Let me first review the following 8 years after the end of the "X-Men" trilogy, how Fox has renewed his life for this series:
In 2009, "X-Men Prequel: Wolverine" complemented the popular character Wolverine I didn’t go to the cinema, but watched this movie on the plane’s scum screen a long time later. To be honest, it was a bit beyond my expectations—because I didn’t have any expectations at all.
In 2011, "X-Men: First Battle" traced back to the first encounter between Professor X and Charles. It tells the story of the fateful enemy and the happy enemy from being in the same boat to parting ways. The Nazi poison + the background of the Cuban missile crisis It's a little exciting-both moviegoers and gamers eat this set these days. This movie explains well the antagonism and mutual trust between Professor X and Magneto. The response in all aspects is also satisfactory. The problem is that there are almost no familiar faces except "Uncle Wolf" who is an easter egg. Saying that it is the same series can not give people emotional recognition. A younger and more beautiful cast may also be considered a bright spot. Although I prefer Professor Bald Head X and Gandalf's Magneto, it does not mean that other audiences-especially female audiences-hold the same view.
In 2013, "Wolverine 2" told an American version of the anti-Japanese drama. There are no highlights in the plot and special effects. Well, it is too polite to say it. If it is regarded as an X-Men movie, it would be a nightmare. Some people even say that this movie is a 120-minute trailer + 3-minute feature film of "X-Men: Reversing the Future"-3 minutes refers to the part where Magneto and Professor X appear.
In 2014, perhaps stimulated by the Disney-Marvel combination, "X-Men: Reversing the Future" did not follow Fox's previous convention of two years, good or bad. Without this movie, "X-Men: First Class" would hardly be remembered again, and "Wolverine 2" would become the most exaggerated failure of a superhero (well, the trailer part is actually a failure), and more importantly Yes, it announced that even if it was just borrowing from our layout speed and adaptability to the market, it has already gone ahead of Warner-DC-this is really a resounding slap in the face. Of course, limited by the number of IPs in hand, Fox may never be able to complete the luxurious layout like "Avengers". The future superhero battle will still be launched between Disney and Warner, but the audience does not care about this, we live in At the moment, as long as good-looking movies continue to be delivered to us.
Whether it’s a comic or a movie, Wolverine is an absolute popular character. Even in the comic "Deadpool Slaughter in the Marvel Universe" dedicated to mocking readers, Deadpool had to kill Wolverine twice. In the words: “It’s not the healing power that makes you resurrected again and again, but the popularity (annoying? You know that even Spider-Man has been headshot cleanly!). But I want to say that the X-Men series In fact, it has never belonged to Wolverine. It belongs to Professor X and Magneto, who fell in love with each other. It belongs to the endless debate about peaceful coexistence or violent rule-the connotation and vitality of this series and other superhero comics. Different charms also come from this.
"X-Men: Reversing the Future" has a story that is both passionate enough and cliché enough-going back to the past to change the dark future. Is cliché a derogatory term? It has never been. In the final analysis, vulgar is not cliché. It doesn’t matter whether it’s children, what’s important is whether you can play new tricks in the old routines, or intact the old routines in the new format, "X-Men: Reversing the Future" belongs to the latter. People are emotional animals. Many principles may not be understood by everyone, but people are always touched by simple things.
I always mentioned this sentence when I was doing game copywriting training at the company: "'Under the sun, there is nothing new.' History is like a wheel, that is, rolling forward and reincarnation. These constantly happening stories confirm People’s emotional factors, people always need heroes, longing for love, never ending tactics, greed and cunning never stop. The long history of mankind has repeatedly verified that we will be touched by some things, and the ability to sense these things is written in our In the genes, it can never be changed."
Some themes and things are not played by many people and will be rotten. More often, a lot of people are playing but not playing well (this kind of problem is abused). The IP game circle in China is particularly serious), at this time it is easy to be a blockbuster. There used to be Captain America 2 before, and now there is "X-Men: Reversing the Future", which is good for playing clichés, and my surprise level with "X-Men: Reversing the Future" surpasses the American theme of " US Team 2".
At the beginning of the movie, we knew that the dark future will surely be changed, and all the dead soldiers will be redeemed. The remaining question is how to make the resistance more tragic and the reversal more violent. Therefore, for this purpose, the director-screenwriter killed the lonely and tenacious survivors twice.
For the first time, the audience was not familiar with them yet, they died cleanly, and immediately because of a small reversal of the future, all members Xinchun brothers. From the fact that the survivors of this small team are familiar with the method of reversing the future, it can be guessed that they have done this countless times before. But a few people who had just "dead" chatted together relaxedly again did not make people relaxed, but created a more desperate atmosphere. They are powerless to change reality, their proud abilities are completely suppressed, and tracking follows. They can repeat this process again and again until one time counts the wrong time, and then the group disappears. Mutants are, after all, only a slightly special kind of person, and people will make mistakes. If it keeps doing this, sooner or later, the end is already doomed, and only the process of constantly savoring the same fear and despair. Because of this awareness, everyone supports Professor X's attention to change everything from the source, even if it fails this time, it will be benevolent.
At this point we can already guess the end, the mechanical sentry came again, killing the X-Men who were protecting the traversers outside one by one, and then achieved a reversal at a critical juncture. Isn't it cliché? Curious enough! But being able to guess does not mean that we are immune. When the black sentry pounces like a bat in the night sky, we are just as nervous. When every X-Men is killed by a powerful enemy one by one, we feel sad and angry. When another time and space When Lizhu teammate Magneto was still performing his solo show, we were equally anxious... This is the power of narrative and the essence of the story. On the camera, the performance of these points also took a lot of effort. When each character finally died, slow motion was used:
First, the storm girl, after completing a thousand people cut with Magneto, was then penetrated by the sharp blade of the sentry. , Draws a graceful and helpless arc and falls down the cliff, while countless gecko-like sentinels on the rock wall are climbing up...Storm Girl is a long-range hero, good at spell attacks and AOE damage, and arranged for him to die in melee combat. Out of the powerlessness of the entire X-Men against the sentry. As a melee tank, the Steelman, who is supposed to rush in front to take the damage for the whole team, is as vulnerable as a ragdoll in front of the sentry, and the two sentry are broken. The fire man (actually the sunspot) and the ice man died in the same way twice, and their abilities tended to be very obvious, and once restrained, there was almost no power to fight back. Fan Ye's flicker is a tragic runner-up. His partol ability does not have a direct killing effect. He must cooperate with his teammates to exert his power. When the teammates are completely destroyed, she can only release her ability and delay time. It is certain that there are loyal fans of Valve's classic puzzle game "Partol" in the main creation...Of course, Fan Ye only uses the skills of the first few levels. No matter what the circumstances, flashing can always run, as long as she wants, at least the last one can die, but what is the point of this? The Chinese nation-ah no, the mutants have reached the most dangerous moment-one second is one second. The most terrible thing is Magneto. First, he threw the escape tool out to show his courage to let go, and then used the old iron pieces after the explosion to form the final barrier. Two old men who belonged to different stories but were equally stubborn were at this moment. The overlap, I almost made up the classic line of "You shall not pass!" Imagine this scene:
The mutants who fought against him and fought side by side with him fell one after another. Eric felt that his previous dream had become so far away, and now, he felt that what he wanted was no longer a king over mankind. Not even living in peace with humans, but just living. He doesn't know where he will go in that new future, but he must guard the only hope. Therefore, after only a second of doubt, he has changed back to the firm and cold Magneto. With his last strength-the pain in the lower abdomen made him unable to even make the emperor-like movements with his hands stretched out- -Let all the spacecraft fragments mix together and gather into a wall. "You shall not pass!" Is
enough to turn all the fans of "X-Men" and "Lord of the Rings" into slag, okay? !
"X-Men: Reversing the Future" is a film with no peeing points in the audience. The beginning of the film is extremely fast, and the arrogant performance of Fast Silver is the stimulant of the first half; Magneto’s loss of control again constitutes the highlight of the middle part. The communication between the young Charles and the old Charles using Wolverine’s mind as a medium is a rare stroke of magic in the traversal play; the culmination of the two battles that occurred at the same time in the past and the future is no longer a definite righteousness and evil. Catching the opponent and concealing and killing more reflects the rational use and strategy of abilities (especially the magic girl, who turns the situation with her own power). The only regret is that the realization of the reversal is not logically perfect-but who still I care about this; even at the end, the scenes of the dead men appearing one by one have become a belated tribute, evoking the long-lost blood of fans of the series on the verge of loss. Moreover, this movie rarely combines the old and new generations of roles, and the old actors obviously have the meaning of giving way to the newcomers, just like the old Charles said to the young Charles-full of old people. The guidance and expectations of the predecessors for the new force are both regretful and warm. Can you expect a movie to play a bigger role?
A digression. Regarding the handling of reversal logic, DC God-level screenwriter Alan Moore once had a script called "Twilight" that handled it particularly well. In the outline, Constantine, who was a reversal character, chose to rub with his life’s love. Passing shoulder to avoid a dark future, a simple scene outlines infinite melancholy. Interested students can Baidu.
The following part is dedicated to the easter eggs. If you are a fan of this series, you will smile when you see these easter eggs. If you don’t, you might as well feel it. You will slowly become a fan:
1. The first time after Wolverine’s crossing When he claws, he cursed, because at that time he showed bone claws. In the future, his bone claws were transformed by officers into Ademan metal claws. The cutting ability and strength are better than the former. The bone claws have been used. Not used to it (Gosh, forget the weird "Wolverine 2").
2. Wolverine met a beast at the door when he went to find Professor X in his young age, but when the other party reported his name, Wolverine said: "You are really a late bloomer." In the original biography of the X-Men, Wolverine and the beast are A pair of comrades who do not know each other, the beast at that time has entered the human government, becoming the official spokesperson for the interests of mutants.
3. When Magneto revealed to the cool young man Kuaiyin that he could control metal, Kuaiyin said: "My mother also knows someone who can control metal." There is no variant that has the same ability as Magneto. People, so this person is undoubtedly Magneto. In the comics, Kuaiyin is the son of Magneto. It is also worth mentioning that the role of Fast Silver will also appear in the next "Avengers" series of movies and the next "Spiderman" series of movies, but the way of interpretation may be different.
4. On the plane to Paris, Magneto was stuck with bone claws by Wolverine when he was holding a newspaper. The unhappy Magneto said: "Imagine if your claws are metal." Hearing this sentence I believe that many fans of the series have already made up for the embarrassment of the mighty Uncle Wolf every time Magneto turns into a husky, right? I hoped that King Kong, whose abilities were no longer restrained in this movie, could be ashamed. Who knew that the abuse would be even worse... As expected, the salted fish can't turn over forever...
5. The witch is peeking at the dwarf Tilly The autopsy report of the research subject of Ang (forgive me for not having this name) found that the dead were angels, torrents, white queens, and red devils. I didn’t pay much attention to this detail. Netizens said...
6. The officer who has been following Tyrion is named William Stryker. The villain, he inherited Tyrion's business, dedicated to destroying mutants. Because Stryker's son was also a mutant, the pain he caused distorted his view of right and wrong, and he was not yet enlightened by Tyrion.
7. When Magneto took the helmet and placed the helmet with the relics of angels and sea monsters (it was said by netizens, I don’t remember...), that helmet was the BOSS invention of "X-Men: First Class" Yes, it can isolate Professor X's brainwave control.
8. When Wolverine and his party went through the security check before entering the White House, Wolverine froze for a long time at the unresponsive security gate, and did not react until his companion called him. It was the same stalk, the future Wolverine was doused with Adman metal, and he was used to the sound of the dribbling after going through the security check.
9. After the future is reversed, the person Wolverine meets at the door of Professor X’s office is his adored Jean Gray, nicknamed "Phoenix", which was distorted in the third part and began to kill the audience. There is still a trace left. Was stabbed to death by Wolverine when he was sensible-this has become Wolverine's most painful memory. However, Qin had a boyfriend, and his boyfriend was the laser eye that appeared later. His appearance made the peach-faced Wolverine mumble: "How can some things remain the same." The bitter drama has to continue.
10. The person who appears in the end credits is the big BOSS Apocalypse. Like Darkside in the DC universe, he is a god-level big BOSS and will appear in the next "X-Men" series movie "X-Men: "Apocalypse". On the hillside are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse... guess it.
I just made up 10, maybe there are some small details I won’t talk about~ I'm already looking forward to the next one!
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