A bit of thoughts about changing four after reading

When I was young, my parents were forbidden to watch fierce fighting cartoons on the grounds of harmful eyesight. Therefore, classic cartoon images such as Transformers and Saint Seiya that represent the memories of a generation, for me, I have never heard of their names for a long time. See (maybe you have seen some clips or images, you can ignore it). The "Transformers 4" I accidentally watched not long ago became my first contact with Transformers. Without the past accumulation of feelings of senior Transformers fans, it is equivalent to a brand new viewing, so there is less pickiness based on tradition, and more. Random thoughts.


Watching the chase and fighting in the film, I really want to sigh that speed and power have the charm of burning hormones. The Transformers, which can switch between "people" and "cars" at will, are not the best fantasy toys for people in the automobile age.
The old military semi-trailer and Western Star Phantom custom trucks before and after the Optimus Prime upgrade in the early stage, as well as the Lamborghini that the villain has confined, are all pretty cool; there are too many cars in the later stage, but the impression is not impressive.

Optimus Prime took the human protagonist to the wilderness to meet his companions. The Autobots on the mountain (didn't recognize which one) saw and shouted, "Optimus Prime is back!" After
Optimus Prime tame Grimlock in the valley, the other two Autobots who did not forget to quarrel in an emergency were convinced. Speaking of "This is Leadership."
Based on the intelligence of the human protagonist, the Autobots collectively entered the KSI headquarters in Chicago. They acted swiftly, with clear division of labor, and a tacit understanding of cooperation.
——I always feel that this is also a kind of emotional education in my youth.

Bad boys are the most memorable. In addition to Optimus Prime, the most impressive thing in the film is the cute Bumblebee. The English name is also interesting: Bumblebee, a humorous sense of rhythm.

Regarding space and future sci-fi modeling, the current imagination seems to be increasingly concentrated in three categories: humans (humans operate machinery), Zergs (imagination based on invertebrates, superior fertility, and use limbs and slime as weapons) , Protoss (alien race, with psionic power and special body materials). The names of the three races of the RTS game "StarCraft" are borrowed here as representatives. In this movie, the worms are only kept in a cage on the villain's spacecraft, and there are not many scenes, while Transformers is an alien race setting similar to the Protoss.
In the final battle, Optimus Prime pulled out a huge sword and rode a mechanical Tyrannosaurus to fight, much like the image of Arthas pulling out Frostmourne and riding a bone horse (from the character of the RTS game "Warcraft 3" Plot), and Optimus Prime’s prestige among Autobots does indeed play a heroic role. If you go back, it can be traced back to the myths of Greece and Northern Europe.
It is difficult to say whether these games are in the design of the movie. What is certain is that fantasy production (including novels, animation, film and television, and games) in Europe and the United States has formed a huge and solid background accumulation. The imagery resources in it can be used by different creators, which is equivalent to different creators working together. Create a loose, overhead view of the world. A common worldview will appear to have a profound background in the story, but in turn it also limits imagination to a certain extent.

"Change 4" has a lot of Chinese elements from the actors to the setting. On the surface, it is a good show to the Chinese audience, but it has some ridicule of the Chinese film system. Due to well-known reasons (of course, there are different opinions on the question of how much influence the review system has on film creation), Chinese films lack the narrative docking with the above-mentioned common worldview, and there is no ready-made dialogueable science fiction film material available, so the film China can only show that the Minister of Defense claims to "fully support Hong Kong", and the main mess still depends on Optimus Prime and the others. The Hong Kong police are very dedicated to the front line like dealing with young and Dangerous boys or dealing with natural disasters. . The movie market is immature, and good news is like a slap in the face.


In addition, I still remember a joke about Transformers: Someone asked the little girl "What is your mother's job?" The little girl replied, "She is a transformer." In fact, what she wanted to say was "She is a translator", but she said it by mistake. Became "She is a transformer".
It is not funny.

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