After watching "Harry Potter", I was shocked by the unreliable special effects production team, marveled at the author's whimsy, and admired the director's brilliant talents.
Nowadays, commercial films and large-scale production films have become the main profit-making methods of the film industry. Magic fiction, sci-fi, superheroes save the world, and such films will become the mainstream of movies.
But in this regard, Chinese movies have never shown their own characteristics. I have always believed that Chinese films should not only let the world experience the beauty of China through martial arts films. The Western world has their magical blockbuster films, and China should have its own fantasy films! Let the world feel the creativity and unique cultural charm of the Chinese nation.
Chinese movies have also tried many times for this: they tried to use popular literary fantasy novels-"Zhu Xian", directed by Cheng Xiaodong; they tried to use the monster image in the classic "Shan Hai Jing" in Chinese culture-"The Great Wall", directed by Zhang Yimou; Trying to use the long-standing Chinese history and ancient legendary novels-"The Legend of the Demon Cat", directed by Chen Kaige, etc., but in the end it was not satisfactory.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, I chose a movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and I felt a lot after watching it.
The film is adapted from a novel by J.K. Rowling. This novel is similar to our country’s fantasy novel in foreign countries, and it is very popular. The adaptation of this film will undoubtedly have a large number of fans who are interested and concerned about it. In addition, Behind the extremely high purchase rate is the recognition of readers, so there will not be many loopholes in the plot. The construction of the new world system in the movie can be based on the original, not from scratch, and moreover, this original The construction of the new world and the relationship between the characters have been very detailed, which will reduce a lot of trouble in making movies.
The special effects of this movie are also very interesting. It does not perfectly show every detail of the magic, but leaves room for imagination for the audience. For example, the director of Gryffindor at the beginning of the movie turns from a cat to a human In the plot, the special effects do not show the process of change in detail, but are cleverly using shadows to show the audience the process of change. This takes into account the different feelings of different audiences about beauty, and leaves room for imagination with "subtle" performance. The same is true for the movie "Hero". After Jing Ke gave up to assassinate Queen Qin and was killed by a random arrow, the movie did not show the process of Jing Ke's death in detail, but turned the camera to the city gate: after a burst of arrows, the city gate stuck. Full of arrows, only a blank figure remained, and the tragic and heavy atmosphere suddenly became prominent. But now, Chinese fantasy movies seem to be stuck in a problem and cannot go out: special effects cannot satisfy the audience. I think this movie provides a good choice: Combine special effects with the audience's imagination, without the need for fine special effects, and appropriately omit them to make the special effects "implicit".
Time can't fade the beautiful things, it can only coat the beautiful things with layers of different colors. It has been nearly 19 years since this movie was born, and it still has its charm when I watch it again. I hope that one day there will be a fantasy movie with such an influential influence in the Chinese film industry!
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