Zhou Fangyuan flew to the United States, mainly related to movies.

His layout in the United States is basically in the entertainment media, and the website has begun to retreat, and Corning's investment is not the main investment, but Hollywood, which is the focus of his investment.

Last year, "Iron Man 1", which was the opening cannon of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and "Alsace", the first step of the Warcraft movie, were released, and the response was naturally quite good, so the follow-up shooting plan has long been put on the agenda. In fact, Zhou Fangyuan is even ready to lose money and make money, especially the Warcraft movie, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has planned to the extent of "Avengers 1" from the beginning.

Even if "Iron Man 1" and "Arthas" do not do well at the box office, he will not cut off these two series, and now that they are performing well, there is no possibility of stopping.

And this year is not only these two movies, especially Marvel, in fact, this year's shooting plan, a total of three movies to start.

They are "Hulk", "Iron Man 2" and "Thor 1", especially "Iron Man 2", in the previous life, but it was considered the real starting point of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"Iron Man 2" in the original book was only released in 10 years, and I don't know if it is the reason for the "Avatar" effect, there were no works in the Marvel Universe in 2009. Of course, this is a joke, in fact, Marvel Studios broke the kettle at that time to develop "Iron Man", which brought Marvel Studios back to life, and naturally "Iron Man 2" was the first project to be developed.

It was about this time that Disney's dad found Marvel and offered them a price that they couldn't refuse, coupled with a relaxed degree of freedom, so that Marvel Studios could rest assured to build the Marvel Universe.

It is not difficult to see from the timeline that in 2009, Marvel Studios and Disney should still be running in the acquisition and adjusting the direction in order to start again with the strongest attitude.

So in 2010, the third work of the Marvel Universe, "Iron Man 2", was released. This "Iron Man 2" is obviously more well-made, and there are more clues and easter eggs connecting the Marvel universe, so much so that many people feel that Marvel Studios is using the movie "Iron Man 2" to advertise the Marvel Universe and the Avengers. For example, the sudden appearance of Captain America's shield in the film, as well as the sinkhole smashed by Thor's meow hammer at the end of the film, and the intervention of Black Widow and S.H.I.E.L.D., made this work almost pave too much in the Marvel Universe, and made the main plot turbulent.

But because of this, the movie "Iron Man 2" can be regarded as creating a new movie context, and fans are born into movies, with a lot of easter eggs in the film, as well as various combinations in the Marvel Universe movies, which make a movie richer, and this richness has been extending downward. For example, the little boy with the Iron Man mask in the film, and later Marvel wrote Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Homecoming", although this is a bit of an afterthought, but I have to say that this trick makes every Marvel work seamless.

Not to mention that when Tony and the director are in the room in the film, the holographic image has the coordinates of Black Panther's hometown of Wakanda, which was only rediscovered by fans when the "Black Panther" movie was released.

As we all know, sequels are often difficult to make, especially trilogies, and works sandwiched between the second part are often not as amazing as the first part, nor as heart-wrenching as the third finale. Generally speaking, the second part of a trilogy series tends to be as embarrassing as the super-long trailer of the third part, and also like the first part of the first part out of nothing. "Iron Man 2" also has such an embarrassing existence in the Iron Man trilogy, the first embarrassing thing is Tony's character design, because Tony's character arc in the first part is too beautiful, Tony has changed from a narcissistic rich man to a much-anticipated superhero, so the next thing is nothing more than to fight evil and maintain peace.

This structure seems to have only external conflicts, and the inner conflicts of the characters are gone, because the first part has already been completed, so in the second part, Iron Man is put on a new internal conflict, that is, the reaction furnace will hasten Tony's death. This setting is actually good, which can create a lot of possibilities for character transformation, but unfortunately, Tony's character design has returned to the feeling of the first part, still narcissistic and conceited, and still feels that people all over the world should revolve around him. What's even more disappointing is that the relationship between Tony and Pepper has a design that deliberately creates tension in order to make them conflicted.

Let's not talk about these, aside from the various "speculations" above, from a realistic point of view, "Iron Man 2" is more than twice as powerful as the first part in terms of the casting of actors, action fight scenes, and the display of various steel battle suits.

The plot does not need to be detailed, in general, "Iron Man 2", as the third movie of the Marvel Universe, whether it is the theme or story line, or the elements connecting the Marvel Universe, are a little overfilled, which makes it a little difficult for the director to control, why is this the director, you can compare the works of the Russo Brothers, whether it is "American Team 2-3" or "Avengers 3", no matter how big the theme is, no matter how many story lines, they are all well grasped by the Russo Brothers. But based on the ordering of all the works in the Marvel Universe, the role of "Iron Man 2" is undoubtedly not small, the film not only fully opens the Avengers program, but also allows the public to see more unheard of superheroes, and also starts from "Iron Man 2", the new superheroes on the Marvel Universe screen have officially set sail.

And directly through "Iron Man 2", it is the end credits easter egg, which is "Thor".

The role of "Thor" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is actually no less than that of "Iron Man 2", of course, as the opening work, the importance of "Iron Man 2" is of course incomparable. But "Thor" is also very important, it can be said that it connects the past and the next, opening up more possibilities.

When "Thor" was released, Thor starring Chris was actually basically a newcomer. His hometown is in Tuao, and he is also a well-known TV actor in his hometown. But once he came to Hollywood, he was nothing. Before "Thor", there were only three works that were more famous, namely "Star Trek", "Perfect Escape", and "Supreme Showdown".

Marvel has always been looking for the protagonist, and only the cheapest ones are selected, anyway, superhero movies, to put it bluntly, have very limited acting requirements, such as Chris Evans, an actor of the American team, it is said that when he signed with Marvel in his previous life, he signed six films at a price of 600,000 in one go, adding up to a salary of more than 3 million, Disney and Marvel can be said to have made a lot of money. But there is no way, who made Chris not famous back then? Although he has a lot of acting experience and a lot of works, he has never really come up with a stand-up work, and his fame has not been able to rise.

Joining Marvel, the trouble is that the characters are fixed, but the advantage is that you can become famous with the movie. The salary of the American team is not high, but you can accept advertisements and go to notices, if you can star in other movies, the salary will not be this price.

Thor's Chris, obviously, is also taking this path.

Chris has a charming figure, which can be said to be very in line with the image of Norse mythology, many years later, Chris won the world's sexiest actor in a certain year, and it can be said that Marvel's casting of Thor was very successful. is also successful, and Tom Hiddleston, before playing Rocky, his works were all TV series and TV movies, which are not worth mentioning at all. As a result, after starring in Rocky, he became famous all of a sudden, and he also had a nickname like "Shake Sen", which has a strong fan taste.

At that time, the most famous characters in "Thor" were Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins.

When "Thor" was released, Natalie Portman happened to win the Oscar for Best Actress with "Black Swan", which brought a lot of momentum to the film. Odin, played by Anthony Hopkins, relies on his acting skills and temperament to sit as the god of the gods. Such a combination of casts has continued in some of Marvel's works, such as "Thor 3", where they found Cate Blanchett to play the villain. "Doctor Strange" hired Tilda Swinton to play the Ancient One, and "Ant-Man" hired Michael Douglas to play the Wasp father.

Marvel likes to find some acting skills to play supporting roles in the film, so as to control the cost of actors and attract a certain audience, so as to expand the market of the Marvel universe.

In fact, when "Thor" was in the early preparations, Chris proposed that he hoped to portray Thor as a cynical god, with some chatter and humor, but soon this proposal was firmly rejected by Marvel. The reason given by Marvel is to be funny, just let Iron Man Tony come, and others, etc., still have to be serious about saving the world, especially Thor, as a god, and even more serious to the end.

In addition, the setting of the scene of the film "Thor" is also good, such as the Nine Realms, the planet of the ice giants, the kingdom of Asgard, and some myths and adaptations of the gods, which is also the beginning of the Marvel Universe to try to move the story out of the earth to expand the new frontier of the Marvel Universe, although the main story line was put back to the earth later, but "Thor" began to try to tell stories out of the earth.

The story of "Thor" began a long, long time ago, probably because the ice giants wanted to return the earth to the ice age so that their people could survive on the earth, and then Odin saved the earth and beat the ice giants back to their hometown. Odin and the Ice Giant then negotiated a truce, and Odin took the Ice Giant's Ice Box, and the balance of the Nine Realms was restored. Odin had 2 sons, one was Thor and the other was Loki. It's a pity that Odin failed to balance the education priorities of his two sons, but instead instigated only one of the two children to inherit the throne, such a naked brotherly power provocation laid a hidden danger for the two to grab the throne in the future.

However, Loki is not biological!

Sure enough, when Thor was crowned an adult to inherit the throne, Loki secretly caused trouble, and he told the Ice Giants how to come to Asgard, causing chaos, thus activating Thor's warlike, conceited, and ambition to solve problems by force. So Thor took a group of small henchmen to Jotunheim, the home planet of the Ice Giant, and provoked an incident, causing Odin to come over and wipe Thor's ass. Originally, this kind of thing, Thor came back to explain it well, but he continued to confront Odin, and Odin felt insulted as a king, so he beat Thor to the mortal world and sealed Meow Meow Hammer.

After Thor fell to Earth, he changed from a god to a neurotic and lost his mana, no one believed that he was Thor, except for Jane, they were skeptical, so Thor and Jane had feelings for each other in the old-fashioned Hollywood hero and heroine love mode. At the same time, in heaven, Loki finally understands that he is not Odin's biological child, and then Loki wants to prove himself as hard as he can, and wants Odin to recognize him from the bottom of his heart.

As a result, after Odin fell asleep, Loki became king, and Thor's little follower was unhappy and went to the mortal world to find Thor. At this time, Thor is about to retrieve his Meowth Hammer, but the Meowth Hammer has been sealed, and only those who are truly powerful can summon the Hammer. Thor couldn't pick up the meowth hammer and collapsed, Loki came and lied to Thor, telling Thor that Odin was dead, that there was chaos in the sky, that Loki himself had been crowned king, and that Thor should be a citizen of the earth and let him behave for himself.

Later, Thor began to transform, and in his relationship with Jane, he discovered that force could not solve the problem, and recklessness could not become a virtuous king.

Thor finally takes up the Meow Meow Hammer again in Armageddon on Earth and transforms into Thor.

The plot or something, that's probably it, although the changes in the middle are a little inexplicable, of course, mainly limited by the length of the movie, but it doesn't matter much. The box office is not very good, and it doesn't matter, after all, it's still profitable. Mainly in the end credits, the cosmic Rubik's Cube appeared, paving the way for the arrival of "Avengers 1", and Loki also officially blackened his soul and became the villain of Avengers 1.

This is the most important place of "Thor", Thor, Odin, Asgard, and the Nine Realms, which make the Marvel Cinematic Universe really reach out to the "universe". On the one hand, it laid the foundation for "Avengers 1", not only the space gems, including Loki, including the Kitaris, including Thanos, etc., but also for the follow-up main line by the way. On the other hand, it is through the "cosmic" tentacles that trigger the Guardians of the Galaxy and more possibilities.

If "Iron Man 2" is the starting point of the entire Marvel Universe, then "Thor" is a step further, the starting point of the subsequent growth of the Marvel Universe.

In comparison, the role of "Hulk" is much smaller.

In fact, when the Marvel Cinematic Universe reached mid-to-late stages and caused great success, many people had even forgotten about the previous two-step Hulk...... Of course, this refers to the original plane. And this can't be blamed on the audience, mainly the two Hulks in the original time and space, which use different actors, and are not the same as the "Hulk" in the Marvel Universe, because the actors have changed, and the plot has not had much to do with it, so many people will inevitably think that this is a separate work outside the movie universe. So there's nothing wrong with thinking about it that way.

But in fact, let's not talk about the first part, the "Incredible Hulk" in the original time and space 08 is really Marvel's orthodox work, only because of some special reasons, it makes people feel that it is alone.