The titles of the two articles in succession have the words "Looking up a cat". Of course, there are my personal hobbies, but the main reason is that the recent comic-based movies are too keen on the enthusiasm of cats. From the screenwriter to the audience, it seems that they have already acquiesced-the enemy that the protagonist can't deal with is left to the cat to deal with-is a very reasonable setting.
As soon as it came up, the film "The most critical supporting role around the protagonist is a cat" was spoiled for the burden of the movie "The most important supporting role around the protagonist is a cat". But considering that the official trailer has spoiled itself, I don't have to bear too much moral pressure. What's more, in addition to the trailer, the character's name has already exposed his racial attributes-the name of the agent played by Korean actor Kim Dae-hyun is called "Daimio". Is there a clue more obvious than this?
Major Meow, who is a military background, has a similar experience as Nick Fury of SHIELD—both have a face scratched by a cat. However, Major Da Miao paid a smaller price and got a greater reward. During the filming process, he had to give himself injections every three to five times. At first, I thought it was insulin injections to suppress diabetes, but later I realized that it was actually Huamao cream. If the injection is not made on time, Major Big Cat will be covered with cat's hair and become a veritable Big Cat.
The "Hellboy" series in the matter of hugging cat thighs may be the earliest in the comics-adapted film world, except for the "Batman" series that has the image of a catwoman. In the two old versions of "Hellboy" in 2004 and 2008, the protagonist suffers from severe pet hoarding, and a cat may accidentally be picked up from any corner of the house. It is a pity that due to the large number of cats and scattered scenes, a specific one could not succeed in standing in the C position and become a big hit.
With the progress of the times, the routine of heroes saving beauty in commercial films has gradually evolved into beauty saving heroes, or more accurately, heroine saving beauty men. A similar change happened to the cat in the movie. As a Minke in the screenwriter industry, my theoretical weapon is mainly Mr. Black Schneider's book "Save the Cat" series. "Save the cat" is a standard action for the hero to leave a good first impression on the audience. The two old versions of "Hellboy" strictly follow this scripting technique. The cat was rescued twice on the subway and under the mouth of the gluttonous troll. Nowadays, the audience's perception of cats has changed from pets to masters, so cats no longer simply play the image of the rescued, and can fight side by side with the protagonist, and often even save the protagonist in the water and fire.
As the top hero of Dark Horse Comics, the image of Hellboy with two official seals on his head is not pleasing. But it is this kind of rough to even a little fierce appearance, combined with a gentle and delicate cat slave mind, that can create a greater contrast. The director of the two old versions of "Hellboy" is the famous Mexican otaku Guillermo del Toro. For this director who loves monsters more than humans, whether there is a cat or not, the big red man of Hellboy is just as cute. Although the characters in the old version of "Hellboy" are all weird, or even vicious, they were shot full of childishness by the director. The audience seemed to be watching a group of furry little guys in a cat cafe playing with each other. Licking and rubbing.
Neil Marshall, the director of the new version of "Hellboy", is a TV drama director for HBO. Obviously, he has incorporated his past work experience into the filming of the film. Everyone knows the scale of HBO, so the biggest difference between the new version and the old version is the intuitive display of the cruel battle scenes. This is also a major trend in comic adaptations in recent years. "Deadpool" and "Wolverine 3" are gone. this road. Pursue more extreme visual stimulation, satisfy the fixed audience to the maximum, and then use this as a breakthrough point to seek to "break the dimensional wall" and penetrate into a wider audience. Compared with the heroes of Marvel, the original "Hellboy" "It is reasonable to choose such a strategy.
In addition to the differences in the amount of blood plasma between the new and old versions of Hellboy, there are also significant differences in the emotional core. The two B stories of the old version of "Hellboy" are mainly about the love between HB and Liz, but the new version is changed to the father-son relationship between Professor Bloom and HB throughout the film. This is another major trend in comics-adapted movies in recent years. Combined with the changes mentioned in the previous paragraph, the changes in the audience are actually reflected. It has widened, but the change I am talking about here is that the core old audience who have been following such movies for more than ten years or even decades have changed themselves.
The comic-based films of the first decade of this century are clearly aimed at teenagers, because those audiences were teenagers at the time. Therefore, the movie is full of youthful love stories. The sweetness and troubles that the protagonist enjoys in the movie are also the sweetness and troubles that the audience enjoys. Nowadays, most of them have set foot in the society. They have gotten married and have children, and romantic love stories are no longer what they care about most. Instead, the love between father and son and father and daughter can resonate more with them.
The biggest difference between a family story and a love story is that it can give the audience a double sense of substitution. Most of us are both parents and children of someone, and the protagonist of the movie is also in this position. For the group of viewers I mentioned repeatedly, being a parent often does not mean that you can adapt to this identity immediately. Instead, everyone will miss the time when they were taken care of by their parents even more. Anxiety of "I have grown old" will be stronger than ever. "Guardians of the Galaxy 2", "Wolverine 3" and now "Hellboy: The Rise of the Blood Queen", while showing family affection from different angles, have captured the audience's psychology and won the audience's recognition of the role and the story. .
Of course, "Hellboy" is not all down-to-earth emotions. This film not only rubbed the popularity of cats, but also rubbed the big IP of King Arthur, in order to enhance the historical weight. King Arthur in the West is like the Monkey King in the East, always being targeted by various creators who want to promote traditional culture. Compared with Elder Sun, who is a monk, King Arthur has the biggest advantage that he can get married and have children, so the most convenient way for creators to rub his IP is to arrange for him a variety of inexplicable offspring. Compared with the awkward IP of "Transformers 5", the relationship between "Hellboy" and King Arthur is much weaker. After all, it was originally a story full of religious mythology, and compared with the legend of King Arthur in terms of temperament. Coincide. Note that what I'm talking about is only a story. When it comes to images, it's hard to say.
After all, the King Arthur we are familiar with belongs to Aunt Jiang.
However, her (his) offspring in the movie belonged to Aunt Jiang...
The controversy about the appearance of "Hellboy" has been around for a long time. In the second part of the old version of "Hellboy", the protagonist complains to passers-by: I know I look ugly. When I was young, I played "Devil May Cry" first, and then I came into contact with "Hellboy". I always felt that these two series are quite similar in setting, and I am very puzzled, why "Hellboy" did not arrange one What about the more handsome protagonist? I recently thought about it and found that in the process of growing up, the heroes we liked were not always the "handsome guys" under the mainstream aesthetic system. For example, the product of medical malpractice, Deadpool, the power of the Avengers as the Hulk, the one-punch man Saitama teacher who suffers from hair loss, the all things house Ain, and my favorite Super Saiyan. Sun Wukong, although he looks like a person, but with a mustache and a ghostly killer hairstyle, the image is not decent after all. As for Kakarot’s prototype and the protagonist of the classical novel "Journey to the West", Monkey King, the Great Sage Monkey, he doesn’t even have a personal profile. On the way to the west, the dignity of Lei Gong’s mouth has increased because of the hairy face of Lei Gong’s mouth. Communication costs. However, these non-mainstream artistic images rely on their own strength and charm to conquer a broad audience and become mainstream heroes. People can be stubborn but not narrow-minded, otherwise they will miss a lot of wonderful things that have been misunderstood as ugly.
There are three easter eggs at the end of "Hellboy: The Rise of the Blood Queen". The first easter egg appears before the credits. It should be counted as part of the feature film, but because it has nothing to do with the main storyline, I still define it here. For the credits. These three easter eggs together reflect the ambition of Dark Horse Comics to create its own movie universe. If this "Hellboy" can achieve ideal results in business, then there will be more dark horse comic superheroes going to the big screen in the follow-up.
The setting of the long-shot action scene that looks like an easter egg and not an easter egg at the end of the film not only provides more satisfaction to the audience who is still in the final battle after watching the final battle, but also to herald the return of the popular character Murloc Abel in the old version of the movie. This role is not only widely loved by the audience, but is also a favorite of the old version of "Hellboy" director Gilmour Del Toro, so the director took him solo and specially tailored a "The Shape of Water" for him. . It’s just that most of the audience who watched the Oscar-winning film should have similar confusions to me: Hellboy and Murloc are two cats, and the other eats cats. How did they get there together? Woolen cloth?
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