Looking at the whole "Thunder Shazam", the character I like most is not Shazam (he ranked second), but the sand sculpture brother Freddy in his adoptive family. Let me talk about this character first. Because very few non-villain characters in superhero movies can be portrayed so well.
When Billy first came to adopt a family, his mother said to Freddy, "Don't say those weird things to scare him." But as soon as his mother closed the door, Freddy started to "scare" him. He said his leg fell when his father pushed him downstairs, and he was so scared that Billy thought he had entered a thief's den.
Next, in casual details one after another, the character of Freddy is constantly enriched:
He is a superhero fan, he has a collection of Batman darts, Gotham Daily, bullets and other fan memorabilia;
Although he was not bad-hearted and even had a sense of justice. In the end, he taught Billy to be a superhero with a sense of justice and responsibility. However, everyone at the school didn’t think Freddy looked like him. Good people
He talks about nonsense all the time because he wants to be a superhero, but he has no life, so he brags in school that he will invite Shazan to lunch, but he didn’t realize that he was thrown away by his underwear. go out;
Even the gangsters in the school have to bully him.
He wanted to be a superhero in his dreams. He even thought of a lot of slogans and names, but he was not. He can only be an ordinary, bullied little boy who dreams of heroes and martial arts every day.
This child is not a fictional movie, but the real daily life of thousands of superhero comics and movie fans. They need dreams, superheroes, to support their lives, to face the troubles of growth, and to approach each other day by day. Adult world.
This reminds me of a true story.
In 1948, a little boy was born in an ordinary family in New Jersey, USA. His father was a stevedore, so the family was poor. His daily life was from his home in the first block to the school in the fifth block. All the desire for adventure and the world can only be realized by reading comics. Influenced by those superhero stories, he built an extremely wonderful kingdom and world in his mind, and also began to try to write superhero stories and sold for money.
After he became famous, he admitted in an interview: The influence of superheroes on me far exceeds that of Tolkien and Shakespeare. This boy was George Martin, the author who later wrote the great novel "A Song of Ice and Fire" in the fantasy literary world.
This shows that superheroes have a unique place in everyone's heart, especially in the hearts of teenagers. So this time DC boldly changed the dark style of the past, using a sand sculpture boy who is only 14 years old in his heart as the protagonist, and the whole film is full of very relaxed and brain-free self-deprecating humor, making people feel like a superhero. Finally returned to where it originally belonged: bringing joy and fulfilling dreams.
So I’m happiest watching the whole movie. There are two parts: one is that after Billy suddenly acquired superpowers, he and Freddy are like two “children who just stole the keys to their parents’ wine cabinet” (American film critic (Language), all kinds of funny play, the first thing they think of is not to use superpowers to defeat evil and become a hero. What they think of is buying wine, watching striptease shows, taking photos to make money, and becoming an Internet celebrity in YouTube. Superpowers are an extra way for them to play. This is the true psychology of 14-year-olds, who are still junior high school students.
Another part that I was very happy to watch was that Shazam had an epiphany that he could not defeat the villain alone, so he turned the brothers and sisters of the adopted family into superheroes. The fat man who failed the exam, Freddy who was running the train with his mouth full, and Dara who talked too much...
The first sentence after Freddy's transformation was: I can fly! This is the super power he dreams of. He has asked Billy many times before, if you have super powers, you can choose to fly or be invisible. This may sound confusing for Billy, but for Freddy It's all he wants, because he doesn't have to be bullied on crutches anymore.
The dream of an ordinary child has been realized. He no longer needs to just look at the superhero from a distance, just like watching Superman, Batman or Aquaman, always carefully cover up his inferiority and fantasy, and then face the superhero. Five-body cast. But from a thin boy who couldn't walk well, his dream came true without warning and turned into a superhero.
Many people use "cute" to describe this movie, such as Shazam's silly and cute image, and I think the most "cute" setting is Freddy's dream come true here, it seems to tell everyone like Freddy 'S child will always come true, just like George Martin.
Perhaps it is for this reason that the birth process of the superhero Shazam is a bit special.
Compared with the other superheroes under DC, Superman is not a human being on earth, but a Kryptonian with his own superpowers; Neptune is the child of a human father and a sea princess with superpowers, and it can be regarded as inherited with superpower attributes; and Batman is in order to avenge the blood, and he has painstakingly planned for many years, using technology, money, wisdom and other methods to fight the evil. They become superheroes because of antecedents and consequences in a certain sense, not random.
However, Billy really seemed to have won the lottery. He just stepped forward when his brother was bullied. He was regarded by the wizard as the "most good man". It is estimated that the wizard was also sick and went to the doctor because of the villain. Bian has found a successor, and he has to make progress. Therefore, Billy's first reaction after becoming Shazan Superman was to be very scared because he couldn't go home.
This setting again coincides with the intention of the film. Every ordinary person can become a superhero. You don’t have to be a Kryptonian, nor do you have to bear the blood and blood feud, let alone a hybrid of humans and sea gods. Just do something good. Even if it is a small good thing, you can become a superhero by helping a person in need. Of course, you still need to cherish the people around you, as well as your current family. Although these truths are too simple to be obvious, they are still touching. Because we still go into the cinema to watch superhero popcorn movies when we get older, isn't it precisely because we still believe in the fairy tale that heroes defeat evil?
Therefore, I also believe that Shazam and Freddy, the golden CP like Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda, will have a more funny adventure in the next "Thunder Shazam" sequel.
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