Not long ago, I saw the trailer of "Mowgli, the Son of the Forest" on Weibo. During this time, high-definition resources were available on the Internet. Although I know that both "Mowgli, Son of the Forest" and "Fantasy Forest" are adapted from the British novelist Kipling's "The Book of the Jungle", and the story content of the film is almost the same, I still watched it full of curiosity.
The curiosity before watching is why the Disney version of "Fantasy Forest" has only been released for more than two and a half years, and why is Warner going to make the same movie? Of course, it’s nothing new that movies with the same theme and the same story have been staged in Hollywood. For example, two Hercules Hercules movies were released in 2014, one is "Hercules" starring Kenan Lutz, and the other The part is "Son of Zeus: Hercules" starring Dwayne Johnson. Although the word-of-mouth and ratings of the two films are not good, at least they tell two completely different stories, and the audience will not feel tired when watching them. Although "Mowgli, Son of the Forest" was not released in the same year as "Fantasy Forest", the content of the story was so repetitive that I couldn't help dragging it forward while watching the first half of the film.
The biggest feeling after watching is the same as other viewers. The faces of the protagonists in Warner’s "Mowgli" are designed to be more like human faces, and the overall look is much uglier compared to "Fantasy Forest", and even lost. Beauty. After watching the directors of the two movies, I didn't expect such a guess. The director of "Fantasy Forest" is Jon Feiru, which can be said to be an old partner of Disney, the director of "Iron Man 1, 2". "Mowgli, Son of the Forest" is directed by Andy Serkins, a master of motion capture performance. The classic images he has shaped include Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", King Kong in "King Kong", and "Apes Caesar in "Rise of the Ball" and Baru in this film and so on. It seems that Jon Feiru and Disney are very clear about what the audience likes to see, so the design of the protagonist animals is very realistic, and even some beautifications are made to make people look very comfortable. Andy Serkins has anthropomorphized the design of the protagonist animals to a certain extent. It always looks like a human face P is on the head of the animal. Perhaps the reason for this is that the focus of the film is different. . "Fantasy Forest" is a thrilling and exciting adventure about Mowgli. "Mowgli, Son of the Forest" is more like exploring the contradiction between human beings, animals and nature.
Perhaps the two directors have different levels of skill. After all, the word-of-mouth box office data of "Iron Man 1,2" are all there. The current rating of "Fantasy Forest" is 7.8, which is very good for a live-action animation, while the rating of "Mowgli, Son of the Forest" is only 6.3, which can only be said to have just passed. In fact, the casts of the two films are quite strong. Coincidentally, there are digital Marvel universe characters on both sides. For example, "Fantasy Forest" has Black Widow (John Scarlett), Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), Heldham (Idris Elba), Black Panther Girlfriend (Lupita Nyong'o) ), and the small head of the Hydra (Gary Sandlin). "Mowgli, Son of the Forest" features Doctor Strange (Volume Fu), Death God Hela (Cate Blanchett), and Black Market Arms Dealer Krao (director Andy Serkins himself). Sigh for the greatness of the Marvel universe, but this powerful cast seems to have failed to save the reputation of "Mowgli, Son of the Forest". The film was only released on Netflix after it was screened in North America, although it is currently unknown. What's the revenue of the company, but the outflow of high-definition resources now seems to be inseparable from online broadcasting. And this is bound to reduce the number of paid viewers.
Zhuge Liang concluded afterwards: Maybe Warner and Disney made a wrong decision to shoot the same story with the same theme. After the real lion version of "The Lion King" released the trailer (the same production team for "Fantasy Forest," and the director is also Jon Feiru), you discovered that Disney not only made a word-of-mouth box office for the filming of "Fantasy Forest," "The Lion King" practice.
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