With the movie fire, many of Marvel’s hero organizations have been well-known to audiences all over the world. The popularity of the Avengers, X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy and other teams can now be said to be unknown.
However, not all hero organizations that have launched movies on the big screen can gain popularity, such as "Fantastic Four" in 2005 .
The oldest Marvel hero organization
The Fantastic Four (Fantastic Four, nicknamed F4) was born in 1961, much earlier than the Avengers, X-Men (born in 1963), and Guardians of the Galaxy (born in 1969). The sales of its comics have always been very high. Yes, I have participated in many big events. It can be said that it is a very high and important team under Marvel.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Marvel had to sell all the copyrights of its heroes due to poor management. The copyright of the Fantastic Four was sold to Constantine Pictures in Hollywood in 1986. In the 1990s, it was sold. He came to the hands of Fox Pictures , one of Hollywood's six largest . (Marvel also sold to Fox also X-Men, Deadpool, Daredevil, etc.)
After entering the new century, the copyrights of heroes sold by Marvel began to exert force. Movies such as "Blade Warrior" and "Spiderman" have successively appeared on the big screen. Fox also launched "X-Men" and received good results. After that, he turned his attention to another card in his hand, the Fantastic Four.
Under such circumstances, "Fantastic Four" officially started filming and was released in 2005. With its production cost of 100 million US dollars, it finally won the global box office of about 330 million US dollars, but the reputation is relatively average, and the results can be said. It is quite satisfactory .
In fact, although Fox has experience in filming hero team movies, even the performance of the "X-Men" series is quite unstable . As for the film "Fantastic Four", there are many highlights, but problems Also quite a few.
The commonality of hero team movies
For group performances, the primary focus is to make the audience remember these main characters quickly, but because of the large number of characters, the commonly used method is to unreservedly show their personalities or abilities in front of the audience.
The protagonist group of "Fantastic Four" has only 4 people, which is relatively easy to deal with compared to the 6-player rematch and the X-Men with more than 7 people.
Mr. Fantastic, the original comic is the human with the highest IQ on earth (can crush Tony Stark and Hank Pym) and is even nicknamed "God Stick Virtue" by fans.
However, this can’t be completely restored in the movie, otherwise the villain won’t have to play, so the biggest highlight of Mr. Fantastic in the movie is his ability--- rubber body . I think everyone who has watched "One Piece" should be concerned about this ability. Not unfamiliar?
Invisible Girl, let alone this role, the abilities are directly written in the title, but for the audience, the most memorable part of this role is not her ability, nor her character, but It's her appearance .
No way, who calls Jessica Alba such a handsome face.
The actor of Thunderbolt is Chris Evans , also known as Captain America.
Of course, he hadn't played the role of the US team in 2005, so the actor couldn't bring any bonus to Thunderbolt, and the ability to manipulate the flame can be said to be nothing new, and it can be seen in countless works. To various flame manipulators.
Therefore, the movie focuses more on the character of Firebolt, so a cynical, frivolous, and impetuous teenager playing with fire was born.
I have to admit that characters with this personality are indeed quite easy for the audience to remember.
As for the stone man, not to mention, the appearance of the rock is very iconic , not to mention that he is also the plot promoter of the movie. It is difficult for the audience to remember him.
In terms of the overall control of group performances, "Fantastic Four" actually did a pretty good job.
Two alternatives to team movie mode
But for movies about team battles, most of their plot routines are in two modes.
The first is that various members gather together. At first, no one was convinced, and they had conflicts with each other. Later, they worked together to fight against the BOSS, such as "Reunion 1" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" .
The second is that the members of the team have been working hard from the beginning of the assembly, such as "Fast and Furious 5" and "X-Men".
The biggest difference between the Fantastic Four team compared to Fulian and X-Men is that the relationship between the members is closer and more like a whole.
In other words, it is relative harmony and unity with each other.
After all, among these 4 people, the Invisible Woman and Pilihuo are siblings, Mr. Fantastic is the male ticket (husband) of the Invisible Woman, and the Stone Man is the best friend of Mr. Fantastic.
Therefore, the film "Fantastic Four" should choose the second story routine to meet the team's positioning.
But unfortunately, the film ultimately chose the first one.
What are the consequences of doing this?
The answer is to make the dramatic conflict of the movie quite deliberate.
For example, Firebolt made several undisguised mockery of the stone man turning into a monster. This is no longer what can be achieved by frivolous personality or young and ignorant, but anyone with a little emotional intelligence would not do it.
Another example is the Stone Man who wants to restore to the original state. Mr. Fantastic has been trying to make a machine to achieve his wish. However, the Stone Man has been mad, just like "I don’t care, you can’t recover me right away, so it’s your fault." Look like.
In fact, there are not enough opposing ideas between F4 members to form a visible contradiction . This kind of conflict created by forcibly turning the character's emotional intelligence into a negative number can only be said to be counterproductive.
Extraordinary ability, ordinary action scene
What is the most important thing for a commercial movie, especially a superhero movie?
Yes, it is the action drama , and the story is even second. If the action drama is well designed, it can even offset the impact of plot defects to a large extent.
The action scenes in "Fantastic Four" can only be said to be quite ordinary.
It stands to reason that the super powers of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman in F4 are very interesting. There are many tricks to play with with careful design. Although the flame ability of Thunderbolt is relatively bad, it can still be very cool if it is designed well. It's more simple and rude, just use its powerful sense of power to stimulate the audience's adrenaline.
However, given that the budget cost is only 100 million U.S. dollars, it is impossible to make multiple battle scenes appear in the film. Therefore , there is basically no battle in the front and middle of the whole movie. The special effects scenes are all F4's familiarity and groping ability.
But the final duel with the villain Dr. Destruction was designed to be rather sloppy. A set of F4 combo skills was directly solved. The entire decisive battle lasted less than 10 minutes, and the four-man team's ability characteristics were not highlighted at all.
Because the literary and martial arts are relatively common, making "Fantastic Four" is a "routine" superhero movie. Say it is very bad, in fact, it is not to the point that it can not be seen, but it is very good. After pondering, many defects will be found.
However, given that the cost is not high, the movie is still profitable, so the sequel is also put on the agenda, but the "Fantastic Four 2" two years later, it seems that it has not been swept away...
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