In that year, DC's epic comic book "The Kingdom of Heaven" has deeply thought about superheroes out of control and how heroes become heroes, so that superhero comics have instantly improved a lot of grades from children's reading books that burn instantly.
The TV series we are going to talk about today also has a sense of realism and satire on traditional superhero film and television dramas, that is, the "Black Robe Pickets" that exploded this summer.
Before entering the text, the first thing to emphasize is that this is really not a cliché story about saving the world for children. Especially the instant corpse melting picture that appeared not long after the opening of the first episode and the various large-scale no-urinating spots in the back, it will make you understand that "Deadpool", "Kick-Ass" and "Black Robe Pickets" will be released. It is not an exaggeration to come together for evaluation and commentary.
In the world in which "Black Robe Picket" is located, superpowers do exist, and there are countless superheroes.
Although there is neither the Avengers nor the Justice League in that world, there is still a main team of superheroes. The TV series calls them the "Seven Team". These seven people include the Motherland, Maeve, Deep Sea, Locomotive, Black, The Invisible Man, and starlight who was a rookie at the start of the show.
In a world where the Sevens and countless superpowers exist at the same time, people are used to living under the protection of superheroes, because almost all crimes can be completely solved in the first place, and the world seems to be a better place.
But in fact, rather than saying that these superpowers are heroes, it is better to say that they are carefully packaged draft stars.
Under the deeds of heroes saving the world, it is the careful planning of Walt Company.
Superheroes are the company's best product and most profitable tool. As long as you have super powers and pass Walter's interview to become a member of the hero team, then from your words and deeds, every move, to your crime-fighting actions, Walter's company will carry out various plans.
Even at the beginning of the first episode, the locomotive after the drug turned the male protagonist and girlfriend into a puddle of meat sauce, and the public relations team will also come forward to negotiate compensation and block the news. These people are heroes in front of them, and perverted superpowers behind them. Wipe your ass clean.
Under the various operations of the Walter Company, a heinous super power pervert can become a hero admired by the world, and at the same time a phenomenon-level star who has no worries about food and clothing.
In the TV series, the most ironic thing is actually not the superpowers, but these ordinary people who are in the same world as the superpowers. Their near-blind and fanatical obsession with superheroes is their savior. How crazy is it? Wherever these superheroes go, there will be countless cheers, applause and flowers.
Various religious groups view the birth of a superhero as a miracle from God.
As soon as they register an account on social media, they can instantly become Internet celebrities with top traffic. The peripheral figures and games produced according to their images can bring tens of billions of dollars in revenue to Walter Company every year. The starring films are even more popular.
Seeing this, many people may think that "Black Robe Pickets" is full of worry and irony about the phenomenal effect brought by Marvel movies.
If Alan Moore's "Watchmen" was born under the haze of the Cold War, full of fears of nuclear war and worries about the development of the world, it has almost become the most vivid annotation of that era. So the original comic book "Black Robe Pickets" before us is based on this era of "consumption first, entertainment to death", and it is nakedly exposing money and interests all the time.
Think about it, a group of superpowers who can be called perverted madmen can turn into heroes in the meticulous packaging and constant whitewashing of a business empire, and a few businessmen who have a grudge against each other can actually control these in the business empire. The world seems to be a god-like superpower. Think about it, superheroes are almost like draft stars, and they will be eliminated when they are out of breath. Once they enter the hero team, they will encounter the unspoken rules that they were completely idols before that.
Even if there are no superpowers in TV dramas in the real society, the existence of talent show stars, Internet celebrities and various commercial packages is an indisputable fact. Many events reflected in TV dramas seem bizarre, but in fact they are. With a real prototype and background, it is this point that makes "Black Robe Pickets" have a realistic meaning and ideological depth that surpasses previous film and television works of the same theme, and also makes this drama terrified.
In the past Marvel or DC superhero movies, the rendering of personal heroism and the praise of saving the world have made countless teenagers believe that the world needs heroes and superpowers from the very beginning.
After watching these films, many viewers feel that someone has to stand up when the world is in danger.
Even many movies will involve the controversies and disasters caused by superheroes. There will be a lot of thinking and discussion about what kind of existence superheroes should play in the world and what kind of role they should have, but basically There is no outright denial of the existence of superheroes.
Works in this category include Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, Captain America: Civil War, and more.
However, even if the superheroes in these works are imprisoned, they are often forced to be helpless and have unspeakable difficulties, which are still deeply portrayed as positive images.
Prior to this, the only film and television works that clearly adopted anti-heroic expression on the superhero theme should be "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" and "Missionary", which has opened up a new field of comic TV series in the past two years.
In addition to the series, it is estimated that many people watching the first two episodes of "Black Robe Picket" will think of "Missionary" and "Hell Detective", which are also heavy-duty comic dramas.
That's right, the original author of "Black Robe Pickets" is Garth Ennis, the author of the original two comics. The heavy-duty, large-scale pictures and dark style of the TV series are carried over from "The Missionary", because the behind-the-scenes production team of the TV series is almost the same as the original team of "The Missionary".
In the past film and television works about superheroes, although good and evil are not so clear in many cases, which will also cause the audience to think deeply, but in the end, the re-emergence of superheroes and the realization of the truth will still make the distinction between good and evil very clear. .
In "Black Robe Picket", we can't see a completely good guy, and we can't see a completely bad guy at the same time.
Each character has its own unique two-sidedness, and under this social background, the original innocence of each person is constantly changing and twisting. At the beginning of the film, the scene where his girlfriend died tragically in front of his eyes because of the locomotive made the otaku, one of the male protagonists, to have deep pity and sympathy from the audience from the very beginning.
And another male protagonist, Billy, who has the revenge of killing his wife, has aroused the sympathy and support of countless audiences for the weak side. The film has always been displayed from the perspective of justice when the two people assembled the team.
But the story quickly reversed. The transparent people who belonged to the bad guys did have malice towards the hero at the beginning, and were waiting for opportunities to hide and spy. But after Billy and Otaku worked together to defeat the transparent man, a series of interrogation, imprisonment and abuse were carried out on him, plus the final killing. It makes the audience have to ask themselves, are Billy and the others really just?
There is another weak person in the film who is completely silly and sweet at the beginning of the episode, that is the starlight of the newly promoted "Seven Team". At the beginning of the episode, he encountered the unspoken rules from the deep sea, but the latter character gradually grew up. The ferocity and ruthlessness after the transformation has allowed us to gradually see another side of her.
The narrative structure of binary opposition prevails in traditional superhero film and television works. "Black Robe Pickets" not only satirizes and exposes the cruel reality from the perspective of anti-heroism, but also completely eliminates the effects of binary opposition. The model is solidified, and a story structure model that changes with the development of the story, the relationship between the characters and the perspective also changes.
Several superpowers who seem to be villains at the beginning of the series also have another side that is sympathetic. The first is the deep sea where stars are unspoken in the first episode. In fact, he is also a fringe character caught in the confusion of his own identity. Although the deep sea has superpowers similar to DC Sea King and Marvel's Namo, and can communicate with various marine creatures, it is also deeply excluded and ridiculed by people because of its superpowers.
In the world of "Black Robe Picket", marine creatures are more like a group of creatures that can be bullied, and are gradually disappearing under the severe environmental situation. Because the deep sea can communicate and communicate with marine creatures, they have a different emotional accumulation for them, but there is no way to fully integrate themselves into the marine population, and at the same time, they cannot find their own identity in human beings.
Then there is the motherland who seems to be perverted and has an Oedipus complex. In fact, when he was a child, he was completely a guinea pig in a cold scientific experiment, and he was slaughtered by others.
His seemingly perverted behavior now is largely due to the lack of love and sympathy when he was a child, so after he became a hero, he was also obsessed with killing, using the blood of innocent dead lives to keep him alive Fill your empty heart.
The original comic is obviously more ironic about the popular DC heroes (such as the setting of the seven-person team), but with the passage of time, the current Marvel can almost hang DC, so we can see that the TV series has also done against Marvel. adjustment to some extent.
After Amazon launched the eight-episode first season, the show attracted a large audience, and the second season project has also moved quickly. According to relevant news, the second season of "Black Robe Pickets" will return next year. I really want to see what happens to the motherland and the male protagonist who have lost their bondage as soon as possible.
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