Author|Jiang Dongying
The biggest legacy left by the TV cartoon "Slam Dunk" is our emotional freedom in life, and it is the encyclopedia and humor of the person in the play, Sakuragi Hanamichi.
China's post-80s generation can give their youth "first IP" a big face, probably only "Slam Dunk". "Slam Dunk" deserves this treatment.
However, this group of people does not know where the patience for the common "cultural idol" and even the "virtual cultural idol" returns to the banal new work, and the extraordinary tolerance. Jay Chou's new album released last year is difficult to hear, and here in the 80s, there is not a single sharp word.
I want to scream that I like you: BAAD
This movie version directed by Yuhiko Inoue, the father of "Slam Dunk", is also something. Of course, the picture is indeed beautiful and clean, the painting style is pure and delicate, and all the comfort elements of contemporary vision are presented on the technical layout, and the 1-to-1 time-space comparison of the real scene is particularly refreshing.
But the story is not good-looking, the characters are very uncombustible, losing roots, losing souls, and falling down.
The Chinese audience was kind, chatting about masturbation with the attitude of watching the lively "all coming", giving a relatively high score to the collective youth imprint in the depths of their minds. Yuhiko Inoue, a 56-year-old Japanese, could not have experienced this in any way.
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"Slam Dunk" is not only "sacred" at the level of pop culture goods, it is also a classic Asian animation work. In other parts of Asia, we do not say that in the mid-to-late nineties Chinese mainland there was a wave of "slam dunk" fever, which really proved repeatedly what is called comprehensive added value, what is called emotional concentration, and what is called "top".
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In the era when Chinese still don't know what is the monetization of peripheral derivatives, there is not much information about "slam dunk" on stickers, pen cases, and key chain chains. It is no exaggeration to say that the small food and bits and pieces eaten by primary and secondary school students have a variety of slam dunk animation characters on the group portrait spectrum, even if "Watermelon Taro" is a more famous stationery brand in that period, because of the lack of a live cartoon to support, the things sold are not as many as "slam dunk".
As an imported version of overseas cartoons, "Slam Dunk" brings together the highlights of unprecedented people and those who have never come after.
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In 1993, the Japanese animation industry was born, the killing "Slam Dunk", since 1996 in China's provincial and municipal TV stations popularized broadcast, when the high school students born in 1980 were 16 years old, and the primary school students born in 1989 were just in the first and second grades, and a whole generation of Chinese teenagers are the most direct and important "coverage group" of the full series of animation products of "Slam Dunk".
To make sense in terms of heat value, the popularity and reach rate and deposition viewing rate of the dubbed TV version of "Slam Dunk" Taiwan Chinese are greater than those of comic books, and far greater than the original Japanese soundtrack and other dubbed versions.
At that time, teenagers really had no access to see the original Japanese version of "Slam Dunk", regardless of whether it was a TV station or a videotape VCD or some places opened a telephone hotline on-demand pay TV program.
Taiwanese dubbing Chinese is the only preconceived and royal way, and it is all that Chinese local decoding. Our understanding of Slam Dunk relies entirely on this version of the voiceover.
So the question is, the 2023 "Slam Dunk" introduced by China Film Group, why most of the performances are presented in Japanese soundtrack, I can't understand. "Slam Dunk" does not have the original original Japanese dubbing shock, and the dubbing of the Taiwan version Chinese once "fought the mountains and the world". How unconfident is the level of reproduction and re-creation of Chinese dubbing, or the industry people in the relevant arrangement operations are not the 80s of the year, or do not understand how the 80s of the year aestheticized a landmark animation work, which led to the Japanese dubbing of this version of "Slam Dunk" becoming the mainstream of theatrical screenings.
In the post-80s generation, many people have not seen inspirational Japanese sports cartoons such as "Football Boys" and "Baseball Heroes", but they have heard of them. Boys, on the other hand, have been exposed to TV anime or manga such as Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball, and Robot Cat, which are children's social currency, hashtags and interactive language.
The generation of the post-80s, who are older, grew up with Japanese children's cultural images such as Astro Boy, Ichihugo, and the Human Cannon Kosai (the predecessor of Ultraman); The age is not slippery, catching up with the proper years of Avanti, Black Cat Sheriff, Huluwa, and Xiaolongren; Smaller, look at the "Little Shenlong Club" is just right, CCTV windmill and animation city "Haier Brothers", "Blue Book and Big Face Cat", "Big Head Son Little Head Dad" they feel as naïve.
"Shook and Beta" and "Sloppy King" are not on the table. Zheng Yuanjie should understand that her ability to transform her fairy tale works into cartoons is actually relatively weak.
The generation after 80 really likes the animation "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck", "Transformers" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", because the cartoon cute pet, mecha texture and anthropomorphic setting are too sassy, slightly retreated, the same is the American TV animation, "Changeable Heroes", "Special Forces", "Dinosaur Denver" and the like.
But the American cartoon that really develops intelligence and imagination is "Cat and Mouse", not "Popeye".
Of course, including the "Home Alone" series of movies that are not blockbuster animations but make children miss and fascinate.
However, if all these emotional values are discussed alone, no one can resist the energy density of a "Slam Dunk", even if you count the TV series "The Legend of the New White Lady" that all the post-80s fell into, count the outstanding "Confused Boy", count F4 and Jay Chou.
How do you say this? "Slam Dunk" is a comedy cartoon with both a straight man of steel and an unrequited lovesick temperament, containing a variety of nonsensical, postmodern, and parody elements, containing a lot of time-space editing skills and visual impact gameplay, and containing many small baggage in the show. Some places do not talk about logic, it is hard.
At that time, none of us knew what "middle two" and "Easter eggs" were, and later found out that the earliest enlightenment of this thing was in "Slam Dunk". Stephen Chow on the screen, we usually have to follow the back of the adult's butt to appreciate. But Sakuragi Hanamichi, we can see, feel, savor, mock, deconstruct, and digest on our own. Later, our feelings for Chen Haonan and the mountain chicken were generally like this.
In "Slam Dunk", if there is no denial of the existence of absolute protagonists and mixed superstars, the honor can only be attributed to Sakuragi Hanamichi, a "big silly fork" style funny boy and basketball subversive. As an adolescent rebel who breaks free from the rules, he is really very big and fancy, no less than the charm of "Wei Xiaobao" in the Chinese martial arts world, and I think he is more powerful than Wei Xiaobao is magic. Multiple personalities, schizophrenia, perverse behavior, hard tossing, but all self-justifying.
"Slam Dunk" is building a biography for the virtual character "Sakuragi Hanamichi", and the other main characters in the biography are foils, all acting or reacting to the survival environment and running trajectory of Sakuragi Hanamichi, which can be regarded as the slow variable of forging Sakuragi Hanamichi, therefore, "Slam Dunk" is equal to the growth function of Sakuragi Hanamichi.
It is precisely because the Kanagawa Prefecture high school students "slam dunk" represented by Sakuragi Hanamichi as a typical image have painted a lot of incongruous but straight to the heart of the basketball training of "collective competition" and "teamwork", the panic of the varsity competition, and the enjoyment of the heart; It is precisely because of the high-intensity competition between many "dead opponents" who turn their faces faster than turn books; It is precisely because of the sympathy of howling and screaming and fighting; It is precisely because of the running-in, entanglement, anger and laughter on and off the field that the colorful growth spectrum is drawn together, and the "extreme" meaning on the text of sports cartoons is firmly constructed.
The group portrait of multiple characters is so standing and upright, and the relationship between multiple characters, teammates, and opponents has such a strong chemical reaction in a masterpiece of cartoons, which is unparalleled.
Sakuragi Hanamichi is obsessed with the wild unruliness of the basketball court and who gives up on me, just for the part of the emotional load that teenagers need to release and unload in the troubles of growing up, we can finally look down on a person and "despise" a "slam dunk master", it turns out that we are all smarter than Sakuragi Hanamichi, Sakuragi Hanamichi this lack of heart, Sakuragi Hanamichi, the "mentally retarded", "idiot" and "stupid" who were broken by Rukawa Kaede can be in the limelight, then I can do it, but I don't want to show my face to please everyone.
And what is the real empathy brought by Sakuragi Hanamichi, that is, I can't become you, I can't do your business, but I agree with your crazy style, you can be a joke, but you subtly moved me, let me grow older, I still remember that there was a powerful character full of slut, fucking talent, thundered me to all over and fell in love.
The mighty and righteous Sakuragi Hanamichi has no positive form at all, and it is not evil and evil. He is always nagging, forcing Lai Lai, bizarre talking, yin and yang strangeness, boasting, he has the signature embarrassment to the point of incomparably hot professional actions. His posture on the field is three: crooked figure-eight feet, standing up with a big belly, squatting a "big urine jar", he always turns the world upside down outside the sideline, outside the bottom line, the referee, and the audience.
In "Slam Dunk", "I am a genius" is like a mantra, grinding out the ear calluses of post-80s teenagers, and many people began to give themselves and their classmates the title of "genius" goosebumps and a rotten nickname, except for Sakuragi Hanamichi, no one talks like this in real life. The word "big handsome guy", the blessing of Toryukawa Kaede, Fujima and Sendo, is widely spread by the trio of Kanagawa Prefecture Xiangbei High School, Xiangyang High School, and Lingnan High School cheerleading team throwing thigh dance, how many post-80s girls in China, because of the popular phrase in this cartoon - "big handsome guy", and find sports students on campus to take a seat, the mood is just opening.
That's the huge impact a popular TV cartoon can exert on real school life.
The reason why Sakuragi Hanamichi is extraordinary is that he fell his nose and face swollen in countless absurdities, his brain was drummed with a bunch of bags, and he could still get up and walk forward, continue to rampage, continue to liberate his nature, continue to break through the shackles, continue to tease the rules, continue to play with the opponent, and then repeatedly hit the wall everywhere, his true colors do not change often in exchange for unexpected joy, and occasionally get a desperate life; Sakuragi Hanamichi has a soft spot for Haruko Akagi and is salivating, and various famous scenes of overturning and courting for attention have repeatedly created "disaster" scenes; The narrow road between Sakuragi Hanamichi and teammate Kaede Rukawa is narrow, and the hostile attitude of not sharing the sky always serves as a comedy suspense; Sakuragi Hanamichi's "group pet" function among teammates and classmates, always serving as a source of jokes; The delicate brother-to-brother relationship between Sakuragi Hanamichi and Captain Takeshi Akagi and the special mentor-apprentice relationship with Coach Anzai have given birth to his strong kinetic energy on the road to "Slam Dunk", the optimism and protection behind the gorilla's cold and stern Sakuragi, and Anzai's "Daddy" has great expectations for Sakuragi deep and kind, these are the main dramatic tension in "Slam Dunk".
The above is the reason why we love and forget the red hair that is like criticism.
The parallel disassembly of the whole picture and details of the game on the field, time and space elongation, technical scaling and psychological confrontation, mental torture, to be honest, there was really no way to catch the female audience back then, these paragraphs are not the dishes of the girls. The exaggerated presentation of a game, a dribble can be five kilometers a minute long, a shot can shoot five times the physical time, and now it seems that the production limitations and shortcomings of "Slam Dunk" in the past have also gone crazy.
"Slam Dunk" did not teach Chinese boys to play basketball and love basketball, nor did it teach boys and girls how to express their emotions decently, fortunately it did not do that, otherwise, quasi-protection would be counterproductive. The preaching of "Slam Dunk" has always been restrained, conveying only a few limited values, 1, no one can succeed casually, and hard work does not necessarily succeed. 2. If you see challenges as opportunities, they will naturally be reborn. 3. In the face of fierce enemies, be qualified opponents, learn from our opponents, defeat our opponents, and respect our opponents. 4. You have never failed, either helped your teammates win or helped yourself learn.
In addition, Slam Dunk's Chinese translation and Chinese dubbing are based on localized adaptations of Chinese world language habits and rhythm changes, which is an invaluable second creative experience.
The Japanese animation industry demonstrates a set of powerful TV animation concepts, including the extensive use of cartoon soundtracks and interludes, the opening and ending songs on the emotions of viewing behavior and viewing intentions, including the animation characters' haha mirror Q version stretching, deformation and other modeling means interspersed, stunt packaging processing (in the same period, the Japanese cartoons "Demon God Altar Fighter", "Majin Hero Altar" and "Ninja Shotaro" have character Q version shapes added audiovisual language reconstruction), All these provide huge creative play space and situational inspiration for the ingenuity of dubbing. Inoue Yuhiko tried to lead the original TV anime of "Slam Dunk" by himself, but finally did not go according to his own ideas, but others did it for him, and the market gave positive feedback that "Slam Dunk" was not created by his own father for the second time, and the translation, dubbing, and adaptation of Chinese localization continued to amplify this positive feedback loop.
Dubbing and soundtrack music had to play a big part in the process.
The ChineseChinese dubbing of the Sakuragi Hanamichi, Rukawa Kaede, and Akagi brothers and sisters formed a shiny and solid collective nostalgia, which explained the spread radiation ability of "Slam Dunk" from one side. Coincidentally, the phenomenal cartoons "Crayon Xiaoxin" and "Cherry Maruko" that appeared after "Slam Dunk" were introduced to Chinese mainland and gained a batch of loyal fans, and they were also inseparable from the vivid Taiwanese Chinese dubbing, but at that time, the Japanese original dubbing was also reshaping the diverse information reception nerves of young audiences. and the original title theme song "君が好きだと叫びたい", Chinese translated as "I Want to Say I Love You Loud", and the ending theme song "あなただけ見つめてる", Chinese translated as "Only Staring at You"; "World が終るまでは", Chinese translated as "Until the End of the World", and the theme episode "Huang めくmomentに捕らわれて", Chinese translated as "Capture the Shining Moment" has become the four most recognizable slam dunk masters in China, and has been sung on major Internet music platforms. "I Want to Say I Love You Loudly" and "Until the End of the World" have been adapted many times Chinese lyrics, and they are the guests of the classic cover songs of major Chinese song clubs.
As one of them, I am grateful that when I was young and young, I did not face the cultural desert, nor did I have to worry about entertainment to death, and I can always find the right emotional products at different stages without much effort, try and understand, and see them instantly, full of presence, no regrets of absence, and no need to make up classes for the sake of memories. But I vividly remember that since 2000, I haven't looked through a twenty-minute episode of Slam Dunk, and before I went to college, I saw the end Chinese dubbed version of 101 episodes in an Internet café, and I could pull the tabs non-linearly, and I didn't open it to catch a glimpse of the final ending of the animated TV version. The last wave of popularity of "Slam Dunk", the TV station only broadcast about sixty episodes, that is, the high schools in Kanagawa Prefecture formed a joint team to "encircle and suppress" the Xiangbei team together, many places did not even broadcast this progress, I did not see this episode, but I still relied on inquiring and piecing, like caring about old friends who were far away, basically figured out the life changes after Sakuragi Hanamichi shaved his head.
It's strange why I would like to take care of the "Slam Dunk" complex and keep my distance from it, it's because I don't want to see Sakuragi Hanamichi grow up, mature, and understand, and I don't want to see this change in the traditional meaning, even if I'm a fan who loves "Soldier Assault" for so many people. Those stories and characters that need to stand in the traditional values to understand and rapport, I list separately. In the subconscious, in the bones, in the core of the soul, I want to find an outlet where youth never ends, where blood can be rekindled, where it doesn't matter how I want to come around, fall, don't face, and how fearless I want. And I prefer to give this position to "Slam Dunk", which has gradually forgotten many plots, to the already vague Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Because I hadn't seen the theatrical version of Slam Dunk, my adaptability wasn't enough to support my acceptance of Ryota Miyagi's sworn self-performance as the first protagonist in the movie version, or the director's specious rhetoric about Mitsui Shou and Takeshi Akagi. I respect Inoue Yuhiko for opening up new character perspectives, but his lack of proficiency in building structure, organizing clues, connecting logic and using "interpolation" makes the relationship between the characters in the movie version itself very abrupt, rough, and incoherent, and the fragmented and non-compact story is far-fetched, depressing, and gloomy in the overall narrative style. In fact, manga artist Yuhiko Inoue's creative thinking cannot control and integrate an independent passage of "Slam Dunk" in film capacity and film form.
Especially when I saw that the movie version Chinese the voice cast still appeared nearly 30 years ago, Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede's dubbing teacher Yu Zhengsheng and Kanshi Hiroshi, I didn't know whether to be happy or lonely.
Kaede Rukawa's Chinese voice is similar to the past, and there is nothing wrong with it; The Chinese voice acting of Sakuragi Hanamichi is no longer free and radiant, which is a huge regret. The dubbing of the same person, after the transit of the time, turned out to be like this. If the unattractive Sakuragi Hanamichi Chinese the dubbing is not funny or forcibly swooped like a cold joke, then I am too lazy to find out whether Sakuragi Hanamichi is brave or reckless, and I don't know what I came to the cinema for.
Previously, I gave a couple a huge theme painting of a slam dunk: the above scene is a group wedding family portrait of Hanamichi Sakuragi and Haruko Akagi, Ryota Miyagi and Saiko, and in the huge best man group, Coach Anzai and all the beautiful boys of Kanagawa basketball are there, and Kaede Rukawa, Sendo and Fujima are even more handsome.