On how a screenwriting student opens Doctor Strange correctly

Jude 2022-04-20 09:01:05

I walked into the movie theater today and watched the "Doctor Strange" that has become a hot topic before it was released. Before it is released on the mainland, let's try it in Taiwan first. As a girl who has never watched Marvel (so I can't understand the easter eggs in the back), the only reason for me to go into the theater to watch this movie is - my family bc!
The new season of "Sherlock" is scheduled for January 1, 2017. Before that, it is a very happy thing to be able to see bc on the screen in advance. This actor is strange to say, the usual daily life photos, even a brainless fan like me have to admit that they are ugly, but why they are so handsome on the big screen is really a myth. Maybe an actor like bc is an ordinary piece of jade in his life, but he can interpret the charm of every director entrusted to him to the greatest extent. Which director doesn't want such an actor?
Going back to Doctor Strange, for this movie, I'm going to give it four stars. I've been trying to find a connection between Doctor Strange (dr.stranger) and Stanley Kubrick's Doctor Strangelove (dr.strangelove), but I can't seem to find any tribute details throughout the film, so these two films The title of the film turned out to be just similar, I thought more. But in the scene where the Supreme Magician led Doctor Strange to appreciate the multiverse, the endless and fantastic universe crossing scene made me directly think of the scene in Kubrick's other handed down work "2001: A Space Odyssey". It's no exaggeration to say it's a tribute.
In a nutshell, the film tells the story of a "surgeon who has no choice but to turn to a cult and become a leader to save the world".
As a screenwriting student, I have to say that "Doctor Strange" is a work that fully conforms to an important routine in screenwriting theory, "the hero's journey". At the beginning of the story, bc was in the hospital. First, he gave a scene of rejuvenating the dead and let the audience know how skilled Doctor Strange is in medicine and how arrogant he was. The character label of Doctor Strange is at this moment. are known to the audience. Now that the flag has been established, as expected, he had a car accident later, his hands were covered with steel nails, and he basically couldn't operate on people for the rest of his life. At this time, our protagonist was summoned by a mysterious agency in Nepal, and went to this place to find the possibility of healing.
But there are some bugs, but when Doctor Strange learned that this cult-like organization from an exotic land was going to repair his hands through the "power of the mind", Doctor Strange, who believed in materialism, thought "you are fucking kidding me", at this time The leader of the organization, the Supreme Magician, is in a hurry. According to the logic of normal people, it is usually "Get out of here if you don't believe it", but she may feel that it is too shameful, so she tried her best to persuade him, and seemed to want him very much. I stayed and converted to them, probably because, uh... maybe bc is too handsome.
Soon, Doctor Strange is good at skills, and is about to embark on a journey of "another world". The evil forces of the dark universe continue to erode them, even to conquer the earth, and he is forced to fight. During this period, important elements such as enemies, brothers, and mentors appeared one after another, constantly advancing the development of the plot.
According to the routine of "Hero's Journey", our male protagonist must experience a "dark moment" - that is, Doctor Strange and others were all defeated by evil spirits from the dark world, but at this time, according to the screenwriter's theory, There must be a long-hidden skill beside the male protagonist that I only remembered to use now, so Doctor Strange successfully defeated the enemy through the cheat book "disrupting (shua) time and space (lai)" from the peeking library before. In recent years, Hollywood has really liked to play time games. From "The Ringer" to "Edge of Tomorrow" to "Doctor Strange", people can't help but dance.
Technically speaking, there are a lot of big scenes. For the mirroring of buildings, please refer to "Inception", which must have brought a very cool viewing experience to the imax version. In terms of the plot, in addition to the thrills, there have also been many accidents in the hero. People laughing out loud is very cute, and emotional scenes are very restrained, but they are not absent, so I won't spoil the details, and everyone will find out when they go to the theater.
The film also buried many unfilled pits at the end, which also indicates that "Doctor Strange" is a scheduled sequel. It was the first time that bc appeared in a Marvel movie, and it was still very cool and handsome. Overall, "Doctor Strange" is still a movie with a very high degree of completion, and it is still worth seeing in the theater. By the way, friends who watch "Doctor Strange" don't forget to watch the easter eggs after the subtitles~

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Doctor Strange quotes

  • Christine Palmer: Where have you been?

    Dr. Stephen Strange: Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed east, and I ended up in Kathmandu.

    Christine Palmer: Kathmandu?

    Dr. Stephen Strange: Yeah.

    Christine Palmer: What? Like the Bob Seger Song?

    Dr. Stephen Strange: 1975, Beautiful Loser, side A. Yeah. And I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and I... talked to someone called "The Ancient One." And I...

    Christine Palmer: Oh. So you joined a cult.

    Dr. Stephen Strange: No, I didn't. No, not exactly. No. I mean... They did teach me to tap into powers that I never even knew existed.

    Christine Palmer: Yeah. That sounds like a cult.

    Dr. Stephen Strange: It's not a cult.

    Christine Palmer: Well, that's what a cultist would say.

  • [the Cloak of Levitation clings to Strange and wipes away his tears]

    Dr. Stephen Strange: Stop!