Captain Sky and Tomorrowland: Steampunk and Science Fiction Cosplay

Steampunk combines the cultural background of the Victorian era with the science and technology of the early 20th century to create a utopian world where magic and science fiction coexist, advanced and backward, metropolis and ancient castles coexist. The biggest feature of steampunk is imagination. Blended with nostalgia. "Captain Sky and Tomorrowland" is a typical steampunk movie. The film reveals its mysterious veil in the tactful soundtrack. The picture is blurred and dim, as if the old film that has been preserved for decades is once again presented to the audience, with huge steam. Airships slowly appeared in the sky above New York City. Modern modern buildings, old Victorian-style buildings, and smoking steam factories. Buildings from different eras are integrated in one city. The imagination and imagination of heaven and sky have great visual impact. The "old photos" mode of the screen made me deeply attracted dozens of seconds after the beginning of the movie. Osamu Tezuka, Katsuyuki Oyo, Hayao Miyazaki... All familiar scenes from the works of these Japanese anime masters have been moved into this movie, "Metropolis", "Castle in the Sky", "Howl's Moving Castle"... …The steampunk in anime is restored to the full with the aid of blue screen technology…. But this is just the beginning of the movie…

With the development of the story, the movie becomes more and more like a gorgeous science fiction cosplay, machine The bird bombing of the Air Force Base is like an alien spacecraft falling from the sky in "Independence Day". The battle of Captain Sky and the robot bird over New York City is somewhat similar to "Pearl Harbor". The huge robot warrior reminds me of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" ", the mysterious Shangri-La is magnificent, its architectural style is like the fairy kingdom Rivendell in "Lord of the Rings", the various enlarged creatures are like the real version of "Jurassic Park", the most classic is the white The female robot played by Ling, at the end of the scene where she blocks Captain Sky on the iron bridge, from dressing to action to using weapons are mostly like Darth Moore in "Star Wars"...Watching this movie is like watching this movie. A memoir of a sci-fi movie, too many familiar scenes, too much tribute to the classics, so that in the process of watching the movie, I gradually became obsessed with the fantasy scenes in the movie, and ignored the plot of the movie, maybe this It is also the flaw of "Captain Sky and Tomorrowland". He imitated too many classics, but did not leave any classics. The movie became a pure cosplay, and lost his own part of science fiction.

The theme of the movie is still the traditional American salvation theme, and the emotional stories of the heroes and heroines are relatively clichéd. The movie relies on one sci-fi climax to promote the audience to save the world with the protagonists in their memories, in order to add points to the "memories". For weight, the technicians used the editing to make the late old actor Lawrence Oliver return to the big screen. Angelina Jolie also showed off the temptation of uniforms in this sci-fi cosplay. From the type of the movie to the investment to the cast, it doesn’t matter how you look at it. It’s a summer blockbuster, but I don’t know why the production company will put this movie on the fall season that no one cares about. As you can imagine, there are actually several steampunk-themed movies similar to this movie. The box office performance is not satisfactory, such as the old fox's "Gentlemen League" and the new line "Golden Compass". American audiences who have always liked sci-fi and magical styles are not interested in the aesthetics of sci-fi and magic. . This makes steampunk more and more rare in Hollywood movies.

Gorgeous steamships, roaring urban factories, huge mechanical bearings, gears... symbolizes the passionate collision of steel, tough industrial civilization and introverted and elegant Victorian culture, deducting a different aesthetic and artistic sense. Although "Captain Sky and Tomorrowland" did not create its own sci-fi classic, but the non-mainstream cultural interpretation of steampunk is enough to enhance the value of this film, perhaps it is just an ordinary commercial film, a sci-fi cosplay , A vulgar story of saving the world, but as a science fiction film, it really should not be ignored and low.

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