When I saw the part where Jing Boran and Bai Baihe sold the radish to Tang Wei, I noticed the girl next to me was wiping tears. The children who had been amused by the little radish before also quieted down, and their parents let out a soft sigh.
In the past, I always despised these emotional audiences for not being able to control themselves well during the viewing process and thus affect others. At that moment, I suddenly felt that the heart of the market was also beautiful, and my eyes were a little wet.
If my first impression after watching "The Return of the Great Sage" is that it is well-made and the story is empty, then "Monster Hunt" has a compact plot and full of details. Of course, the production is also very well-made, but its sophistication is hidden in the details. It has reached a natural fusion state of "moisturizing and silent".
If you want to make a comparison, it is like "The Matrix" and "The Lord of the Rings", the former displays computer special effects in front of the audience, while the latter uses special effects to create every cloud, every grass, orc skin. Every fine line of his physique, like Taijiquan, seems to have no tricks, but in fact, every movement hides a powerful force.
At the story level, it can be seen that the script of "Monster Hunt" has been carefully polished. Funny, touching, and adorable highlights are distributed one after another, reasonably distributed in the compact plot, so although it is just a simple and cliché story, the audience seems to walk into a well-arranged garden during the viewing process. , change the scene every step of the way, and change the mood one step at a time.
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the performances of the characters and actors are also well controlled. The best performance is not to "release", but to know how to "receive", that is, to control.
When Zeng Zhiwei and Wu Junru came from the depths of the picture, I was sweating, because the performance of Hong Kong-style comedy is too exaggerated, and it is likely to conflict with the style of the whole film. Later, I thought it was okay, they played very mundane. , but it did not become vulgar, and the director controlled it. You must know that this degree is difficult to grasp, too much indulgence will become Wang Jing's style.
In my eyes, Tang Wei has always been a very spiritual and talented actress. In this film, she has not many roles, but in a short period of time, she has shown agile acting skills. When the camera is shown to her, it seems that every Every hair is acting. Yao Chen's performance is more exaggerated, but it is this exaggeration that makes the comedy effect like "overwhelming mountains".
In addition to their good performances themselves, the choreographers are also ingenious in the design of their scenes. Playing cards and cooking are so life-like, four-handed monsters and radishes can't become "dishes", these two settings make this plot more fun.
In contrast, Jiang Wu, the real acting school of this film, has no sense of design in his scenes. It feels that the director has left a lot of space for him to play freely. Jiang Wu was born in drama, and he is very skilled in handling lines. Actors with stage performance experience can make people cry when they read an old almanac, but actors who lack this training will be dwarfed by their expressive lines. It's very hard work, but I didn't feel emotionally touched until Jing Boran "boomed" the little radish back to the ethnic group (because the plot of Jing Boran's father abandoning him is linked here), and Bai Baihe didn't have it until the end.
The difference in the handling of the lines is evident in the Wasteland Restaurant scene. When Jiang Wu entered the house, Bai Baihe and Jiang Wu had a few conversations. It was obvious that Bai Baihe was speaking in the way of speaking in life, while Jiang Wu had some control over the accent and weight, and immediately felt the heavy feeling of this character. .
Of course, it's not that Jing Boran and Bai Baihe's performances are not good. In fact, under their interpretations, the characters of the warm-hearted family man and the savage woman are very full, and their words, deeds, and choices are also reasonable, vivid and natural. .
3. Unexpected surprises
1. The sense of rhythm
makes me happy that the film is interspersed with several "singing and dancing performances". I have always said that the "sense of rhythm" of American cartoons is not found in Chinese cartoons. Any American cartoon has a large "song and dance performance". Even in the paragraphs without singing and dancing, the actions of the characters , the switching of the screen and the flow of the background music are also full of rhythm, and the rhythm of the cartoons of the Celestial Dynasty is extremely lacking. Fortunately, "Monster Hunt" has been improved.
In the Celestial Dynasty, the main audience of cartoons shown in theaters are children after all. With a sense of rhythm, the film will exude a joyful carnival atmosphere from the inside out, so that children and adults can dance to the rhythm. How wonderful!
2. Values
In the past, domestic children's films rarely allowed me to accept the value setting of the film, because they were more or less didactic, but the film "Monster Hunt" did not. Universal Values" thing.
The so-called universal values mean that no matter what nation or country you are, as a human being, you will adhere to some basic values by nature, such as honesty, strength, courage, kindness, intelligence, friendliness, etc. No matter how the times change and the world is chaotic, this persistence is hidden in everyone's heart, deep or shallow.
This value also exists in the Celestial Dynasty, but it has been replaced by another term - positive energy. After over-packaging and over-promotion, it has been dyed with a strong political color. In the past children's films, the director often conveyed this positive energy deliberately. For example, Pleasant Goat, a film of more than one hour designed a dozen or twenty short paragraphs, all to tell the importance of bravery and friendship - we We all know that bravery and friendship are very important, and it will be disgusting if you repeat it so much.
In foreign children's movies, the bearded villain will have a childlike innocence, and even though he can't get along with adults, he has a common language with children. In the vast majority of children's movies in China, such characters are often used by The fixed setting is "bad guy", and the "good guy" punishes TA to show the educational significance of the film, transmit positive energy, and even reflect socialist values.
"Monster Hunt" does not deliberately emphasize these things, but uses simple stories and well-designed bridges to let the audience actively perceive the value setting of the director. This setting itself is not intentional, so it makes the audience watch it. After that, I took the initiative to accept this setting, which inspired the universal values deep in my heart to give a perceptual response. For example, a rough man full of swear words will also fall in love with the soft radish after watching this film. Behind the gate of the theater, I agreed to a request from my wife a long time ago to go to Kawaii and buy her a huge plush toy.
4. Beyond the film
So I firmly believe that the filmmakers have a soft innocence. Inspired by this innocence, they are willing to work harder than those who adhere to business rules to complete this film, such as (The following information is compiled from Time Network):
"Monster Hunt" was filmed as early as 2014, but could not be released due to the drug use incident of Ke Zhendong. Producer Jiang Zhiqiang finally decided to invest 70 million to re-shoot the film, and the investment before and after the film was as high as 350 million. The cameo roles of Tang Wei and Yao Chen in the film were not in the script at the beginning but were added in the second reshoot.
Although the reshoots cost a lot of money, Jiang Zhiqiang said that he hopes to control his destiny in his own hands. All the hard work is worth it. If he chooses again, he will still do it. Just like when he did "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero", he made movies. Just take risks. He also used "back in time" to describe the reshoot experience of "Monster Hunt", "Take it as a college entrance examination, the first time I scored 70 points, now that time has gone back, we have a second chance to start over. , we have to work hard to achieve 100 points, because we already know the test questions.
Jing Boran immediately agreed to star in the remake. As for the salary, Jing Boran said, "I know the boss, you (Jiang Zhiqiang) are under a lot of pressure, so you can give as much as you want. How much, whatever.
Bai Baihe was paid only once and performed the same play twice. The first time she played against a CG character, she sometimes didn't know how to act. In the second reshoot, she was already very good at it, and acted as a voluntary performance guide to give Jing Boran, who was facing the air for the first time, a trick.
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