A few years ago, I watched Monster University, and that's pretty much how I felt.
The plot is too old-fashioned, and the ending is a bit rushed. There are no problems with the scenes and techniques, and the pictures are beautiful.
But is this the end?
No.
From the very beginning, when I saw the Great Sage sitting on the cliff and leaving his back to the audience, it was like a bunker.
I burst into tears when I saw the subtitle "HERO IS BACK".
Children today probably don't know that when the 1961 film "Havoc in Heaven" was produced, it was a three-year period of natural disasters, material was tense, and everything was left to be done. That year, China decided to make an animation, and the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio chose such a "Havoc in Heaven", which heralded the spirit of romantic revolution and resistance. There were no computers at that time, and every action was drawn frame by frame by hand, and 7,000 pictures were drawn in 10 minutes of footage. It took two years for the hand-painting alone.
However, it is such an animation produced under extremely difficult and backward conditions that has become a legend.
Some people may have already heard that Osamu Tezuka, the originator of Japanese comics, gave up his career as a doctor and picked up a paintbrush after reading the work "Princess Iron Fan" by Wan Laiming, the author of "Havoc in Heaven" in 1940. The later "Astro Boy". 40 years later, Osamu Tezuka came to China to meet Wan Laiming, who was already in his twilight years. After returning to Japan, Osamu Tezuka completed the draft of his last cartoon "My Monkey King" and wrote "This is my Monkey King" on the title page.
However, the Japanese animation industry is still prosperous and blooming everywhere, and after the short-lived period of its prosperity, Chinese animation began to wilt inexplicably. Over the years, imitating Europe and the United States, imitating Japan and South Korea, doing 3D, and entertaining, but it has never been the same.
Much like the useless monkey with shackles.
But Monkey, have you forgotten that you were once the Monkey King?
The world has long forgotten about the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. The world is busy living and dying, working hard for the sake of fame and fortune. The world is going downhill and there are monsters everywhere, who cares about a monkey that only appeared in the play and used to coax children.
The only thing that can be remembered is the child.
The child said, that is not an ordinary monkey, that is the Monkey King!
In 2003, when I was 14 years old, I was still a child of unknown heights. That year our class got together, and almost half of them read books for the rise of Chinese animation.
At that time, we were crowded into a small studio, sketching over and over again and copying one by one. They exchanged anime books with each other, discussed the characters in the manga, and their favorite Japanese manga artists. We said, we want to make animation different from Japan, we want to make our own animation.
However, after so many years, everyone is different.
Some became teachers, some went to work in enterprises, some were doing graphic interior design in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and some were married as businessmen and full-time wives. Everyone says that anime is too hard and it's too hard to get ahead. In China, originality is not easy. Even if there are superb techniques, most of them become cheap painters in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea.
Everyone sighed, how good our animation was in the past, how could it be like this?
Lu Xun said: Save the child.
But the child is dead.
The Great Sage burst into tears, suddenly cheered up, and broke free from the chains.
The golden monkey made a great effort, and Yuyu clarified Wan Lie.
After so many years of silence, it's time to accumulate a lot.
It's just that I can't go back.
Sitting in a crowded movie theater, I once again burst into tears.
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