Text | Ling Hu Boguang
The May 1st file in 2023 has come, but what I never expected is that the biggest winner of this year's May 1st box office is not a domestic movie, but the pre-released "Slam Dunk" big movie, which was released on April 20 and has not yet participated in the impact of May Day.
As of the publication of this post, the box office of "Slam Dunk" has exceeded 500 million, and the domestic platform predicts that the total box office will be 800 million.
And the first domestic film released on May 1st, the total box office of the two major head works is predicted to be above 600 million, which is obviously lost to "Slam Dunk". The reason for the loss of domestic movies is mainly word of mouth and quality problems, "Slam Dunk" away from home, not in the May 1st file to win the reason, of course, is not only feelings.
However, the reputation of "Slam Dunk" in China is not all praise-based, and there are still many places to complain.
As far as I understand, this movie is "Slam Dunk" in the mind of author Yuhiko Inoue. It is not the youth memory of the domestic audience, or the "Slam Dunk" in childhood memories. There is nothing left of the Toei elements that can be removed from the movie. Including the voice actors of the original TV characters, as well as classic music, are not retained.
Instead, there's a brand new production, and everything you can think of and what you didn't expect is replaced with a new one.
In fact, just like Hideaki Anno is obsessed with tokusatsu, they are essentially trying to fulfill their dreams, or to make up for their past regrets. But the film was able to get such a high box office in the end, and the quality of the movie is still good in essence.
Douban 9.0, the total box office broke 800 million? The hugely successful Slam Dunk is not perfect
The anime was initially released abroad and received widespread acclaim, although it received wide acclaim after its release. But fans or audiences, or the 2023 "Slam Dunk" movie is very good, but there are still obviously a few shortcomings.
First, Miyagi has too many memories, and I thought that Miyagi would be the "main clue" as a new perspective for the national competition.
As a result, it was entirely Miyagi as the protagonist. But in fact, whether it is the original comic book, or TV. Miyagi belongs to people outside the protagonist circle, and his influence and popularity are relatively weak. The story of the Miyagi line is not outstanding, in fact, it is not as good as the linkage "Suzuya Journey", the family was killed in the earthquake, maybe the BUFF will be higher.
Now you are arranging a father accident, and an accident with your brother at sea... The plot killing and script sense are also too heavy.
The second is that the "Battle of the Mountain King" has only a plot and no emotions. In fact, there was a climax before the battle of the mountain king - the Feng Yu Dirty Ball. Yufeng's story is also very full, the bond between players and coaches, the re-understanding of basketball and competitive sports, are all very good plot designs.
And in that game, Xiangbei fought hard, almost bloody.
Because of this, in the state of residual blood, Xiangbei fought the mountain king, and Sakuragi took his career as a bet and finally turned over. This is the highlight of Xiangbei. And the theatrical version did not continue emotionally. It also did not show the "bitter battle" in northern Xiangbei, and the whole process was the feeling that the two teams played 55.
It's as if the second-ranked team in history has beaten the all-time first-ranked strong team. But Xiangbei is a small basketball team of a small school that is difficult to enter the finals, and the seeded team of the champion is defeated, and that feeling is not rendered at all.
The only advantage is that it attaches importance to the original book and puts out all the plots that should be out.
The third is the absence of classic BGM, "Slam Dunk" classic BGM that is one after another "I want to say love you out loud", "Until the end of the world" and "My Friend" are all classics that you can't get tired of hearing. As a result, the theatrical version did not have a BGM that could be a "theme song" throughout.
Now there is only ambient rock, and no familiar tunes sound.
Finally, the plot of the final NBA game is inexplicable. It's better to get a Tsunoda to play the NBA, at least round a terrier. Even if there is a Sakuragi date, Haruko is complained about by Kaede Rukawa, it's not bad.
Now Miyagi's entry into the NBA is like a kind of third-rate immortal cultivation novel, in order to make a boss, directly super-god flying immortal.
I personally feel that now this film must have a score of 9, and 8 points cannot be more. The film itself is of excellent quality, "Sanno Opera" respects the original, if you can divide it into eight o'clock, it is definitely still a classic Japanese anime theater version worth watching.
Was it intentional, or was it careless? You rate Slam Dunk
The above content is based on the TV serialized version familiar to Chinese audiences, and if you talk purely from the perspective of movies, its evaluation is different. There is no problem in the movie starting memories with Miyagi, after all, there is not much ink on Miyagi in the original work, and it is understandable that this movie version can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings of the original work.
But this memory story does not match the content of the main line is the game Mountain King, and there is no need to ink too much content to occupy the main plot, and it is a pity that those classic bridges in the game were deleted in order to insert Miyagi's memories, such as Sakuragi's confession to Haruko, and Usumi's encouragement to Akagi, these contents are not the most dissatisfied places for old fans.
As for the music, it doesn't have much impact, even if the old version of the theme song is indeed very classic, but in fact, pay attention to the lyrics of these old version of the theme song and basketball at all, in fact, these songs are basically lyrical songs bitter love songs, the last Easter egg should not go to play the NBA, look at the atmosphere on that court should be to play the college league.
However, it is arranged that Miyagi went to the United States to meet and fight with Zebei is a bit of the author's careful thinking, in the original work, Miyagi did not reveal that he wanted to go to the United States until the end, and until the end was thinking about how to be a good captain of Xiangbei, but Liu Chuan has always had a strong will to go to the United States, but he did not achieve it, which is a bit too much
The best performers in this match were Mitsui and Sakuragi, from being blasted to fighting back were Kaede Rukawa and Akagi, but it was Miyagi who had memories. It's like the seventh class of Naruto fighting, Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke have all made great contributions, but it turned out that it was Sakura who was killed by the memory, how can this be burned?
But all this was deliberately done by Yuhiko Inoue, knowing what plot everyone wanted to see, he didn't shoot it; He knows what music everyone wants to hear, so he won't let it go!
Do you want to watch Inoue movies to complement your youth? There are no doors.
This stubborn donkey can be regarded as implementing the concept of "youth is incomplete" to the end, and with the mentality of "Sakuragi takes us to burn", he went to see a "how Miyagi is refined" parent.
The audience of "Slam Dunk" is more than thirty or forty people, and it has long been left that only the parents are short, and they can't burn up, that's it, this is Inoue's completion of the slam dunk master itself, not the explanation to the fans of the slam dunk.
If you put aside the serial animation and only look at it from a movie perspective, it will be good to compare the senses. It is great to cut into the senses with Miyagi as the protagonist, and the phrase "At this moment my heart is pounding and pounding, but I have to show that I don't care" proves the correctness of cutting from this perspective.
Because the conventional does not show too strong a personality suitable for cutting, the breakthrough in the later stage can also burst out the feelings that have been suppressed for a long time, and it is more interesting to look at other characters with obvious personality characteristics from Miyagi's perspective.
The overall feeling is that there are flaws, memories, but not as dragging as Hokage, there are many insertions, and the single point is basically the transition point of the rhythm of the arena, or a classic Japanese animation movie worth watching.
Win! May 1st domestic movies actually lost to this Japanese classic anime
Finally, my personal feelings, I belong to the group of people who have moved, but I can understand the dissatisfaction of many people. They watch the slam dunk masters of their youth, and this movie is not just a passionate slam dunk, he is full of understanding, thinking, and hard work on "getting up again after a disaster", and even encouraging fairy tale consolation.
Inoue's choice of the most thankless expression struck me because I have also been crushed by life, but I don't think most moviegoers who come to see memories of youth will appreciate this.
And because he got my emotions, I was enjoying it with full marks, and I was pulled by Miyata's structure as the team's 2nd grade, up and down linking 1/3 grade, and completed this story, which was already quite good.
But he pulled everyone to the rhythm of "I am the victim, I want to fight, I want to shine, I want the last blow"....... I can't evaluate, at least it touches me, but I also know that this may be an extremely small and old-fashioned expression of consciousness for those who cannot be impressed.
I don't think it's easy to make such a work, I even think that Inoue came up with his best, and judging by the results, he came up with a new story at a time when everyone was looking forward to the old sweet dreams again....... I love this story, but I'm afraid many people feel that they have been tricked and fooled into not the slam dunk they remember.
It's really not, it's Inoue Slam Dunk, or is it now Inoue's Slam Dunk.
And from the current box office, it is obviously not released on May 1st, but in the end the box office won a vote and has more home field advantage, schedule advantage of the domestic film, "Slam Dunk" is also successful.
This is worth congratulating, and it is also worth thinking about by other domestic movies!