The film is adapted from the classic manga Gunmeng by Yukito Kijo .
Gunmeng is a work of the biblical level of Cyberpunk
Has always been very popular in niche circles
And this film has adapted about one-fifth of the original content (in fact, there are only fifty words in the whole film )
Due to space considerations, a large number of deletions, additions and modifications have been made.
Added a lot of " Hollywood-style commercialization " processing
I think these changes can be said to be catastrophic
Bullshit
In fact, in the original work, Gary (aka Alita) had a grudge with the big guy.
And love with Hugo is two chapters
In this film, it is directly put together, and some more later ball games are also pulled.
The most immediate problem of doing this, as my title says
The A Lita completely turned into a teenage brain in love
Originally, Alita was gradually thinking about herself in a series of stories.
About existence, about body, about love
But after rubbing it together roughly in this film
Almost all Alita's motivation is love
It doesn't make sense at all!
I think the audience also thinks when they watch
Why is this Alita so white- eyed ?
Is saving his father better than a wild man who brought himself to play ball?
Why is there such a problem?
Because the first story in the original is the establishment of the bond between Alita and the doctor
After that, I don't know how long it took before I started to fall in love in the second chapter.
That is to say
Alita has actually gotten along with the doctor like a real father and daughter
Then there will be a matter of running out and falling in love later
——Actually, Alita loves more crazy in the original work, but readers will not think there is a problem
This greatly advances Alita's love plot
Turn the battle angel into a humanoid computer angel heart in no time.
Alita's character can also be said to be completely ruined
How deep is this?
Alita's worries about love
It's just like an ordinary girl's boring thinking, " Will he think I'm too fat? "
It is Hugo who suffered heavy losses in the same setting
The character of Hugo in this film has always been a mystery
In the original work, Hugo has always been very open about his mistakes.
In the scene where he meets Alita, he's killing
In fact, this is the normal person in this future wasteland worldview
I just need money. If there is money in killing people and selling spines, I will rob them.
He doesn't feel like he's doing anything wrong
Gary doesn't think there are too many problems
This is the world
But even the people who have been changed by the world
He still has an almost impossible dream and fights for it until the very end
Thanks to Gary who dreamed with me till the end
But Hugo in this film is a typical American " boy with a story "
He knew what he was doing was wrong, so he didn't let his companions tell Alita
But in the process of getting along with Alita, he also had some "moved by your innocence" and seemed to want to wake up
In the end, Alita was tricked into participating in the competition!
It's like I really woke up
But when he was framed as a murderer, he didn't give a serious explanation for a long time.
It feels like the creator has been tasked with clearing him
But I don't know how to whitewash it, so I just add it here and there.
It's almost crazy to do it
But it makes sense that Hugo is crazy in the original.
The author has foreshadowed a lot about the beginning of Hugo's crazy dream of going to Sky City
His relationship with his brother, the idea of dreams that his brother instilled in him
And his final desire to help his brother realize his dream
It's not just a man's dream that he carries
When he finally found out from the black dude with Gary that he couldn't get up
The hope of living for so many years is completely gone
The only flag to keep him sane in this crazy world has fallen
so he's crazy
But in this film, there is almost no foreshadowing of Hugo's background
He's just an ordinary two-faced bastard doing dirty work.
Finally, inexplicably, I went to climb the water pipe.
doesn't make any sense
This character does more than Alita problems
In addition to deletions, the film also added a lot of redundant things
For example, the eldest sister in the picture above is the most bizarre character in the film
What kind of character do you think she is?
Judging from the first half of the plot, because of her daughter's illness, she ran away neatly
I have no obsession with my daughter, I just want to go back
Properly cold-blooded!
As a result, he was turned back by Alita's inexplicable confession.
Fortunately, I have the guts to go back and explain " I really love innocent! "
Is it shameful to make original content like this?
Or do you think the audience can really be moved by such a wall of grass?
People are the problem
What about the story?
Someone will say:
The basis of the story is the comics, so it can't be bad, right?
wrong!
The story has changed too much, and it really doesn't work
First of all, the original is a slowly unfolding story
At the beginning, it was just that Gary was picked up by the doctor, and the setting was gradually increased as the story developed.
And the film can't wait to throw everything up
Can't wait to lay a huge pattern from the beginning
In the end, it was very petty, very childish
Like the big man who has been entangled for a long time
At first it looked like one of those cannon fodders
Killer C, such an existence
I didn't expect it to look like the first and only killer of the black man.
Repeated failures and lack of manpower all day long. In the end, the black hand must go to temporary outsourcing during the game.
In the original work, this big man was actually a staged small Boss at the beginning.
So he and Gary are in the middle of the whole segment
But in the movie, the pattern is all shaken out.
Or there is only such a useless one in this repeated defeat
looks very funny
More importantly, the big guy in the original
In fact, he has a very miserable life experience, so he would rather be a reformer
Gary also shed tears over his death
This is the core of its sci-fi
And this film completely removes these thoughts
It's all just trying to be a cool piece without adding any depth
Of course, cool is cool
As mentioned at the beginning, the scale of this film is very large, which is also inherited from the original work
Of course, the original work is larger in scale, and the big man's hobby is eating people's brains
This large scale is also necessary in a sense
Because that is a world where human life is like a mustard
So we see Alita being slashed, or someone else
Wonderful and smooth fighting action in various close-ups
and more exciting super ball games
From a purely sensory point of view, the film is well done
But a subject with such depth
It's really not enough to do this
Even if it's cool, are you cool with the Mad Max of the same theme ?
They're all B-movie selling points, you're far worse than others
one more advantage
It is a restoration of the original classic scene
Like Alita jumping up with one hand and poking the big guy in the eye
Like Hugo's friend who was cut in half
Like Gary's beloved Damascus knife
These are enough places to get fans excited
——In fact, at the beginning, the doctor appeared and picked up his eyes
Excited from the beginning
Because that's a one-to-one restoration of the comics
Who the hell knows how far behind you run!
And even with so much stuff
Finally, at the end of the film, it still gives people a sense of discomfort of forcibly digging holes and not filling them.
Many people commented that it felt like it was about to start and it was over
Well, why don't you just take a good first shot?
Shorten a little, add a little more thought
It does not prevent you from adding commercial elements, and the audience is not so stupid to understand
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