Today, I want to talk to you about a conscience episode "The Stranger: The Sword of No Emperor" that made the Bone Club almost go bankrupt and sell underwear.
A certain club can be called a model of death. It spent a lot of money to make an original animation, and I made a lot of money. I won a lot of international awards, but I almost lost my underwear. This is really the style of our company.
Maybe you don't know who the Bone Club is, but you must have heard or even seen the animations made by it.
For example, "Fullmetal Alchemist", which has occupied the first place in the list of masterpieces for a long time, such as "Sakura High School Male Public Relations", which is full of girls' hearts, and "Noragami" and "Blood Frontier" in recent years.
Anyway, as long as our agency is still alive, it wants to have "backbone" animations and maintain the conscience of the industry. "I'm not targeting anyone, I'm saying that everyone here is hot chicken."
The background of the story is the era of separatist powers, which is probably similar to the Warring States Period. At that time, Emperor Daming wanted to pursue immortality, so he asked someone to make alchemy. He heard that on a certain day, a once-in-a-hundred-year-old child can be bled to make an elixir of immortality.
Our protagonist, the cute little Zhengtai Zai Taro, is the introduction to medicine, and was forced to go to the end of the world at a young age.
The uncle the abbot brought Tsai Taro from China to Japan. At a critical juncture of escape, he took out a treasure and said to Zheng Tai: "Take this treasure to Wanjue Temple, where Lord Jujie will protect you."
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Since then, Tsai Taro took his dog Feimaru to start a life of escape. However, Daming's Jin Yiwei also chased after Japan, and their leader Bai Luan led people around to seek Tsai Taro.
Just when Bai Luan and his party had just stepped into Japanese territory, a group of horse thieves suddenly rushed out and forcibly gave away their heads. Between the sword and the sword, Luo Lang with blonde hair and blue eyes appeared. He saw that his long sword was as fast as lightning, and he picked up the white blade with an empty hand, and the flying knife cut off the head.
On the other side, Tsai Taro met Wuming, a little ghost with a small temper and had to drive Wuming out.
Fortunately, the dog was smarter than the owner, so he took the initiative to give the grilled fish to Wuming, and the puppy hugged his thick thigh at once.
Before Zai Taro and Wuming started to eat, they were attacked. After a scuffle, Gouzi was dying because of the knife blocking. Zai Tailang began to blame Wuming and forced him to be responsible.
Who would have known Wuming's practice of begging for help but unable to let go of his body. After a long time of inner struggle, the bear child asked Wuming to protect himself and go to Wanjue Temple.
Wuming thought for a moment and agreed to the employment agreement. He took the dog and cub to another town overnight and found a doctor to bandage the dog.
The next day, Wuming went out to buy a saddle. On the way back, he met Luo Lang, glanced at Wuming's knife, smelled the breath of a master, and couldn't help provoking him.
In the first duel between the two masters, there are not many fighting scenes, but the film uses a parallel montage method to render the atmosphere, and the fighting scenes are really exciting.
Playing bear children, fishing uncles, and seemingly peaceful surfaces are all illusions.
At the moment when the dart hit the saddle, the atmosphere was suddenly tense, the clouds were dense, the drum beat was fast, and the battle between the masters was about to break out.
On the bridge, swords, swords and shadows, white light splashing all over the bridge, the bridge is unhurried, the fishing lines are entangled, the pictures are crossed and edited, and the fast switching back and forth, the rhythm of the battle is blowing.
The moment the fishing line broke, the battle came to an abrupt end. An unsatisfactory fight not only left the audience unsatisfied, but even Luo Lang was disappointed.
After Wuming returned, he was cross-examined by Zitaro. Just when the little devil lost his temper, the dog woke up.
Wuming didn't bother with the kid, and even made dinner for Zaitaro. The bear boy realized his wrong and took the initiative to apologize to Wuming, and the two reconciled again.
Tsai Taro and Wuming are still in love with each other on this side, while Jin Yiwei on the other side is busy building an altar. They cooperate with the local lord, but they do not trust each other.
As they get along day by day, the basic love between Shu Mi and Xiao Zhengtai, ahem, the relationship deepens. They sleep together, ride horses together, and even bathe together.
In the hazy fog, Wuming was washing his hair in a thong, and the stab wounds on his body made Zaitarou and Feimaru stunned.
Washing and washing, Wuming actually washed out a red hair. Wipe, this product is also crooked nuts! Wuming complained that he was excluded because of his hair, and he baked himself a piece of oil, "duang" it, it was very dark, shiny and oily.
Under the protection of Wuming and Feimaru, Tsai Taro arrived at Wanjue Temple safely, and smoothly reunited with the abbot, Wuming completed the task and turned away.
Unexpectedly, in order to protect themselves, the abbot and Juejie actually handed Tsai Taro directly to Jin Yiwei.
After Wuming left, he felt that something was wrong and turned back, and the child really disappeared. Wuming questioned the abbot, but the abbot was only concerned with defending himself.
His words evoked nameless memories. In order to survive, he had personally killed innocent mothers and children.
At this time, the sacrificial ceremony is about to start, and if they miss the best time for alchemy, they have to wait another year.
And the local lord completely turned against them and ordered an attack on the sacrificial city.
The lord's subordinate Knotweed led people to the city wall, Wuming and Gouzi also ran wild on the road, while Jin Yiwei planned to use the lord as a hostage to delay the completion of the ceremony.
Never thought that Hu Zhang led a rebellion. His younger brother, Shitaro, shot the lord to death with an arrow, stunned Bai Luan and his party, and the two sides began to fight.
As soon as Luo Lang and Hu Zhang started fighting, Wuming rushed to the altar. He finally pulled out the sword, and a flying knife killed the executioner who was about to execute Tsai Taro.
At the same time, Luo Lang was about to kill the knotweed, but was snatched by Bai Luan. After the death of knotweed, Jin Yiwei quickly dealt with the remaining people.
Bai Luan tried to shoot Wuming to death, but was stopped by Luo Lang. In fact, he was not loyal to the Ming Dynasty. His goal was only the strongest opponent.
The snow was falling, and the decisive battle was imminent. The moves of the two were varied, and the shots were quick. The combat value reached the peak of the cold weapon 1 v 1. After several rounds of fighting, Wuming's arm was injured.
They stabbed each other at the same time, and the battle came to an abrupt end.
He thought it was Wuming's loss, but when the camera turned, it was Luo Lang's belly .
At the end of the story, Zaitaro is on his way to the town with the seriously injured Wuming.
The director gave an open ending, and no one knows whether Wuming survived, but the martial arts story of this alien is over.
Maybe Wuming became a pirate in the end, maybe Shanks. (fog
The plot of this film is actually quite satisfactory. It is not amazing but it is excellent. There are many characters in the film, and each person portrays different personalities in just a few words. This is worthy of praise.
Wuming is a wandering ronin who seems cold on the outside but has a soft heart in his heart.
He used to kill people like numbness, lived only as a tool, and was tortured by the karma of killing, and he once decided not to draw a knife in his life.
But when he drew his sword, it was not only Tsai Taro who was saved, but also himself.
Zai Taro has been displaced since childhood, closing his heart to disguise himself. Grumpy, suspicious, restless, stubborn, and extremely distrustful of people.
But in the end, it's just a little kid who is afraid of getting hurt. Under the protection of the nameless, Zai Taro finally slowly opened his heart to believe in others.
Luo Lang is a foreigner like him. He is not loyal to anyone. He is cold-blooded and strong in martial arts. 's ending.
The appearance is cute and the fighting power is comparable to the loyal dog Feimaru of the wolf dog;
Admiring and admiring Luo Lang and even admiring his Jinyiwei Fengwu;
The ruthless Bai Luan who is greedy for life and fear of death;
Jutaro, who likes the princess' final tragic death.
Although each of the characters who appear on the scene is very lively and vivid.
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"Outlander: No Emperor Blade Tan" is a work of Bone Club in 2007. At that time, it was shortlisted for the best feature animation at the Oscars. Unfortunately, it encountered the masterpiece "Wali" and missed the golden man.
Even so, "No Emperor Blade Tan" is still the pinnacle of Japanese martial arts animation, and all the great gods in the industry have collectively praised this animation:
Stan Lee: "Amazing pictures and a touching plot, "The Sword of the Emperor" is a wonderful and great movie." Jin Min: "The Sword of the Emperor does not succumb to difficulties. Another name, applause for the producers who dare to challenge." Oshii Mamoru: "It's astonishing, it's amazing that such a costume film is made with animation so seriously!" Anno Hideaki: "Depicted in a simple world A piece of human flesh movement. As expected of Ando, it's amazing. This is the mystery and fun of animation." Otomo Keyang: "Don't go with the flow, and focus on action movies makes people feel good. Isn't this great enough? !"
I think BONES was probably inflated at the time. The director and the producer both had a brainstorm and wanted to be the coolest martial arts animation in Japan.
Therefore, traces of Japanese samurai films, Chinese martial arts films and Western police and bandit films can be seen in the film. In order to meet the core need of fighting, the supervisor has deliberately compressed the characters and plots.
Almost all of the main creators have participated in the production of "The Gate of Heaven", and the lineup is very strong.
The producer has referenced a lot of materials and tried to restore a real ancient Japan. On the one hand, it retains the truth and on the other hand, it exaggerates as much as possible to achieve an excellent visual effect.
For example, the background setting is early autumn or deep winter, and the color tone of the picture has a rich sense of hierarchy, which looks close to the real background but has a two-dimensional beauty.
The soundtrack is even more impressive. The full orchestra was directly invited to perform and record, and the academic composer Naoki Sato was in charge of the music production.
In terms of dubbing, Chinese people are specially invited as consultants. They think Luo Lang's dubbing is perfect... 23333.
However, two-dimensional animation has many disadvantages compared to real people in play, such as lack of realism and lack of substitution. In order to make up for this defect, the sense of speed and strength was deliberately increased during production to make the fight look more visually impactful.
Speaking of which, I have to mention Japan's national treasure, Nakamura Feng, who is the queen of the bone club, the great god, and the painter who is responsible for the sword fight in the climax of "The Sword of the Emperor".
You must know that the animation is not like a real person, there is no martial arts guidance, and it is impossible for a real person to fight against each other, and they will rely on the brain to complete the actions and pictures of each shot. It is said that Nakamura took two years. to draw.
But animation can express speeds, distortions, and extreme camera angles that real people can't.
In that duel, the two sides shot very fast and had various styles. The swords collided with sparks, and blood splattered on the face. .
Finally, when it comes to burning money, the entire work of "Blade Without Emperor" is purely hand-painted, and it also uses digital screen tracking technology. From line drafts to finished products, step by step, all the money is burned!
Knowing that he is burning money, he is still so generous, and he is really "backbone" to the extreme. Please accept my knee.
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