Probably from the 2002-2007 "Spider-Man" trilogy and Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, since the beginning of the new century, even Hollywood blockbusters have paid more and more attention to the script; or , the public is becoming more and more difficult to please, and the audience is no longer satisfied with high-level special effects, actions, and scenes, and at the same time needs the movie to be as good as the story, emotion, and lines. (Of course, there are exceptions. If you can achieve the visual effects and action scenes of "Mad Max: Fury Road", then the audience will pay even if there is no storyline.) The results of the audience voting with their feet are those who earn Plenty of movies, mostly excellent. And those that failed miserably at the box office, such as last year's "Peter Pan: The Fantastic Four" and "Fantastic Four", are really bad works.
Tim Burton's 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland" is a special case, very lucky to make a billion dollars in the world, but looking back, this film is really bad enough to be bad except for the special effects Running account. Disney, who didn't know how to take it as soon as possible, even picked up this rotten bone that had been gnawed clean, and wanted to make money again, but it could only be said that there was no tears without seeing the coffin.
The story of "Alice in Wonderland 2: Through the Looking Glass" takes place three years after the previous one. Alice, the female captain who just returned to London from China, was told that her previous business partner had passed away, and her new The partner is none other than the son-in-law who proposed to her before and was rejected. In order to report the shame of being rejected, Brother Gongzi told Alice that in order to keep her and her mother's house, she must sell the ship her father left behind. Like its predecessors, Alice hides and dreams whenever a difficult decision arises. Alice entered Wonderland this time not through the rabbit hole, but through a mirror. Alice soon learns that her "truest" friend - Mr. Hat, played by Johnny Depp - is suffering from hysteria because he misses his family. As expected, Alice immediately diagnosed that he was going to die if he didn't save him (we'll see later that he was really dying, but Alice's loving call brought him back to life) , so Alice must travel back in time to save Mr. Hat's family. The spoilers in the middle are omitted, and in the end Alice saves Wonderland again, returns to reality, reconciles with her mother, and agrees to sell her father's voyage ship. Unexpectedly, my mother reversed her roles and set up a Far East Trading Company with Alice (with a signboard written in Chinese), and sold opium with Alice. No, they went to sea together.
If you have watched Disney's 1951 animated version of "Alice in Wonderland", you will find that Alice's story has no storytelling at all, but is just a fantasy world full of imagination experienced by a little girl in her dreams. The contemporary film creation theory educates filmmakers that characters have to experience character growth, and films have to convey a certain message, etc., which leads to those "soul aphorisms" that are not much better than chicken soup essays. inside. But the problem is that chicken soup is already very annoying, and the screenwriter of this film even stuffed it all in without a choice. For a moment Alice exclaims "If you want to do the impossible, you have to believe it's possible", making you think this is going to be an extra-long Nike ad. The story turns into a cliché of saving a friend after a while, though Mr. Hat and Alice's friendship has never been convincing. Then there is Alice's Adventures in Time and Space, learning that the past cannot be changed, but people can learn to look forward. As a result, the end of the film turned into a family drama, not only Alice and her mother, but even the Red and White Queen released their previous suspicions. The accumulation of so many sour and obsolete universal values can really be described as ups and downs. The result is that this pot of chicken soup with mixed flavors has not only lost its nutrients, but also has a strange smell that is disgusting.
The embarrassment of this movie is that children may find it difficult to understand the plot of time and space, but the weak storytelling of the movie makes it difficult for audiences over ten years old with a little brain to be satisfied, and the overall lack of emotional main line Unable to infect any audience group. What the movie needs most is to mobilize the audience's emotions and let the audience immerse in the world in the film, but the whole movie watching process is like watching fire from the other side, and I don't even care about Mr. Hat's life or death. Although the visual effects of the film have maintained the level of the previous work, there are no particularly shocking scenes. There are also some Chinese elements in the film. For example, Alice's clothes seem to be imitating the Qing Dynasty. It seems that she intends to please the Chinese audience. After all, Hollywood also knows that the Chinese audience is the richest now, but don't forget that the background of the story is 1875. At that time, the goods that Alice sold to China were probably all opium, right?
At the end of the film, Alice and Mr. Hat reluctantly said goodbye. Alice said that this might be the last time we met. I was also saying, Alice, let's never meet again!
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