This year's ": the city of figurines " and "Jigong" after two consecutive attacks, the summer archives that should have belonged to Guoman were bleak.
Everyone is waiting The rescue work "White Snake 2: The Green Snake".
At the beginning of 2019, "White Snake: Origination" became a strong box office black horse counterattack.
Large-scale intimate scenes, characters who dare to love and hate, love relationships between female A and male O...
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Maoyan's real-time box office has exceeded 400 million, with a score of 9.1.
Compared with the previous work, the sequel has special effects upgrades, story upgrades, and kernel upgrades. At the same time, this also means that storytelling becomes more difficult.
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The story structure is flawed, but the flaws are not covered up. The compact narrative rhythm and top visual effects make up a lot.
To some extent, , as the first feminist animation film in China, , is worth talking about. East-West mix and match aesthetic
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first Come to boast.
Undoubtedly, the special effects screens, world view settings... "The Blue Snake Rise" is the absolute leader in the country.
The most surprising thing is the + 4span wasteland of Chinese punk.
Fortunately, its mashup elements are rooted in the plot text, rather than fabricated "mirages".
▲The master of Baoqing Fang
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Xiaobai was sealed in the Leifeng Pagoda, and Xiaoqing fell into the realm of the void-"Sura City".
Xiaoqing travels to the modern city.
The next plot is almost a disruptive new creation.
The plot ends here, followed by a chase shot, once again "slaps the face" to the audience.
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It is an overhead world between life and death, free from time and space constraints.
Therefore, we can see the apocalyptic wasteland, steampunk, oriental ancient rhyme... a large platter that is like a visual explosion, which is straightforward.
▲ Bangi supermarkets, Shura city
to living here They are all people who cannot let go of their obsessions after death, and they are unwilling to enter into reincarnation.
However, people are a bit one-sided. After all, people, monsters and ghosts are mixed here, each forming a gang and fighting each other.
A bull demon with a foot pedal, in mechanical armor, Raksha girl , punk-fan spider spirits...
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Naturally, the post-modern collage technique is not surprising.
really amazing,Yes Spectacular visual effects structure, containing a lot of ghosts and monsters in Eastern mythology.
For example, the city of Shura is actually a structure of ouroboros . The head of the snake swallows the tail of the snake, which corresponds to the concept of "reincarnation" in Buddhism.
The collapse of the old building, the erection of the new building... The rising of the building is like endless life and desire.
For example, if you don’t learn from the concept of "" Mengpotang , you can “return to the world and reunite”.
For example, the reincarnation of the four catastrophes is taken from " mountain and sea span _span4".
Every looting is for the purpose of eliminating the sentient beings in the city who do not want to reincarnate.
The fire disaster is the bifang that represents the omen of the fire.
The wind catastrophe is a wind god with a human face and a bird body, a hurricane besieged, flying sand and rocks.
♯ 02
a shot to do
As soon as opens,The movie went straight to a big dish.
The classic scene of two blue and white snakes fighting against the sea, the funds are visibly burning.
put in other films, this section can be used as a climax scene support, but the director only uses it as an appetizer.
less than 4 minutes of scenes, details of only one of the waves on polished a full three years.
As small as the lines of water, the velocity of waves, as large as light, shadow and sound, every detail is refined.
, and the team has been suffering from modeling.
look carefully,The clearly visible hair details and texture are completely comparable to those of major American manufacturers. (silently distressed the liver of the team)
span1 even the entire expression system is directly updated.
forced the staff to have the upper body of the "actor", only to provide enough reference material for the shooting of the character.
is just a momentary expression. The animators tried a variety of versions and tried thousands of times before finalizing the final version.
For the whole film, my favorite is the ink painting style of Batu Caves.
Xiaoqing fainted, transformed into a snake, ink painting + afterimages, so amazing!
looks amazing, but the actual operation is extremely exhausting.
On the basis of 3D animation,It is an unprecedented challenge to integrate Chinese traditional ink and wash freehand brushwork.
The production time of a single scene is as long as 90 days.
What’s more difficult is that some special effects are random and you need to try multiple versions before you can choose them.
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a misleading impression of "sisterhood"
boast over, Let's pick the fault.
Unsurprisingly, the lack of supporting characters, the incomplete story setting, the loopholes in the narrative logic... Basically all the old problems of Guoman.
▲Sima Guanren
The most controversial point of the film: Xiaobai turned into a man.
The masked boy who protects Xiaoqing all the way, his identity is reversed. It turns out that Xiaobai escaped from Leifeng Tower and reincarnated.
The director revealed in the interview: The film tried to use the "de-gendered" technique, emphasizing that the relationship between Xiaoqing and Xiaobai has surpassed secular emotions.
This is a bold attempt that could have become a highlight of the film.
However, has too little foreshadowing of emotions and identity reversal.
For example: Where does Xiaoqing’s obsession come from? Why did Xiao Bai fall into Shura City? Where did Xiaoqing and Xiaobai start?
did not have any explanation, and completely relied on the setting of the relationship between the "green and white two snakes" by the myth IP, and the result was that both sides were not pleased.
One kind of accuses the movie of engaging in lily romance in the skin of straight men and women.
The other is to criticize gender reversal for destroying pure sisterhood.Weakened the core of "girls help girls".
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run "side" of feminism
As the first A feminist animated film.
The creative core of the movie is too shallow: the growth of girls is through the experience of love and through each boy.
Therefore, the sign of Xiaoqing's final awakening is to shout "Men can't trust, women can only rely on themselves." , Even wanted to stand up and applaud.
But after calming down, let’s reverse the gender, let’s take another look: women are unreliable.Men can only rely on themselves.
Can this one-sided gender antagonism really express the awakening of female consciousness?
Except for the molestation of the wretched man in the opening, the film no longer portrays the difficulties and problems faced by real women. Can it really resonate with women?
The male gaze mixed in in the movie, with close-up shots, is it really appropriate to magnify the female character's body partially and separately?
But The biggest problem with movies is the misinterpretation of feminism directly uses the power of awakening.
borrowed from Peking University professor Dai Jinhua teacher's point of view, this kind of female logic with strength as the core is actually just a copy of male power.
essentially still stays in the capital logic of "who has the money, who has power, who has the final say".
The most important power of feminist films is:
15 Look at their creation and accumulation, and rediscover their value."
movies naturally run out of vulnerabilities.
For example, the highlight of the transformation of Xiaoqing's heart is "Batu Caves". Just use a montage to fool the past.
How did Xiaoqing defeat Fahai? How did Xiaobai escape from Leifeng Pagoda? There is still no explanation.
The cool visual bombardment is just a bonus item of the movie and cannot cover up the flaws of the story.Nor can it make up for the lack of connotation.
But it is not a point of emphasis on " strong 15" in the strict sense.
Compared with the “Rise of the Rise of China”, the attitude of the movie is sincere and enthusiastic.
I just ran in a hurry before I learned how to walk. As a result, I stepped too far, banged and pulled my trouser legs.
Finally, I send a wish: a long road, down to earth.
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