2 days 80 million, can "The Flash" still play?

"The Flash" Douban scored 8.0, and on the two major ticketing platforms of Maotao, they all opened a good score of 9+.

After 2 days, 4 hours and 28 minutes online, it exceeded 80 million.

Rounding up the algorithm, 3 days has not yet exceeded 100 million.

Maoyan predicts a total box office of about 200 million.

This may be excellent for other types of films, but for an 8+ superhero blockbuster, it seems to be a little slow to heat.

Come, let's elaborate.

First, the beginning

Let's start with the opening stage, which is the paragraph before Barry buys breakfast.

First of all, the "wine is still warm" in the sense of deformation, and the "super sense of déjà vu" created by the contrast between the fast and slow loops of the timeline.

Here Barry listened to a complaint, and the electric flint was busy saving the world once.

Defeated the bad guys, helped Batman, and spat out a few embarrassing mantras under Wonder Woman's mantra.

Rescued a nurse and a few cute babies, went around at the speed of light, and accomplished many things.

Breakfast was just right after returning.

The other party also complained, "I said it all, I will be soon."

The big things that save the world, the trivial things that heat up a breakfast, the big and the small, the important earth-shattering and the daily trivialities, the contrast between "superheroes" and "little unknown people hidden in the city" are all intuitively cute.

The glass of wine chops Huaxiong's wine is still warm, and it is a single line that highlights its bravery;

"The Flash" opens with this "breakfast finally warmed up", while highlighting its super-powered heroic texture, it also concocts laughter in a way like "brushing off clothes and hiding merit and fame".

It's a regular routine mode, but effective and funny.

Secondly, a small-scale partial version of "Justice League".

In this version of "The Flash", there are many different versions of Batman, Superman, Supergirl, etc. in the subsequent multiverse link.

Those who are not present are all Easter eggs or laughter.

Barry called Aquaman's father: Maybe your wife is Queen Atlantis?

It's a little funny.

Although in the opening part, the combination of The Flash, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman is already half of the small universe.

Again, a relaxed rhythm.

The film opens with The Flash helping Bruce clean up the mess and save the babies who fell from the collapsed building.

Cleverly borrow a crib and place all the children on it.

The highlight is the microwave, open the microwave and put in a baby.

After landing, I was busy for several moments before I remembered "Ah, wait a minute, there is another one here", turned on the microwave, and lifted a baby.

There is also a cute little dog standing on the microwave.

The baby's unconsciousness of the thrilling situation, the nurse's extreme fright, the emergency action of "microwave oven (no electricity) to install the baby", and the series of actions of rapid up and down shuttling and rushing to rescue together constitute a tense and funny "pre-meal opening sketch".

For this paragraph alone, the degree of completion is quite high.

Under the main framework of the regular predictable superhero, there is a vivid and cute high-finish presentation.

Second, juxtapose the old and new versions of "I have been with me for a long time"

The main line of this version of "The Flash" is that Barry is difficult to let go of the past tragedy.

The huge genesis of the tragic death of his mother and the wrongful imprisonment of his father continues from childhood to the present day (the father's trial is still in the future at the beginning of the movie, and new injuries are still happening).

Barry wants to go back in time and prevent the tragedy from happening.

The subsequent story is another mirror image of parallel time and space, "I have been with me for a long time".

It's a very conventional setting, but the character setting is vivid, and the actor's performance is really very online.

The two versions of The Flash played by Ezra Miller, one is full of trouble, has no ambition in life, is three points shy and three points mature and three points cute;

A youthful hot-blooded fool, three points of novelty, three points of fanfare, three points of brightness.

One mature, one shouting, one low-key and one flamboyant, the contrast is very sharp.

During the main story process, the film concocts a lot of jokes through "how to teach a new Flash to adapt and use superpowers".

In the final analysis, the germination mechanism of laughter is the funny of breaking the dimensional wall reflected in the gap between "breaking through ordinary superpowers" and "ordinary life scenes".

For example, the 18-year-old version of the Flash, the words never have time to listen, the rush is lively and frivolous, and the people are gone but they don't have time to bring clothes, and the naked body frightens the neighbors around them;

Another example, at the important juncture of the expedition to save the world, the 18-year-old version of the Flash saw Supergirl flying outside the plane, and like the enthusiastic fans of the crowd, he took out his mobile phone to take a small video.

This is a continuation of his personality traits and state.

The 18-year-old version of Barry is indeed growing rapidly, but seeing Batman appear so excited that he stutters, and he is so happy that he faints when he hears the real "I am Spider-Man";

Until he has suffered a huge and devastating event, it is unlikely that he will instantly wash away this mentality of "I have not yet fully accepted that I am a superhero".

Not yet accustomed, on the one hand, to have an excessive enthusiasm for their skills, and a sense of novelty.

On the other hand, for other superheroes, there is still a sense of amazement of onlookers.

Although the level of his screams and shouts has diminished with deeper contact and cooperation, his nature has not changed.

Superman/Supergirl is from an alien and originally has so-called "superpowers" that are different from those of Earthlings.

But both Bruce Wayne and the Flash were ordinary people before an important node (the family is rich and still ordinary humans without superpowers).

One of the most popular and pervasive superhero modes is how "unusual and inconspicuous ordinary people" become superheroes.

The film juxtaposes two versions of The Flash, and the new and old dual modes in a sense connect the perspectives of ordinary people and heroes, with a double cute texture~

In the 2017 version of "Justice League", Big Ben's version of Batman just found Barry, knowing that he has superpowers but does not yet know what kind of ability it is.

Barry looked wary at strangers sitting uninvited at home.

One is disgust and the other is defense, and when asked about skill endorsement, he was fooled that "my skills include viola, web design, and so on."

One second the sky is full of lies and forcibly lies to cover up, and the next second after recognizing that the other party is Batman, he is immediately happy to play the "helpless + unintelligible" mode.

is also the current enemy and has not much leisure to make him a "bystander fan" of the superheroes;

The same novelty with a little excitement, excitement with a little fear, fear with a little childishness, childish and quickly laughing is not growth;

At that time, the young Flash has grown up a lot, but he has met another version of his 18-year-old version of himself who is even younger and crazier.

The two Flashes and many Batmen in different times and spaces, fighting side by side in various senses, from strange to familiar, from life to farewell, in an instant there seems to be a cycle of emotions of several lifetimes, rich and embarrassing.

Three

Most superhero movies on the market are essentially different appearances and different extensions of the same routine motif.

Type piece, the essence module is highly similar.

The Flash, of course, is not exempt from vulgarity.

Especially in the crowded situation of various popcorn blockbusters released in the recent past, the 144-minute length of "The Flash" is easy to cause a tired look.

Of course, for fans, this may be an extended version of the feast of "Easter eggs everywhere and there is a tribute at any time".

But for this passerby, the advantages of Zhou Zheng in the degree of completion become more relaxed and weak the further they go.

However, in terms of a single film, "The Flash" is quite complete.

Different versions of Batman roaring by on a wind, or activating his huge equipment system, or the moment when a parachute is not required to fly down, the audiovisual effects are online.

All pull the wind, all burn.

Another example is the scene of Supergirl vs the enemy, where she shoots through missiles with her bare hands, or lifts Barry into the air to receive electric shocks (in anticipation of restoring the Flash's abilities), and the atmosphere is also in place.

For those who don't like it, it's just another industrial popcorn.

For those who like it, "The Flash" is a highly completed superhero movie, a sparkling electric ideal.

Instantly walk through thousands of mountains and rivers, a moment like eternity, back and forth is like a moment.

Thousands of words are in the distance, and one "electricity" is tens of thousands of years.