The national comic film "Lion Boy" on the big screen, it received 18.87 million box office on the first day, the first day of the box office in the national comic film has been regarded as the middle and upper reaches, although not as good as the "White Snake Origin" series and the Fengshen Universe series, but the box office has great hopes of breaking 100 million. While "Lion Boy" received a good box office, it fell into a public opinion storm, that is, its character's eyes were too small, and it was accused of scandalizing the Countrymen. The small eyes that promote traditional culture and characters have become two contradictory labels on "Lion Boy". Let's analyze it in detail, as follows:
"Lion Boy" focuses on traditional culture, but the painting style is not traditional
The theme of "Lion Boy" is lion dance culture, telling the story of a group of teenagers learning lion dance and realizing their ideals in life through lion dance. This film subjectively spreads the traditional culture of our country, but also a more authentic Chinese story, aside from character modeling, it is a relatively grounded and market-like batch in the national comic. But the problem is that the modeling of "The Lion Boy" is too controversial, its story is about traditional Chinese culture, but the characters do not look "traditional" at all. First of all, chinese comic films used to be either a cartoon style with big eyes, big heads and small bodies, or a rough and realistic Hong Kong comic style, or a combination of the two.
These two styles of chinese comic films will not portray the character's eyes too small, but "Lion Boy" piles the character's eyes too small, resulting in the character looking a little ugly, which is completely different from the style of the previous national comic. It just so happens that overseas prejudice against Chinese people is that the eyes are small, so the character design of "Lion Boy" is linked to the inherent impression of overseas, and the debate about whether "Lion Boy" has adapted to the inherent impression of overseas is in full swing on the Internet. Some people say that it is just "anti-traditional", some people say that it is "flattering", what kind of situation is "Lion Boy"? Xiaobian felt that it should be left to time to speak.
Non-human features are too star-studded and difficult to avoid being sprayed
The biggest controversy about "The Lion Boy" being sprayed is that its character is too "inhuman", looking similar to Avatar. This inhuman character design will trigger the uncanny valley effect of the audience. First of all, the eye distance between several characters is too wide, and some netizens have concentrated the eyes of the characters, and the role of "Lion Boy" is not so ugly. This method of widening the eye distance is certainly very distinctive, but not all viewers can adapt to this feature. And "Lion Boy" draws the eyes small, so that the character loses the possibility of conveying feelings through the eyes or eyes.
And "Lion Boy" has a very contradictory point is that it is rooted in China's traditional culture and reality of animation, lion dance is also a feature of China's southern region, it is reasonable to "Lion Boy" should restore the characteristics of China's southerners, but "Lion Boy" did not restore the image of China's southerners. Therefore, if the audience feels that "The Lion Boy" is close to the ground, it is equivalent to admitting that they are like a long movie in disguise. If they don't admit that they look like they grew up movies, then the traditional culture promoted by "The Lion Boy" has a sense of estrangement for them.
In layman's terms, the story of "The Lion Boy" is grounded but set up in the ground house, and the debate revolves around the ground house. "Lion Boy" is high at the box office because it is grounded, and "Lion Boy" was sprayed because it is also grounded. If "The Lion Boy" could set the human setting a little more normally, maybe it would not have caused such a big controversy, and the box office may be higher than it is now.
summary:
The controversy of "The Lion Boy" will not disappear for a while and a half, and it may not be until it is released that the controversy will gradually subside. On the one hand, the controversy of "Lion Boy" comes from the different understandings of squinting at home and abroad, and there is an inherent impression of squinting in foreign countries, which leads to domestic disgust, and "Lion Boy" happens to crash into the muzzle of this gun.