Hope for the stars and moon, now we finally see the first derivative drama of the X-Men-Large Group of Legion
The reason for expectation is not only the love of Forks. This show is directed by the director and screenwriter Noah Hawley of "Ice Blood Storm", coupled with the joining of my big cousin Dan Stevens, I have no reason not to look forward to it.
At present, the play and the "X-Men" movie belong to parallel universes and do not share the same worldview. In the story of "The Crowd", the world is still at a stage where mutants have not yet been recognized. But the screenwriter also said that it is not impossible to share the universe with the movie, but the premise is that the "big group" itself also needs to be recognized by the public. In the comics, David is the illegitimate son of Professor X Charles Xaiver. His mother is a Jewish woman named Gabirelle Haller. She only had a relationship with the professor, so the professor did not know the existence of this son at first. PS, the creators said that Professor X’s wheelchair will definitely appear, and Professor X himself will be mentioned implicitly in the play.
David is an Omega-class mutant. He has been in a psychiatric hospital for many years because of his personality split. But in fact, he acquired different abilities by imagining and absorbing the consciousness of others. These abilities existed as independent personality in David’s mind, so he gained The name "big group". The "big group" comes from a story in the fifth chapter 9 of the "Gospel of Mark" in the "Bible". Jesus met a man who was possessed by an "unclean spirit". Jesus asked what was the name of the evil spirit, and the evil spirit said We are called "groups" because we have a lot of them. The "group" here is "Legion" in the original text. His main abilities include: astral projection, telepathy, mind-shifting, distorting reality, manipulating time, super power, ultrasound, pain transfer, launching beams, teleporting, magnification, mind control, super speed, perspective, high-speed flight, Time travel and so on. Of course, the above is a comic setting. As for how the series is adapted, we have to wait and see.
From the current point of view, even if it is separated from the comics, this is a masterpiece. Its lens operation, editing, art style, soundtrack, etc. are no less than the level of film production, and the use of long shots and frame changes is not bad. The scene props also mixed the elements of the 60s and the modern, and the colors are very bold. They look like Stanley Kubrick's " A Clockwork Orange ". Even the hospital where David lives is called Clockwork Mental Hospital as a tribute.
Director Noah once said that he even wanted to give "The Crowd" a style of David Lynch (the masterpiece " Mulholland "). This shows the ambition of the creator, and the next challenge is how to tell this story in the next 7 episodes. Director Noah calls David an "unreliable narrator", which means that the whole story is based on an unstable character, so it is difficult for the audience to distinguish reality from illusion in the play, because the protagonist can't distinguish either.
Maybe many people see it in the clouds and mists, but they don't know why, so I will also talk about my understanding of the plot of the first episode. For students who don’t know where to look, see the lower right corner of the picture below——
The show started with a montage approach to show David’s journey from childhood to adulthood. As he grew up, his schizophrenia became more and more serious, until one day he exploded in the kitchen, and he decided that he couldn’t figure it out. Suicide by hanging himself. But the suicide rope was broken by the fire, so David did not die, but was sent to a mental hospital, which took six full years. One day six years later, David fell in love with the new patient Syd at first sight. The two became lovers, but Syd did not like others to touch her body.
From the following plot, Syd is also a mutant. Her ability is to exchange bodies through skin contact. This character should be an original character without a comic book prototype. After watching this episode, you should remember that Syd was forced to kiss by David and forced to exchange bodies, but Syd was unable to control David’s superpowers and released the evil personality "yellow-eyed devil". After the yellow-eyed demon appeared, the hospital happened. With the weird change, all the doors disappeared, and David's good friend Lenny died unexpectedly because of being stuck in the wall.
However, it seems that Syd's abilities are time-sensitive, so as soon as time passed, he changed his body and David escaped from the lunatic asylum. On Halloween, David came to his sister Amy’s house to stay overnight. When he was alone, he suddenly saw the "resurrected" friend Lenny. This Lenny should be the visualization of David's guilt, which is David's new personality. Later, David went outside to call the hospital using the public phone on the street, pretending to be Syd's father asking her about her condition in the hospital. At this moment, he was hunted down by two forces, one of whom was under Ms. Bird's ——
The other side is a mysterious government agency——
As a result, the government agency seized the opportunity to capture David, so the story line returned to the plot of the interrogation room. The government agency tried to capture Syd's whereabouts through David, which triggered a series of intermittent memories and hallucinations before David. According to Syd, Ms. Bird’s organization should have telepaths, or Bird himself is a telepath, similar to Professor X and the White Queen, so that Syd can appear in David's mind.
So through telepathy, Syd and others can cooperate with David Li Ying to complete the rescue operation. And Ms. Bird, who appeared last, told David that he did not have schizophrenia and that his so-called mental illnesses were all his superpowers.
The story comes to an end. The next story is about to watch episode 2. Maybe you may think that the plot of episode 1 is confusing, but it still makes people very eager to watch it. In the comics, the large group has countless split personalities and numerous superpowers; and the large group of the drama version has already demonstrated four abilities in the first episode: ① telepathy (hearing the noise of people's thoughts in the kitchen); ② thinking power (in the kitchen) , Broke out in the interrogation room); ③ made a fire (the rope was burnt when hanging up); ④ modified the reality? (This point is suspicious, it reflects that the door has been changed out of thin air, let's see how to say it later)
The following is an analysis of episodes 2 to 5.
Considering that the networked narrative of this play makes everyone look confused, I intend to understand the plot from the following three characters, hoping to solve everyone's doubts.
Let me talk about the background of the story first:
After watching these episodes, no matter how messy the plot is, Ms. Bird has only one purpose in order to find a large group of ability trigger points . Ms. Bird has always emphasized that the mutants are in a war. I think she probably hopes that the large group can be the key to reversing the war.
① Sid
Sid is a mutant who can "remove souls". Her ability is to exchange bodies with each other through physical contact, paying attention to exchanging bodies rather than exchanging consciousness .
From the first acquaintance between the two of them to the mutual adversity, she has completely fallen in love with the big group. The love between Sid and Daqu came suddenly, and it seemed very reasonable. Sid's abilities cannot allow her to have excessive contact with others. Her heart is lonely, and the large group are rare men who are willing to walk into her heart.
The relationship between the two people easily reminds us of the iceman and the Raksha girl in "X-Men". They also fell into deep distress because they couldn't touch and loved each other deeply. In the end, the two chose to break up peacefully.
Compared with Iceman and Raksha, the group is more considerate of their girlfriends Sid, and even enjoys this platonic relationship with Sid. This is probably the important reason why Sid fell in love with the big group. The love between the two begins with the soul, and their feelings are more sincere than anyone else. So when Sid embraced the large group of childhood in the memory of the large group, that scene was so touching.
However, in this "memory work", the group fell into a coma and could not regain consciousness. So Sid decided to investigate the true past of the group with Tonomi , the master of memory, during the group's coma .
In the course of the investigation, we learned from the large group of former girlfriend's mouth, together with the large group of drugs is Benny , rather than Lenny . The following plot is also explained, this is the result of the yellow-eyed demon modifying the memory of the large group. The real Lenny was shot to death on the wall a long time ago. In order to put on the appearance of Lenny, the demon continued to influence the crowd and replaced all the memories of Benny with Lenny.
In investigating the home of a large group of psychiatrists, Dr. Poole , Tonomi once again used the ability to search for memories and saw what had happened in Dr. Poole's home. It turns out that Tonomi can not only see the memory of people, but also the memory of inanimate bodies.
Based on the memory flashback detected by Tonomi, Sid speculated about the cause of Dr. Poole's injury. When Daqun and Dr. Poole were undergoing "talk therapy", Daqun must have revealed too many clues about the yellow-eyed demon .
That's why the large group/yellow-eyed demon sneaked into the doctor's house in the middle of the night to steal the tape. It was probably because Dr. Poole caught the thief and the large group/yellow-eyed demon attacked the doctor.
②Yellow Eyed Devil
After watching a few episodes, the yellow-eyed demon is undoubtedly the biggest suspense point of the whole show. It is now certain that the yellow-eyed demon is not a large group of personalities, but an inducement for the large group to split into countless personalities.
In fact, most of the clues in the series are mostly concentrated in the childhood of the large group, so pay attention to his childhood memories, you will find that the image of the yellow-eyed demon has already existed from the beginning.
And with the passage of time, we found that the size of the yellow-eyed demon is getting bigger and bigger——
This also implies that the yellow-eyed demon is getting stronger and stronger in the minds of a large group. We went back to the night of the childhood Halloween of the large group, when the large group of puppies King suddenly ran around, leading the group to a deserted courtyard, where we once again saw the angry boy .
Looking at his clothes, it can be inferred that the angry boy and the yellow-eyed demon may be the same person. The angry boy represents the fear in the hearts of a large group, and the yellow-eyed demon is its body.
According to the following plot, this is very likely, because the yellow-eyed demon is more than this image, and Lenny is also one of the incarnations of the yellow-eyed demon.
So who is this yellow-eyed demon?
Now I can boldly guess that this demon is the well-known villain in the "X-Men" comics-Shadow King (Shadow King)
In the original setting of the comics, the King of Shadow is a mutant, whose real name is Amahl Farouk, his ability is to "possess", constantly changing his body to achieve immortality; once he is in the body of the mutant, he can use his abilities. Later, the comics changed the setting, saying that he is a pure energy in the Astral Plane, living as a foreigner.
The series adopts the original setting of the King of Shadows, and the King of Shadows is a mutant. His ordinary form is like this-
The image in the spiritual world is like this-
Isn't it a bit like? Small head, fat body, odious face, yellow eyes, parasites in the human body to control consciousness, and have a deep connection with mutants.
Let’s go back to the episode. From the conversation between the big group’s sister Amy and his psychiatrist Kissinger in prison, it can be seen that the big group of pet dog King does not exist, which means that this puppy is also made up by the group. of.
Note that this dog is called "King", which seems to be a hint from the screenwriter-the shadow king is Shadow King, and the dog is also called King.
Starting from this hypothesis, the answer is very clear. In the 30 years since the birth of Daqun, it has been a physical battle between him and the King of Shadows. And now that the yellow-eyed demon has taken the lead, he can now use the power of a large group almost at will.
You must know that in episode 4, the demon still needs to stimulate the anger of the crowd to drive his teleportation ability, but in the fifth episode, he can use the ability of the crowd as he wants.
③Large group
On the other side, the large group fell into the spirit world and met Mrs. Bird's husband, Oliver. It seemed that he fell into a coma and couldn't wake up like the situation of the large group, and his spirit was always trapped in the spirit world.
Oliver clearly saw the status quo of the crowd at a glance, and the crowd was deeply infested by the yellow-eyed demon without realizing it.
Oliver is the husband of Melanie Bird. He and Cary established Summer Island 30 years ago, providing mutants with a utopian world where they can learn to adapt to their abilities.
Who is Cary? It's the "hermaphrodite" uncle, and his female clone is Kerry, who loves to fight.
Although this is an original character, his abilities are indeed reminiscent of the white ghost in the X-Men. Bai Youling is more powerful, he can split into two clones.
The topic returned to the play. Since Oliver's "death", Ms. Bird has inherited everything from Summer Island. Ms. Bird attaches so much importance to the large group, probably because she believes that the large group is capable of bringing Oliver from the spirit world back to the real world.
In fact, Daqu did it. Under the stimulus of Lenni, the crowd activated their abilities and teleported themselves back to the real world, but it was a pity that it was not time for him to return and let the enemy go.
The large group returning from the spirit world can use the ability more freely.
In the spiritual world of a large group, the meaning of colors is very obvious. The white and blue areas are the day and night dominated by the large group, and the red is the area dominated by the devil. Even in the white area, the red strawberries are rotten and dirty.
In the end, the large group completely lost the dominance of their spiritual world. All the characters who fell into the thoughts of the large group were modified by the demons and re-identified. They became mental patients, and the demon incarnation Lenny became a doctor.
Perhaps because of the protection of the large group of "Dreams in Dreams", Sid still retains his own consciousness, and everyone else has accepted the new identity given by the devil. Next, how can Sid save everyone? I can only wait for the follow-up~
In addition, the words of "Doctor Lenni" here seem to also hint at another suspenseful point. The trigger point of the large group's ability is likely to be related to his parents. The "The Angryst Boy" that the adoptive father told the crowd before was a bedtime story about cutting off his mother's head, and it also hinted that the crowd might have killed his mother.
If the episode is to trace a large group of parents, it is likely to involve the large group of biological fathers, and I am looking forward to what form the drama version of Professor X will appear in.
The day before yesterday, during his cousin Dan Stevens and Sir Alex Ferguson's guest appearance in "The Koden Late Show", Sir Alex expressed his interest in continuing to play Professor X in "Deadpool 2". The eldest cousin couldn't sit still after hearing this, and asked——
Now that the actor has agreed, let's look at the official efforts~
In the end, of course, I have to deduct the question~ I don’t know if it is a coincidence or intentional. The large group actually combined the signature actions of Professor X and Magneto together. Double daddy double wait is a cow!
In short, this drama has aroused my strong interest. If everyone agrees with Xiao Ke, please pay attention to my WeChat public account: Neurofilm Bureau. I will continue to analyze the next plot episode by episode.
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