The story of the two flowers has been told over and over again, it is "The Double Life of Veronica" by Kielovsky and "Suzhou River" by Lou Ye. But as the audience, we take the trouble to immerse ourselves in this dream-like story, watching a flower bloom, watching a flower fail, the story of life can be unfolded so wonderfully, this is the stealing hidden in our hearts Expect. One is a gentle and lovely girl next door, the other is a stubborn rock girl, one has simple happiness, and the other has a persistent dream. When two girls named "NANA" meet in Tokyo, it seems like a ghost. In the convention, in another way to tell a new era of twin flowers.
The gentle and lovely is Nana Komatsu, her happiness is simple and practical, cooking for a man she likes, the happiness in life is nothing more than this. The unruly one is Osaki Nana. She has the blood of passion to pursue her dreams. Self-esteem and rebelliousness are the distinctive features of this rock girl, which are indelible. Never the same character and attitude, never the same life trajectories, two flowers that should never meet, but they meet, we like these two different girls, just like falling in love with the same person, loving this person Different parts of her, also like that she keeps running for love and ideals, jumping down and getting up and continuing to move forward.
The story of "NANA" is not complicated and novel, it's just an urban story about a girl's pursuit of dream love, but it has become a trend. The 12-volume shojo manga "NANA", serialized since 2000, has exceeded 29 million copies, making it the most popular shojo manga in recent years. What exactly did the author Yazawa Ai add to this girl manga to create such a popular culture, and what magic does the two girl protagonists have? It can make thousands of new and new human beings worship. The reason why the film "NANA" was released with a box office of 3.6 billion yen and became the total box office champion in 2005 was completely borrowed from this popular trend, which attracted countless animation fans into the theater to watch.
I am not a fan of anime, except I have read "Saint Seiya" and "Slam Dunk" N years ago, I have never read more comics, and I have never read the original book of "NANA". So I only watched the movie "NANA", I wanted to find out the reason for this myth, interpret it carefully, and look for it patiently.
This is a film wrapped in various fashion elements. If these are discarded, perhaps the film will not have such a huge appeal. In this film, whether KAWAI's Komatsu Nana is attractive, or the cool maverick Nana Osaki is more attractive, maybe the vast majority of the audience will prefer Osaki Nana, and the story of the film is actually more focused on Osaki Nana, in many flashbacks, explained the previous story of Osaki Nana and the love experience between her and Lian. Osaki Nana, played by Mika Nakajima, is dressed in a cool punk style, which is simply the most perfect cosplay show, almost exactly the same as the original comic characters in appearance. In the film, she is the lead singer of the Blackstone Band, a symbol of Japanese visual rock singers. She has a radiant performance on the stage, which is frenetic. Her unique and neutral style seems to cater to the popular tastes of this era. This is why there is a super girl craze in China, and why Li Yuchun's neutral style makes people feel handsome and unique. This kind of coincidence cannot be premeditated, because the trend of fashion is not driven by human will, you can Take Osaki Nana as Li Yuchun, and Li Yuchun can also be regarded as Osaki Nana. The beauty of neutrality is the popular standard of this era.
The fashion elements wrapped in this film are more than that. For example, the gorgeous fashion and various accessories described by the author Yazawa Ai in the original comic book lead the popular fashion, Osaki Nana's punk costume, Komatsu Nana Asa Colourful girly outfits, and bohemian vibes on other characters. The film "NANA" seems to be a popular treasure chest. It continues the development of the fetishism of the manga artist Yazawa Ai, and seems to have also driven the development of related products, turning "NANA" into a kind of popular culture, which is everywhere. See.
If you look at this film without the original comics, it feels like the film is not good enough, the plot is very bland, lacks more exciting things, and the whole story lacks dramatic structure from beginning to end . It is understood that the director tried his best to uphold the content of the original work, and even many lines in the film were not changed from the original work. Although such an adaptation can easily make the die-hard anime fans of "NANA" feel familiar and intimate, it can't help but make The film is in a quandary. Comics can be read one by one, but film is an independent art form, it cannot be shot like a series, it must maintain a kind of integrity. This shows that the adaptation of the script is basically not successful. Although we know that the film "NANA" must be a sequel, this is not the reason for the film to end without success. At the end of the film, there is still a need to draw a full stop.
And even if the film is so faithful to the original, there are still many die-hard anime fans who are not satisfied with the film, who think that they cannot experience the original idea in the film. Although the movie is quite successful in the restoration of the character modeling, it is quite sloppy in the relationship between the characters, especially the emotional interaction between the two protagonists is very unconvincing, and this is precisely the key to the key, because the two The emotion between NANA is the backbone of the whole story. Due to the limited time of the film, the complex relationship between each character has been diluted between the choice of the content of the original work, which has damaged the original idea to a certain extent. Although the film faithfully copied the content of the original work on the one hand, it was unable to fully restore the original work on the other hand, which is completely the performance of the director's lack of independent thinking. Movies and comics are two different carriers, how can they be exactly the same as the original? As a director, you should add new connotations to the choice of the original work, and make the movie "NANA" a work with its own label, rather than just a big shift.
The film was not a success, but a group of youth idol actors performed well, especially Mika Nakajima who played Nana Osaki. In addition, the music of this film should be said to be quite good, plus Nakajima Mika is an excellent singer in reality, it is just like a duck to water. And at the same time as the film was released, Nakajima Mika made her debut in the music circle under the name of "Osaki Nana" at the same time as the film was released, and released the film theme song "Glamorous Sky" written by the original author of the manga, Yazawa Ai and composed by Hyde. In the film, Reira, the female lead singer of the other East team Trapnest, is played by a new singer, and the same column also uses the name "Reira" to ask for performances and other singles. The film "NANA" is not just an independent entity, in fact it is an integral part of NANA's popular culture, the success of the film is actually the success of NANA culture, and NANA culture is composed of music, animation, games, movies. We must not separate the film from the whole and look at it in isolation.
Text: Between the eyebrows
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