The origin of the white snake... I think it should be the best 3D animation film in China so far, and probably not one of them.
I wasn't really looking forward to it, because I subconsciously thought that it should be a work with excellent production technology, but the plot is still well-organized.
In fact, the performance level of the first half of this animation has indeed confirmed my thoughts, and I even feel that the evaluation of it on the Internet is a bit overrated... the stiffness of the supporting actors' movements, the obvious defects of the water surface effect, and the three-headed crane. Feathers that are too rough to look at are obvious deductions.
And Xu Xuan's way of appearing has made this impetuous feeling to the extreme. From the perspective of perception, it gives people a very embarrassing and unpleasant feeling.
The statement in the first half of the plot is really boring. The only thing that amazes me is that when Xiaobai first tried to assassinate the national teacher, he slaughtered the soldiers mercilessly... In the slightly dim tone, blood splattered On the soldier's armor, the visual violence is astonishing.
Where does the plot really get interesting?
When the dog named "Doudou" suddenly started talking, I laughed for the first time, and the sense of banter diluted the embarrassment of the plot.
And then, the boat fell into the turbulence, the right soundtrack and excellent picture performance made me really immersed in the movie.
This is a sudden acceleration of the movie after a slow plot that lasted for dozens of minutes. The audience was involuntarily attracted and waited for the next plot to unfold, and the director handed over a satisfactory answer.
The snake man appeared, and the violent turbulence was shaken with a single blow. The vast lake was swept away by terrifying forces, and majestic waves rose all around, while the lake in the middle was calm like a mirror, two small boats. Not moving.
This is a shot with the charm of landscape painting. The green hills in the distance stand majestically, and the boats nearby seem to be still.
Then the battle broke out suddenly, and the old fisherman was pierced by the thorns of the snake man and threw it directly into the water... Let people lament the timing and courage of the director's use of violent scenes.
Immediately, the white snake burst into flames, tearing apart the snake people like crushing ants. It was such an understatement, and the expressiveness between movement and life and death was admirable.
The plot after that fell into embarrassment again, giving people a feeling of advancing step by step for the development of the plot.
This kind of sour feeling did not disappear until the owner of Baoqing Fang appeared.
In fact, this little girl, the owner of Baoqing, is my favorite character in the whole show.
Baoqingfang is like another world, full of the Japanese-style monster talk style, whether it is the control of the camera, the arrangement of the characters' movements, or the creativity of the scene interaction, it is comfortable and interesting. The funniest part of the movie.
I would like to mention here that the sexual metaphors in this animated film are also quite interesting, including the hint when Xu Xuan became a monster, Xiaoqing's "orange in orange" dialogue when he tried to bring Xiaobai back, and Xiaobai's The sentence "there is no temperature on the stone statue" made people smile.
In the second half of the film, the director's real ambition and courage were revealed, and at the same time, the technical picture of the film was also prompted to a higher level.
When Xiaobai turned into a terrifying giant python and broke into the human residence with an unstoppable force, a clear fact was shown in front of the audience and Xu Xuan in the form of a camera.
This seemingly delicate and beautiful woman is essentially a terrifying monster that can destroy mountains and cities when she appears, and treats all living beings as cud dogs. Her existence is the disaster itself.
Yes, 500 years later, she will be a terrifying enchantress who will drown all life in the mountains because of her own anger... No matter how poignant and beautiful love story she has, it cannot change this bloody fact.
When the giant snake monster rising like a mountain, tearing the water surface and piercing the clouds and mist to show its figure, the atmosphere reached the extreme. Here, we must praise the technical team of the film. The white snake's giant python looks like a dragon. It is so solemn and beautiful, and it can also show Xiaobai's emotions and demeanor, which is very shocking.
And the final battle is the best existence in Chinese animation films I have seen, no one.
The climax of the battle, as well as the amazingly smooth combat actions and shots, as well as the excellent picture level, are all addicting.
Whether it's "Doudou" persuading the villagers to save people at the last moment, or Xu Xuan and Xiaobai's death, the sensational scenes are finished without being artificial, which is also a very big highlight of the film.
The most interesting of them is the scene where the soldiers under the national master and the snake monsters fought to the death when the monsters rushed to the Snake Catcher Village after the fall of the national master.
A moment ago, the audience also regarded the national teacher and his soldiers as villains, looking forward to the white snake to tear them all to pieces, but when the monsters came, their roles immediately became the guardian force of the village and became the audience's favorite on that side.
This sense of contrast is playful and well conveyed to the audience, paying homage to the director's meticulous design.
The foreshadowing originally buried in the movie has been well recovered. Although I guessed most of the content because it was too obvious, there are still many unexpected surprises.
The Titanic-style farewell at the last moment, although it gives people some sense of sight, the classic does have a reason for it to become a classic. Under the background of the atmosphere, this scene can't help but move people.
Horizontal comparison of other domestic animations, whether it is "Dragon Nest" or "The Return of the Great Sage", has more or less shortcomings. The collapse of the Dragon Valley plot is regrettable, while the straight plot of the return of the Great Sage, and the The unremarkable picture expressiveness also makes people feel that they are not enough.
And "White Snake: The Origin" at least gave me the courage to take it to an international platform to benchmark Western animation films. It is admittedly not good enough, but the meaning and strength it shows have already gained considerable weight.
Of course, the rigidity of the plot in the process of advancement and the slow development of the plot in the early stage are still the obvious shortcomings of this movie. As a movie with classic masterpieces as the audience base, it should do better in this regard.
Because we all know that the cultural heritage of "The Legend of the White Snake" is what makes the plot of "White Snake: Origin" show its profound connotation. If the possible sequels in the future rewrite the original tragedy into a comedy, then the film's The plot will become mediocre and uninteresting, losing the sublimation brought by the tragic color.
Xiaobai looked at the rising sun in the distance, and said that she would meet Xu Xuan again no matter what, and what awaited her would be a hundred years of pain and torture under the Leifeng Pagoda.
The story ends with light and hope for the audience, although we all know that the ultimate tragedy is inevitable and despairing.
As an animated film series with trilogy ambitions, how the director will handle the subsequent plot is a very exciting thing, and I hope we can see a satisfactory answer.
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