Some time ago, "Diga Ultraman" was removed from the shelves of major video platforms, which caused heated discussion among netizens. Fortunately, on September 27, video platforms such as Station B, Tencent Video, and Youku re-listed "Diga Ultraman", which can be regarded as preserving the childhood of the majority of post-80s and post-90s.
Released in Japan in 1996, Diga Ultraman is a feature TV series filmed by Marutani Co., Ltd. in Japan, with the content genre of science fiction and magic, which quickly gained a large number of fans after being introduced into China and became a childhood memory of a generation. Years have passed, and at present, Diga Ultraman is still in China's popularity, and the classic line "Do you believe in the light" is circulating wildly on the Internet.
Why do so many people love Digimon Ultraman? Every child has a heroic plot in his heart, and Diga, as a giant of light, his act of defeating the monsters is not to fight and fight, but to overcome the darkness by his own strength. As the first Ultraman work to win the "Nebula Award", "Diga Ultraman" wants to convey not only the heroic concept, the appearance of monsters is not without reason, and the reflection after defeating the darkness is more profound. In the final episode of the work, Diga Ultraman is defeated by a monster and sinks to the bottom of the sea, and all the children who believe in light, clutching the Ultraman model and trusting Diga, transform into light and Diga to fight together.
"What the hell is the fight, Digga?" Fight to protect these people because they are my partners, they are the people I love. The lines in the play have moved countless people. It can be said that Diga is the light, illuminating the childhood soul of a generation of children, and what people really remember is not the fight plot in the film, but the beautiful fantasy of "that night, I became the light" - like Ultraman to fight for human beings and guard the world we love.
Everyone can become light in their own strength. - Dagu
I have what I have to do, I have what I can do! - Dagu
Inspiring lines and classic theme songs have influenced audiences from generation to generation!
In China, close-up photography is always considered to be something that children watch, and it is also classified as a cartoon, because it broadcasts O (∩_∩) O haha ~! But in fact, ultraman's entire series belongs to close-up films!
So what exactly is a close-up? Why is it so attractive? Today, Teacher Pony will explain it to everyone!
Japanese close-up films originally referred to films made using special techniques, but now mostly refer to film and television dramas that use traditional special techniques (explosions, models, synthesis techniques, etc.). However, in Japan, as long as there are traditional special techniques or modern film and television special effects, they can be called close-ups.
As a photographic technique, the "close-up" of special effects has actually existed since the creation of the film. According to Georges Méliès and the British production staff, the camera used reverse rotation in photography, and the high-speed, micro-speed operation of people or objects disappeared from the picture, and in "The Robber of the Big Train" (1903), special photography was used to show things that did not exist. "Journey to the Moon", "Clay Man Golian", "Black Lake Demon Pool", and "The Wizard of Oz" are all close-up movies played by actors in leather suits.
Feature films were Japan's national policy films before World War II. The 1942 Japanese war feature Film The Battle of Hawaii was mistaken by the American occupying forces for a real war documentary after World War II. In 1954, Japan's Toho Corporation launched Japan's first monster film, Godzilla, in which he put on prop costumes to play monsters and created supernatural creatures that reflected reality had a great impact on the world. Masters such as Spielberg and Tim Burton were influenced by close-up photography and learned to apply.
Special photography (especially works based on monsters, hunting, war, strange people, horror, disasters and other themes) has also become the mainstream of the West and Japan for a long time. They are well-made, technologically advanced, and the plot combines commercial and popular elements such as fun and set ahead of schedule. In Japan in the early 1970s, superhero tv series began to rise. War movies were popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Such as "Warlord", "Two Hundred and Three Highlands", "Combined Fleet" and so on. In the 1970s, Japanese close-ups also produced two similar works like Star Wars. They are Toho's "The Great War of the Stars" and Toei's "Message from the Universe". The latter was also nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Close-up films mostly refer to film and television dramas that use traditional special techniques (explosions, models, synthesis techniques, etc.). But in Japan, whether it is traditional special techniques or modern film and television special effects. As long as it is used, it can be called a close-up.
In the context of the rise of digital technology in the 1990s, it was separated from the film era. The visual performance of close-up films using traditional special effects (explosions, models, compositing techniques, etc.) is gradually inferior to that of special effects films using modern film and television special effects (CG, etc.). For example, from the production level, in fact, there is only a difference between the use of traditional special effects and modern special effects in close-up films and special effects - modern film and television special effects can be used in special films, and traditional special technologies can also be used in special effects films.
Japanese close-ups had a great influence on the ACGN side, and similar elements are still found in some of the works.
You should know that the first work that made the close-up film a focus was the "Godzilla" series, and the "Godzilla" series was a monster movie, a disaster movie. It's not made to please children. Now Godzilla has comics, animations, novels, games, and even the use of CG to make movies, which has become a very important IP.
There are three major feature series in Japan, but the Godzilla series failed to make it to the list. Because there are three other series that have adhered to the close-up shooting method from beginning to end, and are still serialized every year, these three special features are the "Kamen Rider" series, the "Super Team" series and the "Ultraman" series.
In the next issue, I will share these well-known Japanese close-up works!