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Is the "little eyes" of "The Lion Boy" an aesthetic problem? Box office and word of mouth prove it all.
Accompanied the child to watch "The Lion Boy" in the movie theater, and some words were like fish in the throat, not spitting out unhappy.
The protagonist is a teenager who has loved lion dance since he was a child, but he has no talent and has not worked hard, and he has succeeded in a vacuum. Of course, this "success" also needs to be marked in big quotation marks. Because they were inspired by the heroine of the opening and the villain "Lion Fighting", the teenager who went to participate in the official lion dance competition was "omitted" from the first official competition.
His master did not lead the team to participate for the sake of his family, and finally he was persuaded by his wife to rush to the arena, but the game was over. Then the protagonist team came up with an admission ticket and fulfilled Master's dream of participating in the lion dance competition.
But who would have thought that the lion dance dream of the male lion boy, in the real lion dance final, did not rely on exquisite skill, tenacious will and passionate passion, but relied on the smell of the master's feet to smoke most of the opponents in the competition and win the victory by fighting the siege?
What is even more puzzling is that the heroine suddenly disappeared for 1 hour after the opening lion dance, how did such a dull plot design motivate the male lion teenager to move forward bravely and work together?
Therefore, many netizens actually did not see the cultural self-confidence and patriotic feelings promoted by the film, and only saw strange "small eyes" on the screen, as well as "crooked tricks" that borrowed foot odor to win.
As Chinese, is it really that difficult to win a victory with dignity by virtue of one's own wisdom, wisdom and will?
01 Dreams.
The teenager Ah Juan is a left-behind child, because her parents go out to work, and can only rely on her grandfather at home.
But the setting of the film is that the parents are in Guangzhou and Ah Juan is in Shunde, and the distance is only 23 kilometers, can you say that this can be regarded as a "left-behind child"?
Obviously, the parents' income from working in other places is limited, and they do not have time to take care of their children's studies, so Ah Juan is not only thin and small, but also has poor academic performance. So ah juan said that her dream is to go from Shunde to Guangzhou to see her parents, which is really not surprising to me.
But then I was shocked, because on the eve of the Lion Dance Boys' Group preparing to participate in the lion dance competition, Ah Juan's parents who had worked for many years suddenly returned home, and her father was paralyzed.
According to common sense, shouldn't children stay at home to help their mothers take care of their fathers? Obviously, Ah Juan's ideas are completely different from ours, although he once had a beautiful dream of going to Guangzhou to see his parents, but after his father returned home from paralysis, he chose to face real life and pursue his "half dream" of living in Guangzhou to work there.
As for the remaining idea of "opening your eyes to your parents", let's wait until the lion dance is over!
Look at the young Ah Juan's friends, such as Ah Cat, who debuted as a homeless and depressed look. With poor family conditions and no one to discipline them, such children cannot achieve results in school and life, let alone the ability to plan their lives and control their lives under the guidance of their elders.
Ah Cat said, "I don't know anything, I don't want to do anything." "Because I'm not only ugly, I'm a piece of crap."
And on the surface, the cute dog (what are the names...) His goal in every word and deed, every move, is to "eat". This reminds us of the fat man in Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer", as long as he sees food, he will go crazy, no matter what the taste, whether it is clean and hygienic, all stuffed into the mouth.
I wanted to ask: Is he a pig?
Obviously, the director and producer want to create a dramatic and comedic effect similar to "The Fallen Master Leads the Decadent Disciple, the Salty Fish Turned Over, and the Champion" in "Shaolin Soccer" through the "Left-behind Teenager" Ah Juan, the "Decadent Teenager" Ah Cat and the "Foodie Boy" Ah Dog, plus a "former lion king" Salty Fish Qiang.
Unfortunately, the screenwriter Li Zelin, who once wrote "The Sky of burning wild boys" (Douban score of 4.5 points), obviously lacks the ability to write the plot and plot without leaks and perfect self-consistency. And if you look at the introduction, "the old dog who came to Hainan alone to re-read, got acquainted with a group of "salted fish teenagers" with similar smells, met a group of jagged "weed girls", lacked self-knowledge, and they had to participate in the Dancing Miracle Competition together."
That's right, it's exactly the same as Lion Boy!
Therefore, you think that "Lion Boy" is telling the inspirational story of a few humble teenagers through the hobby of lion dance, under the leadership of the fallen old man, towards the dream, in fact, this film in the script, plot and setting, a large reference to the author's last script, and then put the protagonists in the context of Guangdong people's life, the eyes are elongated, it is said that this is telling the lion dance dream of some Guangdong teenagers, but also the patriotic dream of Chinese children.
Anyway, I think it's a bit excessive.
02 Reality.
In fact, "Lion Boy" and "Burning Wild Boy's Sky" just try to "pay tribute" to the comedy master Stephen Chow, and according to the setting and path of "Shaolin Football", they deduce an example of "salted fish turning over" and counterattacking life.
Unfortunately, it is just a matter of East Shi Gong.
Because the setting of this film seems to be very realistic, it is actually very magical.
For example, the teenager Ah Juan, whose parents work in other places, hopes that the child can change his fate by studying hard. However, just like Ah Juan's living environment, coupled with the fact that her parents came home later, her father was paralyzed, and she could counterattack her life by reading and studying? At least in the film, we haven't seen Ah Juan read a book once.
Ah Juan even chose not to read and go to the lion dance under the encouragement and guidance of another female Ah Juan.
It is conceivable that if in real life, when a child with such a family background not only does not have to study, but also has to toss around, can the parents who work hard outside the home agree? It must be a lot of scolding, crying, and hugging and crying.
Of course, you can say that the film is only 104 minutes long, and it is impossible to cram all the plot and setting into it.
However, since "Lion Boy" is a film that "expresses cultural self-confidence and carries forward the national spirit", in the plot of a "Hanmen Takako" who has high hopes from his parents and must change his fate through reading books, should he put down his books to try to dance the lion, should he fit the reality and interpret some parents' incomprehension and children's confusion and confusion?
Perhaps the director and screenwriter can say that Ah Juan is a "left-behind teenager", Ah Cat is a "decadent teenager", Anda Dog is a "foodie teenager".
We see through everything from their small, narrow little eyes.
Although we have never seen a "cat and a dog" child like Ah Juan's friends in reality, we have all seen Cantonese people, right?
In this inspirational animation that uses the "lion dance" element to depict the lives of Cantonese people, we only see the lion dance troupe as a villain stepping on the lion's head and bullying people, and the vendors in the market are bullying the "former lion king" salted fish qiang. Whether it is a lion dance teenager or a lion dance master, they all live at the bottom of the society, but they are also bullied by other ordinary people living at the bottom, is this really the real society in front of us?
In fact, at the end of February 2021, China's "poverty alleviation battle" has achieved a comprehensive victory, "all 98.99 million rural poor people under the current standards have been lifted out of poverty, 832 poverty-stricken counties have all been removed from the hat, and 12.8 poor villages have all been listed." And as of November 30, 2020, the number of students who dropped out of school in the nine-year compulsory education stage nationwide has increased from 600,000 to 831. May I ask, in such a gratifying situation, will there be children in Guangdong who are extremely poor like "decadent teenagers" A cats and "foodie teenagers" Ah Dogs, who only know nothing to do and eat all day long?
In my opinion, these plot settings are not at all in line with the reality of today's China!
03 Lion Dance.
Looking at the film, it is easy to give the audience the following impression:
Ah Juan's dream is very fickle, the situation of Ah Cat and Dog is very absurd, and the living environment in Guangdong is very bad.
Therefore, netizens besieging and criticizing "Lion Boy" is definitely not just the problem of the protagonist group being "slender and small eyes". In this movie, including Ah Juan, Ah Cat and Ah Dog, as well as the so-called "Lion Dance Dream" of Salty Fish Qiang, in the eyes of many viewers, it is simply an absurd joke.
The protagonist Ajuan's capricious "dream" surprised the audience even more, at first from Shunde to Guangzhou to see her parents, but when her parents returned home, they insisted on participating in the lion dance competition. But since it is the responsibility of "promoting traditional culture", why did you start a bland working life after winning the lion dance competition?
You might say that this could be a short, hot dream similar to the one in "Old Boys" filmed by the Chopstick Brothers. But please, our "lion boy" is still young, it is the age of hard study and hard work, how can it be just to stand on the stage and walk for a while, then turn around and return, willingly "live in seclusion" on the streets of the city, willing to be an ordinary migrant worker?
I feel that this is not a dream at all, at best a "whim"!
Moreover, the film is based on the "lion dance culture" of Foshan, Guangdong, but the setting and plot are full of all kinds of absurdity.
For example, the character setting, lion dance is actually a very complex and difficult to master the technical work, let you have a high talent, no ten years and eight years of basic skills, let a "former lion king" salted fish strong "ten days of special training", technology can advance by leaps and bounds, obviously impossible.
Moreover, the lion dance requires strength and body, and the thin and thin bodies of the protagonist group alone will certainly not be able to dance.
More critically, the main creative group of "Lion Boy", which focused on excavating the theme of lion dance, refused to spend two minutes to search the Internet for the tradition of Guangdong lion dance, and began to invest heavily in shooting animation.
It is reported that the Guangdong awakening lion generally takes yellow, red and black as the three main colors, the yellow lion is called "Liu Bei Lion", representing benevolence; the red lion is called "Guangong Lion", which represents loyalty; the black lion is called "Zhang Fei Lion", symbolizing bravery, so the lion fighting in the lion dance competition is generally a black lion.
Moreover, if the "male lion boys" really realize their dream of lion dance, and then win the lion dance competition and become a "top lion dance group", then they will be invited by all parties to perform all year round, making a lot of money by interest, why bother to go to Shanghai to work?
Therefore, even if some media call "Lion Boy" a film that "expresses cultural self-confidence and carries forward the national spirit", we as the audience actually know it:
Is "little eyes" an aesthetic issue? Box office and word of mouth prove it all.