In the Hollywood screen of the last century, the image of white male heroes was basically filled, and the female characters were often "saved flowers" in them.
Female vase character
Although there were also famous directors like Cameron in that era who let female characters become savior heroes in "Alien 2" in advance, the overall trend remained unchanged.
However, with the progress of the times, such vase-style roles have become more and more unpopular with the audience, especially in recent years, the wave of women's rights in Hollywood has also made the current film manufacturers dare not set up female characters as before.
However, the fact that female characters cannot be set up in this way does not mean that male characters will be accepted by the audience when they are in this "vase", and the "Men in Black: Global Pursuit" that we are going to talk about today is a typical example.
Men in Black: Global Pursuit
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the characteristics of the vase character</h1>
The vase-type female characters of the old era often have three characteristics.
First, their appearance is generally very outstanding, either the appearance is extremely high, or the body is hot, from the visual point of view, this kind of character will be quite eye-catching.
Pretty~
In addition to its outstanding appearance, there will be a number of seductive scenes showing his figure in the movie, and there will even be entanglement scenes with male characters.
After all, as a vase, appearance is the most important point, and in addition to being able to watch, the movie will also design some plots that allow them to play to their "advantages".
Like this
Second, they are often weak women with no ability, very dependent on other male characters, and have to rely on other people to help when they encounter danger, and basically rarely see relying on their own ability to get out of danger.
Even, sometimes it will drag down the male characters, adding a lot of unnecessary trouble to them, and the ending of these male characters is often that the male protagonist overcomes the "difficulty" brought to him by the vase, and the villain is directly destroyed by the male protagonist because of the vase drag.
When you want to fight, it becomes a burden
This is actually the plot designed by the film to highlight male heroism, and the female characters here actually act as a contrast, or a tool person.
Third, they are very unpopular in the movie, the male characters generally approach them because they have various goals, such as getting the news of the villain from their mouths, and most of the subordinates who respect them in the film are because of the power of the male characters they rely on, and the respect from the heart is basically absent.
Disobedient? Kill you
In short, no one will treat them as equals, or that male characters have an innate sense of superiority over them.
This type of vase character has long been an obsolete symbol in the 21st century, but in "Men in Black: Global Pursuit", you can find a character who fully meets all of the above characteristics, except that this character is not a woman, but a man, that is, the male protagonist of the movie, Agent H.
Agent H~
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > excellent shape</h1>
Agent H of Men in Black: Global Pursuit is played by Marvel's "Thor" Chris Hemsworth.
Chris's appearance is needless to say, the appearance is not the type of creamy child, but the masculinity is full, and he loves fitness, strong and strong, plus more than 180cm height, from the appearance is impeccable, the movie has also given many shots to show his handsome side.
It makes sense to have a shot of the woman on the beach above
At the same time, there are also "selling meat" scenes, but this time the "selling" is aimed at female audiences.
The so-called vase, from another point of view, is that the appearance and appearance are already the most eye-catching places for this character in the whole movie, in other words, the so-called in addition to the appearance, nothing.
Selling meat scenes
Therefore, simply a good-looking actor to play the character, can not just put on the "vase" label, Chris played by the H agent is the same, if his role ability is set to be directly proportional to his own appearance, then he will become similar to another commercial film "Aquaman" in the Princess Maela, both appearance and strength.
The heroine of "Aquaman", Meera, can play and be beautiful
But unfortunately, this character takes the route of ability and appearance are inversely proportional.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > drag oil bottle</h1>
In the movie, Agent H is a partner who acts with the heroine Agent M, who is a newcomer to the organization.
According to common sense, this should be a process of an old man bringing a new person, even if the old man is not so strong, the new person is not so rookie, but there should always be a balanced scale there.
However, in order to make Agent H conform to the second characteristic of the "vase", the producers deliberately set him up as a "three noes" character.
Three nothings
Generally speaking, to see whether a character is outstanding in the movie, there are no more than three aspects.
First, IQ is the ability to handle things shown in the film.
Second, combat effectiveness, commercial movies are certainly indispensable to various action scenes.
Third, personality, specifically, is the brilliance of humanity, personality highlights and so on expressed in the movie.
Agent H's iq in the movie can only be said to be nothing outstanding, not only has been manipulated by the black hand behind the scenes as a pawn in the plot, but also has no ability to sort out clues, and can only watch Agent M deduce at length, and even understand the basic settings of many props.
Agent H can only observe
In terms of body type, Agent H should belong to the type of thug, but in the movie, he fights with agent M at the same time as the villain, and the result is that Agent M knocks down the queen of four hands, and Agent H is abused from beginning to end.
Nor can fight
Speaking of personality, Agent H is not only frivolous and cynical, but also has no principles, such as asking Agent M to "seduce" another alien in order to obtain intelligence.
I also want the heroine to betray the hue
Some people have said, why give Agent H a person who has no brains, can't fight, and has no principles?
The reason is simple, if it is not designed in this way, how can it show agent M?
Agent M is an omnipotent person throughout the film.
In terms of IQ, she saw the organization side of the Men in Black when she was a child, and when she grew up, she directly found out the hidden bases of the organization by her own efforts, and all kinds of high-tech weapons could be learned as soon as she learned them, and even deduced the identity of the villain behind the scenes.
One person single-handedly finds a hidden organization
Although the battle strength is not strong, even the queen of four hands will have to fall.
She was beaten to the ground like a queen of four hands
On personality, not only never give up the oil bottle of Agent H, but also very demanding of himself, involving the absolute rejection of the bottom line, there is no room for negotiation.
Have their own bottom line and principles
From the perspective of the movie, this setting is simply illogical, the veteran agent is useless, and the newcomer agent is like a god.
This trick of using the "incompetence" of one character to set off the "excellent" of another character is the female vase setting that has been criticized in the last century, and "Men in Black: Global Pursuit" is just a gender swap.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > sense of superiority</h1>
Throughout the film, almost every important character in every scene has a rather dismissive attitude toward Agent H.
For example, the cute little alien soldier in the movie regards Agent M as his queen, and he has no reason to despise Agent H.
The soldiers honored M as queen, but despised H
Aliens involved in key plot progression would rather give important props to a newcomer, Agent M, than say a word to Agent H, whom they have known for a long time.
Give it to Agent M and don't give it to H
Agent T, the black hand behind the scenes, deliberately treats Agent H like a monkey from beginning to end, and Agent H also completes this task well.
T: H, you fit me too well
Even a trader cursed behind his back that H should have died sooner.
No one was waiting to see him
Even Agent M, although he has been helping and rescuing Agent H, still does not believe him when he encounters important things.
Agent M didn't trust him at first
It is true that the ability shown by Agent H in the film is indeed not enough to be valued by anyone, but this naked superiority attitude is mainly used to highlight the excellence of Agent M itself.
Just like the male and female character settings in Hollywood movies thirty or forty years ago, the female characters at that time were difficult to really respect even in the play, and the H agents of "Global Pursuit" actually followed their old path, and the only difference was gender.
Basically useless
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the core character vase? </h1>
In the old movies of the past, although the female characters were vases in them, because they generally belonged to the nature of supporting roles (even the heroines), they did not assume any key points in the whole film, so the impact on the whole movie was not large.
But "Global Pursuit" is the opposite, in which Agent H is the key clue to the story, and he is deceived by Agent T to the end of the truth disclosure is the main line of the entire film.
Trick H is the main line of the plot
In other words, he is the central character of the film.
Two core characters, one of whom is a vase, which only makes the plot loop continuously "he has an accident, she saved him, he had an accident again, she saved him again" This undesigned and tiresome routine, no one likes to watch a burden always dragging its feet.
In fact, H special work for the male protagonist of the movie, in addition to selling the value is responsible for funny, the rest of everything needs to use IQ, combat strength, etc. Plot, and even the final decisive battle is all handled by Agent M, I have to say that this male protagonist deserves to be really depressed.
Boss is also defeated by M
You know, female characters in the film as vases, has always been protested and opposed by the audience, but this does not mean that the vase role can be replaced by male audiences can be accepted.
In the final analysis, this kind of gender-based character type and using this to carry out various plot-by-step and plot-by-scene creation behavior should have been completely abandoned by the times long ago.
And the collapse of the word-of-mouth and box office of "Men in Black: Global Pursuit" is believed to be a wake-up call for the current Hollywood film industry.
Extremely low ratings
Due to the rather poor results of "Global Pursuit", the IP of "Men in Black" was once again hidden by Sony Pictures.
But if this IP can meet with you on the screen again in the future, I hope that the producers at that time can remember this lesson.
"It is not advisable to hold one step on one, and win-win is the last word."