As a classic American drama, the revival of “Prison Break” inevitably sparks a wave of enthusiasm. With its tight plot and excellent production, “Prison Break” challenged the audience’s imagination when it premiered globally in 2005. The dramatic conflict directly pointed to the highest authority of the state, staging a drama of how a mouse can defeat a cat. Recently, the trailer for the fifth season of “Prison Break” in 2017 was released, igniting the passion of countless fans. The suspenseful resurrection of Michael and the wonderful and immersive metal soundtrack, accompanied by the domineering “Who can compete with me?”, pull at the audience’s nerves.
Fans who have been following the show know that at the end of the last season, Michael was terminally ill and running out of time. To save Sara, he used his body as a conductor in prison to electrify himself, opening the prison door for Sara to escape and dying in the process.
The tombstone engraved with Michael’s name at the end of the film brought tears to the eyes of fans. Some fans even suspected that Wentworth Miller had offended the “Prison Break” writers, which is why he died in the plot. It is well known that powerful American screenwriters have sufficient interpretive rights over the script and control the life and death of the characters in the script. It is very common for screenwriters to write the protagonist to death in American drama production.
The Return of the Classic
Speculation aside, in America, classic movies and TV series never end or become outdated. People will always see prequels, sequels, spin-offs, or remakes of these film and television works in the future. FOX executives have revived “The X-Files” and “24” successively. Restarting “Prison Break,” which ranks among the top in ratings, is also due to the global fan base of “Prison Break” and the highlights of the intellectual prison break theme.
The Allure of “Prison Break”
Somewhat similar to the famous classic prison escape film “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Prison Break” also revolves around a story of an innocent person being framed and then planning a prison escape. However, “Prison Break” covers a longer and more complex range. It puts individuals and a country on an equal footing for confrontation and adds more emotional color. The extremely intelligent and even ferocious prisoners in prison appear exceptionally sincere and soft in front of their relatives. The protagonist, Michael, deliberately robbed a bank and went to jail to save his brother, and was willing to sacrifice himself to save Sara. The thread of family affection running through the story makes it easier to win the favor of female audiences.
The Resurrection of Michael
So, how exactly did Michael, who was supposed to be dead, come back to life? Did he climb out of the grave? The creators naturally have to give the audience a reasonable explanation. The trailer reveals that T-Bag tells Lincoln that Michael is still alive and is being held in prison. Sara, who has remarried with a child, hears that he may not be dead, so she and Lincoln plan a new prison break operation to rescue Michael from prison.
Who is the person buried in the tomb? Previously, there was a bug in the film. Lincoln said that Michael was born in 1976, but the tombstone marked it as 1974. Perhaps this is not a mistake by the screenwriter, but a foreshadowing buried in the film. The person lying in the tomb is not Michael at all. The film never showed Michael’s body from the front. Sara, Lincoln, Sucre, and Mahone are only commemorating a non-existent person, just to cover people’s eyes.
Michael’s last appearance was holding a wire. The screenwriter can completely revive him with full health. Maybe he was rescued by some mysterious organization and secretly trained to become a “sleeper” agent of the organization infiltrating enemy forces. This statement is a bit like an unknown soldier in Chinese martial arts falling off a cliff and then developing peerless martial arts (Zhang Wuji fell into a cliff and developed the Nine Yang Divine Skill, Yuan Chengzhi accidentally entered a cave and learned the Golden Snake Sword Technique). Because no matter what, the audience will not accept the fact that in the “Prison Break: The Final Break” special episode, Michael suffered from a family incurable disease and could only hastily choose to be electrocuted to death by a generator. The screenwriter can just go with the flow and let Michael be resurrected and start a new round of prison break in the fifth season.
The Magic of Resurrection in American Dramas
The probability of resurrection in American dramas is not uncommon. In the first “Avengers” movie, Coulson was killed by aliens. After being adapted into the American drama “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” everyone used alien DNA to resurrect Coulson. In the tenth season of “Smallville,” Lex made a perfect clone in advance and resurrected with the heart of his father from a parallel world. As long as the screenwriter has a deep foundation and rich imagination, the dead protagonist has the possibility of resurrection.
The trailer for “Prison Break” has already started playing, and the wonderful resurrection of Michael is about to happen. Don’t let the embarrassing network speed get stuck at the critical point of Michael’s resurrection, preventing him from ever coming back to life. To watch the drama online and explore the secret of Michael’s “resurrection,” be sure to prepare in advance to “nitpick” the American screenwriters.