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Behind "The Black Patriotic Team": "Anti -Hero" poked?

"Continue to spare no effort to trample and abuse the hero's narrative." Some netizens commented on the Douban page of the third season of the American drama "Black Patriotics".

Since the beginning of the month, the reputation of the "Black Pakes" in the new season is very eye -catching. In the case of 6 episodes, the freshness of rotten tomatoes is still as high as 97 %, and the popcorn index is 87 %. Domestic audiences also "continue to be optimistic" for the play. The Douban score in the third season reached 9.4, and the first two seasons were 8.6.

"Yellow Storm", "Subvert" and "Anti -Routine" are the characteristic labels of the "Black Patriotic Suretic Team" in the process of spreading, but the strongest background color of this drama is the "anti -hero".

From the beginning of the first season, the episode has learned about the structure and spoofs of a series of classic superhero in Mei Man. They are shaped, cultivated, and penetrated into all aspects of entertainment and society by giant companies. More like psychological disability. The protagonist group did not choose the "justice trial" from the shadow in the process of confrontation.

A "anti -hero" is often composed of imperfect personality, non -accurate or even evil behavior, coupled with the results of the behavior close to the hero's feat, the protagonist and main line in "Black Pakes" are quite typical. The "Black Pakes" is not a case. In recent years, the anti -hero theme film and television works seem to be more and more popular with the audience.

With a cost of $ 58 million, the R -class movie "Deadpool" with a box office of $ 782 million; the global box office broke 1 billion US dollars, and at the same time, "Clown", which was recognized by the Venice Golden Lion Award; The second -tier characters in the comics have become popular adaptations in the eyes of Hollywood film companies; popular episodes such as "Big Group" and "Moonlight Knights" have also emerged endlessly ... In the vertical field of Chaoying, "anti -heroes" seem to support it. In the past, rich maps have surpassed their predecessors such as "Blade Warriors" and "Watchman" in business achievements and audiences.

There is a saying between fans called "Super History History is also the history of American social history", regardless of which era, the rise of "anti -hero" in literary works always reflects social reality.

"Anti -hero", who doesn't love

This season's "The Black Patriotic Team" was only 15 minutes before the opening, and a stunned yellow violent drama was staged. When the pirated "Ant -Man" narrowed the body into the body of his lover, he couldn't help sneezing. The body recovered. In the original shape, there are only meat sauce plasma that is bursting in the room.

The creativity was very similar to fans' spoofs when "Avengers 3" was released a few years ago. At that time, the Internet community at home and abroad had circulated "the way to fix the hegemony was to let the ants get into his body", and the tyrannosaurus player Josh Blin also specially pushed the stalk. But it can really change it and shoot it in the work.

"Scales are not restricted" is a common advantage of most anti -hero works. This is also one of the surface reasons that they can always be more "charm" than traditional heroic stories.

With the global strategy of Disney to maximize the maximum of the audience, the Reunion Series has always ensured that the "Jialian Huan" experience is rare. The series set up a repeated laugh point: When Iron Man couldn't help it, the head of the US -headed US Captain reminded him to "pay attention to language".

In 2016, as soon as the Deadpool debuted, in a series of dirty mouths, he slaughtered more than ten enemies relentlessly. When the villain loses its ability to move, the hero often chooses forgiveness, and the deadpool will be killed without saying a word. Faced with injustice and hatred, the encounters of "heroes" can usually be spawned, but the Deadpool uses a section to dispel the positive meaning, and often uses a serious attitude to break the "fourth wall" and the audience.

Many times the role of "anti -hero" will be regarded as a symbol of independence and rebellion. It is also a major reason why the audience loves them by unloading moral shackles and acting from their hearts. "Scale" only stimulate adrenaline, and "rebellion" secretly meets some potential psychological appeal.

Different works show the different forms of rebellion. The "Clown" in 2019 is more special. It should be noted that the image of the clown is only a "villain" that has been shaped for nearly 80 years, but in the movie In the adaptation, the definition of "anti -hero" is basically in line with ordinary people close to villains or disadvantages, and at the same time, he has a heroic temperament or doing heroic behavior.

The clown's rebellion even pointed to the class gap between Western society, and the plot of shooting the Wall Street elite and the host of the show meant that he was a destroyer in order. The philosopher Qi Zeke once commented on the film: "We should congratulate Hollywood and its audience. It presents a very dark side of capitalism, which can be defined as a 'social horror movie." And the clown only shows violence, Without providing social improvement plans, the character only gets a short freedom when the node of "completely reaches nihilism", and "what to do next" is completely handed over to the audience, which has aroused extensive resonance in the Western world.

Contact reality and deconstruct reality, it has also become a major highlight of anti -hero works. "The Black Pakes" focuses on this, and tirelessly regards entertainment chaos and social chaos as a spoof object. The "Water Company" in the play can make the black material public relations into a box office harvester. The second season of eliminating the beautification of the Nazi story became a super -ended commercial blockbuster. Joining the "Seven Persons" requires a variety show. The program group is well versed in the "frying CP" way. The episode also says "of course there are lines" through the mouth of the role. "Supporting LGBTQ" and "Black's Life is also the life", which have been successfully commercialized in the play in Europe and the United States. The slogans play a drainage role like a trademark. The group's demands behind are not really serious. A large number of children at the firearms expo have frequently ridiculed the campus shooting.

These irony of reality is enough to make the audience laugh hard, and also make the play a step forward in expression.

From God to others to anti -heroes

Tracing the origin, "anti -hero" is a proprietary concept of literature and drama. Studies in the academic circles states that anti -heroes are the products of contemporary social crisis and cultural crisis.

In the 20th century, with the birth and application of high -tech, the relationship between human beings and nature became more tense. In social relations and spiritual fields, the gap between the rich and the poor between the class and the foundation of religious beliefs was in a round of rationalism in a round of rationalism. The doubts were shaken, and the obscure behavior and chaotic thoughts owned by the image of anti -heroes, "reflect a cultural illness unique to the era of lack of faith."

It can be said that the "anti -hero" as a cultural phenomenon is one of the end performances of the post -modernist wave. In the field of literary fields, there are "Overwatch in Wheat Fields" Holton and "Twenty -two Military Regulations" A series of character images such as Yusolin echoed the new trend of thought. With the clarity and refinement of the concept itself, the images in many classical literature and modern literature have also been generally considered to have anti -heroic colors, such as Achilles in Homer Epic and "Don Quixote" Don Quixote and so on.

"Anti -hero" has become a concept of being known by the general public, because it is bound to "superhero". And if you look at the transition process of the superhero, you will find that this is also a process of echoing the historical situation and social thoughts.

In 1938, the first superhero "Superman" appeared in the "Action Comic". At that time, the shadow of "Economic Great Depression" has not yet been far away. The panic of World War II has arrived. People are actively creating material wealth while being full of uncertainty about the future. It provides a symbol of encouraging, security and comfort for the public.

With the improvement of people's expectations, Superman's ability is gradually enriching. From the beginning of only powerful and infinite, to slowly adding flights, hot vision lines, super hearing, freezing breathing and other capabilities. Can't develop. Superman's image can be understood as a modern variant of mythical heroes, and is an almost perfect hero idol.

Many superheroes have the characteristics of superman, such as close relationships from races that are better than humans, closely related to myths or religious stories. myth. With the spread of World War II, Captain America, who worn the star flag on the body, has also become a creative trend in the plot to participate in war and protect civilians in the plot.

"Superman is not grounded, I have never been interested in him. All my superhero has the shortcomings of people, and their lives are not perfect." This is the creative concept of Stan Leezu. In fact, the popular image of super heroes can be roughly divided into three stages. If the keywords in the first stage are "modern myths", it also continues the ancient hero worship, and the second stage is more inclined to create heroic humanity.

From the mid -1950s to the end of the 1970s, it was usually considered to be the "silver era" of Mei Man. The war has ended and the cultural policy is relatively loose, but the Cold War brings a longer -term and more delicate haze and depression. Super heroes in this period often often often It is "disadvantage and self -doubt". The image of Spider -Man, Hulk, Dr. Strange, and Dr. Strange, which are created by Stein Lee and Jack Kobe, have come out one after another.

However, this group of images is essentially out of traditional heroism. They are still overcoming obstacles to great causes and saving the world as their responsibility. The "greater ability, the greater the responsibility" of the Spider -Man series is the spiritual footnote of these "mortal heroes". They often choose the former between the heroes and ordinary life, but better interpret the courage, sacrifice, etc. Heroes.

From the 1980s to the beginning of the 21st century, the United States technology and the economy were basically developed stably, and the global dominant status was established. On the one hand, the idealized and magnificent narrative that saved the earth made some readers aesthetically fatigue, which is too far away from real life; On the one hand, highly developed capital society also has increasingly sharp -level contradictions. Science and technology and economy cannot bring enough sense of security to lower people. Super -English comics as popular reading have innovative needs.

More and more "anti -heroes" that combine villain genes with heroic behaviors have begun to appear, including Constantine, Deadpool, Candidate, Hell Baron, etc. They are either facing the same trivial predicament as ordinary people, or simply please themselves, which seems to be more realistic than binary righteousness independence, more in line with the heart cracks of people breeding in the complex era. The heroic goal has been wiped out of the original power of the character, and the audience has found more of their own projection in the "anti -heroes". There is a certain lag in the comics to film and television adaptation itself, and now the superhero film and television works that the audience is familiar with, after the 9 · 11 incident. The September 11 incident broke the fantasy of many American people on "the most powerful and the safest country". The demand for virtual heroes was ignited again. In 2002, the box office performance of "Spider -Man" surpassed all previous superhero movies. Later, the X -Men series of the 20th century, the Disney Marvel series and Warner's DC series appeared one after another, making superheroes one of the hottest adaptation themes.

However, since the popular characters in the comics field have completed the change of "from God to people to anti -hero", many super -English works in the new century will pay attention to digging the inner gray areas of the character, even if Superman seems to be more "bitter and deeply deeply deeply hatred "-Crak in Henry Kavier's version often make choices between human and divine nature.

The screenwriter of the "Watchman" movie David Heite also said: "It was too dark and too complicated, but the world changed after the September 11 incident, and the global new trend finally reached Alan Moore (former author) (former author) The prediction in 1986. "

save the world? No longer popular

In 2014, the NBC launched the anti -hero drama "Constantine". The ending of the play was cut in the first quarter, which was very different from the current treatment of the "Black Patriotic Squarers". The flood of superhero works will naturally lead to more popular anti -hero works, which is in line with the law of changes in the taste of the audience. In addition, there are other ways to answer the rise of "anti -hero".

In the early days, there was a famous line of Superman: "For the truth, justice, and the United States road, endless battles." Super heroes are also symbols of American "national justice" and "social justice". After complex historical changes, anti -heroes are anti -heroes Film and television works are often full of rebellion against this original symbol.

The symbolic performance on a plot setting is that characters often stand on the opposite of the government. For example, the assassination of Kennedy in "Overwatch" is one of the protagonists "laughter". The film adapted from another image novel "V -Borded Avengers" based on Alan Moore is often considered to be expressed in the 2001 "Patriot Act "Opposition, the bill gave the government more monitoring rights and challenged the free values ​​of American society.

Another manifestation is the expansion of the connotation of personal heroism. The "Single Run Hima -saved the world" is a more typical old -style American personal heroism. Anti -hero characters often only need to complete "self -redemption" by adventure. For example, "X Special Team" focuses on the inner growth of the clown girl. The final plot of "Venom" is to reach a settlement with alien creatures and hosts, which are more in line with the script strategy that contemporary audiences appreciate inertia.

The "American Dream" is loose, and compared to the American -style value output full of "heroism" in the past, the current audience may prefer to watch "American self -black". The emergence of anti -hero movies can reflect the dissatisfaction of the people.

Superman's red cloak may really have no pension black robe even more excited the audience.

Wen ｜ Liao Yizhou

Edit ｜ Zhao Putong

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