Don’t be obsessed with "Avatar". For Chinese filmmakers, it is just an unattainable legend. Based on my limited IQ, in the foreseeable future, "Avatar" is almost infinite to us. of. What we are watching is not "Avatar", but the loneliness of a strange creature named James Cameron for thirteen years. I don't know the technical details, but from my personal perception, "Avatar" is a milestone in the advancement of 3D movies. When you face the giant screen of IMAX standard, put on red and blue glasses, the deafening surround sound is whistling in your ears, and then watching the overwhelming Na'vi people and the monsters on Pandora come like a torrent, that shocking feeling Enough to be recorded in the annals of history-on December 28, 1895, when the Lumière brothers screened "Factory Gate" and "Train Arrival" in a Paris café, mankind had experienced this shock, a hundred times apart. After more than a year, the audiences of the world, who have been generally aesthetically fatigued by Hollywood's visual effects, finally felt the long-lost shock in "Avatar" again. Regardless of the final trend of 3D technology, "Avatar" has already injected a strong shot into the world film industry-no butler's projector or Blu-ray DVD, it is not worthwhile in front of IMAX-3D represented by "Avatar" Mention. After experiencing the temptation of small screens for half a century, James Cameron finally let us discover: It turns out that big screens have great wisdom. It is conceivable that after "Avatar", the IMAX-3D hall will spring up like mushrooms. Appeared in the theater. However, it is said that "Avatar" is to the world film history just like "The King of Jazz" (the world's first sound film) and "Vivacious World" (the world's first color film) opened up (2D to 3D) new The times may be a bit premature. Firstly, the technology used in "Avatar" has been used by predecessor filmmakers, but this time Cameron has improved a lot, but there is no revolutionary innovation. Furthermore, it is difficult to say that 3D movies that cannot be watched with the naked eye have universal significance, and although the whole body texture of Na'vi people is unprecedentedly detailed and realistic, from the eyes of human eyes, the difference between CG and real performance is still obvious. To be honest, I think that a truly mature 3D movie should be supplemented by virtual reality technology, and should choose realistic themes rather than fantasy themes-the so-called "painting ghosts are easier to paint dogs," once CG can completely eliminate cartoons and animations. The difference between live-action movies is the arrival of a brand new movie era. Moreover, in the long run, the maturity and popularization of technology will inevitably lead to a drop in costs. Here, it is not difficult to make a futuristic conjecture: after N years, humans may no longer engage in writing to a large extent. (Out of respect for the Chinese students, I politely used "to a large extent" as an adverb to avoid the judgment of the full name), and use images as the most important medium for human artistic creation and information expression. Imagine that in the school of the future, teachers are assigning homework: children, today’s homework is a 90-minute sci-fi blockbuster per person—the development of technology and the drop in costs make the film a completely personal work , The children go home and click the mouse, and the ideas in their minds can be expressed in images (this also means that the film and television actors are completely reduced to the legendary ancient profession). Of course, in the current era, the technology of IMAX-3D plus virtual reality is still a legend for Chinese movies and Chinese filmmakers. Although many Chinese technical elites have joined the special effects production team of Hollywood blockbusters, although we are also adopting CG technology sporadically and claiming to keep up with the world trend, fundamentally speaking, Chinese films still lack technological advancement. Motivation-In a movie market where the relevant departments call for rain, and the combination of stars like a variety show can make a steady profit, which investor would take such a big risk to invest in emerging film technology? You know, after "Titanic", Cameron dormant for thirteen years to practice "Avatar" (of course, "Avatar" is also to practice his "Bunny Dream")-this reminds me It was John Nash, a mental patient who had been waiting for Princeton University for nearly thirty years. Finally, he added a Nobel medal to Princeton’s room of honor; Hollywood, which the literary and artistic youths sneered at, even tolerated Cameron’s crazy "wandering" for 13 years, and bet him 500 million US dollars at a time. The Hollywood of "Flies" is not a bad Bole, and the young people in the arts have been a bit harsh on their attitude before. Imagine that more than half a century ago, Truffauers called out the chant of "author film" in order to resist the suppression of the commercial film system. Now it seems that Cameron has completely integrated industrial capital and personal author into one. . But having said that, the story of "Avatar" is a bit old-fashioned (don't use words like "This is a story more than ten years ago" to excuse the gods. Haven't myths and stories from thousands of years ago been photographed by later generations? Appearing in the moment, of course, it should be judged from the perspective of the moment), and it is full of shadows of other movies: at the beginning, watching the US Marines stationed in the jungle, it feels like a "Field Platoon"; Jack Sally "moved" "Soul" to his Avatar, and clearly used the routine of "The Matrix" (for Sally, Pandora's Journey is like a video game journey. If there is a comeback in the sequel, tell the audience what is behind. It’s all fictitious in Sally’s mind, and the story is fully established); later the native Princess Na'vi rescued Sally from the beast, which was obviously the way of "Pocahontas"; then Sally went to Harry Taming the tyrannosaurus beast on Luya Mountain, the scene is very similar to "City in the Sky"; in the end, Sally led the Na'vi people to counterattack the earth army (actually the US army), which is obviously a repeat of the motif of "Dancing with Wolves" ; When the war broke out, the six-legged horses and the tyrannosaurus beasts that covered the sky and the sun gave me the illusion of watching "Lord of the Rings." The big mechanical guy gave me the association of "The Ninth District" again-when you think about it carefully, the ideological connotations of "The Ninth District" and "Avatar" are the closest. Both are after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11. In the sci-fi blockbuster, the aliens in the film have changed from the evil spirits of the Iron Curtain era to the underprivileged group now (it is not an exaggeration to regard "Avatar" as a cosmic anti-demolition war), two films Almost all are images and illustrations of Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations". Cameron is known as a "technical maniac", but in "Avatar" he reflects on the evil consequences of pursuing material technology (in a deeper sense, this is a reflection on modernity), and the thought weapon he uses is all things animate Primitive pantheistic thinking. The big braids in the shape of the Na'vi people became a medium of communication with other creatures on the planet Pandora. At the moment when the sacred tree was about to be destroyed, thousands of creatures attacked together and beat the Earth (US) colonial army to piss off. Of course, the "Eva" god of the Na'vi is still full of the shadow of the Christian Virgin worship. The Pandora star under Cameron’s guide tube is also extremely harmonious, vividly reflecting the green world view of the ecological era-but considering the cost of "Avatar", this should be a not environmentally friendly "high-carbon movie." As for the styling of the Na'vi in "Avatar", it is obviously an enlarged and upgraded version of the Native Americans. No way, it’s said that when Cameron racked his brains to design the Na'vi people, he took into account the acceptance of the male audience-so the Na'vi people can't be too human-like, otherwise, what about the sex scene of the heroine and heroine in the film? put? It can't be made into "Animal World", right? (Poor Zoe Saldana never showed her face from beginning to end) Now it seems that Princess Na'vi’s bikini works well, and the tail behind her ass also has the allure of a sexy kitten-this is a bit naive , But you don’t have to blame Cameron. Movies are made for people to watch, and people cannot get rid of their finiteness. In the process of exploring the universe, in fact, we cannot really accept the existence of life that is very different from ours (in fact, the word "life" itself has already explained our finitude), just like what Lyme said in "Solaris" As written: "We are looking for people, not existences other than people. We have no need for the world other than people. What we need is a mirror of man himself." More than a hundred years ago, Nietzsche shouted like a prophet. There has been a saying of "eternal reincarnation", perhaps, when the unprecedented visual epic created by new technology emerges on the horizon of the movie, the audience is tired of the so-called modern and post-modern artistic exploration. After the technology is packed, it begins to re-launch-this is the "eternal reincarnation" of film history (here is a metaphysical appropriation of the term): the latest technology, the oldest story, the combination of the two, does not mean a brand new Is the axis of the film age slowly unfolding? Despite all the shortcomings, the significance of "Avatar" cannot be ignored-"Avatar" is a manifesto, "Avatar" is a propaganda team, "Avatar" is a planter, try to see the theater of the future, it must be the world of IMAX-3D! Regrettably, for Chinese filmmakers, "Avatar" may only be an unattainable legend in their lifetime.
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