Have you ever seen such a group of heroes?
Looks, strange, strange shapes.
Abilities, all kinds, varied.
Last second, I walked with my head held high and was handsome.
The next second, it fell apart and fled.
What a hero here, it's a bunch of odd things...
That's right, welcome to the anti-superhero world of Rolling Director (James Gunn):
Task Force X: Full assembled
The Suicide Squad
How to say that DC fans are new year's.
In the first half of the year, there was a cut of the director of "Justice League", and the huge return.
In the second half of the year, there is a rolling guide "X Task Force", soaring forward.
You know, anti-super British films, not easy to shoot.
Five years ago, David Aye's version of "Suicide Squad" was released as an anti-superhero film, and it was scolded to the point of being out of style.
The characters are thin and conservative, PG-13, three sentences do not deviate from the key sentence: "Don't forget, we are the villain." ”
And "Task Force X: Full Assemblage" is a turnaround for the DCEU (DC Extended Universe).
The production is strong, with an investment of $200 million, it is the highest investment in R-rated film in history.
Cass luxury.
How many familiar faces: "Reunion", "Bumblebee", "Silver Guardian", "Batman", "Alita"...
△ Shark King is voiced by Stallone, and The Weasel's motion capture is that of Rolling Director's younger brother Sean Gunn
The first weekend of release grossed $2,650w (now $7220w), setting a record for the highest-grossing R-rated film in North America in its first weekend during the pandemic.
Douban 8.2, Rotten Tomatoes freshness 92%, by fans hailed as "DCEU current best movie".
To summarize:
The plot is very magical, and the picture is very limited.
More importantly, this is the rolling guide of "saving Marvel and then saving DC", another work that liberates nature.
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Briefly, the plot:
The villains who served their sentences in prison with extraordinary skills were sent to the South American island nation of Coto Malta to destroy the Nazi-era Jotunheim Prison and Laboratory and help the U.S. government "destroy the corpses.".
Word:
The story of a bunch of evil people who are reused by waste and wipe the government's ass.
They come from extraordinary backgrounds
There are the daughters of alien warlords, the sons of ancient shark gods, entrepreneurs spanning diplomacy and science...
△ Mongo, Shark King, Messenger of Peace
Superpower Eight Immortals Across the Sea - Send Superman into the ICU with Kryptonite Bullets, Brutalist Serial Killers, Remote Control of Separated Limbs...
△ Bloody Movement, Weasel, TDK
So, this task is important?
Hey hey, the roll guide gave a shot.
Because of this task, Waller's government workers were red-eyed.
Come and go, the battle has landed, hurry up and bet, you can't buy a loss, you can't be deceived.
△ In the eyes of government officials, they are a group of cannon fodder used to gamble money
Sure enough:
The black guard who came up and mutinied was shot in the head and snapped.
Before the gun could be dropped, the javelin captain was shot and fell to the ground.
Pickpocket the plane to play cool, swinging helicopter cut off the boomerang captain's head, rubbing.
Mongo was not spared, the plane exploded, boom.
With a black face, the wise man who ran away did not take a few steps before he was headshot by the implanted bomb, boom.
△ The picture will not be put, in short, it is very enjoyable
In just ten minutes, the guide tells you:
Explain the explanation, what is a suicide squad? Literally the kind.
Be sure to be full shark light!!
This magical opening is due to the "absolute authorization" obtained by the rolling guide.
As soon as they came up, these "anti-heroes" received a large wave of box lunches.
Wait, people are dead, what else to see?
Hold on Hold on, and of course PLAN B, but this PLAN B is more exaggerated
One black and one white, the same bloody movement and messenger of peace who is "all over the body is a deadly weapon".
Compete in the village.
Here, look at who kills more, who is faster, who has a higher fatality rate...
Knife chops, axe chops, headshots, electric shocks, light bombs...
Plasma and scale break through the sky.
Cool to watch, right?
But back to you:
In fact, you kill all the teammates of the alliance...
This emoticon:
And what about the enemy this time?
More unreliable:
A wild pie star from space.
It is also the red and blue color of the American Star-Spangled Banner.
But in addition to the huge body, slimy tentacles, the most effective killing is - secret fear attention!
Squirt out countless small starfish.
These little starfish can pounce on people's faces, turning people into walking dead under their control.
Doesn't it look cute?
Are you sure?
△ Coded, similar to the face-hugging worm in "Alien", imagine it
In short, the plot of "X Task Force" has a kind of texture of bumping medicine throughout.
But in these textures, there is hidden the bootleg of the super British film.
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When making DC movies, directors who can "let go" can inevitably carry bootlegs:
Wen Ziren, the trench tribe filming "Aquaman", has made no secret of his love for Cthulhu culture.
In Zach Schneider's version of Watchmen, the worship of darkness and classical romantic aesthetics is worshipped.
This time from Marvel to dc debut rolling guide, not to be outdone.
Large scale, in this film is a small case.
Even better, it is the unique "rolling humor" of the rolling guide.
Eroticism, bad taste, and farts...
Starfish is a common name for ass eyes
Does this have anything to do with the Starfish Program?
Tight white inner?
earnest?
None of this is vulgar for the sake of vulgarity.
Instead, it uses absolute "vulgarity" to dissolve the high-sounding authority and correctness.
Like a clown girl.
Once a clown girl, we can remember: sexy, well-behaved, silly white sweet.
What about this version of the Clown Woman?
Her "anti-correctness" is no longer stuck in human design, but in action.
After being packaged as a "doll" by the big red dress, she takes the initiative to kill her "boyfriend" who tries to use her, and then tears off the skirt.
What is this for? Exposed thighs? Selling meat?
What she tore off was the shackles.
Taking advantage of the enemy's chatter and desertion, Harley transforms into a kung fu yoga master + a genius gunner.
Not only is the high scissor leg clamp severed, but also the toe can steal the key to unlock it.
Wearing a short skirt, she is Harley Quinn who truly has self-will.
then.
The splattered blood turned into a flower in Harley's eyes.
Queen Quinn, who got rid of the clown's love wounds, really came to "walk the flower road".
So you can see
Every character in the film has some unseemly "proclivities" and "flaws" to a greater or lesser extent, but everyone is complete because of such flaws.
The mousetrap woman who loves rats, is afraid of the bloody movement of rats, and sees everything as his mother's "polka dot man"...
After eliminating the "correctness" of the rules, the roll guide shows the ultimate "cool feeling".
Sir is in no way opposed to coolness.
What we should be wary of is always to be cool, and to sacrifice the motivation of the characters, lagging behind the "brainless coolness" of the story logic.
Rolling guide cleverness is not in the boundless scale of laughter.
In Sir's view, the most advanced part of "X-Task Force" is that the whole film consciously obeys one word:
highly efficient.
The efficiency of the narrative, the efficiency of shaping the characters, the efficiency of piecing together N main character memory points in 120 minutes.
The most obvious examples:
In this film with many characters, you can still remember the "waste wood supporting role" Milton.
- Even this person was not named by some of the protagonists before he died.
Of course, this "efficiency" is based on the premise of sacrificing the more three-dimensional arc of the character.
It's like that abrupt reversal in the lab: subordinates stun their bosses with golf clubs and save the task force.
Task Force X is certainly not perfect.
The good thing is that, while exerting enough creative freedom, using the imagination to deconstruct the "seriousness" that has nothing to do with entertainment, at the same time, it also tells a story of universal values with superb skills.
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Of course, the more important fun of "X-Task Force" is still an Easter egg, Sir thinks.
Sir briefly mentions a few that are easy to overlook:
In the bar where the wicked disguise themselves to inquire about the news, the old man behind the Messenger of Peace, Loyd Kaufman, is the mentor of the rolling guide.
The beautiful dancing girl is a praying mantis woman who is completely invisible.
Also, the popular character Harley Quinn.
A closer look reveals that in Task Force X, the Joker's PUA has been completely freed.
The tattoos were changed and the clothes notes were changed.
Tattoo changed from "Property of Joker" to "Property of No One"
△ "Live Fast Die Clown" on the back of the jacket: Life is short, and the clown dies
What's more interesting is that the posing after the president's snap is also a tribute to the ugly grandfather with the green hat.
△ Joker: Are you polite?
In the movie, these Easter eggs are simply countless.
The mother mentioned by the Poldians, the Star Lab where she worked, is where Dr. Stone transformed the steel bone in Justice League.
The original Mousetrap was played by Taiga Viditti, a talented director who loved acting and played Krog the Stone Man in his own Thor 3.
And this big villain who looks cute.
In fact, it is the DC Universe supervillain Staro, who was once a fan of Batman and wants to be the greatest Robin in history.
△ The image is from Batman
In the interview, the director summarized the interesting points of "X Task Force":
I think the Guardians of the Galaxy would have been all dead, or partially dead (we'd have felt it); but in this movie, it's really about being funny, and you don't know who would have been killed.
Yes, the most important Easter egg at the end of the film.
Just a "most damned" character, in the film, become the only one, injured and returned.
The Messenger of Peace, who was sent to the ICU, had high hopes from Waller's men:
And this corresponds to:
The episode "Messengers of Peace", developed by Rolling Director, will air on HBO MAX in January 2022.
Another villain's story.
If there is a decline in superhero movies in the present, it is because people are tired of being right to some extent.
Then the rolling guide may be the new spark that pops out of this decline:
It doesn't need to be so serious, it doesn't have to be so correct.
Heroes can be allowed to die, bad people are allowed to live forever.
This is what the rolling guide is doing.
But it is also the past decade, Hollywood-style super British movies have been going astray.
What is the logic behind it?
Let entertainment return to entertainment itself.
Don't be valued, because it's a shackle.
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