First-class painting, second-class script, but still excellent work

Rosemary 2022-03-22 09:02:32

It was first recommended when I watched some celluloid animations at station B. The gimmick of Otomo Keyang and the production cost of 2 billion yen really made people feel that this film is very powerful. After watching it, I also thought so, This is an excellent work, but compared with the previous works by Otomo Keyang, this one is very small between Akira and the Memories Trilogy. The production cost of this film is a lot and the production time is also very long. It seems that It's about 9 years, fine background and excellent painting, especially painting, Japan's famous supervisors such as Jin Min, Datomo, Oshii Mamoru, etc. The good thing when viewing works is that no matter how the plot, the style of the painting, the original painting is there. Putting it up, the quality of each step of Otomo Keyang's works is extremely high. No matter what else, the first thing you can feel is a visual feast, and Steam Boy has also inherited this. However, in this work, Otomo Keyang's advantages have been inherited without reservation, but his weakness - the script, has begun to enlarge. In fact, this is a defect that many movies have. They often have a grand world view and excellent design. Certainly, when you see these background pictures from the Internet, you will "follow the whole series for this picture", but after actually reading it, you find that these works have a very grand world view, and they seem to tell a wonderful story. , in fact, it's just a simple truth that everyone knows, plus excellent pictures, and grind it into a long piece of dozens of minutes. It's like a bowl of delicious noodles, but a lot of water is added to it, and it still looks very good. It looks good, and it is more than the original, but it is tasteless. It is better not to eat it and watch it quietly. In the same way, I believe that many people like me see a clip of an excellent MAD on the Internet, or when an artist draws a good-looking fanart, they start to think about this. What is this about, I have it in my mind. Thinking about the plot of this show or something, of course you can't think of such a good script, the important thing is that everything you imagine in your mind is vague, you feel that he is as beautiful as the illustration, and you will feel after reading it. The emotion is nothing but the same. You will find what was in your mind at that time. I really think that the image at that time was better than the supervising film. When I looked back at Steam Boy, when I watched it on station B (I watched it for a while, but I didn't find high-quality Bt online), many people thought that the main picture was amazing, but the plot was reluctant, but At the end of the film, that is, when the staff list came out, the story after Steam Boy appeared in front of people's eyes along with a pair of carefully drawn illustrations. "It's such a pity that these are not filmed" and so on, I am afraid that if the second part does come out, there will be people who write bad scripts and so on. EVA powder Every day I shouted to see the end of the EVA, but the announcement of the end came out and said that it was going to be released now but I was afraid of the end of the EVA. This is the same. The focus of this work is the impact of science (such a simple summary is really not right), but the dialogue in the film, the dialogue between grandfather and father, the truth is indeed known to ordinary people, and even like grandpa It's a little pity to give a script that is not commensurate with his father's theory, he has a grand world view and an excellent production team. But even so, this script has crossed the passing line in my opinion. In fact, most of Otomo Keyang's works, such as the memory trilogy and Akira, etc., Akira is the story of a young man who accidentally acquired superpowers. , The Street of Cannons recalling the trilogy also tells about an ordinary day in an overhead world. Otomo Keyang's scripts often don't have any surprising and exciting plots and reversals one after another. , his script is not exciting, but it still allows us to dig deep truths. Could it be that exciting plots like Attack on Titan and Game of Thrones are classic masterpieces. Not a few people die in one episode, the protagonist is mistreated, and the script is not a good script without flipping the ending several times... Obviously not, of course, this is not It doesn't mean that Steam Boy is an excellent script. Many animations are like this now. When they think of a grand world view, they give a script that barely supports this world view. The truth can be explained in a few words, but it has to be shot into dozens of pieces. minute feature film

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  • Dr. Loyd Steam: An invention with no philosophy behind it is a curse.

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    James Ray Steam: You could hurt someone like that, and my name is not brat!