Wanda Vision: Familiar Characters, New Stories

? ? ? What will it be like when the supernatural beings in the movie universe choose to return to their families and strive to live a life far away from disturbance?

? ? ? In 2021, the marvel Mini drama Wanda vision tries to put this "brain hole" onto the screen, and gives a new interpretation of Wanda, the classic character in the Avengers League. The story takes place in "Avengers 4: the final battle" after the avenger alliance and the extermination war. Because of the death of her partner vision, Wanda loses her mind and controls everything in "Xijing town" by magic. She creates a fantasy world of her own based on the scenario drama, and makes the vision reborn in the world she created. They live a happy family life in the sitcom world, and have twin sons Tommy and Billy. The original residents of the town are also assimilated into the characters in her fantasy sitcom by Wanda's magic. They become friendly neighbors, community partners in her ideal life, or honest and diligent colleagues in her husband's company. However, the intervention of Tianjian Bureau broke the peaceful and harmonious family life of Wanda, and Agatha, a witch lurking in the small town, gradually revealed her original form, trying to capture Wanda's chaotic magic.

In terms of form, the biggest feature and highlight of this play is the organic integration of the sitcom shell and the suspense core of science fiction. Through the transformation of symbols such as clothing and interior decoration, it pays tribute to many classic sitcoms from 1950s to 1990s, including "Dick Van Dyke show", "fairy wife at home", "off-line family", etc. There are nine episodes in the play, each of which is only 30 minutes. It seems that the duration of the series also refers to the short and sharp characteristics of the classic sitcom. As Wanda's actor Elizabeth Olsen said, "Wanda vision is a dialogue between American sitcom and marvel film."

Therefore, it is not difficult to find that the transformation from the big battle scene to the small family scene of Marvel series is also one of the innovation points of the play. Over the past decade, marvel has launched dozens of movies and TV dramas featuring American captain, iron man and Raytheon through the adaptation and film and television presentation of the cartoon of the same name, which has built a huge Marvel Universe for movie fans. The movie fans also follow the footsteps of the characters, and enjoy the ice and snow of Siberia, the metropolitan style of New York, London, Paris, the natural scenery of the African prairie, and even the imaginary planet Asgard outside the earth. In the past, the film production method preferred to present the impact of the picture. This time, marvel set the story scene of the series in a small town in New Jersey, the United States. All the plot conflicts and plot deduction also occurred in the same community or even in the same house.

Back to the series itself, many of the details of the script and director's design and narrative of the small ideas, are endless. For example, the title of the play skillfully uses the double meaning of the word "vision" in English; The word "hallucination" constitutes a pun. The first meaning is easy to understand - this is the story of Wanda and vision. However, careful viewers will also find that the second level of interpretation of the title - "Wanda vision" instead of "Wanda & Vision" precisely shows that everything that happens in Xijing town is actually Wanda's imagination and vision, because the illusion in the real world outside Xijing town has already died in the hands of exterminator.

It has to be said that this play has greatly changed the presentation of Marvel's classic characters and stories in all aspects. On the one hand, in the characterization, the two leading characters familiar to the fans put down their powers, put on aprons or carry briefcases, and lead a typical American community life. They will worry about the poor reception at home, and they will be mad at the children's noise, but they will not expect it, but they will be reasonable. At the same time, the drama is promoted by the narrative mode of double lines and parallel of the events inside and outside Xijing Town, setting layers of suspense and adding suspense color. There is a heavy tension between Wanda's determination to maintain the illusion of happiness and Tianjian Bureau's efforts to break the magic effect in Xijing town.

No matter from the plot or character setting, it shows the great ambition of the producers. Such a breakthrough enables the audience to have a richer understanding and imagination of these familiar super power roles, and through the parallel world of "Xijing town", the fans who have been deeply worried about the separation of mirage and Wanda can make up for their regret. Therefore, many people think that the drastic innovation and Reform in the production of Wanda mirage may indicate the new opening of Marvel film and television works.

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