In the movie "Fantastic Beasts: The Mystery of Dumbledore", the ancient Chinese mythical beast Qilin appears as an important character. In the past two years, Western film and television creations have begun to focus on the rare beasts in Eastern mythology, these divine beasts with magical appearance and magical abilities have added too much fantasy interest and aesthetic value to film and television works.
The divine beast went out to seaFantastic Beasts: The Mystery of Dumbledore is not the first time that the Harry Potter Universe has shaped Chinese mythical beasts, from phoenix to donkey to kirin, the original author, screenwriter J.K. Rowling and the film creators skillfully integrated the magical abilities of Chinese mythical beasts into their magical world, making the mythical beasts appear vividly on the screen.
Regarding the appearance of the Rui beast Qilin, the "Ruiying Tu" records: "The head of the sheep, the hooves of the wolf, the dome, the body is multicolored, and the height is one and two feet." The "Jingfang Yi Biography" records: "Lin, the body of the dove, the oxtail, the wolf's forehead, the horse's hoof, there are five colors, the abdomen is yellow, and the height is two." Among some of the excavated utensils, some unicorns also have wings and feet on auspicious clouds, and some texts and images record that the head of the unicorn sheep has become a lion's head, a dragon's head, and so on.
The unicorn in Fantastic Beasts: The Mystery of Dumbledore doesn't use the imagination of different versions of the unicorn in our ancient books, and the film visual effects team added their own understanding to the design of the mythical beast, hoping that the unicorn would "look like a being detached from any human reality." The unicorn in the film is not large enough, with thin legs and weak like a deer, and it is difficult for the audience to link it to our majestic unicorn image from the appearance, but from the name of this mythical beast and its unique ability, it can be seen that it is indeed created with reference to the unicorn.
In Fantastic Beasts: The Mystery of Dumbledore, Professor Dumbledore realizes that the mighty Dark Wizard Grindelwald is trying to seize control of the wizarding world, and the International Union of Magic assembles to elect a new president to maintain justice in the wizarding world. Who can elect the ideal president? Unicorn.
The Unicorn can see through the good and evil of people's hearts, and "whether there is a pure and kind heart" has become an important criterion for ruling the magical world, and whoever is such a person, the Kirin bows to whom. This plot setting is obviously borrowed from and used the qilin legendary "the appearance of the unicorn is the holy king of The Gary" and "the purity of the qilin's heart". In Western movies, the Unicorn of the Beast is not stereotyped, but is cleverly integrated into the plot, not only shaping this screen image, but also paying attention to the cultural connotation of the divine beast.
In the previous "Fantastic Beasts: The Sins of Grindelwald", the divine beast From the Classic of Mountains and Seas also played a huge role. Siwu is a rare beast in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: "A great tiger, multicolored, with a tail long on the body, traveling thousands of miles a day." The Donkey in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald fits perfectly with the image recorded in our ancient books, with a large physique, a tiger's head, a long colorful tail behind him, a flowing and agile, fast crawling speed, fierce and cute, and the righteous magicians who are in trouble have defeated the evil forces.
This "big cat" is very vivid and cute, and the interaction with the protagonist is warm and healing, and the rare beast of such a successful "Classic of Mountains and Seas" actually appears in Western movies, which makes many viewers feel happy and regretful.
The first Chinese mythical beast to appear in the Harry Potter universe is the phoenix, which also combines the legend of the Indian undead bird. However, the summoning of the phoenix in the wizarding world, the phoenix song can add courage to pure people, and the tears of the phoenix have healing functions, which are also the characteristics of the legendary beast. In films such as "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" and "Sleeping Curse 2", the image of the phoenix has also appeared.
In addition, in a Marvel movie, there is an oriental mysterious wonderland village, where the dragon, dijiang, Bifang, nine-tailed fox, water unicorn, fox and other oriental ancient gods and beasts live, a fantasy scene. The film portrays the images of these mythical beasts, but most of them do not play a large role in the plot.
Huang Yue, a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, said in an interview with the Movie Channel that the divine beast going to sea is of course an export of Chinese culture, or the most obvious evidence that Chinese culture is understood by the world. "Other countries in the world have always maintained a high enthusiasm for Traditional Chinese Culture, and everyone's understanding of Chinese mythical beasts or Chinese culture has gradually gone from shallow to deep, from surface to inside, paying more and more attention to our connotations."
Divine beasts also represent evilIn the past two years, domestic film and television drama works have also created many images related to ancient divine beasts. The nine-tailed fox is the most common, appearing in costume dramas such as "Acquaintance with Junchu" and "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms".
In addition, many film and television works appear in the divine beast Emperor Jiang in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" records: "There are gods, whose shape is like a yellow sac, red as a danhuo, six legs and four wings, chaotic and faceless, is a song and dance, and is the only emperor Jiang ye." The Huba in "To Catch a Demon" is inspired by Dijiang, Huba has six legs, can sing and dance, has magical abilities, all in line with the characteristics of Dijiang, but Huba is designed too cartoonishly, losing the sense of fantasy, mystery and simplicity of the divine beast. In "Big Fish and Begonias", a group of chubby, cute and winged small animals appeared, that is, the divine beast Dijiang. The little white cat-like divine beast with antlers in the film is the famous Bai Ze.
In "Big Fish and Begonias", there are also divine beasts such as phoenixes and cattails, as well as gods such as Zhu Rong, Jurmang, Harvest, and Houtu. The three protagonists of "Big Fish and Begonias", Tsubaki, Kun and Xiang, are from Zhuangzi's "Getaway", and the divine beasts as supporting characters in the film are very cute and interesting, but they lack a little texture and heaviness. The film "Big Fish and Begonias" is too beautiful, and if the creative team produces another animation film with the divine beast as the protagonist, it is even more worth looking forward to.
In addition, the movie "The Great Wall" and the animated movie "Wind Whisperer" have all appeared in the food, and the chaos of the divine beast appeared in "The Return of the Great Sage". However, in these works, the divine beast appears in the form of a fierce beast. In "The Great Wall", the food is like a transiting locust, which is destroyed everywhere it goes, and its combat effectiveness is very strong and fierce. In The Wind Whisperer, Gluttony is the embodiment of evil that can awaken and seal.
"Green Snake Robbery" is a recent high-quality action movie, traditional watercolor fusion oil painting realistic, very cultural charm. In the film, when showing the four disasters of wind, fire, water and qi, what followed was the image of the four ancient divine beasts Fei Lian, Bi Fang, Xuan Gui, and Turtle, but there was only an image, and there was no more portrayal.
In the past two years, books related to the Ancient Divine Beasts have slowly increased, and the Ancient Divine Beasts have begun to be shaped into positive images of ancient spirits and monsters, such as "Forbidden City Monster Talk" and so on. It is believed that this kind of creative idea of diversified shaping of divine beasts will also slowly extend to the creation of domestic film and television works. Just like the monsters who like to know "Journey to the West" and the gods in Greek mythology, many children like a variety of imaginative myths and beasts, and these myths and legends are full of attraction for children.
Whether it is a beast or a monster, when the ancestors created them, they carried a rich cultural connotation and emotional sustenance, which should be a big rich mine that domestic film and television creation needs to excavate.