If you put "ten years to grind a sword" on the movie "Alita: Battle Angel", it may be a bit of a grievance, because this movie can almost be counted as twenty years to grind a sword.
Back in 2000, James. Cameron came into contact with the Japanese comic book "Dream", Cameron was immediately fascinated by the work, but people who know it know that Cameron is a well-known chronic child in Hollywood, and his film thinking is too advanced, resulting in the science fiction movies he wants to make, must be innovative and reformed, and even wait for the arrival of new film technology to achieve the picture in Cameron's mind.
After 2005, Cameron was going to start making a movie of "Alita", but he first went to do a film project called "Project 880", which was released in 2009 and has been the first box office in film history, "Project 880" is also called "Avatar".
Because of the popularity of "Avatar" and the tight directing schedule of the sequel, Cameron had to endure the pain of cutting love, giving way to the directing right of the "Alita" comic and becoming an executive producer, but "Alita" kept Cameron's blood from the beginning, coupled with the blessing of the huge creative worldview of "Dream", "Alita" naturally attracted a lot of attention.
Finally, thousands of calls began to come out, "Alita" was released, Satoshi first got the advance screening, on the night of January 31, he watched the movie, and on February 1, he made up an imax.
First of all, let's talk about the movie viewing experience, no spoilers, please rest assured that the small partner can eat.
The overall film revolves around Alita, the plot is simple and easy to understand, you don't need to see comics or cartoons, you can see the huge and complex background world from the film, and in the way of narrative, it is quite smooth in one go.
From the trailer, we probably understand that Alita fell from the sky city of Sharem, was picked up by Dr. Ed in Scrap Iron Town, Ed installed Alita with a mech body, amnesia and has a mysterious past, Alita slowly grew up in Scrap Iron Town, knew herself, and Alita, who had powerful combat skills, eventually became a battle angel.
Alita has state-of-the-art motion capture and hdr immersive graphic rendering.
There are several special effects action scenes in the film, especially the scene of the "death ball" on the field, which is very eye-catching to watch at imax.
Satoshi's first ordinary on-demand screening, the second is imax, indeed the film is presented on imax, you can see more picture details, it is reported that each pore of Alita's facial skin is individually modeled and implanted. Alita's huge eyes, each of which used 9 million pixels (the Lord of the Rings used only 150,000 pixels for the entire movie).
"Alita" is the first big gospel for the visual party at the beginning of 2019.
It is estimated that many people know that the rating of "Alita" on Rotten Tomatoes is not ideal, and there is no expectation of the same word-of-mouth explosion, but what Satoshi wants to say is that the Rotten Tomatoes Index is scored by professional film critics, which is relatively harsh, and the Popcorn Index (audience score) has not yet come out.
In addition, the score of Rotten Tomatoes, the aesthetic isolation of China and the West is not once or twice, everyone look at "Venom", "Black Panther" and so on, these films are scored on both sides of the film, you know that the score is always a reference, believe that their subjective feelings are the most important.
I think as the first foreign large-scale entertainment film in 2019, the film must be worth recommending, just watching those few very hot fights, it is enough to return the ticket price.
Of course, this is also related to the movie-going mentality, if because it is Cameron's signature, I think that every time I can come to the first "Avatar" in film history, if you enter the theater with such a mentality, the surprise will naturally decrease.
Satoshi has seen all the manga and anime in the "Dream" series, so when watching "Alita", the sense of substitution is particularly strong.
In order to let everyone understand more details in the film like me after the release of "Alita", the industrious Satoshi has sorted out for everyone - the "Alita" knowledge expansion pack, so that everyone can watch the film with the most senior attitude (still no spoilers, please feel free to eat).
Serialized in 1990, the manga was written by Japanese manga artist Yukihito Kishiro, and the original manga was released with nine works.
In 1998, the sequel to "Dreams: Last Order" was released, the same 9 works, in addition to "Dreams: Outer Legends", but the external transmission is too weak to discuss.
During the same period, the ova version of the anime was released, which mainly told the story of Scrap Iron Town, and the main plot was about the plot of the first three parts of the Dream.
In 2014, the Dream series also released Dreams: Battle of Mars, a timeline split into more than 200 years before Dreams and the story after Dreams: Last Order, which is still serialized today.
The main story line of "Alita" is placed in the first four works of "Dream", but in order to shape the character of Alita and to build a new world structure of the film, the film actually mixes the entire series of "Dreams", including ova, last order, and even "Mars War".
Yes, there will be a sequel, "Alita" is just the beginning of the huge and vast backstory of "Dream", and it is certain that the movie will make a sequel.
The origin of the name of the scrap iron town (city) is because of the above air city Sharem City, Sharem City throws garbage to the surface of the earth like a stool all year round, and these garbage can play a certain development role for people on the ground, so there are many people gathered under Sharem over time, so there is a scrap iron town.
So the question is, why is there such an aerial city as Shalem, in the Chronology of the "Dream", the Earth once encountered the extinction disaster of a meteorite impact, after which humanity began a revival plan, and humans built a circular connection orbit in the orbit of the Earth's satellites, and then built the cosmic capitals "Yale" and "Tegu".
As a transit station for Yale City and the earth's ground, it is the "Sharem" aerial city, Sharem City was once connected to the earth, and the reason why humans built Sharem City and Yale City is to better prevent catastrophes, but also to colonize the planets of the solar system, and even other planets outside the solar system.
This includes the Mars colonization plan (according to the chronology of "Dreams"), so in the "Alita" trailer, there is a scene of Alita fighting on the moon, this battle is related to the human colonization of interstellar wars, as for more specific why it was fought, and why Sharem broke off the connection with the earth, let's not spoilers, watch the movie.
In Scrap Iron Town, we can see many synthetic people with iron armor and human faces. These synthetics are half-human, half-mechanical, the most extreme is that only the mind is human, and the rest are all mechanical, and Alita is one of them.
It's just that Alita's head was lost from Sharem, so Alita is a special being, she has amnesia, but her memory comes with the fighting technique of killing the enemy in a second, and Alita's journey to find herself is presented in the film.
Although the synthetic person has the shape of a mecha, but can eat and drink Lasa, such as Alita, she can also shed tears, which has a detailed explanation and analysis in "Dream", that is because humans make themselves more like humans, so they will still make mechanical stomachs, mechanical intestines and other organs in the body, and at the same time can defecate.
In the comics, Dr. Id has a good grasp of the mechanical large intestine.
In the trailer, Alita plays the Iron Ball Game, which is a major entertainment industry in Scrap Iron Town, and an important event for the people of Scrap Iron Town, such an event will naturally attract Alita, who regards fighting as her life.
In short, "Alita" on the basis of the "Dream" series, in fact, did a lot of subtraction, the characters and side stories that appear in the comic, some of which are not even around Alita, so you don't need to see the comic to really understand the film, as the threshold of "Alita" in pg13 is very friendly to the audience.
In addition, there are a lot of spoiler eggs and brain holes that are extremely frightening, give Satoshi some time, carefully sort out and then share with everyone, including who Alita is, where she comes from, how big the world of "Dream" is, how deep the creativity is, and how many Easter eggs there are in the film, which must be spoiler analysis to talk about.
Everyone pay attention to the update of Satoshi!