I vaguely remember that last year, a movie turned out to be the box office champion in North America.
The male and female protagonists are ordinary newcomer actors, and the plot is also an old-fashioned one-day cycle and apocalyptic rebirth, not to mention the big production of a well-known film company.
But it surprised all the fans.
That's right, it's this "Happy Death Day",
With the heroine's beauty and acting skills, as well as humorous, brisk but also rhythmic plot, it has become a small miracle at the box office in the spring of last year.
It plays a theme that is no longer fresh to the audience, and even creates another rejuvenation of this theme.
It can be said that "Happy Death Day" makes all movie fans sigh:
"There is never a finished subject matter, only a lack of brain holes and creativity!"
Just recently,
That set of beauty, appearance, acting skills in one of the sexy and cute, domineering and cute, a little green tea,
The heroine "Xiao Cui", who is very reliable at the critical moment, is back.
"Happy Death Day 2" scored 6.9 points on Douban, and it was not different from the first part.
Yes, the word of mouth is not high, but it is definitely a rotten series of IP.
Still sexy, cute and smart, brave Jessica Rose and silly, upright Isel Brossard,
And in the first part, the Asian boy whose image and performance are very bright will continue to play Isel's roommate,
And this time he played a crucial role in the second part, not only humorous and cute, but also relying on his own intelligence bonus to become the heroine's right-hand man.
"Happy Death Day 2" brought us a sense of strangeness as soon as it opened,
Still focusing on the time loop of the previous part, this time the opening scene actually uses asian roommates as the entry point.
In the previous part,
This humorous and cute Asian roommate, who is not easy to get rid of the stereotypes of American movies, also falls into a bizarre loop at the beginning of the movie.
Inexplicably trapped in the same day,
In this cycle, we see the dorm of the male protagonist of the familiar movie opening, the blonde heroine, the campus where everything happens, and the creepy mask killer...
Asian boys are killed by a creepy mask killer and then go through rebirth, death, rebirth again...
And with the help of the heroine, they unmask the mask killer, and this time the killer turned out to be...
Unexpectedly, it was because of the Scientific Experiments of Asian Men on "Quantum Mechanics", which led to the butterfly effect, time loops and parallel universes.
In fact, the opening scene of "Happy Death Day 2" is very intimidating,
Because including the choreographer, the audience and the actors know that this is a small-cost popcorn film that relies on coolness and stimulation to attract the audience.
Of course, it is impossible to create a logical and rational movie plot like "Inception" and "Butterfly Effect".
But this start of Happy Death Day 2 is very clever,
Do you remember the high-scoring Japanese movie "Camera Don't Stop" that was fired last year, which created such a feeling,
At the beginning, the audience is plunged into a strange and exciting plot that is inexplicable, can't grasp the mind, and wants to watch.
This is actually just an introduction, until the middle of the film gradually connected with the following text,
Step by step to uncover the disguise, all the strange and strange places in front of you will be unveiled under the slow progress of the plot,
In the process, the audience will have a sense of familiarity with the "memory reproduction", because all this experience is paved with the previous text, and everything that was strange before is also clearly stated.
And "Happy Death Day 2" relies on the introduction of the Asian brother to break the cycle and re-enter the cycle.
It can be said that it is another way, very novel, but also added parallel worlds and through elements, so that the story becomes more fresh at the same time,
There are also a few pits and stems that echo the first part.
As a small-budget film, such an approach is actually very clever,
Not relying on a successful concept, but building on this concept, continuing to introduce new concepts,
And it can also take a little network left by the previous game, so that the audience will smile.
As a small-budget sequel movie, this is undoubtedly a very smart and successful move,
Because we look at films such as "Moving Maze" and "Butterfly Effect", many of them are stuck in a big IP.
This led to the dog-tailed mink, and the audience was worn out of interest.
And "Happy Death Day 2" uses its strengths and avoids its weaknesses, knowing that its technical level is not good, it will try to simplify it as much as possible.
Focusing on the heroine's meticulous, superb, green tea and cute, spicy balance of just acting skills,
At the technical level, the stubble of humor is brushed over, and in order to prevent the audience's aesthetic fatigue, it is also constantly creating new conflicts and dramas with a fast pace and sense of humor.
Again, I would like to mention the heroine's just right micro-expression acting skills,
In fact, the setting of the heroine is difficult to grasp, a green tea, entangled with a married man, and his girlfriend kills and loves each other, jealous of each other,
But after encountering such a helpless death cycle, you can resolve the crisis with a positive, optimistic and humorous attitude and super action.
Obviously, he is a green tea, but he is the end of the line, doing the right thing, having an accident, daring to admit and dare to bear, which makes the audience like it.
In the second part, the heroine's Yan Yi and Hao Shuang continue to add,
For example, after a period of electrocution, her rebirth, the golden retriever king-like explosive head, the expression on her face is both painful, helpless and a kind of free prank of understanding everything, which makes people can't help but be funny;
After the last confident fruit run to meet death, this time the heroine wore a swimsuit and parachuted, and died in front of her boyfriend who kissed her roommate in another parallel world with her middle finger.
It also has the refreshing pleasure of a b-grade film spoof.
"Happy Death Day 2" in the classic game rules of time and space reincarnation, and integrated into the setting of parallel universes,
This makes the depth of the whole movie extend a lot.
This time, the heroine is no longer a person struggling to find a way to break the cycle,
Instead, there is a group of scientific and technological otaku who help themselves, and they must rely on memory to make records and find out the solutions with everyone.
The setting of the technology otaku otaku group is also very interesting,
Intelligent and humorous Asian boys, timid and fearful but for the sake of scientific spirit and rare friendship can be opened up, and silent but intelligent Jewish scientific talents,
Such a politically correct setting does not make us as viewers feel a little deliberate.
And Red Face Xiuying believes that the smartest point of "Happy Death Day 2" is:
It can perfectly catch a precious meme left by the previous film,
Tracy has always felt lonely because she lost her mother at a young age, and in the parallel world she actually met another mother who was still alive.
When the gentle and warm mother came out in the spring breeze and sunshine, there was really a feeling of tears in her eyes.
If in parallel worlds you go from a to b and get what you want most, and the person you love the most is born again;
But what you retain is still the memory of a, the people around you and your original life trajectory are staggered, and the happy life of b is stolen for you, without any memory resonance,
So will you choose to go back to a, knowing that it is difficult, but still hard to solve the loss and frustration in front of you?
Or in b, continue to paralyze yourself?
It is not easy for such a small B-level film to rise to the height of life choices.
And the movie was able to make Tracy choose that difficult decision after experiencing painful deaths and rebirths again and again:
"I've been born again so many times, but I can't do anything, everything hasn't changed. I'm still going to lose my mom. "But you can do something that no one can do." "What is it?" "Farewell."
Try your best, just to say goodbye to you, and why isn't that the best ending?