Birds Of Prey: Female version of "Suicide Squad 1.5", still can't save DCEU
By Candy
February 19th, 2020
Disney / Marvel hegemony has gone through ten years. Although no successful challenger has appeared so far, more possibilities have quietly arrived for superhero movies: Wolverine 3 makes Hugh Jackman happily claws, and Deadpool makes actors and characters Bottom line, and Joker Phoenix, one of the most prominent middle-aged male actors of the time, won the first Oscar.
If you have to find common ground between these "outstanding molecules", the R grade is the most obvious sign. The more adult ratings allow the movie to take more measures to enhance the expressiveness of characters and stories. The above three examples all make good use of the convenience brought by the classification. They do not allow plasma and rough mouth to stay on plasma and rough mouth.
But in a crime film full of action movies like Birds Of Prey, the R-class seems to represent only swear words; this is a very weird choice, even the scale of the previously released "Harley Quinn" animation, Much bigger than a live-action movie.
Of course, this does not mean that DC animation is better than live-action movies-at least not in the clown women-but considering the status and figure of "Goddam Queen", since it has been shot in the "Suicide Squad" Harley Quinn, who is outstanding and generously acknowledges her villain's identity, doesn't need to twiddle her hands on unarmed combat, even if she wants to wash away the bowl of heroes.
[Overview]
Compared to the left-to-be-obscured "Harley Quinn" animation, the feminist tone of "The Birds Of Prey" is much more normal: there is no three-word "woke" role that is inseparable from gender / identity politics, and there is no reason Boredom.
Even the assembly of the "Birds Of Prey" is just a natural choice for survival-the movie does not want to force these very different and unique characters together, this is not a bad thing.
However, this also caused a strong sense of inconsistency between the various sections of the film: some content is very comical: for example, the section with Harley Quinn, colorful and interesting action drama, and the richness of the DCEU ancestral heritage CG style; but in the early part of the film, large-scale day and drama, and almost no trace of superhero movies.
The violent convergence of Birds Of Prey reflects the different positioning of the film by the creators. On the one hand, "Birds Of Prey" has a strong feature of women's films: the complex emotional relationship between women, instead of external conflicts, has become the theme of the film. On the other hand, the movie wants to be a intercrossed of "Suicide Squad" and "Deadpool," but the jumping narrative and new role clues are just to make the minimalist mainline story less ybridembarrassing.
Considering the director Yan Yuqian's qualifications and a large number of remakes in the later period, the future (superhero) female movie should be abandoned most is the obsession with the director's gender. Hollywood does have powerful women directors such as Katherine Bigelow and Patty Jenkins, and Hollywood does need to give women directors more opportunities. But the weight of gender should always give way to talent.
"Hidden Sky: A Woman's Plan" filmed by a male director is far better than Elizabeth Banks' new version of "Perak", and Paul Feig can also shoot the cast-off female version of "Ghostbusters" .
[Production]
The reason why "Birds Of Prey" chooses the February schedule is that there is a consideration of the quality of the film-sandwiched between the Super Bowl weekend and Valentine's Day weekend, almost giving up treatment and waiting for a miracle-but after all, it is due to the lack of planning by Warner . Although Margot Robbie had proposed the idea before the "Suicide Squad" was released, the script has also been created since the end of 2016. In 2018, after the success of "Wonder Woman", the film only found the director Yan Yu Qian; and one year after the film was officially launched, not to mention Chad Starsky's make-up fire was rescued, not to mention the director of the "Return My Dog's Life" series.
The result without Kevin Fitch's character is that DCEU is like a one-shot deal from beginning to end: only if it hits the ground can there be a chance to continue his life. There is a serious lack of unity in the story and style of the film.
An example is the sleek and sharp visual style of the Birds Of Prey: the film was shot by Darren Aronovsky's partner photographer Matthew Libatik, and the costume design was also taken from Harley Quinn In colorful punk rock, she leaped all the way to a black masked velvet suit.
But how much of this dynamic visual content is related to the previous work? How many DCEU movies can be continued into the future?
The film's narrative attempt also exacerbated the disconnect between the Birds Of Prey as an independent film and DCEU. Yan Yuqian and screenwriter Christina Horson (Bumblebee) focused on the construction of female characters, but did not provide them with a matching story. The movie tries to use Harley Quinn's madness-even at the same time as Deadpool to break the fourth wall-to rationalize chaotic narratives, but obviously this is not the best choice to tell this structure and its simple story .
"Birds Of Prey" complicates the narrative in various unnecessary ways: narration and narration, flashback and flashback, and flashback and flashback. But in essence, it is nothing more than reorganizing the character profile of "Suicide Squad".
And a good imitation object is exactly "Deadpool" and "Deadpool 2": the editing is not engrossing, no time is wasted on memories, and the focus of narrative is not blurred; a simple and direct mix of culture and military can also provide Better satisfaction. But "Birds Of Prey" is too unsatisfactory to focus on providing enough, high-quality entertainment content.
Harley Quinn can have "attention disorder"; but you can't assume that viewers, like her, can enjoy 100 minutes of "attention disorder."
【which performed】
Although it was renamed after the release, "The Birds Of Prey" is still a movie belonging to Harley Quinn and Margot Robbie. Although the core conflict of the story has nothing to do with her, and the breakup with the clown is just a gimmick, and has not brought essential changes to the character's personality, she still dedicates a dynamic and infectious performance.
As the absolute core of the movie, she provided seemingly endless energy during the time she appeared; and this also made several new characters with her partner particularly vivid.
The most prominent of these is the number one dragon set in "The Twin Slayers", a female hunter played by Mary Elizabeth Wen. Sometimes off-line and sometimes focused, as if people saw Harley Quinn in "Suicide Squad"-but only the captain of the boomerang captain. If her playing time can be swapped with the black canary played by Juni Smollett, maybe her look will be better.
However, the casts of the remaining female characters did not share this vitality well. Huang Ali and Rosie Perez sleepwalked almost all the way, and Ella Jay Basco, who played Megfin, also didn't seem to know what her role should look like-compared to many young actors who have emerged in recent years To be a lot worse.
On the villain side, due to the female movie nature of "The Birds Of Prey", the third act did not even have a decent BOSS battle. Ivan McGregor is a typical overkill, somehow annoyingly annoying, the positioning is simply bad to the end, no matter how coquettish it is.
This version of the black mask is probably the rare paper villain of DCEU-it has no intersection with the protagonist and there is no place to compare. Of course, this is due to the weakness of the play, because at the time of creation, it was not clear what Harley Quinn wanted in the whole story, and how to get and achieve growth.
When "Wonder Woman", "Neptune" and "Thunder Shazan" are trying their best to avoid singularity of the villain, the black mask is completely marvelous-still Marvel in "Thunder God 2".
As for Chris Messina's Zas, it is not worth mentioning compared to Anthony Kerrigan's version;
When a character's sexuality becomes the biggest gimmick, the depth of the character can be imagined.
【to sum up】
DCEU in the post-Zach Schneider era is still walking in chaos. As a result of the lack of unity and continuity, the "Birds Of Prey" finally began to reflect. The movie is particularly inefficient in tandem roles-although Harley Quinn, who wants to use his brain to short circuit, finds reasons-if the inexplicable narrative is reduced in half, the movie will look a lot better, "Birds Of Prey" in the title , So you don't have to wait until the last 20 minutes to meet, and the last two minutes to team up.
In other words, Birds Of Prey almost became its own super-long trailer-it seemed to say something, but said nothing.
This is a pity. After all, "Wonder Woman" in 2017 has opened the precedent of female superhero movies, and even made MCU "Captain Marvel" later shy (although the money is not made less).
But in 2020, "Black Widow", which also has to form a team, is going to be a blessing in word of mouth.
Birds Of Prey: Female version of "Suicide Squad 1.5", still can't save DCEU
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