A complete triumph of technology should not bring a retrograde

Briana 2022-01-27 08:06:04

The real beast version of The Lion King, the CG that can't pick out any faults, can almost be considered as real animals performing, but the characters also lack "humanity", so that emotions cannot be expressed through completely animal faces, and the audience can't integrate into it. Ambience.

In the scene of Mufasa's death, Simba is completely like a performance performed by a real lion trained by the director, so that it is difficult for the audience to substitute for this feeling, and the pursuit of extremeness, delicacy and reality is too much, isn't it? Too realistic animal depictions, so I can't distinguish Mom, Nana, Scar Simba battle, and can only be barely recognized by the body shape. The complete victory of technology should not bring about a regression in the viewing experience. The whole film is like watching an exquisite and exquisite circus performance, but that's all. In contrast, the fantasy forest a few years ago did not make me feel so uncomfortable. Probably, the animals inside are not 100% animalized!

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After watching it later, the CG of this film is all computer synthesized, which means that there is no motion capture technology that we are familiar with. Nangoe’s reality shows that the best motion capture technology is the best for making this type of film. After all, what we want to see is personification. Animals instead of the BBC's annual mega-hit, Lion of the Wild?

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Extended Reading
  • Arne 2022-03-23 09:01:38

    When I was a kid, my younger brother had a genuine disc of "The Lion King". He played it every weekend. I watched it with him. I remembered every episode and sang every song. (My favorite is Peng Peng and Timon's wailing when they see Simba falling in love...) I watched the live-action (lion) version yesterday, the familiar music played, and nostalgic feelings flooded into my heart again. After the animation becomes realistic, with the original music and characters, I always feel a strange magic. And I also suddenly discovered that there were so many elements of artistic creation in cartoons, and the exaggerated lines were a feast for the eyes. Using technology to make the lion infinitely realistic, it can't replace the artist's divine, humorous and cheerful heart. The animations are less realistic but lively and fun, full of energy. Watching the real lion version made me like the animated version even more, and seeing the creative parts that I hadn't seen when I was a child was also very worthwhile. But I still admire what Disney is doing. It's fun to reinterpret things that I liked when I was a kid. Technological progress is good, but creativity and art are still needed, and everything is like the land of Africa, which is constantly developing and making people happy.

  • Alvina 2022-03-23 09:01:38

    Soulless, meaningless and worthless adaptation, neither digging out new content in the original story, nor any attempt to innovate, it is really a two-hour giant running account, a boring world of wild animals Grand Tour. Compared with the dark epic temperament of the previous "Fantasy Forest" directed by Jon, this film is really like a childish joke, especially the singing and dancing scenes contributed by CG animal images, which are so stupid, and the songs and dubbing are also ugly. To the explosion, the level of stupidity is "comparable" to "Beauty and the Beast".

The Lion King quotes

  • Scar: You fools have stripped your land of every living thing, and yet I send two little cubs your way and they come back alive.

    Kamari: [the hyenas surround Scar, growling] I guess we'll have to eat you instead.

    Scar: Why eat one meal when you can be feasting the rest of your lives.

    Shenzi: What could you... possibly offer us?

    Scar: A place where you can fill your bellies, for everything the light touches is yours for the kill

    Shenzi: The Pridelands are not yours to keep, the king controls those hunting grounds.

    Scar: [after a long pause] That's why were going to kill him.

  • Scar: [Simba has unsuccessfully tried to hunt a beetle] If you wish to kill something, you might want to stay downwind.

    Young Simba: I know how to hunt, Uncle Scar.

    Scar: Well let's hope we're never attacked by a beetle, go back to your den Simba, I don't babysit.

    Young Simba: Babysit? I'm gonna be the King of Pride Rock, my Dad showed me the whole kingdom said I'm going to rule it all.

    Scar: Is that so?

    Young Simba: Think about it, when I'm king- I'll have to give you orders, tell you what to do, how weird is that?

    Scar: You've no idea. So your dad showed you the whole kingdom, did he show you the shadows beyond the northern borders?

    Young Simba: No, he said I can't go there, but...

    Scar: And he's absolutely... right. An Elephant Graveyard is no place for a young prince.

    Young Simba: An Elephant Graveyard, whoa.

    Scar: [feigning surprise] Aah, I've said to much, well I'd supposed you'd of found out sooner or later, you being king and all.

    Young Simba: You've been there?

    Scar: We've all been there, it's no place for a cub, all those rotting bones, burning pools of oozing mud.

    Young Simba: Rotting bones, oozing mud.

    Scar: Promise me you'll stay away Simba. Now you run along, and remember its our little secret... Your Majesty.