If you are tired of watching the standard industrial assembly line-flavored Marvel works, and tired of the bitter-looking protagonists of the DC family, this drama will bring you a completely different feeling.
"Umbrella Academy" according to its namesake Dark Horse Comics superhero comic book, co-authored by Gerad Way and Gabriel Bá, was awarded the highest honor of the American comic Eisner Award (Eisner Award) .
Many people may not know Dark Horse Comics. In fact, it is the third largest comic company in the United States after Marvel and DC. It has many well-known companies such as "Hellboy" , "Robocop" and "Predator" comic works.
The first season of "The Umbrella Academy" has a low domestic score, but it has a good reputation abroad, with an IMDb score of 7.9, 75% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, and 85% popcorn index.
The most important thing is the explosion of ratings. With 45 million views, it ranks third in Netflix's most popular series of the year , second only to Netflix's "Stranger Things" and "Super" Henry Cavill's fantasy drama starring Collection of The Witcher .
Why did "The Umbrella Academy", known as the "American version of the gourd baby" by the media, achieve such excellent results?
Different from common superhero dramas, "Umbrella Academy" is more like a magical family drama full of grotesque and dark humor .
Saving the world is not the core of the play. The emotional entanglement between family members and the discussion of family affection, love and growth are the main theme of the whole play.
If you just want to see a popcorn blockbuster where superheroes save the world, then this show probably isn't for you!
On October 1, 1989, 43 women around the world who had no previous signs of pregnancy gave birth at the same time.
Billionaire and explorer Sir Reginald Hargreaves adopted seven of these children and created the Umbrella Academy to give them the best possible environment to live and learn.
Seven children are named 1-7, and all but 7 have superpowers.
The Jazz trained them to use their superpowers to fight criminals and become heroes to save the world, and the Umbrella Academy became famous.
Sir, though a good teacher, was not a good father. Over time, the seven children grew up, and their unhappy childhoods and mutual conflicts led them to part ways as adults.
No. 1 Luther is huge, has super strength and anti-strike ability, and was sent by the Jazz to the moon to complete the mission.
Diego No. 2 has the ability to throw a hundred hits, and after leaving home, he became a "Vigilante" who wandered outside the law.
No. 3 Allison's ability to manipulate reality with her lies has made her a famous movie star.
No. 4 Klaus has the ability to see souls and can talk to the dead. He is also tortured because of this, and he spends all day with alcohol and drugs as an adult to paralyze himself and escape from reality.
No. 5 has the ability to teleport and time travel. When he was very young, he traveled to the future and was trapped for nearly half a century.
Ben No. 6 can summon monsters from different dimensions from his body, but he died in an accident when he was a teenager, and has been with No. 4 in soul form since then.
No. 7 Vanya is the only one of the seven who does not have superpowers. He has had a bad relationship with the other six since he was a child, and became a professional violinist when he grew up.
Because of the sudden death of Jazz, everyone returned to the Umbrella Academy again. The missing No. 5 also crossed back with a 13-year-old body, and brought back an amazing news-the world will be destroyed in 8 days.
Not only do they have to find out the cause of Jazz's death, but also to avoid the end of the world.
It must be difficult to save the world, first of all, the obstruction from the Time Committee.
The Time Committee wants to ensure the continuity of time, and the Umbrella Academy wants to avoid the end of the world by changing the time.
Therefore, the Time Committee arranged for two agents to stop the Umbrella Academy, and for a time it made everyone disgraced.
The second is the broken relationship between brother and sister. There are conflicts that are difficult to reconcile over time, and there is a lack of trust and cooperation.
As the story develops, the siblings discover that the source of the end of the world is No. 7, who was originally thought to have no superpowers.
With the concerted efforts of everyone, the end of the world could not be avoided in the end.
At the last moment of the destruction of the earth, No. 5 took everyone through time and space and kept the fire that saved the world.
"The Umbrella Academy" has made a lot of changes based on the plot of the comics. In order to launch the second season, the plot at the end of the first season is also quite different from the comics. However, the series continues the bizarre and dark humor in the comics very well. style.
The background of the story is similar to modern times, and the architectural life is no different from our reality, but the development of science and technology is different. There are no high-tech products such as computers and mobile phones, but a steampunk feeling.
Trapped alone in a post-Earth future, No. 5 spends days with a model dummy and ends up falling in love with her.
The Time Committee sounds very high-end, but the interior is just like an ordinary bureaucracy, and the equipment does not have a sci-fi feel. It is like an outdated product of the last century.
The most impressive thing is that the agents sent by the Time Committee wear cartoon animal hoods that are completely inconsistent with the style of painting.
Another big surprise in "The Umbrella Academy" is the soundtrack of the play, which plays a crucial role in the film.
The first season selected 31 golden songs as the soundtrack, and almost every song can leave a deep impression on the audience.
At the beginning of the series, the violin music played by No. 7 in the theater is used as the BGM to introduce other characters of Umbrella Academy. The music is sometimes calm and sometimes high-pitched, and it matches the picture perfectly.
No. 5 was attacked in a donut shop. An intense action scene was paired with a relaxed and cheerful BGM. The contrast between the picture and the music was great, but it was very in line with No. 5's character.
And when we learned that Jazz passed away, everyone gathered in the old house again. BGM just started the soothing piano music to express everyone's sadness.
After the cheerful Disco track "I Think We're Alone Now" was played on the 1st, the style of the picture completely changed. Everyone danced in the room ecstatically, did you dance on the grave?
The divine BGM operation of the drama version of "The Umbrella Academy" is inseparable from the musical elements contained in the original work.
Comic book author Gerard was originally a rock singer and was once a hit.
In the comics, No. 7 appears in the image of a failed musician, and the destruction of the world is also carried out in the form of music. Even the original name of the comic adapted in the first season of the series is also related to music, called "Apocalypse Suite" (Apocalypse Suite) .
"The Umbrella Academy" is a superhero series like no other, and it requires you to sink in and feel what the director and writer want to convey.
The second season will officially return on July 31. Friends who like the show remember to come to the Renren video app to follow the show!
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