Rating: 7.5/10, 4/5.
There is already a Broly in the Dragon Ball Super comics, but it's just a female version of Broly from the sixth universe. But for Universe 7, the main Dragon Ball comics universe, Broly's story is a long way off. This restart of Broly's storyline officially adds a tragic origin story to this pure fighting machine, the legendary Super Saiyan, and not strictly a villain. It turned out that Broly just acted as his father's revenge tool, grew up in hatred, and was a super soldier with great talent and amazing potential, but he didn't want to fight in his heart, and longed for friends and company.
At the same time, this theatrical version takes time back to the era before Planet Vegeta was destroyed, and instead we get to witness the origin of Vegeta and Son Goku. The audience officially got to know Kakarot's parents, learned about King Vegeta's character, and also saw Frieza, who was ruthless in his childhood, and little Vegeta and little Goku who were still in the training warehouse. By the way, we can also know that Raditz's dissatisfaction with Kakarot has been there since he was born, Vegeta is considered to be a Saiyan with amazing potential, while Sun Wukong is just a low-level warrior with mediocre aptitude. But when it comes to the subsequent development and situation of each person, it is unavoidable that people sigh.
After a simple explanation of the origin, the rest of the plot unfolds in the direction of opening. Then there was a god-level battle that broke the sky.
In line with the practice of first strike first, Vegeta once again went to give away the head first. Just in the face of Broly, whose potential is higher than his own, Vegeta can only be reduced to a tool for feeding tricks, becoming a stepping stone for Broly to quickly adapt to combat and learn skills. But Vegeta just changed from Super Saiyan to Super Saiyan God and changed to Kakarot early. The latter has the old problem of habitually releasing water first and then giving people's heads, and gradually became a Broly's sparring partner. Finally got the upper hand when the Super Saiyan Blue state surpassed the Super Saiyan God, but was killed by Frieza, who was watching the fun, causing Broly to go berserk and complete his own shape. Become a Super Saiyan Green. Fortunately, there was Frieza who stole the chicken and could not lose the rice, so he became a substitute and was beaten, so that Sun Bei and the two had the opportunity to run aside and practice fusion.
That's right, in the past, the two used the effect of Portela's earrings to merge into Vegeta, but this time, the two without tools could only rely on the fusion technique, which was the fusion method that Goten and Trunks had used. In fact, in the Dragon Ball works, Kakarot and Vegeta have long since achieved their fusion by fusion, which was in Dragon Ball GT more than 20 years ago. However, with the re-opening of Dragon Ball Super, the story line of GT was completely abandoned. This time, the name of Sun Wukong and Vegeta after relying on the fusion technique is called Wujita, which is the name of the two in GT when they are combined. It seems that this time it is an official seal certification for this character. Although Gogeta's duration is only half of Vegeta's, the effect remains undiminished.
At the end of the film is the scene where Gogeta hangs Broly. They hit from the ground to the sky, and then to other dimensions. In the end, if Broly's friend hadn't used the dragon to teleport away Broly, he might have died from Gogeta's Turtle Qigong.
Since Broly has become a character who is not a threat as long as he stays sane, Sun Wukong staged another trick of raising tigers and even became friends with Broly. Don't think that the author doesn't know that little Jiujiu in Sun Wukong's heart. He just wants to find a sparring partner to continue to enhance his strength, but he is afraid that going to another universe to cause trouble will lead to another infinite cosmic crisis similar to the power conference. , so it is much safer to find someone in your universe who has a higher potential than you to practice your hands.
The production of battle scenes in this theatrical version is obviously a notch higher than the animated TV version of Dragon Ball Super. The film uses a lot of over-the-shoulder shots and first-person shots, and it will feel like watching "Man of Steel". At the same time, the characters' ultimate moves have been newly designed, and the skills have become richer, and the battle is more dependent on skills, reducing the long-term melee combat. In order to express the strength and speed of combat, there are a lot of combinations of "shoot-move-take next move" in the action design, or a combination of slow motion combined with a large-equivalent environmental damage effect.
If you have watched the earliest Dragon Ball comics and animations all the way, you may be accustomed to the painting and action design of the past. There are a lot of detailed and clear fast fighting movements. The number of frames in the fight is very sufficient and stable, and the fixed angle is close-up. And a lot of close-up shots of mid-range combat. This way of painting is easier to highlight the speed and intensity of the battle, and it can clearly see the changes in the combatants. However, the skills and moves in the past were relatively monotonous.
Contemporary action comics and animations are very different in design ideas. First of all, there are almost always cases of lack of frames, few frames or unstable frame numbers during movement, which will make people feel that the fighting action jumps are discontinuous. In order to make up for this problem, it will naturally reduce the performance of the battle scenes in the past, and use more abstract battle scenes to describe, such as the use of long wakes to express rapid movement, and the collision shock waves generated around to express the fierceness of the battle. Secondly, a wealth of skill effects will be designed, combined with excellent strike sound effects and destruction sound effects, to enhance the look and feel of the battle. A brilliant sound and light effect can completely cover up the lack of combat performance.
In this film, shots and editing from different perspectives are frequently used to slow down the key actions and quickly pass the connecting actions. With the grand special effects of attack, the sense of film is greatly enhanced, and many new interpretations of big moves are appreciated. In particular, this theatrical version is equipped with BGM for the fighting process, and when releasing a move or transforming, the name of the move and the transformation are called out through the lyrics, which makes the whole fighting process more exciting.
The reshaping of Broly this time and the wonderful performance of the battle scene indicate that the painting method and production concept of the past are gone forever. Maybe there will be more cool Dragon Ball battles and more gorgeous Dragon Ball in the future. move. But we will never see the wonderful hand-to-hand combat we once had.
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Text: Song
May 26, 2019
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