A: The text of "Star Wars 9" is close to a version of a juvenile story. The core is even similar to "Nezha". It also has the word yin and yang, the fate of heaven and earth. The creation is close to a puppet, the horror of the Sith is also like a tasteless appearance, the other main characters are cutscenes, and the female protagonist is indeed shaped in the simple and rough way of creating male heroes in the early years, and all kinds of mediocrity can only sell IP, and It is impossible to give the audience the experience that a movie itself should have. Of course, the visual and industrial systems are as good as ever, but so what? Hollywood can provide hundreds of such visual experiences. Of course, it is a pity that my country barely has "The Wandering Earth" at present, but there is always hope for things that can be solved with money.
Based on this, I think it is a big problem that the text cannot be used in the first place. Of course, it may also be because it is a big IP, so it is stretched and cannot be drastic, but from the perspective of a big movie, the efforts made are very perfunctory.
I'm going to talk about fans again here, and Star Wars fans are naturally grateful for the memory killing inside. One of my students is a die-hard Star Wars fan. After watching it for a long time, I was immersed in it. It shows that like the majority of Star Wars fans, everyone has an innate aesthetic experience of grandeur and heroism, and has a deep emotional substitution for the series of themes. Therefore, it may be bearable to watch it under the filter, but the overall film is still mediocre, which is directly reflected in the box office.
The poor box office isn't just a matter of the text, it's that Star Wars' overall mass base is in the United States. In China, when there are no blockbusters to watch, the mention of Star Wars has a cool feeling. After all, the Force is equivalent to martial arts, and the lightsaber is equivalent to the sacred weapon in the minds of children, especially in the early years. , there are robots, there are beasts, and there are people of various ethnic groups in the tavern. In the end of the big fight, the villain turned out to be the father. These elements deeply shocked me when I was young. I always feel that it is similar to martial arts, but Hong Kong's martial arts movies are always bombed and bombed, lacking the kind of vigorous and heroic Star Wars. Sounds like a hundred years of cosmic sky, so cool.
But to this day, Marvel’s ten-year plan is to go deeper into the characters, lay a solid foundation for the world’s masses one by one, and then break out and let Iron Man hang up, causing the collective resonance of the group, and “Joker” has been swords since Nolan. Going off the beaten path, with a stunning story and decisive acting skills that combine individual collapse and mass movement, he uses this framework to open up a coquettish flower that no one can look directly at, while the veteran director Spielberg does not show too much, and earnestly pleases The game audience, "Ready Player One" sees solidity and pleasure. Under the premise that everyone is working hard, the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" series, as well-known themes in the United States, have to find a good breakthrough. After all, the level of storytelling has long been at the level of "Game of Thrones". The protagonist is hung up in minutes, and everyone is watching this kind of dark story that is more in line with realistic imagination. The grandeur of Star Wars inevitably feels outdated.
Of course, fans may be more precious at this time, so the way to be worthy of fans may be a good story. If you don’t work hard enough on the story, the significance of restarting the classics may be suspected of consuming fans in addition to commercial value. In fact, everyone is still looking forward to the kind of moment when they are shocked by each other's carnival in the theater, but the work is not very good, so it is a bit lacking.
Speaking of which, I always feel that JJ is exaggerating. At a critical moment, he may have restarted the project as a fan. Everyone has some memories. It looks good, but to this day I am always dissatisfied with this director. This is not the director. The problem with the work is because I bought an exaggerated book from him, known as the magical and interesting book "S. The Ship of Theseus". I am the kind of person with obsessive-compulsive disorder who can finish reading it seriously, and I found this book after reading it. The book is really exaggerated, the so-called reasoning is all simple nonsense, a few hours go around each other, an author disappears and the people who explore him fall in love with each other. The story line of making a movie that the script may be shot directly is not clear. Because the packaging was released, it is an exaggeration. The selling price is close to 200, which is really wasteful. JJ can see that he is exaggerating in this kind of thing, and the form is greater than the content. It is easier for directors and screenwriters to make big themes than those who work hard. For example, the screenwriter of Game of Thrones later hit the street, the same It is to see the content, I am even more demeaning to this kind of behavior.
Why no one praises the content of the book "S", because the content is not good, everyone is praising the form, and it is so expensive to buy, I can only show off that I read it carefully. In fact, this thing is of little value, and many people don’t know how to read it after buying it, so they rummage through it without realizing it. It’s actually quite an interesting social phenomenon.
Going back to "Star Wars 9", this answer sheet is not very good. Of course, there is no problem with continuing to shoot this project, and the re-creation of the villain is that, anyway, the hero already exists, the Jedi is immortal, and it seems that the replacement of the female Jedi sounds quite in line with the times. In fact, it is really a cliché, and it can only be sold purely for feelings.
The first time Skywalker came out, everyone still has memories and may be moved. After a long time, the story completely collapsed. The only thing that makes people feel bright, is still the emperor who died suddenly but did not freeze. He sucked the energy of both Yin and Yang and was suddenly resurrected. At that time, "Nezha" popped out of his mind. If the emperor has always been a dark and destructive After being beaten to death, I think the story becomes dark and beautiful, but it is difficult. There is no pretense in front of it, and the whole is broken.
In addition, the heroine's previous life experience may be an important plot stalk, but it was not mentioned in the first part, and it is really a commonplace until now. This upgrade makes sense is very poor. It means that I tried my best to cut off the past. Anyway, the story has forced everyone to watch the following plot, but the overall world view design, and the follow-up progress, are all chaotic. Can only wait for the next person to take over the plate to see if this brilliance can be revived. But the expectations are really not high. I can only say that I will come to see it. After all, the big production is still attractive.
Finally, I want to say something about the retrospect of Star Wars. I think Star Wars is not a representative of the United States. Superman is indeed a self-portrait of the United States. When DC made Superman, I think the American people's fascination with self-made gods is the image of Superman. Because they are an immigrant group and have no belief in gods, Superman is especially suitable. And when Lucas started doing Star Wars, of course, the stunt was a huge breakthrough, but in terms of spiritual totem, there was absolutely no doubt that it was the Americans who were obsessed with and re-reading the oriental mysterious culture, the Jedi, the Force in it. , this is really martial arts. It's just that our martial arts writers' worldview at that time could not create such a self-consistent (of course, it was not so self-consistent, but very fanciful) worldview - it is said that there is a legend of Shushan by the owner of Zhuanzhu, but I doubt that the worldview is designed The requirements are quite harsh, and the Japanese comics are well done - but many emotional resonances are similar, so the Orientals are also very immersive, with a lot of curiosity mixed in it, and a variety of mixes like the "Fast and Furious" series, and finally It is still a heroic saga, using a complex similar to Oedipus. The pop culture formed by the hodgepodge of cultures around the world has far-reaching influence and is widely loved by the people.
But the price of pop culture is that it is easy to be eliminated. Today, when I watch these similar scenes, I actually look forward to seeing more oriental elements, such as being rearmed by special effects, which is in line with the attributes of oriental knights (must not be Low is so fashionable that Chinese people see it as Chinese, not Japanese comics.) The visual presentation is super in line with physical principles. In fact, art vision needs to be operated repeatedly. In the past, we were still rough, but now the story of the West is not very good. Because there are indeed no specific contradictions presented, they are not very real, and everyone is not so interested, and political correctness affects the story of not being able to tell more exciting things - first of all, a force that seems to be a valuable judgment, and the dark side, There are also stories full of bloodline killings, which always make people feel a little tired. In a rich country, there are so many elements that can be used to dig out great stories.
Finally, I want to say that watching "Star Wars 9" is a bit like watching "Ip Man 4". It is relatively declining, but it is not. It is true that the story is not well told, and the main creator's mentality is old. The story is always innovating, and no matter how much investment you make, you still need to tell a good story. People's emotions, people's resonance, desire to be immersed in the movie, the audience is growing, and it is easy to be fooled by the same old ways. Still need to work hard, publicity may raise a lot of big concepts. But these two movies are not that complicated, but the text is not very good.
By the way, the Star Wars restart plan, "Star Wars Story: Rogue One" is really good-looking, although it is a simple story, the ending of the annihilation of the whole army is deeply shocking, or because there is a good story as the basis . On the contrary, the main text narrative, on the basis of such a good mass, still needs to really break through.
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