Days of Future Past, the future, is a series of stories in the Uncanny X-Men comics serialized in the 1980s. The film borrows the background settings of the comics, and the characters and plot are reconstructed. The direction of the story can probably be imagined from the limited observation of the film's name and trailer. This is also the usual routine in many time-traveling fantasy works: a catastrophic future-the protagonist travels back to the past to change key historical events- The future changes. This film does not intend to make a major contribution to the journey itself. It adopts a setting similar to the single-time axis universe in the "Back to the Future" trilogy. It does not have to reverse the world line like the "Stones of Destiny", nor does it resemble " "Butterfly Effect" is like playing with the law of chaos.
From the beginning of the story, the main line is clearly stated: in order to change the tragic future of mutants and humans being slaughtered by sentinel robots with mutant characteristics, Trask, the maker of the anti-mutant sentinel robots, must be prevented from gaining the witch's genes. So the popular protagonist Wolverine embarked on a journey through time and space, and started a wonderful adventure with the past Professor X Magneto and others about the future choice of life and death...
However, this is not for the audience to do this. And the long-awaited reason. When Patrick Stewart’s elderly Professor X appeared in a suspended wheelchair, when the cloak behind Ian McLean’s elderly Magneto swayed familiarly in the air, when Harry Berry’s Storm Girl called for the wind and rain, when Alan Page’s Phantom Cat wore The wall passed by, when Sean Ashmore’s iceman was wearing ice armor, we couldn’t help holding our breath, allowing the image on the screen to overlap with the character in the impression; even Anna Paquin’s Raksha girl flashed past. , Famike Johnson’s phoenix glanced back and smiled, and James Madison’s laser eyes came back to life. The shots of just a few seconds also brought infinite surprises. All these inexplicable touches during the viewing of the movie have already laid the groundwork for 14 years. While the past and the future in the film are interacting, the expectations and memories of the old and new series are also curiously entangled for the viewer as if they echo the title of the film.
The two Charles’s soul-to-heart conversations spanning fifty years to save the future. The two Erics fought for different beliefs at different times, but they are all suspended in the air like gods descending. The legend of X-Men is in the past and in the future. The inheritance is completed between the interweaving. In this reverse push from the future to the past, everyone involved is changing.
Although Wolverine still maintains its wild and unruly character charm, it is no longer the melee character that used to be rampaged in the story. At the cost of reducing attack power, it has gained the superpowers of the political commissar and spiritual mentor system. In this film, Uncle Wolf’s superpowers and fighting scenes are given to others, and his main role in the battle is to be beaten up. However, the literary and drama part is greatly strengthened. It is not so much the protagonist, but more as a clue character: to persuade Professor X to cooperate with Magneto, to patiently persuade Professor X to rejuvenate and restore spiritual strength, and to help them stop the magical girl Ruiwen A road of no return to the dark for revenge.
Compared with the previous work "Lesson 1" where Professor X and Magneto were the absolute protagonists, in the story of this time and space in 1973, there is no such powerful player as Sebastian Shaw in the previous work. Boss, more plots are centered around Professor X, Magneto and Magi. The three are obsessed with each other. Professor X wants to save his sister, Makoto while saving the world; Magneto still refuses to give up the ambition to conquer mankind, and he does not hesitate to regard Makoto as an abandoned child in order to change his destiny. The woman embraced the will to avenge her companion who became the victim of Trask's experiment, and she was determined to put Trask to death.
Under the healing of Wolverine’s ideological and political work ability, Professor X saw the various air disasters he was facing in the future. For the world and for the sister Ruiwen, he re-accepted himself and embarked on the rescue of the devil with the old wolf and beast. road. He also inherited his own beliefs from the future, and finally helped mankind realize an alternative to confrontation and killing.
Magneto believed Wolverine’s words about the future. Although he was rescued from prison by X, he still decided to take his own path of revitalization by force. In Magneto's mind, the future of mutants is greater good, and for this reason he does not hesitate to obliterate the companion Devil Girl, the key factor leading to the emergence of mutant nemesis, a new sentinel robot. Magneto’s skills have once again become the bulk of computer CG expenditures: he controlled the sentry robot through atomic metal manipulation, and used the gymnasium as a loop to turn the presidential palace into a turtle in the urn.
In this movie, the witch is still using her expertise to play the role of a spy, and she is pursuing her for revenge on Trask. When exposed to the truth about the death of her companion, betrayed by Magneto, and summoned by Professor X, the Devilish Girl has undergone more mental changes. When Magneto was about to slaughter the White House, Professor X repeatedly persuaded Fang to make the final decision, stepping forward to defeat Magneto, and thus truly saving the future.
Therefore, after Wolverine completes its mission and returns to the new future fifty years later, we see that Professor X’s school has once again become vibrant, X-Men gathered together, and while delivering comfort, it also delivered Such a message: The story of the old X-Men trilogy no longer exists in this time and space.
This can also be regarded as the habit of using time to rewrite history and restart the whole world in Meiman, which guarantees to a certain extent the independence of the development of the story afterwards. Considering that time-traveling and other similar themes should no longer be used in the sequel, this nostalgic reunion is also very likely to be the farewell of the old X-Men team. Although the old X-Men trilogy has more or less regrets, these times, these stories and these characters, even if they no longer exist after being rewritten in the time and space of the film, in our hearts, they still will not get old. .
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ps some small details about the film:
1. In the future world, the Mutant Resistance Army uses the Phantom Cat’s ability to transmit across time and space to continuously save and load (the person who passes through in the original is the Phantom Cat himself), except for the two giants, the iceman, the phantom cat, the storm and the steelman (Master) is an old face, and several other characters should be considered as new characters added in this movie, including Bishop (ability to absorb energy and launch, equivalent to a physical capacitor), Warpath (strong melee warrior, Clairvoyance is also reflected in the movie), Sunspot (the ability to absorb and emit solar energy, but in the movie it is basically a fireman...), flash Blink (create a space channel, a human portal generator..... .). Although Fan Ye’s Blink didn’t have many lines, he still gave a lot of shots, and his super powers were very eye-catching. In the final battle, the transmission gate and the steel man were used to turn the momentum of the fall from vertical to horizontal. feel. But what is sad is that under the suppression of the sentinel, these people basically died twice in the movie...
2. The fast silver that appeared in 1973, a mutant with super speed, dragged wildly The cool character has a comedic performance when he rescues Magneto. It is worth mentioning that, in order to imply or pay tribute to the father-son relationship between Magneto and Kuaiyin in the original book, when Magneto introduced his superpower to control metal in the film, Kuaiyin responded that his mother had dated a similar person. pass.
3. After Magneto was free, in order not to be held back by Professor X, he revisited to regain his anti-mind control helmet. In the display case where the helmet is placed, you can also see an enlarged version of the wings of a Hymenoptera insect and a damaged X-Men uniform that appeared in "Lesson One". The former is the mutant genie that appeared in the previous work. Angel's relic, the latter is Havok's uniform. In addition, Magneto and Professor X revealed the deaths of the Angels, Sirens, the Red Devil and the White Queen, which covered the tone of the movie with a suppressed black gauze (The White Queen Emma Frost actually hung up before the laser eye appeared. Not the popular protagonist is really going to tears...).
4. In "Lesson One", in addition to the trio and the beasts in the triangulation, Havok (the brother of the laser eye in the original book) who emits red energy beams, he and the Toadman (old X-Men) In the first part, Magneto King's hand), Wenmo (the right eye has a tattoo, the ability is reflected in the biochemical hazard symbol of the palm, which can cause dizziness and nausea, the superpower in the original book is not built-in), Spyke (? Suspected, but different from the original ability) ) And others were sent to the battlefield of the Vietnam War and were rescued by the Devil before being sent back to Trask Industries as experimental products (congratulations).
5. Regarding Stryker’s son, Jason, a psychic mutant who appeared in the second part of the old X-Men series and was used by Stryker to control Professor X. In this film, Trask once asked about the situation of Stryker’s son. , Stryker's expression seemed a bit complicated. When Professor X first tried to use the brain wave amplifier Cerebro to find Rui Wen, he was unsuccessful. Professor X was very annoyed and complained that his inability to control his ability was "as helpless as a student of his own", possibly referring to Shi Cui. K’s son.
6. The beginning of the film shows New York City in the ruins after the war. This is where the X-Men headquarters and Professor X’s school are located. It is also the first scene of the original Days of Future Past comics. Among the detainees, a person with a tattoo on his right eye can be seen. It seems that it may be a mutant with tattoos on the battlefield in Vietnam.
7. The ending egg should be a preview of the next X-Men, corresponding to the story of the so-called first mutant in the world-Tianqi (not Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty...), although it is controlled by the pyramid. She looks like a woman (a friend thought it was just more delicate in the reply, I hope so ==), but the apocalypse is infallible (I don’t know if it’s a relative or a deliberate gender reversal, it’s best not to ==), not far away on the sand dunes Four rides may correspond to the four apostles of the original comic book.
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