's highly anticipated national comic series "Jiang Ziya" will be released on November 11. This is the second consecutive year that Caitiaowu has launched a national style animation after "Nezha: The Demon Boy Comes into the World".
has a high probability of relaying the popularity of "Nezha". "Jiang Ziya" has released an end credit, telling that Nezha went to Jiang Ziya's house to eat dumplings and deliberately played naughty. Such a small bridge was misread as a sequel to "Nezha" Some people even hope that "Jiang Ziya" will be made into the "Fengshen Universe Series", comparable to the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" series. The above-mentioned beautiful visions now seem to be too high expectations for the film.
The theme of the film is still taken from "Feng Shen Bang", but the storyline and the relationship between the characters are disrupted, giving new connections and meanings again. After the release, the word-of-mouth is polarized.
As far as the animation production technology is concerned, "Jiang Ziya" is unambiguous. We are very grateful that modern technology can interpret Chinese classical mythology appropriately: sometimes warm, sometimes cold, full of change and no lack of magnificent colors. The design of the nine-tailed fox demon shows the intention. The evil face and eyes of the fox demon, coupled with a gaudy red, have created the most personal animated image of the ancient beasts recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing".
craftsmanship is one aspect. As an animation, we should not only pursue visual effects, but the shortcomings are also obvious.
One is an ambiguous road to return. In recent years, the themes of many domestic films have been nothing more than self-return, self-searching, and self-realization. This may be the unique embodiment of ancient Chinese philosophy in modern film studies.
In "The Return of the Great Sage", the Great Sage was crushed under Wuzhi Mountain and rescued by the young monk Jiang Liuer. He still did not recover his supernatural power. He just fought against the mountain monster and saw Jiang Liuer die in front of him. Turn grief into strength, and divine power will be restored. Searching for self like
restores neither divine power nor honor, but the unyielding will in the face of difficulties, but the spirit of sacrifice in the face of danger. When the great sage was still a great sage with boundless magic power in the past, he naturally had no fear and was full of confidence, but when he lost his power and became an ordinary monkey, would he still have such a spirit?
But there is a great sage, in this sense, he defeated himself, and he deserves the title of hero.
There is only one kind of heroism in the world, which is to love him after knowing the truth of life.
But Jiang Ziya’s road to return is another version: Jiang Ziya, after entrusting the gods, was ordered by the master to kill the fox demon, but he saw an innocent soul, Xiao Jiu, in his body. He couldn’t bear to hurt him and angered the master. , Was relegated to Beihai to think. One day 10 years later, he ran into Xiao Jiu in Beihai. In order to find out the truth, he went with her to Youdu Mountain to find her father. He was chased by the resurrected Jiu-tailed fox monster on the way. In the fight with the fox demon, he learned the secret hidden behind him.
It can be said that this kind of return is not only rotten clichés, but also very confusing logic. Many plots cannot withstand a little scrutiny:
, for example, after the resurrection of Nine Tails, knowing that Master is behind the ghost, why did he chase Jiang Ziya? ? Shouldn't the debtor be the owner? Ask the teacher directly to single out.
The second is the fading spirit of resistance. In the original version of Journey to the West, Monkey King, Monkey King, rebelled against Heaven, representing the monarchy; Nezha deboned and cut flesh, and rebelled against patriarchy; and in this version of Jiang Ziya, it was Master who rebelled against the power of the teacher.
This resistance is not impossible, but not thorough. why? Because Master’s Master, Master is a good person. For the sake of personal gain, of course, at present, the respected master cannot see at all what he is plotting, why he betrayed the fox clan, why he concealed the truth, there is no reasonable reason.
In other words, the teacher is just a personal problem.
This greatly weakens the strength of resistance, and makes the conflicts more indifferent.
Third is the embarrassment of multiple main lines. Jiang Ziya's return to the strengths of the gods relies on the inner persistence for kindness. This main line is very capable of acting. "Though thousands of people are going to go", this lonely persistence and perseverance is a very good entry point for the theme. , Is also conducive to divergence. The rest of
needs to pave the way for the plot to create obstacles for his persistence, but the processing of this film is just a few empty lines.
This cannot but be said to be a failure, and it is a big failure. What's more, the film cuts into a few irrelevant but very embarrassing emotional lines: oneIt is Xiao Jiu looking for Afather’s line of affection. This clue is substituted for no reason. It is very blunt, but it is rendered on a large scale in the film; one is the clue that the war dead miss their hometown. This clue further dilutes the theme and is not clear. With multiple clues intertwined, the emotional impact of Jiang Ziya's return to the road is very soft, weak, and thin, so after reading it, only the embarrassment of the screen is left.
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