Since Harry Potter, it seems that children’s fantasy themes have suffered a spell, either with a bad reputation, a bad box office, or a bad word of mouth at the box office.
"Shimmering City", "Golden Compass", "Dream Giant", "Time's Wrinkle", "Tomorrow's World" and so on are all examples in front of us.
Nowadays, there is another "Artemis' Fantasy Adventure", which combines almost all the routines of children's fantasy themes and all the mistakes that can be made.
Children's Fantasy Movie Routine One:
There are always sentimental feelings in it.
Children's movies must always have love, which can be family affection or male and female affection.
That kind of sentimental sentiment is one that can make us adults laugh, and can also touch our children.
It can be because of one thing, it can be an enemy, it can be like a father like a son, or it can be a teacher or a friend.
In a word, in the movie, this kind of feeling will conflict with each other from the beginning, and then through the crisis, overcome together, and finally sublimated to produce a kind of feeling.
In the film, Artemis and Elf Holly went from kidnappers and meat tickets, and finally became partners.
Routine 2:
There must be a big monster, and it has to be stupid, so stupid that it can't even catch a child.
Of course, every time at this time, the children seem to be possessed by Jackie Chan, each tossing around, flying over the walls.
Routine Three:
Complicated mechanisms are waiting for the protagonist team with high IQ to crack.
Routine Four:
There is an incomparably noble mentor-like master in the protagonist's heart. It can be mom and dad, master teacher, senior in the industry, etc. His main role is to leave clues and often appear in memories.
Routine Five:
Killing without blood, it can disappear, be petrified, and be smashed by a chandelier. Especially the image of the protagonist team, even if it is about to die, make sure that the body is clean and free of blood stains. If you ask, it will be internal injury. The advantage of this is ten thousand. Once it's resurrected, you can't see a person with no hands and feet jumping and walking behind the protagonist.
However, if the above five points are met, the film can be regarded as a children's fantasy film at best, which does not mean that it is a good movie. "Artemis's Fantasy Adventure" is a children's fantasy film based on the above five points.
If I comment on it in one sentence: This film is only worthy of the first episode of a TV series——
The content of the film actually only needs 40 to 50 minutes.
The sophisticated mechanism that should be used to attract the audience, the magical riddles, are less than ten minutes long in the film, and I even doubt whether Disney’s funding is suddenly tense. The so-called plan is a safe box. The beard opened with a few clicks.
In this regard, compared with the same type of "Seven Treasures" and "Twilight City", it is really a sky and one underground (Of course, Qibao Qimou is an order of magnitude better than the low-light city. For the portrayal of the protagonist team, the former Is very impressive).
As a fantasy theme, special effects are its core attraction, which requires some big scenes to show CG special effects. It's a pity that this film is almost all indoor scenes except for a dungeon panorama about one or two minutes before the film, which means that the ceiling of special effects and visual selling points has been lowered.
I mentioned the "Seven Treasures" above. Yes, every time I watch this movie, it makes me feel as if I have returned to my childhood. This is due in part to the distinctive style of the movie. Friends.
There are not many characters with lines in "The Fantasy Adventures of Artemis". We can also see everyone’s good and evil, who is the protagonist team, etc., but most of them give me the feeling that they suddenly jump I came to you and patted you on the shoulder and called my brother. Among them, the black cousin of Artemis was the most obtrusive. Almost all of her lines were yelling when dealing with that cannibal, so I can only doubt her. The existence of Hollywood is another embodiment of Hollywood's political correctness.
The reason why this film is not as good as "Seven Treasures" in terms of characterization is that the little actor is not enough to hold the whole play on his own.
The core of the film is just one. The male protagonist, the young actor Fedex Shaw, born in 2004, has to focus all the shots and scenes on him. Therefore, the young actor's own shortcomings are all exposed to the audience. . The "Seven Treasures" spreads the film's role and weight among the seven people, so that fewer roles can be used to reduce the pressure on the young actors and distract the critical eyes of the audience.
Branagh’s directorial works have always been excellent, but the film slapped the audience. It’s not that there is a problem with his basic skills. The main reason is that there are deviations in the adaptation of the original work, too little portrayal of supporting roles, and progress in the process. Wait too soon, there is a problem in the story.
Through the dilemma encountered in this film, we can also roughly understand why films adapted from children’s works have often failed in recent years. As I said above, let a small actor carry the entire film. It is unrealistic, but the current adaptations of literary works are basically centered around a teenager or girl.
In particular, the reason why the Harry Potter series can be successfully adapted is because the original work itself is shaped by a team with Harry as the core, and has put a lot of effort on everyone.
Therefore, I believe that fantasy themes for children are more suitable for TV dramas than movies. After all, it is much more effective to shoot a TV series of 20 or 30 episodes than if you want to brainwash children for 90 minutes.
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