Knowing this premise, let’s look at "Interstellar Legends." The 2000 "Interstellar Legends 1" is more like a sci-fi genre imitating aliens. Both the plot setting and the image creation are full of the taste of a stylized B-level film. . Except for the protagonist's "fire-eyed golden eyes", the rest can hardly leave any impression. When Van Diesel's name appeared in 2004's "Star Saga 2", the audience suddenly found that the extent of the film's facelift was astonishing, and it could almost be regarded as another irrelevant story.
"Interstellar Legend 2" gave me the first impression or the deepest impression is the gorgeous and detailed scenes, from the costumes to the set special effects, they are different from the previous work. To give the most intuitive number, the cost of the first part is 23 million, and the second is 110 million. Even if the factor of inflation is taken into consideration, the gap is quite huge. Reminiscent of the high investment of "Fast and Furious" from the fourth to sixth installments from 85 million to 160 million in cost, it seems to be possible to draw such a conclusion: Van Di as a producer Searle has very high requirements for the quality of the production of the film, and he is also very willing to invest heavily. Although high investment does not necessarily mean word-of-mouth and box office, at least the scale of film production, including the level of actors, will have a qualitative increase.
Regardless of the hardware, "Star Legend 2" has also been upgraded to a notch in the script. The multi-ethnic complex relationships between the interstellar, the undercurrents within the races, and the protagonist’s series of solitary actions constitute a multi-level main line branch framework, and the amount of information has increased exponentially compared to the previous one.
However, although the film has a relatively solid foundation in all aspects, it is still a bad breath to call it a "classic". The key to this gap lies in the foundation. On the one hand, because the reputation of the previous work is not high, people naturally have a preconceived conception of the follow-up work. Even if the second part has a great change, it is difficult to immediately establish a brand effect; on the other hand, The aspect is in the script, because there is no literary base, the expansion of the background in the second part needs to be further digested and understood by the audience.
Personally, with the foundation of "Interstellar Legend 2", it is not difficult to create a classic series. Of course, the first thing to do is to have continuous high-quality scripts, and more high-quality actors to join, and make some articles on peripheral products (there are already related cartoons coming out). Perhaps "Interstellar Legend" is hard to match the two sci-fi mountains of "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" after all, but driven by Van Diesel's personal charm, it will become an alternative masterpiece of Swordsman.
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