The best in the history of chasing light animation, I saw the real "Great Tang Wind" from "Chang'an 30,000 Li"

Text | Ling Hu Boguang

Chasing Light's new animation "Chang'an 30,000 Li" was officially released, and Bo Guangjun went to watch it for the first time when it was screened before. I personally like this animation, not only because it is quite traditional, the narrative of Chinese historical documentaries, but also the expression of Tang Dynasty romanticism.

In the end, it presents a combination of the objective heaviness of Chinese history and the romanticism of the Tang Dynasty, which makes the "people who understand" feel happy and sad, sighing and turning thousands of times.

If you think about foreign animation, there have been no such animated films in either Japanese comics or Hollywood over the years. Hollywood's history is so shallow that I have hardly seen any animation of the same kind. The most well-known anime of its kind in Japan probably comes to mind "Millennium Girl" by Toshi Ima in 2001.

The narrative is very similar, but there are no similar historical animated films in Japan in recent years. And the modern Japanese history carried by "Millennium Girl" is still completely different from the Chinese Tang Dynasty. Of course, the two animations are not the same, one is more finished in 2D style, and the other is more commercial in 3D style.

I think this is the "best" script in the chasing light animation series, after all, it is a biographical story, and it is difficult to go wrong according to history. The film is like a bland and true narrative, without fierce dramatic conflict but very complete, which is definitely a new high in Chinese commercial animation.

Those who say black and white, and what historical nihilism can be understood, but do not agree with this view.

Unrestrained is black, adaptation is historical nothingness? "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is not a crime

After this animation was screened, many people said black and white. It's really binary opposing thinking, and that kind of thinking comes at every turn.

Li Bai's image is somewhat deviant, but the overall look and feel is not annoying. Perhaps in order to highlight Li Bai's unruly, the movie molds the young Li Bai too hard into a swinging image of thousands of dollars and laughter, plus the exaggerated expression, the early stage is indeed a bit like a second-rate son, and a little crazy, but the image of Li Bai after middle age is still very close to history.

I personally think that the evaluation of the national comic "Chang'an 30,000 Li" will show a state of "polarization", mainly because most people really understand Li Bai in history? In addition to the two stereotypical symbols of "poetry fairy" and drinking romance, many people do not know much about Li Bai.

This is the same as seeing many netizens commenting that Du Fu is too lively, saying that Du Fu is very miserable, and then in history, Du Fu was an official family when he was young, and he was quite youthful when he was young, until he experienced the "Anshi Rebellion" and began to be miserable and became the "poetry saint" we are familiar with.

If people who are familiar with history have seen it, they will understand that most of the plot is actually created based on history, and it is a biographical work that respects history, so the personal space that the director and screenwriter can play is very small, but on the whole, it is still good (the feeling of historical "running account" has faded a lot).

This is like Li Bai's brilliant look when he was a teenager but had no way to vote for officials, to his fame in middle age to the proudness of life in the hall (but officialdom never worked), and then immediately after being ostracized by bureaucrats and frustrated in life, otherwise he would not be able to write masterpieces in the middle and late stages and will enter the wine.

In the end, running to serve as a staff member of King Yong was even more naïve, although Li Bai was angry, but if it were not for the naïve political level, which caused him to be unhappy in the officialdom, he would not have been forced to write so many famous articles that despised the powerful and complained, which was the same as Su Shi and Xin abandoned his illness.

If you want to say that the animation is completely in line with history, it is impossible, but now such an adaptation still gives us a glimpse of a corner of Li Bai in history. If this adaptation is not acceptable, then don't engage in Chinese historical themes. After all, only the so-called positive in the eyes of a very small number of people, other historical facts can not show what else to shoot.

Li Bai is the deputy, and Gao Shi has become the protagonist? This is the magic stroke of "Chang'an 30,000 Li"

I like the role of Gao Shi very much, from the plot setting, character setting to modeling, I think he is very attractive, and as the plot goes on, he has more and more texture that has time to precipitate. The blend of poetry and plot is not awkward, but it cannot be said to be very subtle, the film expresses a very pure friendship and family and country conditions, there is no mess, and overall flaws are not hidden.

I don't think it's a film made specifically for children, if I think it's just a poetry education film, I think it's an insult to it, and the theme it wants to convey is of course the importance of cultural inheritance to the Chinese nation.

For example, at the end, Gao Shi talked about the significance of poetry to the Yellow Crane Tower and Chang'an, but more importantly, it shows how the lives of two talented and low-status people with martial arts struggled in the context of the Tang Dynasty, and the film is valuable is the objective narrative perspective, it itself does not evaluate Li Bai Gaoshi which is more worth learning, it allows the audience to experience and judge by themselves.

Many people on the Internet think that Gao Shi is "resolute and almost benevolent", insisting on his original intention of reviving the family business, and finally sealing the prime minister is bullish, and then Li Bai became an anti-king aide like a crazy fool, and finally almost killed is really brainless.

But there are still people who think that the naïve and naïve Li Bai cast a contemptuous gaze at the era that restricted and excluded him everywhere is also a kind of heroism. As Gao Shi said: "You are an immortal, and you want to go back to heaven." I am a man of the world, and I am in the world. "There is no absolute standard of success, living your life is a success.

And I think this movie is to use historicism and romanticism to collide, use historicism to show why the Tang Dynasty declined, and then use romanticism to show why the Tang Dynasty was prosperous. The prosperity of the Great Tang is in the means of collapsing in the high-level of the Great Tang Dynasty, and the whole society does not reuse talents like Gao Shi and cultivates self-respect.

From my own observations, the vast majority of people who have bad reviews of movies inexplicably imply the same point of view: Gao Shi is not worthy of being the absolute protagonist of the movie. For this reason, they intentionally or unintentionally ignored Gao Shi's emotional expression in the play in film reviews, and refused to understand the film from Gao Shi's perspective.

Instead, Li Bai, the Tang Dynasty, and other contents are used as the benchmark for the narrative, thus drawing absurd critical conclusions.

I don't know where this view came from, but it seems that many people all think unanimously: Li Bai should be the protagonist, he should tell Li Bai's story, and why is this? Is it not possible to use Gao Shi's perspective and Li Baihuiying, and then reflect the Great Tang?

Many people don't realize what "Chang'an 30,000 Li" means for domestic animation

Finally, as a media person from the perspective of the development of the film and television industry, talking about his thoughts on the domestic animation "Chang'an 30,000 Li" may give some reference to people who have not seen this movie.

I think "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is really good, this movie picks people, like history or poetry and song should be easy to get what chasing light wants to talk about this time, this movie is slow and hot, more praise should be popular in the later stage.

As for the movie picture, first of all, the three-dimensional animation of Disney DreamWorks and other studios in Europe and the United States itself started early, so whether domestic Japan or any other country three-dimensional animation wants to do stylization, it is inevitable that there will be the shadow of European and American three-dimensional animation, but in fact, for people like me who watch three-dimensional animation all day long, the rendering of "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is very restrained and soft, which is very different from the pursuit of exaggerated and colorful color style of European and American three-dimensional animation.

I think this rendering is very comfortable, for non-industry audiences who don't understand these things can not see the difference, this is a normal thing, before I learned the game can not tell the difference between European and American and domestic 3D animation.

Secondly, the character model of Chasing Light this time is imitation of Tang Figurines, that Tang maid is small eyes and round face, long and strong upper body, short legs, the closest should be the character art of the cartoon "The Legend of Nezha" we watched when we were children, it is said that this is the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty, but it does not conform to the aesthetics of modern people.

Therefore, I think that character modeling is ugly, this is not a foreign and domestic problem, like the character modeling in "Despicable Me" I have always felt very ugly, and I think if you insist on modeling according to Tang Maid, it can be more handsome and beautiful.

Finally, let's talk about the story again, this time the script really picks the audience, who likes history and poetry and songs, or those with strong empathy should like this movie, and it is a film that needs to be calmed down to watch seriously and feel seriously. For these insensual ones, just get used to watching fast-paced popcorn movies, you don't have to watch it, or be prepared to sleep for two and a half hours.

But there is a breakthrough in this subject matter and aesthetics, and attempts are made to express historicist and romantic animation. As mentioned at the beginning, you can't find a few such animations in the world now. Even if you don't like this animation, such a breakthrough for domestic animation, exploration and trying to establish a new style of work, do not need your support and encouragement, at least not so hat-critical.

After all, domestic animation always scolds for not making a breakthrough when filming mythological topics, and those who have breakthroughs scold in a different way, and pass.

3 hours long, the story plot is too obscure, chasing the light of the new work box office can not be good

First, the duration of this animation is indeed too long, the film I watched was put in more than an hour and parents took their children out, these people may not be specifically watching this movie, most of them are with children, may see that it is an animation and bring their own children to see it.

In this way, this leads to the next problem for the moviegoers.

The second is that children will feel profound when they watch this movie, because there is too much historical knowledge and too profound life opportunities; In addition to reciting poems, I think they are still difficult to understand. And ordinary adults may not be able to GET, after all, not everyone is a history fan, so familiar and even interested in the Tang Dynasty.

They will find this movie incomprehensible to the point of being as plain as water, but they don't know what they are acting. This leads to the box office of this movie with children with parents, and it is likely to be gone.

Third, there are still quite a lot of movie battle scenes, but after all, it is a historical drama, plus the length is too long. In addition to the fight scenes, the war scene is either skipped with a few pictures or a shot, or the army charge, or the squad battle contact is over.

This is like a clip of a poem sung out of a movie, and I think most ordinary domestic audiences may not be used to this way and feel embarrassed. There may even be bridges like Li Bai and other drinking eight immortals drinking wine and chanting poetry and dancing, some parents will pop up the eight proverbs of current Chinese culture: teach bad children, the influence is not good——

In the end, only animation fans and history fans remain, and history fans said at the beginning that they may pick and choose based on history.