Have you ever wondered how a character about to die manages to get rid of the problem in the way you least expected? Or even better, how many times while watching a movie, have you hit the way in which the protagonists will emerge victorious from an almost impossible problem?
Today I will explain to you what are the God From Machinesthe secret of their existence and why after so much repetition of these, you already notice them without even knowing that they are there.
Let’s start with the basics:
And Deus Ex Machina It is a narrative resource shared by literature and the media of audiovisual representation such as theater, television and cinema, which serves to resolve the knot of a plot, many times the resource can be as implausible as the situation itself. that the protagonists of the stories face, or be totally antagonistic or contrary to the situation that is proposed to be resolved, can become anticlimactic, carry plot holes with them, be unsatisfactory and capable of changing the entire meaning of a story. construction site. The use of said resource on many occasions can be considered as the way of the author of the work to end his story, which, within its very complexity, has already exceeded it and no solution is up to the difficulty or depth. that the same author raised, for which he decides that a fanciful event, divine intervention, destiny, the power of love, the Rose of Guadalupe or an unusual incident are the resolution for the knot or the story itself.
The way of presenting them within the stories, like the arts to which they obey, has evolved, making it difficult to know how to name and identify the type of Deus Ex Machina that was used, but what did not evolve was its classification.
Deus Ex Machina “Time Travel”
Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and the Doc. Brown (Christopher Lloyd) return to 1985 after saving Marty’s children from jail and his family from being ruined in 2015, but being Steak the Tooth (Thomas F. Wilson) who bet with the almanac, the 1985 to which they return is not the one in which they live. How are they going to solve it? With another time travel.
Thanos (Josh Brolin) reduced the infinity gems to atoms after eradicating half the universe and for 5 years, the survivors of the blip began a new life, but the heroes of the Marvel universe do not stand still and seek revenge, after the miraculous return of Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) of the quantum kingdom (later we will talk about the rat) know that there is a slight hope of returning everything to normality, how? Well, traveling back in time to collect the gems again.
Boris the animal (Jemaine Clement) escaped from Lunar Max and instead of killing the agent K of 2012 (Tommy Lee Jones) decides to go to 1968 to kill his younger version (Josh Brolin) that I send him to the prison on the Moon, now the Agent J (Will Smith) should pursue Boris before the boglodites destroy the earth, how will he do it? With a trip back in time.
Deus Ex Machina of “Sacrifice”
Gandalf (Ian McKellen) is left for dead by the fellowship of the ring after falling into the eternal darkness of Moria and now they must continue their journey to Mordor without the wizard’s guidance. After being captured by orcs and escaping to Fangorn Forest, Pippin (Billy Boyd) y Merry (Dominic Monaghan) are taken by Treebeard before “the white magician”, days later Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom) y Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) who were following the group that was holding the two hobbits, enter the forest and meet again with Gandalf, who now is “gandalf the white” after defeating the Balrog of Moria.
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) enters the forbidden forest so that Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) destroys the part of his soul that lives inside him, Potter dies at the hands of his greatest enemy, and when Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) carries him back to Hogwarts, Potter reveals that he did not die, as in the plane between life and death Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) told him that he could choose between leaving or returning.
After engaging in hand-to-hand combat with Calypso (Lucy Liu), Shazam (Zachary Levi) is buried in Olympus by his brothers, until with the help of the Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) resurrects.
the knight of the night (Christian Bale) drives away the nuclear bomb from Gotham City as his last heroic act after defeating the league of shadows led by Bane (Tom Hardy) y Thalia Al’Gul (Marion Cotillard), and dies in the nuclear explosion, when his butler Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine) goes on vacation to Florence, his boss is at the opposite table in the company of Selina Kyle (Anne Hatthaway).
Deus Ex Machina “Everything was part of a plan”
After stealing a large part of his fortune from Terry Benedict (Andy García), the gang of Danny Ocean (George Clooney), now you must face the night fox (Vincent Cassel) who steals the last object to complete the fortune he claims Benedictbut it turns out that the night fox object is a replica, since Ocean he planned to have the replica stolen, while they sent the real one elsewhere.
Constantine (Matt Ryan) leads one last alliance with the surviving heroes of the Apokolips massacre, to once and for all end Darkseid (Tonny Todd), when they reach Apokolips he dies and resurrects, because Batman (Jason O’Mara) reveals that from the beginning things were planned to happen like this.
Harry carries the last memories of Snape (Alan Rickman) to the pensieve to find out that since he was a child and defeated Voldemorthad to die at his hands to succeed, because it was all part of a plan.
Deus Ex Machina “Lethal Virus-Miracle Cure”
Humanity was on the verge of extinction after being infected by a virus that brings you back from the dead, with an insatiable thirst for brains, guts and human flesh, in this case the resolution is usually presented in a different way, the blood of a single individual, a serum that is lost in the facilities where the same virus was created, being sick and inedible, the spy on duty injects himself with the last sample of the virus while his team creates a cure, etc.
Deus Ex Machina del “Miraculous Event or Divine Intervention”
Regina George (Rachel McAddams) is about to attack the Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) after he ruined her life, out of nowhere she is hit by a bus that prevents her from going on top of her. Cady.
After falling in battle with Calypso (Lucy Liu), the only way to resurrect Shazam (Zachary Levi) is with the help of a god, but they left the earthly plane thousands of years ago, but wait, all is not lost, the Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is a demigod and is able to bring Olympus and Shazam back to life.
The Pym family turned to dust after the blip and left Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) stranded in the quantum realm, after five years stranded and without any of the surviving heroes knowing about his situation, the hero manages to return after a rat presses the buttons of the quantum tunnel and brings him back, yes, ONE INSTALLMENT.
There are many examples like the ones mentioned here, but for today I think it’s enough so that the next time you see a movie and think “How are they going to save themselves like this? That is the solution? The same problem as always and the same way to solve it? You can instruct your friends or those who are with you about the type of Deus Ex Machina applied.
Thank you very much for reading, if you know of other examples, leave them in the comments, don’t forget to react and share so that more moviegoers are vaccinated against the excessive use of this resource.
A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins, nor is he early, but just when it is time.
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Tags: Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, Shazam! The Fury of the Gods, DC, The Lord of the Rings, World War Z, Harry Potter, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Mean Girls, Men in Black, Ocean’s Twelve, I Am Legend, The Dark Knight Rises, Return to future
2023-08-21 03:47:56
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