I never expected that an anime movie could make a live-action film, or even a documentary-like texture, from Xu Ke's dashing and Zhou Xingchi's civilian funny, all of a sudden into Chen Guo's realistic care.
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The national comic "Lion Boy", which premiered on December 17, looked at the name and thought it was low and childish, but the entire circle of friends was in Amway, saying that it was the most "burning" national comic movie after "Nezha's Demon Child Descending" - hey, this can successfully arouse my interest, after all, "Magic Boy Descending" was brushed five times in the cinema.
If there is any dissatisfaction with "Magic Boy Descending" that year, it is that the painting style is more inclined to Disney family animation, the characters are big eyes and lips are cute, and "Lion Boy" just makes up for another type of national comic, and it is also a very hot national tide in recent years - every stroke is Chinese style.
Looking at the poster has been stunned by the beauty of the traditional lion dance, the main film began to find another surprise - "Lion Boy" is quite realistic in the performance of the Chinese countryside, the Guangdong countryside in the movie, neither Li Ziqi-style pastoral, nor the rough rustic atmosphere in Zhang's video, but everyone has their own lives, open a food stall, sell salted fish to send salted fish, everyone is leisurely living their own life.
Scene concept map
Less than five minutes after the opening, a wonderful "lion dance" began - Cai Gaoqing, the strongest lion dance team in Chenjia Village stepped on a high pile, with the lion title, and collected the "Qing". Just when no one in a team of strong men bullied the children to grab people's red envelopes, a "lion dance teenager" took off in the air, jumped all the way, climbed the highest pile, gently swept the red packet to the top, and then sent it back to the child's chest steadily.
Just a few minutes of action scenes, giving people a blood boiling drop. I feel that I am not watching an animated movie, but Xu Ke's action movie, jet Li is playing with Xiong Xinxin, one move and one style are very designed, and the atmosphere of the clouds and water is turbulent, and the mirror is quite professional.
What's more, the young man in the wind of the Yushu tree was high in the air, and the long hair flowing faintly appeared under the lion's head cover - it turned out to be a young girl!
Action scenes you don't blink
There is a sentence at the beginning of "Lion Boy": This movie is about a lion dance, but the protagonist is not Huang Feihong. Haha, do you think the protagonist is a girl? Nor is it - it is the little boy "Ah Juan" who is helped by the young girl.
Ah Juan's parents are working at the construction site in Guangzhou, and they can't go home once in a few years, so Ah Juan, who grows weak and wears a "melon skin" hairstyle for many years, is often bullied. But on this day, the girl's cool and heroic posture shocked Ah Juan's weak heart, and she left a lion's head to give to him, which also ignited the flame in a teenager's heart.
This lion's head is quite mighty
Ah Juan began to want to learn the art of lion dance from her teacher, and tried to go to Guangzhou to participate in the lion dance final held in Lychee Bay, so that he could meet his long-lost parents.
The three division brothers practiced diligently
From here, the movie has a Chow Sing Chi flavor, and jokes begin to pile up - but the disadvantage is also a little bit of accumulation, and the funny is a little too deliberate.
Stephen Chow's signature action
Just when I thought that "Lion Boy" was a national style comic + Zhou Xingchi joke + salted fish turning over inspirational story, in the second half of the film, with Ah Juan's father having an accident at the construction site and Ah Juan forced to work in the city, the plot suddenly became "real on earth" - I never expected that an anime movie could make a live-action film, or even a documentary-like texture, from Xu Ke's dashing and Zhou Xingchi's civilian funny, suddenly entered chen Guo's realistic care.
Some of the shots have the texture of "Hong Kong Has a Hollywood"
Ah Juan's dream of "going to Guangzhou" came true, but the way changed from "participating in the lion dance competition" to "going to the construction site to move bricks". From the moment when the cat and dog stepped on the tricycle and danced the lion's head desperately to send him off, I was holding back tears until the end of the movie - when the subtitles came out, no one in the audience left the audience, and the sound of blowing noses was all over the place, and I knew that I was not the only one who was moved.
It is not difficult to make the audience cry, engage in some tragic things, sensationalism, can make people cry, but the advantage of "Lion Boy" is that it is not deliberately sensational, but with a juvenile experience to let the audience naturally immerse - the movie scene is very realistic, full of realism, can't help but make people believe in this story, into this story.
The teenager worked at the construction site, the hourly wage was 15 yuan, the shoes were broken to make up for themselves, the hands were broken to wipe some medicine, after work, he walked into the dim collective dormitory, asked the workers "where do I sleep", and the workers pointed to the ground: the lower bunk. The teenager was lying on the wet and cold concrete floor, and the top bunk was less than 10 centimeters from the tip of his nose.
In the rush for life, the teenager has been carrying the lion's head with his name written on it, hoping to one day go back to practice and compete. But finally one day, when he was ready to leave Guangzhou for a higher hourly wage to work in Shanghai, he did not take the big lion's head with him. Up the mountain, down the mountain, life is like this, what should be put down must be put down.
Even the lion's head seemed to sigh in the air
However, as he was carrying a large bag and getting ready to take the train, he passed Lychee Bay, where the final of the lion dance was being held. The teenager stopped and couldn't help watching - his master and disciple entered the final, but lost him, and the strength was very different compared to other teams, and the winning side was very small.
When the battle was in full swing, the teenager looked back, and behind him a trace of bloody sun penetrated the cement forest - he saw the lion's head that he had left on the roof of the top floor of the construction site, under the sun, shining with golden light, it was the only time in the teenager's life that the dream was plated into a golden ring around the body, bang, bang, bang, drum beat on the teenager's chest, and could not stop. The lion's head does not have to be in the hand, but the lion's head is always in the heart.
At the time of a thousand guns, the teenager returned with the lion's head, the construction site moved bricks to let him practice a body of tendon meat, Ah Juan is no longer the former Ah Juan - in the oblique sun, the majestic lion's head and the scaly lion's tail reunite, treading water to ascend, a pillar of the sky!
Concept art of the scene of the lion dance final
It was originally the moment when the "salted fish turned over" against the wind, but the treatment of the climactic passage in "The Lion Boy" was not vulgar at all, and when half of the lion's head fell, I burst into tears - this is not Zhou Xingchi's salted fish turning over, this is The end of the Hero of Wu Yusen's style! The final Easter egg makes the "hero's end" return to "human reality", and this kind of recognition of "dreaming" but not pure daydreaming is the courage that many live-action movies do not have.
I thought it was a national style anime that carried forward the traditional culture of Guangfu, where did I know that I could see Xu Kezhou Xingchi Chen Guo Wu Yusen, not to mention that the action design of the whole animation was really great, and the soul of the lion dance was undoubtedly revealed.
While there is still a row of films, hurry up! Watch it with your kids, and watch it without kids! The advice we can give is that it is best to bring some napkins.
The soundtrack is also amazing, and it feels like every capital can catch fire
The filmmaker confidently produced a large dish of vinyl
After watching the film, I believe you will come back to ost to listen
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