The comments about the movie are basically like this, followed by the author's unscrupulous associations and fussing time.
Before watching the movie, I talked to my friend about Superman's related film and television works. I mentioned that the heroine of "Smallman" also played Chun Li, and my friend said, "Isn't Chun Li played by Maggie Q?" After the sister played Shiranui Mai, she also added, "But her film is worse than Chunli's." Speaking of this, I suddenly realized that it seems to be the case. Why are American-made movies based on Japanese video games so shit? (Someone will definitely refute me, I will mention the counter-example later)
When watching the new Superman in the cinema, like many netizens, the most enjoyable scene was Superman 1V2 against the female adjutant and the big Kryptonian, some netizens said Seeing the immediate visual sense of Vegeta and Nappa appearing here, I agree. The fighting style in this episode also has a Dragon Ball feel to it. The first time I watched Dragon Ball when I was a child was a VCD of an unnamed theatrical version. The content was three Super Saiyans vs. Cyborg Nos. 13, 14, and 15 (the last three villains are still combined, literally). At that time, I was deeply attracted by the fast and fierce fighting scenes in the cartoon. I instantly felt that the cartoons I watched before, where the two warring sides posed face-to-face and shouted enlarged moves were all weak. The fighting style in this new Superman movie always reminds me of the Dragon Ball I watched many years ago, especially the villain's female adjutant, who moves fast and hard. There was a momentary distraction in the cinema, and I wondered if there would be a production company with a unique vision to buy the adaptation rights of Dragon Ball, and then make a live-action version of Dragon Ball according to the superman shooting method. The sensational effect is definitely no less than Transformers. ...Wait a minute, the live-action Dragon Ball, how does it feel like I've heard of it somewhere... yeah, I almost forgot there was something called "Dragon Ball: Evolution". The short-lived excitement was quickly overwhelmed by the horrific memories of that bad movie.
In just two years, I watched "Dragon Ball: Evolution" and "The King of Fighters" successively, which brought huge psychological trauma to me when I was young at the time (and last year I held the "want to see how bad" When I watched "The Legend of Chunli", probably because of my age, my mentality, thick skin, thick skin and high defense, I didn't feel much discomfort, so I always felt that "The Legend of Chunli" was better than the other two films. much smarter). When I watched "The King of Fighters", it was at the stage when I had the lowest tolerance for bad films, so much so that when I saw half of it, I went straight to the street. "Dragon Ball: Evolution" was watched together in the dormitory during the freshman year (fortunately, I watched the gun version at that time, I almost had to ask the girl I liked to go to the cinema on impulse, and now I think about it, it's really scary), after watching it, I and the dormitory My friends were stunned. How the Americans changed such a wonderful story of Dragon Ball into such a boring one is really an amazing skill.
In fact, by comparison, we will find that in addition to the fighting scenes, even the story of this new Superman movie is very "Dragon Ball" - the protagonists are all aliens who grew up on earth, and they are willing to fight with their own aliens in order to protect their earth home. Star brothers break up. With such similar stories, the effect of the filming is very different, so I can only speculate with bad intentions - Americans cherish their superheroes more.
Speaking of the Japanese video game adaptation of Hollywood movies, some people may cite "Resident Evil" and "Silent Hill" as examples - different people have different standards for whether it is a good movie, but at least they have a serious The look of a Hollywood movie. Comparing the bad films listed above, we will find that an important feature of these relatively successful adaptations is that the protagonists are all Americans (there is an oriental woman who wears a cheongsam and sells her legs, but the main story does not revolve around her. of). If you never know about these two games, you are easy to believe if someone tells you that they are made by Americans.
So it is not difficult to understand that Dragon Ball will be adapted badly - the alien race Saiyans based on East Asians, how can Laomei be interested in making a movie with them as the protagonists. The same is true for "The King of Fighters", "Chunli Biography", "Fight to the Death", etc. - indeed, many of these films were made by Chinese directors, but to this extent, it is not only the limited level of directors that can be explained of.
Westerners have always held grudges against yellow-skinned East Asians. For example, in the past, when writing detective novels, there was a rule that "there should be no Chinese people." Vigilant, distrusting by vigilance. That’s why we often see Asian actresses acting as exotic vases, small Asians amusing in movies, and Asian action actors climbing the walls in movies, but East Asian actors are rarely able to become a movie feast The "main course" in . Several of the above-mentioned protagonists were originally set to be pure-blooded East Asian stories, but fell into the hands of the Americans. As I said earlier, the badness of these films can never be attributed to the incompetence of the director. Similarly, I don’t think that changing the lead role can solve the problem, but the American producers’ inner resistance to the fact that an oriental person is the lead role is doomed. The completion of these films will not be high.
It is not only the adaptation of Japanese things that kills the killer, even the stories created by the Americans cannot escape the murder when they are brought to the big screen. An American cartoon that I like very much, Avatar: The Last Airbender, has an excellent reputation in the United States and has many fans, but the live-action film adaptation has been a failure. The original work is full of ingenious tributes to oriental culture, and several protagonists of the story are also oriental figures with black hair and yellow skin, but the race of the protagonists in the movie has been changed in a mess.
Speaking of Dragon Ball, its encounter in Hollywood is a bit unfair, because in fact, the original book is a bit "flattering" to Western civilization. We all know that the Japanese aspired more than a century ago to break away from East Asia and become part of Western civilization. A striking feature of Japanese daily life is that Japanese people love to dye their hair. In the Dragon Ball works, although the prototype of Saiyans is the yellow race of the East, when they enter the enhanced "Super Saiyan" state, their hair color will show golden yellow under the reflection of the chi that surrounds them. . Of course, we can understand this setting as a pure pursuit of cool effects, but why a large number of Asian readers think that blonde hair is cooler and more dazzling than black, this psychology is actually quite interesting. It's a pity that even the Americans don't appreciate it. Although they have already obtained the copyright and know that a large number of Dragon Ball fans around the world are actually a huge potential market, they are accustomed to the world being saved by Westerners. Superhuman energy to make a decent Dragon Ball movie.
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