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The protagonist of the movie "Venom", Eddie, Bullock is obviously a representative of the new superhero image in the context of the new era. In the film, Eddie and Bullock are ordinary people, not a genius image, not a brave person, and superheroes can't get along at all. For example, when he encountered gangsters robbery in the supermarket, he did not dare to charge, but hid far behind the shelves, for fear of being caught by gangsters, and did not dare to claim justice, he was like most of us ordinary people.
In his values, this insensitivity is the norm in life. What's more, he secretly checked his girlfriend's private email for his own news report, which is not a glorious thing in the eyes of mortals, and even a somewhat selfish thing. Countless similar small details in the film portray us as a living ordinary person who only focuses on his own vital interests, which is the character's attempt at mortalization.
Of course, we can't separate these two things, and the movie "Venom" does make a series of innovations in character setting, but it does not completely subvert the creative laws of the Hollywood superhero "movie" nor completely deviate from his conventional program. He is just an emerging, different hero, not unconstrained by basic creative laws.
Kindness has always existed in his heart, but it is rarely revealed in ordinary times, and in the face of a big crisis, it can inspire the character's justice from the depths of his heart. For example, when the villain Carlton Drake wants to use a group of poor people for biological experiments, he sneaks into the experimental base to find out and try to express the truth to the world. In the second half of the film, the male protagonist and Venom merge into one, and from this part, we actually return to the basic creation mode of superhero movies.
Interestingly, the motives of the villains are very clear, and there is a sense of "the world is their own responsibility". Multi-dimensional characters will make the audience obsessed because there will be some contradictions in the personality and behavior of multi-dimensional characters, and these are exactly what attracts the audience's attention and locks the audience's attention, so the protagonist must be the most dimensional one in the play, so as not to be robbed of the limelight by the supporting role. It is also because of this that the audience will empathize with this star character.
The "dimension" here refers to contradiction: whether within the deep character or between the characterization and the deep character. These contradictions must be coherent and consistent. "This contradiction is to be reflected throughout through small events, but also through small details. We use Hamlet, a well-known theatrical character that is the most complex written character ever written. This complexity is reflected in the fact that he is not only three-dimensional, but has reached more than ten dimensions, and even cannot be counted.
There are many contradictions in his character building, not black and white. For example, he believed in the gods and prayed to the gods, but he also blasphemed God, he was deeply in love with Ophelia, he was gentle and considerate, and seemed to be a fairly perfect lover, but then he became hard-hearted; Sometimes intellectual, sometimes reckless; He was righteous and sometimes ruthless, stabbing him to death when he didn't know who the person behind the curtain was;
He is an innocent secular person and a secular innocent one, and his body contains too many complex personalities, that is, a contradictory body that covers almost all the personality traits we can imagine. It is precisely in this way that Hamlet, the prince, has left a strong mark in the long river of history, because he is full and wonderful enough, and the characters appear on the page, seemingly contradictory and multifaceted with our ordinary audience.
In traditional Hollywood "superhero" movies, in fact, many characters are relatively single and absolute, black and white, there is no middle ground in the middle of the personality, he only reflects the characteristics of the character on one side, such characters will be more unreal and idealistic. But if these films do not follow the logic of human physics when dealing with the plot, this way can indeed take the audience into the Marvel world in an instant, but it is really too simple.
Real-world life is often complex, changeable, and relative, and things are often not black and white. And the characters in Venom are more round, the characters have more faces, there are more possibilities, there are advantages in personality must be flawed in other aspects, no one in the real world can be 100% perfect, of course in the film and television world. The motivation of the character when doing something must be consistent with the character's personality and the current living environment.
The movie "Venom" can be regarded as in line with the basic logic of life, to a certain extent, in line with the audience's cognition of the world, so it has also won the audience's recognition. When writing a script, we can see that it is not the writer who creates other characters, but the protagonist who creates other characters, and when he needs to embody a certain quality of himself, the corresponding character will appear to have a relationship with him.
All other characters appear to have a relationship with the protagonist and also to help portray multiple protagonists. If a protagonist is cheerful, open-minded, and then becomes depressed, these are by no means clearly described in words, but a circle of characters around him who have a relationship with him, which inspires or reflects his attribute to the audience. The setting of the supporting role in Iron Man also makes the protagonist's character more distinct and shines.
Iron Man Tony's female assistant is a sexy girl with a hot body and a beautiful face. Some adult interactions between him and the assistant not only bring a certain amount of fun to the audience, but also reflect from the side that Iron Man is a rich second-generation playboy, who has never lacked beautiful women around him, and sometimes jokes with his beautiful assistant.
But even so, the beautiful assistant is still a very smart girl, shrewd and capable, and can also cooperate well with Iron Man at critical moments. This also reflects from the side that Iron Man is a person who will deal with serious things very seriously, serious and rigorous in his work, and humorous in life, such a plump and interesting character, who wouldn't like it?
Narrative content: regular heroes to alternative heroes
Marvel's "superhero" series of movies, most of the narrative is from "low tide" to "high tide", such a setting is conducive to highlighting the growth of heroes, such as Iron Man's own research and development of high technology, Hulk accidentally encountered gamma rays, Captain America injection serum, etc., through these ways to obtain superpowers, and then through a series of time, let the heroes fall to the bottom or let the hero's heart swing, all the things that the heroes protect, all the things they have are lost.
In the end, the heroes break through themselves, shoulder the mission to fight, and finally win. All this is hard-won is the process of heroes from transcending themselves to superego, and this heroic growth will also gain the love and resonance of the audience. Marvel superheroes and their fight shots not only make the audience's blood boil, but also meet the audience's expectations for superheroes. "Person-to-person communication is the communication method using the human body as the medium and language and expression as the means.
However, in recent years, some adjustments have been made to the narrative content of Marvel movies, and a series of alternative heroes have been developed. It is also because the aesthetic trend in recent years has also become richer and more inclusive, and everyone is more tolerant of "alternative". "Anti-heroes are the product of contemporary social and cultural crises" Marvel's "anti-heroes" not only meet the needs of the audience, but also carry the troubles of ordinary people and the shortcomings of ordinary people, no longer the infinite imagination of the past, but carry the desires and nothingness of ordinary people.
Not only that, but sometimes he is even a villain at the beginning of the plot. In the comics, Poison Liquid appears as Spider-Man's number one villain. In fact, these alternative heroes still have some good qualities in the original heroes, but the form they show is no longer rigid. They just handle one thing in their own way, complete their mission as heroes in another way, and even bluntly ridicule traditional superheroes in the film.
These unconventional heroes, which can also be said to be "anti-heroes", convey to us the breakthrough of Marvel movies in character shaping, they have made great changes to traditional characters, and they have a deeper understanding of human nature. It not only breaks the traditional thinking, but even lays a very good foundation for the emergence of new heroes in Marvel movies and provides more possibilities.
Narrative structure: from a single-line narrative to a multi-line narrative
The narrative structure of a single-line narrative is generally as follows: beginning, continuation, transformation, and integration. Take an event as the starting point of the story, and then undertake, the story plot entanglement is combined to continue and develop, and there is a sudden reversal or a dramatic climax while the story progresses gradually, and the final conjunction refers to a complete ending, the end of the story.
In "Iron Man 1", Tony Stark, as a rich second generation, has lived a worry-free life since he was a child, he is intelligent, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Power Engineering at the age of 17, and became the new boss of the family business Stark Arms. And a kidnapping that was never expected became an adventure in life, and his life changed completely in the future. When Tony and a group of his men and the military test his new research in a deserted place, he is attacked by terrorists.
After being bombed, he woke up to find a strange device in his chest. He then studied in the dark, so he improved the armor of steel, created a fusion energy source, and finally became the real Iron Man. The whole story is rich and complete, telling the transformation of Iron Man, and also explaining the causes and consequences of his becoming Iron Man, and the beginning and transition are clear. The film revolves around Tony's story from beginning to end, with no other story lines in between, making the whole story more simple and clear.
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