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No. 1 on the charts (30.4 billion yen, 2001), while occupying seven spots in the top 50 at the box office. In this way, the development of Japanese animation films seems to be good, but if we carefully study the Japanese film market over the years, we will find a problem, that is, animation films with high box office are often not theatrical versions of tv animations ("Draemon", "Famous Detective") Conan, Pokemon, etc.) is the work of Studio Ghibli, and the market share of other independent animated films is often pitiful. Now, with the retirement of Hayao Miyazaki and the strong attack of overseas animation films, the Japanese animation film market has become more and more conservative, and everyone is more willing to make animated sequel films rather than risk making original films, independent animations Survival of movies seems to be getting harder and harder.
As we all know, Japan's mature animation and film industry has cultivated and produced many great directors. From the perspective of the past two decades, in the 1990s, there were animations represented by Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Isao Takada. Master, and after entering the 21st century, a large number of outstanding and cutting-edge directors have also emerged. Today, Toshi, Shinkai Makoto, Hosoda Mori, etc., their works are full of creativity and diverse styles, bringing new and innovative to the Japanese animation film industry. face. But in today's animation film market environment, if you want to achieve both box office influence and artistic quality, I am afraid that only Hosoda Mori can compete with Ghibli now.
Today, it has been nearly a year since Hosoda's new work "Monster's Son" was released, and its total box office revenue has reached 4.6 billion yen, surpassing its predecessor "Wolf's Child Rain and Snow" and becoming director Hosoda's highest box office. The work is not unsuccessful in business. You know, when "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" was released, almost no one paid attention to it, and it was released in only six theaters in Japan. But while achieving commercial success, there are some serious problems in his works.
1. The key motivation is unconvincing and handled too hastily
This may also be the biggest question of the film, namely why did Jiutai suddenly return to the human world? Hosoda Mori may have imagined a perfect transition between the two worlds like "Summer Wars", but due to the withdrawal of Okuji Sadoko, who has cooperated for many years ("The Girl Who Leapt Through Time", "Summer Wars", "Summer Wars", "Satoko") Wolf's Child "Rain and Snow" script design), when he himself wrote the script, his ability may appear insufficient. The most sloppy and vague handling of the film's most critical turning motives greatly affects the quality and standard of the entire film.
2. The style of painting before and after changes too quickly, and the contrast is too large
. This is not a problem in the movie, but in "Son of Monsters", the first half of the whole movie tells the experience of Xiong Che and Jiutai's cultivation and growth together. It depicts an imaginative monster world for us. Personally, I think this part of the content is very exciting, especially the part of the practice parade, which is imaginative and attractive in its portrayal of the monster world. However, after Jiutai returned to the human world, the style of painting suddenly changed. The atmosphere created in the first half completely collapsed and began to transform into a "Xin Haicheng"-style youth love film. Jiutai suddenly began to lose herself and became painfully. While we are still immersed in that fantastical monster world, the film has already begun to tell another story. And the film began to pave the way for the competition, which became an anticlimactic farce, and the final villain's motive was unconvincing, but the film ended in a hurry.
3. The theme is
unclear Tian Mori once stated in an interview that the motive for filming this film was because he became a father, "How can a child grow up in this world. I want to express through the film that the growth of a child is not the result of two parents' growth. People's credit, but they grow up under the influence of many people", these are his original words. In the film, we can indeed see the mutual influence between Xiong Che and Jiu Tai. Xiong Che rediscovered the meaning of life because of Jiu Tai, and finally defeated Pig King Mountain through hard work and became a master, and Jiu Tai also changed because of Xiong Che. Become a sword in his heart and become a complete person again. But the question is, will such an expression be too pale? If you put aside the setting of the monster world, what is the point of this movie? In short, the film lacks a clear idea, the setting of the monster world is more like a pretense, and tries to hide its pale theme.
Although this film has various problems, its box office success still does not prevent Hosoda Mori from becoming another national-level animation film master after Hayao Miyazaki. The Japanese animation industry is now in crisis. The famous Japanese animation supervisor Anno Hideaki said on his 55th birthday: Japanese animation will be finished within 5 years. Although he later withdrew the remarks, he is still not optimistic about the development of the animation industry. Now Hosoda Mori's commercial success seems to give Japanese animation a glimmer of hope. But the resolution of the crisis cannot depend on one person. Unless Mamoru Hosoda and other animators make better works that the audience likes, the crisis of Japanese animation cannot be resolved. The question of Mamoru Hosoda's work today is also to hope that he will be able to make excellent animation more seriously. Now that the director of Mamoru Hosoda has revealed that the production of the new work has started, let us keep looking forward to it.
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