Your spider sensor should have sensed the next strong breath of drama.
A few months ago, when I saw the clip of this film on the ending egg of "Venom", I was not attracted to it at all.
Until yesterday after reading it...
After the two Spider-Man met in the cemetery, in order to avoid the police, the scene of smashing and bumping all the way to watch is really not wonderful. The way of selling laughs is almost in the same position as Wang Baoqiang's monkey stealing peaches in "Detective Chinatown", with only the last smile. The gradually distorted head of the snowman raised the overall level a little bit, so it was a wise move for China to remove the ending egg when introducing "Venom".
However, it is said that the final tribute to Mr. Stan Lee in the "Spider-Man" animation film was also cut off, which is a bit incomprehensible. If nothing happens, this film should be the last film this year where Stan Lee's egg appears, and the role of the father in this film is far more than usual. The death of Spider-Man was originally a tragedy, but was easily resolved by the old man who took the first step with his unique sense of joy. Responding to the wonderful cameo of the old man with a sincere smile as always, this is the best way to commemorate him.
The father's "no return", the spit on the little black spider from passers-by at the memorial meeting, and the appearance of Spider-Man in parallel time and space, the funny three consecutive completely wiped out the haze brought by Peter Parker's death. The film is very restrained in the rendering of tragic emotions. It is just a few pictures of citizens bowing their heads sadly after seeing the news, which clearly shows the status of the first generation of Spider-Man in everyone's mind. Next, the film did not hold on to the big news and desperately forced the audience to squeeze tears, but used a few short passages to quickly lead to the main line of the parallel universe.
Choosing Miles, who is far less popular than Peter Parker, as the protagonist of the movie is really a risky move. When I first heard the news, I almost didn't buy it. So this is really a movie that trains the audience to "really sense". The creator of this film, of course, knows the meaning of the name "Peter Parker" better than us, so he arranged for him to come back on stage as a middle-aged uncle, who was a blessed man. At first glance at the interaction between the two generations of Spider-Man, I thought it would be a story similar to "The Return of the Great Sage".
But with the appearance of the other three Spider-Man, Peter's role was gradually diluted, and there was no chance to play the role of much "mentor". Of course, think on the good side. You don’t need to be a mentor, and you don’t have to be killed in a plot. Perhaps it was the act of amplifying the death of the heroine at the last moments of 2014 in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" which angered too many audiences. The producer Sony Columbia Pictures was very cautious this time and would not easily kill those who have already established close emotions with the audience. The role of the contact.
But what I want to say is that the uncle Peter in this movie can really die. The big deal is to make him resurrect in the sequel. Now he was completely pulled to the same position as the other four Spider-Man who had crossed over, and in the end he just lined up to bid farewell to the protagonist. One of the most significant things he did in the whole film was to pretend to be a waiter and talk to MJ for a while, so that he would have the courage to recover his ex-wife after returning to the original universe, but this section was not closely related to the main line. To make an inappropriate analogy, Peter B. Parker in this film feels like this: At first glance, you thought it was the long face in "The Return of the Great Sage", but finally found out that it was Liu Xunzi in "Unexpectedly" ink.
Although the Spider-Man of the other four parallel universes diverted Peter’s role, I don’t think they are the primary cause of Peter’s marginalization, and it is their appearance that pushed the entertainment of the movie to the top. They are all An indispensable part of the film. The "drama" who really squeezed Peter was Miles' father and uncle. Generally, the protagonist in a movie has one and only one "mentor", and the character promotes the growth of the protagonist through some sacrifice of his own. However, there are three in this film. If you count the blonde Peter, who got the lunch from the beginning, it is four, and the audience has no idea who is more influenced by the protagonist. The protagonist took the road of Spider-Man because of the blonde Peter; the protagonist made the "leap of faith" because of the waste of Peter; the protagonist learned to freely control superpowers because of his father’s chicken soup; and the protagonist finally defeated Jin Bin’s death Skill is the legacy of uncle. The roles of the four male elders do not distinguish between Xuanzhen, and the end result is that no one is prominent, and the audience's impression of them is slightly blurred.
The growth of the male protagonist is always a "father-killing" process, either because his immaturity kills his father, or because his maturity surpasses his father. In this regard, the real-life movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been doing more and more easily in recent years. We can conclude from this rule: the protagonist should have two "fathers", one positive and one negative, representing his two choices. "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" and "Spider-Man: Homecoming" are typical representatives in this regard. The two fathers not only allow the protagonist to have a certain choice and entanglement space, but also not too distracting the audience's energy, no more, no less, just the right amount.
In fact, the first two parts of Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man also follow this "two fathers" theorem. Uncle Ben is the father of "Zheng", and the Green Devils and Doctor Octopus have played the fathers of "Anti" respectively. To paraphrase Jiang Wen’s final lines in "The Evil Does Not Suppress Righteousness", I thought that Peter Parker’s long-year-old son finally became a father, "it’s time to find a son of my own." Many people come to grab business.
Compared with "Venom" which is "The Overlord's Bow", the completion of the story of this film is not known to be higher. The audience can see it clearly. However, because the film's creator gave up the use of sensational and tearful methods to communicate with the audience, the overall plot was slightly flat and lacking impact on the audience. In contrast, "Venom" is a simple and crude film that is just as easy to make the audience feel refreshed.
The advantages of "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe" all come from the art form of "animated film". Because it is an animation, in terms of visual expression, it is more unrestrained than a live-action movie. Nowadays, the so-called "superhero movies" that are on fire are basically movies based on American comics. However, when film distribution companies made similar films more than ten or twenty years ago, they did not specifically emphasize their origins. American comics at the time were very marginal subcultural products. Until the last decade, with the Marvel movie universe, the cultural value and commercial value of the original comics have also risen. And "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe" can be described as the right time. It turned out to be the most watched era of American comics, and it was a pioneering use of audiovisual effects to restore the comic reading experience. There are often ghosting and flickering in the film. At first I thought that I had strayed into the 3D scene without my glasses. Later I discovered that it was deliberate by the creator to reproduce special effects such as early comic typography errors and color aberrations. But this special effect is a bit like shaking [BEEP].
If the foothold of "Venom" is "cool", then the foothold of the film is "cool". The publicity of the pictures and the best-in-class music interweave this cool universe together. "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe" is the "Guardians of the Galaxy 1" in the animation film industry. It is destined to leave its own name in the history of superhero movies with its unique style. In fact, the protagonist teams of the two movies are not lacking in similarities. The Shadow Spider-Man voiced by Uncle Cage corresponds to Grim Drax; Pigman corresponds to Rocket Raccoon; and the mecha of Japanese beautiful girl corresponds to Groot. Most importantly, the names of the core members of the team are Peter.
Sony Columbia Pictures once made a rhetoric that they wanted to bypass the MCUs of Disney and Marvel and independently create a "Spider-Man Universe", but in the end they compromised. The phrase "shopping malls are like battlefields" is always understood too extreme by some people, who believe that there is only one way to do business in the world, which is to contain opponents at all costs and seize market share. So we often see irrational money burning wars. But in fact, many times the cooperation with competitors will become a step of great strategic significance. The Dutch brother's new version of Little Spider was a big success, and Sony's own "Venom" and "Spiderman" animated films also gained more attention.
The premise of "cooperation" is equality. This "Spider-Man" animated film proves that Sony Pictures is not simply holding Marvel's thighs. It's also a high school student Spider-Man, the animated version of the little black spider is different from the live version of the Dutch brother by no means only in the skin color. The growth trajectories of the two characters are completely opposite: the Dutch version of Little Spider has always been eager to try, always wanting to break through the limits and accept greater challenges; while the animated version of Miles has been avoiding his mission in the early stage, giving people a kind of counseling. impression. The initial state of the two characters has a very close relationship with their origin. As I mentioned above, the Spider-Man in "Return of Heroes" was actually cultivated by Iron Man as a "son". He is an over-protected "Second Man", but he is full of blood but restrains his hands and feet; The little black spider in "Parallel Universe" grew up in a neighborhood of colored people. His parents hoped that his son would become a dragon and sent him to an elite school, but he wanted to escape back to his own neighborhood. In the end, the two teenagers both learned to reconcile with their own identities and at the same time accepted their own mission. They started from the two extremes, met at the midpoint, and together became the friendly neighbors we are familiar with.
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