Of course, it's still a bad movie.
What can you do in fourteen minutes? That can be used to excrete dirt in the toilet, it is enough to play a smooth MOBA game, or like me, to enjoy Bi Zhifei's latest work of Douban with a score of 2.6 - "Demon Parent".
Since there is a "pearl jade" in front of "Dream Showbiz", I do not have any expectations for this short film. But it's like you heard someone run to the toilet to eat Ollie live again, so how can you not look around? And as I expected, the bad points of the film, Bi Dao really can't help but blame.
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"The Devil's Kiss" tells a decent suspense story, so concise that I have to re-read the script and have to be cleverly adjusted to prevent everyone from watching it.
In its background, two countries are hostile to each other, and in order to alleviate the feud, country A sends its most favored princess to go and kiss. But on the night of her new marriage to the Prince of Country B, the princess died suddenly. This directly led to the Lord of Country A leading the Iron Horse to launch a war of revenge, but when the two armies were opposed, on the side of the Prince of Country B, he suddenly jumped out of the princess who was intact, except for the princess with more tears under his eyes, thus leading to a shocking conspiracy.
Speaking of this conspiracy, it is not only the dark line and driving point of the whole drama, but also the biggest logical hard wound, and the key to promoting its effectiveness falls on the word "fake body".
Legend has it that there is a kind of secret art in the world that can create a prosthesis that is the same as the general appearance and personality of the person, and the only difference between them and the main lord is that there is a tear mole in the corner of the eye. And the great general of country A is the person who bears this secret art. Coupled with peace and kinship, a conspiracy to usurp power and seize the throne was conceived.
Speaking of which, you might think that there is an indirect connection between the Great General and the death of the princess, and that's true. The true princess was actually assassinated by the general, but the murderer did what he was told. The one who really wanted the princess to die was precisely the father who spoiled her. It was only because the lord of a country had the ambition to break through country B in his heart, but the opposition of the group of ministers was difficult to achieve, that he came up with such a crooked trick to blame country B as a famous teacher.
The rebellious general took this opportunity to kill the real princess with a trick of tanuki for the prince, and then ordered the loyal to his own false body, and ordered him to persuade the prince to hide the news that the princess was still "alive".
Time goes back to when the two armies were fighting each other. Along with the false princess's questioning, the conspiracy about her father's emperor was also exposed, and it was heard that the soldiers of country A were all in an uproar, and the general also raised the anti-flag in a justifiable manner, killed the emperor of country A, and crushed the soldiers of country B with the art of organs taught by the world's masters, becoming the final winner.
At the end of the story, the dead Emperor of Country A suddenly wakes up from a dream, and this day happens to be the day before the two countries are about to become relatives. He ordered the eunuch to hurry up eight hundred miles and send a message to the general to stop the plan. But when ordered to leave, the camera pulls onto the eunuch's face, where there is a tear mole.
From the perspective of story structure alone, the whole film is a combination of beginning and end, and several plot reversals are also clever. But the suspense genre, the most important thing is to bury the line and close the line and create a hidden but reasonable motive for the character. Regarding the former, the film is designed with plates and eyes, like the plot of the opening paragraph where an eagle catches a snake but is shot by a general, which cleverly metaphors the whole story. In the end, the emperor woke up in a dream, thinking that he could reverse his fate, but he did not notice the plot of the tear mole on the eunuch's face, which also brought a little charm.
However, reasonable plot presentation and exquisite reversal of scenes need to be connected by motivation, otherwise they will only fall into the metaphysics of The Face. In this regard, the film is extremely embarrassing. Like the portrayal of the emperor of country A, it only focuses on the warm love for his daughter, and does not show his cold-blooded emperor side, which makes his measures to kill his daughter become abrupt and embarrassing, like alzheimer's disease. The same is true of the villain general, his words and deeds before the reversal are full of loyal servants, and the result is that in the end, it is like losing his heart and going crazy, and the speed is comparable to the face of Sichuan.
After the lack of these image details is integrated, the focus of the film is not on the characters, only on the contradictions, a bit for the sake of flipping and flipping, for the suspense and suspense of the taste.
Although there is such a hard injury, if the film is just an amateur work of unknown netizens, I am afraid that I will not be encouraged by one button and three times after I watch it. But the director of the academy can write such a script, but it is a little confusing. After all, I know something that a layman knows very little, how can a professional ignore it?
In fact, if you look at the standards of "Dream Showbiz" at that time, Bi Dao's work this time can be said to have grown a lot. If you think about the reasons for this, it may also be due to the change in the form of creation. Because unlike the previous divine works in which Bi Dao was responsible for the script, shooting, editing, and starring, this time he was only responsible for the script, and the specific editing and production were responsible for others.
Perhaps because there are masters among these collaborators, the camera movement technique of "Magic Parent" has also been greatly improved, and the use of shots common in movies such as slow motion and close-ups can be regarded as just right.
Although in the author's opinion, the logical hard wounds shown by the finished product are not necessarily the problem of the original script. After all, the film is inherently positioned as a "short drama", and it is difficult to support the complex story structure. Therefore, I think that Bi Dao is more not responsible for the exclusive responsibility of deleting content and retaining the essence.
Further, he shouldn't have created such a complex reversal for a short play. It seems that Mr. Wang Hailin's advice to him before that "the next time the script tries to write only one person and the things around him" has not been heard at all.
All in all, rather than saying that "Magic Parent" is a "new film", it is more that it is a cross-border short video made by the "Against the Cold Water" game in order to prove that its screen is fully comparable to that of film and television dramas. From the content point of view, it can only be regarded as a suspense short film that has just passed, if it is not the reputation of Bi Dao, I estimate that after watching it, I will praise netizens for being quite talented. But if Douban is evaluated by film standards, it is also reasonable to be sprayed, and looking back at the film reviews he has produced on Zhihu, and now this script, it can only be said that he has proved that he is a limited talented writer rather than a director.
The film currently has a Douban score of 2.6
However, in addition to the film, I deeply agree with his evaluation of the Great Song Ying painting under the video of "Magic Relatives" on the B station.
In his view, the editor of the Great Song Ying Painting, which originated from "Against the Cold Water", is like a perfect test field. After all, due to various conditions, film and television practitioners are often unable to achieve 100% control over their works. But with the editor, an almost zero-cost tool, it can become one of the choices for professional film proofing, and it can also become a unique platform for amateurs to show their ingenuity.
I would like to add something to that. Because although the game editor is not a tool familiar to professionals, it is not inferior in the expression of ideas and the use of artistic techniques.
Like in the turmoil caused by the launch of "Green Dam" in 2009, "Internet Addiction War" based on "WOW" has become a landmark work that replaces the voice of players. Whether examined in terms of past vision or today's standards, all aspects of it still seem quite naïve. But this does not prevent it from resonating with coherent plots and deep contradictions.
To put it bluntly, art itself does not stick to form. Whether it is something that netizens edit with game materials, or a magnificent masterpiece that big directors spend tens of millions to create. If it can't make people feel emotional resonance, it is difficult to call it art, and conversely, it is art.
What's more, with the development of the game industry, the functional support for the editor has gradually reached the point of being a "private studio", and can even carry a variety of lens techniques for movies.
For example, the B station up main old tomato used the "GTA5" director mode to compile the video "Bad Joke". On the basis of telling its own story through the game screen, the work really controls the material, so that the short film relies on the plot and creativity to "stand". Thus, in just over twenty minutes, it presents a truly cinematic expression like "Pulp Fiction".
The success of "Bad Jokes" is inseparable from the creativity and polishing of the producers themselves. But the role of game editors in this cannot be ignored.
Compared with the "Internet Addiction War" period, today's masterpieces often come with their own work ability to be fine and multi-editor. Like the big Song Ying painting that gave birth to "The Magic Parent", because of its excellent quality, it has quietly become an excellent choice for 0-cost and thresholdless costume film shooting. Even in the B station, in the vibrato, have formed a certain scale effect.
The emergence of this ecology is to a certain extent inseparable from the Internet trend of short video explosion. But the reason why the Great Song Ying Painting can become the focus is due to its strength in function.
With freely available scenes, characters, prop materials, as well as customized functions for emoticons and weather, and excellent real-time calculus capabilities. It actually provides a "private studio" for ordinary people who have ideas and talents but can't pay the cost. And the players on the road have also made all kinds of strange and interesting things, such as the animated version of popular dramas such as "East Palace", and even the "live-action version" of "The Legend of the Seven Heroes of Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit"...
Although whether it can be used to get out of their own new world, in the end, it depends on the creators' own creation. But access to these tools is undoubtedly another opportunity for creators today, because they can rely on them to break out of the physical shackles and follow through ideas.
And that's our luck, because as viewers and readers, there's nothing more enjoyable than appreciating quality content. Of course, this does not include "The Devil's Kiss".