In the New Year's Eve when red envelopes are disturbing mobile phone screens, it is not easy to concentrate on watching movies. I don’t know if it’s because of this concern, the official release of "Wolf Totem" is scheduled for the red envelope, which may be a little stopped on New Year's Day, but audiences who are not busy are still willing to watch the show a few days in advance. Although the mobile phones of the surrounding audience are still like shoals of fish in the dark sea, as far as I am concerned, compared to watching "There is a place only we know", I am so boring and sleepy that I need to scan the quiet circle of friends from time to time, "Wolf Totem" 》No matter from the scene, the soundtrack or the story, I quickly and firmly caught me, and let me lock my phone in my bag from start to finish. The price is that for the 60 yuan pseudo IMAX, I missed the rule-and-exciting bag grabbing game in the local tyrants, and the loss is estimated to be 600 yuan.
Generally speaking, for me, who has never read the original, "Wolf Totem" has a complete and logically beautiful story, but it is accompanied by a failed character who even wanted to get him out of the screen. It is said that although the original work has a larger length, a stronger point of view, and a more controversial part of the discussion, the protagonist Chen Zhen is very three-dimensional and has sufficient behavioral logic and persuasiveness. In the movie, the Chen Zhen, played by Feng Shaofeng, became the kind of warm man who thought he loved small animals, but he was actually an unreasonable man in the cruel living environment. He was enlightened and awakened once he took a shortcut. Dad's chicken soup for the soul is not stained. Having disrupted the biological chain, he still used innovative rhetoric of practice and was inexplicably valued by the production team leader, and he had the umbrella to continue to die. And the educated youth partner played by Dou Xiao, except for a wild play with a Mongolian girl in a flock to express the depression of the times, the whole process is just a soy sauce role. On the contrary, the director of the production team, who was hated at the beginning, told the truth about the grassland, "Being a leader is not to be liked."
However, it may benefit from Jean Jacques Arnault who is indeed a good friend of wild animals who are good at creating natural beauty. Perhaps it is the fate of the known ecological tragedy. The relatively failed characterization did not affect the overall storyline development too much. The coyote's naive attitude made the girl in the theater tweeted and praised, "Is this sure not a husky?"; The grand scene of wolves chasing horses and the subsequent sculptural horses on the ice beautifully convey this group of aggressive beasts His wisdom can not only drive food into the large natural refrigerator, but also prepare food reserves for his little wolf pups for the coming year; the contradiction between yellow sheep and wolves, outsiders and herders, with the promotion of the plot, has gradually become the destiny of the ecology. The key factor.
The contrast between the wonderful story and the failed characters, I don't know if there will be reasons for the separation of creation. I always feel that the great director Jean Jacques Arnold, like his previous "Animal World" series, really loves wolves, he is only responsible for spending many years to let the trainer train the beasts well, and ensure that they are scary or cute. Actions and scenes of fierce attack or hunting. As for the spiritual growth of the educated youth and whether to engage with herders, the trivial matters of you Chinese humans are not my business.
Fortunately, the clever music of the soundtrack master James Horner, like the sound of wind that sometimes strokes the vast fields, and sometimes like the wolf skin flying at the top of the horse pole of a yurt, can always be soothing or tense, in the crowd and The wolves appeared at the right time during the transition, which was quite refreshing. He not only inherited the breadth and far-reaching of his own masterpiece "Burning Love", but also learned the perfect fusion of howling and melody from his peer John Barry's "Dancing with Wolves".
Leaving aside the protagonist of death (although it is hard to leave it alone), "Wolf Totem" is still a rare audiovisual feast for the Spring Festival. Therefore, seize the time to grab red envelopes, or watch the cute huskies, or listen to the melodious James Horner, which has become a hesitating choice during the New Year season.
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