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At the end of October, the official announcement of the synchronization of the file in North America, a week ago announced that Song Jia was a "special angel", and the new version of "Thunderbolt Baby" that will be released tomorrow will come quickly.
The film is directed by female director Elizabeth Banks, and starring three young actresses, "Little K" Kristen Stewart, "Princess Jasmine" Naomi Scott, and newcomer Ella Barinska.
The female team behind the scenes of this stage seems to want to purely interpret what is "Thunderbolt Baby".
The first from the right is the director
Originally named "Charlie's Angels", although "Thunderbolt Baby" is not a big IP, from the popular American dramas in the 1970s to the popular movie version at the beginning of the new millennium, the audience recognition accumulated by this series is still quite high.
In particular, the film version starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Liu Yuling has successfully created three beautiful and capable female agent images, and also made female action + sexy fashion + comic style become the feature of the series.
However, due to the mediocre box office performance of "Thunderbolt Baby 2" in 2003, this IP was suspended, and later in 2011, it tried to restart in the form of a series, but it was also shelved.
Until 2015, Elizabeth Banks, who successfully directed "Perfect Tone 2" (which grossed nearly $300 million at the box office), actively promoted it and eventually became the director of the new version, as well as a screenwriter and producer.
With the old version of Zhu Yu in front, especially the image of the three leading actors deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the new version of "Thunderbolt Baby" did not choose to reshoot, but continued under the original world view.
In "Thunderbolt Baby 2", the female villain played by Demi Moore was also a member of the organization
As early as "Thunderbolt Baby 2", in fact, the foreshadowing of the "Angel Agent World View" has been buried.
The Three Sisters are not the only group, they all belong to an organization that secretly fights against dangerous forces, bringing together battle angels from all over the world who combine beauty and strength.
The new "Thunderbolt Baby" extends under this worldview, so the three newly joined leading actors are not the replacements of Barrymore, Diaz and Liu Yuling.
They are in a parallel relationship, or in chronological terms the relationship between the seniors (there are "cameos" from the old version of the three main actors).
Even if it is not a secondary interpretation of the same character in the same story, it is still necessary to compare the continuation and development of the new and old versions of the film in terms of characters, stories and styles that are more than ten years apart, and find a trace of the aesthetic changes of the times.
First, let's look at the portrayal of the three female protagonists.
In the old version, although the three girls have different personalities - Barrymore is sexy and mischievous like a little wild cat, Diaz is sunny and cheerful like the girl next door, and Liu Yuling is sometimes cold and sometimes funny, but sexiness is the label they share.
And their sexiness is directly explicit, such as dazzling cross-dress shows, kimonos, swimsuits, evening dresses, racing suits, tights and so on.
The three girls are a team from the beginning, and whenever they receive a task, they collectively act to cast their skills, plus the straight male director McG (Joseph McGinti Nitcher, later directed "Terminator 2018") mv color and mirror, so that each task becomes a group show where the three girls are sexy and sassy.
The new version adopts a different approach to presenting the three new protagonists.
Since the director herself is a woman, the film does not focus too much on the sexiness of the girl's body and clothing, and she pays more attention to the relationship between the girls.
At first, the three were neither a team nor a good sister, but only in the process of performing their tasks did they understand each other and show their respective skills, and it was inevitable that the mouths and cannons would lose each other.
Instead of attaching sexy labels to each girl like the old version, the three petite babes in the new version pay more attention to the division of roles.
Kristen Stewart, who plays Sabina, was the director's first choice.
Of course, K's beauty and sass are an important reason for her to win the role, she also undertook most of the cross-dressing scenes and decoy scenes in the film, and the director described her as a "chameleon-like" existence.
The role of Little K, much like the old version of Barrymore, is sexy, but also a little crazy, which is the charm of the film.
Jane, played by a black actress from the United Kingdom, played by Barisca, is a former mi6 agent, who is the action scene director in the film, has a tough personality, likes to be alone, and often loses with Xiao K.
With black hair, she is easily reminiscent of Liu Yuling in the past, and there is also a homage to the picture of hair flinging.
And Elena, played by "Princess Jasmine" Naomi Scott, who has just become popular with "Aladdin", is a master of computer technology, and the setting is a bit biased towards stupid girls, and she will follow the adventures of two other girls just stepped into the world of secret agents.
In terms of casting, twenty years ago, Hollywood was popular with Chinese elements (especially Hong Kong films entered the world), so the old version of "Thunderbolt Jiaowa" introduced Chinese actress Liu Yuling in addition to the two white heroines, and she also became popular.
At the moment, when gender and racial issues are rising, Hollywood has launched female hero movies and African/Asian protagonist movies. The new "Thunderbolt Baby" uses the African-American Baliska and the Indian Naomi Scott, which is very politically correct.
Second, look at the action. "Thunderbolt Baby" belongs to the secret agent action movie genre, which is the female version of "007", "Mission Impossible" or "Spy Heavy", so the action scene must be a major attraction.
In the old version, whether it was the yellow-skinned Liu Yuling or the white-skinned Barrymore and Diaz, their fights were all Oriental fist and foot kung fu.
Still as mentioned earlier, Hollywood in the early 2000s blew the Chinese wind, and Hong Kong-made action movies were very popular, especially Jackie Chan Jet Li broke into Hollywood, and Yuan Heping designed cool action scenes for "The Matrix".
So we can see that in the old version of "Thunderbolt Baby", the gunfight gave way to kung fu, and a Chinese face appeared at the beginning of each episode - he was the film's action director Yuan Xiangren (Yuan Ping's brother).
At the moment, the tide of kung fu has receded, and it has been replaced by "Spy Heavy" style combat fighting. As can be seen from the trailer, the fights in the new "Thunderbolt Baby" are basically close combat, and there is no obvious sense of hanging Wea without a big opening.
In addition, there are many exaggerated action designs in the two episodes of the old version, and the human movements are basically out of gravity, and no matter how they fight, they are unscathed;
Flying suits, crazy car chases on the street and even fighter jets are all on the battlefield, and the images are gorgeous and exciting, but they also lose their sense of reality.
The "Spider-Man" scene in Thunderbolt 2
The new version has revised the action style that now seems exaggerated and distorted, and the angels are not king kongs, they will be injured, and they will also use various technological equipment.
To sum up, the new version of "Thunderbolt Baby" will be more modern and closer to the female world, retaining the trendy dynamic elements, but avoiding the exaggerated release of comics and pulling the story and characters back to reality.
A little spoiler in advance, the film's director Elizabeth Banks and retired "Professor X" Patrick Stewart are involved in the performance, their role name is "Bosley".
If you've seen the 2000 version of "Thunderbolt Baby," you wouldn't be unfamiliar with the name — it's the character Played by Bill Murray.
What exactly is the relationship between the two Bosleys? The ultimate puzzle of the Thunderbolt series "Who is Charlie?" "Did you get an answer?"
These are still waiting for you to go into the theater to find the answers for yourself.
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