Every time DC has a new film released, it is a New Year for DC fans.
Unfortunately, this time I can’t talk about the New Year, because the filming of "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey" was too general.
The story begins 15 years ago, when one of the richest Mafia families in Gotham, the Bettinelli family, was destroyed.
The detailed information of the Bettinelli family's bank account is hidden in a diamond. This diamond is equivalent to a key that can unlock unlimited wealth. As long as you get it, you can get all the property of the Bettinelli family.
The villain Black Mask got the diamond and sent his subordinates Victor Zas and Black Canary to get it.
He didn't take such an important thing personally, so he was so relieved to send others to it.
And they didn't send a few more people, only two people, one of whom was an informant for the police.
After Victor Zas got the diamond, he didn't put it in the box, just put it in his trouser pocket. You are too big-hearted.
Sure enough, Cassandra Cain stole it easily.
From the black mask not picking up the diamonds in person, to Victor Zas putting the diamonds in his trouser pocket, to Cain walking the diamonds along, this series of plots is too trivial, and completely treats the audience as fools.
The black mask, Victor Zass are too stupid, and the protagonist Cain's halo is too strong, causing her to easily steal the diamond that contains information about all the property of the Bettinelli family. There is no difficulty, no challenge. sex.
Cain was caught by the police after he had stolen things.
Victor Zas stopped chasing after a few steps.
What you lost is not five dollars or ten dollars, but something worth hundreds of millions of dollars. If you don't worry, I will worry about it.
Your things have been stolen and you are a victim. Can't you catch up and recover the stolen goods?
If the police doesn't give it to you, kill him and take the diamond.
You are a villain, when did you become so law-abiding?
Victor Zas stopped chasing the diamond and went back like this.
The black mask is always cruel, killing people without blinking, and is not very angry when he learns that the diamond has been lost. After a few words of scolding Victor Zas, he calms down.
You are so magnanimous, you are not suitable for being a villain, you should be a superhero.
Victor Zas said: I caught Harley Quinn, should we go downstairs to kill her and get nasty?
The black mask happily agreed: Well, I wanted to do this a long time ago.
The diamond is lost, are you still in the mood to do something else?
The diamond was lost. His first reaction was not to go to the police station to chase the diamond back, but to vent by teaching Harley Quinn.
You succumbed to a beat of Harley Quinn? Do you automatically come back after hitting her with a diamond?
Isn’t the best way to get rid of the breath to get the diamond back?
What's even more funny is that Harley Quinn said she could help the black mask find the diamonds, so the black mask released Harley Quinn.
The black mask, Thomas's circling brain circuit, I don't know where to start complaining.
The black mask now has two things in his hand. The first is that the diamond is lost.
Secondly, Harley Quinn broke his driver's leg in front of him before, without giving him any face.
At that time, the black mask was afraid that the clown would avenge him, and did not dare to oppose Harley Quinn.
Now Harley Quinn announced that she had broken up with the Joker, so the black mask grabbed her to teach her.
The correct way to deal with these two things is that he himself recruited a group of mercenaries to retrieve the diamonds, and then gave Harley Quinn a lesson.
The black mask turned out to be to release Harley Quinn and ask her to help him find diamonds, and then he would find a group of mercenaries to eat the black.
You can just send someone to grab the diamond back. Why should it be necessary for Harley Quinn to grab the diamond, and then send someone to grab the diamond that Harley Quinn grabbed?
As a result, Harley Quinn not only successfully obtained the diamond (the diamond was swallowed by Cain, and Cain was equal to the diamond), but also all the mercenaries sent by the black mask were maimed.
Sending Harley Quinn to grab the diamonds is not equivalent to sending the diamonds to her?
As long as the black mask is a bit brainy, Harley Quinn will not be sent to grab diamonds, and there will be no other things.
In order to get the title of "the stupidest villain", he also worked very hard.
After Harley Quinn took Cain away, the Black Mask recruited a large number of people to snatch Cain back.
You send a few more people when you fetch the diamonds, and now you don’t need to find so many people to grab Cain.
When the diamond was stolen by Cain, you sent someone directly to the police station. Now you don’t need to find so many people.
You send two people to fetch the diamonds. If the diamond is stolen, you send your enemy to find the diamond. As a result, both the enemy and the diamond are gone. Now you are looking for a large number of people to remedy it...
As long as there are a few peanuts, you won't be so drunk.
This is what people often say, some people always like to make small things bigger and then try to turn the tide. Isn't this unnecessary?
To make the protagonist strong, the best way is always to make the villain strong first.
Only when the villain is strong can the protagonist be strong. The villain is too weak, and the protagonist defeating him is not something to be proud of.
However, the Black Mask and Victor Zas are more than a scum.
This kind of scum is all-round scum, IQ scum, combat scum, and the Raptor team defeated them without much effort.
The villain is too weak, and it seems that the Raptor team is not much better.
The black mask is ashamed to say "The whole city is mine",
Who gave you the courage?
In the comics, Kassandra Cain is a martial arts master, a fighting expert, and the world's number one killer.
She began to practice martial arts hard since she was a child and was trained as a killer since she was a child.
In the movie, Cain is a thief. He does not know martial arts at all. He only knows to escape, and even throws a bomb will be shocked.
The transformation of the black canary's character is also very blunt.
Renee finds Black Canary, hoping that Black Canary will be her informant.
Because her mother had helped the police, and no one would collect her body when she died. She didn't want to fall into the same fate as her mother.
She also said that she knew who the black mask was, the one who worked for her and took her out of the street life, so she would not betray the black mask.
In the end, she was inexplicably changed and willing to inform Renee and confronted the black mask.
And while Harley Quinn went to the police station, Black Canary called Renee and said that the diamond was with Cain.
As soon as the voice fell, Harley Quinn brought guns and ammunition to the police station. You are faster than the Flash.
Cain swallowed such a big diamond directly. Wouldn't it really cut the intestines and stomach?
Cain had nothing to do, and finally pulled it out.
With such a big diamond, what will happen if it is pulled out? The picture is too beautiful for me to see.
The script is mediocre, full of loopholes, and the action scenes are even softer, far worse than Zach Schneider, Patty Jenkins, and Wen Ziren. There is no movie texture at all, more like American TV series.
In the past, DCEU gave people this impression,
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In the future, DCEU will give people this impression.
Why don't so many people go together?
Even the "Harley Quinn" animated series are tougher and harder.
As an R-rated movie, the scale of "Birds of Prey" is too small, not much different from PG-13. Not only did the audience not watch it well, but it also lost the box office of audiences under the age of 17.
Except for Harley Quinn, other characters appeared for the first time and had nothing to do with the first 7 DCEU movies.
Cain, Black Canary, Huntress, Renee are also famous, but they are far less famous than Batman and Superman.
Warner would rather shoot these lesser-known characters than Batman and Superman.
Although the Joker made a brief appearance, he also played as a stand-in.
Next year there will be a "New Suicide Squad", which is basically a new lineup. The clown played by Leto and the dead shot played by Will Smith will not return.
Not being able to keep people is really a serious problem.
In addition to the Joker and Death Shot, Batman, Steel Skeleton, Luther, Louise Lane, Perry White, editor-in-chief of the Planet Daily, Gordon, Afu, Deathstroke... also either quit or replace.
Basically, only Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Shazan, and Harley Quinn were left without substitutions.
Although Henry Cavill has not yet changed his role, he has not made a new movie. Warner didn't say to keep him, nor did he say not to keep him, just like that, it kept consuming and delaying the youth of others.
People often say: DC's biggest enemy is not Marvel, but Warner.
Because Marvel’s success promotes DC, Marvel is not DC’s enemy, Warner is.
Zach Schneider's "Zhenglian" has 214 minutes, while the theater version only has 120 minutes.
And in these 120 minutes, 80 minutes were remakes, and 10 minutes were the opening and ending credits, and Zach Schneider only took 30 minutes.
We may never know what "Zhenglian" originally looked like.
This is not the first time Warner has done such a thing. A large number of scenes in "Suicide Squad" have also been cut and altered, making them completely unrecognizable. Although the final box office was pretty good, the word of mouth was very poor.
Poor word-of-mouth is not a problem. The problem is that the original director did a good job, but you cut others to pieces.
Leto has filmed so many scenes and only a few shots in the feature film, which hurts the actor's heart.
For "Zhenglian" word-of-mouth box office double blow, Warner's high-level response is to expel Zach Schneider and Weiden.
Throw the pot to the director, without reflecting on your own problems.
They also called off "Zhenglian 2", "Batman", "Green Lantern Corps", "Flash", and "Steel Bones", but went to shoot a "Birds of Prey" that has nothing to do with DCEU.
In March 2016, Warner announced the ten future movies of DCEU. You will find that there is no "Raptor Squad" among them.
"Birds of Prey" is not a planned movie, but Warner made it to catch Harley Quinn's popularity.
Warner didn't pay much attention to "Birds of Prey" from the very beginning. It doesn't matter if the box office is high, it doesn't matter if the box office is not high. It is this attitude that predestined "Birds of Prey" will not be much better.
Only half of the ten films planned at the time were released as scheduled. "Zhenglian 2", "Steel Bones" and "Green Lantern Corps" have been dying to give birth, and "The Flash" and "Batman" have also been postponed tragically. The Flash, which was supposed to be released in 2018, was postponed to 2022.
You can never figure out why Warner would rather make "Birds of Prey" than "Superman 2" or make films of the Big Seven.
Some people may say that shooting the Big Seven is risky and easy to pounce.
But let’s take a look at "Superman: Man of Steel", "Batman v Superman", "Wonder Woman" and "Aquaman". These movies Warner didn't interfere much, and the final word of mouth and box office were pretty good. Among them, "Superman: Man of Steel" and "Batman v Superman" have polarized their reputations, but their reputations are gradually picking up in recent years.
As long as Warner does not interfere, the quality of the movie will be stable.
So Warner can make "Batman", "Superman 2", "Green Lantern" and "Flash". There is no need to make a movie like "Birds of Prey" that has nothing to do with DCEU.
If you really want to make "Birds of Prey", you can also shoot a few more movies with first-line characters, and then shoot second- and third-line characters, instead of filming second- and third-line characters first and then the first-line characters.
It's now in 2020. "Superman: Man of Steel" has been released for 7 years and there is no sequel. "Batman" has not even released the first movie yet, and it just started.
Instead of shooting the Big Seven, instead shooting second and third line characters, what is this operation?
If you want to make money, but don't shoot the Big Seven, how can there be such a good thing.
Sure enough, the total box office of "Birds of Prey" was only 190 million US dollars, and even the cost could not be recovered.
Warner thought that as long as the budget was a little lower, no matter how low the box office was, the cost would not be recovered. As a result, the cost would not be recovered.
Because the box office was too low, Warner did an incredible thing-announced a change of title, from "The Amazing Liberation of Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" to "Harley Quinn: The Birds of Prey". But changing the title did not make the box office higher.
Changing the title of a movie halfway through its release is really unheard of.
The word-of-mouth of "Suicide Squad" rushed, and Warner executives did not wake up.
The word-of-mouth box office of "Justice League" doubled, but the top Warner executives still did not wake up.
How I hope that the loss of "Birds of Prey" will make Warner executives wake up and realize their mistakes, but the result is definitely my wishful thinking.
They only think that the director has problems, the screenwriters have problems, the actors have problems, everyone has problems, but they are all right.
After the release of "Superman: Man of Steel" in 2013, no new films were released in 2014 and 2015. It was not until 2016 that "Batman v Superman" and "Suicide Squad" were released, which wasted 3 years in vain.
Now this situation is happening again.
Although "Batman" has been set for 2021, "Superman 2" and "Green Lantern Corps" are still missing.
And Batman, Afu, and Gordon are all replaced. You don't know what medicine is sold in Warner Gourd.
It seems that Warner still has no plans. Their idea is to wait until "Batman" is released to see if the box office is high before deciding how to go.
"Zheng Lian" box office bounced, "Zheng Lian 2", "Green Lantern Corps", "Flash", and "Steel Bone" that have been set have been stopped;
"Aquaman" sold at the box office, and Warner set the files for "Aquaman 2", "Batman" and "New Suicide Squad";
"Joker" was a big hit at the box office, and Warner set the files for "Black Adam", "The Flash" and "Thunder Shazan 2".
Warner currently has many projects in hand, but whether to shoot or not depends entirely on the box office of the movie being released.
The results of MCU's 2, 3, 4, and 5 movies "Invincible Hulk", "Iron Man 2", "Thor 1" and "Miss Team 1" were not very good.
However, Marvel Studios still proceeded according to the original plan. Sure enough, the sixth and seventh movies "Reunion 1" and "Iron Man 3" hit the box office, and the MCU is gradually on the right track.
DCEU's first four movies, "Superman: Man of Steel", "Batman v Superman", "Suicide Squad" and "Wonder Woman" were all good at the box office. As a result, Warner changed his plan because of the "Zhenglian" hit.
First make a plan, as long as the direction is right, then do not change the plan in any way, bite the bullet and execute it to the end, this is the secret of MCU success;
Change your plan as soon as you experience failure, and change your plan as soon as you experience failure. Like a headless fly, you can make a little money when you are lucky, but you can't make a big deal.
The magic correction of "Zhenglian" itself is a mistake. It is a mistake to put "Batman", "Superman 2", "Green Lantern" and "The Flash" to shoot "Birds of Prey".
Now "Batman" is finally on, but "Superman 2" and "Green Lantern Corps" are still missing.
It is impossible to succeed without planning and taking one step at a time.
"Birds of Prey" will never be the last failure of DCEU, because Warner will never learn a lesson and will always make the same mistakes.
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