Since its release on April 20, "Slam Dunk" has won 430 million box office in 7 days, with a Maoyan score of 9.4 points and a Douban score of 9 points.
How many former teenagers and today's middle-aged people rushed to the cinema to this youth feast, that is the memory of youth that never floats, that is the once bright and surging adolescent blood.
When the five tigers of Xiangbei walked towards everyone on the big screen, they already had tears in their eyes, they had been absent for a long time, this kind of dream of returning to the happiness of youth, and the memories of the once young emerged with this picture.
However, this time the big movie did not sound a familiar melody, did not play "Until the End of the World" and "I Want to Say I Love You Loudly".
Inoue Yuhiko didn't even choose Sakuragi Hanamichi or Rukawa Kaede as the protagonists, but cut in from the perspective of the humble Miyagi, which is an adventure of cinematic narrative, and it is clear that the former will be more flattering if you pull the emotional points.
Inoue Yuhiko obviously has other considerations, Miyagi is a marginal character with less ink on the original work, but he is also an essential part of the team, and he will also be the new captain, so Inoue Yuhiko complemented Miyagi's role in the movie, adding his motivation and growth line.
The scene of fierce competition in the national competition is in full swing, and from time to time you fall into Miyagi's memories from childhood to adolescence, switching back and forth between the explosion of the scene and the loss of memories.
1. Miyagi's growth line
Miyagi's basketball enlightenment originated from his older brother Sota. Sota is a recognized talented basketball boy who has high expectations, and in their family, he is obviously more dependent on his mother.
Especially when the brothers lost their father at a young age, Sota stood up to appease his heartbroken mother, while saying to Miyagi, from now on, I will become the captain of this family, and you, will be the vice captain.
However, a shipwreck took Zongtai's life. The last thing Miyagi could not forgive himself was that day he shouted at his brother who got on the ship: You will never come back!
Unexpectedly, a word became a saying. Sota will never come back. This became a hidden pain in Miyagi's heart, and this regret was hidden deep in his life, just as in the letter he wrote to his mother, the one that was written and annulled, he said, I am sorry that the person who survived was me.
This hidden pain and regret for the loss of a loved one made Miyagi devote more energy to basketball. He put on his brother's No. 7 shirt, played basketball, which his brother loved, and wanted to live his brother's life.
However, Miyagi did not have the talent of Sota, and when he heard the evaluation of others, he could not replace his brother after all.
Miyagi thought, in his mother's heart, the same is true, he always causes trouble and makes his mother angry, in this family, he can't replace Sota and be the captain of this family.
His mother wanted to put away Sota's belongings, jerseys and medals, and hide the painful memories, but Miyagi vehemently objected, he wanted to keep his brother's belongings and fulfill his brother's dream, so he insisted on wearing the number 7 jersey and playing basketball day after day.
Although he is less than one meter seven meters tall and has no natural advantage on the basketball court, Miyagi still persevered, trained his skills hard for many years, and became a basketball guard of the Xiangbei team.
In this team with basketball geniuses like Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede, Miyagi has mediocre qualifications, neither height advantage nor extraordinary talent.
Miyagi is always out of place, with a kind of youthful rebellion and alienation, which is more like self-preservation for him. With what kind of determination and courage did he stick to such a talented team and find his place and value?
The movie gives the story background and growth context of the character Miyagi, who once experienced the trauma of the death of his relatives when he was young, and also encountered the disapproval of his teacher and family, and struggled on the verge of giving up, but after experiencing this, he still eliminated distractions, ran the beach, and insisted on physical practice and basketball training.
The fierce game on the scene, interspersed with Miyagi's memories, strung together his mental journey, and the breakthrough of his mood echoed the changing situation on the field.
At the last critical moment, it was Miyagi, not Akagi, who gathered the team together and completed the deployment of the team battle, at which point it was like a kind of group soul coming out, and they each found their place in this competition.
Everything Miyagi has experienced in the past, including pain, perseverance and persistence, rebellion, defiance and redemption, has made him grow and break through in this race against the clock.
He found his place in this team, found his home field, and stood on this field, not only to fulfill his unfulfilled dream in place of his brother, but also to shed blood and sweat for his love.
2. The metamorphosis of the five tigers in northern Xiangbei
Inoue's adventure is not a blind adventure, Miyagi's growth line, and the ups and downs between the entire event, actually have an inner echo.
The national competition and the growth of Miyagi are not separate narratives, but through the growth and transformation of Miyagi's life background, the transformation process of the entire Xiangbei team at the game site is dragged out.
The Mountain King is a tough team with many undefeated records. The small Xiangbei team that entered the national competition for the first time encountered the mountain king, and it can be said that it is normal to lose.
However, the Xiangbei five, from the goal at the beginning of the game, to the later critical hit, trailing the mountain king by a big score, the situation on the field was one-sided, and it seemed that they could not return to the sky.
However, not giving up is the shout engraved in the bones of every member of the Xiangbei team, and the belief implanted in this team after Coach Anzai gave them strong backing and sincere teaching.
If you give up now, the game will end early. Therefore, as long as people are still in the arena, they will not give up, they will continue to fight desperately, and will not miss any glimmer of life in the inevitable defeat situation.
In this extreme situation, if the Xiangbei team remains unchanged, then they have no chance of winning. The variable of winning or losing lies in themselves, they themselves are changing, growing rapidly in the fierce situation, and individuals are adjusting and changing themselves to match the team's attack and defense.
The power of this young team is that they can adjust and grow and transform themselves on the spot under this huge pressure, and then complete the transformation and evolution of the entire team.
Actual combat is always the most exercise, especially the on-site competition, this high-pressure and highly competitive actual combat environment can bring the team members a greater degree of baptism and tempering.
It is under this high-pressure on-site competition that the Xiangbei team burst out their spirit of flexibility, tenacity and hard work, and the soul of the regiment was not born in weekday training, but precisely in this kind of fierce battle with the outside world!
In this process, the self-change of each team member jointly contributed to the transformation and sublimation of the entire team in a short period of time, and in this short period of tens of minutes, the Xiangbei team did complete a qualitative leap, in fact, with stronger combat effectiveness, narrowly defeated the mountain king team.
Kaede Rukawa has always been proud, fighting alone and never passing, but in this battle, he passed the ball like never before, moving from an individual elite playing style to putting aside himself and learning teamwork to increase the winning surface of the overall team.
Sakuragi Hanamichi is the key to the rhythm reversal of the whole drama in this game, Coach Anzai trained him on the spot, changed his strategy, and gave full play to his super bounce and rebounding ability, allowing the Xiangbei team to turn the disadvantage into an advantage, and then won a bigger score.
Mitsui returned to the court after two years away, the words "Coach, I want to play basketball" made people tearful, returned after going astray, lost and regained love, Mitsui Shou rediscovered himself with his ultra-accurate 3-point shooting on the court, and also integrated more deeply into the team.
Takeshi Akagi has always had the obsession of "dominating the country", and it was in this decisive battle that he realized that what he wanted was to work together with like-minded teammates, ignite the soul of the group, and win the game.
Miyagi, the small defender in the team, has also experienced his breakthrough growth in the process of rapidly changing the situation on the field.
In the later battle, before he knew it, Miyagi had a deeper insight and understanding of the overall game and each player, but instead he replaced Akagi, and laid out the overall strategy of the team and the main points of each person responsible for attack and defense in a short dialogue with the players.
Miyagi went from a defender struggling to find his place in a talented team to a key figure who could plan the layout in this game.
It was such a team that could continue to evolve and become stronger in the process of the competition, and launched a wonderful competition with the powerful Shanwang Gonggao team, completed the impossible goal, turned the almost inevitable battle, and won this national competition.
This is the victory of the five tigers of Xiangbei, which is related to the growth and transformation of each of them in the arena, and witnesses the explosive growth of the team's overall willpower, technology and flexibility.
Inoue Yuhiko's work this time is beautifully completed, from Miyagi's personal growth line, and then pulls out the overall growth line of the Xiangbei team, not only as an individual's real and vivid life experience, showing the pain, love, growth and transformation of teenagers, but also as a group in the game gradually mature in the wonderful interpretation, in the face of opponents strong enough to crush them, complete self-breakthrough, readjust and activate, give full play to everyone's advantages, cooperate seamlessly, and ignite the roaring group soul. Fusion transforms into a tougher team.
The five tigers of Xiangbei, each of them, have become a better version of themselves in this game, and at the same time, a new team that is awe-inspiring has been born.