China Entertainment 1997

Ji Province, Shishi

"Are you okay?"

Ma Yusheng (who first appeared in Chapter 374) who was putting on shoes at the door called to the bedroom, and then his wife Qin Xin's voice came.

"It's coming, it's going to be fine soon."

"Let's do it."

After hearing his wife's reply, Ma Yusheng couldn't help but sigh, turned around and took off his shoes again, sat back on the sofa and turned on the TV to watch "News Lianbo".

The two of them had movie tickets at 7:45 pm. The cinema was not far away, and it only took a few minutes to drive. Taking into account the time spent on other things, 15 minutes was enough.

It's just seven o'clock now. According to his past experience, this "will be ready soon" should be enough for him to finish watching "News Lianbo".

"...The armed conflict in Syria continues to worsen, and the joint spokesperson calls on both sides to calm down..."

Twenty minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and foreign news reports had arrived. Ma Yusheng watched the news boredly, looking at the broken walls on the screen, and sighed a few words from time to time.

Since March, the country of Syria has continued to appear in international news, but most people do not understand it.

Even in later generations, most Chinese people's impressions of this country are war, poverty, refugees, decoration style jokes, and the inseparability of its national team and national football team in the world preliminaries...

The news on Syria ended, and Russia's entry into the WTO was being broadcast. Qin Xin finally came out of the bedroom.

"Do you still have time to watch TV? You're going to be late."

"I'm going to beat you up. Believe it or not, I'm going to the toilet right now so that you can experience what it means to be healed right away."

Ma Yusheng issued a warning with a deadly weapon, and Qin Xin raised her hands in surrender: "I was wrong. I finally left the world of two people. I have to dress up to make you look embarrassed."

"Well, it's true that I didn't wait in vain. This dress looks great on you."

"Yes, I specifically picked it online."

Ma Yusheng is well versed in the relationship between husband and wife, and Qin Xin relents. If he chases his wife and delays the matter, the guilt in his heart will immediately turn into grievance and anger, and then he will talk back.

As soon as the emotions got to the point, even if the two of them didn't have a big quarrel, today's rare date would be ruined.

So Ma Yusheng stopped when he saw the good news, and instead praised his wife. As expected, Qin Xin spun around happily, holding his arm with him and leaving home downstairs with a happy and sweet look on her face.

Ma Yusheng's face was indifferent. The two fell in love in 2003 and got married in 2005. During the eight years they were together, he had already figured out Qin Xin and made her docile.

After coming downstairs to pick up the car, Ma Yusheng drove to the cinema. Qin Xin called her son who was visiting his grandma's house and told him to watch less TV.

Speaking of which, the combination of the two is indeed rare. Ma Yusheng has a good temper and is calm in work, while Qin Xin has a gentler personality. Although she has some minor flaws, most of them are reasonable.

Both of them are teachers, own a house and a car, have a good income, and have no foreign debt.

The man's parents have a small amount of savings, and the woman's parents have pensions. There is only one son in the family, and there are two teachers, so education is not a problem.

Perhaps because of this, they, who are over thirty and have been married for several years, still have the leisure to abandon their children at their parents' home and form a group to go out to the world of two.

When I arrived at the Fanxing Cinema I frequented, the poster wall at the door had changed from "33 Days After Love" to "Eagle Eye."

The 6×4 meter "Eagle Eye" poster shows Cao Xuan and Widow Sister wearing black tights and doing fighting postures back to back.

He was slightly forward, and the widowed sister was behind. Cao Xuan drew his bow to the left, with a stern face. The widowed sister held a gun in her right hand and aimed it with a serious expression. Surrounding the two of them were Dr. Eggman, Taskmaster, and Crossfire. and several small bust photos of Fury and Garfield Andrew.

"This poster is cool."

Ma Yusheng took out his mobile phone to take pictures, and Qin Xin couldn't help but look under the poster and ask her husband to make one for herself.

“Return to the post on Moments.”

Although Cao Xuan was not the one who brought them together when they fell in love, the movie "When Men Are in Love" was a small help.

Although Ma Yusheng cried a lot when watching the movie, he really liked the movie later. Qin Xin, who had a good impression of Hu Jing, became a big fan of the East Palace.

Ma Yusheng cannot be said to be a fan of Cao Xuan or Hu Jing, but he has a lot of trust in Cao Xuan, and this trust has become stronger and stronger with the subsequent several good movies.

Nowadays, basically whenever Cao Xuan's new movie is released, unless it is a very uninteresting subject, people will come to the cinema to support it.

Although he keeps saying that he has no special affection for Cao Xuan, he is actually a loyal movie fan.

This time "Eagle Eye" was released, and he also took the opportunity of the two of them to take his wife to watch the movie.

Prior to this, Ma Yusheng had never watched a Marvel movie, and rarely even watched foreign movies, except for the last time "Thor", in which Cao Xuan guest-starred.

Qin Xin, on the other hand, thinks Robert Downey Jr. is handsome, has watched "Iron Man" several times, is an English teacher, and likes to watch foreign movies to study, and has a certain understanding of Marvel and Hollywood stars.

When she got the ticket and entered the venue, she didn't forget to give her husband some knowledge.

"That red-haired woman is called Black Widow. She is an agent. She seems to have special powers. She is very powerful. She even went undercover with Iron Man before..."

Ma Yusheng didn't know the character setting, so he was confused when he heard it, but he didn't pay much attention to it and just watched the movie.

Even if it is a series of movies, the independence of the plot must be considered. Even if it is the first time for viewers to watch this series of movies, they will not be too affected.

When they arrived at the cinema, the couple found their seats, looked at the advertising poster, and the movie officially started——

It was a circus with the style of the last century. There were noisy people in the front. A strong white man whose face could not be seen performed a magic arrow trick. Two teenage children in the corner of the stage had fiery eyes.

One of the Asian children, who was of yellow race, ran to the door of a house to cook medicine after the performance. Soon after, he came into the room with dark Chinese medicine and shouted in Chinese.

"Master, take medicine."

An old man with white beard and hair appeared in the camera, and many viewers in the theater let out small exclamations.

This old man is none other than Cao Xuan’s master Li Xuejian, and he can be regarded as a little easter egg in the movie.

There is also a small easter egg in the movie Young Hawkeye is Wu Sanshi, but this kid is not particularly famous now. Some people may find him familiar, but he is not as famous as other well-known child stars.

In the movie, the old man drank the medicine and his body could not hide his weakness. He lay on the bed and looked at his apprentice lovingly, while also reciting the words in Chinese.

"Recite again the formula I taught you."

"...the innate Qi, the source of creation, is the undivided Yuan Qi of Hongmeng, the Wuji of unopened chaos, the Taiji that generates all things... All things are tangible from the Wuji, and they are actually the root of the world... The way of life and life is the only That’s all…”

After the apprentice finished reciting a paragraph, the old man nodded happily and then earnestly gave instructions.

"My child, remember this formula. When you gather Qi, you will be Kun...ahem, you will be the true successor of Kunlun."

"call……"

A figure suddenly woke up from the bed. Hawkeye, played by Cao Xuan, sat silently on the bed with a vague expression, a little reminiscing and thoughtful.

"Qi!"

The opening plot of more than two minutes contains a lot of information, which is quite impactful, especially for domestic audiences.

The reason is naturally that it is full of Chinese elements.

The news of Cao Xuan's role as Hawkeye spread to China at that time, and many people were discussing and even looking forward to whether Cao Xuan's super power would have Chinese elements such as kung fu.

However, this expectation was quickly broken. Someone did some popular science on Hawkeye. From the setting point of view, this superhero does not have Chinese elements.

Even though he has a master named Swordsman, the swordsman is actually white in the comics.

Of course, there are also a small number of people who believe that casting Cao Xuan to play this role is already very different from the original comic, and there will definitely be an adaptation.

However, this is only the speculation of a small number of people and is not a mainstream idea.

However, now that the finished film has been released, it has been proven that this speculation was correct. This "Eagle Eye" did indeed add Chinese elements because of Cao Xuan.

Even if they don’t know what innate energy is, the old man with the white beard’s routine of passing on the secret book will be immediately understood by any Chinese person, and the mention of “Kunlun” is also associated with mystery in the eyes of the Chinese.

Most of the audience who originally came just for Cao Xuan cheered up. Many people had seen superhero movies, but this was their first time seeing a superhero with Chinese elements.

However, the subsequent plot did not show too many Chinese elements, but mainly followed the plot.

Another well-known acquaintance, Fan Xiaopang, appears, playing the role of Hill, conveying tasks to Cao Xuan, and at the same time, he also provides related movie settings from dialogue lines that he doesn’t know much about.

It focuses on introducing SHIELD, which is roughly a special force that handles various strange events. It has great authority and ability, and has countless elite agents.

There are two aces among these agents, one is Russian-American female agent Natasha, nicknamed Black Widow, and the other is Chinese-American agent Clinton Tang, nicknamed Hawkeye.

Because Hawkeye joined S.H.I.E.L.D. relatively late, his level is lower, only level seven.

In principle, he is under the command of Director Fury, Deputy Director Hill, Level 8 agent Coulson and even his partner Black Widow.

But in fact, except for Black Widow, who is special, only Fury can barely command him, and everyone else can only negotiate. Hill, because he is Chinese, is relatively closer to him, so he is the main contact person.

After introducing the setting plot, we directly took over "Thor". At that time, Hawkeye was recalled by S.H.I.E.L.D. because someone attacked a certain base of S.H.I.E.L.D. with the intention of snatching the Cosmic Cube.

Because from the subsequent analysis of the battlefield situation, this group of unknown enemies is not weak in combat effectiveness, and may even include super villains.

Therefore, S.H.I.E.L.D. sent its ace partners, Hawkeye and Black Widow, to find out the mastermind behind the scenes and solve the future troubles.

In a few words, the three of them explained the plot setting and the main storyline of the movie, and the movie slowly began to unfold.

Since we don’t know who is behind the scenes, the first thing we need to do is to find out who did it.

S.H.I.E.L.D. has some clues. On the day of the robbery of the Cosmic Cube, a gang in New York seemed to have some suspicious behavior, which may be related to the attack.

Black Widow had already gone to investigate. Hawkeye came back from New Mexico and rushed over after clarifying the mission at Hill.

So, nearly 10 minutes into the movie, the heroine, the widowed sister, finally appeared for the first time.

Just like the female assistant in "Iron Man 2", the widowed sister is also a makeup detective in "Eagle Eye", dressing up like a little girl, wearing cool and sexy clothes, and sneaking into the gang stronghold.

The drunken gang leader came over to start a fight. Black Widow, who originally wanted to collect information in a low-key manner, couldn't help but shake her head, then grabbed the leader's hair and smashed it to the ground.

There was a loud "bang" sound, and many viewers couldn't help but touch their noses. It was so painful.

Other gang members realized something was wrong and rushed over, and then staged a personal fighting show of Black Widow.

Let’s face it, the fights in the original Marvel movie Black Widow are not particularly good to watch.

The widowed sister is not a professional action actor, and as she is a girl, her movements are not powerful. Sometimes she has to fight with some strong men, and she seems to be struggling.

So after Cao Xuan took over a certain amount of action guidance work, he made certain changes with Marvel's action guidance.

The Black Widow's original assassin-style fighting style will continue to be strengthened, giving up the display of some powerful movements, reducing hand-to-hand entanglements as much as possible, and playing more tricks, using various tools, supplemented by naked chokes, kicks and other movements.

The fighting style of the modified Black Widow is smarter and more ruthless than the original Marvel version, and has a certain lightness and beauty.

Strictly speaking, this is a bit contrary to the role of Black Widow, because she is also a superhero herself, with strong strength and physical strength, so she is not afraid to go head-to-head with those strong men.

But the key is that a role is a role and an actor is an actor. Since it cannot be reflected, then use your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.

Black Widow's power and abilities can be reflected in some other places, but the design of the fighting still focuses on the assassin style, giving priority to the brilliance and completion of the action scenes.

Therefore, under Cao Xuan's careful design, the action scene of the widow was very smooth and beautiful.

Especially when everyone was knocked down in the end, Black Widow took off her wig and shook her red bangs. She looked so heroic and heroic. One word evaluation——

A exploded!

The male audience felt sassy after watching it, and the female audience couldn't help but get starry-eyed. This appearance definitely made the character of Black Widow leave a deep impression on people.

Back to the plot, Black Widow got the information in the safe and was about to leave with the unconscious leader.

Suddenly the warehouse door opened, and a burst of bright light came in. Black Widow didn't realize what she was doing, so she rolled and hid behind a wall pillar, and then she was sprayed with overwhelming fire.

A large number of gang members, under the command of another gang leader, focused their fire on the Black Widow.

Black Widow fired back with a gun and knocked down a few of them, but the difference in numbers was too big and they were firmly suppressed by firepower.

Seeing that the situation is getting more and more dangerous, Black Widow is planning to risk her life to break out.

Suddenly, the leader who was yelling and commanding to surround Black Widow froze. When he looked down, his heart was penetrated by a sharp arrow.

Had he not turned around to alert the others, several more sharp arrows would have been shot at him, and all the gangsters next to him would have been hit by arrows and fell to the ground.

At this time, a figure in a black tight-fitting uniform finally appeared outside the warehouse door. It was Hawkeye played by Cao Xuan.

Hawkeye carries an arrow box on his back, holds a bow in his left hand, and nocks an arrow in his right hand. He shoots at least three arrows at a time, one step at a time. Every time he shoots a hit, at least two people will die. However, his eyes are cold from beginning to end, like a gunman. The god of death who harvests life with a bow and arrow.

"handsome!"

An archer like the one in the movie who is fast and accurate, like a harvester, can make several people fall when he raises his hand, but his pace is always slow and unhurried, giving him an extremely elegant charm.

Every man dreams of becoming a hero, and Ma Yusheng is no exception.

But before that, he fantasized about being a swordsman, killing one person in ten steps, leaving no trace behind, full of chicness and chivalry.

However, Cao Xuan's hawk-eye role made him feel the charm of the archer for the first time.

Of course, the gangsters would not be fooled by him. After the initial sneak attack, they quickly discovered him and turned around to focus their fire.

At this time, Hawkeye couldn't resist the bullets, so he ducked and avoided, and then began to use the terrain to shoot at the gangsters.

But this time, in addition to normal bows and arrows, he also used black technology arrows.

Explosion + electric current + high temperature burning, combined with his precise archery skills, almost one person is equivalent to a small army. Under his cover, Black Widow successfully broke out of the encirclement, grabbed a rifle, and cooperated with Hawkeye to harvest the gangsters.

Black Widow has good marksmanship. She was hit by fire just now and was pinned in one place unable to get out. In addition, she only had a pistol in her hand, so she could only be beaten passively.

But now it gives her enough deep space and favorable terrain, and a strong cover for her teammates. Equipped with improved firepower, Black Widow's combat effectiveness soared and she successfully regained her respect.

The two ace agents joined forces, and the gangsters were killed and fled in all directions. The black widow caught two people, knocked them unconscious, and prepared to take them back for information.

On the way back, Hawkeye was a little dissatisfied with Black Widow's early action, thinking her approach was too reckless.

Of course, even though he said he was afraid of making mistakes, any fool could tell that he was worried about Black Widow's safety.

"It was just an accident."

Black Widow understood what Hawkeye was thinking, but she was also a arrogant person. She never expected that a gangster would be so well-guarded. As soon as she took action here, she got a letter from there, and then a large number of people came to support.

When the two tsunderes were together, they couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong in many things. They bickered all the way, but when the gang was interrogated, they still cooperated tacitly.

And this kind of double tsundere character is particularly liked by many female viewers.

What you see is hard words but soft hearts, falling in love and killing each other!

Qin Xin was very happy, the iceberg archer x the cold female agent, and she could think of hundreds of thousands of words in an instant.

Returning to the plot of the movie, this scene is mainly about fighting, which consolidates the shaping of the two characters and also gives the audience some visual stimulation.

The story begins later. Through interrogation, the two quickly found the gang's lair and learned that the gang had a boss behind the scenes. The previous changes were also directed by the boss. However, only the boss knew who this boss was.

In this way, the task is simple. The two people plan to sneak into the lair, bring out the boss for interrogation, and catch the mastermind behind the scenes.

However, there was too much noise before, and this time they missed it. The gang boss hid, but Hawkeye discovered an old friend.

Barney.

He is also one of the two little boys in the circus at the beginning of the movie, and he is considered the younger brother of Hawkeye.

When they were young, they both learned martial arts from two masters in the circus, [Swordsman] and [Swordsman]. However, because Hawkeye was Chinese, he had the true inheritance of the swordsman, while Barney only learned a little bit.

The latter [Snapshot] treated everyone equally, but Hawkeye was the one with the best bow and arrow talent in his life. Although Barney had also learned some skills, he was completely different from Hawkeye.

Later, when the two of them grew up, Hawkeye followed [Jetshot] to travel, and Barney also left the circus. Later, by accident, he joined the gang and became a small leader.

The brothers haven't seen each other for more than ten years, but this has not affected their relationship.

According to Black Widow, this is the first time since she met Hawkeye that she has seen so many smiles on his face.

Barney is also a loyal person, at least to Hawkeye. After learning of Hawkeye's purpose, he is determined to go undercover and help him find out the boss's location.

With his help, Hawkeye and Black Widow finally caught the boss and learned the real mastermind-Dr. Egghead.

Just as they contacted SHIELD to arrest someone, Dr. Eggman, who had already sensed that something was going to happen, took the lead and sent Crossfire and Taskmaster to silence them.

The heroes and villains set off a wave of climactic battles in the middle and later stages.

The two villains are not weak in strength. The crossfire can offset Hawkeye's archery skills to the maximum extent. The imitation master's fighting skills are ceiling. Hawkeye and Black Widow are no match for him.

In the end, the two sides relied on tacit understanding and telepathic combos to repel the villain, but Barney was killed by crossfire in order to save Hawkeye.

In most movies, character arcs are essential. This arc can be understood as a shining point or as diversity, but it is more likely to be described as growth, or the changes of the characters in the plot.

Take Marvel's personal movies as an example. Most of the protagonists have character arcs.

For example, in "Iron Man", Stark went from playboy to Iron Man, a warrior who saved countless lives.

Steve in "Captain America" ​​went from a skinny recruit to a superhero fighting against terrorism.

In "Thor", Thor is impulsive and reckless. After tempering, he is later recognized by Mjolnir and becomes a qualified god king.

These arcs can be character-based, strength-based, or both.

Hawkeye is the last item. Although he is already very good when he comes out, the powerful enemies of Taskmaster and Crossfire are added to make him reach a trough, and then stimulate his energy and complete his growth.

At the same time, the death of Barney also made his personality more prominent, and he paid more attention to the people around him and his comrades, which was also a growth change in itself.

There are troughs and growth, and the character of Hawkeye can also be relatively three-dimensional and can also stir up emotions in the audience.

For example, in the final battle later on, Hawkeye and Black Widow were two to three, especially when he tortured Crossfire to death with arrows and avenged Barney, which made many viewers feel happy.

What was equally enjoyable was the subsequent showdown with Taskmaster.

The exciting fight is on the one hand, the key point is that the Master of Imitation suppressed Hawkeye before and fought. Because he copied his fighting skills, almost every move Hawkeye makes will be countered by him, until Hawkeye understands [Qi].

I have inner strength, so I'm stupid.

The same fighting skills, with the increase of Qi, became several times more powerful. Hawkeye broke through ten battles with one force and knocked down the Imitation Master.

The routine of suppressing first and then rising has been used countless times in countless novels and film and television dramas, but as long as it is refined enough, it will still be favored by the audience and readers.

Especially for Chinese audiences, [Qi], a superpower with Chinese elements, combined with the ancient boxing + ancient swordsmanship in the movie, gives everyone a special sense of satisfaction.

Even if there is suspicion of YY, how can it not make people feel happy when thinking about Chinese Superman beating up American villains...

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ps: Witnessing history again...