King of Death: No one expected that the new crown epidemic would spread so wildly around the world. Nearly two months ago, when we completely lost the "Spring Festival file", we also naively imagined that we must "retaliate watching movies" after the epidemic passed.
However, until now, even Hollywood has almost stalled. Looking at the new films that the world has withdrawn and stopped filming in the past few days, there is an inexplicable sense of the end of the world. "Mulan", "007: No Time to Die", "New Mutants", "Fast and Furious 9", "A Quiet Place 2", "Batman", "Mission Impossible 7", "Fantastic Beasts 3", "Jurassic World 3" And so on, all were forced to press the pause button following the trend of the epidemic "pandemic".
Some narrators "joked" that if there are no new films this year, the quality of the next Oscar nominated films will definitely shrink severely.
And the new films that were lucky to be released in the first two months of this year, whether they are bad films or excellent works, are likely to become the lucky ones on the Oscar podium, such as "Gentlemen", "Dolit's Fantasy Adventure", and "Jedi Men: "Quick Pursuit", "The Invisible Man", "Sonic the Hedgehog", "The Road to Return", "The Magic of 1/2"...
And the new DC work "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" that we are going to focus on today. This film, directed by Chinese female director Yan Yuqian and supporting "half the sky" with DC female characters, has undergone many verbal criticisms from fans since it was released in North America on February 7.
Author | Fat to laugh
Sure enough, "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" once again refreshed the level of DC's attack on the street. In terms of box office, it is difficult to pay back even if you take the R-class low-cost route; in terms of word-of-mouth, not only the scores of each platform are ugly, but even DC fans with high tolerance have given bad reviews. As the first superhero movie in 2020, it is a bit miserable.
The plot of the whole movie is a complex of contradictory and boring contradictions. After breaking up with the clown, Harley Kui was sad and decadent, and faced countless enemies.
In order to get out of the shadow of broken love, the former Harley Quinn had a hot mind and chose to embark on the road of redemption. Not only did she save another missed girl, she also ended up with the famous black mask of Gotham. The tonality of this familiar girl movie, coupled with the "anti-hero" routine, is really a bit outdated.
In the film, the motives of all the characters are confusing. The villain wants to delegate the most important tasks to the enemy clown girl to perform; the cool girls also quickly forged a deep revolutionary friendship with the clown girl, and gathered together for no reason; there are also nonsensical action scenes for fighting, and giants. The extremely weak villains are all slots.
As for the other half of the movie title, "The Birds of Prey Team", it was basically unsurprisingly reduced to a toolman, and it was so leafy that it could no longer be leafy. The whole film is basically Harley Quinn’s personal fashion show.
In the DC comics, the Birds of Prey is a small group of super heroines. The founders include the Black Canary and Huntress who appeared in the movie, as well as the Batgirl who did not show up.
In the movie, not to mention the fact that the villain Harley Quinn became the head of the sister Tao, we can also accept the direct adoption of Batgirl's successor Cassandra Cain. After all, DCEU's new universe and new worldview can be established no matter how fabricated it is.
However, super-British movies like "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" should at least build these few third-line characters that are not popular. After all, the purpose of packing into a group is to fry cold rice. Almost all of the operations for upgrading to a mainstream hero can be copied directly from the "Silver Guard" next door.
As a result, the entire Raptor squad is not only hard to say anything about casting, but also the appearance shots of several characters are pitiful. Their background, motivation and psychology are even more scribbled.
The villain "Black Mask" in the film is played by Ivan McGregor, who seems to be a little sincere. It's a pity that the villain's character setting still can't stand, and the skill of the screenwriter is completely unworthy of the actor's performance.
The next-door Marvel’s Thanos has risen to the advanced level of “caring for the world and compassion for others”. The clown of DC’s own family has also begun to dig into the villain’s fate and tragedy. Although the “black mask” can’t be ranked in the DC villain’s pedigree. It's worth it, but it really shouldn't be limited to the type of psycho.
The setting of this character is obviously cruel, rich and handsome, with a level of gold and aristocratic temperament enough to break the wrist with the master Batman.
Who would have thought that his first live-action video in "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" was brutally discredited. Not only did the character modeling and the lines and actions try to get closer to the pure metamorphosis, but he was also deprived of IQ and combat power, just casually Received a bento by anti-killing.
I originally thought that "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" abandoning a large number of young audiences and set it as R-rated, it is to secretly poke and become "DCEU's "Deadpool"." Unexpectedly, after watching the whole movie, it was unexpectedly full of harmonious positive energy, and there was no trace of R grade.
All the comedy burdens in the film try to get closer to active and healthy family fun, and basically still stay in the painless ridicule of the little girl movie, and the content of ingredients that are not suitable for children is extremely low. The action scenes are neither violent nor bloody. The procrastinating editing and a large number of slow-motion shots make the heroines who should have been sharp and refreshing attack the army and become the old men and old ladies on the roadside.
The random adaptation of the plot to the character set finally succeeded in offending the fans. The whole movie not only has no highlights, but also failed to win over the hearts of ordinary audiences.
So, what is it for making the almost panacea superhero movie so unpleasant? In fact, an important factor that made "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" hit the streets in recent years has tripped many Hollywood movies, and that is the overcorrection of political correctness.
In recent years, the feminist movement has become popular in Hollywood, and major heroine scripts such as "Wonder Woman" and "Captain Marvel" have made a lot of money. 2020 is another big year for heroine movies, "Black Widow" and "Wonder Woman 2" are ready to go.
The situation was originally good, and with the blessing of popular elements such as team battles and anti-heroes, "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" should have a good start. However, the film was made too hard. In order to highlight the girl power, the male characters were deliberately dwarfed.
It is worth mentioning that "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" also features Chinese female director Yan Yuqian. DC’s original intention was actually to further tell the story of women. I didn’t expect that the whole movie would not see any valuable women’s perspectives throughout the film, but the cleverness of using women’s narratives to raise the flag and scramble the tiger's skin is obvious. .
The political correctness of the film "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" is also reflected in the skin color. The villains are all white males, and the heroine team is full of ethnicities; and in order to get the average, even hesitate to change the hero Black Canary, who has a good fan base, to black women.
This method of striving for peace and stability, regardless of the feelings of the fans, and treating the larger ordinary audience as fools, rushing to the street is not wronged at all.
And a little bit behind the scenes, you will find that the groove of this movie is more than just what is shown on the screen. At first, this movie was not in the five-year plan announced by DCEU in 2014. It is speculated that the results of the theater version of Zhenglian were not satisfactory in all aspects, and the parent company Warner's position was disrupted before it was launched in a hurry. .
Among them, it also includes commercial considerations such as wanting to further amplify the popularity of Margaret Robbie's "Harley Quinn" and the hot spots of the feminist movement. But after all, it lacks the long-term vision and overall concept of creating a superhero movie universe.
And in order to support the role of Harley Quinn, Warner also handed over the leading producer to Margaret Robbie. Under these conditions, the shortcomings of the film such as the clown girl are too full, the other female characters are low in popularity, the shots are few, and the casting is not satisfactory, so a reasonable explanation has been found.
But it sucks. Although "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" lowered the level of the entire DCEU, it did not disrupt the overall rhythm of the DCEU because of the haste. DC is now focused on "Batman", and the degree of enthusiasm is quite dependent on the posture of a complete turnaround in this battle.
As for the anti-hero part, in the future, there will be "New Suicide Squad" directed by James Gunn, director of "Silver Guard", and "Gotham Phantom" directed by David Ayer, director of "Suicide Squad", both of which are better than this one. There is much more weight.
Last year, Slay's "Joker" also awakened the parent company Warner. DC Black, which is already in the making, may be able to overtake a corner.
From every aspect, this "Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn" is like a full-fledged film that DC moved out during the gap. Although the quality is poor, it itches people's teeth, but it's bad for DC. No need.
Author | Fat to Smile; Public Number | Seeing Death in Movies
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