Traditional film is a rigid art. Traditional film creators can't get rid of the shackles of dogmatism and can't emancipate their minds. Characters, stories, themes. The principle of three acts. Film workers are thinking about these rules, as if they are engaged in noble post-modern literary creation.
Until the emergence of Marvel, the film industry finally broke out an epoch-making revolution. The audience finally understood, ah, it turns out that the movie doesn't need any characters at all, and it doesn't need any plot or theme at all. Marvel Pictures has changed the history of film epoch-makingly, and can be called Copernicus of Hollywood. The Marvel universe is the non-Euclidean geometry of the overhead world. No, the innovation of the Marvel universe is even greater than Riemann's geometry. Riemann's breakthrough is only the fifth law of Euclidean, but Marvel's breakthrough is the entire law of logic.
Tolkien's Middle-earth world, George RR Martin's ice and fire world, Asimov's base galaxy, these seemingly wild imaginations are actually not free. All these creators are more or less constrained by the logic system within their own worldview, and their imagination is low. Marvel, and only Marvel, can truly break through the shackles of the laws of logic, cultivate one's imagination to the realm of whatever one wants, and obtain boundless freedom. This is like saying that ordinary people live in a three-dimensional world, but Marvel has made the leap to an eight-dimensional world. Why can't the gourd baby fight against Monkey King? Why can't Tathagata be an alien? Let your imagination go, let yourself go, and know that there is nothing impossible in the world. Maybe Stan Lee is also a Namek.
But the greatness of Marvel's worldview is not only absolute freedom, but also constant self-iteration. Do you want to understand this movie? Sorry you have to read the prequel first. Want to understand the prequel? Sorry you have to watch the original 1950 series first. No wonder even his own Marvel fans can't figure out who is good at Iron Man or Spider-Man. The world built by Marvel is not a world, but a spider web, a ball of yarn wrapped around 18 million circles. In the process of trying hard to argue with others about which Iron Man or Spider-Man is better, you read a lot of references, you give detailed examples and arguments, and finally you come to a conclusion. So you took a long sigh of contentment and got an extraordinary pleasure, as if you had just proved Goldbach's conjecture.
But do you think you know Marvel? Maybe Daddy Marvel's next work will hit you hard. For example, Captain America is actually the undercover of Hydra.
Only from one angle can we understand the source of Marvel's peculiar thoughts-of course, we mortals will never be able to truly reach the level of Marvel's gods. We just stand on the ground and glance at the clouds.
That is: all the people living in Marvel's universe are mentally ill. The Marvel Universe is actually a mental hospital.
Does it make sense? In this way, many contradictions and confusions become clear in an instant. Those inexplicable plots, those abnormal emotional reactions, those mechanical orgasms and tears, in fact, these are not flaws at all. It's just that the audience level is not enough to think from the perspective of a mental patient.
Take Guardians of the Galaxy 2 as an example. Why is the protagonist even complacent after murdering his own father? Why are the hostess and her sister planning a criminal offence against each other, but suddenly they become emotionally intimate like Siamese babies? Why did the members of the Predator fleet climax collectively at the end, as if North Korean citizens had seen the great general Kim Jong-un with their own eyes?
Of course, these abnormal emotions cannot be understood in the way of a normal person, but if it is a mental patient, it is very reasonable and natural. Similarly, for those seeming loopholes in the plot and setting, once you enter the depths of the mental patient's heart, these will not be a problem.
For example, if the protagonist’s own father is a planet, how does his avatar mate with humans and perform DNA fusion? Furthermore, if the brain in the middle of the planet is the body of the villain, it means that the villain's energy essentially comes from his own brain. At the same time, the protagonist's energy comes from his father. So why does his father need him?
Of course, there is another possibility that Marvel is not crazy, but the creators have taken too much drugs to produce hallucinations. This is actually reasonable. A typical performance of drug addicts is that they see ordinary things very miraculously, such as being kept in a drug rehabilitation center and thinking that they are flying in the galaxy. This can also explain why the storyline of the movie is so bizarre and absurd, and has a postmodern structuralist beauty. Who can sum up what the main line of the movie's plot talks about? Normal people may only need three sentences to summarize, but in a state of mental disorder, they can talk about a very boring thing for two hours. The villains are dead and Luo Li has been chatty for twenty minutes. This is the typical sign of mental disorder.
If anyone else is puzzled by the sense of humor in the movie, I suggest that they understand it from this perspective. What is so funny about "Electric shock"? Why does Dave Batista automatically convulsions every three minutes, "hahahahahaha"? If you are from the perspective of a psychologist and understand that these people are a group of neuroses, then everything is natural again.
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