What is the charm of ＂Alita＂, which makes the card god forget it for 14 years？
Special feature of 1905 film network There is no doubt that Alita released this week is the most watched new film.
This film has been taken out from a very early age, and the Cameron effect is tightly tied. "It’s time to shoot", such a news has been delayed for ten years, and this one has been delayed for 14 years.
In 2005, there was news that Ka Shen was going to adapt Japanese cartoons. As a result, the procrastination card god naturally did not carry out the project quickly. Later, after a series of events such as changing directors and changing schedules, the film finally met with you.
Even though the director used Hollywood B-film director robert rodriguez, Ka Shen was still not idle, and all the publicity was done by himself. He repeatedly stressed that although he abdicated as a director, he still participated in it as a screenwriter and producer, not just in name only.
Cameron and robert rodriguez.
Even, the propaganda put Alita together to create the "A-word universe" of the card god, and can’t wait to announce to the audience that "the card god’s products must be fine."
What is this "card god work" like?
Rotten tomatoes in North America are divided, and the freshness of professionals is 59%, which is in sharp contrast with the audience’s preference of 94%. Although it has been loved by many audiences, compared with the previous "works of card gods", this film is much weaker in word of mouth.
The domestic reputation is OK, with Douban score of 7.6, Cat’s Eye score of 9.0 and Taobao Film score of 8.9.
Judging from the evaluation of various audiences, whether they like it or not, everyone talked about the special effects of this film. Indeed, the CG special effects of the whole work are the top in this industry, and there is no fault at all. If the audience who reject CG, they can choose to wash their eyes with this movie.
However, why did this movie make a group of people dislike it so much?
Perhaps the script of Alita has to carry a big pot. In the long 122 minutes, the script took more than an hour to lay out and show the world view of the whole story, and then it took 40 minutes to develop, but in the end it only took 10 minutes to end quickly.
The performance of special effects is emphasized too much, but the core story is weakened, which leads to the film being as cold as the robot in the film and losing its proper temperature.
But in fact, before talking about this film in detail, let’s talk about the original gunnm, and what magic it has made Cameron forget about it.
What’s so fascinating about the setting of the original gunnm?
Gunnm is a typical cartoon with eschatological theme, which tells the story of the wasteland world where robots and people combine, and it is also a work full of Cyberpunk style.
Before this, another cartoon with a similar theme has been published, which began to discuss the impact on future social morality and order after the rapid development of science and technology in modern times.
Ghost in the shell.
Back to reality, it was also the fastest period of Japan’s economic development, but it was also the early stage of the bubble economy about to burst. In those years, although Japan’s per capita GDP surpassed that of the United States, and even many people began to buy industries in the United States crazily, in fact, after signing the Plaza Accord, the yen depreciated for five years, which made many people full of fear.
As a result, a number of similar works emerged in Japan during that period, and gunnm was one of them.
Gunnm has a total of 9 episodes, with the theme of describing human nature. Compared with The Crushing of the Shell, which has already discussed the issues of soul and body in a deeper level, gunnm shows readers the world view from the beginning — —
In the 26th century, the world was a mixture of light and darkness, including the unequal relationship between the city of Salem in the sky and the town of scrap iron in the world.
Compared with previous films such as ghost in the shell, everyone is drawing a lot of pen and ink to speculate on the boundary between human and robot. But in gunnm, directness doesn’t exist.
As long as you have a human brain, it belongs to "people".
Of course, for any works with eschatological themes, the most difficult thing is to set the world outlook.
It didn’t take long for comics to be directly presented to two worlds that are not connected with each other. In fact, they directly presented classes to everyone.
In addition, there is a corresponding class in the scrap metal town. Makhakhe, Alita’s arch-rival, was born like the "Penguin character" in the movie, and had nothing to do with the excitement on the ground. In the cartoon, Alita finally asks Makhakhe,"Our bodies are all made by people. Why do you become a strange bug?"
Gunnm’s worldview inevitably reminds people of George Orwell’s 1984.
The binary opposition between the ruling class and the ruled class, which is the most typical in 1984, is perfectly presented in gunnm, even darker than the former. In "gunnm", the dystopian setting is even more cruel, and the residents of the scrap iron town are managed by an absolute high-pressure policy. In fact, this absolutely opposite description of the world has also influenced many subsequent works, such as space-opposing science fiction movies.
The original Yukio Kimura himself said, "In the period of creating sci-fi comics, it was George Orwell’s 1984, ridley scott’s blade runner and george miller’s Mad Max that influenced me."
In the setting, Alita is pregnant with "Mecha", which is also an ancient martial art of Mars. In fact, this Mecha technique originated from the martial arts on the earth, and the original author, Yukio Mucheng, specially incorporated many elements of China boxing. Because the Japanese had misunderstood China’s boxing at that time, the original work specially collected all kinds of fighting materials to show them better in the comics.
From comics to movies, where did you move?
In fact, the main story line of Alita is placed in the first four works of gunnm. However, Hollywood has never been so quiet about the reform, and other series of "gunnm" are mixed in the story, including the subsequent "last order".
However, in the movie, many different adaptations have been made.
The original cartoonist Yukio Kimura himself said, "The heroine of "gunnm" is Gary, and the movie uses the name Alita in the American version. In the original, Gary is a relatively introverted character, and Alita in the movie has a strong personality and often laughs."
The film shifted all kinds of perspectives to Alita, and even became more personal, so that Alita became a "guide" and took the audience to appreciate the world view of the world. After this adjustment, the director finally turned a dystopian story into a Hollywood-style personal heroism story.
The heroine Alita is relatively special. She was dropped from "Shalem". She has amnesia, but deep in her memory, she has her own fighting skills to kill the enemy. The story also slowly became "Alita’s search for herself".
In the movie, the relationship between the characters around Alita is subtracted.
First of all, it makes the relationship between Alita and medical ethics more concrete, giving up all the foreshadowing in the original work.
In the original work, medical ethics did not have a female assistant and wife, and even the name for Alita was actually the name of his dead cat. This change may be to increase the emotional expression of medical ethics regarding Alita as a daughter. But in the original book, medical ethics only treated Alita as a pet at first. Such changes have also made this branch line more direct, and there is no need to spend too much ink on it.
However, for the setting of her boyfriend Hugo, the film adaptation seems to be less convincing.
In the original book, there are actually two rules in the scrap iron city. Apart from the movie "People are not allowed to hold any guns", there is also a "Scrap iron city is not allowed to fly". This setting is the key to Hugo’s obsession with Salem — — His brother was shot dead for making a hot air balloon and trying to go to Salem.
In addition, the film still retains many comic details.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, when Alita woke up, the doctor handed her an orange, and she didn’t know what it was and took a bite. The details and emotions of these original works are displayed on the big screen, which not only has the "soul" of comics, but also has the uniqueness of movies.
Of course, the film still left a foreshadowing — — Dr Nova plays a very important role in gunnm. At the end of the film, it seems that he is set as the supreme leader of Salem. But in fact, he is another outstanding manifestation of rebellious spirit in the original work.
Cameron has left a big hole here. I don’t know how to reverse it in the future, but will there really be a chance to fill it? Even he himself said, "Look at the audience in China".
