heart, this is one of the best farewells in the Marvel series.
The funny five-color team, idle gags, danger is imminent, the closest and most want to beat up the "pig teammates".
Almost everyone in the protagonist group has completed their own arc.
At that time, "Silver Guard 1" came to the field of vision of Marvel fans with a different kind of coquettishness.
Retro music, witty colors, and weightless battles are as silky as Star-Lord's dancing moves.
"Silver Guard 3" continues the "weird bean" viewing experience.
Because you put the background in interstellar voyage, you can see three times the aesthetic style scenes of other Marvel series.
In this film, in order to rescue the rocket raccoon who was dying due to the robbery of the mad scientist villain "Supreme Evolution", the Silver Guardian Team underwent three interstellar journeys.
And each time, it is related to the main theme of this department, genes and evolution.
The first planet they arrived on was a brainshell.
Conan Bergfeng's meat ball space station, bright color but realistic texture, echoes the "planet has life" setting in the second part. The internal portholes and elevators are DNA structures or cellular art styles.
The protagonist group is like a five-colored frosting, lightly falling on the surface of the cookie-like meat star.
But in the next scene, you have to drill a hole in this "meat ball cookie".
The evil taste of the roller guide can be seen.
The second planet is "anti-earth", all landscapes are earthified, but the identities of "people" and "animals" are exchanged, which can be called Furui Gon's paradise.
It can be said that it is a complete "anti-evolution".
These brain-opening and interesting settings are indeed the original flavor of "Silver Protection".
And we also ushered in the return of violent elements of B-grade films that are good at rolling guides.
Several slow motions accompanied by rock and roll music sounded with the "turnback" of the three protagonists of the plot.
Smooth, long-shot combat provides an unobstructed view of the collisions and distortions of technological limbs.
And, of course, the return of "that man":
Star-Lord.
The audience "Avengers 3" misunderstood him, and the film version of the father rolling director also gave us a complete answer in this part.
"Love Brain", "Pig Teammates", "-Stirring Stick".
If any virtual character has suffered unprecedented online violence because of the release of "Avengers 3", then Star-Lord and Thanos are on par.
Star-Lord actor Chris Pratt's social network messages are also not watchable.
The rolling director also tore up with Marvel for the sake of "his own son", expressing his deep dissatisfaction with the plot of Star-Lord "punching out "Avengers 4" in "Avengers 3".
Rolling guide's original words:
"They did something I didn't want to see. If Gamora asks Star-Lord to kill her, yes, Star-Lord will do it. But Star-Lord will not punch Thanos and let the universe be destroyed. ”
Perhaps this is a sacrifice made by Marvel in order to concentrate the contradictions of the group drama, for the advancement of the plot and the trigger of the war.
The core protagonist group cannot be sacrificed, and this mistake can only be borne by the small series characters of the Marvel Universe.
Such an ending, fans understand but do not accept, and the rolling guide who carefully shapes "Silver Protection" is also the same.
He wanted to tell everyone what kind of person Peter Quill was. Under the appearance of Hanger Langdang, he is never really "unreliable" and "embarrassing".
As a result, we saw a lot of bridges in "Silver Guard 3" that expanded Star-Lord's character.
That's the rolling guide saying: Whoever wants to scold him, wait a second and see what it really looks like under Star-Lord's hippie smile.
He became the first protagonist of the Silver Guard Squad and had a stable core.
At that second, it was Star-Lord shouting to the female operator who pretended to be ambiguous and pretended to be stupid and the White Sweet Virgin, but in fact he was using the control strategy of achieving the maximum effect with the least loss.
At that second, after tears and "stalking", he remembered the words of the mantis girl, and said goodbye to this parallel time and space at the end.
That second is the self-sacrifice of empathizing with the weak again and again, turning back again in order to save the rocket's compatriots, and finally floating in the universe.
Just like the moment when Star-Lord floated and froze in the universe, he still held the mp3 that Courage gave him.
Star-Lord's plot always tells the audience that he is no different from us.
He is the most common hero and the prodigal son with the heaviest feelings.
Such people tend to be more attached to the power of intimacy and cherish hard-won small circles. It is also this slimy emotional expression and silly brothers' righteousness that closely connects the small team of Yinhu.
This is his "nuclear" that cannot be moved.
That's why we always find Guardians of the Galaxy cute.
Question 2:
Marvel heroes, what is the difference between them and the "heroes" of the Guardians of the Galaxy?
Why do audiences fall in love with this group of "miscellaneous"?
Because they are closest to us, even more broken and marginal.
They do not have a good background, do not have too noble heroic missions and self-restraint, and even most of them are swept into the garbage heap and will not look at the same existence.
There are countless shortcomings in them, some of them are alcoholic, some are good at gambling, some have brains that lack roots, some kill without blinking, some cannot spit out a good word in their mouths, and some can only spit out a word from their mouths.
("I'm big。 "）
When they encounter setbacks, they are also emo and addicted to it.
The opening film hums "Alien" shaking his head on the street and never looking up the rocket, like you and me who are not like the "net suppressing clouds" moment?
It is precisely because of these life-like and ubiquitous shortcomings that we do not look up to the Silver Guard Squad as we look at "gods" and "idols".
It is like a friend, who can carry on some of your indescribable emotions and pains lightly, and sing and dance with songs.
If Marvel's tall core heroes are close to Jin Yong-style heroes, then these Guardians of the Galaxy with a mutated style are more like cologne-style prodigal sons.
The Silver Guard Squad has never been an all-powerful regular army where efficiency is paramount, on the contrary, they are always full of witty misalignment with their official goals.
Just like the anti-Earth battle in the headquarters, Drax and the mantis girl were originally going to guard the rockets in the spaceship, and when they saw that they were in trouble with the Quill Nebula, they immediately snatched the motorcycle to detour, and when they finally climbed on the villain's spaceship, they found that their teammates had already left.
You can only go around and around, you save me, I save you.
Just like their daily conversations, they can never talk about a key point.
This made Quill complain: "Can you get back to business?" ”
If these people suddenly get serious, I'm afraid that Quill is anxious and explodes, repeatedly checking whether they have jumped into a multiverse of nothingness.
The Yinhu gang are "superfluous people" in the group, and they do "superfluous things" outside the big business.
But it is these "superfluous" details, these paths that are winding from the climbing goal, that fill with real life.
Because they retain the reality of civilians and marginalized people under the heroic setting, they also escape the stereotypical heroic type narrative to a certain extent, completing the independence of individual will.
That's why we can complete this unconventional farewell.
After a whole journey through the parallel world of Gamora, she understood the phrase "I'm groot".
But she also knew she could jump out of the original heroic beauty story.
In this world, her truly recognized home is the Marauders, and she is not kidnapped by the love setting with Star-Lord.
She left the Silver Guard.
And Star-Lord also understood the mantis girl's words:
"Women are just lotus leaves in the pond where you live, don't jump around on lotus leaves, you have to really learn to swim."
Choose to return to Earth to face his grandfather, who he escaped.
At the end, Rocket takes over as the new captain of Silver Protector, and together with Nebula, he guards the new city of the "Supreme Evolution" experimental product.
The mantis girl with three "big cuties" wants to walk out alone and see what she lives for.
They can sacrifice their lives to save their friends, but they also know that separation is essential and that everyone has their own path to take.
The Galactic Rangers are always true to themselves and are not afraid of separation.
Their parting is not the tragic sacrifice at the end of "X-Men", the heroes are dusted.
Not the brilliant stage of "Avengers 4", a grand farewell.
It's more like we usually nodded tacitly after dating a drink with a friend, and returned home separately.
"I went drunk and went, and the Ming Dynasty intended to bring the qin."
Diluting excessive ritual and pathos with everyday laughter is the usual way the Guardians of the Galaxy do things.
And when their destiny with ours finally crossed that thin screen to produce reverberation.
We also understood the line that God was talking about:
"I'm big."
This line carries the life of this little tree man and also covers the core of the Galaxy Squad.
Aren't we the same?
There will always be times when words don't get to the mark.
The more I grow up, the more I learn duplicity, and I talk about it:
On some occasions, he speaks insincerely and only seeks to meet the source;
In the face of a beloved, speaking words that do not reach the meaning, clumsily expressing their feelings;
Sometimes we're as simple as Groot.
Speak simple sentences, but no one can understand them.
Sometimes, we're as complex as Groot.
Speaking sentences that can only be understood by themselves, he is still there, waiting for a group of friends who can understand.
Question 3: Farewell, do you have to be sad?
This ending is certainly alternative and unique.
Just like the rolling director directly complained in the interview about the drama arranged by Marvel for Star-Lord, he wanted to write the ending of Silver Guard in his own way.
It is also under the huge Marvel industrial system that a film author rebelled against industrial hegemony.
This is actually consistent with the spiritual core of Silver Protector.
It's like rock music outside the mainstream in the film.
It has always been on the side of the little people, on the side of the marginal people.
The villain portrayed in this film is a self-righteous hegemon who underestimates the power of "superfluous people".
If Thanos' criticism lies in self-centered cleanliness, then this villain's "supreme evolution" is the disease of cleanliness neuropathy.
He said that for the evolution of the universe, he would develop perfect life and create an absolutely beautiful new world. But the actual action is:
"Only the successful experimental products are kept, and the rest are killed."
And his most successful experiment, Raccoon, retorted:
"What pursues perfection, you just can't get used to seeing things as they are."
The real "god" is the raccoon on the side of the superfluous people.
This is also proved by the video footage, in this film, the raccoon is repeatedly caught in memory, and the backlight is exposed to form a "halo of gods".
The final near-death scene, like Harry Potter and Dumbledore's final King's Cross Station?
The eyes of the Supreme Evolution only look at "perfect people", but the IP of "Guardians of the Galaxy" is a story about "superfluous people".
These experimental products are the waste that the villains want to sweep away, and the rocket is going to become a god of "superfluous people" like them in this part.
If the villain is "selfish fake", then the rocket is "selfless true".
First, he has to confront his memories, make up for the friendship he has lost, and admit that he is "just a raccoon".
Only by reconciling with oneself, widening the barriers step by step, and loving the living beings can you be qualified to become the next Silver Guard Captain.
If it is said that for a friend, let a whole team of people spare their lives is the emotional core of the "Silver Protection" team love is better than Jin Jian.
From saving relatives and friends to saving children, it is another tribute to the transformation of ordinary heroes of "I am for everyone".
That from saving children to saving animals is undoubtedly a bold expansion of the "equality of all beings".
The roller guide still did not give up, step by step to expand this story framed by the genre, are there any new topics, and are there any points that make the characters fuller?
It is also because of this author's independent attitude that Marvel's high-reputation has returned.
In recent years, we have all been returning after a traumatic experience.
After the Battle of the Avengers, something changed forever, the dead Gamora, who did not really return, recognized the Marauders as their new home.
The past is gone, no matter how nostalgic it is, it is just a fly ash, it is better to be yourself and find the homeland of the origin.
This truth, Quill understands, Marvel understands, you and I understand.
After circling the galaxy, what Quill was clinging to before his life was dying was just that one MP3.
It's like traveling through the universe, and the end point is the same cabin before departure.
Nostalgia overflowed, back to square one.
Where the so-called heroes come from, they only start from the small family and start from protecting relatives and friends.
Just like we will remember the moment Peter Parker said, "I am for everyone."
We may also remember that this group of galactic losers also had a look back with rock and roll before returning to their egoistic lair.
In fact, after watching "Silver Guard 3", the movie that has been in Sir's mind is not any Marvel work.
It's "Slam Dunk".
They have too many similarities:
All from an author with a strong style in their respective fields.
It's all about a group of "marginal people" fighting against the strong.
It's all about wrapping up a huge series from the perspective of a small character who is not so conspicuous.
And.
In both films, a particularly important image has appeared.
"God" and "man".
In "Slam Dunk", Japan's No. 1 high school student Zebei goes to the temple to bow down before the final of the national competition, praying that God can give him inspiration:
What else do I have to do on the road to success?
God was silent.
Zebei thought that God had not given him an answer.
However, it was after losing to Xiangbei in the final that Zebei suddenly realized that this defeat was a "gift" from the gods.
This reminds Sir of the famous painting of the century that appeared in "Guardians of the Galaxy".
When the warlock Adam rescued Star-Lord, their fingertips touched, and many fans recognized this scene as a tribute to Michelangelo's famous painting "The Creation of Adam".
But the roller quietly switched roles in it.
Adam was not "God" at this time.
On the contrary, having just saved all things and sacrificed his own Star-Lord, he has surpassed his flawless divinity with his flawed humanity.
And this may be the reason why the two movies have gained a high reputation.
In the era when Mu Qiang and Ling Weak go hand in hand.
In the reality that 1% of the gods control the fate of 99% of ordinary people.
Others go back and focus on frustration and failure.
This is not a parting.
It is your and my hope, the relay on the screen.
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Editorial assistant: It's Tu Yile