Human "Awakening", a political metaphor

Jennings 2022-01-13 08:03:10

Some series of movies will set up a cross-episode suspense to seduce the audience. In "Lord of the Rings", whether the ring can be thrown into the Doomsday Volcano runs through the entire trilogy, and in "Spider-Man" it is when Mary Jane discovered that Peter is a superhero. For those series of films that do not provide such a dramatic element, the audience usually needs to create one for themselves. For example, when I watched the first episode of "Star River Fleet", I was anxious for the heroes in the film: the humans who invented the tank in World War I, when on earth did you not have to fight the Zerg with the submachine gun? ! …Wait and wait, after a long 11-year wait, mankind finally got the hang of it in the third episode: When two women were kneeling in the desert and praying to God, the 7-person team led by the protagonist descended from the sky on a shining giant robot. , Began the Jedi counterattack against the Zerg!

Of course, there is a joke on it. In fact, everyone is well aware that for the "Star River" series, once humans change the way of fighting, then the story series itself will lose the value of its continued existence. Because what the audience buys tickets to enter the cinema is to see how humans without mechanical heavy armor can fight bloody battles with the more primitive and fierce Zerg in the infantry + submachine gun state. They are willing to adopt a "stop suspicion" attitude on this issue.

And the other one can stop the audience from doubting, no! It should be said that the enthusiastic expectation is "men and women bathing together." Even in the VCD era, where the picture quality is extremely rough, the lethality of those images to the Chinese audience is no less than the climax of the overwhelming scorpion besieging the human base. The directors of Galaxy 3, who are well versed in audience psychology, obviously will not abandon this glorious tradition. So when the rescue team was formed in the second half of the film, 7 handsome men and beautiful women finally showed their perfect carcasses. It's just that the equipment used for the physical examination looks like a catwalk for the model catwalk, without the natural showering in the first episode-hey, I'm troubled too. Why is this kind of plot natural or unnatural?

However, you don't expect to have such a thrilling scene in the first episode. Several passages that may lead to a confrontation between humans and insects are handled relatively low-key. Among them, the plot of the captured demon scorpions tearing through their cages due to power interruption to start a massacre is like a parody of Jurassic Park, and the desert adventure trek that was supposed to be a climax paragraph was also inexplicably broken into pieces by the demon scorpions. And it has almost evolved into a boring dialogue about religious beliefs. In general, the quality of this film is not as good as the first episode, but it is significantly better than the second episode, which has fallen to the ground. One of the important reasons is that it highlights political factors.

The outbreak of the Iraq War and the upsurge of the domestic anti-war tide in the United States seven years later made the story of the Human Alliance launching a full-scale war against the Zerg in the film a bit more room for metaphors. So we have seen that more young people with a childish look who were enlisted in the army by political agitation, have also seen the unprecedented plot of the disabled leader of the anti-war organization being hanged and executed by the authority (execution of Saddam Hussein) The way). But the bolder and more specific metaphors happened to the protagonists.

The protagonist’s best friend, who relied on his mathematics talent to quickly promote to major, has the impression of being an out-and-out white man. But suddenly became black in 3? When he saw the passage where he turned his face with the deputy commander in order to understand and save his sweetheart, he seemed to understand the real intention of the director to change his skin color: black general? Obama, pk female deputy commander? Hillary...

and the rumored Muslim religious beliefs of the first black presidential candidate in American history seem to have not escaped the "devil's claws" of the film director. But perhaps because of factors such as political sensitivity before the election, they did not dare to blatantly directly associate it with black generals. And cunningly passed on to the white air force commander. In addition, in order to make the transfer behavior more concealed, the role of the Air Force commander was deliberately vilified as having a Nazi complex (clipping fists and holding breasts during a speech) and an entertainment star idol (female soldiers ask for autographs). Therefore, when the audience sees the plot of the collusion between the evil commander and the Zerg leader, they will not make excessive associations with the direction that “national leaders are related to a certain fanatic and extreme religion”. The "innocent" Hitler and Schwarzenegger became scapegoats for this screen political conspiracy.

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Extended Reading
  • Davon 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Much stronger than the second episode, the last giant biped robot is very dazzling and invincible...

  • Osbaldo 2022-01-13 08:03:10

    This series has a new sequel after so many years. The first is a big production, but it is slightly B-rated. The second is a pure B-rated film, and it has not been released directly on DVD. Although the third is found Starring in the first film, but it is difficult to conceal the essence of its low-cost B-level film, which is also a DVD movie. The theme song is okay, the others are okay

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder quotes

  • Lola Beck: We're fucked.

    Jingo Ryan: Yeah. That's exactly what I've been saying.

    Holly Little: You shouldn't talk like that. That's blasphemy.

    Lola Beck: You're a goddamn flight attendant, so stow it.

  • [Slug removes his underwear revealing his privates]

    Sunday: Hm. I guess that's why his mama called him Slug.