8.0, epic masterpiece, is "Chang'an 30,000 Li" a bad movie?

Chasing the light has changed again.

There is no longer only a picture, no story, and "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is the best proof.

"Chang'an 30,000 Li" first comes into view, which is naturally quite a Chinese school painting style.

The Danqing ink, which blends the 3D landscape next to the Yellow Crane Tower with the 2D painting style when writing and interpreting poetry, integrates the unique beautiful and elegant artistic style and expression of ink painting, making the film present a poetic beauty.

And with the help of the ink color of the light virtual reality to express the object, highlighting the aesthetics of "between the like and the unlike", the pen and ink taste, artistic conception, poetry and painting are integrated into every picture, which is an aesthetic enjoyment.

There is also the beautiful scenery of Chang'an and Jiangnan in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

The aestheticism in it does not seem flashy at all, but complements each other, and it shows the ambition of Li Bai and Gao Shi.

The vast land of China is full of good mountains and waters, but there is no place to stay for them, and the mountains and waters and pavilions can be seen everywhere, but they are not beautiful because of them.

This beauty is not only reflected in the scenery, the action design in the film is also freehand and ethereal.

Different from realistic martial arts actions, "Chang'an 30,000 Li" highlights Yihe poetry, and several competitions in the film contain poetry.

The lake with no waves, the twilight of the grass and warblers, the bright moon and the breeze at night, and the carved jade buildings are all their backgrounds, with a long charm and full of artistic conception.

In terms of story, "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is not too much, and it was romantic at the beginning.

Li Bai and Gao Shi met when they were young, "killing one person in ten steps, leaving no line for thousands of miles", one taught the Gao family's marksmanship, the other taught sumo wrestling, and walked together to show the aspiration of Qingyun.

In the one-year contract after the separation of the Yellow Crane Tower, although "there is a scenic road in front of him, Cui Hao's inscription poem is on top", Li Bai still vowed to write a poem that surpassed the "Yellow Crane Tower".

Although Gao Shi was penniless and had no one to recommend, he still firmly believed that "there is no one to worry about the road ahead, and no one in the world knows the king", went to Chang'an, Shiling Yunzhi, and became the first rate in the world.

Soon, the two hit a wall everywhere, and romanticism was vulnerable to reality.

Gao Shi suffered from having no way to repay, Li Bai could only get drunk and enjoy, the excitement of returning to his hometown and the dashing of Yunyou were all great sorrows that could not be met in troubled times, and there was an extraordinary ambition, who knew how dizzy the temple was.

When "Chang'an 30,000 Li" was based on this, it distanced itself from the previous animation of chasing light, no longer a saliva film without nutrition, but wanted to make a more serious epic film.

In fact, the background of the Tang Dynasty and the flourishing of Tang poems can be made into a cool film and use combustion to drive the audience's emotions.

Add a variety of exciting historical stories to the animation, such as Li Bai meeting Du Fu in Luoyang, and with Gao Shi, the three people sought immortals for two years, and the style changed to road movies.

Then Li Bai Yinshi, Du Fu echoed, and Gao Shi helped, showing the unrestrained relationship between "the Son of Heaven does not come to the ship, claiming that the minister is a fairy in wine" and the CP of the three.

In this way, the publicity gimmick has been created, and the duration can be compressed to less than 120 minutes, like "Qing Yu Nian" Fan Xian reciting poems to make the audience follow the excitement, why not worry about the box office.

However, this opportunistic way is strictly deceiving the audience, not respecting the audience, so that the film is full of copper smell and cannot see the slightest bit of truth.

Fortunately, Chasing Light still wants to make an animation that can stay and promote the beauty of Chinese culture, even if some places are inconsistent with historical facts, but it is not a big problem.

After all, if the adaptation of art is no different from reality, it is no different from documentaries, and it is better to watch CCTV's documentaries than this, which is absolutely no different from history.

For example, Li Bai drunkenly chanted "Will Enter Wine", historically he and Cen Fuzi and Dan Qiusheng had a drinking meeting, and wrote this poem during the banquet, and Gao Shi was not present.

But in the anime, Li Bai was given gold back, went to Gao Shi's hometown with Du Fu to find him, asked him to protect the Dharma for himself, bought drunk by the river that night, and wrote "Will Enter Wine".

This adaptation is particularly well done, killing three birds with one stone.

A song "Will Enter Wine", Li Bai is no longer heroic and unruly, but unwilling, giving up and helpless after recognizing reality.

For Gao Shi, a song "Will Enter the Wine" made him wake up to the fact that romance is not permanent after all, and he can also show his ambitions as a staff member under Geshuhan's account and live up to his father's trust.

For the audience, a song "Will Enter the Wine" satisfies all the fantasies of Sheng Tang romanticism, and is also a summary of the plot of the first half, leading to the story of the second half, which has the effect of connecting the upper and lower.

It can be seen from this that chasing light is not making things up, they are doing things with their hearts.

Chasing light connects the epic of the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty with Gao Shi, and intersperses personal epics, bringing out Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Guo Ziyi and others, which essentially highlights the family and the world.

This is the big feeling of "Chang'an 30,000 Li", not to be the backyard flower of "the soldier army is half dead and alive, and the beauty is singing and dancing under the tent", but to be the naked heart of "looking at each other with white blades and blood, and the death festival has never been Gu Xun".

But "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is not perfect, and the shortcomings are obvious.

The chapter-style patchwork is not enjoyable enough, it is all to the point, not like a complete Tang epic, more like a storyteller Gao Shi telling a story, and the length of 168 minutes is obviously not enough to bear.

So it looks scattered, pulling east together, pulling west, many things are embellished but not explained, this structure, the audience is not too enjoyable to watch, but also leads to the ambiguity of the narrative focus.

However, for Chasing Light, this time it is rare to write a good script.

"Chang'an 30,000 Li" is another attempt at an epic film, and there is no blind pursuit of short and fast entertainment films with a strong commercial atmosphere, and this craftsman's heart is worth encouraging.

Those Tang poems in the film are not running accounts and empty symbols, and the appearance of each poem is just right, which is very suitable for the plot and characters, and also plays a narrative and lyrical role.

This kind of song contrasts with the slightly melancholic tone of the film with the performance technique of Yongzhi, which makes "Chang'an 30,000 Li" full of stamina, and there is a mouth full of splendid embroidery that wants to give a poem, but it is stuck in the throat due to lack of talent.

In the end, I have to borrow Li Bai and Gao Shi's poems to express my chest.

"Life must be proud, do not make the golden bottle empty against the moon, born I will be useful, thousands of gold scattered and come back", "The mountains and rivers are depressed and the extreme border soil, Hu riding by the mausoleum is mixed with wind and rain, the warrior army is half dead and alive, and the beauty is singing and dancing under the tent. ”