"Alita: Battle Angel" produced by Cameron finally met with domestic audiences. If you haven't seen the movie, Wall Crack recommends watching "Alita In-depth Movie Guide" first .
This self-questioning and self-answering analysis article will discuss with you the differences and connections between "Alita: Battle Angel" and the original book "Gun Dream".
Is "Alita" faithful to the original comics?
"Alita" is not like Marvel's super-British movies. Marvel's comics and movies are very separate. The plot of Marvel's movies will not appear in the comics, which is equivalent to the product of two plots.
However, the plot of "Alita" can be said to be based on an animated OVA in 1993, and this OVA is based on the first three comics of the comic "Gun Dream".
Therefore, if everyone wants to see the restoration of the gods of "Gun Dream", then many bridges and even screen actions of "Alita" can be found in the comics. Some of the bridges in the film, the comics almost It can be seen as a storyboard script.
For example, I think the highest degree of reduction is the setting of the world view scene. Whether it is Sharem's shape and function, or the appearance of Scrap Iron Town, it is almost directly converted from comics to images. This is also Cameron's best Love this comic.
In terms of plot, the film also has several seamless restorations, such as the scene where Dr. Ide finds Alita at the beginning.
When Alita fought with the villain, she was also cut into eight pieces, and finally blinded the villain with one hand and head.
There is also Hugo's secret identity of selling human mechanical organs, and the scene of drinking with Victor.
Later, when Hugo was almost killed, it was Alita who took out her heart and gave life to Hugo's head, so that Hugo could survive.
In the end, Hugo was replaced with a mechanical body, still not forgetting Sharem, trying to climb up on his own, but being crushed by mechanical gears, Alita couldn't save Hugo. These plots all appeared in the comics.
Of course, there is also the most exciting death ball game in the whole film, which is also shown in the comics. The fourth part of the comics is almost all about the death ball game, and the death ball also has detailed game rules, hierarchy and so on.
How to evaluate the comic "Gun Dream"?
The pros and cons of "Gun Dream" are obvious.
The advantage is the unrestrained world view of comics, and there are many advanced sci-fi ideas. If these ideas are extended, you can find the shadow of "Ghost in the Shell" from the image of Alita.
Those robot shapes are rampant in scrap iron town, and they are somewhat similar to "Iron Armored Steel Fist" .
Even the plot behind the comics, interspersed with dreams, plots in the brain, etc., makes people feel like "Inception" .
After the last oder comics, the whole worldview expands to the universe, and it makes people feel like this is the setting of "Star Wars" .
In a word, the brain hole of "Gun Dream" is so big that it has been projected in many film and television works, but it is said that these film and television works came out earlier than "Alita", which also led to the emergence of "Alita", It makes people a little less surprised. If Cameron released "Alita" five years earlier, it might have shocked the audience even more.
Of course, the shortcomings of "Gun Dream" comics are also obvious. Because "Gun Dream" is a serial publication, as long as it is not published, it will continue to be made up. By the time of "Gun Dream: Martian War" (which is still being serialized), it has been compiled like this, and it has been unfinished.
Moreover, the plot of "Gun Dream" is too Japanese. Every big event will have a big boss. Alita keeps fighting in the upgrade and fighting monsters, but there is no obvious change in her personality.
Compared with "Dragon Ball", Sun Wukong goes from child to adult, from Saiyan to Super Saiyan to Sanchao, from single to family, the characters are plump and delicate, although the plot also constantly encounters stronger enemies, but It's very passionate, and "Gun Dream" is very inferior in terms of plot.
If you are interested in reading comics, you only need to read the earliest and most classic "Gun Dream", there are 8 copies in total.
What's the difference between "Alita" and the manga?
Dr. Ide in "Alita" does not have a family. In the movie, Dr. Ide joined a family and has a daughter. The film did this to make Dr. Ide more positive, and also let Dr. Ide make a bounty. The hunter has one more motive.
Alita's Berserker armor is only one of them in the comics. In the comics, Alita has changed her body many times, but the film seems to only lock Alita's armored body. I don't know if the sequel will give Ali. Tower upgrade armor body.
The plot of the death ball game in the comics is that after Hugo died, Alita wanted to escape from the sadness and participated. The film let the death ball game enter in advance. The reason is actually very simple and rude, just want to add more exciting fighting scenes, and The effect is remarkable.
The two most famous red lines on Alita's face in the film are stained with blood after the dog died. In the comics, Alita painted it with Scrap Iron Town oil before the battle. The dog did not die.
Sharem's biggest boss, Roja, played by Edward Norton, showed his face at the end. Roja can control the brains of his subordinates at will and switch consciousness at will. Such operations do not appear in the comics.
In addition, the biggest difference between the film and the comics is Alita's life experience. It seems that the film is burying a big hole.
The mystery of Alita's life experience?
In the comics, Alita also has amnesia, and she is constantly retrieving her memory. In "Gun Dream: Martian War", Alita's life experience is further expanded, and "Mars War" is divided into two parts. The time period tells about Alita's childhood and the current plot.
In "Mars War", Alita was picked up by a doctor named Finch when she was very young. Before she was picked up, Alita also lost her memory, and at the same time, Erica was picked up.
After that, Alita and Erica were admitted to the orphanage and lived a normal education and life.
In the plot of "last oder", Alita and the others had to flee due to the constant internal war on Mars, after the war burned to their place.
They encountered the army in the process of fleeing, and were finally rescued by Gelda, who was the first time Alita saw someone using mecha.
Mecha is an exclusive tactic of Mars, which is actually a bit like Judo + Taekwondo.
After Alita and Erica were rescued by Gelda, they joined the Mars defense army and learned mecha.
The film should not show these contents in detail, and in the comics, after humans colonized various planets, they became independent one after another, and Mars is one of the independent planet countries.
Although there are many wars between the planets in the comics, none of the battles described in the film are. Therefore, the shaking battle in the film is a new addition to simplify the plot in the comics.
In the comics, the earth blocked the largest port on Mars at one time, which caused a battle between Mars and the earth.
As for Alita and the others attacking Sharem in the film, it should be related to Roja.
Sharem's Secret
In the end, the appearance of Edward Norton is really amazing. Roja is Sharem's scientist and a leading figure in the comics.
Sharem lives as a high-class person. In the comics, Sharem was once connected to the ground, and all scientists and elites lived on it. Sharem was cut off from the ground in a man-made disaster. It is related to the battle of Mars invasion in the film.
The origin of the name of the scrap iron town (city) is because of the city of Sharem in the sky above, which throws garbage on the surface of the earth like shit all the year round, and these garbage can play a certain role in the development of people on the ground. , so a lot of people gathered under Sharem over time, so there was a scrap iron town.
So the question is, why is there a city in the sky like Sharem? In the chronology of "Gun Dream", the earth once encountered an extinction disaster caused by a meteorite impact. After that, human beings started a revival plan, and humans built in the earth's satellite orbit. The circular connection track was built, and then the cosmic capitals "Yale" and "Jiegu" were built.
As a transit point between Yale City and the earth's ground, it is the "Sharem" city in the air. Sharem City was once connected to the earth. The reason why humans built Sharem City and Yale City is to better prevent catastrophe. At the same time, it is also to colonize the planets of the solar system, and even other planets outside the solar system.
This includes the Mars plan, so Mars was also established as a human civilization at that time.
Sharem's internal structure and facilities have been hidden in the film and are not shown to the audience. They must be reserved for the sequel.
In the comics, Sharem has a very complete urban planning and construction, and the urban hierarchy of Sharem and scrap iron towns is reminiscent of "The Hunger Games".
The Sharem people have a sign between their eyebrows, just like Dr. Ide's wife in the film, but in the comics, all the people of Sharem are actually not pure human beings, even more than the cyborgs in Scrap Iron Town. Mechanical, because the Sharem people have been transformed by Roja to remove the brain and turn it into a chip brain.
Including Roja himself, also uses a chip brain.
The setting of the comics may be the source of Roja's ability to switch roles on his own in the film. At that time, I was still thinking when I watched the movie, maybe Roja is like the ultimate boss of "The Matrix", a ubiquitous one. AI, and no physical characters, but the appearance of Edward Norton in the end broke my mind.
Alita sequel headed for conjecture
The death ball game and the desert world outside of Scrap Iron Town are all important plots of the comics. Alita later had a conflict with Dr. Ide and left Scrap Iron Town. I don't know if these stories can be adapted to the movie screen.
But what is certain is that the sequel Alita will definitely come to Sharem to find Roja. It is not clear how many "Alita" series will be released. According to the traditional trilogy, Alita and Roja's final The decisive battle will definitely be placed in the third part, and it will even be linked to the plot of Mars.
But the final decision on the development of the sequel depends on the rhythm of Kashen's filming and the box office of the first film. After three years and three years, three years and three years, when the sequel to "Avatar" finally has some eyebrows, I hope Don't abandon the "Alita" series, if you can direct it yourself, it will be even more perfect.
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