The movie "Black Widow" was launched, which was a belated "tribute" to the widow sister.
It's been a full two years since the last orthodox Marvel movie, Spider-Man: The Hero's Journey. "Reunion 4", which has made countless fans uneasy, even the plot has gradually become blurred.
For Marvel fans, these two years are not good. If there is no epidemic, Mo said that it is "Black Widow", and even Marvel's fourth phase of "Eternals", "Shangqi", "Doctor Strange 2" should have met with the audience in theaters.
Without these blockbuster movies, we can only rely on "Wanda Vision", "Falcon and winter soldiers", "Rocky" and other related American dramas to fill the gap without Marvel movies.
For widows, many Marvel fans have special feelings.
You know, in the past 24 Marvel Universe movies, widows have appeared 8 times, second only to Iron Man Tony's 9 times.
She is the undeniable first heroine of the entire Marvel, the most popular female superhero character in a Marvel movie, and there is no one.
But in the finale of "Avengers 4", the widow sister is gone, lying forever under the cliff of Wormier Star, leaving the Marvel Universe.
If we are more relieved about Tony's death, at least Tony saved half the universe with the power of the infinite gloves of a mortal body, and there was a decent funeral attended by everyone.
But the widow sister has nothing.
After watching so many movies, no one knows the origin of the widow, she quietly entered the Marvel Universe, entered our sight, and then quietly left, as if she had never existed.
Therefore, the release of "Black Widow" is to make up for regrets, but also to miss the widow, so that her life has both a place of origin and a way back.
So, as Tomato Jun said, my "goodbye" has two meanings -
See you again, know your origins; never see you again, and bury your heart forever.
Maybe the movie "Black Widow" is not as good as we expected, but for the widow, for many Marvel fans, it still has extraordinary significance.
Today, with this "Black Widow", let's finally talk about the widow sister and the story after the Marvel Universe.
As we all know, Widow first appeared in the Marvel Universe 11 years ago, in 2010's Iron Man 2.
She appears in a graceful, sexy and beautiful, and has a good kung fu,
Soon became Tony's secretary, and since then she has been on the stage of the Marvel Universe as one of Marvel's first heroines.
The timeline of Black Widow is set between Captain America 3 and Avengers: Infinity War.
In the airport battle of "American Team 3", the widow sister helped Captain America because of her defection, which caused Iron Man's dissatisfaction, and she violated the "Sokovia Agreement" and could only temporarily flee.
After this, the widow became a half-wanted man and had to leave the United States for the European continent.
It is also this gap that allows her to have time to trace her previous life, liquidate the past, and at the same time make a plan and think about the future.
Although the timeline of "Black Widow" is related to the Marvel Universe, the film takes care of audiences who have never seen a Marvel movie as much as possible, even if it is regarded as a standalone movie, there is nothing wrong with it.
The film begins in the 1990s, and with the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, a family of four in Ohio, USA, also ended their peaceful lives.
It is said that it is a family of four, but in fact, these four people are a temporary family of agents.
Both parents were Soviet agents, and the two daughters were orphans and were not related to each other by blood or relatives.
After returning to Cuba, his father, the "Red Guards", was arrested and imprisoned, his mother "Iron Lady" continued to serve the "Red House" as a Soviet agent, while his sister Natasha and his younger sister Yelena were arrested and sent to the "Red House" for training.
This red house, audiences who have seen Marvel movies before should know.
In "Reunion 2", the widow mentions the fear of the "Red House" and says that she is a monster through the graduation ceremony.
Why is even the super british widow so jealous of the red house? Because this place is as terrible as the widow finally described.
The Red House is a training institution for female agents in the former Soviet Union. It goes around adopting female war orphans, or killing girls' parents (widows are like this), artificially creating orphans for training.
From an early age, the "Red House" will teach them etiquette, culture, dance and other skills, as well as the use of firearms, close combat and other killing techniques.
At the right age, the "Red House" will sterilize and genetically modify them so that they cannot get pregnant but remain young forever, turning them into killing machines.
The "graduation ceremony" mentioned by the widow sister is actually cannibalism.
Because they live together, all the girls become friends, but at the graduation ceremony, they are thrown into a frozen wasteland and returned within two weeks, but only one person's supplies.
The girls who survived by chance were killed, and disobedience was killed, so the "Red House" training pass rate was less than one in twenty.
Each class of the "Red House" will only have one student graduate and become inhuman "black widows", who will become the top killers controlled, or rather, the killing machines.
Therefore, the title of "Black Widow" is not unique to widows, and all female agents who graduated from the "Red House" are called Black Widow.
Knowing the Red House, the plot of "Black Widow" is easy to understand.
After escaping from the United States to Europe, the widow sister lived in seclusion in the mountains, but her whereabouts were discovered.
But later, the widow realized that the person who pursued her was not S.H.I.E.L.D., she was just trying to rob a courier in her car.
The courier came from Budapest, and the widow didn't know who had sent it.
After getting rid of the pursuers, following the courier address, the widow found a room.
Later, she found out that the person who put the courier in her car was her sister Yelena when she was a child.
The sisters do not know each other's true identity, a fight to solve the mystery, the original so-called "express" is a kind of nerve antidote, it can lift the "Red House" on the female agent's mental control.
So this thing is a huge threat to the "Red House".
On the one hand, the widow and sister make a deal to find the address of the "Red House" together and destroy it.
On the other hand, the "Red House" is determined to obtain these antidotes, and constantly sends killer "imitators" to hunt down and kill the sisters.
A "cat and mouse game" of identity changes at any time began.
What story is told specifically, Tomato Jun will not spoil.
The script for Black Widow was written in just 11 days by a Hollywood screenwriter, so it's not a well-crafted Marvel story.
Leaving aside the Marvel timeline, "Black Widow" is just a super British spy war blockbuster with a typical American family theme with a "Marvel" shell.
The constant emphasis on the concept of family,
The wild blackness of the former Soviet Union,
Drag racing that looks like nothing new,
From time to time, the sisters gag and taunt each other,
As well as the female agents of the Red House, they have to take into account the political correctness of skin color and race.
Such a plot setting can indeed infinitely reduce the threshold for watching movies, so that every audience will see "Black Widow" as a spy film.
But on the other hand, it also caused the collapse of the reputation of the movie itself and the tonal difference with the Marvel Universe.
Douban 6.6 points, perhaps for Marvel movies is not a high score.
But the movie is not all undesirable,
First of all, in terms of fight design and action scenes, "Black Widow" deserves a feast for the audience.
Although it is a routine movie, "Black Widow" retains the action standard of Marvel movies.
Its play is quite smooth, in one go,
The special effects are also quite ok.
In particular, there is a novel design of the action scene of high-speed falling in the air, which is very colorful.
Secondly, for now, the significance of the movie "Black Widow" in the Marvel Universe is far greater than the quality of the movie itself.
The biggest meaning, of course, is the end of Marvel's third phase and the beginning of the fourth phase.
Iron Man's mantle was passed to Little Spider,
The shield of the American team was handed over to the Falcon,
This "Black Widow" has a clear inheritance meaning, and the successor to Black Widow is obviously Natasha's sister Yelena.
Although Yelena does not have the sexiness and charm of a widow sister, this little round-faced sister is quite cute, and the little spider is a type.
Coincidentally, she is also from the Red House, an orthodox "black widow", with strong hands and has also undergone genetic modification.
At the end of the movie, Elena comes to Natasha's grave to visit her sister's grave.
As a result, he was given a mission to assassinate Hawkeye.
In this way, all the characters can be strung together.
And Florence Pew, who plays her sister, has also confirmed to join the 2021 Disney new drama "Hawkeye".
Later, "Falcon and winter soldier", there may be her shadow.
So at the end of the day, Black Widow is still Marvel in the layout.
In the fourth stage, although the only female independent films that have been determined so far are "Captain Marvel 2", the next "Eternals", Wanda in "Doctor Strange 2", the female Thor in "Thor 4", the sister of Black Panther in "Black Panther 2" and the Wasp Woman in "Ant-Man 3", etc., indicating that female superheroes occupy an increasingly important position.
So "Black Widow" may be the ending of Scarlett Johansson's version of widowhood, but it is the beginning of Marvel heroines who can really stand up to half the sky.
In the public impression, Natasha has always been "Marvel's first female tool person".
There are four superheroes with whom she has had an ambiguous and love history,
including but not limited to Tony, the US team,
Hulk and Hawkeye.
But after this "Black Widow", the widow sister will really find two homes of her own: one is the big family of the reunion, and the other is the small home of herself and her sister Elena and the parents of the agent.
This is a great comfort for the widow sister who is no longer there.
At least, she can finally retire from the stage of history as an orthodox first-generation superhero, and pass on her mantle to future generations to struggle and follow.
At this moment, she and the US team, like Tony, left her name marvel, rather than hiding her merits and names.
But as a fan, after "Black Widow", you may never see Scarlett's version of the widow's movie again.
Therefore, Tomato Jun still had to sigh: Goodbye, Black Widow, goodbye, my goddess of youth.
(Rotten Tomatoes Newsroom)