When Foss urged Ryan Reynolds to be a PG-13 "Deadpool" in 2006, I was afraid that it would appear as an R-rated film ten years later and gained a lot of word-of-mouth and box office, as Xiao Jianjian boasted: "I can appear in the same sentence with Christ now! The first is "Passion", the second is me!" Of course, if you count the global box office, "Deadpool" It is a veritable boss. The only thing that can beat it is itself. The release of "Deadpool 2" broke the box office record of R-rated movies until 2019 was overtaken by "Joker", which is also a comic film.
Interestingly, when it came to "Deadpool 2", Ryan finally agreed to make a version of PG-13, which was later released in China "Deadpool 2: I Love My Family". The condition is that a part of the box office is used for charity. The second is to bring Fred Savage, another famous Hollywood buzzer, to say "cross talk." The PG-13 version removed some violent foul language and shots, but it is said that there are still a lot of heavy mouth segments. It must be the same, otherwise how could it be called Deadpool. However, for the subtitle "I Love My Home", which has the flavor of a Chinese family carnival sitcom, I honestly chose to watch the original R-rated version.
The biggest variable of "Deadpool 2" is actually the creative team. Before the filming started, the director of the previous film, Tim Miller, announced his departure. Of course, in a combination of "little director" and "big actor," the director will often go. According to reports, the contradiction between him and Reynolds is mainly focused on the creative concept of the sequel. Miller wants to add some stylized things, while Reynolds wants to take a more extreme R-level route and have more voice. Coupled with the differences in the casting of the character "Dian Suo", the director who made a great contribution to the first film finally went away.
Although the new director David Reach is not a big name, he is not mediocre. He has served as an assistant director in many action movies (including "Wolverine 2" and "Captain America 2" and other super-British films, and has accumulated considerable experience, and his best resume is word of mouth The extraordinary "Quick Pursuit" series, played the coolest killer in history with a small cost, and "revived" Keanu Reeves by the way. Therefore, the quality and quantity of the action scenes in "Deadpool 2" are obviously higher than the previous ones. For example, the long shots in the opening Japanese bathhouse and the part on the escort are very cool and refreshing.
Having said that, no matter how good the action scene is, it can only be an adjunct to the Deadpool movie. To get rid of tiredness and refreshing, you have to rely on a variety of fancy tricks. What are the characteristics of the Ryan Reynolds version of Deadpool (the two are actually merged into one)? Poor! Fox is not as rich as Disney or Warner, and has a limited budget from actors to special effects. The production cost of "Deadpool" is only 58 million US dollars. "Deadpool 2" is a little bit more, but it is only 110 million. It is not as good as the second-line hero Ant-Man in the Marvel Universe. However, poverty also has a poor way of living, not to mention, at least it provided Deadpool with a lot of complaints about Foss.
Looking specifically at this film, it is said to belong to the "X-Men" series, but the X-Men who appeared are still pitiful, and finally there is a famous "red tank" among the villains, but the crew is stunned that he did not give it to him. With an actor (multiple actors will have to pay an extra salary), Reynolds himself dubbed the Red Tank and did facial motion capture, while director David Reach personally went to the battle to do body motion capture. In the film, the only newcomer that Deadpool recruited in the film was "Domino". Why? The key depends on her abilities-luck, no CG special effects at all, how much money this has to save!
At the same time, the crew also went to the set of "X-Men: Black Phoenix" grandiosely. Professor X, the Beast, Quicksilver, Storm Girl and others have all become the background boards for the little gangsters. And you really can’t say that there are no big-name actors in this film, maybe there is no superhero movie where Matt Damon and Brad Pitt can appear in the film at the same time. Although the latter only showed his face for a second, in addition to the minimum salary set by the Screen Actors Guild (estimated several hundred dollars), Reynolds was able to personally serve a cup of coffee, which was very worthwhile.
Of course, "Poor" just made the film a little bit difficult, forcing the crew to spend their time thinking about routines, but the most important "weapon" is the mouth of Deadpool. When the film was released in Hong Kong, the publicity copy was "broader (despite), longer (qi), bigger (brand), harder (net)". To achieve such a momentum, the humble mouth must be more powerful than It was even more violent in the first part. Take a look at his complaints in this film, it is said that "so many petty petites, so many heroes are attracted to bend their waists." How many movies and actors have been drowned in his mouthful of nasty jokes. But it is precisely because of this that the spoof-style subversion of the typified hero image, the deconstruction of serious meaning and plot, and the unfamiliar parody of classic film and television elements have become the brightest signs of the Reynolds version of Deadpool.
Moreover, don't think that Deadpool is an anti-hero who can only shit, and don't think that anti-heroes are the opposite of heroes. Those so-called "anti-heroes" are actually just differences in their value system from traditional ones. What's more, no matter how different the style of Hollywood movies is, the core values will never deviate from the mainstream. In the first part, the intrinsic motivation of Deadpool's personal behaviors such as receiving experimental treatment, obsessing with restoring his appearance, and chasing down villains has been skillfully transferred to his girlfriend, so that his behavior is no longer selfish, but for his girlfriend, For the family, for the love, and for the audience to have a strong sympathy for him.
This is also true. After losing his girlfriend, Deadpool gave up on himself, but found the value of life in the process of saving Russell, regaining the true meaning of friendship, family and heroes. It can be said that the hard work of protecting families (including small families and large families as mutants) has allowed all the original sins of "yellow storms" in Deadpool movies to be reasonably eliminated. Therefore, from the expression level, Deadpool does have a long-cherished wish to break through taboos and challenge the system, but in the end it still chose the conversion system. Rebellion is only the appearance, love and family are the essence. In this sense, the subtitle of "I Love My Home" in the PG-13 version is not unreasonable. And the fundamental reason why we love Xiaoqianjian is only because his rebellious spirit of fighting against the mainstream fits our psychology. To get rid of the greasy, the values that should be there still have to be, after all, it is still popular culture.
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