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Although the technology is very good, but the vitality of the story is too lacking, and the whole story is very boring. —— "USA Today"
I think, Mars needs more mothers, it is really cold there. -"Boston Globe"
We don't need to deceive ourselves: Martians don't need a mother, and earthlings don't need this movie. —— "Movie Review"
behind the scenes production
a fragment of life
"Mars Savior" is adapted from Berkeley Braside's comic book of the same name. On the surface, it is about a child's "Adventure on Mars", but in fact, The theme of this book is still exploring the relationship between children and their parents. Because in many cases, children may not understand the parents' good intentions and deep meanings. The author of the book, Berkeley Braside, once said that if there hadn't been a quarrel between his children and his wife, this "Mars Savior" would not have come out.
Berkeley Braside said: "It was in August 2006. My child and my wife had a quarrel. At the time, my child Mellow was only 5 years old. He felt that his mother was very unreasonable. An unbearable monster. He had a fight with his mother. He yelled that her mother was an unpredictable guy, and then ran away. At the same time, my wife was also very sad, and she was also on the sidelines. Wipe my tears. In this situation, I had to comfort my child first. I made up a story, "Mars Needs Moms!" (the original name of the novel and the film). I Xiang Mai Luo Describes what life would be like if the mother he did not love suddenly disappeared one day. In my story, my mother was hijacked by Martians to Mars and became a mother dedicated to serving children on Mars. That night, I sat down and started writing this book. After 5 years, Mellow, who is now 14 years old, can see his so-called unbearable past on the movie screen, and can take it easy, A pleasant and entertaining way to accept that dark segment of your life."
In Blyside's heart, this book is a "gimmick" to coax his son, but in the hands of the screenwriter and director, this story on Mars is full of fun, innocence and educational significance. Director and screenwriter Simon Wells said: "I like this story very much, because the conflict with the parents exists in each of us, but no one has ever thought about why our father and mother would be with themselves. The children are right'. In fact, we were all too young and naive at that time. We always imagined everything too simple and casual. When I read this book, all the paintings in it seemed to be alive. It’s just like a movie being shown in front of our eyes. And this story gave us a very important assumption that one day, your mother stopped nagging and annoying in your ears, but did it. Other people’s mothers, would you be happy or sad? Braside’s story gives us a wonderful example, and there is also a lot of entertainment and humor. Such a story is adapted into an animated cartoon. "The
difficulty is comparable to that of a live-action movie.
Although "Saviour of Mars" is called a cartoon, because of the use of motion and expression capture technology, all the shots need to be completed by the actor himself, and then the actions and expressions obtained by the camera and computer are combined. The data is "pasted" to the virtual character, and a shot is completed through rendering, post-processing, and color correction. Therefore, the workload of shooting this movie is no less than shooting a live-action movie. As the producer Zemigis who supports this technology and film genre, he has reason to believe that this technology can bring qualitative changes to the film. He said: "With the advancement of technology, we can capture the most subtle expressions of actors, and then put this expression on the faces of virtual characters completely and convincingly. Moreover, starting with "Polar Express" , We are trying to build characters from the actor’s childhood appearance, showing characters of different ages in the film. Hanks in "Polar Express" is an example. But the technology at that time was not mature enough, that attempt It was not a success. But now, in this film, we have made a childhood version of him exactly like Seth Green, and the effect is very good."
In two-thirds of the film, Seth Green played Melo is in an outer space environment without microgravity. In order to truly show the expressions and reactions of people in a microgravity environment, in the film's For most of the shooting time, Seth Green was tied to a flight system similar to Wia, so that it could simulate a microgravity environment. Joan Cusack, who played the role of the mother, also put on this device in the scenes where she appeared on the surface of Mars. Director Simon said: "Tie this thing to make these two actors extremely happy. As long as they put on this thing, it takes a while to quietly film. However, their playfulness and joy are exactly what the film wants to convey. A kind of signal.”
Talking about the film and the audience of the film, Seth Green said: “Filming this movie, I seem to be back in my childhood, back to the days when I was with my family. At the time, children are still more cautious after all, so many children hope that their family members are not around so that they can do whatever they want. However, children still don’t understand and don’t know the importance of parents. They will wait until they are lost. It suddenly dawned on me. That’s why I played Mellow to rescue my mother in spite of everything. I think I will watch this movie with my little nephew and nephew. For the children, the movie is cool and dazzling enough The adventures and aliens of China may not be aware of what the movie is saying, but they will always be touched by the stock market itself."
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