On April 23, the day "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" ended, Marvel officially announced that "Captain America 4" had entered the development process.
With the end of "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" becoming the subtitle of "American Team and Winter Soldier", we are sure without suspense that Sam Wilson removed the title of Falcon, took over the shield, and officially became Captain America.
At this time, the sleepy audience suddenly woke up: it turned out that "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" was just a super long "Captain America 4" trailer!
Panic in the post-Marvel era
The brilliance of "Avengers 4" has indeed consumed a lot of enthusiasm from Marvel's creative team and audience.
Kevin Feige, who captured the audience's excitement, accurately poked every excitement point in "Reunion 4", the cheers in the cinema at the premiere, and the tears of the men and women at the end of the film proved the success of the film.
But these honors exchanged for pleasure also gradually dissipated with the audience after the exit of Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow and others.
Many viewers seemed confused after "Reunion 4".
The most popular first 5 people exited 3, and the Marvel Universe announced that it had entered the fourth phase, but in fact, no one was confident that the fourth phase had officially begun before the development of the first phase iv movie.
In order to keep the audience's emotions filed, after the end of "Reunion 4", Disney immediately announced that the three series of "Wanda Vision", "Falcon and winter soldier" and "Rocky" will continue to be filed.
At that time, the audience was still immersed in the mood of "not watching enough", and they were still full of expectations for these works, but when it came to the time of release, the enthusiasm retreated, and everyone found that this was not "enough to see".
Although the first few episodes of "Wanda Vision" are full of creativity, the last few episodes have sugar in the knife, and the sugar has a knife, but the overall performance is more like a completion of the Crimson Witch, for the entire Marvel Universe, there is a little bit of a feeling of stripping.
Immediately after "Falcon and winter soldier", the action design of the first episode of the first episode is like a theatrical blockbuster, but the follow-up is somewhat weak, full of a lot of unclear content that wants to be expressed but expressed.
Looking at it as a whole, it is actually very obvious that Marvel is a little afraid.
What are you afraid of?
Success is also a character, and defeat is also a character
In the final analysis, the highest task of film and television works is to establish characters.
In marvel's first three phases, almost every character has a textbook-like process of building.
"Iron Man" took the lead, followed by "Thor" Shakespeare temperament, followed by the stable "Captain America", and then described the friendship between Hawkeye and Black Widow in "Avengers".
Coupled with the follow-up "Ant-Man", "Guardians of the Galaxy", "Black Panther", "Captain Marvel", "Doctor Strange", etc., each of the characters of the reunion is brilliant and charming.
Among them, there are Rocky, Bucky, Sam, Wanda, and Vision, who are not the main heroes.
Loki is known as the "real heroine of "Thor", arrogant and naughty but also loses her fascination with her brother, and Thor is a good and evil, playing the most cute and charming villain role in the world.
Bucky's character once had a very high popularity, when the US team was still a bean sprout, he protected the US team in the front; when the US team popcorn succeeded and became a national idol, he assisted the US team in the back; when he was brainwashed to become a villain, he also relied on a little memory to be merciful to the US team's subordinates.
Sam is the link between the US team and the new era, in the days when Bucky did not return, he was the only person who could feel the mood of the US team who had been a soldier, and he was also a person who sincerely helped the US team and had the same beliefs and concepts as the US team.
When Bucky and Sam were unhappy with each other in "Us Team 3" but loyally followed the US team to the east and west, the two humored each other, produced a great chemical reaction, and was called "Marvel Deyun Society" by fans.
Wanda and Vision are a pair of bitter Mandarin ducks, especially Wanda's tragic setting of dying her father and mother first and then her brother and finally dying husband, so that this strongest character in Marvel has all the elements of "beauty and tragedy".
However, these brilliant supporting characters inevitably appear under-illuminated after being called protagonists.
In the end, they are not deeply involved in the main line development of Marvel, and even if they are added to the scene at this time, it is difficult to support the whole story.
Although "Wanda's Illusion" was full of suspense in the early stage, the truth revealed in the later stage was too bland, resulting in the collapse of various details laid in front of it, and the long-awaited battle of wits and courage became a pure magic confrontation. The core of the story is more inclined to the emotional repair of Wanda's little girl, so it has a sense of separation from the main transmission, and many characters such as the Sky Sword Bureau and the big villain have even become tool people.
The two-person cross-talk of "Falcon and Winter Soldier" is completely drowned in the struggle of the characters, and the two characters who have not been established in the first place are suddenly in pain about whether to inherit the mantle of the US team, and the more they appear to be thin.
Throughout the play, the most successful character established is the second-generation AMERICAN team John Walker, who feels out of control from the beginning of the mission and does it almost perfectly.
The two protagonists are not even more three-dimensional than Baron Zemo and Agent 13 Sharon.
"Wanda Vision" and "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" are in such a difficult situation to establish characters, trying to enrich the content of the series with creativity, design, and countless scraps, and the final result is still a lackluster result.
Now everyone's only hope is in "Rocky", which will never play by the rules.
Marvel Road is a long way to repair
Last month and this month, Marvel released trailers for two films in the fourth phase, the long-awaited "Black Widow" and the controversial "Shangqi".
"Black Widow" is not too much of a problem, but this movie is just in response to the heroine craze brought by "Wonder Woman", with the rise of global female consciousness, a finale to the first three stages, whether there is a sequel or not, it is difficult to become a new series.
And "Shangqi" should be the most wrong decision Marvel has made.
As for other works whose information is not clear, they are also accompanied by various risks.
"Eternals" is a group play, the group drama of "Reunion" is the foreshadowing of multiple movies, and a good result has been achieved, and whether "Eternals" can handle the structure of group dramas is still an unknown question.
The sequels of "Doctor Strange" and "Thor", without the support of old teammates, vaguely reveal a deflated smell, whether to create glory again or dog tail sable, are unknown.
"Black Panther 2" faces the death of the protagonist; the protagonist setting of "Captain Marvel" is too strong, and how to solve this problem in the second part is the focus; "Fantastic Four" has been filmed twice and hit the street, and the third time it is not known what the future holds; "Mutants" and "Blade Warrior" these new projects do not look so attractive...
Now we can only hope that Marvel can make a good start in the fourth stage, do not rush to create the glory of the first three stages, and stumble and run on the road ahead.
After all, it is the most beautiful dream of many people in ten years!
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