Yang Xiaolin-"Xinmin Evening News" September 9, 2018.
"Ant-Man 2" set the timeline in "Captain America 3" Two years after the "Civil War", Rogue Scott Lang accepted the FBI plea agreement and was placed under house arrest. The former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Dr. Hank Pim, and his daughter Hope secretly developed a quantum tunnel, trying to rescue his wife Janet, the first generation of the wasp, who was trapped in the quantum realm during the mission. They fought wits with conscientious FBI agents, the "ghost" who was suffering from constant body division and the black market profiteer Sonny Boch who tried to steal Hank's laboratory, and finally succeeded in saving people and reuniting the family. Janet also used the energy obtained from the quantum realm to ease the pain of the "ghost" and calm her down.
As a qualified family carnival commercial film, the film does not discuss too serious practical issues, but emphasizes the importance of family affection and family, just like a classic Disney animation film. The role setting of commercial films should allow ordinary audiences to find a sense of identity. The setting of the bottom and marginal characters of the male protagonist Scott is based on this consideration. In "Ant-Man 1", Scott is an unemployed father. He robbed the rich and helped the poor and went to jail. His wife was also married to the rival policeman. It was an extreme failure to be a man. He was released from prison in order to win the right to visit his daughter, so he had to return to the road of theft, but by chance he will become a new generation of Ant-Man, and finally become a hero who saves the world. This kind of superhero dream setting is not only Hollywood's cliché, but also Hollywood's genius to cater to the vast number of young audiences. The main line of "Ant-Man 2" is the old ant man saving his wife. In the end, it is Marvel's consistent overcoming of difficulties and obstacles, defeating the villain, and the happy ending of the family, which is very "the main theme." The story is simple, the main line is clear, and it is the standard for popcorn movies.
As a hard science fiction, the "American Dream" created by Marvel has a strong feeling of doomsday and salvation. This is related to the Christian cultural background of American movies, and it also reflects the current people's worries about future fate and lack of self-confidence in their own abilities, thus pinning their hopes on Superman. Both mythology and science fiction are human imaginations that transcend reality. However, China has a long history, profound cultural heritage, and a long-standing consciousness of seeking roots and ancestors. More imagination is based on the reality of looking back on the past. Therefore, historical films and magical films are flooded, but it is difficult to get out of it. Country gate. In the United States, because of its short history and not much cultural accumulation, but advanced technology, imagination is more based on reality and facing the future, so science fiction movies are popular and the king dominates the world.
The sci-fi in this film is based on the conception of four scientific concepts of quantum mechanics.
The first is the Microscopic World. Before Scott was abducted by Hope, he watched a movie in which the character in "Animal House" said: "A tiny atom in my nails is probably a tiny universe." This creative setting of the microcosm. , We have already experienced its extraordinary charm in the 1951 Disney animated film "Alice in Wonderland" and the animation "Holden and the Anonymous" created by Blue Sky Studio in 2008. Because of Ant-Man’s ability to grow bigger and smaller, the fight and car chase use seamless transition and strong contrast contrast between the macro and the micro, which not only creates a spectacle of perspective, but also triggers a lot of jokes. This game-like The "Juggling" scene is fun and interesting, teasing violence, alleviating the tension caused by conventional action movies, and making the audience laugh. The Kingdom of Adults and the Kingdom of Small People in "Gulliver's Journey" and "Journey to the Mirror", and the "Fatianxiangdi" (becoming as tall as the heavens and the earth) art and shrinking of Monkey King, Erlang, and the Bull Demon in "Journey to the West" The law is similar to this.
The second is Multi-reality. The reason why "Ghost" (Ghost) cannot have a physical body is because in the quantum explosion disaster, each of her cells is separated in a different reality, and constantly changing, causing the pain of tearing to follow like a shadow, and this one without a physical body The setting is similar to the old dragon of Jinghe and the king of black chicken in "Journey to the West", and the "Lone Soul and Wild Ghost" in "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio".
The third is Quantum Entanglement. The reason why Janet and Scott can be "connected" and temporarily "possessed" is the result of quantum entanglement. This is exactly the same as in "Journey to the West" after Liu Quan's underworld had melon, his wife Li Cuilian's soul was attached to the body of Tang Wang's sister, "recovering the soul with the corpse". The fourth is Time Vortex. When Scott enters the time vortex, it is possible to travel through time and space, and he may return to reality at some time in the future, and then discover that things are not. This is similar to the setting of "One day in the sky, one year on the earth" in "Journey to the West".
As a dazzling blockbuster, the distribution of literary drama and action drama is uneven. Most of the previous ones are literary dramas that exaggerate emotions and explain the relationship between the characters. As far as the dialogue is concerned, although American humorous sentences are frequent, the excessive chatter makes the film almost talk about the film, which makes the audience anxious and upset. The action drama is too concentrated in the second half, and the most important micro-world and the mysterious transition of the macro-world are too few and sloppy. The structure of the play is "relaxed and innocent", and the narrative rhythm is inconsistent. Although the film has many highlights, it is difficult to become a leader in Marvel's superhero works.
Yang Xiaolin, director, screenwriter, and doctoral supervisor of the Film Research Institute of Tongji University.
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