"Painted Skin 2" uses 3D as a gimmick, and rudely abandoned 2D. Huayi Brothers ruthlessly trampled on the art of film. For a long time, movies have been based on 2D, whether from pre-shooting or viewing from screening, so that the fusion and conflict of theory and practice are all based on the understanding of flat moving images. The emergence of 3D images and even 4D is a great boon for the supporters of realist aesthetics. They bring new feelings to the audience with different production processes and pictures. Excited people think this is the future of film, asserting that the future of film is 3D, even 4D, and compare it to the difference between film and digital.
The most talked about is Cameron's "Avatar". The highest-grossing film in film history is still made in 3D, which seems to illustrate the greatness of 3D from one side. But even Kashen did not abandon 2D, and "Avatar" still has a large number of 2D screenings. Is that what Hollywood is all about? It can be said responsibly that 3D movies released abroad have 2D versions, including cartoons. In China, due to the introduction, we can only see the 3D version, such as "Kung Fu Panda 2". Like "Painted Skin 2", a "Chinese blockbuster" that only advertises 3D and really only shows the 3D version can be said to be a big deal.
Why not put 2D? Movie buffs would happily guess that the producers were convinced that the 3D effect would better fit the storyline of Painted Skin 2; economists would point out that this was purely a marketing consideration, and that Painted Skin 2 would be the same regardless of whether it was 2D or 3D. Or take the path of letting go and devoting love. I doubt how sincere Chen Guofu and Wu Ershan are in 3D production. Compared with Tsui Hark's "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", "Painted Skin 2" is watching a 2D movie with 3D glasses. I believe that many of my friends have the experience of taking off 3D glasses while watching movies to compare the effect of the picture. If you try to take off the glasses during the screening of "Painted Skin 2", you will find that only some CG objects have 3D effects, such as fluttering Flower petals, birds that do not enter the fairy tale, snow-capped mountains that exist like models. Compared with Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun's fragrant bath performances, "3D objects" can only enter the visual "recycle bin" sadly. On the other hand, Wu Ershan has a better grasp of the color sense of 2D pictures. When Princess Jing got married from Baicheng, she wore red makeup, and the entourage team also used red as the main tone, while Baicheng used gray and cold blue as the main tone. Red means movement, blue means stillness. The warm and festive red flows under the gray-blue city wall, gradually losing its original vitality, and the blood that seems to be unstoppable flows recklessly towards the distance. Compared with Wu Ershan's own "Laughing at the Knife", "Painted Skin 2" is more meticulous in the control of color, and the heroic and unrestrained nature of "Laughing at the Knife" is difficult to find in this film, even in scenes such as lakes and snow-capped mountains. , also just gentle and weak colors with low saturation.
Although there is no definite evidence, I personally think that wearing uncomfortable 3D glasses to watch 2D movies will definitely reduce the effect. Needless to say, the picture of "Painted Skin 2" is a qualitative leap compared to the previous work. After all, going to the post-Tibet region to shoot is not comparable to those small productions that rely on film and television bases. But the story mode of "Painted Skin 2" is the key to attracting a specific audience for the whole movie. Abandoning 3D gimmicks and further improving the script is the kingly way. In the absence of powerful demon hunters such as Donnie Yen, and relying only on Yang Mi and Feng Shaofeng's couple gags, the audience can only stay in the shackles of Chen Kun, Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun's threesome mode. As for Fei Xiang, who rarely plays the villain role in a movie, it seems that he can only learn his acting skills from Voldemort.
3D is not the future of cinema, it is just a new tool in the development of cinema. Just like e-books in books cannot replace paper books. Furthermore, the point of film is not to create virtual reality, not to blindly bring the audience into the three-dimensional world of the story. Film psychology tells us that the audience can construct many unrepresented parts of the picture through "brain supplementation". Some distance from that world in the movie, rather than unlimited immersion, is actually the best way for us to watch movies. In addition, the 3D effect brings about the constant adjustment of the focus distance of the eyeball, which may be one of the reasons why everyone is tired of watching 3D now.
Nolan is a Hollywood director who strongly opposes 3D, so in the latest "Batman" series, there are only 2D and imax versions. Nolan wants audiences to focus on the plot, not the spectacle
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