But there is one person, it seems that he is the only one, who said that he wants to make an epic, and it is an epic when he makes it. And it's truly epic. Not worth his bragging at the Oscars. And even this person had to make "Avatar" 12 years after "Titanic". It's really not easy.
Of course you know who I'm talking about.
Because of all the anticipation, publicity, and bragging, I deliberately didn't read anything about Avatar, nor did I hold out any hope, after all, there have been enough disappointments over the past few years. My caution and patience paid off tonight, and I can responsibly say that Avatar is a true epic.
Avatar contains all the elements of an epic movie. It is science fiction, fantasy, and the most magnificent dream of children. It has the most romantic flight and a very spiritual love. It pays attention to the most popular environmental protection themes, and does not forget to fight a few fierce and detailed battles. Most importantly, everything is naturally and organically intertwined in a simple story core of good and evil confrontation, so that the interesting ones become relevant, and will lure the audience 100% into the beauty and magic of Pandora. country. Epic becomes epic.
I know it's all computer made, but I can't control that much anymore. The rare smooth and beautiful viewing experience in recent years is the first time I want to watch the IMAX version.
I don't want to say more about the picture and story of the movie, and I don't want to spoil your viewing pleasure (if you haven't been thoroughly spoiled). I just want to say that when the film first explained the origin of the story, there was a kind of hard sci-fi feeling, a little old style, and then hard sci-fi became fantasy. The process is very detailed, so I don't find it strange. If you think the beginning of space travel is spectacular, it's nothing compared to the scenes that follow. We've seen space travel, and we haven't seen the rest.
Actually, I haven't seen it. Many elements in the film, we have seen more or less in the past ten years. Through a certain connection, one person's mind lives on another individual, and the two are closely combined; APU (Armored Personal Unit) - "Hacker"; Earthlings gradually become aliens - "Ninth District"; Undercover Dilemma - "Infernal Affairs"; Aboriginal princess falls in love with foreign invaders - "Pocahontas"; a hill in the air - "City in the Air"; Nature exerts its power to stop the stupid expansion of human beings - "Princess of the Forest"; strangely shaped plants and beasts are even more crowded on the screen. Avatar takes all of these elements together and makes them bigger, weirder, stronger, sharper, more complex, richer, but not necessarily deeper. American after all.
Perhaps, it is precisely because the birth of an epic requires time, talent, perseverance and the synthesis of the era, so it requires a period of accumulation, and it is inevitable to see the essence of the film activities of that era in it. As long as it is integrated properly and organically.
So it comes to its technology. A friend of mine is a software engineer at Autodesk, and he said: Oh yeah, Avatar is ours, not Cameron's. Of course he's bragging that Autodesk's software should only be part of the software used in the movie. But it is undeniable that without the development of computer technology in the past decade, the story in Cameron's mind could not have been told so magnificently. I heard that after watching Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings", he was convinced that "Avatar" could be made, and then he plunged into it.
"Avatar" is a big computer game, and the audience, guided by the magic of the story, gradually forgets that it is a game. It successfully overcomes the bluntness of computer animation, especially the slight annoying lag in the character's expressions and movements, which is almost imperceptible. Even if there is, it is not so obvious because it is an alien, but it adds to the elegance of the action. The technology of motion capture is really getting better and better. But I now believe that virtual characters and real actors can coexist peacefully in movies, because everyone needs each other, and there must be love in order to make vivid movies. Since then, I feel that computer effects should not be called special effects anymore, because it has been used so commonly and so seamlessly that it is already part of the daily life of the film.
The advantages, or characteristics, of the above-mentioned "Avatar" actually also implies one of its shortcomings. That is, the film, still a well-calculated delightful work aimed at pleasing the majority of audiences, has a solid story. It's a little less tragic. I looked relieved, but my emotions were safe. (It's not like "District 9", where the sadness comes at the end.) Also, since the story takes place on an alien planet and is about aliens, I hope those beautiful and sexy stunners can be a little bit weirder, more incomprehensible, and a little bit unreasonable. . Their thinking habits are exactly the same as human beings, or even more human than human beings, which can only make me sigh that our imagination can only go so far after all, or that the imagination of commercial movies can only go so far.
Of course, this is not a disadvantage either.
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