If the big IP of film and television continues to be hot, derivative works will definitely not escape.
From "Breaking Bad" to "The Coquettish Lawyer", from "Star Wars" to "Rogue One", from "Harry Potter" to "Fantastic Beasts", we will see "Game of Thrones" soon It is said that there are still five spin-offs planned.
Sorry, today we are going to talk about the derivative work of "Fast and Furious", "Fast and Furious: Special Operations" (no spoilers).
Why there are derivative works in this series, in fact, it is easy to guess, because the story of Suji Universe is really exhausted. Although this series has a more exaggerated and more insightful racing section, there is no way. Brings more appealing characters like the "Mission Impossible" or "007" series.
And it seems that the acting career of each role in the Su Ji universe is booming, and then getting everyone together, the salary of the sky will rise, and there must be greater box office support.
Moreover, the rumors of conflicts between Van Diesel and Dashi Johnson within the Su Ji universe, coupled with the death of the protagonist Paul Walker, also cast a big shadow on this series.
As early as 2017, the "Fast and Furious" series was planned for the tenth part, and it was also announced that "Fast and Furious 9, 10" would be released in 2020 and 2021 respectively. Currently, "Fast and Furious 10" Set as the final piece.
In other words, perhaps in terms of the scalability of the story, as the "Fast and Furious" series are getting lower and lower cost performance, Su Ji Universe has opened up a new path and brought the "Special Actions" that at least I am looking forward to. ".
The director of "Special Operations" is David Reach. You may not know who he is, but you must have heard or seen the "Quick" series starring Keanu Reveski.
Is there anyone else who hasn’t watched it? Hurry up and make up the lesson, because the "Quick" series is not only Keanu Reveski’s turnaround work, but also known as the only one that can compete with the veteran "Mission Impossible" action movie in recent years. The new force of the "Quick" series of action is furious, with guns and guns bursting blood, using violence to resist violence, and revenge with the male protagonist's resistance to the old order.
Obviously, I watched "Special Operations" with such anticipation. I was thinking that finally, Su Ji universe can inject new blood into action, so that this series that will only go to the sky (it is really going to heaven). , Can you play any new tricks?
However, maybe I think too much. There are surprises that "Special Operations" can give me, but they are fleeting like fireworks.
It seems that if David Reich doesn’t partner with Chad Stahlsky, it’s really difficult to have a miracle. It’s also a bloody incident caused by a simple story, but "Quick" and "Special Operations" go in completely different directions. develop.
"Rapid" started as a revenge caused by a dog, simple enough, straightforward and pure enough, but the more the plot is woven, the more it becomes an unfathomable fast universe. We will find the killer in the fast world, with A set of rules and logic.
The "Fast and Furious" series felt that the world of people and cars was rich and colorful at first, but the more it develops to the back, the more it becomes a single mission line. The rhythm of the film driven by missions is not enough, and the role of facial makeup is not enough. , It can only make the whole series become fast-food-style action-flow works more and more later.
The protagonists of "Special Operations" are Dashi Johnson and Jason Statham. In the Su Ji universe, Dashi Johnson participated in "Fast and Furious 5", and Dashi Johnson played the role of Hobbs, an agent of the US Security Agency. , Appeared in the back 6, 7, and 8, and the role was getting heavier and heavier.
Jason Statham made a cameo at the end of "Fast and Furious 6". He played the former MI6 agent Dikshaw, but later became a killer. After 7 and 8 have his role.
And in "Fast and Furious 7", he was the big villain, and then he became a comrade-in-arms with Van Diesel and the others.
In the Su Ji universe, the grievances and contradictions between the two bald heads became a hot spot to attract the audience, so the film Fang took advantage of the victory and created this derivative work for these two popular characters.
The story of the film is a battle caused by a super virus. The two factions of good and evil have launched a life-and-death contest. Both sides of this battle have traditional and old-fashioned views. Johnson and Xiao are trying to prevent the spread of the virus. In the world, the villain wants to use the virus to reshuffle the cards in order to overthrow the superior and survive the fittest.
Don't worry that this is a spoiler, this is just the plot of the trailer, but the film is about the amount of the plot, and everyone is watching the action scene, not the plot, right?
Then let's talk about the action scenes. The "Fast and Furious" series has been extended from the previous racing theme to the use of racing cars to solve crises, and then to save the world. The racing cars can only be raced on the wild track, and then the racing cars can go to the sky and underground. Hai, just like Tesla did not go to Mars.
"Special Operations" also has a lot of action scenes about cars. One of the futuristic motorcycles is impressive. The motorcycle will deform according to the environment and the driver’s situation. I sometimes have the illusion of seeing "Deformation". King Kong.
At the same time, the film is also indispensable for car chasing scenes, and there are particularly special car fighting scenes. After all, this is the so-called chicken universe. If this summer you want to watch two muscular bald heads racing on the same stage, passionately exuding male hormones, and use straight from time to time. Male thinking gives you the most direct sentimental drama, then you will especially like "Special Operations".
You can see the large number of action scenes in the film, the visual impact it brings to you and the cost of money, you can see on the screen, the production level has not dropped, but it only stays here, and will not show you the action movie. Anything more surprising exists.
However, the combination of Dashi Johnson and Jason Statham, coupled with the special design of the whole mouth-cannon dialogue for them, does add a lot of humorous and pleasing temperament to the film, but it weakens itself and is not threatening. Feeling villain.
Speaking of the villain, I think this is the worst part of the film. It is 9102 years old. The villain still wants to overthrow the world and reinvent it. It is too difficult to convince people.
On the other hand, "Mission: Impossible" also has a forcible concept of personality, and it also has to solve world-class crises, but behind the villain’s personality is a belief organization operating, this persuasive concept of pushing the world back. , And even penetrate into the protagonist’s internal organization.
And in "Special Operations", the film does not have any in-depth explanation of the villain, we just know that he is very strong and superhuman, and then we know from him that he wants to evolve humans, and more than once repeatedly brainwashed the audience to strengthen himself. Of people.
The more the villain is like this, the less bad it will be, and it will be reduced to the standard villain tool of the film.
In general, "Special Operations" is not special. It is just a simple action task with two bald heads to save the world again. By the way, the film may also have an advantage in terms of schedule. In this year, it seems that Hollywood action movies are weak. Although "Action" is not brilliant, it has no competitors.
If you really have nothing to do, and you are still a small fan of Suji Universe, this "Fast and Passion: Special Actions" has become a work that "you have to see if you look good or not."
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