When I was preparing for today's topic selection, I suddenly realized that "Angry Birds" has been released for ten years ...
Time is merciless...
Nowadays, all kinds of mobile games are dazzling, and there are more and more choices, but it seems that I can no longer find the feeling of playing "Angry Birds" back then, which is almost called "pure and simple happiness" .
Ten years ago, WeChat and Douyin had not yet been born. It was still a year before Jobs launched the iPhone 4 and was ready to change the world. Smartphones just flew into the homes of ordinary people.
In the ancient era of mobile Internet 1.0 , "Angry Birds" was a must -have application for almost every smartphone .
The game is simple and easy to use, with interesting interface and music, and continuously updated level design, players can reap great fun with a very low learning cost.
Adjust the angle, slide your finger, simple and fun, can't stop at all
"Angry Birds" has become an artifact to fill up the fragmented time while waiting for a meeting, resting, or riding a car. Watching the pig's head explode has the effect of relieving work pressure .
Its global popularity is almost certain.
In that year, the US "Newsweek" published an article saying: ""Angry Birds" is the world's first mobile game to achieve real mainstream success."
However, the good times did not last long. Since 2015, with the disappearance of players' novelty and the distraction of other mobile games, "Angry Birds" has gradually disappeared, and the game company behind it, Rovio, has been operating less than one year. year.
Three years ago, Rovio made what may have been the smartest decision in the company's history : to adapt "Angry Birds" into a film of the same name.
Once the film was released, it was a huge success. In the end, the global box office reached 350 million US dollars, and the domestic box office also exceeded 100 million. Rovio took this to capture five times the box office revenue of the cost and survived the most difficult period of development for the company.
It can be said that the first film of "Angry Birds" is the most successful mobile game adaptation film so far , providing a good example for domestic mobile game IP adaptation films.
Movie characters are all developed from the game settings.
"Fat Red" has no skills in the game, and is the most commonly used ordinary bird, so in the movie, he is a guy who is a little conceited.
The game skill of "Dart Yellow" is acceleration. In the movie, it is similar to the setting of "Quick Silver" in "Avengers 2". It moves rapidly and has a super lively personality.
"Bomb Black" retains the bomb skills in the game, and usually has a simple and honest personality, but when he gets angry, he blows himself up at every turn.
The three protagonists have distinct personalities, lifelike, and memory points.
The film not only successfully shaped the characters, but also told a fun story, and even included a lot of political memes .
For example, if you look at the villain "King Pig", with a green body, a big beard, with TNT on board, and wanting to immigrate, it's too obvious to map anything.
The "King Pig" took a group of pigs to Bird Island, apparently to establish diplomatic relations, but in reality they coveted their eggs.
In the end, what played a key role in the war was a "condor" , which is the spiritual totem of Bird Island, and we all know that the national bird of the United States is the eagle .
Not only that, the movie also has a lot of tributes .
For example, a speech by "King Pig" on Pig Island perfectly reproduced the scene in "The King's Speech" , using the same microphone as "Taobao".
There is also a picture that pays homage to the most classic twin shots in "The Shining" . Looking closely, even the textures of the walls and the ground are restored exactly the same.
Funny characters and stories, political stalks, tribute stalks flying together, "Angry Birds" is definitely a good-looking movie with many elements.
However, hybridization is a double-edged sword. The movie wants everything , but there are not many plot highlights. The game implants such as "Slingshot" are too blunt, and they also contain too much political private goods. The overall look and feel of the movie is relatively torn .
Moreover, the story as a whole is relatively old- fashioned , and the arrangement of jokes as the core of the genre has not satisfied many people, such as me.
So, with low expectations, the author slipped into the cinema last week and watched the hot sequel, "Angry Birds 2", which was returning after more than 3 years .
After reading it, I just want to say aloud: Really fragrant!
"Angry Birds 2" completely exceeded expectations , and the audience could be said to be laughing from beginning to end. Frankly speaking, this is the funniest and most comfortable movie I've seen this year, and it's super stress-relieving. The slogan of the poster is not exaggerated at all!
"Angry Birds 2" abandoned the problem of the previous game's over-reliance on game settings, "not talking about games, only about movies" , and made an excellent family movie with a fast pace, more laughter and strong plot.
The film's production idea is undoubtedly successful. The director and screenwriter have been replaced by Allman and Ackerman, who have rich experience in comedy films. The goal is very clear, that is, to make entertainment-oriented family comedy films !
This creative idea is a bit "returning to the original intention" , because the effect of the film presentation is really the same as the experience that mobile games gave us back then: pure and simple happiness .
The movie is quite friendly to both adult and child audiences, because the creators are very clever with a big trick for all ages: be cute ! In a sense, this is a cute movie . Compared with the first part, the role of "Cute Bird" has been greatly increased.
Just look at the picture above, a few cute creatures bleed every time they appear on the stage , and all of them are funny , cute and funny, it makes people exclaim: cute is justice! Watchers, watch this clip and feel it, no way... I'll wipe my nosebleed...
Although these "three little ones" are cute, they are strong in character and full of contrast . In the movie, they fearlessly "challenged" the giant python, and here is a surprise tribute to the tough western movie "The Bad and the Bad" , which cleverly continued the tribute of the first film.
In addition to promoting the magic skill of "selling cute", the other most surprising thing about the movie is the Mandarin dubbing . Personally, this film is a rare Chinese dubbed version that surpasses the original film!
The author originally bought the wrong show and strayed into the Mandarin version, but ended up with all kinds of surprises. The dubbing matches the character's character very well, and many localized translations have been added, making the characters and stories one step closer to our Chinese audience.
For example, translations such as "There is a mine at home" even surprised the Chinese audience to see the wife's stalk of "Aragaki Yui" , too 666!
Later, I checked the information and found that the film was dubbed by the "Old Opera Bone" dubbing actors of the Shanghai studio , no wonder it was so successful. I have read both versions, and I strongly recommend that you try the Chinese version!
In terms of sound, in addition to the excellent dubbing, a large number of American classic songs are also interspersed. These American pop culture stalks match the funny style of the movie returning to the cartoons of the 1980s and 1990s, adding a lot to the movie.
For example, there is a very spoofed "cute bird" flying out of the earth's space scene in the movie, and the background music is David Bowie's classic "Space Oddity" .
The addition of these popular stalks is not abrupt, and they all serve the narrative of the plot. And the main storyline of this one has also been upgraded one by one . It is no longer the conventional "pig-bird battle", but many new characters have been added.
"Fat Hong" is no longer a "lone hero", because he has a soul partner: "Hyun Wuyin".
She is the "intellectual responsibility" of the whole film , responsible for explaining the physical principles used in combat to the audience, making the film more scientific, and at the same time using her rational and calm personality to synthesize other characters.
In line with the current situation, this role actually has a feminist expression .
She is the most executive in the battle. It is the female brilliance of "Hyun Wuyin" who made "Fat Hong" grow, let him give up personal heroism, and understand the meaning of the team. With the help of "Hyun Wuyin", his character arc is very healing.
Another proof of expressing feminism is that the biggest villain in the whole film is a female eagle ! This leads to the second biggest main storyline: pigs and birds truce, form an alliance, and together resist the attack of the third island, which is Eagle Island .
As for the emergence of Eagle Island, where will the story lead?
What is the relationship between this eagle and the "Invincible Condor" of Bird Island mentioned earlier?
The answers to the above questions, you go to the cinema to find it!
Today's recommendation is introduced here. I recommend you to go to the cinema to watch this movie again. You can take your family to see it with confidence, and make sure that you will laugh out your abs .
If you have been stressed recently, don't miss it. After watching so many pictures and clips above, you should know how funny and decompressed this film is !
Go to the cinema and laugh out loud !
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