If you put "10 years of sharpening a sword" on the movie "Alita: Battle Angel" , you may be a little wronged, because this movie can be regarded as almost twenty years of sharpening a sword.
In- depth spoiler analysis, please jump: Learn about these hidden easter eggs and understand the past and present of "Alita: Battle Angel"
As early as 2000, James Cameron came into contact with the Japanese manga "Gun Dream" . Cameron was immediately fascinated by the work, but everyone who knows it knows that Cameron is a famous slow boy in Hollywood. , and his film thinking is too advanced, so that the sci-fi films he wants to make must be innovated and reformed, and even wait for the arrival of new film technology to realize the picture in Cameron's mind.
After 2005, Cameron originally wanted to start shooting the movie "Alita", but he went to do a movie project called "Project 880" first. 880" is also called "Avatar".
Because of the popularity of "Avatar", the director of the sequel has a tight schedule, so Cameron had to reluctantly give up his love, abdicate the directing rights of "Alita" comics, and become a producer himself, but "Alita" has never been. With Cameron's blood from the beginning, coupled with the blessing of the huge creative world view of "Gun Dream", "Alita" naturally attracted a lot of attention.
Finally, the long-awaited came out, "Alita" was released, and Da Cong was the first to get the advance screening. On the evening of January 31st, he watched the movie, and on February 1st, he added an IMAX.
Let’s talk about the experience of watching the movie first, no spoilers, please eat it with confidence.
The whole film revolves around Alita. The plot is simple and easy to understand. You don't need to read comics or cartoons, but you can also see the huge and complex background world from the film. In the way of narration, it is quite smooth at one go.
From the trailer, we probably know that Alita fell from Sharem, the city in the sky, and was picked up by Dr. Ide in Scrap Iron Town. Ide put on a mecha body for Alita, who lost her memory and had a mysterious past. Rita, who grew up slowly in Scrap Iron Town, knew herself, Alita with powerful fighting skills, and eventually became a battle angel.
"Alita" has the most advanced dynamic motion capture and HDR immersive screen rendering.
There are several special effects action scenes in the film, especially the scene of the "death ball" in the arena, which is very eye-catching in IMAX.
Da Cong watched the ordinary point screening in the first scene, and the second scene was IMAX. Indeed, in the IMAX presentation of the film, you can see more picture details. It is reported that each pore of Alita's face skin is modeled separately. Implanted hairs. Alita's huge eyes use 9 million pixels each (the Lord of the Rings movie only used 150,000 pixels).
For the Visual Party, "Alita" is the first big gospel in 2019.
It is estimated that many people know that the score of "Alita" on Rotten Tomatoes is not ideal, and the word of mouth did not explode as expected, but what Da Cong wants to say is that the Rotten Tomatoes Index is scored by professional film critics, which is relatively harsh, and the Popcorn Index (audience score) is not out yet.
In addition, the score of Rotten Tomatoes, the aesthetic separation between China and the West is not once or twice. Let's look at "Venom", "Black Panther" and so on. These films are scored by both Chinese and foreign sides. You know that the score is always a reference, and you believe that your subjective feelings are the most important. important.
I think as the first large-scale entertainment film abroad in 2019, the film must be recommended. Just watching those few hot fights is enough to worth the ticket price.
Of course, this also has something to do with the movie viewing mentality. If it is Cameron's signature, you think that every time there will be the first "Avatar" in movie history, if you enter the theater with such a mentality, the surprise will naturally decrease.
Da Cong has read all the comics and animations in the "Gun Dream" series, so when watching "Alita", the sense of substitution is particularly strong.
In order to let everyone understand more details in the film like me after the release of "Alita", the industrious Da Cong has sorted it out for everyone - "Alita" knowledge expansion package , so that everyone can use the most senior attitude Watch the movie (still no spoilers, please rest assured).
The "Gun Dream" comics began serialization in 1990. The author is the Japanese cartoonist Yukito Kijo. The first "Gun Dream" released a total of 9 works.
In 1998, the sequel of "Gun Dream", "Gun Dream: Last Order" , was released, and it was also 9 works. In addition, there was "Gun Dream: Biography", but the relationship between the rumors was too weak to discuss.
During the same period, "Gun Dream" released the OVA version of the animation , which mainly tells the story of Scrap Iron Town. The main plot is about the plot of the first three parts of "Gun Dream".
In 2014, the "Gun Dream" series also released "Gun Dream: Martian War" . The timeline of the comic work was split into more than 200 years before "Gun Dream", and "Gun Dream: Last Order". ", the manga is still serialized to this day.
The main story line of "Alita" is placed in the first four works of "Gun Dream". However, in order to shape the character of Alita well, and at the same time to build a new world structure for the movie, the film actually puts the entire "Gun Dream" in the film. " series are mixed in, including OVA, "last order", and even "Mars War".
Yes, there will definitely be a sequel. "Alita" is just the beginning of the huge and vast background story of "Gun Dream". It is certain that the movie will make a sequel.
The origin of the name of the scrap iron town (city) is because of the city of Sharem in the sky above, which throws garbage on the surface of the earth like shit all the year round, and these garbage can play a certain role in the development of people on the ground. , so a lot of people gathered under Sharem over time, so there was a scrap iron town.
So the question is, why is there a city in the sky like Sharem? In the chronology of "Gun Dream", the earth once encountered an extinction disaster caused by a meteorite impact. After that, human beings started a revival plan, and humans built in the earth's satellite orbit. The circular connection track was built, and then the cosmic capitals "Yale" and "Jiegu" were built.
As a transit point between Yale City and the earth's ground, it is the "Sharem" city in the air. Sharem City was once connected to the earth. The reason why humans built Sharem City and Yale City is to better prevent major disasters. At the same time, it is also to colonize the planets of the solar system, and even other planets outside the solar system.
This includes the Mars colonization plan (according to the "Gun Dream" chronology), so in the "Alita" trailer, there is a picture of Alita fighting on the moon, this battle and the human colonization interstellar war As for the more specific reasons for the fight, and why Sharem disconnected from the earth, let's not spoil it first, let's watch the movie.
In Scrap Iron Town, we can see a lot of synthetic people with iron body shapes and human faces and heads. These synths are all half-human and half-machine, and the most extreme is that only the mind is human, and the others are all machines, and Alita is one of them.
It's just that Alita's head was dropped from Sharem, so Alita is a special existence. She has amnesia, but her memory has its own fighting skills to kill enemies in seconds. The journey is presented in the film.
Although synthetic humans have the body shape of mechas, they can eat, drink and lax. For example, Alita can still cry. These are explained and analyzed in detail in "Gun Dream". That is because humans want to make themselves more like humans. , so it will still create mechanical stomach, mechanical intestines and other organs in the body, and at the same time can defecate.
In the comics, Dr. Ide is very good at studying the mechanical large intestine.
In the trailer, Alita played the iron ball game, which is a major entertainment industry in Scrap Iron Town and an important event for people in Scrap Iron Town. Such an event will naturally attract Alita, who regards fighting as her life.
In short, "Alita" has actually done a lot of subtraction on the basis of the "Gun Dream" series. Some of the characters and side stories in the comics are not even about Alita, so you don't need to read the comics. Only then can you really understand the film, as the threshold of PG13's "Alita" is very friendly to the audience.
In addition, there are many spoiler eggs and brain holes that are very thoughtful. Give Da Cong some time to organize them carefully and then share them with you, including who Alita is, where she comes from, and the world of "Gun Dream" How big, how creative, how many easter eggs the film has, these must be spoiler analysis to talk about.
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