Secondly, I am also a relative obsessive fan. I remember that the first time I watched Cheng's film was "The Other Side of the Cloud, The Place To Be Arranged", I was immediately attracted by Xin Haicheng's exquisite painting style, wonderful science fiction colors and a touch of sorrow. I immediately collected and watched almost all the works of Cheng since the debut of "She and Her Cat" up to "Second Speed". I like it very much. He has his own style and the background is exquisite and true. There is always a touch of sadness. But in general, I have to admit that Xin Haicheng’s short films (such as "She and Her Cat", "Voice of Stars", and even "Mike Speed") are significantly better than his long stories, and in fact, they provide feedback from all aspects. And the evaluation is indeed the case.
"Children Chasing Lost Stars" is strictly speaking Xin Haicheng's second novel. For this novel, Xin Haicheng abandoned the previous two idiomatic styles of realism and realistic sci-fi. Take a very unique contemporary (gunships, special forces, submachine guns) + modern (post-war Japanese countryside, World War II Europe) + Miyazaki-style magical hybrid wind. In my opinion, there is no improvement over "The Cloud". It can be said that sincerely challenged the long-form giant system once and failed.
Okay, the front is foreshadowing. Now I will summarize the settings and bridges of the familiar Miyazaki works that I can feel instantly when watching "The Chase." (Just read it again and immediately felt that the similarities may be more details and similarities, but I will not go into further details)
1. Shun’s appearance: long neck hair, handsome melon face, and a gentle smile when he protects the girl. There is also the background of the hero saving the beauty---Bridge, which makes me shamelessly regard the instant preconceived as a mixture of Hal and White Dragon. Maybe this is a bit far-fetched, maybe it is because my palace’s works have been seen too much. Ha ha.
2. Mimi: This cat-like, non-cat animal is completely Nausicaa’s fox squirrel Dido. Is there anything wrong with it? Even the heroine running around on both arms and neck is the same.
3. Geweisi (that's how it's called): It's completely a flying stone, even the purpose is similar, so I don't need to explain it.
4. Mr. Morizaki: That face shape, that eyes, that temperament, and a few black attendants behind him, and the lines "just like what the literature says" and "the same as what the literature describes." It's exactly Musca in "Sky" (seemingly similar in military rank). At first glance, I roughly guessed that the following plot is that mysterious men occupy the gems of boys and girls for their own purposes and go to magical places to find magic. Fortunately, Makoto Morisaki is just looking for a wife, not as ambitious as Muska. Otherwise, the main storyline will completely copy the masterpiece "Sky".
5. Boys and girls hid in underground caves in order to escape the army, and later the bridges where the rocks in the cave glowed with light blue brilliance under the inspiration of gems made me familiar. I believe that those who have seen "Sky" should have a deep understanding of the children's shoes.
6. A man holding a gun and pointing at a boy or girl holding a gemstone necklace, am I evil again? Why is it always "Sky"?
7. Sheep-shaped guard Kechart, oh, if you have read the comics of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, then you will definitely think of living in a mysterious underground world in a stone building full of tender grass and full of sunshine. The big horn attendant in the middle, but the horns of this Kechart were hot, and there were piano keys on his body.
8. The heart leads the march: I completely miss the part of Asidaka's journey in "Princess Mononoke", including the grandmother being ordered, cutting her hair, taking the mount, the crying girl farewell, and the sheep intestine path by the stone rampart. . . . Oh, yes, after Xin Xin cut her hair and put on a cloak, her appearance is 80% similar to Asidaka.
9. Yi nationality: Well, let’s talk about the comics of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The shape and physical characteristics of the Yi nationality that the black people crawl all over the floor, as well as the kind of sneaky towards the little loli, want to kill or not. The love-not-loving temperament and the soul of the former king of the ghost country in the "Wind" comics are carved out of the same mold. You know, "Wind" comics have been serialized since 1979.
10. The elders in the small village and the little red-faced girl who can’t speak, as well as the goats (useless but always visible) that suddenly appear in a set of shots in the kitchen, comprehensive modeling, age, and personality traits In other respects, it is too similar to the setting of "The Girl Heidi of the Alps" (the TV animation Hayao Miyazaki is responsible for the scene design).
11. The mysterious giant Kechart: functionally is the unicorn beast in "Princess Mononoke" (except that the unicorn beast is for kisses, he eats), and the appearance is the robot in "sky", and the mouth Harmony is exactly the combination of the black mud monster of the wasteland witch in "Howl" and the faceless man in "Thousand".
12. Heart and vegetables fell into the abyss for a while after being eaten by Kechart. It was a good setting and a good picture. However, I don't know why Xin Wa Nai's face portrayed completely Ghibli after Kechart was dissolved by water, Nai became a combination of Si Ta and Chi, and Xin became the incarnation of Bath and Asidaka. The posture and expression changes in the air are also like the combination of Buss falling into the pit holding Sita in the sky and the fall of Qian and the white dragon in the sky in "Thousand" Hecai has completely changed into Ghibli's persona, and I will automatically YY).
Well, 13 is unlucky, I will sum it up to 12. You may feel that some of it is exactly what I said, and some of it is far-fetched by me. But I want to say that sometimes movies give you a feeling, an overall atmosphere, and a worldview presented to you by the director. And these things are often rendered through some small details and some unclear settings, which is the difference brought about by different styles between directors and directors.
It's like the lush or barren and lost magical world built by Mr. Gong for nearly half a century is his style. It can be said that Hayao Miyazaki created this style, so that later generations want to portray such a style. The world will be more or less criticized as plagiarism. However, under the premise that the overall style is similar, "Chasing" does copy a lot of Miyaji's elements on too many settings and bridges, which has to make people angry,
plus the sincerity as I said above. Adding contemporary and modern elements to the setting of Gongshi's world makes it even more chaotic. (Or is Mr. Yamazaki's youth resident?? Leading the way in World War II, can you still be handsome in the modern special forces gunfight?)
In fact, Xin Haicheng originally had his own style. Realistic themes such as "Cat" and "Second Speed" set off the inner activities of the characters through the delicate depiction of the scene, coupled with the wonderful music of Tianmen, which can easily touch the hearts of countless people. Another example is "Voice of the Stars" and "Cloud" under the modern background of science fiction themes. In a realistic and super-tech background, the love of boys and girls, and then experience the bitterness of love, and at the same time, there is more technology for human beings. Civilized worries and reflections can be said to be Xin Haicheng's distinctive personal characteristics.
In fact, it is not easy for everyone to build their own style. Hayao Miyazaki’s style is not that he can explain clearly in a movie~~ (read the "Nausicaa" comics, you will know, Hayao Miyazaki I spent 13 years struggling to pursue my fantasy worldview and the issue of life existence). So the mashup and copy of Xin Haicheng's new film really made me very dissatisfied. He tried a heavy topic like "life and death" too early, so that he didn't have his own opinion, and it felt like "life and death" entirely for the plot. ", "life and death" for eyeballs, "life and death" for the box office. You must know that the real masterpiece is to have a plot for the sake of "life and death".
Haha, let's talk about the dog-blood plot in the play at last, it is these dog-blood plot settings that completely killed the chaotic "Chasing".
First, the title! "Chasing the stars"! Fanxing! Oh~~ Oh my god, plus the unlimited radio waves received at the beginning of the dish, plus the tears of staring at a star in the distant galaxy, I thought it was a love story between an alien and a girl on earth , I also look forward to entering the vast universe, star-level travel shots of the dazzling galaxy, I did not expect to go under the ground! Although the starry sky that appears repeatedly in the animation is beautiful, it has no meaning to the movie itself other than being a vase. Isn't this selling dog meat with a sheep's head, pointing to the sky and drilling down~~
Second, Shun's death: dead It's too cheating. Yesterday, you smashed the little monsters and jumped down the mountain bridge with the heroine. But at night, you watched the stars and fell to death? Later, we know that Shun is suffering from a physical illness, but there are no details before! Even if you gasp when you fight monsters, cough and spit blood when you kiss the side dish. . . I feel that Shun's death created a prerequisite for the encounter between his brother and Nai. This kind of appearance is dead, and the setting that is more inexplicable than the Korean drama is dead!
Third, call to inform Cai Shun that he is dead: the caller, mother, and Cai himself, it seems that everyone is witnessing the matter. It seems that everyone is on the train when Shun Jiu Cai, as if the food is wrapped in Shun. Everyone is watching vigorously, how do they know? Even if the black organization behind it all investigated and informed her mother, mother was not shocked at all, and Cai was not shocked at all. what happened? Could it be that I didn't pay attention to some details? Could it be that mother herself is also a member of the black organization?
Fourth, the sheep-shaped guard Kechart spoke to Cai: I was bloodied and my thoughts fluttered. A strange sheep squinted his eyes to a little loli and mumbled something in Sanskrit, like advice and warning, and immediately left a suspenseful foreshadowing for the following plot. But after seeing the subtitles, I didn't see the handsome movements and incomprehensible muttering of this handsome sheep. What's the use besides the delay of 10 seconds!
Fifth, the underground world: This is a world where the sun is shining, white clouds are fluttering, and the sky is higher than the heart! ! What a shame! ! Did the sun swell in? Why is the sky so high? If you say that this is a fantasy, what you think is what you think, there is nothing wrong with it. But why can’t Shinkai Makoto set the underground world as a dark and narrow post-mechanical civilized society, which not only conforms to the physical principles, is more thrilling and exciting, and fits the story setting of the declining high-tech clan, and avoids plagiarism Miyazaki Hayao The scene design of the mountain lake in "Castle" with flowers blooming and white clouds floating towards you.
Sixth, the Yi nationality: So I want to kill Cai, why can I not kill when I kill, but move her around (if it’s good for the plot, but there is no need for the plot), is it true that the Yi nationality abused Xiao Luo? Li's hobby? If so, then it makes sense why the Yi people hate bastards so much, but they don't move their hair on Morisaki-sensei, a thoroughbred groundman who smells worse than bastard blood. And also grabbed the dumb girl and put them together slowly tortured to death. . . . Are the Yi people a strange scorpion?
Seventh, when trying to save food, it would be excusable to say that the food was too tired and the river retreated and didn't find it, but why did the day light up as soon as Xin came out and killed an Yi tribe? It’s too soon to dawn, right? A large group of Yi people didn't eat this little Lolita all night, but waited until dawn was still 30 seconds, a hero came to save the United States just before the mouth was about to speak. . . Gou Xue, Gou Xue, actually set her heart to kill the Yi tribe and save the vegetables, drag her to escape high, and then ran and the sky slowly brightened and illuminated the top of the mountain. Of course, there are many other kinds of scripts, just use a little heart to arrange the plot so that it is not so abrupt. . .
Eighth, the three fierce soldiers on horseback said that they must get rid of the people on the ground, regain Geweisi, the equipment is first-rate, the horse riding is handsome, and the kung fu is also good, but they fight around and find that they are just doing the right thing. , The underground people beat the underground people. If you say that your heart is trying to protect the dishes, then one-on-one, as for the other two people, there were still shots at the beginning, but later evaporated and returned when they retreated. Instead of this, it was better to just set it when setting it. To be a person is equivalent to a big villain, a big boss. And the duel between Xin and the big boss is also the climax of the martial arts scene. Both the plot and the combat power are justified.
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