I have been thinking: Why is such a topic that is about to be chewed up and fought a big turnaround?
Probably a lot of people have the same idea as me. Moreover, if someone asks you beforehand if you want to read the story of Monkey King, you will probably roll your eyes: is he annoying or not?
But after reading Qingzheng Hongshao's article, I figured it out: Of course, the one who undertakes this mission should be the Great Sage, and it can only be the Great Sage.
——It was too deeply imprinted on our childhood life, and it was too ethereal to inspire the heroic feelings in the young mind in the barren age, wandering for many years without a place to settle, so when the immortal legendary monkey was deprived of supernatural powers and implanted After human nature, it naturally found its place in people's hearts.
The crowd rushed to the theater full of emotions that had been accumulated for many years, and the great sage held the golden hoop, and in one fell swoop, he stabbed the valve that had already been bulging and full of passion.
In the unique opening scene, the dark and densely swirling Heavenly Court was surrounded by heavy troops, and the army was pressing.
I believe that at that moment, every adult audience who remembered the havoc in the Heavenly Palace saw their own shadow in the figure sitting alone in prison.
Monkey King who stepped down from the altar.
Step into our ordinary selves.
So people fell into the emotional field in batches facing the monkeys in the dark. Just like in the ending song: "If you meet me in the past, please bring him back." Familiar mythological scenes, realistic life endings, but even a hypocritical collective show-style nostalgia, people are waiting for such an opportunity. Waited too long.
One hundred thousand thunders, one hundred thousand soldiers, and a hundred feet of red scarf roiled the heavens.
Heroes don't speak solitary words, they only act freely in the breeze.
The author below is Qingzheng Hongshao, a good friend of mine in college.
Now she claims to be an English writing teacher in a small southern town and a housewife who is happy with flowers and grass. But more than ten years ago, she founded the animation club of Peking University Changping Park with her own hands, succeeded as the president of Peking University Yuanhuo Comic Club, and led us to break through the cosplay competition, which was a niche at the time.
When the great sage fights back into a monkey, when a fan girl grows into a mother. The enthusiasm of an ACG lover has not been extinguished, although the world has changed so much.
——By Wen Yan
--------The following text is by Qingzheng Hongshao-------
Domestic film protection Yue, even if only one of the ten bad films is worth protecting, the return of the great sage is worth it!
Unconsciously, my country's animation industry has matured to this point. The regret of the animators for taking a detour because of small technical problems, the lament of countless young painters wasting their youth in the OEM for Japan and the United States, those dream bubbles that took years but did not stir up ripples, all of which were left behind yesterday. . The excitement in my heart is indescribable, and at the end of the play I found myself giggling all the time, from beginning to end.
Some friends want me to talk about it in detail, but I'm not an insider. I got a little bit of it a few years ago, so I'll explain it a little bit.
Thirteen years ago, an animation investor told me about the difficulties they encountered, such as the rapid zooming of 3D scenes, which is equivalent to proportional enlargement of modeling. can be solved.
At that time, the animation industry had just bid farewell to celluloid, and the texture technology had never been heard of. The animation businessmen at that time were all thinking about how to keep the capital. Everyone gathered together and figured out how to move the eyes and open the mouth a few times in a fixed grid, which could save a few frames of animation. At that time, the 2D animation team had too few talents and used it on the original painting. Most of the animators were laymen who came to the city to work, because they were cheap, young and easy to teach.
There are many similar experiences. What does that mean?
The mature Japanese and American animation industry we see now is the result of continuous development after the war. In their rough and impetuous early days, the roots of today's great works are rooted. The team is growing, the technology is iterating, and the experience is accumulating. These are the hands and feet of several generations.
Stages cannot be crossed, time can be shortened.
Thirteen years later, Chinese animators can finally sit down and have an equal cup of coffee with the nearly 100-year-old Hollywood animation industry. When I saw the dense panorama shot of the return of the Great Sage, I knew they weren't fooling the audience with textures. When the characters speak, the robes flutter, and no frame is repeated. This is the passing line of animated films. Combined with the flowing characters, the texture of silk is almost perfect. This impressive performance deserves full marks.
There are many common problems with domestic films. You talk to it about the quality and box office, and it talks to you about feelings and sincerity. No, The Return of the Great Sage is not a work of sincerity. It's loud, it's bright, it's dazzling, it's dazzling -- and we need this dazzling so much! Finally, from this horn, the Chinese animators who have been making wedding clothes for others for many years declared the birth of an original force.
Is it true that if you live well, you don’t need to worry about the spiritual connotation? I don't want to cause such a misunderstanding.
The Return of the Great Sage is not weak on the subject. The return of the hero is a motif that has been told countless times over the past two thousand years, and the post-Trojan Odysseus was not yet a hero, just a wise man. After ten years of wandering, he completed his heroic temperament in the fiddling with fate and resistance. The process of returning is a process of awakening. The narration of the return reflects different cultures' understanding of the individual and destiny.
Also for redemption, the stories of Westerners focus on self-rescue, while Easterners focus on saving him. The late-night dialogue between the great sage and Jiang Liuer can be understood as a compassionate heart for the demon monkey, and it can also be seen from the hero's feelings for his fate. The hero was defeated by innocence, and all kinds of emotions surged on the silent face of the monkey in an instant.
This sense of hierarchy in interpretation and blank space in expression is exactly the charm of a good movie. The audience thinks this movie is shallow, firstly because there are too few such inner dramas, and secondly because the details are too little for the characters. And Dasheng's team wants to say that they can do it, they just do less. That's right, if you want connotation, there will be Evangelion; if you want entertainment, there will be 100,000 bad jokes.
The meaning of the return of the Great Sage is like Avatar.
What is the meaning of Avatar? What's the plot? It merely reiterates a postcolonial theme. Its meaning is to announce the outbreak of a technological revolution in an industry. When teaching students to write naysayers, I repeatedly emphasized that the arguments should be tit for tat, and that the pros and cons of different aspects should not cancel each other out.
In the return of the great sage, there are also blunt plots and facialized characters, and an ordinary acg lover can also touch the ceiling of their originality.
I've seen cult-like remakes of the old Havoc, a nod to the color palette and lighting of the early kirigami animations, and I've seen them steal lessons from Miyazaki, The Lord of the Rings, God of War, and Wanda and the Colossus.
However, those shots that touched the ceiling were precisely the moments when I was most moved. This feeling is as if my childhood playmate has finally grown into a hero of the world, and in his words, I hear the local accent of the old man.
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