"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is finally released in China. Taking the time to go to the cinema for a second visit, I really want to sigh. This 20th Dragon Ball theatrical version is really the strongest theatrical version in the history of Dragon Ball. Lee is also a near-perfect successor.
By the way, the new version of "Broly" has received more than 100 million US dollars at the global box office since its release. Japanese comics at the dollar box office.
So, why is this "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" the strongest?
Spoiler alert
To understand this "Dragon Ball Super: Broly", we must first know the setting and background of Dragon Ball Super.
The story of "Dragon Ball Super" is directly connected to the end of "Dragon Ball" when Goku defeated Majin Buu (not the farewell to the world's No. 1 martial arts club 10 years later). The entire story was originally conceived by Akira Toriyama himself. In terms of characters, the core characters who build a new cosmology such as the god of destruction Beerus, the angel Whis, and the king of the whole are introduced. There is also a new setting in terms of power. On the basis of Super Saiyan, Goku and Vegeta can be transformed into the red-haired Super Saiyan God and the super Saiyan God beyond Super Saiyan God. Saiyan Blue.
Therefore, in terms of power, Super Saiyan God is far stronger than Super Saiyan (the theatrical version of "Dragon Ball Z: Gods and Gods" in previous years introduced the transformation method and power level of Super Saiyan God in detail ), Super Saiyan Blue is again much stronger than Super Saiyan God.
The story of Dragon Ball Super: Broly takes place on the timeline after a story chapter in Dragon Ball Super, "Survival of the Universe". In "Universe Survival", the supreme ruler of the 12 universes of "Dragon Ball Super" held a power conference. After a fierce battle, the 7th universe where Goku was in finally won.
Another one that may be less familiar to many new viewers is the protagonist of this series: Broly. Broly is an original character in the Dragon Ball theatrical version and does not appear in the Dragon Ball comics or TV animations that most audiences are familiar with.
Broly's first appearance in Dragon Ball was in the 1993 theatrical version of Burn! ! Hot battle, fierce battle, super fierce battle". Afterwards, because of its high popularity, Broly made two consecutive theatrical versions of "Two People in Crisis!" in 1994. Ultra Warriors Can't Sleep" and "Knock Down Ultra Warriors!" ! Victory is mine" appears as the villain. According to the setting, Broly is the legendary Super Saiyan. When transformed, his hair will be greenish, and his fighting power is much stronger than that of ordinary Super Saiyans
(In the TV animation of "Dragon Ball Super", Kayle of Universe 6 in the Power Tournament also has a transformation property close to Broly, but Broly seems to be the only certified legendary Super Saiyan)
Broly is a classic villain in the Dragon Ball theatrical version, but in this "Dragon Ball Super: Broly", Broly has been reset.
The above are some basic background and setting introductions about "Dragon Ball Super: Broly". The development of the film is also based on these settings. If it is not clear that the Dragon Ball Super Universe is just casually blasting guns on the basis of ancient blows, it is really unfair for this movie.
Next, let's start with the story and talk about "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" in detail.
Since the title of this film is "Broly", let's talk about Broly first, and this is also the biggest modification of this "Dragon Ball Super" to the previous story.
As mentioned earlier, the previous version of Broly first appeared in "Burning! ! Hot battle, fierce battle, super fierce battle". The core of this version's setting is: Broly is Goku's fateful existence. He was born on the same day as Goku, and the two slept in adjoining nursery pods. When he was born, Broly, who had a combat power of more than 10,000, directly scared Goku, who had a combat power of only 2, into tears. Broly also had a special reaction to Goku. Broly was easily stimulated by Goku and went mad to stimulate his combat power.
In the new version of Broly, the meaning of fate has been weakened. There is no special connection between Broly and Wukong. The biggest change is that Broly has changed from a villain who wants to destroy Sun Wukong to a poor man who has been instilled too much revenge by his father, a good man.
Therefore, in Broly, Broly is super powerful, but not the villain. In fact, there is no real villain in the usual story in "Broly" (even Frieza, who has a lot of scenes, may not be called the villain of the film)
When the warring parties represent good and evil, the result is no suspense. We know that in the end, the justice side will win. This is a necessity and a shackle. Dragon Ball is already facing this problem because the audience knows that no matter how strong the opponent is, it is the Gokus who will win in the end. Especially in Dragon Ball Super's Power Conference, when the producers kept trying to create suspense and tell everyone that the outcome is unknown, the audience was already bored and impatient, because they were sure that the 7th universe where Goku was in would definitely get the Final victory.
Looking at the villain-free "Broly" from this angle, we can feel its breakthrough. Because Goku (and Vegeta) and Broly, they don't represent good and evil. Therefore, who wins and who loses is not inevitable, and it is not so important. When victory is no longer the core, then the core becomes the fun of the battle itself. pure combat.
This is also a major core character of Dragon Ball protagonist Sun Wukong after entering Dragon Ball Z. Play against more powerful people, devote yourself to the battle, and enjoy the fun of battle.
(Many people should be deeply impressed by the ending of the Buu arc. When Goku eliminated Buu with his vitality bomb, he felt that it was a pity that he could no longer fight against such a powerful person. He wished to have the opportunity to fight with the reincarnation of Buu in the future)
At the end of Dragon Ball Super's Power Tournament, Goku tapped into his potential in the battle with Jiren. When the battle was in full swing, Whis, who was watching the battle, broke the mystery of Goku's bravery the more he fought: He was throwing out distracting thoughts, only immersed in in the fight itself. In fact, this kind of concentration and pure state is also the key to helping Wukong finally complete the ultimate self-directed exercise.
So, on the surface, the new version of "Broly" is based on the old version to correct Broly's character, in fact, more important than this revision is that it uses Broly's character to set up. The transformation has tempered the form of the entire film. There is no battle of good and evil, no conspiracy, it wants everyone to enjoy the most direct, purest action and visual impact that Dragon Ball has always brought to people like Goku.
Nearly an hour after "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is full of battle scenes, which is indeed very long, but I have to say that the degree of completion is almost full. This really can be said to be the most direct and purest action experience in recent years.
I divide it into four stages: foreplay, solo, escalation, and climax.
Foreplay is transformation. "Broly" has a fairly detailed depiction of Saiyan transformation. The first is Vegeta's transformation into a Super Saiyan: emitting golden light, gathering energy, accumulating power, roaring, blue veins bursting, hair color changing (black to green and yellow), pupils turning blue, and finally completing the transformation.
It took a lot of time to show that Vegeta became a Super Saiyan, so that some people have doubts, at this stage, is it not easy to become a Super Saiyan? Why so laborious. Quite the contrary, it's about making you see almost every detail of becoming a Super Saiyan and every stage after that.
After that, Vegeta fought in the form of the Super Saiyan God for the first time, and the transformation was also portrayed. The light of the Super Saiyan returned to the body, and the body radiated a thicker golden light again, a flame-like airflow ignited, and the hair color, eyebrows and pupils turned red under the burning of this flame.
For the portrayal of Wukong's transformation, the focus is on the process of changing from super red to super blue. During this process, Wukong's whole body emits golden light at first, his hair stands up, the golden light gradually turns into green light, the pupil disappears, the green light turns into white light, and then from white to blue.
Such a detailed transformation and portrayal is something you have never seen in any Dragon Ball comics, TV animations, or theatrical versions before, and this is the only time.
Solo is each person's own fighting characteristics. If you look closely, you will find that this "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" really shows the completely different fighting styles and technical and tactical characteristics of Vegeta, Broly, and Sun Wukong.
Vegeta is a straight-forward type, and will never relax even when he thinks that his strength is absolutely superior, and he will seriously strike an effective attack to the flesh. Broly is a complete strength type, you can feel that there is no light punching for this guy (the sound effect of Broly's shot is specially emphasized in the film), if it is in a fighting game, it may only be B and D (Heavy Punch and Heavy Foot) Two attack buttons. Wukong's characteristic is the most prominent freehand style among the three. The casual jumping before preparing to play has shown his relaxed attitude, and then he transitioned to the starting style of Kaiwangquan. After he turned into a Super Sailor, unlike Vegeta's killer, he used the aura of God to calm Broly's gradually out of control state.
Talk about Gogeta alone. Everyone can pay attention to Gogeta's moves, especially this guy's nirvana, which is completely different from anyone else's. He is so immortal that even Weiss couldn't help but admire, "It's really spectacular." .
Different fighting styles correspond to the different personalities of the characters. "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" can try to increase the characteristics of the character's fighting style from this level, which is amazing
Upgrading means that as the fight becomes more intense, the entire picture style is also undergoing a significant change. Initially, the two sides confronted each other, no matter how they were destroyed, the background was still the continent of ice. Then the battle escalated. Under the super destructive force, the Ice Continent was completely destroyed, and the two sides even shot underground lava. By the time Super Blue Gogeta appeared, the scene even went beyond the boundaries.
The climax is the visual effect. I won't say it here. I really recommend everyone to go to the cinema to experience the wanton visual effect that overflows the screen with both destruction and mercury.
Back to the title "Brolley". Although only Broly's name is used, throughout the film, the protagonists of "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" are actually Broly, Monkey King, and Vegeta, that is, Saiyans. The real meaning of the title of "Broly" is essentially the Saiyans, a fighting nation who constantly pushes the limits.
(At the end, Goku introduced himself to Broly and others, saying that he was also called Kakarot, and Kakarot was Goku's Saiyan name. If I remember correctly, this is also the first time Goku really called himself Kakarot. Carrot)
Before the battle begins, the first half of the film tells the historical story of the origin of the three Saiyans, combining Broly's story of "Hot War, Fierce War, Super Fierce War" with the story of Bardock, the father of Sun Wukong. "Dragon Ball Z Special: One Man's Final Battle": Weakened the sense of fate, but built a sense of mythology.
The character setting has a distinct archetypal color: the Moses-style savior (Monkey King) who escaped death, the down-and-out prince (Vegeta), and the twins (Broly) with similar and opposite fates.
What impressed me the most was a line spoken by Bardock, which should also be a new line written in the theatrical version. My son of a lower fighter."
It's just that unlike Broly and Bardock at that time, both went to destruction. This time, the descendants of Saiyans who were like fathers and sons went to rebirth after the catastrophe.
In addition to change and innovation, this Dragon Ball Super: Broly is also largely a throwback to retro.
Some classic old stalks, such as the fat and thin Gogeta, the reappearance of the theatrical version of the ice continent, the rescue of Piccolo, etc., will not say much.
"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is retro, which actually pulls the whole story back to the core setting of Dragon Ball and the original theatrical version of Dragon Ball: looking for Dragon Balls and using Dragon Balls to make wishes come true.
The reason why I say this is a comeback is because after entering Dragon Ball Z, the strength of the Dragon Ball Warriors has become stronger and stronger, and the focus of the content has also shifted to stronger transformations and more intense fights. Previously, it assumed the function of important props The Dragon Ball and Shenlong become tasteless, and only occasionally have the opportunity to show up.
In the previous theatrical version of Dragon Ball, this change is also very obvious. The first few theatrical versions are all about the story of Goku and the villain competing for Dragon Balls, and the end is usually when the Dragon Balls gather and the dragon appears to fulfill his wish. After Goku grew up, Dragon Ball and Shenlong only appeared symbolically, especially in several theatrical versions of the Super Saiyan period, Dragon Ball and Shenlong simply disappeared. Obviously it is Dragon Ball, but there is no Dragon Ball from beginning to end? It's embarrassing.
Perhaps the writers have realized this problem. In the two theatrical versions of "Dragon Ball Z: Gods and Gods" and "Dragon Ball Z: The Resurrection of Frieza" before this "Broly", Dragon Ball finally became a key prop again.
When it came to "Broly", looking for Dragon Balls to fulfill their wishes, and finally, after many years, it became the main line of the Dragon Ball story again. In order to be 5 years younger, Bulma on Earth must gather all the Dragon Balls to summon the Dragon. Frieza in the universe is eyeing Dragon Ball in order to increase his height by 5 centimeters. And these rather funny wishes in the middle school also make people relive the original comedy style of Dragon Ball in the early years.
However, Dragon Ball ends up granting neither Bulma's wish nor Frieza's wish, but instead saves Broly's life in a very clever way at the end.
I have to sigh that Dragon Ball can still be used in this way. You watch it slowly die, but it can still give you a surprise. "Dragon Ball" and Dragon Ball are also quite intertextual.
"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is released, and "Dragon Ball Super" comics are also updated from time to time. The manga's new story timeline follows the "Brolley" story, but skips it. Now, Goku and Vegeta are battling a new enemy called Mara.
Mara was defeated and sealed by the Great King God a long time ago. After that, the Great King God lost to Majin Buu and was absorbed by Majin Buu. It stands to reason that Goku and Vegeta with super blue strength can easily defeat Mara. Actually not. Mora has magical powers, it can devour the energy of life and even planets. Goku and Vegeta were defeated a few times. They need to rely on the magic of Buu (the Great King of the World) to defeat Mara.
Seeing this, I can't help but ask, is the Dragon Ball with the highest magic score still Dragon Ball?
That, in turn, is what Dragon Ball Super: Broly is all about: it embodies the forms and themes of Dragon Ball: combat, friendship, blood, comedy, innocence, and bringing them together in the most powerful way possible Boom out. This is also the value of a near-perfect theatrical film: we experience a new viewing experience, and we relive all the familiar boils and impulses of the past.
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