Yes, the picture, this is the characteristic and strength of Makoto Shinkai's work. To put it bluntly, it is called "the only part that can be played".
Xin Haicheng made the animation picture to the extreme, whether it is color, light and shadow, or various details, these exquisite pictures can usually only be seen in some still paintings, but Xin Haicheng made it move.
In "Your Name. ” (君の名は.) Before, Makoto Shinkai’s most famous work was “Five Centimeters Per Second”. Strictly speaking, this is not a movie. It should be just three youth love stories that seem to be related and seem to be irrelevant. The film itself does not have much dialogue. Most of them rely on the picture and the music next to the picture to create the atmosphere. The sublimation of the film is the sound of the final music, which successfully enhances the atmosphere to the extreme. Many people are fascinated by the climax of the movie. The performance, as well as the ending that the last two people missed, felt sighing. Many emotionally weak people also shed tears, or think of themselves, or the past, the person they missed, the past being missed, and so on, etc., can't help but resonate.
Of course, Xin Haicheng also released some other works after that, including "Children Chasing the Stars" and "The Garden of Words", the response was mediocre. Has a strong Xin Haicheng style".
How to explain this "strong Shinkai style"? It is "can't play anything other than pictures and music"! But most of Shinkai's fans don't have much expectations for the story. For them, Shinkai's films are the kind of little dialogue, beautiful pictures, and soft music. The wet kind.
I don't know what other people say. At least after "Five Centimeters Per Second", Shinkai Makoto's follow-up works, except for the pictures, have maintained a consistent level, but the storytelling is really not that good. It's like a Korean literary film, but it lacks some points. What, plus the length of the film itself is short, everyone just watched it casually and sighed: "Ah, it is indeed the animation of Makoto Shinkai, the picture is really beautiful." So there is a saying: "Every frame of Makoto Shinkai's animation is You can take a screenshot and use it as a wallpaper."
However, Makoto Shinkai is definitely not satisfied that he is just a "wallpaper animator", he should want to make a breakthrough and let his movie escape the shadow of the "vase", so he started to act and wrote a complete It took two years to create "Your Name." ” (君の名は.) This is an animated film with a different style from his previous style.
How is the style different? First of all, although the pictures are still as high as ever, most of them stay on the static background images, including the distant view of the town, the buildings of the city, and the edges and corners of the Shinkansen, all of which are still exquisite. But in addition, the picture style is no longer the "literary style" of the past, and the animation part has increased significantly. Although the quality of the animation part is still high, it has no special features. Sometimes I think this animation does not look like Xin Haicheng's production. More like KyoAni or PA.Works on a budget. It is also understandable that this time, the story-based animated film must not follow the previous wallpaper route of "sell scenery purely". At least 80% of the energy should be placed on the control of the narrative rhythm of the film.
Yes, a good film narrative structure should be suspense one by one, there is no long-term urine spot to make the audience bored, but also use your own strength in the place where you should exert your strength to give the audience an impact. This point, "your name. "done.
As for the plot, I think for a feature film, spoilers are meaningless, so it's better to have a chance to watch it yourself. But my feelings about the plot of this movie are very complicated. When I watched the whole movie in the cinema, I always had doubts in my mind: "Is this really a story written by Makoto Shinkai?". It may be because Galgame has more contact with Japanese late-night animations. To be honest, "Your Name." "The plot is nothing new to me. I have seen this routine several times in the game at least, and the animation is similar. There is even a movie in Taiwan that is similar to this, but as a theatrical animation , As a movie, it is already excellent if it can basically "tell a good story and justify it".
Yes, today's movies are excellent as long as they can tell a good story. Even so, there are still so many bad movies every year that can't tell a story well, which shows how difficult it is to tell a good story.
Overall, for "Your Name. "In this movie, Xin Haicheng's strengthening and polishing of the plot made it without obvious shortcomings. Although the picture has sacrificed and compromised, and the music is no longer the gate of heaven, this is not a problem. It is still excellent for the theatrical version, so Say, for "Your Name. "In terms of telling the story well, doing the picture well, and controlling the rhythm well, as soon as the key plot arrives, the music is together, and the atmosphere is set off, the emotional audience will burst into tears. When I walked out of the movie theater, they said that it was so beautiful that I would like to have a second look.
What? How about a rational audience? Those "absolutely rational" audiences must be picking on things, saying "Your Name." There are still quite a lot of bugs in ", if you are serious, you can completely overturn all the settings of others. Where in the world are there gods and magic that exchange men and women? We are talking about science, right? After all, there is no shortage of this kind of "I am the smartest in the world" guy, just like I said to go to the cinema to see "Your Name." "A group of people said to me on WeChat, "Why do you go to the cinema to see if you have a lot of money online and have nowhere to spend?" The same thing.
In addition to the popularity of the topic, "Your Name. "It should be regarded as an "excellent" movie, but at present, it is a little too much touted. In essence, there is still a lot of room for improvement, and there is not much of that "high-end factor" in the story.
What is the high-end factor? Fool, haven't you watched Hayao Miyazaki's animation?
Some people even said that Makoto Shinkai "surpassed Hayao Miyazaki", so frightened that Makoto Shinkai came out to apologize and said that it was impossible to surpass. I didn't expect it to be so popular, and some people even commented on "Your Name." ” was over-interpreted in an attempt to unearth any artistic value, but Makoto Shinkai couldn’t help but jumped out to explain, saying that he just wanted to create a “Boy Meets Girl story called by male and female bodies, no other ideas, analysis. Teachers, let him go...
Some pretenders are saying "Your name. "It's more like Makoto Shinkai used the gorgeous style of Guo Jingming to come up with a diaosi film, although it's a bit too dark to say that, but in essence "Your Name." "It's still a legend of youth love, set on late-night animations and light novels, and even Galgame is full of similar plots. For those young people in Japan who have watched animation, or young people who have watched it, the level of acceptance is There is no problem, and it is easier to be moved. At the same time, its popularity in Japan is closely related to Japan's own culture. As a country dominated by Buddhism and Shintoism, Japan is very concerned about "marriage", "reincarnation", "destiny", " The advocacy of "God" is engraved in the bones, so we have seen these elements appear in many places in the animation, and also created a rhythm such as "I am looking for you in the vast sea of people, you and I are fateful meeting" and so on. , For Japanese young people, it should be very popular. Although there is an atmosphere like this in mainland China, it is not as strong as Japan. I muttered "conventional", "nonsense", "dog blood", but fortunately I held back.
Through some interviews, I think Shinkai Makoto himself should understand the extent of his work. He once said, "Animation should not be watched by people of all ages, but everyone will have a part of life. It’s time to watch animation”, while explaining that his work is for those audiences who are “some still watching animation”, and I hope to add a few more strokes and color to these people’s life experiences. It's not like Hayao Miyazaki is trying to tell a big truth. It's just a small story. There may be some elements in the story that are "common in animation but not common in romance movies". If you can accept it Well, if you haven't seen this, and if you look at it and say it's ridiculous, that's okay, after all, you're not its audience.
So "your name. "Should be a film by Makoto Shinkai that "doesn't look like it was made by Makoto Shinkai", it solves a series of features and shadows that in the past, Makoto Shinkai's works only had pictures and music, could only act as a long-form MAD, and the plot was attached. A breakthrough has been achieved in storytelling. Although the story is not a particularly rigorous story, it has been said well enough. And at the end of the story, Makoto Shinkai's best killer appeared again, but this time Makoto Shinkai learned from the experience of "Five Centimeters Per Second" and gave you candy, satisfying all kinds of fans who were looking forward to a perfect ending.
More than one person joked that Makoto Shinkai is a painter who can draw but can't tell stories, but this time "Your Name." ” tells us that Xin Haicheng can also tell stories, and it’s not bad, which brought me a great surprise, of course, more of a surprise, when Xin Haicheng learned to tell stories... so much Confirmed in the Staff list, still unwilling to believe that this is the work of Makoto Shinkai...
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