At present, the most famous and successful film adapted from a teenager novel in the world, which is still in the screening stage, finally met with us nearly three months after it was released in North America. The more and more mature "big cousin" Jennifer Lawrence experienced last year After the "special" incident, the box office appeal has increased unabated. (At least in North America) I don’t know if the domestic gold-sucking ability will have an impact. Two previous titles have already been brewed. The official Hunger Games The organizer has been completely disrupted by the PLAYER. The game has already declared GAME OVER, and GAME is gradually upgraded to war. The spokesperson of the game has gradually completed the transformation of the identity of the revolutionary leader, and everything is developing in an uncontrollable direction. The quasi-final of the film, which plays a role as a link before the final finale, and what kind of story it will bring, I believe many fans have been looking forward to it for a long time.
Now that the finale split has become a trend, it is said that the finale of the "Divergent" series will also adopt this model. There are different opinions on this business model (personally think it is a purely naked money-scam model), but when it comes to this trend, we still have to start with the origin of the finale!
In other words, to analyze the current shooting mode that seems to be getting worse, and I don’t know when it will converge. Let’s learn about Hollywood’s usual method of filming "vampire" stories, which is to figure out the things on the ancestral grave. In fact, this bad tradition originated in the "Harry Potter" series, followed by "Twilight". Then there is the kind of learning about "The Hunger Games", and the future of "Divergent" is already familiar. As a fan who has read some of the original novels, I have no opinion on the splitting of "Death Hallows". After all, this original work has expanded to its peak from the 191 pages of the opening "Sorcerer's Stone" to "Order of the Phoenix". Even though "Half-Blood Prince" has been reduced to some 575 pages, "Deathly Hallows" expanded to 559 pages again. Only from the sudden increase in thickness of the original novel, the richness of its story content has long been different from the previous ones. In JK. Rowling overwhelmed all the functions of "searching for six Horcruxes" to the last one, and at the same time, she also introduced a new concept of "Death Hallows." I believe that many fans who have read the original are in favor of it, like me. In contrast, "Breaking Dawn" actually reluctantly said the past. The original novel is indeed very thick, but under visual inspection, the split of the three novels, "Mockingbird", which is almost indistinguishable, may be more out of commercial considerations. After the popularity of the previous few films, fans will definitely contribute tickets under the inertia of watching movies. One more film means that there will be an extra huge income of about 300 million in North America and 600 million + in the world, and the price is small. It's just to cheat the fans, why not do it.
However, this kind of hard demolition will naturally bring many problems. The first thing to bear is the plot. The original content of "Death Hallows" is substantial enough to fill the capacity of about 3 hours. But "Breaking Dawn" and "Mockingjay" are not the case, so after the split, there have been different degrees of "procrastination" and "expansion". Now the flaws in the original "The Hunger Games" have aggravated this perception. The structure of Susan Collins' novels has always been slightly unbalanced, and the first half of the film is often paving the way for a large number of statements, the purpose of which is to lay the foundation for the climax of the final battle, as in the trilogy. But the problem is that the first half of Collins is often too flat, which causes a snake-headed imbalance. On the other hand, look at the other two juvenile literature, JK. Rowling will continue to create highlights during the narrative process, and Stephanie Meyer regularly introduces small climaxes to attract the audience. These are all to balance the structure of the whole story. In contrast, Collins's skill is indeed slightly inferior. However, this problem is not obvious in the first two books. The novel can be filled with a lot of psychological monologues from the protagonist. The film transitions well due to the limited length of time. However, when the current "Mockingbird" starts to be demolished, then the problem will come. Up!
"Mocking Birds" (Part 1) is equivalent to extracting the "plain" first half of the original into a separate film, and naturally there are very few things to watch. After watching the whole film, the wonderful fighting and adventure links in the arena in the first two episodes are no longer visible, but in the process of brewing and foreshadowing, some scenes in the original novel have been expanded on the screen. So all the "fights" are almost for a few minutes, and then they continue to accumulate energy. Although the big cousin has the power of shooting the plane with a bow and arrow, but still feels that there are too few bursts, and there are not too many exciting pictures. , It is really difficult for the director to add too much self-expression. In addition, the movie has shifted from the first-person perspective of the novel to the third-person perspective. The protagonist’s large number of inner dramas cannot be directly expressed, and can only rely on the actor's own performance, so the big cousin's composition and accomplishments of "the actor's self-cultivation" need a large area again. Explosive, all kinds of muddle-headed look are endless.
Next, let’s talk about the split point. The split point of "Death Hallows" is the funeral of Dobby the Elf, and Voldemort obtains the convolutional wand from Dumbledore's grave; the split point of "Breaking Dawn" is produced by Twilight Bella After giving up her daughter, he woke up, and at the same time explained that the three Volturi elders knew about it in the form of an Easter egg; in terms of functional division, they achieved the effect of connecting the past and the future, and also ensured the independence of the two films. "It's really difficult to write a screenwriter, because the structure of the novel itself has no obvious unit division, and there are no landmark events in the middle. In desperation, the screenwriter had no choice but to make up a scene that was not in the original book, and lived out a period of fighting between Katniss and the president in vain, and then put the "hijacked" Pita into a suspense. In the next episode, the subtitles were then blacked out.
Even if the film has so many natural disability, it still does not affect. The big cousin won the annual box office champion last year, and some of the original fans who were hurt by the film will be returned when the finale arrives. After all, as a foreshadowing work, the brewing and fueling role played by this film is still very obvious and in place. I only hope that in the real finale, the street fighting in the capital and the final reversal of the ending will not leave any regrets.
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