First of all, I declare that I am not a comic fan and have not read the original book. The entire content of this article is based on my own inference and yy, which is unfair and unobjective, and contains spoilers.
It's a bit long, please be patient and watch, there are definitely different feelings
1. A teenage superhero movie with a high degree of completion
Yesterday I watched the latest dc movie "Thunder Shazam". My impression of it is that it is a teen movie first, and a superhero movie second.
First of all, let's talk about the advantages. There are plenty of laughs. The first time, the whole process is full of laughter, and the laughs are dense, but it will not put the cart before the horse. The dense laughs almost affected my judgment, thinking it was an ordinary sand sculpture movie, of course it was really sand sculpture (laughs).
After I finished reading, I read some articles, and went to Tieba to read some netizens' posts. I almost thought it was a simple funny movie with no connotation. But when it came to the second brush in the evening, throwing aside the jokes, I found that Shazam is a teenage movie with a high degree of completion.
The movie fully tells the origin story of Shazam, and also fully describes the protagonist's mental journey, including his pride after gaining his ability to his cowardly escape from being beaten by Dr. Shyvana, and then to being abandoned by his biological mother for the second time. Accept reality and discover that foster families are the ones who truly love and accept you. All of these are completely shown by the director with the camera lens, so I think it is a very complete movie, and all the emotional changes of the protagonist are justified.
In particular, the male protagonist realizes his responsibility after accepting the reality. Instead of escaping, he chooses to stand up to protect his family. The first manifestation of the responsibility is when he rushed home to see Dr. Shyvana kidnapping his own Family, and at this time our protagonist Batson bowed his head and obeyed Shyvana's orders and was ready to give up his abilities. This clip does not show the cowardice of the male protagonist. When I watched it for the first time, I thought he was still the same as before. Cowardly, but it is not. At this time, he has accepted his foster family, and he wants to protect them. In fact, this relationship is very delicate, but the director did not deliberately highlight responsibility as an element of growth.
I saw some people on Tieba saying that this movie did not reflect the growth of the male protagonist, and was cowardly and evasive from beginning to end. I think he really watched it for nothing. Isn't the male protagonist's bow to Shyvana a form of growth? He chose to give up everything in order to protect his family. All of this reflects the growth of the male protagonist. He has grown into a person who dares to take responsibility. He knows that he cannot win against Dr. Shivana, so he chooses to give up because he has The person to protect, Billy Batson found his home after looking for a compass.
The director of these stories about growth did not deliberately highlight, and did not give too much psychological description to the male protagonist. I personally think that the director knows that this is a superhero movie, or what a teen movie should be, and does not need to be interpreted in a hysterical way. You don't even need a plot description of the male protagonist's epiphany, because this is a necessary process for growth, and growth is not just the use of ability but the ability to shoulder responsibility.
2. Although Shazam is very sandy, Solomon's wisdom is really useful!
This is reflected in the showdown. Let’s recall that with the help of his teammates, Billy finally used the aggressive method in the roof duel with Shyvana. Of course, this can also explain the use of Solomon’s wisdom, but then Come down and tell you a detail, you will be surprised, even applauded.
Don't look at Shazam's sand sculpture for two hours, and say that he is a sand sculpture, at least not a simple sand sculpture, I can tell you after the second brush, Shazam's ability is in addition to Mercury's speed, Zeus In addition to the power of Solomon and the divine power of Hercules, Solomon's wisdom is also reflected!
When Billy and Shyvana got to the roof, the two landed on the roof, yes they were standing on the roof at this time, not flying, but when Billy spoke about the seven deadly sins, Billy took off Then Dr. Shyvana took off, and the two flew over the roof, and Shyvana faded to the iron railing when the trick worked.
That is to say, when Billy thought of using the aggressive method, he had already considered that he could use gravity to make Shyvana fall when Jealousy was separated from Shyvana. At this time, no matter where he fell, he could easily bring him back to the playground. .
Seeing this, did it suddenly dawn on me that Shyvana's fall from the top of the building was not accidental, it was a strategy that Billy came up with!
3. Talk about the slot
Thunder Sand Sculpture is very unsatisfactory in terms of special effects due to cost constraints, but the duel is really a group fight at the entrance of the village, which the director has learned the essence of Marvel, fighting one-on-one.
I personally think that after all the seven deadly sins after Shyvana's stay at the amusement park are returned to Shyvana's body at the end, it will be more enjoyable to watch the whole Shazam family together with one punch or a super lightning bolt to smash Shyvana into the floor. It's really hard to accept such an easy win, but it is obvious that there is lightning, but it is necessary to melee.
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