Recently, the domestic animation film "Lion Boy" is being released in theaters, and the film has been touted by many big Vs and film critics since its release, and there are signs of surpassing "The Reincarnation of the Devil Boy of Nezha". So far, more than 90,000 people have scored the movie "Lion Boy" on Douban, with a rating of 8.4 points.
It's just that although the reputation of "Lion Boy" is outstanding, its box office performance can only be said to be average, and the box office in the week of release is only about 80 million, which is far from the "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" that year. The biggest reason why "Lion Boy" hit the street at the box office is the problem of the role image in the movie.
In "Lion Boy", several protagonists are hanging eyes + ultra-wide eye distance, which inevitably reminds people of the effect of pulling the corners of their eyes with both hands when Europeans and Americans discriminate against Chinese. But according to the director and producer, the style of the film "Lion Boy" is realistic, so he also went to Guangdong to collect style, and said that the film character image is close to us in the mirror.
To be honest, I personally do not agree with these words of the director, I am also a southerner, and I know a lot of Cantonese people, people with small eyes do have, but people with hanging eyes and ultra-wide eye distance have never seen one. Of course, I believe that such a person must exist in Guangdong, but the protagonists in the movie are all such an image, which is a bit of a partial generalization.
In addition, recently some netizens broke out the original painting of "Lion Boy", from the original painting, the image of the protagonist is still very normal, and the eyes do not have the hanging eyes and ultra-wide eye distance in the movie, which is really a big difference. If these original paintings are true, then I really don't understand the ideas of the producer and the director, obviously the original painting is very normal, why do you have to change it to such a strange image, in terms of the quality of the movie, if the image is designed according to the original painting, the box office will at least double several times.
Moreover, as a professional, the director must have known how controversial it would be for the film to adopt such an image, but he still adopted such an image in the end. Combined with the recent news that "Lion Boy" is going to participate in foreign film festivals, the director is afraid that he pays more attention to overseas markets, after all, foreigners think that we Chinese like this.
Some people may say that I am a glass heart, saying that there are indeed many "squinting" people in China, but everyone should pay attention to the fact that "squinting" is not equal to "hanging eye" and "ultra-wide eye distance". You can use the "squinting" image, but each one is "hanging eye + ultra-wide eye distance", such a design is too deliberate, it is difficult not to feel that the producer has ulterior motives.
Of course, these are just my personal opinions, and I am afraid that only they themselves know what mentality the producers of "Lion Boy" have in designing such an image. Finally, what do you think about the original painting of "The Lion Boy" that was recently exposed on the Internet? Feel free to leave a comment in the comments section below.