To say that the entire MCU has created the most successful characters, I personally think there are two.
One is Nini's Iron Man. At the end of Iron Man 1, when Nini said "I am ironman." in the face of the spotlight, a legend was born. Similarly, his departure in Avengers 4 also represents the end of an era for the MCU.
The other is Mr. Tao's US team. I didn't really like Captain America at first. He's not the kind of superhero that will be popular in this era. The dark element of the anti-hero, he is like an icon of human beings purified to 100% virtues, radiating light into the blank space behind him.
But the MCU has spent many years transforming the clothes rack in Captain America 1, the perfect spokesperson in the recruiting advertisement, and the robot that seems to have no soul of its own, into a flesh-and-blood person.
From the Avengers 1, he no longer obeyed orders, and chose to seek the truth in his own way (Furui failed to fool the elderly); in the civil war, in order to defend his beliefs, he resolutely stood on the opposite side of his former comrades-in-arms (the base friend was greater than days); we see Steve Rodgers choosing to be true to himself between himself and the aura of Captain America.
This also makes him different from other templated heroes in the Avengers (such as a macho man with a hammer from beginning to end.) From this perspective, Captain America is one of the most thoughtful characters in the entire MCU.
Steve Rogers told us that Captain America does not represent some single, generalized value, not an empty adjective like justice/morality/perfection, not a spokesperson for a country/group, not a super soldier and The vibrating gold shield worth tens of millions of knives is just how an ordinary person spends his life doing the right thing and giving everything for the belief he upholds.
When Steve chose to put down his shield and choose to spend his old age like ordinary people (Peach: I'm tired, I don't want to play.), which was the softest part of the dark tones of Avengers 4, this old man finally got what he deserved. peaceful.
However, Steve can retire,
Captain America can't (Baby Di: How can I start a new phase of the MCU after I retire, and how can I continue to sell peripherals?!).
It stands to reason that when Steve gave the shield to Sam, it already had the meaning of inheritance (default). But Baby Di was playing with the IP in his hand, thinking about the current trend of streaming media, and the success of his own "The Mandalorian" test. As soon as he hit his forehead, the new stage of MCU, let's start with streaming media.
So there was "Wanda Vision" next door, and "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier".
It's a pity that when "Wanda and Looking Around" used period drama/Wanda's costumes/heartbreaker to play stalks, even if the ending of the painting style was a little rushed, it also raised everyone's expectations, "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" was successfully refreshed the lower limit of the MCU.
The first is the question of expectation.
When the title of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was announced. Many people's first reaction was that during the civil war, Bucky and Sam sat in the car and smirked at Sharon and Captain America (Tie Hanhan's wingman), thinking that the two of them looked at each other even if they were talking cross talk together, plus The formula for the action genre film in the style of the American team, it can't be ugly.
As a result, you found out that it was a fraudulent title,
After watching the entire series, I feel that "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" may be more appropriate to be renamed "Take the Shield".
Yes, "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" is not a story of Sam and Bucky teaming up to go solo, it's still a link in the MCU chain, it's just usually an Easter egg preview (such as Sam's last new US team). suit), Baby Dee used an entire episode to describe it.
One sentence to describe the main content is probably - how Sam became the new Captain America.
But obviously, the screenwriter actually had ambitions at the beginning. At the beginning of this play, you almost have to think that this film is MCU's first attempt at realism.
As a world after BLIP, people who suddenly return find it difficult for them to integrate into this world. Their property and even their identity do not exist. They become refugees without roots and are not accepted by society. The government has established large-scale shelters to The name of management is the reality of repression. The irreconcilable contradiction between the disappeared and the survivors has become the tone of the turmoil in this world.
But the show doesn't spend too much time on the post-BLIP world at all. You don't see the conflict and chaos that should be highlighted. We just see that Sam can't get a loan and Bucky has to undergo psychotherapy. The former can be encountered every day without BLIP, and the latter is a legacy of its own history, which can make the audience feel and understand the disorder and chaos of the world after BLIP in the setting.
This is not over yet, the screenwriter still likes to add superfluous words, and extremely deliberately brings up the commonplace issue of race (yes, even if you are an Avenger, you will be questioned by the police because of your skin color.) This approach directly weakens the background that should belong to the new era of MCU (To be honest, when people who had disappeared for a few years suddenly appeared, throwing the whole world into chaos, did you tell me that the racial issue is still the main social contradiction?) It also made the villain's logic and behavioral motives almost impossible to understand.
Then, the heroes of the previous generation who were supposed to save the disordered world are gone, retired, and people need new heroes. A new Captain America is needed.
This kind of treatment makes the drama about tens of thousands of miles away from the realism theme.
What about as an action movie?
Also unqualified! The action design is completely incomparable to the US series, not to mention the comparison with the classic elevator battle, any fighting scene makes people feel like they are playing at home, and the battle between super soldiers can be made into a street fight. , is also a skill. The funniest thing is the fighting style of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The combination of the Falcon armor and the shield has successfully allowed the agility hero Sam, who should soar in the sky, to learn the tortoise shell with enhanced defense, and Bucky seems to be a big player in this film. Part of the time I forgot that my hand was Wakanda's indestructible Vibranium Black Technology. Of course, the overly confusing combat power is also an old problem of the MCU. For example, you don't understand why the superheroes who have survived hundreds of battles and stand at the forefront of the battle against all kinds of aliens, monsters, ghosts, snakes and gods are still standing. A group of teenagers who were just injected with super serum thumped on the ground.
Don't worry, we still have cross talk.
Do you like to listen to Sam and Bucky talking about the old Lord of the Rings, while using the embarrassing age meme that Team America can't stand? Do you like to watch two people cross their feet and stare at each other during an inexplicable counseling session? ! In the end, you suddenly understand that there can be no chemical reaction between these two people. After their catalyst, the man named Steve Rogers, left, the two eyes were just reading a stand-up comedy according to the script.
Well, action scenes and gags are so stretched, let’s get together with literary dramas.
I don’t know if you have played traditional JRPGs. The general process is basically to take tasks, find clues, open new maps (MCU version of Night City, not cyberpunk can’t keep up with the trend, right = =), find new NPCs, Take a new task cycle. It's not that there is anything wrong with this classic structure itself, but there is no suspense or surprise in the investigation and decryption process, so that the rhythm of the whole drama is lethargic.
But these are nothing compared to the flaws in character creation.
Sam, in fact, is the first actor in the film, although in Avengers 4, Steve gave him the shield and the identity of the American team.
But we know that in a classic hero's journey template, achievements that have not gone through trials are meaningless.
So Sam's brain got hot and he turned over the shield to the state.
The nation then turned and gave the shield to a model private named John Walker.
After that, Bucky was angry, and Sam was also unhappy. It happened that another terrorist came out to ask for a fight, so the two teamed up and embarked on a journey.
This experience was completely unqualified as a trial for taking over the shield. It was an uninteresting process, and the weak villains were in the same predicament as playing Jiajia, which made the weight of Zhenjin Shield seem to have cleared too much. In this process, Sam can almost use the whole process of sleepwalking (that is, he keeps trying to save the terrorists and beat his teammates by the way.), a sudden epiphany to describe it.
You can arrange for Sam to stand up because Walker is blackened to prevent him from continuing to tarnish Steve's legacy (it turns out that Walker is more qualified to take up the shield than Sam); you can arrange for Sam to see the world in turmoil, people need heroes, and finally decide Determined to take up the shield and the responsibility; even if you use the phrase "with great power comes great responsibility." I have no problem.
However, SAM finally decided to carry the shield because of his skin color? ! He decided to speak for African Americans. Identity becomes skin color. In fact, there is nothing wrong with it. People should be proud of their origin and speak up for their ethnic group when they are able. But shouldn't the shield represent something a little wider, something beyond racial state and skin color? ! Something that gives hope to humanity in general? !
So this leads to the biggest question in the show, in Disney's mind,
What does Captain America stand for? !
The other protagonist, Bucky, is almost a tool man in comparison. The cold-faced killer in the US team no longer exists, and the white wolf of the Wakanda period no longer exists. Bucky has become a combination of mindless and unhappy. , By the way, the ability has also been cut into slag. The legendary mercenary, the predecessor of the super soldier, was beaten up by a group of young people with almost no training.
Of course, it can be seen that Disney hopes to make Bucky reconcile with the past, but this process is no different from Sam. . But on second thought, in just 6 episodes of content, it is not realistic to let the characters experience the effect that it took the MCU ten years to shape the characters.
endured.
Fortunately, there are still online characters, Zemo, yes, the ordinary person who provoked the civil war of the Avengers still hates all super soldiers, Zemo stepped on the last serum without any confusion, and completed his revenge as a human. ,like.
More disappointing than the protagonist group is the villain group.
First, John Walker, the successor of the US team elected by the government,
To be honest, this character is more three-dimensional than Sam and Bucky.
He's a normal guy, a government-trained professional soldier, he doesn't have superpowers, he doesn't have the title of Avenger, he's not a superhero. He obeyed the arrangement and took over the shield, and he also understood the meaning and pressure of the shield.
He tried to use the full power of ordinary people to play the role of the US team, and then found that he could never become Steve Rogers. With the encouragement of his teammates, John Walker finally decided to be himself, but in a blink of an eye, the battle star was easy. An angry John took up his shield and smashed the terrorist's head.
By the beginning of this part, it's all a successful character (both by the brain-damage fan network).
When you look at John Walker holding up the blood-stained shield, you think that the anti-hero routine is about to enter the climax. Walker is about to turn over and kill the Quartet (Uncle Punishment). Baby Di starts to remind you that this is Disney+, a PG-level family fun. Trying to see the Netflix (Lawyer Ma series) and Amazon (Black Robe Pickets and Invincible Young Heroes) passages next door and you're on the wrong track.
Sure enough, John Walker, who was on the verge of blackening, was settled down after a mixed double beating by SAM and Bucky. After the limp fighting scene in the last episode, he put down his shield and chose to do the right thing. The victim of cyber violence became Net red, everyone is happy.
What's even more ironic is that John Walker finally accepted himself like this, accepted that he couldn't stand in the sun, accepted that the shield was not suitable for him, and chose the role of American spy that was more in line with him, compared to Sam who was passive throughout the whole process. Know where the high has gone.
By the way, Walker probably understands Steve Rogers better than Sam and Bucky. Serum doesn't make you a hero, it just makes you a more authentic person.
If John Walker is anything but disappointing, the film's ostensible villain, the Flag Breakers, a terrorist group formed by a group of teenage civilians, is a disaster. As I said before, the biggest contradiction after BLIP is the contradiction between the vanishing ones who suddenly returned and the survivors. The flag-breakers represent the oppressed vanishing ones. Under the guidance of Power Broker, they finally decided to use violence to resist the oppression.
In theory, as long as there are enough reasons, the resisters are always easy to arouse sympathy, but because there is not enough background to complete, the audience did not see the oppression of the government, did not see the tragic situation of the refugee camp, and did not understand the chaos of the whole society after BLIP. , let alone empathy, you can't even do sympathy.
In addition, these people do not have outstanding strength, they are completely reckless with the power brought by the young and easily hot mind and super serum, and they are completely reckless in doing things. In addition, the little freckles as the leader are too unpleasant, and the whole play is the kind of "I am the villain, I don't listen, please kill me."
Their presence leads to two problems,
One is the action scene that contributed to the super pull cross. After all, this is just a bunch of civilians who have been injected with super serum. You expect them to be like professional killers who have been trained for a long time. It is purely overthinking, so their fighting scenes are more like street dance. Combination with parkour, the last episode of Walker VS Little Freckles is really bad! (But it is outrageous for such an opponent to suppress the protagonist group!)
The other is to confuse Sam's behavior too much. In the eyes of the audience, this is a group of fucking terrorists who are not very smart enough to shoot directly. In the play, Sam thinks that they can be saved without dying, so that Walker's teammates die tragically. Please, Steve Rogers has never represented the white left!
Finally, the big boss behind the scenes, Power Broker,
As a behind-the-scenes BOSS, the moment Sharon Carter appeared, netizens guessed her identity, and it was a complete failure.
This is also a book. In Avengers 4, we saw that Sharon was also killed by Thanos snapping his fingers, but Baby Di obviously felt that it was not important, so Sharon became a person who helped the US team during the years when he should have disappeared. And the wanted criminal who lost everything can only go to the end of the world, although we don't know why Steve Rogers, who is devoted to love and righteousness, didn't care about this woman who helped him so much, and was considered a mixture of relatives and lovers.
Then she turned black, and then she became the boss of MCU Night City, and then she supported a group of terrorists, and let them get out of control for no reason, and in the end, she could use Sam's hand to eliminate hidden dangers and still be alone Go to the front lines at the risk of revealing your identity.
What kind of spirit is this as a behind-the-scenes BOSS? !
That Carter's granddaughter, that Steve Rogers' once ambiguous object, suddenly seems to have switched personalities? ! I strongly suspect that this Sharon may have been replaced by a Skrull!
Therefore, I personally think that Di Baobao didn't want to pass on the MCU well at all. "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" is made into a mainstream value and will not offend people. A stable large-scale trailer is their idea.
The world needs the US team, but what kind of US team do we need? ! I'm sorry, Disney didn't get it, didn't care, Sam didn't need to find himself and faith, we just gave him a nice outfit and a shield.
Sam ended up wearing a nice outfit and taking over the title of the new Captain America to the cheers of black people on the side of the road.
What should have been an uplifting shot was left full of question marks.
When the MCU has pulled our perception of Captain America from a lofty idol back to a respectable, human-like, ordinary person who can bring hope to people through Steve Rogers,
"The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" brought Captain America back into the shrine, the empty, single-value icon on a pedestal. His endorsement is no longer to do the right thing, but to do the politically correct thing.
Missing Steve Rogers more and more.
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