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The much-anticipated light-chasing animation "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" (hereinafter referred to as "White Snake 2"),was officially released on July 23, with a box office of 63.73 million yuan on the first day, and 42% of the films ranked first on the day.
This box office performance can basically be determined to have a chance to surpass "Whitesnake 1", which is a good result.
However, "White Snake 2" Douban opened a score of 7.6 points, I believe that there will definitely be some drops in the future. It is not only far from the current domestic animation champion "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" 8.4, but also the 7.8 points of "White Snake 1".
Of course, this Douban score is not nothing, but this animation is currently very divergent in the reputation of domestic social platforms. These are not to say that starting from the box office, as of the time of this post, the film box office has exceeded 100 million, but the current box office prediction of a platform is only close to 600 million.
This can not be compared with "The Demon Boy Descending", nor is it as good as "Jiang Ziya" or even worse than "The Return of the Great Sage" 6 years ago. So, what went wrong with Whitesnake 2?
ps: There are more serious spoilers below, so please watch carefully for viewers who have not yet watched the movie.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > the storyline of White Snake 2</h1>
At the beginning of the movie, the white snake and the green snake "flood the Golden Mountain Temple", but the white snake and the green snake are of course inferior to the Fahai, and the white snake is taken by the Fahai, and the white snake leaves a cloth belt of "obsessive things".
After Fahai received the white snake, he took Xu Xian over to confront the green snake.
Qing Snake looked at Xu Xianqi and did not fight, she thought that the white snake chose a cowardly and useless man like Xu Xian, which was useless, and after throwing the baby Xu Shilin to Xu Xian, she chose to fight with Fahai. Fahai directly knocked the Green Snake away, but the Green Snake's obsession was too deep and fell into the "Shuluo City" where the obsession was deep.
Qing Snake fell into Shuluo City because of her obsession, she went out to find herself in a modern city, and before she could figure out what was going on, the Minotaur came, the Green Snake had no mana but could only escape, and in the process of escaping, she met the "hot" Sun Sister, who had never hit the Minotaur with a gun.
The two beauties are forced into a parking lot of Jedi, and are rescued at a critical moment by the famous "Ranger" masked teenager.
After the masked teenager sent her to the place where she was killed, Sister Sun took Xiaoqing to a safe stronghold with the protection of "Brother Octopus", and Sister Sun told Xiaoqing that this was "Shuluo City", where people of all dynasties, demons, ghosts and other creatures were here, and it was necessary to be strong enough to survive here.
Under the guidance of Her Sister Sun, Xiaoqing quickly adapted to urban life and learned skills such as shooting and cycling. From an ancient snake demon to a punk girl, the two work together to survive for a while, and one night the Minotaur gang attacks when the two beauties look at the buildings in the city and sigh.
The sheltered octopus brother could not stand the minotaur's face and was killed, and the two fled to the roof to escape.
At the same time, the two major gangs in the city below, the Minotaur Gang and the Luochamen led by Sima Were fighting in the street, and it seemed that they were about to fight. Xiao Qing and Sun Jie escaped on a motorcycle, and the two fell into the very center of the fight during the chase, and the "hot" Sun Sister directly went offline.
Xiao Qing killed a minotaur instead, and when the two sides were about to fight, the "wind robbery" was robbed.
"Shuluo City" has four major disasters, each robbery begins with a corresponding physical attack, followed by some green winged yokai, which will also become a yokai when bitten. During Xiao Qing's escape, he was rescued by Sima Daguanren, and the two sides arrived at Luochamen, and the Luochamen youkai believed that the gatemen should be shrunk, not the demons and humans.
The second sister of Luochamen said that it had nothing to do with the usefulness of demons and humans, and Xiao Luocha directly targeted the green snake and said that she had any use.
Two beautiful women of a big and a small "hot body" had a fight, the little Luocha who loved cleanliness lost to the green snake, and Sima went through the front green snake fight and this fight looked up to Xiao Qing, and wanted to take Xiao Qing to the "Wangi Supermarket" to find supplies.
The next day, Sima drove Xiaoqing to the "Wangi Supermarket" and learned from his mouth that in addition to people and demons, there were ghosts like Luosha and Minotaur in Shuluo City, and the city's buildings would fall down and then rise again to bring supplies. They passed through modern cities, passed by ancient cities, encountered a lot of creatures in the middle of the car robbery, and finally came to the "Wangi Supermarket".
The two came to the Mani supermarket to meet the masked teenager, and the three of them learned under the introduction of the main fox of Baofang that they would appear in Shuluo City because of obsession, and everyone had an obsessive object on them, washing away the obsessive things in the fox's "no pool", and the obsession could leave Shuluo City.
Xiao Qing and the other three were unwilling to give up their obsession, and when they were about to leave, the "fire robbery" came.
After the three and the fox escaped the disaster, XiaoQing asked Sima to take the masked boy back to Luochamen, Sima originally did not agree but after seeing his face, he agreed, and the three of them went back together.
The three returned to the Luocha Gate, and Sima found that there was something strange and entered through the dark passage. Everyone was injured by the bombing Sima as soon as they entered, it turned out that the Minotaur Gang had already killed, the Luochamen side was completely destroyed by the Minotaur Gang, and the hot Luocha's second sister and third sister were gone.
Here is an important setting, the minotaur gang boss uses chains and human skin masks to control his own workers, and after the workers make meritorious contributions, the human skin mask upgrades can choose to change his face and become a protector.
After the three of them escaped, they were hit by water, and the three escaped into a tunnel where the masked teenager was trapped. Sima asked Xiaoqing to abandon the masked teenager and "fight the world with fan wei with me", and Xiaoqing chose to save Sima and abandoned Xiaoqing.
Xiao Qing was discouraged and said that weak men could not be relied on, and strong men could not be relied on. Xiao Qing gave up on himself and decided to let the green haired monster bite to death, and at the critical moment, the masked teenager unveiled his mask and it turned out that he was Xiao Bai. Xiao Qing woke up and killed the Green Demon and rescued Xiao Bai to a cave to watch the dusk.
Xiao Qing also has a lot of questions, why Xiao Bai has become a man, and he can't remember the previous things. The white snake said I really can't remember, I just remember being hit when I crossed the street and came here.
No matter how Xiaoqing was still very happy, he chose to support each other with the male version of Xiaobai, and the two went to the "Guyi Supermarket" to meet the owner fox, who said that in addition to "No Pool" there was another way to leave Shuluo City, that is, to give her their obsession as fuel, and then they could skip the "If Bridge" with the memory of this life and leave.
When Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing had not yet been sucked into obsession, the Minotaur Gang attacked in a big way. The Wanyi supermarket did not block the attack, everyone was forced to retreat to the side of the poolless pool, the awakened Sima and the Minotaur fought, and it turned out that the Minotaur Gang Leader had a golden light protective body Sima who was reincarnated in death.
When minotaur's subordinates attacked, they inadvertently cut open Xiaobai's human skin mask and turned out to be a spy.
Xiao Qing was shocked, fortunately, when they wanted to deal with the fox, the fox was in its original form and set off wuchi to set off a terrifying wave to destroy the minotaur gang, the fox himself escaped through wuchi, and Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai were rushed outside by her.
Xiao Qing because the male version of Xiao Bai said that men cannot be relied on whether they are strong or weak, and all this depends on themselves.
They entered the mechanical bus according to the ticket given by the fox, and the hot spider spirit took the ticket and let them enter the Batu Cave, as long as they went in and went through the robbery, they could make if the bridge grew out, Xiao Qing entered the cave and found that it was Fahai, and the cave was an hour inside for a year. Xiao Qing and Fahai fought for twenty years to defeat Fahai and pull down Lei Feng Pagoda.
At this time, if the bridge grew out, and the golden light on the Minotaur's body disappeared with the disappearance of the Fahai, it was gone.
The three people rushed to the bridge when the "gas robbery" came, after some twists and turns brave cow cow cow was bitten into a monster, Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai were prevented from falling from a high altitude when they were going to go in, and at the critical moment the man slept until Xiao Bai let the minotaur bite, grew wings to send Xiao Qing into the snake head to leave Shuluo City, and he was in vain.
Finally, there is a plot reversal, and there are no spoilers here.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="74" > good to look at, this animation can obviously be better</h1>
This animation is really good-looking, chasing light animation technology is the top domestic animation film, but the problem of story plot and character shaping is really a bit much, so much so that for a while you have a little way to sort it out.
1, compared with "White Snake 1", "White Snake 2" is too greedy
The advantages of the first part are obvious, establishing the Chinese 3D oriental aesthetic style, but the story is actually a little too bland in comparison, from the beginning to the end of the talk, "White Snake 2" is completely opposite, the director and screenwriter want to express too many things.
The art, scenes, worldview and other settings are a bit of an upstart mentality, as if eagerly expressing: You see, the concept of our sequel Shuluo City is more Hollywood, how cool the combination of ancient and modern painting style is, and how fashionable the heroine is on her own rise.
This is too much to lose the characteristics of "White Snake", after all, everyone loves the first part is not the "oriental aesthetics" of love.
2, the supporting role of all the tool people, the protagonist Xiaoqing and Xiaobai walked around has no effect
Supporting role tool people do not mention, Sun Jie, Sima and the bull head villain, Luo Chamen are all tool people, the protagonist Xiao Qing's role is very badly shaped, what growth did she have in Shuluo City?
From the beginning to feel that Xu Xian's cowardly man is unreliable - to relying on Sima's kind of powerful man unreliable to transform into a male version of Xiao Bai as a life - when the male version of Xiao Bai is a spy, she feels that men are unreliable, and everything can only rely on themselves - the male version of Xiao Bai is merciful in his heart after sacrificing himself -
To be honest, I personally think it is still good to be here, men are unreliable regardless of their strength or weakness, women in their careers should indeed rely on themselves (they defeated Fahai), but men who really treat themselves sincerely can also be loved (really good to themselves).
But the ending that came finally went back to the previous sisterhood, and as the protagonist, he actually did not grow.
"White Snake 1" Although XiaoQing almost radically wants to rely on his own strength to protect Xiao Bai and himself, at first he hated Xu Xuan, but later learned that Xu Xuan is not a bad person who put down his prejudices and cooperated with him to save Xiao Bai, both of them changed their fate, such a plot is not enough?
She had been going around for a thousand years or had she become what she had been hundreds of years ago, and the more she cultivated like a human being, the more indecisive she became, what was the point of such pseudo-growth?
Anyway, Xiao Qing's obsession with Xiao Bai in "White Snake 2" has always been obsessive, and has never changed, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not helpful for Xiao Qing's character building, I do not believe that aside from the experience of Shu Luo City, we seem to find that Xiao Qing's concept has not changed from beginning to end.
Therefore, this experience and this plot seem a bit redundant.
Finally, there are some other settings, story plot and character building problems, I believe that now the Internet is already overwhelming, and I will not repeat it here.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="100" > end</h1>
If in terms of style, genre breakthrough and ambition, I personally like it more than "White Snake 1", the first part is oriental aesthetics + simple story + a bit of adult orientation, it is indeed easier for the public to accept.
The technical level of "White Snake 2" has reached a new high of 3D domestic animation films, and this alone is worth the ticket price.
However, the second part and the story plot are too complicated than the first part, and there are quite serious problems in the narrative structure, character shaping and theme expression. These have led to the "White Snake 2" word of mouth can not go out of the circle without a big explosion, and eventually will definitely affect the box office.
Personally, I am still a little disappointed and sad, because domestic animation films have developed to this day.
We all thought that "Jiang Ziya" after "The Demon Boy of Nezha" could establish a Chinese mythological universe, but "Jiang Ziya" collapsed. We thought that "White Snake 2" would continue the glory of the oriental aesthetic animation of "White Snake 1", but it went back to the old way of chasing the story of light.
This animation is still worth watching, but it's a real pity.