Introduction: In order to seize the golden position of watching movies, I bought the movie ticket of "Jiang Ziya" three days before the National Day.
rushed into the cinema at the door of the house on time at 9:30 in the morning for a sneak peek. There is no way for
, the childhood filter of "Fengshen Universe" makes me "uncontrollable how many mails I can"!
has a national comic "explosive masterpiece" and "Nezha" with a box office of more than 5 billion. The "latecomers" and "Jiang Ziya" can be described as "high pressure".
is different from the previous image of the "wise old man" with fairy-style bones and white beard and hair. Jiang Ziya in the movie is set as the "high-cold obsessive-compulsive disorder" of "bitterness and hatred".
fell from the peak and fell into a "middle-age crisis" in the workplace because of the mistake of killing the demon stage and killing the nine tails.
The big disciple of the Jingxu Palace lost the dazzling aura of "the length of the gods" and was scolded by the monsters and ghosts as "the scum of the Three Realms" in the "North Sea Tavern" in the bitter cold forbidden area. The degraded life of
gods is so "boring and boring."
And the movie itself seems to "breathe and share fate" with the hero, and share the same difficulties. The
Douban score is 7.1, which is significantly different from the 8.5-point high-burning "Nezha".
audience criticized "the story is weak", "watch fell asleep", "boring"...
but the box office went against the trend, breaking through the 500 million mark every minute.
As of press time, 2.087 million people want to watch "Jiang Ziya", which beat Chen Kexin's "Win the Championship" and topped the weekly box office list.
's polarized word-of-mouth and the sudden emergence of the box office have made the ambiguous middle-aged story of "Jiang Ziya" burst into a strange attraction.
After all, other people's evaluations may only be "subjective judgments."
Whether a movie is good or bad, you can only tell if you watch it. The release period of
is still very long, and today I don’t want to use one assertion to give a conclusion to "Jiang Ziya", although I could have done that.
Then try to be more objective, and analyze this national comic "shenzhen IP" in depth from three aspects: visual effects, character creation and theme interpretation. (Why don't I talk about narrative? You will understand when you see the end.)
01, visual effects
Before the official release of "Jiang Ziya", I have repeatedly reprinted the trailers and behind-the-scenes specials several times. Z1z
plus the good reputation of Caitiaowu, the fantasy and magnificence of Chinese mythology, the expectation value is MAX. The background of the
story is set in the mythical period more than 3,000 years ago. Without reliable historical data and cultural relics, how to construct a "real and fantastic" world of consecrated gods? Zheng Teng, director of
, said: “These known Chinese elements, including humanistic architecture and patterns, are actually not usable because they all have some dynasty attributes. When we did our own research, we found that the period was still primitive tribes. Wearing a straw skirt and living in a wooden house, but it is really designed to be that the audience can’t accept it.” In the end, the whole team referred to many unofficial history and Taoist classics, and personally designed a set of "worldview details" in line with the age of enfeoffment. Among them, the climate and landforms are as large as the artifacts and emblems. Every detail of
"Jiang Ziya" film embodies the hard work of countless creators behind the scenes.
Of course, the most outstanding thing is definitely the "visual effect" with rich oriental aesthetics.
said that the stunning two-dimensional animation at the beginning of the film, the mysterious and elegant of the ancient times, the complex and magnificent epic war, is presented in the world of light and shadow with a purely handmade texture. The pictures of
are gorgeous and eye-catching. The collision of traditional culture and modern technology has both international style and Chinese characteristics.
clearly knows that 2D animation has no chance of trial and error. It is a "draft". The director Li Wei is determined: "After the 2D paragraph was set up for "Jiang Ziya", I vowed to do it because of the national style. , Will make the audience crazy."
And this paragraph is also the origin of the story, it is worth paying for.
, in order to pursue the same fine art style as the very complicated Dunhuang murals, the animation details are particularly numerous. Polished for excellence, some parts of the picture that are very difficult for the audience to notice are all moving.
, especially the confrontation between the fox demon and the human war horse, has a good sense of fluidity.
Next to the "hot potato" of the two-dimensional paragraph is Pei Pei, the top original artist in the industry.
"His level" draws one frame in one to two days, The workload required to complete this two-dimensional animation is four to eight times the normal intensity. "Z1z
Li Wei once showed the storyboard to Zhang Chun, the director of "Big Fish and Begonia", in exchange for a sentence: "The workload of this film is unprecedented and there is no one to come after. It is too huge. "Z1z
, but upholding his love and sincerity in animation, he has no hesitation. Later,
also helped "Jiang Ziya" to adjust the background for a month, and painted every background.
and the background is very large, with about 600 points. Layer. When a PS file is opened, the computer has to be black for a long time.
Li Wei said: "In general, the two-dimensional paragraph is torturing everyone, including the cost. "Z1z
These few "extraordinarily expensive" two-dimensional animations are not only the creative team’s respect for art and the market, but also the "perverted" pursuit of visual effects. What is the beauty of the three-dimensional images of the movie
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or "Jiang Ziya" The biggest feature of the style is the use of a stereotyped computer three-dimensional system to create abstract, oriental charm and artistic conception. The opening of
"Jiang Taigong Fishing", restores Liu Zongyuan's "Lonely Boat and Dali Weng, Fishing on the Hanjiang River" "Snow"-like beautiful artistic conception.
The "Quiet Palace" of the God Realm is white and solemn, full of deterrence, and full of the loneliness and power of "the cold from the heights".
The vast "return to the market" of reeds, with the "Book of Songs" The helpless melancholy of "Jian Jia Cang, white dew as frost, so-called Iraqi people, on the water side". Z1z
Of course, the perfect visual effects are presented, and the team's burst of liver is indispensable. Z1z
will show you a set of real data:
movie The total duration is 1560 days; 1600 people put in day and night; the total number of shots is 1851; the special effects lens is 1300, accounting for 70%; the difficult special effects lens is 179, the medium difficulty special effect lens is 100; the single lens computer crashes 1000 times; the key lens is polished 40~50 editions; average 20 editions for each shot. Z1z
character development time 18 months. Jiang Ziya iteration 123 edition; Xiaojiu 255 edition; Four non-phase 81 edition; Shen Gongbao 87 edition; Jiuwei 69 edition.
art development time In 15 months, the scene design has an average number of iterations of 40 times, and the total number of overtime work has accumulated to take a taxi ride around the earth. Among them, the Beihai Pub group image is the most challenging animation for director Wang Xin. The ghosts and ghosts are infested. The place is not big, and there are too many roles.
Wang Xin said: "If we are convenient, we can make the tavern house bigger. This is a very simple matter for us. But what we want to express is the ancient society. Back then, there were not so big and spacious houses, only small huts built together. "All the characters of
must have their own unique recognition, but also coordinate with each other's style, and finally be enlarged on the giant screen, every detail will be fully displayed.
is indeed a huge challenge.
but there is always pay Harvest, isn’t it? The final film of
presents a very high level of 3D production. The literary drama is far-reaching, the martial arts swallows mountains and rivers. The mysterious bird who extradited the souls of the dead crosses the galaxy in the night sky; the four who died in the battle of the guardian are not farewell to annihilation; Looking back calmly in Reed’s vast hometown... Every frame is breathtakingly beautiful. Z1z
Apart from anything else, the sincerity of the visual effects is okay.
02, character creation
Jiang Ziya is not an overhead character, it is in Chinese history. Recorded.
Jiang surname, Lu, the name is Shang, the word Ziya, the name Feixiong. Birth and death year: about 1156 -1017.
He is also an outstanding politician, military strategist, and Taoist in ancient China. The founding father of the Zhou Dynasty, the founder of military science at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty. His main work is the "Book of Zhou" on the use of soldiers to govern the country.
In the past, Jiang Ziya was fishing on the shores of the Weishui. , Became the chief think tank and assisted Ji Chang to establish the hegemony. The "master" of the Taigong ordered by the king of Wen was the "Taishi", and was the supreme officer of the "Three Gongs" of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The second is that the grandfather’s schemes are the most important in the Zhou dynasty.” This shows that the grandfather’s position in the Zhou dynasty is very important. After Zhou Wu ascended the throne, he was honored as the "master and father" and became the military commander of the Zhou stateHandsome, known as Jiang Shang.
assisted the king of Wu to defeat Zhou, established the Zhou Dynasty, was named Qihou, fixed his capital in Yingqiu, and became the founder of the Qi State of Lu family and the founder of Qi culture. Assist Zhou Gongdan in power, quell civil strife, expand territory, and establish Chengkang rule. In the sixth year of King Zhou Kang, he died in Gaojing, and his eldest son Lu Ji (Gong Qi Ding) took the throne.
Jiang Taigong has always been highly respected by rulers of the past dynasties, and he has a lot of poems in many historical materials and literary works before the Tang Dynasty such as "The Book of Songs". The emperors and literary and historical books of the past dynasties are respected as the originator of military strategists, martial sages, and masters of a hundred schools. During the reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, he was posthumously named the King of Wucheng and set up a temple to worship. During the Song Zhenzong period, the posthumous posthumous name Zhaolie. In the history of
, Jiang Taigong was regarded as an all-wise and omnipotent figure, and was also a "high, big, and complete" image on the later literary stage, and he was also a god lord above all gods on the Chinese altar. As a god of religion, he is the god of war and wisdom, and he is regarded as the god of protection of "the great grandson is here, there is no taboo". In the folklore version of
, Jiang Ziya was a young disciple of Tianzun Yuanshi, who was ordered by his teacher to assist King Zhou Wen and King Wu in the crusade against King Zhou. In the meantime, the three leaders of Yuanshi Tianzun, Jiejiao Tongtian, and Western Taoist Advocating Taoist have set up a list of gods.
The image of Jiang Ziya in the novels and TV series we later saw "lighted history but emphasized legend". After all,
stories with fantasy and mystery are more attractive! The
movie version of Jiang Ziya's story is based on the classic novel "The Romance of the Gods", but the adapted version is exactly the same as the "Westward Journey" born in 15 years.
Sixteen years after the four masters and apprentices of Tang Sanzang obtained the Qijing, the world has not changed for the better.
The tough man Tang Monk opened a luxurious restaurant in the world, living a decadent life.
Because of his hesitation at a critical moment, the great apprentice Sun Wukong died tragically, Ba Jie was pulled out of his fangs, and Monk Sha lost his memory.
The whereabouts of the strange scriptures are unknown. The Heavenly Court sent an army to search for it. Starting from the battle of Tianyu Mountain, the little demon White Wolf tried to find the Tang monk who studied the scriptures in the past. The team gathered on the road to return the scriptures. A journey of soul salvation. Jiang Ziya, the major disciple of the Jingxu Palace who was responsible for the heavy task of cutting down the king, discovered that the world had not changed for the better ten years after the end of the Conferred God War, but was more desolate and desolate.
The so-called "saving common people" in Master's mouth is more like a conspiracy with ulterior motives.
Jiang Ziya was successful in that year, and was ordered to kill Nine Tails at the Demon Slayer Platform.
The fox demon is causing trouble in the world, and it is deserved. Jiang Ziya will not be soft. When
was executed, he found an innocent soul in Kyuubi's body.
was also hesitant, he broke the seal of the fox demon mask against his command.
The innocent soul escaped a catastrophe, the fox demon lay down, and Jiang Ziya thought about being demoted to the "Beihai" imprisoned by criminals in the Shang Dynasty.
This is actually more cruel than the self-exile of Tang Seng in "Westward Journey".
Jiang Ziya is like "being locked up in a prison where half of the people are caught by himself", isn't this exactly the ending that Keanu Reeves feared most in "Constantin"?
In the "North Sea Tavern" where monsters are rampant, the majestic god in the past was humiliated by the defeated generals of the past.
"What if I won the battle? Isn't it locked here like us?"
Fortunately, he met the soul of Kyuubi, Xiao Jiu. In order to find the truth, they and Meng Chong "four are not related." "We got the map together, and embarked on a journey to Youdu Mountain to find Heihua and Father A. This is also Jiang Ziya's own path to becoming a god.
Jiang Ziya is an old-fashioned stereotype with many triangular stable structures on his body. His face is triangular and his beard is also triangular mustache.
Look carefully at Jiang Ziya's raincoat. They are all plants, the veins of leaves, not animal feathers.
He is not warlike, but the "Tao" personality that hopes the world is peaceful. In the movie
, he has more images of middle-aged people. In the eyes of Master, Jiang Ziya is just an apprentice studying. At the peak of his life,
has his own confusion, admiration for the master, and doubts. Director
feels that the process of contrast and growth is the embodiment of the visualization of the story. If you follow the image of the elderly, Jiang Ziya will "change from an old man to an old man".Although reasonable, the contrast is not enough. What the movie
most wants to express is how Jiang Ziya breaks through from the state of a tool person.
When he was demoted to Beihai before, he could not see the hope and the result, and his faith also had a huge crisis.
Faced with long punishments and thoughts, he had no goals, but with the company of Xiaojiu, Shen Gongbao, and Sibuxiang, his accumulated beliefs supported him to the end. Z1z
may be for the fullness of the character, Jiang Ziya is also set as a typical INTJ personality (an instant brain fills Sheldon and Holmes).
is cold and serious, and has serious obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Of course, the obsessive-compulsive disorder of the director team is not covered, "the men behind Jiang Ziya" have projected their own characteristics to the movie hero.
director Wang Xin was still digging out the details the day before the film was finished. He pointed to Jiang Ziya’s eyes in the picture and spit out: "It's still like this ghost on the last day. Why does a Persian cat suddenly appear with green and blue eyes? So simple. I’ve done one shot four or five times, and it’s a mess."
He is the nightmare of the art team staff.
Jiang Ziya, who "recognizes death and rationality", may be a nightmare in Jingxu Palace.
faced all the accusations and tough orders, he was lonely and courageous, choosing to defend his faith and not yield to authority.
This is very similar to Prometheus in Greek mythology, stealing fire for mankind, not hesitating to offend Zeus, and enduring endless torture in the Caucasus Mountains.
is also similar to the angel Raphael in the British drama "Good Omens", because of mercy and compassion, he gave his flame sword to Adam and Eve who was expelled from the Garden of Eden.
Compared with Nezha's change of fate, Jiang Ziya is more like a confused middle-aged in the workplace who has fallen into a crisis of faith.
He sticks to his heart in the search for the truth, even if he is lonely and desolate, and compromises his divine power and aura, he does not change his original intention.
He "topped the ladder three times" and finally destroyed the "fate lock of man and god" with his own power, and became a true god in his own way.
This is indeed not Jiang Ziya in the novel "Fengshen Yanyi" and the TV series "Fengshen Bang", nor is it the founding father of the Zhou dynasty in the history book "The originator of military strategists, the military abyss".
This is a brand-new "Fengshen Universe" superhero image in the cultural context of the new era.
just, his name is Jiang Ziya.
Nine-Tailed Fox, the design of the movie is a standard villain, the character image does not have a special mouth, eyes and nose, only a very scary look.
In order to design the hierarchy and avoid "bad for the sake of bad", the movie gives it a humanity. Kyuubi can also be understood as a microcosm of a deceived and oppressed female character, but its expression is pure revenge and resentment.
It is more like an evil force fooled and manipulated in the whole story, because its stupidity and greed have harmed the whole family.
Yes, the master is simply taking the fox tribe as a victim of power. After the Conferred Gods War, he only wanted to kill his mouth. How could he really make him a fairy class according to his promise?
So Kiu-wei used Jiang Ziya's kind thoughts when he was about to die, to expose the truth at all costs and expose the lies, lusts and malice of "God".
It is naturally inevitable to die, but it is worthwhile to let the dusty truth and conspiracy see the light of day.
How many decent characters (Jiang Yang, Zhu Wei) in "The Silent Truth" abandon their future, love, dignity, and even life for a truth?
, the master who is domineering in the majestic and cold Cthulhu-style heaven, faces Jiang Ziya who has learned the truth, still plausible, insisting that his plan is "the best arrangement".
The "cutting the good" of "giving up one person and saving the common people" has come out. As a god, he can weigh life.
thinks of Li Dan's famous scene of "The First World War Conferring God" in "Wonderful Flowers".
responded to the debate of "saving the cat or saving the painting", he said:
"I have many intellectual friends. After they gain more knowledge, they feel that the heavens will fall to the people of Sri Lanka. Don’t bother yourself, just think about how to sacrifice others every day.
Every day he thinks about how I sacrifice this and save that; how can I sacrifice the small and save the big; how can I sacrifice thisThe near one, save the far one.
And it is these people who sacrifice others and sacrifice other kittens for some so-called magnificent causes and for some lofty goals, who frequently cause our world to fall into flames. "Z1z
and Master's "saving the common people" is actually nothing more than power and selfish desire.
is such a war dressed in the cloak of "justice", so that life will be burnt, the war spread, countless soldiers died on the battlefield, and their bones were buried in ruins.
is in ruins. The ancient battlefield in the North Sea is shocking.
"The wind chimes of bone pieces, the wind blows the bones, can comfort the dead", but the lives that have been fooled, deceived and sacrificed can never come back.
Xiaojiu, although there are fox spirits Appearance, but an innocent human girl, she was involved in this conspiracy just because she was connected to the fate lock with Jiuwei. The mission of
Xiaojiu is to "turn the stone into gold", she is the ultimate change of Jiang Ziya's role, and also Jiang Ziyacheng The biggest boost on the road of God.
Shen Gongbao is unexpectedly not a villain this time, he has become "brotherhood" and "hero worship", incarnate Jiang Ziya's number one "fan".
role setting and "Youth in Youth" The North Mystery is similar.
"You protect the world, I protect you. "This line has no sense of disobedience in "Jiang Ziya"!
and the "milk murderer" in the trailer and the loyal guardian of the beast pets "four non-phases" are even more difficult for modern people. The "pet complex" of giving up.
's soft appearance and arrogant personality are very cute and cute. Z1z
Jiang Ziya is demoted, and it can give up the shelter of Jingxu Palace and come to the bitter cold place to suffer.
faces grievances The Bone Dragon and the Bloodthirsty Nine Tails, it also fights alongside Jiang Ziya.
is "cute, loyal, and courageous", really lovable. Anyway, the "four non-phases" in the movie are my biggest tears.
don't believe you. This little thing that is suspected to be "rabbit, canine, deer, cat" is substituted into your own cats, cats and dogs, to ensure that you want to "send a blade" to the screenwriter after watching the ending.
03, the theme explains the dilemma of
Jiang Ziya, that is A typical "tram car problem."
's "Saving Private Ryan" in 1998 and "Cassandra Bridge" in 1977 are all this routine. Z1z
sent eight soldiers on the battlefield to rescue one, is it worth it?
sacrifices the entire column Is it justice for train passengers to prevent the spread of the plague?
saves one person or saves the common people?
is a great problem for Jiang Ziya, who has the best in nature.
, he found out that Xiaojiu was not a fox demon. People, is this the way of heaven? "Z1z
" If the core value of "Nezha" is "My fate is my responsibility", then "Jiang Ziya" is a symbol of Chinese adults who are moving forward under various pressures. Facing confusion and doubt, facing a crisis of faith He has been fighting, persevering, and never giving up.
In a major war or a major event, Jiang Ziya is in this situation or position, he must face many problems, weigh the pros and cons, and make choices.
I don’t want to promote the concept of “one person is greater than the common people” or “the common people is greater than one person”. The director team designed this plot or image to focus more on “presentation” so that the audience can experience and see this matter. It is not a simple right or wrong. Relationship.
There are no absolutes in the world. The adult world is not black and white, and there are many ambiguous "gray areas."
Good and evil, right and wrong, true and false, righteous and evil are constantly changing and intertwined, making people "in the game," Can't see the truth."
But in the end he chose to break the shackles of authority and insisted on "How can one save the common people"
He said: "It is a god, a demon, a man, and cannot be deceived, manipulated, and cannot be saved. "Z1z
said: "May there be no more displacement, no more lies to fool, no more injustice." "Z1z
He smashed God's desire for control-the ladder, making Master punished, even if the price is to go to "cross the robbery city" and squat in jail. The opening two-dimensional animation of
. Fight for a moment to win or lose.” During the
process, one of them sought the truth and the other revealed the truth, and finally came true in the end of the movie.
"Jiang Ziya" is not a low-level animation, butIt's about "faith and authority, sacrifice and lies". The middle-aged version of
Jiang Ziya, as the "head of the gods", is naturally different from the fearless three-year-old Nezha. The
film is also a variety of metaphors, dark and profound meanings, and it is bound to fail to arouse the audience's empathy as smoothly as "Nezha", and even a little bit more, it becomes an embarrassing, empty, mysterious "Mr. Miao".
has an overview of high-profile and popular animations, mostly small cuts based on ordinary life, time-tested themes of family, love, friendship, family, and growth. If the pattern is too large, it will not be able to please the audience to the maximum, and it will be difficult to get a high box office.
remembered that Fu Lu Shou sang grandma Yuzhen in "Le Xia 2", and the chair band sang father in Hokkien, and they all won with high votes. The
HAYA Orchestra sings "Migration" to cherish the memory of the lost paradise and call for environmental protection. In fact, it is more for yourself.
Both Zhang Yadong’s evaluation and the audience’s votes indicate that such a grand theme is difficult to resonate in a short time. Jiang Ziya in the movie
, he was originally a hero, no matter the scenery or the downfall, he is a hero. There is no "little person" characteristic in him.
Nezha's "My life is up to me" resistance, and the grievance that was misunderstood by the public. It's "small" enough, accurate enough, and grounded enough to get the audience the first time.
In contrast, Jiang Ziya's "Return of the Heroes" appears to be overwhelming.
Conclusion:
has written so much without knowing it.
Think about the 90th version of "Feng Shen Bang", Jiang Ziya played by Mr. Lantian Ye, but the only "old male god" in my childhood.
is handsome!
Thirty years later, when this character was moved to the big screen and became an absolute male protagonist, he must have a face. What's more, he also has the typical "obsessive-compulsive disorder" of INTJ personality, a strong atmosphere of the same kind, plus a friendship point. The stem buried in front of
now reveals the answer. Why don't I talk about the film "narrative", because the story text is a bit "sparse"!
Wang Xin is very aware of his shortcomings, knowing that others say "Blizzard only picks pixels and can only do visuals", but without the support of the story behind, or the whole world view structure, a dramatic setting, the audience is simply Don't want to see what you pick.
loses the beauty of context, meaningless. I can understand the ambition hidden in the text, but the whole story is too thin to hold up such a heavy core.
find a reliable screenwriter next time to polish the script! Otherwise, I am sorry for the hardship I have suffered! After all, Peng Lei, the lead singer of New Pants, said that making animation was the hardest thing he had ever done, but in the end he did nothing. The ending of
and Nezha’s easter eggs are really pleasant surprises, but whether this new version of "Middle-aged Uncle" is good or not, I won't say more about it, let everyone have their own opinions!
