A typical Hollywood blockbuster seems to be like "X-Men 3", with many gorgeous special effects scenes, and a good story structure, and more importantly, something must be thoughtful. Perhaps it is worth thinking about by domestic filmmakers. For a commercial film, is thinking really that important? Doesn't it require pure beauty in form? In fact, every successful Hollywood blockbuster has the theme of thinking to some extent, but this kind of thinking is very simple, and you can understand it without thinking about it. This kind of simple thinking is necessary for a blockbuster film to prevent it from slipping into the empty quagmire. Although ordinary movie audiences may not like topics that require deep thinking, they will not like them either. A shallow and empty movie blockbuster purely playing with flowers.
Compared with the previous two episodes of "X-Men", there are quite a lot of mutants in the third "X-Men", and each has its own special function. Perhaps the new director Bright considers that if this series does not introduce the old and the new, I am afraid that the audience will get tired of the old faces. Although this design arrangement is visually dazzling and feasting on the eyes, it also makes the main line of the story seem not obvious enough. , The protagonist status of Wolverine and Storm Woman was shaken, but the film finally let Wolverine complete the lore mission to confirm his importance.
The core thinking that can be extracted from this film is the emergence of the "antidote". The emergence of the "antidote" has completely changed the relationship between humans and mutants. It is not only the question of whether alternatives should be brought into the mainstream, this question is also a current social problem, as well as how to recognize the existence of alternatives. For example, the current social reality that discriminates against homosexuality and attempts to transform homosexuality seems to be a projection of the film's story. Mutants to humans and homosexuals to mainstream heterosexuals are in fact different from mainstream values. The theme conveyed by the film hopes to identify with the existence of alternatives, rather than trying to impose mainstream values on them. Incorporating the alternative into the mainstream. As for whether to return to the mainstream values, it is an alternative's choice. It is as if the little mischief finally chose to give up superpowers in order to be with the person in love.
In the film, when the mutants die, the phoenix girl becomes the key figure in the film, and the other mutants coexist with their strengths and weaknesses, and mutually restrain each other. And Jane's ability has almost become super invincible, but the biggest problem is that she can't control herself. Perfect mutants should not exist, because this will definitely weaken the observability of the film, so Jane was finally arranged to leave. She ended up in the hands of her lover Wolverine, but the emotional scenes arranged in the film are really weak and not worth mentioning. However, for Hollywood commercials that don’t need to be meticulous, this degree of emotional scenes is just a series of connections. The needs of the plot, no audience will know its rationality.
If the film is judged by the standards of a commercial movie, "X-Men 3" completely exceeds the pass line. The film has gorgeous and outstanding special effects visuals. There are also major events such as moving a bridge across the sea. So many mutants are different. His supernatural powers completely surpassed another similar super movie "Fantastic Four" before. While attaching importance to visual images, the film did not ignore the development and changes of the entire story structure, as well as the core thinking about the existence of mutants. Although it is simple, it meets the requirements of commercial movies. Although the film still has some loopholes and far-fetched points, perhaps in a story with a fairly complete structure, these do not seem to affect the audience's understanding and acceptance of the film.
I don’t know if it’s for the end of this series or for other reasons. The development of the film’s story is a bit awkward. The important characters in the first two episodes have been killed one after another. First, the handsome laser eye guy Scott was killed, and then the leader Professor X. , Variety Girl and Magneto were also deprived of their supernatural powers, and finally Super Invincible Phoenix Girl Zhen also inevitably fell. There are two possibilities to make such an arrangement in the third part, and the "X-Men" series ends here, with a perfect end. But judging from the clip at the end of the movie where Magneto tried to control the chess piece and the chess piece did sway, and a few seconds after the end of the subtitles, it seems that the movie still left a tail to pave the way for a new sequel in the future.
Text: Eyebrow Ruler
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