Deadpool and Wolverine (REVIEW) | Projector | Fanservice: The Film
[Ad - Sponsored by Entertainment Earth] Deadpool finally crosses paths with Wolverine as he joins the MCU in this fan-pleasing sequel, but Film Brain feels a bit mixed on the whole thing and pleas towards nostalgia.
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00:02Hello and welcome to Projector, and on this episode, Deadpool and Wolverine are together at last.
00:08In a film that isn't X-Men Origins Wolverine, that is.
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00:28Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds, is taken from his timeline by Mr. Paradox,
00:33played by Matthew McFadden, and offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe of Earth-616.
00:38However, Wade learns that his timeline is declining after the death of his anchor being Logan, aka Wolverine,
00:45played by Hugh Jackman, and Paradox intends to destroy it.
00:48Wade tries to use a variant of Logan from another timeline to save his own,
00:52but Paradox sends them both into the void, ruled over by Charles Xavier's twin sister, Cassandra Nova,
00:58played by Emma Corrin, and Wade and Logan must begrudgingly team up to escape and save Wade's timeline.
01:05It's all come very fit in the full circle, given that Deadpool's first film appearance was in the absolutely abysmal
01:10X-Men Origins Wolverine, where the character was done a total disservice by being turned into Weapon Eleven,
01:16a generic bad guy for Wolverine to fight at the end of the movie,
01:20the Merc with a Mouth infamously being turned into the Merc without a mouth,
01:24and Reynolds begrudgingly playing the character despite this because when was Deadpool ever going to get his own movie?
01:31But then, of course, that happened, and the Deadpool films have long made that a source of their own mockery,
01:38including the aptly hysterical post-credits scene to the second film, but also just a running string of Hugh Jackman jokes,
01:47including mocking the ending to Logan again in the second film, which makes up the basis of that film's opening title sequence.
01:54So, really, you can say the groundwork for having Wolverine show up in a Deadpool movie has pretty much been laid since about 2009 or so.
02:04It almost feels like it was inevitable in many ways, even though actually Hugh Jackman, the science of a prize's role,
02:11wasn't actually a given, it was a fairly recent thing.
02:14Believe it or not, it's been six years since Deadpool 2, and suffice to say, a lot has happened in that time,
02:19by which I mean the Disney buyout of Fox and all of their Marvel properties, including the X-Men and the Fantastic Four,
02:27which are now gradually being absorbed into the MCU, including Deadpool himself.
02:33And so there was some question as to whether putting Deadpool into the MCU would in some way new to him or change him,
02:40but the fact that the entire movie is a meta-commentary on this corporate merger pretty much says the opposite.
02:47One big noticeable change in this outing is the director.
02:51Stepping into the chair this time is Sean Levy, who is Ryan Reynolds' regular collaborator,
02:57previously worked with him on Free Guy and The Adam Project, he also did the Night of the Museum movies.
03:03That is definitely different to the previous Deadpool directors, Tim Miller and David Leitch,
03:07who both came from stunt and action backgrounds, that was clearly where they were focusing upon,
03:14whereas Sean Levy is definitely someone that focuses much more on comedy, that is where his experience lays.
03:20The movie is already breaking box office records as I record this review, because it's the combination we've always wanted to see.
03:27We've wanted to see Deadpool playing off of Wolverine in the same movie, a proper version of Deadpool, I mean.
03:35Seeing Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in the same space feels like an event.
03:41And so the question with a movie like Deadpool and Wolverine becomes, what exactly do you want to take from it?
03:47Do you come into a movie like this wanting cameos and fan service?
03:52I'm gonna tell you right up at the top, you're gonna be extremely happy with the movie if that's the case.
03:57But if you wanted something maybe a little bit more than that, if you wanted a good story to go along with it,
04:04maybe not so much.
04:06I'd argue the first Deadpool film was quite subversive, as much as a studio comic book film can be.
04:12After all, it was wheeled into existence by a leak, it was the scrappy underdog that very nearly didn't happen.
04:20And the fact that there was a comic book movie that was very self-aware about the tropes, that was poking fun at them,
04:27it did feel genuinely refreshing.
04:30There was kind of an anarchic feeling to the movie that felt like a poke in the eye to the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
04:36which can get a bit self-serious at times, certainly.
04:41It felt like something that we hadn't really seen before, especially because it was such a hard-R movie.
04:46There were, of course, R-rated comic book movies before that, but they were quite rare.
04:51Whereas I think there's a lot of movies that have followed in the shadow of Deadpool.
04:56Deadpool opened up things like The Suicide Squad, the James Gunn movie, and things like that.
05:02Deadpool 2 was a bigger, louder, and messier sequel, and everyone was kind of rushing in to do their cameos.
05:09And some of them were quite amusing, some of them were fun, but it definitely felt like it lost something,
05:16because it wasn't the underdog anymore, it was a big, successful franchise.
05:22And that is only solidified by the time that Deadpool and Wolverine rolls around,
05:26where it's now fully-fledged into the MCU.
05:29The first thing we see in the movie is the Marvel Studios logo.
05:34And yeah, Deadpool is humming along to the theme song over it,
05:38but it does feel very much like we're in standard Marvel territory to a certain extent.
05:44It's not the scrappy underdog, it's very much got a seat at the table now.
05:50And don't get me wrong, this is very much a hard-R-rated Deadpool movie with all that entails.
05:55It doesn't feel sanitised or watered down in that particular way,
05:59but it is also a Deadpool movie where there's a scene where he's led into a room
06:04showing screens that have clips of the Avengers movies,
06:08and it's all very celebratory and reverential, and the theme is playing.
06:13It plays that stuff surprisingly straight.
06:16Yeah, you get the jokes about,
06:18oh, you can't do that in a Disney movie.
06:20Kevin Feige won't allow us to do this in a Marvel film.
06:23But it feels weirdly toothless in its own way.
06:27Like, Kevin Feige probably had to approve the jokes about himself that Deadpool says in this movie,
06:35and that takes away from the real sting of it.
06:38The film doesn't really poke too much at the bear of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
06:43I think it's also telling that Deadpool and Wolverine largely exist in its own sandbox.
06:49Yeah, it does have connections with things like Loki,
06:52but it plays largely as a self-contained movie,
06:55which makes sense because it feels in keeping with the other two entries,
07:00but it's also telling that they didn't really try to connect it with the massive behemoth of the MCU,
07:05and they aren't trying to do things that might affect what's going on in that universe.
07:11And so, in that way, it does feel like, to a certain extent, there is a bit of sanitisation,
07:18but maybe that's just naturally so because it's been absorbed
07:22into the thing that it was commenting on in the first place,
07:25and actually feels surprisingly on-brand despite the bloodletting.
07:31One of the more telling differences between this new Deadpool movie and the first two films
07:35is that the title sequence at the beginning of the movie is actually genuinely a credit sequence.
07:40In the first two films, it was gag credits.
07:43They were making fun of themselves.
07:44It added to the meta elements of the entire movie,
07:48whereas this time, they just play the credits,
07:51which weirdly detracts because there's a fantastic bit of comedy going on underneath it,
07:56and so gag credits would have felt appropriate there,
07:59and it does detract a bit that it's literally just straight-up opening billing.
08:05I guess you really can't do that in a Marvel film.
08:08So, instead of playing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
08:11the film instead plays in the remnants of the Fox, Marvel and X-Men films,
08:15with The Void itself being a massive running joke at the expense of this,
08:19and the corporate merger,
08:21with the most telling identifiable feature in this desert landscape
08:25being the fragments of the old 20th Century Fox logo,
08:29and it's envisioned as being this Mad Max-style wasteland
08:34with characters roaming around the landscape on their cars.
08:37They even managed to fit in a joke at the expense of Furiosa,
08:40which seems like it might have been inserted in at roughly around the last minute
08:44once they realised that Furiosa was underperforming at the box office.
08:48Bit of a low blow there.
08:50And as the film is playing into the nostalgia for the Fox X-Men films,
08:53bringing back characters like Hugh Jackman's Wolverine,
08:56then it helps that Jackman clearly hasn't missed a step in reprising the role.
09:00He's fantastic, as he's always been in his career-defining part.
09:05It's great to see him back again,
09:07and it's also great to finally see him at last in the comic book-accurate costume,
09:12which is saying that fans of the comic books have been asking for for decades,
09:18because notoriously, the X-Men films refused to have comic book-accurate costumes,
09:23instead going for black leather ensembles,
09:26because they felt that comic book-accurate costumes would be a bit too campy.
09:30It definitely shows the difference between then and now
09:34that we finally get this at last,
09:36and actually, it does look pretty good on Hugh Jackman.
09:40But the fact the costume is probably the most significant part of the role this time around
09:45is maybe a little bit revealing,
09:47in that Jackman has been now playing the role for 25 years,
09:52and I suddenly have the crushing realisation of the weight of time on my mind
09:56by saying those words.
09:58But he has genuinely been playing this character for so long,
10:02and in so many films now,
10:04that there is literally nothing that he hasn't already done with the character
10:08at some point one way or another,
10:11and you do feel that at points in Deadpool and Wolverine.
10:15Even though this is a different version of Logan,
10:18normally speaking, it's still the same version of the character we're familiar with,
10:24and also, the fact this version is dealing with Survivor's Guild,
10:28dealing with the fact that he's lost the X-Men in his particular universe,
10:32wasn't that exactly what the character's main conflict was in Logan previously?
10:38It's just him retreading that to a certain extent.
10:42Maybe he kind of left the role for a reason the first time.
10:46And while I could definitely argue that the existence of Deadpool and Wolverine
10:50does undermine the power and significance of Logan,
10:53at least in terms of being a send-off for Jackman as the character,
10:57the film knowingly exploits that in its deliberately offensive opening sequence,
11:02which is probably the funniest part of the film and the best action set piece.
11:07It's a good example of what Deadpool can do right in its best moments,
11:12in that literal defilement actually turns out to be somewhat hysterical
11:18because it goes way, way beyond what you expect it to.
11:22And when Jackman does show up, he's largely playing it straight,
11:25which is exactly what you want, because he's meant to be the foil to Deadpool.
11:29You don't want both of them, cracking-wise.
11:31But as a buddy comedy, I do have to admit that after a while,
11:35I did find Deadpool and Wolverine's interactions to be a bit repetitive and a bit samey,
11:41because Logan's not exactly a big talker.
11:43He's a quite surly, monosyllabic guy.
11:46Much of the interactions between Deadpool and Wolverine can largely be summed up as,
11:51oh, I'm Deadpool, I'm making a lot of quips,
11:54and then Wolverine just growls at him, shut the fuck up.
11:58More effective in terms of their squabbling are the fight sequences
12:01between Deadpool and Wolverine, of which there are two in the movie,
12:04and that's arguably one too many, but still, these sequences are bloody slapstick,
12:10because both characters have healing abilities,
12:13so they can do the worst possible things to each other,
12:17and they just regenerate instantly, with no consequences,
12:20to do even more carnage on top of each other.
12:23And the fight scene in the car is a great example of this,
12:26especially as Deadpool is getting by far the worst of this in close quarters,
12:31where he's getting his limbs snapped out constantly,
12:33and then his limbs just heal back instantly.
12:37It's quite funny, and knowingly over the top.
12:40But again, they do this twice, when really,
12:43they should have just had one big blowout, like the one in the car,
12:48rather than doing two and diminishing the second one by having already done that beat.
12:54And as for Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool shtick,
12:56I think we're all familiar with it by this point.
12:58We know exactly what he's going to do in this movie,
13:02in that he's going to crank the sardonic quips up to 11,
13:06which is exactly in keeping with the character,
13:08and it's ultimately quite funny, because of the sheer volume of the jokes,
13:12to just being very annoying, depending on the scene.
13:14And I do have to admit, I was kind of sympathising with some of the characters,
13:18especially Logan, for finding him immensely irritating at points.
13:23Admittedly, I have form for this, as many long-time viewers will know.
13:28I can find that Ryan's shtick, when he really, really decides to go with it,
13:33can be a bit on the grating side, to say the least.
13:37He can be charming when he kind of dials it back down,
13:40but that's not the case in the Deadpool movies.
13:43And I will admit, he's funny, but sometimes I grow very tired of it,
13:49after a certain point.
13:50Especially because Reynolds seems to be trying to set a world record
13:53for the amount of pegging jokes in a single film.
13:56But as I said before, the film delivers as a fan service machine.
13:59It gives the fans a lot of things that they've been wanting to see in a film for years.
14:03Deadpool and Wolverine is basically a testament to,
14:06hey, Disney owns all these characters now, we can do this.
14:10We can do that.
14:12And that means that there is a veritable ocean of cameos,
14:15many of which are quite surprising, and many are fun in their own ways.
14:20And the surprise is absolutely the best part,
14:22so I'm not going to reveal any of them here,
14:24even though the movie has been out for over a week now.
14:27But still, watching the movie, it was quite enjoyable
14:31to have someone walk on screen and go,
14:33I genuinely didn't expect them to be in this movie,
14:36followed immediately by,
14:38okay, I genuinely did not expect that person to show up.
14:42They are the last person I expected to appear in a Deadpool movie,
14:46but it's kind of sweet that they're here.
14:49And this is all very inside baseball,
14:50because it's not just playing on the knowledge of the X-Men films,
14:53as the audience have very likely seen them,
14:56it's also playing on the development history of those films as well.
15:01At least one of these characters is a reference to a film that wasn't even made.
15:06This is very much meant to be a tribute to the Fox era of superhero films,
15:11as much as it's poking fun at it.
15:13It's arguably the forerunner to what we know the Marvel Cinematic Universe
15:17as we know it today,
15:19even as it ran concurrently with it for quite a few years.
15:23You could argue that we wouldn't have the MCU without these movies,
15:27proving that there was an audience for comic book films.
15:30It's the era that I grew up with in my teens.
15:32I saw all these movies as they came out.
15:36I am the target audience for something like Deadpool and Wolverine.
15:40And the film even plays upon those emotions,
15:42because in the closing credits there's a tribute video
15:46where they've compiled clips from various X-Men films
15:49and other Fox Marvel properties and compiled it together.
15:54And there is a certain sweetness about that video,
15:57but I also thought there's a degree of rose-tinted glasses
16:01in rewriting history to a certain extent,
16:04because let's be absolutely real here.
16:07A lot of these films were lambasted by the fans when they came out,
16:13and they're still arguably some of the worst comic book movies that were made.
16:17Yeah, some of them were really good,
16:20and some of them were also wildly awful.
16:24It includes in that tribute video, for example,
16:27footage from X-Men Origins Wolverine,
16:29which, yeah, you wouldn't have Deadpool and Wolverine without that movie.
16:34But it's also a pretty terrible film.
16:37Likewise, it also includes footage from the 2015 Fantastic Four,
16:42which is a very weird choice,
16:44because that film had a notorious production history,
16:48and yet they include a couple of clips like,
16:50oh, it was just happy days on working on that particular movie.
16:55And that's not even getting into the fact the film completely sidesteps,
17:00say, the darker part of those films,
17:04but in particular the X-Men films like, say, Bryan Singer or Brett Ratner.
17:10You definitely won't hear those words coming out of Deadpool's mouth,
17:13let alone seeing any footage of them in the behind-the-scenes tribute video,
17:17which I'd imagine was very carefully edited to avoid any of that particular stuff.
17:23I'm the kind of person that lurked on, say, superhero hype or the IMDb message board,
17:29so I get a lot of this stuff.
17:31And there's a certain charm at looking back on these films
17:35compared to what we know the MCU as,
17:37because they are primitive in certain ways,
17:40but this is also romanticism through and through.
17:43And it's also not the first time the MCU has used the multiverse for nostalgia.
17:48You think of things like No Way Home,
17:50or even the middle act of Multiverse of Madness,
17:53with all the cameos that popped up in the midst of that.
17:57And I'd argue that something like No Way Home did this better and actually earned it,
18:02because it did do something interesting with those characters,
18:06especially those from the amazing Spider-Man films,
18:09which didn't have a resolution.
18:11It did actually finally give them an ending.
18:15This movie tries to do the same thing.
18:17It tries to talk about endings and things like that,
18:21but it feels a bit hollow because a lot of what it's referencing
18:24wasn't as beloved as the Spider-Man films,
18:27so it feels a bit strange.
18:29And also because the movie kind of discards that angle anyway,
18:33especially because it's flying in the face of an ending.
18:36It makes a joke about the fact that,
18:38yeah, Disney brought back Hugh Jackman.
18:40He's going to be playing the role till he's 90.
18:43And it kind of feels like it's true.
18:45But moreover, it reinforces the feeling that who shows up
18:48and what cameos there are have now become more important
18:51than the actual storytelling themselves in the MCU,
18:55which ever since Endgame has constantly gone back to previous characters,
19:01going back to previous movies,
19:02or even previous incarnations of franchises.
19:06And yes, I'm human.
19:07I enjoy the dopamine hit of recognising a character
19:11pointing at the screen like Leonardo DiCaprio.
19:14But even still, it doesn't disguise for me the fact that
19:19underneath it all, when you put all that aside,
19:22there really isn't that much story here.
19:25I did like some of the new characters that were added for this movie,
19:28but again, they kind of get a bit lost amongst the huge ensemble
19:32that eventually builds up over the course of the movie.
19:35Emma Corrin, for example, is clearly doing their best as Cassandra Nova,
19:39who is the twin sister of Charles Xavier,
19:42but of course, the evil side.
19:45I really like, in particular,
19:46the visual of Cassandra poking their fingers inside characters' heads,
19:52and you can see their fingers kind of poking out through them.
19:55You can feel the discomfort of the characters.
19:59It's very visceral in its own way.
20:02And you can clearly tell that Corrin is trying to add a bit of dimension
20:07to what, on the page, is a very straightforward villain
20:10that is clearly dealing with their own jealousy of being erased.
20:15The problem is the actual narrative of the story
20:18means that Cassandra gets turned into a villain
20:21whose plans don't really make a whole bunch of sense.
20:25They just exist to drive the nominal plot forward.
20:29Likewise, Matthew McFadden is wonderfully slimy as Mr Paradox,
20:33which is clearly playing on his work in succession,
20:36and McFadden does his best to turn that into a real character,
20:40because on the page, he has to deliver absolute buckets of exposition.
20:46He has so much dialogue and so many speeches, absolute reams of plot.
20:52The problem I found is that McFadden, he's set up great,
20:56but then he disappears for far too much of the middle of the film,
20:59and by the time he does reappear,
21:01his role has been superseded by Corrin anyway,
21:05so he's again just largely standing around to deliver even more exposition.
21:10But if you want to know who the real cameos are in Deadpool and Wolverine,
21:14it's the returning players from the previous Deadpool films
21:17who are barely even in the movie and extremely underutilised.
21:22Deadpool and Wolverine might be the first film in history
21:26where the cameos have more screen time than most of the main cast in the opening credits.
21:33Marina Baccarin might not be fridged this time around as Vanessa,
21:38but she might as well effectively be,
21:40because this time around, Vanessa has moved on,
21:44and that provides a bit of conflict for Deadpool as a character,
21:48but again, it's a similar conflict to what he was going through in the previous movie,
21:53in that he has to find a way of moving on without her,
21:57and honestly, that conflict doesn't entirely ring true,
22:00because he literally reversed time to bring her back to life.
22:04I think he might be a little bit of a keeper after something like that,
22:06but maybe that's just me.
22:08The only one that seems to actually evade this is Rob Delaney's Peter,
22:13who once again is a wholesome delight,
22:16even while he's doing jokes about weird piercings.
22:19But even so, I do think that the Deadpool cast are really squandered in this film,
22:25and especially because the conflict in this one
22:27is that Deadpool is trying to save his world.
22:30He's talking about how these characters, they are his world,
22:34but again, that rings rather false when they're hardly even in the movie to begin with.
22:41Separating him from his core cast of characters,
22:44the characters that he plays off of,
22:47I feel like is one of the film's worst decisions.
22:50And while we're on the subject of the film's emotional arc,
22:52the film tries to have a bit of depth with Wade trying to find his place,
22:56trying to find his significance.
22:58This whole thing about him wanting to be part of the Avengers,
23:02isn't that just very similar to what he was doing in the second Deadpool film,
23:05where he wanted a place on the X-Men and he created X-Force?
23:10He wants to feel part of a team and feel included.
23:13He feels like that is going to make him feel important.
23:17So again, we're kind of going through things that we've already done in a Deadpool movie,
23:23but also because this gets overwhelmed in the sheer amount of cameos
23:28and stuff slathered on top of it,
23:31the movie tries to go for a big emotional moment
23:34that feels totally unearned at the end of it.
23:38And you might say, well, so what?
23:39But the first two Deadpool films did have that
23:42because you need that emotional grounding for the character.
23:45Otherwise, he's just bouncing around doing quips and he's just completely empty.
23:50The point is, he does actually care about something
23:54because you need the audience to care about something.
23:58But Deadpool and Wolverine doesn't pull this trick off.
24:02And because the film is missing that,
24:04it feels like it quickly falls into a cycle that it repeats over and over again.
24:08Deadpool and Wolverine bicker and fight,
24:10then a cameo walks in from behind,
24:12then you pause for a reveal and applause,
24:15then you have a set piece,
24:16and then just repeat over and over again until about two hours passes.
24:21When it comes to action, I don't think it matches the first two films.
24:26For a start, too much of the film takes place in nondescript locations
24:31like empty deserts, woodlands, or fields.
24:35So many just generic locations.
24:38Although really, if it wanted to be a tribute to the Fox Marvel films,
24:40it needed to set at least 50% of the movie in corridors.
24:44And when it comes to the action set pieces,
24:47they're really messy and visually cluttered.
24:49There's too many effects getting in the way.
24:52Yeah, it affords the time for the guest players to do their cool moments.
24:56Those are photographed quite well, but they're cut in very awkwardly.
25:01The staging is clumsy.
25:03It's always kind of cutting back and forth in ways that don't really feel very organic.
25:09Much later on, near the end of the movie,
25:11there's an attempt at a corridor sequence.
25:14Those kind of sequences that are inspired by the famous bit in Oldboy,
25:17where the characters have to go up against an army of opponents in a single continuous shot.
25:23This is something that you've seen in a lot of the Marvel TV shows.
25:26Really, in this case, it's a street scene.
25:28But still, it's an example of this.
25:31It again feels like a sequence that exists simply because it looks cool.
25:36And it ultimately comes across as just being empty time wasting for yet more cameos.
25:41There's no real significance to it.
25:43They just spend five minutes on all of this stuff,
25:47and it has nothing to do with the story or the plot.
25:50It just stops to do all this stuff and then gets back to the climax of the movie.
25:56Although I suppose when you think about it,
25:58Sean Levy might actually be the best person to direct this,
26:01because it really isn't all that different from Free Guy,
26:04where Reynolds had to save his world from being destroyed amidst a sea of cameos and references.
26:10It's just that this time around, there's more people saying motherfuckers and exploding heads.
26:15Look, Deadpool and Wolverine knows exactly who it's playing towards,
26:18and I think those people will be happy.
26:20In fact, I know a lot of those people are happy.
26:22I've seen people talking about how much they enjoyed the movie and how they had fun with it,
26:26which is exactly what you want from a cinema experience.
26:30I'm glad for those people.
26:31I want to be one of those people.
26:33I don't want to be sitting here going,
26:35well, I didn't like it as much because there wasn't much of a story to it.
26:39But it's also the weakest Deadpool film for me,
26:41because it wore thin very quickly once I realised what exactly it was.
26:48Maybe it's just me, but I'm tired of all the IP displays that we've seen recently,
26:54especially in the superhero genre, and not just in Marvel.
26:59I mean, we've seen it in things like The Flash, which was roundly rejected,
27:04but largely is doing a lot of the same things.
27:07It's trying to cash in on the affection for the past and the movies that we grew up with,
27:14especially my generation.
27:16But I mean more than that when I go to a movie.
27:19There's also a part of me that wonders that once the hype dies down
27:22and people start re-watching the movie,
27:25once they've got past those initial surprises,
27:28on a second or third viewing,
27:30the lack of substance aside from those things might start to leap out at those viewers.
27:37And that's a bit of a shame.
27:38It feels like Deadpool and Wolverine might be a kind of movie that you watch once,
27:43you enjoy it, but you don't come back to.
27:46For something that starts out as poking the genre in the eye Three Stooges style,
27:51Deadpool and Wolverine ultimately feels like more the same old,
27:56same old when it comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
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