No one expected that the movie version of "Slam Dunk" would be such a start, which surprised audiences who were used to the TV version.
This is actually the original author of the manga, Inoue Yuhiko, because he wants to show all the experience over the years, which determines that the movie version of "Slam Dunk" is destined to be different from the beginning.
Since the 1993 TV series, "Slam Dunk" has been a huge success, but the movie version has made us wait too long, and now 30 years later, except for the basketball teenager on the court, the comic book writers and those viewers have changed a lot.
Inoue hesitated before creating whether to keep it original or add new elements, but this hesitation was fleeting, and what he ultimately wanted was a completely new work.
As Inoue Yuhiko says, "When the manga was serialized, I was about 20 years old, and what I was best at was describing the perspective of high school students, or rather I only knew the perspective of high school students. After that, I got older, my horizons widened, and I wanted to describe more things. ”
So you can see that the movie version of "Slam Dunk" has added a lot of new elements to it, one is in the plot, and the other is in the emotional tone.
The movie version can be said to be an extension of the TV series version in terms of plot, and the much-watched competition officially debuted, Inoue Yuhiko chose to put the match between Shonobi and Yamao on the screen, and at the same time he set a second timeline, that is, the line recalled by Miyagi Ryota, and the two alternately flashed in the movie.
Some people think that this two-line setting, especially Miyagi Ryota's line, is a failure of the movie version of "Slam Dunk", which seriously delays the progress of the game, but this is not the case, because Miyagi Ryota's line is the key to the film, and it is also where Inoue Yuhiko poured out his 30 years of experience.
Those who are familiar with Inoue Yuhiko know that in addition to "Slam Dunk", he also has a work that seals the gods, that is, 1998's "Wanderer", the difference between these two works is very large, if you use blood to describe "Slam Dunk", then "Slam Dunk" represents death and practice.
When creating the movie version of "Slam Dunk", he consciously or unintentionally introduced the spiritual thinking of "Slam Dunk", so the core tone of his work also changed from youth and enthusiasm to "living, not always going well." ”
This is also in line with the growth mood of the group of post-70s and 80s who watched the animated version at the beginning, especially in the movie, which resonates with many people in describing how to face the death of their loved ones.
At the beginning of the movie, the teenager Miyagi Ryota and his father died, and his brother Sota, who taught him to play basketball, also died in a fishing boat accident, and his relatives died one after another, causing Miyagi Ryota's inner world to collapse.
How to deal with the pain of the death of a loved one? Whether to sink in grief or escape oblivion, the film shows three different attempts by Miyagi Ryota.
The first attempt by Miyagi Ryota was a failure.
He lived in the grief of his brother's death. He often sneaks into his brother Sota's room and puts on the mask that his brother once wore, fantasizing that his brother is still in the room.
Even during the game, he deliberately imitated his brother Sota's appearance and wore his brother's No. 7 jersey to participate in basketball games, but in the end he failed.
His mother took him out of Okinawa to live again, completely away from the influence of his brother, Miyagi Ryota began to make a second attempt, he chose to forget, but this time it was still unsuccessful, cynical, full of rebellion, no fighting spirit in the arena, and even a traffic accident because of riding a motorcycle.
Ryota Miyagi, who failed in two attempts, returned to his hometown and returned to the cave on the beach that he and his brother only knew, which became the key to his third attempt.
In the cave, he finds a basketball magazine and sees his brother's vow to defeat the mountain king written in the magazine.
This cave actually has a moral in the film, more of a teenager's spiritual sustenance, representing the weak and tenacious dreams of two young people. At this time, his brother's dream merged with Miyagi Yoshita's dream.
So he put on the number 7 shirt again, put on his brother's red bracers, one black and one red double bracers, in fact, it is a portrayal of the two working together to complete their dreams.
There is also a detail here, that is, Miyagi Ryota re-took out the sneakers thrown in the shoe box, which also heralded the awakening of Miyagi Ryota on behalf of his brother's dream.
Miyagi Ryota could not successfully get out of whether he was sinking into pain or choosing to forget, only when he "inherited" his brother's last wish and combined it with self-love,
It came to life.
This is actually Inoue Yuhiko's desire to express the audience's care for the pain of the death of their loved ones, and it is a response to growth.
Once impulsive and hot youth, most of the current has been replaced by the reality of "there are old and young", past the age of wanton willfulness, life hit the pressure, can not escape cowardice, only bravely "farewell" to shelter, continue to shoot their "three-pointer", can become a strong person in the field of life.
In this way, it is understood why the movie version of "Slam Dunk" chose Miyagi Ryota as the protagonist, which has a low sense of existence, which is actually very simple, because Inoue Yuhiko's vision changes over the years have been mapped to Miyagi Ryota, which Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede cannot complete.
In terms of setbacks, Inoue Yuhiko also made a lot of arrangements, such as letting Sakuragi's back injury, and Rukawa Kaede unable to score by himself at key moments, and could only choose to pass to his partner, and Yamao Zekita's kneeling after being defeated, which subverted the previous cognition of the characters in the TV series.
Good adaptations of works all follow a principle, that is, innovation and continuous growth, and at this point, the movie version of "Slam Dunk" did it, he did not deliberately choose to show off feelings, but added a new story, making the whole character more life-like, in addition to blood, it turns out that they also need to face setbacks and failures like ordinary people.
I really want to thank Yuhiko Inoue for all this, and I want to quote the phrase that Captain Akagi said in the movie, "We are not good friends, but thank you", "Slam Dunk" as a memory of a generation of youth, returning in this form, deserves our respect and love.