After watching the movie version of "Dragon Ball", it was confirmed that a movie is a tool for dreaming, but not every dream is valuable. The realization of some dreams surprised me, such as "Transformers" and "Dragon Ball" All that was left for me was a farce-like nightmare.
For every friend who likes manga, "Dragon Ball", a manga that is well-known in Japan, entered China in the mid-1990s and set off a vigorous "Dragon Ball fever". This borderless comic, suitable for all ages and men and women, shows us a magical and magical world. Around the seven dragon balls, the two factions of good and evil have launched a war from the earth to the universe. Characters with very different personalities. The interlocking plot and the intense and exciting atmosphere were unmatched at the time. Many people admitted that they grew up with "Dragon Ball".
Globally, there are hundreds of millions of Dragon Ball fans and comics fans who look forward to seeing the live-action version of Dragon Ball. This movie, which carries the dreams and expectations of countless people, has become the most disappointing production so far this year.
The "loyalty", ethics and brotherhood advocated in the Oriental martial arts included in "Dragon Ball" are completely castrated into the American dream of small people discovering themselves and saving the big world in this movie. Don’t say that the important character Kobayashi (a good friend of Goku in the original comics) was ruthlessly deleted by the movie, but as the protagonist, the innocent, optimistic and confident "Goku" has become a high school student "Wu" who only likes to pick up girls and does not learn nothing. "Kun", the fierce Kiki will use a sweet kiss to encourage her beloved. The tall and mighty Fa Ge plays the role of the immortal turtle. It feels strange that the Piccolo Demon can be in the same way as the former rival Saiyan. These are not the same. The content that conforms to the plot, and even subverts the plot, challenged my eyeballs and nerves in the cinema again and again.
Not to mention the ruthless subversion and random adaptation of the original plot and characters, a perfunctory sentence of cultural differences, I think it can’t, nor can it explain all the problems, let alone the producer’s randomness to this classic comic from the screenwriter to the director. The handling is the most irritating. I can tolerate your lack of IQ, but I don't allow you to underestimate my movie-watching level. Those bad talk-ups and passages used in American film reviews have appeared again and again, with nothing useful in special effects, and the "martial arts" style of fist embroidered legs, so that I have been thinking about it during the process of watching, not to restore the plot to the oriental fans. And the styling, do not show the action and special effects to Western movie fans, who is the film adapted like this for?
With the third-rate level of an American B-rated film, it is no wonder why the release time in Japan, South Korea, and China is exactly one month earlier than that in the United States.
Like other art forms, any excellent comic work is never a unilateral creation process of the author, but the interaction and communication between the producer and the viewer. In the process of appreciation, many people have already established a deep relationship with the characters and comics. The essence of manga adaptation works is that on the one hand, it can make flat comic characters three-dimensional, and more importantly, it can convey the theme or emotions of a comic in a more direct way, which is the so-called "comic complex." —— "Both the form and the gods" has always been the minimum requirement for the adaptations of comics. Works such as "X-Men" and "Batman 6: The Dark Knight" have achieved this relatively successfully, which is impressive.
Therefore, what other types of adaptations should do is to help people express this complex in a correct and reasonable way, instead of turning classics into mediocrity and turning memories into nightmares.
Among the most anticipated movies based on comics this year, "Dragon Ball", which was the first to appear on the market, has been infinitely disappointing. I don't know what effect "Transformers 2" and "Astro Boy" will have, to borrow a common saying: "If you don't have diamonds, don't take porcelain work." I hope that our childhood dreams will not be shattered one by one.
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