1 Background
Recently, the new animated film "Superman: Son of Red" has been released. I have read the comic introduction of Son of Red for a long time, and I have saved it in the to-be-read list. The rating of the animated film is very low, and I feel a little weird, because according to the introduction I read before , it wasn't like this in the original film, so I couldn't help but swipe the animated movie, and found that I was fooled, and the scores I saw on the Internet were too overestimated. For this reason, I couldn't help but brush the manga, and in contrast, I found that the animation adaptation was worse than expected. Animated movies are not the same as live-action remakes. Live-action remakes may not be able to restore comics 100% due to various factors, but animated movies do not have these restrictions and often choose to be loyal to the original. In this animated film of the Son of Red, the production team did not have any understanding of the comics, and adapted all the key passages without authorization, cleverly avoided all the wonderful content, and added politically correct content regardless of logic. I've seen so many manga movies, some are good, some are bad, some are bad, some are bad, and this one is second to none. Maybe some people can't help but complain why I am so vicious and disrespectful to the fruits of other people's labor? In my opinion the only result of this film adaptation is to discredit the original.
2 stories
2.1 Comic Story
Comic story about what would happen if Superman fell in the Soviet Union? The Superman spacecraft came to Earth 12 hours early and ended up on a farm in Ukraine. Zhang Da was later excavated by the Soviet Union for propaganda and became a strategic weapon to deter the United States. With the help of Superman, the Soviet Union developed by leaps and bounds. The United States lost its competitive advantage and recruited Luthor from Star Labs to develop a way to deal with Superman. Luthor attacked the Soviet satellite and caused it to fall to Metropolis, but Superman arrived to stop it, leaving DNA on the satellite. Superman's popularity grew, and even attracted the attention of Paradise Island, trying to convince Wonder Woman to join him. At the same time, it also attracted the jealousy of Stalin's illegitimate son Peter. Stalin was poisoned and killed, and the Soviet Union fell into chaos. Luthor used the DNA of Superman to create a copycat version of Superman, and attacked the Soviet Union while he was in chaos, resulting in the death and injury of innocent passers-by. The copycat Superman was beaten by the genuine Superman. During the melee, he accidentally injured an American submarine. The copycat sacrificed himself to prevent the nuclear bomb fired from the submarine.
Superman only wanted to save the suffering, he never thought of taking over the Soviet Union. When he went out, he accidentally discovered that his childhood friend was taking the child to receive relief, and there were not a few people in the same situation. Superman was deeply stimulated and decided to take over the position of supreme leader. Luther colluded with Brainiac to shrink Stalingrad into a bottle and took it away, and was rescued by Superman, and rewrote Brainiac's program to serve the development of the Soviet Union. Wonder Woman joins forces with Superman, the Soviet Union grows stronger and the United States grows chaotic. Batman is dissatisfied with Superman's rule, believing that it deprives people of their freedom, and makes terrorist attacks for this. Peter teamed up with Batman because he was jealous of Superman, and provided the Superman mothership for Batman and Luthor to study. Batman kidnaps Wonder Woman to lure Superman into a trap and use the Red Sun to deal with Superman. Superman is restrained, begging Wonder Woman to break free and destroy Red Sun. Batman sees Superman turn defeat into victory and detonate himself. Wonder Woman has aged instantly and has been sick for a long time. The servant is Peter whose brain has been transformed. On the other side, the United States found Green Lantern's spaceship, and Luthor went to study it and found that the lamp ring turned out to be a weapon, ready to be used against Superman.
With Brainiac's assistance, the Soviet Union grew by leaps and bounds, eradicating poverty, crime and even natural disasters. Almost every country on Earth has joined this system, except for the increasingly chaotic America. Luthor was elected president of the United States, the U.S. economy (unbelievably) improved in an instant, and the U.S. took the initiative to attack the Soviet Union. The Green Lantern Corps attacked (it is curious that Superman and the Soviet Union under Superman never did anything to harm the United States, even rejecting Brainiac's proposal to directly attack the American mainland, but Luther, the United States did not know For some reason, they agreed that he is different from Superman, and was easily killed by Superman, and thwarted Wonder Woman, who allied with Luthor. Luthor was also captured by Brainiac. Superman decided to go straight to Huanglong to destroy the White House, but Louise gave him the envelope that Luthor had already prepared, and wrote: Why don't you put this world in a bottle? Superman collapsed in an instant, thinking that what he was doing was the same as Brainiac. Brainiac awakens, it turns out that it has been pretending to be controlled by Superman, trying to take over the earth, only to be destroyed from the inside by Luthor. The self-destruction program started, and Superman risked his life to send it away, and then returned to Earth to observe it disguised as an ordinary person. Earth has also grown by leaps and bounds under Luthor, eradicating disease, extending lifespan, and even colonizing space. The Luther family is even more talented. By the time the fiftieth-generation great-grandson Joe El (Superman's father) discovered that the earth was facing extinction, but his discovery was ignored by the scientific committee. In order to save the world, Joe El launched a spacecraft to send the baby Superman. teleport back...
2.2 Animation Story
Superman showed his superpowers on the farm. When he grew up, he was excavated by the Soviet Union. In the event of a satellite crash, he rushed to the United States. Louise gave him photos of the concentration camp. Superman went to investigate and found his childhood friend in a concentration camp and died in his arms. In order to change the status quo, Superman killed Stalin and took over the Soviet Union, personally annexing various countries. Luther developed a copycat Superman to provoke and was killed by the genuine Superman. After that, Superman destroyed the Berlin Wall, destroyed Brainiac who came to attack and transformed it into his own service. Batman used the Red Sun to deal with Superman unsuccessfully, and Luthor used the Superman Corps to attack and trap Superman. With the help of Wonder Woman, Superman turned defeat into victory, and attacked the White House from defense to attack, and collapsed after seeing the letter. Brainiac Awakened was killed and sent away. Superman disguised as a normal person to observe, and Luthor left the presidency.
3 Appreciation
3.1 The theme of the story is to reflect on the tyranny of the loving father, but the content of the story is completely different from the theme
Works on the theme of paternal tyranny are not uncommon, and if I recall correctly, Kant rejected it as incompatible with freedom of will. The story of the Red Son is that a powerful character like Superman built a system with his own power, is it against people's will? Does it contradict freedom of will? Is the United States represented by Luthor the last stronghold of the spirit of freedom? Against the tyranny represented by Superman? Perhaps the author is trying to express such a story, but the content of the story is quite different, for the following reasons.
First, Superman is a loving father, but he was not established by tyranny. The system Red Superman is trying to build is different from the Stalinist model, not by killing as a means and at the expense of poverty. Superman is not a megalomaniac and power-hungry like Batman and Luthor do. Superman has always made it his duty to help others, and even refused to accept the leadership position at first. Later, after seeing the poor status quo of the Soviet Union under Stalin, he felt obliged to change the status quo, and then decided to take over the Soviet Union. Superman's deep-seated motivation is to help others rather than to rule them, and he doesn't get carried away in the process.
Second, Batman is against it purely for its own sake. He held the banner of freedom and believed that there was no freedom in the Soviet Union under the rule of Red Superman. What Superman does is not so much to kill freedom as to promote progress, and in the process of promoting progress, some behaviors are forbidden, which is right. Freedom is not doing what you want. The law prohibits people from burning, killing and looting. Is this a restriction of freedom? Yes; is this as it should be? Yes. Superman is not the traditional Soviet Union with the ubiquitous KGB to achieve high-handed rule, Pravda can not even trust punctuation except for the date. If so, Batman's behavior can be said to reflect the spirit of freedom and resistance. Even under the rule of Red Superman, it is advisable to plan some revolt to remind people to pay attention to Red Superman. But Batman took the terror of directly attacking innocent civilians to promote his so-called freedom. This freedom can be equated with the freedom of street gangsters. You don't let me do it, I want to do it. Batman, who has always been rational, has been reduced to a Naruto-like character in Red Son, purely for opposition.
Third, among the Red Sons, using Luthor and the America he took over to confront Superman, does it show human dignity and human value? Luthor has an IQ far beyond that of human beings. One piece of paper shows that it can balance the budget, another piece of paper shows that it can eliminate inflation. One month after being elected president, the economy doubled, and the economy doubled again in a month. In one sentence, Superman collapsed, even Being able to meet things decades later through calculations... Not to mention that this series of operations is a bit too much force, it seems funny, if it is true, why is Luther and Superman? How does his behavior differ from Superman? Isn't it the direct promotion of social change and progress through their superhuman abilities? Superman's adversary is really just a "copy of Superman", so the theme of using human freedom to resist the tyranny of the loving father is obviously untenable.
Fourth, Red Superman is not like the Injustice League, which directly uses force to take over the world and solve the problem by force after reasoning. This can naturally be regarded as tyranny. Red Superman is more like a powerful engine, providing power continuously, and changing the world through a series of supporting systems to achieve transmission, and in this process, it uses extremely gentle means. "Brave New World" is a genuine gentle and loving father's tyranny, but it is not in the Red Son, and there is no class division from the beginning of birth, and it strictly stipulates people's behavior and lifestyle. Some people will say that Superman is trying to transform Batman and actually transforming Peter, who is Batman and Peter in the comics? Create terrorist activities to kill innocent civilians, collude with enemy countries, set traps and attempt to assassinate their own leaders. Would such people be praised as heroes in reality? Or the death penalty for murder and treason? It can be understood that they were sentenced to death, but their bodies were used, a higher form of body donation.
Is it advisable for Superman to single-handedly force social change? If there is such a doubt, are the various rescue actions and actions against criminals before Superman desirable? Is it officially authorized? Does it comply with legal procedures? Has the consent of the parties been obtained? Let me ask another question. If Jiajing in 1566 of the Ming Dynasty used his personal will to pressure hundreds of officials to embezzle the national treasury to build palaces and temples, would such behavior be advisable? I guess most people would be inclined to think it's not advisable. If Jiaqing used his personal will to pressure Baiguan to spit out the looted and occupied land and return it to the people to improve people's livelihood, is such an action advisable? I guess most people would be inclined to consider it desirable. The same is the act of personal will, why is one desirable and the other undesirable? Because the consequences are different, the latter is preferable. Some of the high-sounding words are justice and axioms. In other words, such behavior is what everyone expects the world to be like, and represents progress.
Fifth, Superman is a being that is closer to God than God. What is the Christian definition of God? All-knowing, all-powerful, all-good. What is the purpose of people's belief in God, to build a happy kingdom of heaven on earth. The argument of omniscience, omnipotence and omnipotence has been bankrupt as early as Epicurus. In reality, there are many misfortunes visible to the naked eye. If God does not know, it is not omniscient. If he knows but does not want to change, it is not omniscient. Almighty. In contrast to the God of religion, Superman is a genuine all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good. Omniscience: Super hearing, super vision, able to hear calls for help from thousands of miles away, and able to understand the changes in human endocrine and judge people's emotions. Almighty: Super power and super speed, almost omnipotent, of course, can't do the strange secret techniques in fantasy works. Quan Shan: Superman's motive has not changed from beginning to end, and that is to help others. It was point-to-point at first, then point-to-point.
Sixth, Red Superman's method is actually very gentle. It is not like in the Injustice League, which directly falls from the sky in front of people, and throws a contract for you to sign, otherwise it will kill you. Superman builds a perfect system through his own strength and intelligence to improve people's situation, and does not force other countries to join. In fact, other countries take the initiative to integrate into such a system and enjoy various dividends. Refused to join in a situation of poverty and decline like the United States (even constantly creating super criminals to attack Superman), Brainiac calculates the pros and cons of taking the initiative to attack the benefits, and Superman still insists on attracting rather than forcing it into his own system. Down. The last attack on the United States was because the United States used the Green Lantern Corps to launch a general offensive first.
The theme of the story may be to reflect on the tyranny of the father, but the story itself, especially the inner logic, may have exceeded the author's expectations.
3.2 Does Red Superman behave correctly?
Is it advisable to substitute a train for a horse-drawn carriage? Is it advisable to replace small wooden ships with ironclads? Is it advisable for a computer to replace the abacus? If these are desirable, why is superhuman behavior undesirable? In essence, the world under Superman's rule is a higher-order existence than the current world. Poverty, disease, war and even disasters have disappeared. Isn't this the heaven on earth that people envision? Isn't this the way the world is going? Progress is the trend of the development of human civilization. It's just that this progress is a bit big, like pressing the fast-forward button, so that people are a little unacceptable. In fact, the pace of development in the past two decades has been very fast. Before landline phones were popularized, mobile phones developed. Mobile phones have just developed for a few years, and the wave of smartphones has already emerged. From 2G to 3G to 4G to 5G, the speed of iteration It's getting faster and faster. Ten years ago, could people imagine that after a few minutes of scanning their faces with their mobile phones at home, someone would deliver the things they wanted to the door? When the fixed network was not popular ten years ago, did you think that ten years later, it will start to enter an era of Internet of Everything? The emergence of a giant may accelerate the progress of the entire world. This process may make many people uncomfortable, but should such progress be rejected because of this factor? Obviously not reasonable. Besides, as mentioned above, if the Red Son thought what Luthor did was desirable, why did he reject Superman? Just because of his "alien" status? This identity did not show any racially disparate influence. A copycat version of Superman has more intelligence than Luthor, let alone the original version. If the world accepts the governance of Red Superman, the development rate may be faster. The confrontation between Luthor and the United States and Superman shows the arrogance and self-righteousness of human beings.
4 extra words
4.1 Disgusting adaptation
"Superman: The Red Son" and "The Dark Knight Returns", "The Kingdom of Heaven", "Justice", etc. can be regarded as some fan works of Super British comics. However, these fan works do not engage in any CP, but use ready-made characters and story backgrounds (saving the author's work to build a time view, which is convenient for readers to understand). To tell some thought-provoking stories. Many of the original stories of Chaoying comics are actually at the level of middle school students' readings. Of course, some scientific researches are more rigorous. However, these fan works far exceed the original works in terms of character depth, story depth, and theme depth.
In terms of comics, some works can be handled normally, making the original comics move into animations, almost faithful to the originals, such as "Batman: Year One" and "The Dark Knight Returns"; some can be added to the story, such as "Watchmen" Compared with the original transmission of a somewhat absurd alien creature that can affect people's spirits, the use of Dr. Manhattan's energy characteristics to create an explosion and shape Dr. Manhattan into a public enemy of mankind can be said to be a stroke of genius.
Of course, there are still some comics that don't know what to call "The Son of Red". The original manga is different from Watchmen, Kingdom Come, etc. It uses a very conventional linear narrative. It is restored frame by frame, filled with fighting scenes, and it can be expanded into an animated movie. As a result, everyone has seen it. The production team of "Son of Red" and the relevant personnel who audit and check are extremely excellent. They can successfully avoid all the wonderful scenes, and exert their efforts in the worse places in almost every place. This kind of work is not what ordinary people can imagine. Especially since "Red Son" is very suitable for adaptation. If the rating is 1-10, I think "Red Son" should get a negative score, otherwise it will not reflect the excellence of the production team.
I secretly think that there are two finishing touches in the comics. One is that Superman saw the letter: Why not put this world in a bottle, a sentence that covers the theme of the story, and Superman had previously rejected Brainiac How does his own behavior differ from this behavior as a result? This move made Superman realize the self-contradiction between his behavior and the idea and collapsed directly (I personally do not agree with this treatment, Brainiac put the world in a bottle for research, and took the world in the bottle as a specimen; No, what he does is for the advancement of the world, and ultimately for the well-being of all mankind; his actions only look similar to Brainiac, but are fundamentally different). There is another place that should be recognized by everyone, and that is the end of the reversal of the gods. After talking about a few strokes, I outlined a shocking reversal, making the whole story seem like a reincarnation of fate (I don’t know why I thought of "You Souls", I am interested You can look at it, a very short science fiction novel that also involves time travel and has more paradoxes). Another point is that the animated film has been changed randomly, which can reflect that the production team has no understanding of the original work. In the comics, Shanzhai Superman chooses to sacrifice himself to save others at the last minute, which shows that Superman, whether it is a copycat version, a poor version, a beggar version or even a bankrupt version, has the consciousness of "purduing all beings" in his bones, which is like the three laws of robots. The original setting. In the animation, it was downgraded, and the energy was increased regardless of the risk and finally exploded out of control... The vulgar scenes of countless popcorn movies.
2 disgusting feminism
The comics do mention women's rights. One is when the Queen of Paradise Island talked to Stalin and said that there was no women's rights issue in the Soviet Union (I don't know where this conclusion came from, it may be that women and men line up at the relief station on an equal footing. Get relief, both men and women are enslaved equally, so there is no feminist issue); one is that when Louise visited Paradise Island and talked to Wonder Woman, she said that Paradise Island is good for feminism (feminism should not be divorced from women's rights). Shouldn’t men’s rights be opened? This problem only occurs when women are suppressed by men’s rights? Paradise Island is all women, and there will be no non-women suppressing women. What feminist issues can be discussed?). Feminism in comics itself is superfluous, because the issue of feminism has nothing to do with the theme.
The animation is even more disgusting, and the problem is often attributed to a man (man), as if it is a man who is fighting, so the man is the root of the problem. As everyone knows, the root of some problems is not man or woman, but human, which is the flaw of human nature. One-sidedly blaming men for these problems doesn't really see any value in adding to the chaos of the film's narrative, other than flattering women's rights.
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