The plot of the first episode and the sequel are seamlessly integrated, and the narrative method is used to meet the audience's double expectations (Dwight vs. Ava has not broken, so it is in front of the timeline of the first episode; Nancy vs. Roark when Bruce Willie is dead, after the first episode timeline), the style of the film has also remained fairly consistent.
The audience can almost see the two films as two episodes shot at once, just as Coppola did not hesitate to say that he had expected the godfather to release a sequel, so he deliberately left all the staff contact information when the first episode was finalized. As far as the "sequel" is concerned, nothing is closer and stickier than this kind of first and sequel.
However, after the release of "Evil City 2: A Beauty Is Killing", North America's box office in the first week has lost five times the first episode. So far, it has not exceeded the 20 million dollar mark. It is a miserable death. The phenomenon of "The Godfather 2" at the box office surpassing the first episode.
What's the difference?
The actors didn’t change, and there was no change behind the scenes, it can only be explained as: "Evil City 2: The Beauty Is Killing" was released too late and too late.
As a sequel, only one year has passed between "The Godfather" and "The Godfather 2", but the difference between "Evil City" and "Evil City 2: Killing Beauty" is nine years away-the first episode was released in 2005, and the sequel is this year Released in 2014.
"Evil City 2: Killing Beauty" is very hard to reproduce the amazing elements of ten years ago.
The main characters in the first episode remain the same. There are scarred makeup on Marv's face, and the tough guy style that is not soft to beat people; there is the dance show of every boy in Jessica Abba Mesha back then, and that pretty waist makes it hard to imagine that she is already The mother of a child.
The newly joined gambler Johnny maintains the tough guy style of losing the game, and the rosy beauty Ava Lord of the title directly extends the classic tone of the game for women whether they are princesses or witches.
Other supporting actors' replays, deliberately violent fights, and focused sex scenes are also not lacking.
In the first episode, 90% of the camera has only three colors of black, white and gray, and it instantly has a tone that mimics the old film (though not deliberately). This is the black and white double color transplanted from the original comics, and it is impossible to compromise the film. Printmaking style, the biggest selling point of ingenious transformation, "hue" art style. Although this episode accidentally loses focus and the colors often become redundant, it remains largely unchanged.
When it comes to writing martial arts, nothing has changed, nothing is missing.
However, the audience is constantly changing.
The same dishes, even if the audience's taste buds were so crisp ten years ago, a long time is enough to dilute the original excitement.
This may explain a little bit why "Evil City 2: Desperate Beauty" is not like "The Godfather 2", so far it has not aroused the reverberation of word of mouth and box office.
Robert Rodriguez is not Coppola after all, and Frank Miller is not Mario Puzo; it was released ten years late and lost its momentum directly and indirectly.
Without these, the box office and word-of-mouth will inevitably be ineffective.....
It’s a pity that the quality of the whole film is not far from that of the first episode. The miserable compensation is indeed a bit of a war crime. smell.
Paying attention to the slightly bleak box office of the film, I think, at least fortunately: the original trilogy of the "Evil City" series, it should be difficult to produce a "Godfather 3" tragedy... ..
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