The biggest problem of the X-Men has always been the lack of coordination, messy planning, and messy timelines (after all, the DOFP was smooth and the result was messy). The four online reboot time (XFC, DOFP, XMA, XDP), except that the first battle is about the origin of the X-Men, and the explanation is more clear, the other movies are every ten years. A big event was suddenly inserted, and then the X-Men and Magneto intervened to solve it, such a mode.
But this leads to a big problem, because the new series is shot every ten years. Except for the detailed explanation in the first battle to let the audience know their situation, basically the audience is facing the ten-year interval. The protagonists are all quite unfamiliar at the time, especially when they've all changed so much in this decade. What the director has to do is not only to deal with the events caused by this movie, but also to have enough skill to explain the changes in the protagonist group in the past ten years. This is actually quite a test of skill. The same person, with the same face, seems to have been taken away, the motives for their actions are unclear, and the audience is also inexplicable.
In fact, there were some such signs in DOFP. Charles' alcoholism and decadence and Eric's assassination of the president were actually not very good explanations. It makes people think that there is an episode missing before? But at least it's okay, and this is where the DOFP script is powerful. In XMA, it is even more obvious. What has been criticized so far is why Magneto, who loudly declared "no more hiding" to all mutants in DOFP, suddenly became a married and secluded state? Even if it is mentioned a little in XMA, but What the audience wants to see more is how Magneto puts down his ambition to fight for mutants and retire from the arena, rather than an inexplicable ancient Egyptian mutant who comes out to be an inexplicable BOSS for a whole episode.
And XDP does this especially badly. This time, with novice director and screenwriter Simon Kinberg leading the charge for the first time, the problem is even more pronounced. The director just wanted to use just ten minutes to understand Richards' personality change, and also wanted to deal with the entire Dark Phoenix incident. All kinds of places gave me a feeling of "children driving a big car". Strong actors, there are so many points to cut into the depths, but they are all presented in a very superficial way.
The old X-Men trilogy actually didn't have such a problem, because the time span of the old three was not very large, and most of the characters did not change too much or too suddenly, even if there were uncle Wolf, ROGUE, etc. For the characters in development, because the three-dimensionality of the characters changes with the plot, they will not need to explain why they were such characters in the last part as in the new trilogy, but they will become like this in this one, as long as you focus on Just deal with the events that happen in this part.
Especially when compared with a strong control group like Marvel, even if Marvel is often criticized for being bland and uncreative, at least the entire time, events, and characters of the series are basically smooth, this is not a "series" "What should be done?
This time Dark Phoenix, I personally think that the biggest failure is that the professor's character change has not been handled properly (that is, OOC), and the other is that the Phoenix character of the new series has not actually stood up.
Professor X
Charles is a character who has been established in the previous dozen films. It is not impossible for the director to add new features and deepen his character in this film, but this requires a good script, good actors and good directing ability. , both are indispensable, and it is also worth spending an entire movie to portray. The director actually wants to use short and rough clips to deal with such complexity, which is very disadvantageous, and it is no wonder that it will attract large-scale "character OOC" criticism.
It's not a downside to me that professors become politicians, but being too naive at sixty is. The handling between the government for the mutants in this part is nothing, but I think it is too rough to show the professor's handling of being slapped in the face by the government because he is obsessed with the applause of the crowd and is too conceited. The professor is literally a "mind reader", doesn't he know that the government doesn't trust him wholeheartedly? Wouldn't he know how much of the applause everyone gave him was just for use? The idea of "Professor X also makes mistakes" is okay, but foolishly believing that the status of mutants will be stable enough for the professors who help the government at any cost by the X-Men is not blackening, it is the laziness of the screenwriters.
As for the part that encourages Qin to save lives despite the danger in space, I also feel that it is handled very poorly. I feel that it is to show the vanity and arrogance of the professor, but the plot can only be written so superficially, so it has a rather strange effect. . If you tell the story from a different angle, I am afraid it is a positive example of completely unwilling to give up anyone's life and teaching students to stimulate their potential in desperate situations. The only difference is the narrative angle, and the fact that the professor didn't show any guilt about putting Jean's life at risk when he returned to Earth, which is one of the two things I find most OOC about the professor in XDP.
What's more, the conversation between the professor and Rui Wen after returning to Earth was almost a reversal of the XMA conversation. I almost wondered if the two of them got the wrong script? In XMA, it is constantly emphasized that "they are not children", and who is criticizing Charles "who wants students, not soldiers"? After ten years, those teenagers should be more mature, more capable, and more able to fight alone, right?
To be honest, I like Rui Wen from XFC. Although I don’t like Rui Wen from DOFP very much, I think it’s well written. When I arrived at XMA, I felt that it was just an angry complaint to tick the box of feminism, but I never noticed it. Never thanked others for the role they gave her.
──I really hate how the so-called powerful female is shaped like this. From the very beginning of the DOFP and the professor’s reunion, she has been angry and complaining constantly. People who don’t know think that the professor has done many things that are sorry for her, but she has treated her since she was a child. Being rescued by a professor and raising him as an adult, I don't have a word of thanks from beginning to end. I originally thought that her self-suppression and inferiority would be resolved after DOFP and the professor and liberation changed history, but no, after XMA and XDP, she still maintained the role of complaining and anger, I think it was praised by film critics as powerful It's a really bad example for females. All the benefits are taken for granted, but I never thank her, so the fault is that others are sorry for her. Even if she says "I appreciate you growing up... but blahblah..." when she opens her mouth, I will still respect her a little bit.
There is also the line X MEN should be changed to X WOMEN, I just find it both blunt and funny (and a little disgusting), this sentence has nothing to do with the previous dialogue, the task is far from referring to women, Kurt and Quicksilver has done its best, not to mention Hank, when will Charles only be saved by women all the time? ? ? Can scriptwriters use snacks? As The Telegraph put it:
“Superheroes do progressive politics these days as a matter of course, and here it just feels like shtick – a box to be dutifully checked, rather than a theme to be meaningfully explored.”
(It's natural for superheroes to do politically progressive things these days, and this movie treats it as a gimmick, a box to tick, and it should be the subject of meaningful expansion.)
Another OOC place that everyone is talking about is the professor's performance after Rui Wen's death, especially in the conversation with Hank in the kitchen. How could that be a professor? How could it be the professor who cheered up from decadence for his sister in DOFP? ! How does it feel that Eric is sadder than him when he hears the news of his death? How could Hank tell the professor that it's time to keep the students away from you? The feeling of this whole paragraph is the extreme of arbitrarily distorting the characters' personalities for the sake of the plot.
Of course, the professor in this XDP is not without highlights. For example, at the beginning of the conversation with Xiaoqin, Xiaoqin considers himself to be special, but it is actually weird and monster, but the professor emphasizes this part of the gift, and "You will fix me (fix me)" )?" "No, Qin, you're not broken, you don't need to be fixed." All very touching.
There was also a professor who was controlled by the dark phoenix, and I was very moved by the part that made her read her mind, which was almost even more touching than the end of the EC that forced HE. Even the self-inflated professor written by Simon Kinberg is still not afraid of letting Jean see his own mind-generally, people are most afraid of being read minds, because a little bit of selfishness will be invisible- ─But the professor was "not afraid at all", so he calmly let her read her mind and let her see that he didn't have the slightest bit of scum in her thoughts and actions, which is why Qin recovered from the blackening.
This is the part that touched me very much, this is the professor I have always loved.
As for another reason why the professor of this film was criticized for writing poorly, I think it was because it was the last film. You let me watch such an unremarkable professor? ? ? The professor in X3 devoted himself to the mutants until his death, and was remembered by countless people behind him; although the professor in Wolverine 3 was destitute and died in the end, his spirit was immortal, and he was the one who always held hope and emphasized human nature until his death. The beautiful, incomparably gentle Professor X. The professor of XDP, however, is inexplicably OOC in many places, and is constantly accused of Qin (although the point of the accusation is quite inexplicable), and then...then he left the school and wandered the world by himself? Professor X like this has no bright spots when he exits the venue!
Thinking of the thunderous applause and tears that Yimei added in the Beijing premiere of "You came here as orphans, and you leave with a family.", I wonder if the screenwriter understands the core of the character of Professor X. Ah? The school's change of signs made me so angry that a Buddha was born.
There are no wonderful characters, and there is no bright spot in the plot. What is the purpose of the audience?
Phoenix girl
This one is already in 1992, and the last XMA was in 1983, when the X-Men was officially established, about ten years apart, but in this one, apart from Hank and Ruiwen, the others All X-Men members are still like teenagers (just like Kuaiyin is already thirty-seven years old, and when he comes back, he is still talking to the children in the academy that the mission is his credit. I almost collapsed when I saw it, okay? ?), I can't see that after ten years of growth, it's the kind that needs Rui Wen to be the instructor. When the mission is out, Rui Wen is obviously still in command, which is obviously synergistic with the old series, although there are people in command. Combat feels different.
Sophie's piano still feels to me like a shaky teenager (but she's actually twenty-six or seven years old!), I'm not saying that Sophie's performance is bad, it's just that she appeared in these two plays In the movie, the audience did not form enough connection with her. She was a lonely and confused little girl in the last XMA. At the end of the movie, the power of the phoenix was released in seconds. Then what is this new addition to her body?), in this XDP, the time when Qin was not possessed by that alien force was only ten minutes, but during those ten minutes she was still like She is a lonely and confused little girl with only one more boyfriend, Cyclops. The audience can't see her growth, and can't feel her changes in the past ten years after she exerted the power of the phoenix.
The old version of Qin is mature and beautiful, although there is still insufficient ability to control, it is a character who can report to the United Nations General Assembly, and is a character in many places, and it has been foreshadowed by two episodes of X1 and X2. Uncle... The communication with many people is actually a relatively rich and complete character. In the end, he sacrificed to save everyone in X2. This is the powerful female in my mind, and therefore the process of her return in X3 but the process of blackening It would be doubly regrettable. Of course, I'm not saying how well the old version of the Phoenix line was written in X1 and X2, but that the new version of the piano is not only lonely and confused, but the two exchanges with the professor in XMA are more in-depth and the audience In fact, the connection is not enough, and the character has not yet stood up, so the blackening has no way to give the audience enough shock, and for many people, it is limited to "the blackened Phoenix girl is so beautiful and handsome", " Sophie plays the struggle between blackness and normality so well" to such an extent.
Magneto
I didn't know that when the actor said that this EC's counterpart scene was less than XMA's, I didn't know it would be so few. I didn't know that the sentence "You're always sorry Charles, and there's always a speech, and nobody cares." in New York accounted for half of their rivalry.
I didn't expect that the director and screenwriter would give Eric the role of mourning Ruiwen so much, and even close up his face. When a tear rolled down, I couldn't sit still. Are Eric and Ruiwen really that familiar? I remember he was the one who turned over the earth with a blank face when Apocalypse pinched her neck?
──Sorry, I really feel that Ruiwen's death in XDP, and the countless people who followed her after her death, said that they missed her and that the professor did something wrong is very disgusting.
When XMA came out I said that this is probably going to be the most schizophrenic film I've ever felt -- not because it's even two centimeters deep -- but that the ending was just too ignorant All the mentally retarded plots try their best to make all the unreasonable things come back! !
I think I'm wrong now that XDP is the most schizophrenic film.
Although I saw someone say that Eric was worried about Charles when he asked who the blood on Qin was, and when Hank came in the black bird, he had a very subtle mouth shape that seemed to say "Charles", but I have already I don't have the courage to brush it again. I'll keep this and confirm it later. I can't help but think, Eric said that Genosha's land was given to them by the U.S. government, and they have the right to live here, but is Eric a person who can talk to the government well? Could the person who helped him negotiate with the government is the professor who has been flirting with the government for the past ten years? Nobody knows. No one knows what kind of relationship the EC two have in the decade after XMA.
This goes back to what I said at the beginning: because the new series is shot every ten years, basically the audience is quite unfamiliar with the protagonists who have been separated for ten years, especially when they are still changing in the past ten years. huge time. What the director has to do, in addition to dealing with the events caused by this film, also needs enough skill to explain the changes in the protagonist group in this decade.
No one knows exactly what kind of relationship the EC two have in the decade after XMA. Why would Eric say such hurtful things as soon as he saw the professor in New York? And why, after the Dark Phoenix incident and Qin's death, did not explain at all whether EC had met to reminisce about the past, they reunited in Paris, and proposed to give the professor a home, which was almost a request for marriage?
If Eric always wanted to do this to the professor, why didn't he do it a decade after XMA? If not, what is the opportunity for the Dark Phoenix incident to wake him up and make this request? I don't see any events or catalysts at all in this movie that promote change in the EC relationship.
Otherwise, just like I just finished watching the rant with my friend yesterday, the last two minutes were actually embarrassing, and there was no foundation at all. It was reasonable to suspect that the movie was too bad and had to be shot for two more minutes to make up for it.
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