"Wonder Woman 1984" was once the movie I was most looking forward to in 2020. Especially due to the impact of the epidemic, many Hollywood productions have bounced tickets, and there have been no major new movies in the theater for a long time.
As the only remaining A-level superhero movie, the first film is still so good at the box office and reputation. If "Wonder Woman 1984" can be stabilized this time, I believe it will achieve a good box office and reputation.
I did an inventory of female Hollywood directors before, in which I specifically mentioned Patty Jenkins, the director of the "Wonder Woman" series, saying that she is capable of writing and martial arts, and the price is very high.
With the global box office sales of the first film, director Patty of the second episode not only received a top salary of 9 million US dollars, but also obtained great creative freedom, thus bringing more expression from a female perspective.
However, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment . With expectations, Su Mo did not find any merit in the film. Today we're going to take a closer look at how badly this latest DC hit was filmed.
First, the extra opening scene.
This nearly ten-minute "Ironman Triathlon" only talked about the truth of not taking shortcuts and not cheating. We didn't know the intention of the opening game until Diana withdrew her wish to resurrect Steve at the end.
But it took so long to tell a simple and vague truth, and the narrative efficiency is too low. And speaking of matters, taking shortcuts is often not the same as cheating. Diana was a little embarrassed to lose here.
Although a big event is arranged at the beginning, which is a formula for Hollywood movie scripts, the action scenes here are especially like those that Director Patty deliberately added in order to achieve the "big scene KPI".
In fact, a "big event" doesn't have to be an "action drama", and a high-energy event is placed at the beginning, as long as it can arouse the audience's curiosity , but the beginning of "1984" does not have any suspense in addition to being inexplicable.
Moreover, there is no danger and tension in this "friendly game", which means that the audience's emotions cannot be mobilized. You say purely visual impact, the action scenes played by children are not so good-looking.
Second, the foreshadowing is too slow.
"1984" has a length of 151 minutes, but the film does not make good use of these time narratives, but is entangled in some indifferent plots.
The first half of the film focuses on several groups of relationships. The first group of Diana and Leopard Girl's friendship has no chemical reaction, and the two are not very talkative. Basically, the whole process is awkward, and the dialogue is boring.
In the second group, Lorde seduced the Leopard Girl for the wishing stone, but Lorde was not handsome enough, and the Leopard Girl looked very lacking in love, so the whole process was not very appealing, nor did it tempt me.
The third group of Diana and Steve should have been very interesting to shoot, but in order to echo the first film, the film replays the era memes and dress-up memes, which is very unnecessary.
The fourth group is the relationship between the wishing stone and the three wishers. The typical "MacGuffin" of the wishing stone is too easy to win. Let's see how many tricks the six Infinity Stones of Marvel next door play.
"1984" was not filmed like this. The several appearances and changing hands of the Wishing Stone, like the other three relationships, can be summed up as "boring", plus there is no big scene in the first 80 minutes, so drowsy is The general state of the audience.
Third, the plot is too random.
In the movie, it is explained that the Wishing Stone was left by the God of Lies, and every time his appearance will cause a large-scale disaster, the demise of many civilizations, including the Mayans, is related to the Wishing Stone.
If it is said that slowing down the narrative pace is to make the film more serious, it can suddenly become very low-level when it comes to conspiracy theories. This kind of trick has been played out by movies like "Transformers", and movies that are a little chasing are disdain to touch.
Moreover, there are many bugs in the setting of the wishing stone. For example, how to solve two people who want to be the richest man in the world, such as one person wants the sharpest spear, and the other person wants the strongest shield?
Steve's soul penetrated into the body of a poor engineer, where did the engineer go? The Leopard Girl made a wish to be like Diana, sexy, strong, and unique. How did she become a Leopard Girl? What would the world be like if everyone could "cheat" at will?
"1984" only wanted to use the wishing stone as a thought experiment, and other films with logical problems were not considered, or deliberately ignored.
I can understand and respect the director’s willingness to express, but the premise of expression is to have the control to match it, otherwise it will develop aimlessly and arbitrarily as it is now.
Fourth, the big scene is mixed with water.
Patty's first "Wonder Woman" has proved that she can shoot both literary and martial arts, so the fact that the big scene of "1984" was not well filmed is also something I can't understand. As long as the investment is in place, even if the directing ability is not good, the big scenes should not be too ugly, not to mention the director who has filmed "The Devil" like Patty Jenkins.
The movie reached a real climax after 80 minutes, but because of the weakening of Wonder Woman's ability, this long-lost action scene was not very refreshing.
It seems that the protagonists who are too powerful are like this. The movie can only find various reasons to limit their abilities, otherwise there will not be enough villains for them to fight, such as Alice in "Resident Evil 4" mentioned earlier.
Then Diana retracted her wish at the end, and she should be invincible when her battle strength is full, but unfortunately she didn't. The final battle with the Leopard Girl was not as good as the previous one, it was really just a few hand-to-hand fights.
The golden cloak set off a whole episode, it looks cool, but it doesn't seem to be anything special when used. The battle with Lord was a complete breakdown, and Wonder Woman couldn't get close to it.
Lorde stood in the beam for nearly ten minutes, roaring madly, or hysterically or talking to himself. Although actor Pedro's acting skills are already very good and his sense of belief is also very strong, the embarrassment still comes out through the screen. I don't object to creating an anti-climax here, but at least there are a few real orgasms ahead.
The opening scene is a big scene when it shouldn't be a big scene, and at the end, when it's time to violently solve the problem, it's always a joke. It gives me the feeling that the crew is very rich and willing to spend it, but they just can't find the emotional point of the audience, so the money is used in places that we don't pay much attention to.
Fifth, actors are all tool people.
Even in superhero movies, there are not many really "gods". Before they mutated or transformed, most of them lived the lives of ordinary people, and this part of their humanity was preserved after they became heroes.
Although Thor comes from mythology, it is essentially an alien setting. And the first two single-person movies were really not that good-looking. After he became funny, the character became particularly grounded and interesting.
Wonder Woman is really a "god", and her opponent is also a "god" . Diana plays the role of god to save the people many times. She has no human breath on her body, like an emotionless AI robot. The role of Steve is to inspire her humanity, and it is precisely because of the good love in the first film that Diana makes people feel cold and cute.
One of the main lines of "1984" is also love, but this time it has changed a bit. Because it was Wonder Woman who brought Steve into the "modern society", she was no longer a curious baby who just arrived in the world, so she rose to the top all the way.
Steve was also downgraded to a qualified tool person. He was surprised when he saw new things. The heroine analyzed the case and he held it beside him. When he encountered a battle, he solved the little thug in the corner.
In fact, shooting love is about shooting details , but "1984" raised love to the level of "righteousness" in order to tell the big truth, in order to let Wonder Woman choose "cheating" to stay in love, or to become a goddess alone. When love rises to this height, it becomes a formality, and it is no longer charming. So both Pi Pie and Gadot are beautiful, but they are too beautiful to be human.
Sixth, both macroscopic and microscopic films are required.
The background of the film is set in 1984, and it really brought out the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. From the President of the United States to the waiter at the restaurant, "1984" wanted to shoot a panorama of everyone who made a wish. In fact, using Wonder Woman, Leopard Girl and Lorde, they have already shown different endings after different people get the wishing stone, but the movie still repeats itself and joins many groups to perform wishing, for fear that the audience will not understand her expression.
And as I said just now, the setting of the wishing stone itself is not rigorous, and broadening the perspective further exposes these problems. It's the same sentence I just said, the question of logic is not considered in the movie, or it is deliberately ignored.
Seventh, the "multiverse" is a double-edged sword.
DC has been trying to catch up with Marvel to engage in its own movie universe all these years, and even forced the launch of "Justice League" when the foreshadowing was insufficient. Then why did "Wonder Woman" suddenly cut off contact with the Justice League?
This kind of treatment is also helpless. The quality of DC movies has always been good and bad, and there are more bad times. Occasionally, like "Joker" and "Sea King", it succeeds once, and the next one immediately hits the street. In 2020, Batman is replaced, Dacha's whereabouts are to be determined, and "The Flash" is postponed to 2022.
Not long ago, DC Pictures proposed to create the concept of "multiverse", which means that different versions of the same character will exist in multiple parallel worlds at the same time . The split of the DC movie universe is basically a foregone conclusion .
This makes the already fragmented DC superhero IP even more confusing. Before the layout is completed, rashly interacting with other movies may not be worth the gain.
The advantages and disadvantages of the "multiverse" concept are equally obvious. The advantage is that it can explore more possibilities. A low-cost R-rated marginal film like "Joker" has won over $1 billion at the box office. How can it not surprise Warner executives?
"Multiverse" means trying more development directions and discovering more ways to play superhero IP. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to form brand effects and scale benefits, and its own positioning will become more and more complicated.
There are so many criticisms because the expectations for "Wonder Woman 1984" are too high, but I didn't expect to find a bright spot. Even Hans Zimmer's soundtrack is disappointing. It's hard to believe.
What makes Su Mo speechless is that many comments said that the audience didn't like it because they didn't understand it. In fact, "1984" was very profound, and then forced to explain what the movie was good about.
I want to say, don't the audience blame the audience for not liking a movie? Shouldn't we feel the pros and cons of movies by ourselves? How can we force others to like a work and show a sense of superiority by the way?
Finally, let's talk about the score of "Don't choose a good film". The good film index is 61 points, which is barely passable. It belongs to the kind of bad movies that are not outstanding. Compared with the first "Wonder Woman" (good film index of 76 points), the regression is obvious. .
Okay, let’s talk so much first. In fact, Su Mo’s recent new films have basically been watched, but I don’t have time to talk about each of them, and I have to prepare the top ten inventory of the year.
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