{"id":970,"date":"2014-07-31T13:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=970"},"modified":"2014-10-11T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T20:56:30","slug":"guardians-of-the-galaxy-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-7\/","title":{"rendered":"GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

I admit it.\u00a0 I had some doubts when it was announced James Gunn (whom I admire and am a fan of his work) would be directing GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.\u00a0 Although I had no doubts about Gunn nailing the humor and action ideology of the film, I had to wonder, could he execute it on such a grand scale?\u00a0 Given the anticipated scope and magnitude of the film, the large cast, the thematics as a whole, just the pure majesty of the Marvel universe and perhaps most importantly, the heart of the story and the individual characters, GUARDIANS was unlike anything Gunn had tackled previously in his career.\u00a0\u00a0 But now, having seen GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, I can say wholeheartedly that James Gunn and the Guardians go for the gusto, rocking the galaxy and blasting off\u00a0 with all cylinders firing.\u00a0 Talk about not only an impressive tentpole film, but an explosively fun and dynamic complement to the Marvel universe!\u00a0 You laugh, you cry, you laugh some more….and then you find you’re tapping your toes to Blue Swede and Redbone!\u00a0 Say what??\u00a0 GUARDIANS has got it all!<\/p>\n

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A motley crew of intergalactic heroes if ever there was, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY became part of the Marvel universe in 1969 thanks to Arnold Drake and Gene Colan.\u00a0 Going through various incarnations over the decades, the 2008 version offered up by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning introduced some new Guardians and adventures, the base from which GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY stems.\u00a0\u00a0 With the original script written by Nicole Perlman and then passed off to James Gunn when he came on board as director, unlike other Marvel works, GUARDIANS has a license to play and does a mix and match with the source material, adding some new characters, dropping some others, shifting the Marvel time line to include the character of Yondu (now a Ravager and surrogate father to Peter Quill\/Star Lord as opposed to his 1969 self as a pre-Star Lord alien hunting empath), and putting an emotional spin on Quill that infuses the film as a whole.\u00a0 Notable is Perlman\u2019s work which gives the story not only it\u2019s foundation, but the elements of science (which are largely accurate), all of which Gunn then expounds upon with humor and visuals.\u00a0 It\u2019s a wonderful collaborative result.<\/p>\n

After an emotionally powerful scene on Earth between a young Peter Quill and his dying mother, we jump decades into the future and meet the now 20-something Quill aka Star Lord, a snarky, fun-loving scavenger\/con artist scouring the galaxy working for his adoptive father, Yondu.\u00a0 A dark planet reduced to what appears nothing more than eroded or eradicated stalagmites and stalactites, Quill is seemingly oblivious to it all, plugged into his vintage Sony Walkman and rocking out to a 1970’s \u201cCome and Get Your Love\u201d by Redbone.\u00a0\u00a0 (And trust me, with this one moment, you are forever \u201chooked on a feeling\u201d with GUARDIANS.)\u00a0\u00a0 Seems that Quill is looking for some sort of orb that Yondu has been hired to find.\u00a0 Seems that other species are also looking for the same orb.\u00a0\u00a0 And it\u2019s the orb and its power, and everyone\u2019s search for it that not only brings together Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, a genetically modified and technologically outfitted raccoon named Rocket and an empathetic and powerful tree named Groot, but results in an all out galactic battle against the evil Ronan and the all-powerful Thanos, the latter of whom who just happens to be Gamora\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

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With limited time to not only capture fun, excitement, adventure and action, the backstory of these worlds and characters need to be introduced and explained which is where the performances come into play.\u00a0 With each actor more wonderful than the last, speaking volumes without words, relying on energy and human touch to tell much about each character, the emotional levels are organic, free-flowing.<\/p>\n

As Peter Quill\/Star Lord, Chris Pratt is more than a few shades of a young Han Solo right down to the side arm on the leg and the snarky fun quips while completely capturing hints of Kevin Bacon and Michael Jackson with some hysterical over-the-top dance routines (all integrated within the story)!\u00a0 For Pratt, credit for his \u201cStar Lord attitude\u201d goes to James Gunn.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s really just [about] being open and willing to go for it and try different things, and having a director that you can trust.\u00a0 The attitude is not something that I intended or created.\u00a0 It was something that James intended and created, by getting me to try different things. . .and taking big swings and sometimes falling flat on my face.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Likeable and loveable to a fault, Pratt is one of the most welcome heroes we\u2019ve seen in awhile.<\/p>\n

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We loved her being blue in \u201cAvatar\u201d, but Zoe Saldana has us all green with envy as the kick-ass, in your face, Gamora.\u00a0\u00a0 Hard core, intelligent, quick-thinking, Saldana has an extremely visual emotional arc that softens without losing her smarts or physicality.\u00a0 Refreshing to see.\u00a0 Talk about girl power! A wonderful role model.<\/p>\n

What would a James Gunn film be without Michael Rooker.\u00a0 Written into the script by Gunn especially for Rooker is Yondu.\u00a0 Skewing the GUARDIANS time line to make Peter Quill and Yondu concurrent, Rooker goes for broke with bad-ass humor – and all under blue skin.\u00a0 (Pay attention to the blue as it will prove something important with the character.)\u00a0\u00a0 Rooker finds a balance of paternal pride\/best friend\/worst enemy and then goes for broke pulling a new trick out of his bag of tricks.\u00a0 Fun, fun, fun performance.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Close is perfection as Nova Prime; calm, cool, calculating, ice queen, charged with running the peace loving planet of Xandar.\u00a0 As Nova Prime\u2019s head of Nova Corps security, Corpsman Dey, John C. Reilly adds a fun goofiness that catches your attention;\u00a0 not really someone you would expect in a seat of security power, but it\u2019s that skew that makes Dey fun and adds to the fun of the film.\u00a0 Looking like a galactic Liberace is Benicio Del Toro who serves the eccentricity of \u201cThe Collector\u201d (aka a zookeeper) well.\u00a0 As Del Toro relates his experience, \u201cI felt like an animal that was holed up in a cage, and then you suddenly open the door, and he comes out and is tentative.\u201d An interesting oddity that fits well within the GUARDIANS galaxy.<\/p>\n

But, let\u2019s cut to the chase.\u00a0\u00a0 Rocket Rocks!\u00a0 Groot is Grrrrreat!\u00a0 (Get the merchandising ready for these two characters!)\u00a0\u00a0 Scene stealers both, beyond the adorable visual design of each character, Bradley Cooper\u00a0 and Vin Diesel are phenomenal with their voicing – particularly Diesel who, with just one sentence (and thanks to some beautiful CGI facial animation) infuses entire soliloquies of emotion into Groot through inflection and vocal tone with just three words \u201cI am Groot\u201d.\u00a0 A lot of the softer emotion we saw from Diesel in \u201cThe Pacifier\u201d is imbued within Groot while complimented with the “tough guy grrrrr” attitude for which he is best known.<\/p>\n

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Delivering the single most emotional performance of the film, it is perhaps the story behind Diesel\u2019s involvement in GUARDIANS that is more telling.\u00a0 \u201cWhen Kevin Feige called me and said that he and James were talking about me playing a role, I had no idea what role it would be.\u00a0 And then, they sent over a book of conceptual art, and I went into my living room with my kids and opened up the book, and I asked the kids what character they wanted Daddy to play.\u00a0 They all pointed at the tree, so I knew that was a good sign.\u00a0 For me, it was at a very important time, when I did this movie, because it was in December, and it was the first time I was coming around humans again and working again [following the death of \u201cFast & Furious\u201d co-star Paul Walker].\u00a0 There was something very therapeutic, in my personal life and my professional life, after dealing with death, playing a character that celebrates life, in the way that Groot celebrates life.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to Bradley Cooper, damn!\u00a0 Smart ass, smart aleck, picking up on some slight Philly accent while taking the vocal tone and inflection to an almost 1930’s coppers and robbers bit.\u00a0 Genius fun!<\/p>\n

Somewhat slighted are bad guys, Ronan the Accuser, his brown-nosing follower (and Gamora\u2019s sister) Nebula, and of course, the all evil Thanos.\u00a0 As Ronan, Lee Pace is virtually unrecognizable shrouded in black from his skin to his clothing.\u00a0 Dazzling texture and hues of color, allow Pace to emote through his voice and mannerisms only.\u00a0 The result is dynamic, so much so, that you want to see more.\u00a0 Karen Gillan\u2019s Nebula also falls by the wayside until a climactic battle late in the third act when Gillan gets to flex her acting chops.\u00a0 Cloaked in mystery a la the great and powerful Wizard of Oz, we get just a taste of Josh Brolin\u2019s Thanos, but that taste has me salivating for more.\u00a0 Brolin\u2019s vocal timbre drips villainy with every syllable uttered.\u00a0 (And as we know from Comic-Con, Brolin and Thanos should be returning for a more prominent role in GUARDIANS 2.)<\/p>\n

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Originally given Perlman\u2019s script as working model, as Gunn puts it, \u201c[I]t didn\u2019t 100% speak to me.\u00a0 I wanted to make some pretty major changes, so I rewrote the whole script.\u201d\u00a0 Although retaining the core story and the worlds brought to life on the page by Perlman, what we clearly see as James Gunn is the type of humor.\u00a0 It\u2019s patented Gunn.\u00a0 Laugh out loud funny and undoubtedly guaranteed to resonate with an even wider demographic because it all stems from the pop culture zeitgeist of movies and music, there aren’t really any veiled obscure references, everything is widely known to multiple generations and thus the appeal of the jokes and humor.\u00a0 Key is that Gunn and company don’t take themselves too seriously.\u00a0 These are completely different heroes than the Avengers or Iron Man.\u00a0 They have no polish or class like Tony Stark and no Nazi fighting history.\u00a0 There is the youthful exuberance that Chris Pratt brings which is then infused throughout the film.\u00a0 Watching Zoe Saldana emotionally transform as Gamora is a beautiful character portrait.\u00a0 Gunn creates a world filled with contrasting juxtapositioning that comes to life with vibrancy, energy, time and texture, as if seamlessly segueing almost through time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Interesting is that it appears the science aspects of the film are delivered not only through visuals, but by way of Rocket with science oriented expository dialogue appearing gone and replaced with lighter humorous reference.<\/p>\n

Equally important to the humor of GUARDIANS, if not moreso, is its heart and the heart of the\u00a0 characters.\u00a0 According to Gunn, \u201cThe movie is about a couple of things. . . Number one, it\u2019s about a son\u2019s relationship to his mother and how that manifests itself throughout the rest of his life.\u00a0 That, to me, is an emotional thing.\u00a0 The second thing, is that we live in a world where everybody\u2019s supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical. . .[T]his movie is about actually allowing yourself to care and allowing yourself to give a shit.\u00a0 That\u2019s a naturally emotional thing for me.\u00a0 And then, thirdly, I fell in love with these characters, as I was making the movie, and I fell in love with these actors, as I was making it.\u00a0 Just my natural sensitivity to that, and to characters, people and emotions, is something that automatically was expressed in the film.\u00a0 It\u2019s a film about family.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Outstanding are the familial elements and themes that burst forth speaking to parent\/child and above all that love, friendship and family isn’t necessarily defined by blood, but rather by the heart, by actions, by loyalty, by sacrifice; it’s the shared experiences that are the truest and deepest ties that bind.<\/p>\n

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Fresh and refreshing, there are visual influences of \u201cIndependence Day\u201d, \u201cStar Wars\u201d, \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d, and dare I say, the humor of \u201cGalaxy Quest\u201d, just to name a few.\u00a0 All is welcome and works, not only adding to this galaxy but giving some slight touchstone nods to the sci-fi fantasy world as a whole, guaranteeing moments that will resonate for all.<\/p>\n

Obviously a huge help to Gunn with GUARDIANS is having so many below the line guys on board familiar with the Marvel universe – cinematographer Ben Davis, production designer Charles Woods, art director Ray Chan, just to name a few.\u00a0 Not only intimately knowlegeable with Marvel, but all also having worked on \u201cWrath of the Titans\u201d, another completely fantastical universe, these artisans know sci-fi and fantasy and the creation and lensing thereof inside out.\u00a0\u00a0 From the spaceships and pods to The Collector’s museum (beyond cool) to the cool, bright, Beverly Hills aura of the “pawn shop” where Quill tries to sell the orb to the dinge and darkness of the Kyln prison – there is no detail missed, no minutiae too small; right down to Yondu’s stained glass crystal blue frog.\u00a0 And trolls!<\/p>\n

Davis’ lighting is moody and evocative with distinct design and lighting texture for each world which, in turn, carries its own emotion.\u00a0 Visual lighting structure is exceptionally strong and telling; and as equally beautiful within the bright light, airy, windowed, pastel world of Xandar as it is dark, foreboding and mysterious in Thanos’ lair.<\/p>\n

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Can we just give a collective gasp for the beauty of the interlocking sky blockade created by the Xandarian fighters around Ronan’s ship.\u00a0 An absolute stunner, this one scene is a testament to the VFX team.\u00a0\u00a0 Exceptional is also the VFX lighting design.\u00a0 Making full use of the color spectrum, Gunn and company go beyond the oft over-used reds and greens and yellow\/oranges and fill the energy of this world with purple!\u00a0 The metaphoric undertones of the regal color speaks its own language, adding another layer, another texture to the tapestried world.\u00a0 Beautiful.<\/p>\n

Moreso than in any other Marvel film, costume and make-up\/prosthetics are front and center with special effects make-up designer David White leading the charge.\u00a0 Rich, textured, innovative, unique and gorgeous.\u00a0 Make way for Oscar.\u00a0\u00a0 Not only is Dave Bautista a knockout with his3D tattoos and body prosthetics, but Lee Pace\u2019s facial make-up as Ronan is a definite hypnotic wow.\u00a0 Ronan may be bad, but you can’t help but be mesmerized by this bad boy – and it comes from the costume, the hood, the black chain maille effect.\u00a0 And that facial make-up.<\/p>\n

Where I see cinematic problems or shortcomings, however,\u00a0 are with some visual disconnects within the film; notably, the planet of Xandar.\u00a0 The overhead visuals of the city with people walking, look straight out of a 1950’s futuristic architectural drawing we might find in Disneyland’s World of Tomorrow exhibit back in the 50’s.\u00a0 It’s pretty, bright, metaphoric for the happy, peaceful planet that it is, but no matter how many times Gunn cuts to the wide overhead, it looks like a dated drawing.\u00a0\u00a0 While pleasing to the eye on its own, it not only feels out of place amongst the rest of the galaxy, but as if a Photoshop inset.<\/p>\n

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Distracting are many of the 2-shots or cockpit shots.\u00a0 I get it that Gunn is trying to frame and focus our attention on the characters, but because of the cockpit production design and an extremely wide gap between the two pilot seats (obviously designed to allow for all 5 main characters to be in a 2 or 3 deep row cockpit shot) the frame is too narrow and as a result, we lose side shoulders and arms and part of the details within the ships.\u00a0 Widen the frame just a couple of feet to get in full body with some production design detail and it will not only create a better visual balance, but add to the scene aesthetics.<\/p>\n

But then we have the music and Peter Quill\u2019s \u201cMix Tape 1″.\u00a0 100% James Gunn, \u201c[T]he very first thing that I thought of was this idea of the Walkman and the cassette tape, which is really this character\u2019s connection to his home planet of Earth.\u00a0 If the MacGuffin of the film is this orb that everyone\u2019s chasing after, the emotional center is this Walkman.\u201d\u00a0 From the Raspberries \u201cGo All the way\u201d to Elvin Bishop\u2019s \u201cFooled Around and Fell in Love\u201d to Blue Swede \u201cHooked on a Feeling\u201d and even the Jackson 5 with \u201cI Want You Back\u201d and Zoe Saldana\u2019s favorite \u201cCherry Bomb\u201d by The Runaways, inserting the specific songs \u201cwas just a natural part of the screenwriting process.\u00a0 All the songs that you hear in the movie were all written into the film.\u00a0 They\u2019re all part of the screenplay.\u201d\u00a0 Don\u2019t be surprised to see this soundtrack land in Billboard\u2019s Top 100.<\/p>\n

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He may not be Tim Gunn, but James Gunn \u201cmakes it work\u201d as GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY goes galactic with a new kind of fun, freshness and family, ready to rock the Marvel universe and yours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by James Gunn
\nWritten by Nicole Perlman and James Gunn<\/p>\n

Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Glenn Close, Michael Rooker, John C. Reilly, Lee Pace, Josh Brolin<\/p>\n

“Meet the Guardians – Peter Quill” – Featurette<\/a>
\n“Meet the Guardians – Gamora” – Featurette<\/a>
\nSpecial Extended Look – Featurette<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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