Listening to Du Xinghe singing "Once Upon a Time", many students came up with the very good-looking domestic 3D movie "The Return of the Great Sage" released last month.

Du Xinghe also watched this movie, and he has a lot of feelings for Wukong, so he was deeply touched when he saw such a movie.

Just like the theme song "Once Upon a Time" sings, "The call of the heart is always wandering". Presumably, every adult audience who is still willing to buy tickets for Chinese animated films must still be wandering in a corner of their hearts calling for the nirvana of Chinese animated films - hoping that one day, it can respect the aesthetic quality of the audience, instead of wantonly squandering the audience's trust through a gorgeous and inappropriate propaganda offensive; It is hoped that one day it will respect the professional ethics of filmmakers, rather than just seeing the film industry as a factory and an ATM. I hope that one day, every adult child who has grown up can bring his own child and proudly say to him, baby, I am very happy to have taken you to see this movie.

It is a great honor that "The Return of the Great Sage" is such a Chinese-language animated film that is enough to make Chinese audiences proud.

Once upon a time, we were still in childhood after the 80s, and today's children can't imagine how excited and inattentive we were when we saw "Gourd Baby", "Black Cat Sheriff", and "Shuke Beta", and many people would fall asleep and let the gourd baby teach us how to be invulnerable, or because of the cannibalism of the praying mantis and couldn't sleep at night...... Later, when I grew up, I started not watching cartoons. But when we found out that the TV was only cartoons such as "Blue Cat Naughty 3000 Questions", "Bear Infested" and "Guobao Special Attack", we were full of doubts and puzzles. Stuck in clichéd thinking, older Chinese don't think adults should watch any kind of animated film, but why are we suddenly no longer creating cartoons for children after the age of 10? It's not that such preschool cartoons don't have a zài meaning, but no parent would be proud to pull their eleven or twelve-year-old into the cinema to watch the Teletubbies movie. The market gap voluntarily left by Chinese animation. There will definitely be something imported to fill it up. Therefore, we should not accuse today's children of only knowing the beauty of the day, just as they cannot complain about the desolation of people moving to the land of abundance because they do not have food on their own land.

I am glad that now young film animation practitioners have realized this, and excellent Chinese animated films full of sincerity and ideas have gradually appeared, such as "Qin Shi Mingyue", "Kuiba", "Dragon Nest: Dawnbreaking" and "Ten Cold". And now, another name has appeared on this sleek short list. "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage".

Similar to most successful commercial films, the storyline of "The Return of the Great Sage" is not complicated, and the theme of the story is not lonely, it is nothing more than knowing kindness, punishing evil and promoting good, which is also in line with the story theme of the novel "Journey to the West".

The point is that the same story is left to creative teams of different levels to interpret, and the explanation effect is very different. The creative team of director Tian Xiaopeng completed the interpretation of this story at an absolutely high level and even beyond expectations. The film structure is not complicated. Single-level and single-line, narrated according to time, interpreting a story before the journey to the west. The plot has both classic scenes and is not completely limited to the existing framework of the novel, and the causes and consequences of rescuing Sun Wukong will bring the audience a viewing experience that is different from traditional cognition.

In addition to the high degree of completion of the storyline, the film's layout of Chang'an City, Marble Mountains, and the final new scenes will also bring the audience a different experience from the novel. About people and landscape modeling. It is a key indicator to distinguish the quality of animated films, as can be seen. The film has made a great effort in this regard. The modeling scale, halo rendering, character hair, wind and grass and other details are very natural. Even though the roughness of the layers is still visible in some scenes, it can be masked by the excellent camera perception.

The plot and scenery are only for the interpretation of the characters. The character settings of this animated film, in addition to the characters of the protagonists such as Monkey King and Zhu Bajie, are clearly layered and loyal to the original work, and the intentions can also be seen in the settings of many peripheral characters. From the raccoon in "Guardians of the Galaxy", to the big white in "Super Story", to Huba in "Monster Hunt". Presumably, now the film industry has confirmed the golden status of the equation of "selling cute = selling seats", in "The Return of the Great Sage", we will also see the completely cute land lord, after the movie ended, I began to search for its surroundings on Taobao.

In addition to the story, scenery and characters, what is very appreciated is the ingenious conception of the action scenes. Although the use is completely Hollywood gags, the connection is interesting and natural, and sometimes there is even the illusion of a Hollywood system. What's even more gratifying is that this kind of action choreography is not just a small part, but basically runs through the whole story.

It is undeniable that as a Chinese-language animated film market that is still in the stage of increasing local identity, the film production process of "The Return of the Great Sage" is still dominated by the traditional Hollywood-style film table as a whole. In this context, how to show its labeling characteristics as a "Chinese", properly express the local cultural characteristics, and make an effective distinction in the market has become an important topic. If it is not shown, it will lose the meaning of labeling and the individualized characteristics of the film; The appearance is inappropriate, and it is easy for the audience to feel preachy and artificial, which will damage the overall quality of the movie.

On this basis, if you pay attention to the details in this movie, you will find the creator's intentions. For the shadow puppet play in the film, the old dialect of Qindi and other scenes with local traditional characteristics, the audience can read them carefully in the movie.

Of course, in Du Xinghe's view, this film still has some deficiencies that need to be continuously improved. For example, the episode of Wang Banbi that appeared in the film out of the needs of the market selling point is very different from the scene at that time; For example, Sun Wukong's final unshackles were not enough, and he seemed very casual; For example, the phenomenon of frame loss in the final battle, and the lack of funds reflected in the rough modeling. Wait a minute. However, the flaws are not hidden, and from the historical perspective of the current Chinese animation market, these can be improved with the gradual improvement of market acceptance and brand recognition.

From the storyline with a high degree of completion, to the carefully designed scenery, to the exquisitely choreographed and layered action scenes, the overall quality of "The Return of the Great Sage" is still very gratifying. Unfortunately, if you look up director Tian Xiaopeng's personal resume on the Internet. It was found that there wasn't even a single photo to refer to. In today's market environment where the recognition of Chinese animated films is generally low, and then put it together with self-writing and self-directing, and eight years of deep cultivation, shouldn't we applaud the silent efforts of such a team? What is certain is that this team will definitely write a stroke on its promotional resume in the future - "the masterpiece "The Return of the Great Sage".

For Chinese-language animated films, Du Xinghe does not dare to expect that in a short period of time, such national cultural products with lasting international influence will appear, such as "Rogue Kenshin", "Yuyou Hakusho", "Saint Seiya", "Slam Dunk", "Detective Conan", "One Piece" and "Naruto", and do not expect that the Chinese's own Oriental Disney empire can be built in one fell swoop. But as long as the cherished childhood imprint in our hearts has not disappeared, as long as we continue to insist on absorbing the essence of tradition, as long as we have not given up learning advanced culture, and as long as there are still young "fools" in the film industry, the dream of Chinese animation will never disappear.

Speaking of "The Return of the Great Sage", we have to talk about another blockbuster "Taoist" that was released at the same time as "The Return of the Great Sage".

Du Xinghe also watched this movie, and he watched it with great expectations, but he gained a lot of chicken feathers.

Why is Chen Kai a first-line director? He couldn't remember it anymore. Ten years ago, "Wuji" came out, and they all insulted "Farewell My Concubine" as the director. Words are still surprised and regretful, ten years later, criticizing the same person, it can still be the same sentence. In this endless and endless thought of Jiang Lang's talents, he still spent ten years in the name of the first-line director. It has to be admirable.

The legendary fifth generation and even the leading figures of the entire Chinese film industry, comparing Zhang Chen with each other is undoubtedly unfair to Zhang Yimou.

The name of the national teacher has made the public rebellious and ridiculed for many years, and after the prosperity, the retro "Return" is still precipitated and convincing the public. In fact, think carefully about Zhang Yimou's works over the years. Only "Three Guns" is the only one that meets the standard of being useless, and the others are good or bad. There are still contributions. Not to mention technology and reputation, at least Zhang's ability to tap newcomers is recognized as first-class, even in the era of quick money and impetuous star-making, he has never missed a hand.

What about Brother Chen? Mou Girl, Star Girl, Jing Girl, but you have never heard of Song Girl and Song Boy, and the brilliance of her masterpiece is just Leslie Cheung's own light. The only personal aesthetic highlight is the continuity from Zhang Fengyi to Wang Xueqi, I have long said - this is obviously the perfect type 1 in Niangge's heart.

Director Chen is impatient with excavating newcomers, and he is even less interested in branding celebrities with his own mark, he just wants to pile up the most well-known and topical celebrity cooking chowder. Even the low news of Fengzhi Compound was not let go back then, and it was the same thinking as all the grass-roots grass platform teams, and the difference was only realized by the reputation of a first-line director. So for so many years, except for Thirteen Yan, who has become a mother-in-law with a daughter-in-law, acting in Director Chen's works is equivalent to insulating from the award, and he can't even look down on the Chinese industry awards, let alone the "international route" at every turn, because he hasn't considered who is more suitable for the role, and he is not in the mood to help you polish, he only has a small abacus of finding someone to play the topic and return more cost-effectively.

Soulless characters don't need acting skills, and acting in Director Chen's movies over the years is mixed and cherished. It's strange that "Taoist Priest" has developed to the point that it is not a question of whether the role is suitable or not, and whether the acting skills are enough, but under the obvious need to act with ABC options and make mistakes again, he is not even too lazy to ng. Can you understand that Ling Ling's style of playing Jin Lian is limited, Xu Sanduo is a special actor, and the idol hexagram is capricious, but Fan Wei's kind of leadership speech that waits for three seconds before opening his mouth As a first-line guide, do you let it take the abruptness as a personality, your old baby Wang Xueqi is making a gesture, is he choking the old Zen master to death with a word, Zhang Zhen's hard work over the years can be divided into two heavens of ice and fire by the same type of film.

There is no theme that Chen Kaige is good at. He is not good at "soil", let alone playing with the ocean. Whatever is popular in the market, he will immediately (try) to keep up. At the beginning of the century, fantasy was prevalent, and he thought that he had stepped on the hot spot and avoided the cliché of the great directors competing for martial arts at that time, and as a result, he left a laughing stock for the ages. That "Search", the subject of Chinese B-grade films that were all made bad five years ago, did he still secretly think that he had sharply excavated the social hotspots of the modern information explosion? I want to show everything, I want to show everything, I want to show everything, and I can show my incompetence.

The casting is impetuous, and the subject matter is impetuous. is integrated with the trend of the film industry, Director Chen's situation is worse, it is a terminal illness that is more terrible than people - profound control.

Cinema is the art of pretending 24 times a second. As a first-line director, how can you do it without being profound. It doesn't matter what the story itself is, what matters is that it can teach ordinary people the truth of life, and everything is about heaven and earth. Every sentence is inspiring. From the surface of things that are either the most simple or the most pompous, we must realize the Buddha, the Tao, the worldly liberation, and the birth, old age, sickness and death. Everyone said that the priest is Wuji 2, mainly disgusting here.

There are so many types of, and none of them look so annoying. Ang Lee doesn't like to engage in "classic lines", and Jing Youzi, who protects Shubao, is cynical, so he has to use self-deprecation as a cover. Favorite mass-production of Wong Kar-wai pretending to be sentences. I am worried that canned pineapples and rejecting others first is a trick to bluff the unformed small and fresh tricks of the 90s, and it is too thunderous to put it now, but "The Grandmaster" came out, and what kind of environment was created for what to say, 99.9% of the line writers could only kneel.

Without this diamond, don't really take this porcelain job. knows that the first-line director can't let go of his body and is purely funny, but his ability has been verified by many bloody times, but he can't give up profoundness. More Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. I can't shake out the wit you haven't had, this sport that makes everyone laugh together. Do you have to go from the movie youth to the square aunt?

Reading the subtitles and credit translation is so hard, so maliciously speculated, when I thought that Hu Qiangjian could make a work that looked like a class, these self-conscious philosophical lines and recitations were originally intended to fool Crooked Guoren, because the international likes to be "profound".

And in the corner details, it is all Director Chen's anti-optic response to the Internet "City Earthquake CP Burning Cute!" after the release! ", "Shaolin Baoqiang's smile is magical" The confident imagination of the hot theory. I thought I had both hands hard. Forget that we have a lower tolerance for a big bad movie with a lot of stars than for a bad movie at the grassroots.

And that crappy rot seller, it's really disgusting. The overlord is playing crookedly, and the hot rotten theme has naturally become an important catering point for Director Chen, probably he is particularly happy to see two versions of similar to the big inventory of various Chen Kaige movie elements to talk about his characteristics, good easter eggs. Good trademark. Liu Ye Dongjian's magic cp, Uncle Xiao Ming's parenting cp, the sun and the moon in Hong Kong and Taiwan towns.

To the extreme, ancient martial arts films, golden age gunfight films, most of the enmity and hatred in the rivers and lakes are corrupt, what is rotten is the heart and gall, righteousness is thin and cloudy, few words, refusal to drag mud and water, hidden in 99% of the iron man, 1% of the tenderness can be moving. And Brother Chen Kai's corruption, a pure mutation of male and female clichés, chirps and crookedly look at each other in every way, the same, there is no true meaning of storytelling, and he is full of scheming that is still looking forward to forming a topic point. As a senior corruption controller, the plot of rolling the lawn has been, and in the words that everyone often says recently, the embarrassment will not be cured.

A Chinese-speaking first-line director doesn't have a martial arts work, so I'm really embarrassed to say hello to people. Regardless of whether you see the official reading countless fights, anyway, you have to take care of me for the first time in the world, the long and repetitive fights, the Pegasus Meteor Fist that everyone else played twenty years ago, every fight is a classic, and every move is reluctant to cut. Who can sue me Zhang Zhen and Lin Xue what's going on? The little wife smashes the field, and the singing is only a few minutes away, you have to beat me for several days, what kind of hatred and resentment?

Logical confusion abounds, the cause and effect are unknown, and the rhythm is detailed. In the ancient traditional era, everyone wants you to tell a story in its entirety, and the tolerant modern people don't even want this, there is a market for joke collections and brain-dead biographies, and there is a bad taste like ours, and we can see our blood in the blood every step away. It's a pity that you are neither funny nor pretending to be forced, and you have filmed a theme, even if it is not good, even Xuan is not mysterious.

In short, this film is speechless for Du Xinghe. If he has the opportunity to make a movie in the future, he will not take this kind of scene if he dies.

After Du Xinghe sang "Once Upon a Time", the next song finally came to the popular cute girl He Miao in the private room.

She ordered a song of Tang Xu's "A Thousand Paper Cranes", and as soon as she started, the students in the private room were cute-

……

I don't think I'm a good fit~

Every turn you say~

Like the spring scenery outside the window~

I don't think I know either~

I can only send you here~

What should I say~

……

You're just temporary~

From the inside of the flowery city~

Escape with grace~

Driving by~bumped into me driving in~

Little jasmine halfway up the hill~

……

I don't think I'm a good fit~

A thousand cranes you gave me~

The color of the candy paper when I was a child~

Why don't you understand it yet~

Be yourself sometimes~

It's a little difficult~

……

It's hard for you to say~

We have a common commemoration~

Dinner topic~

Only then did I have to be careful~

The tacit understanding of caring for growth together~

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After singing a few songs in a row, sitting down and listening to He Miao's sweet singing quietly, Du Xinghe couldn't help but praise this pocket-sized big-breasted girl in his heart: It's so cute. (To be continued......) R1292