From 600 million to 1.5 billion, from reciting poetry to tears? "Chang'an 30,000 Li" has become a "national comic benchmark"

Text | Ling Hu Boguang

The film market in 2023 is quite interesting, because there is too much backlog of films due to the "epidemic". As a result, from the Spring Festival file, the May 1st file, and now the summer file is a bunch of film fights. In addition, the overall situation of Hollywood movies in the domestic market this year is not good, and the summer file does not restrict the introduction of Hollywood blockbusters.

This led to a bunch of domestic films and a bunch of Hollywood blockbusters to fight, and as a result, domestic films won a big victory.

Among them, there are three movies in the first half of the summer file that are very interesting, that is, they have achieved a reverse decline (that is, a contrarian growth) at the box office, respectively, the box office of "Disappearing Her" at the beginning predicted about 2 billion, and the result broke out against the trend to 3.3 billion now; Wang Baoqiang's "In the Octagon Cage" predicted that the box office would be more than 1 billion points, and now it has bucked the trend to grow to about 2 billion.

Many people in the domestic animation "Chang'an 30,000 Li" are even more optimistic, first, the box office of animation works before chasing the light is about 500 million, and the box office will be similar under normal circumstances. At the same time, this animated film is more than three hours long, and the children are afraid that it is difficult to sit still, and the forecast and box office trend at the beginning are also around 600 million.

As a result, I never expected that "Chang'an 30,000 Li" was of excellent quality and had a bursting reputation. began to appear to have no sense of existence in a number of blockbusters, but surpassed "Disappearing Her" with a super high reputation, beat "In the Octagon Cage", and recently became the champion of the single-day box office list.

Now the final prediction box office has also reached 1.5 billion, this year is simply a year of counterattack of Chinese film and television dramas.

Children recite poems, adults burst into tears? Is "Chang'an 30,000 Li" a good animation?

I saw that many people on the Internet said that this animation counterattacked at the box office, and the reputation was good because the history of the Tang Dynasty was very exciting, and the character archetypes were rich in experience. So the question is, how many classics have been filmed in the history of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai and Du Fu's film and television works? In addition, some people say that the movie, like the running account, has no focus and ups and downs, and is all supported by the picture.

Now that the box office is so high, it may be that parents take their children to watch movies during the summer vacation to learn Tang poetry?

This typical is not understanding the script, this kind of chronicle reflects the film of historical events, said that many people may not believe, "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is already a very good script of the kind of work, Jinmin has an animation called "Millennium Actress", including the classic American movie "Forrest Gump" is also a similar narrative, of course, their scripts are better.

But whether it's "Millennium Girl" or "Forrest Gump", they just have the power to hit Japan and ordinary people in the United States at that time. You want to say that the script of "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is also a running account, but this water is not the water in my faucet, it is the water of "the water of the Yellow River from the sky", he has the power to hit the heart.

This kind of narrative chronicle film is generally called biographical epics.

The script of "Chang'an 30,000 Li" has done a very good job in character shaping, emotional emotions, correspondence between characters and historical events, opportunities in different eras of life and Chinese culture. If you insist on the paragraph where Gao Shi returns to his hometown in the middle of the question, the narrative is a bit lengthy.

This film takes Gao Shi and Li Bai as the protagonists, from the youth meeting and acquaintance, to Gao Shi Chang'an hitting a wall, to the first wave of the climax of Yangzhou's encounter with Li Bai's trip, all of which are followed by such a narrative structure. Character growth, historical events, emotional collisions, dramatic conflicts, and finally the investigation of eunuchs and war foreshadowing, Li Bai and Gao Shi's servant skills are all filled in.

If you look at it from the perspective of the script, "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is already very mature, and even has an epic image.

Here is not from the perspective of the script, but also from the perspective of history. This movie has a high box office, in addition to children to recite Tang poems, I believe many adult audiences will also be very moved to watch it, so why is this?

Adults look at life? Why "Chang'an 30,000 Li" makes people cry

For adult audiences, many scenes and scenes in this film are very emotional, as an adult, I actually have a deep feeling for the collision of two different outlooks on life and values between Gao Shi and Li Bai, no matter how sloppy and downtrodden they are, people must always have ideals, Gao Shi is like this, so is Li Bai.

Gao Shi is a mentality of entering the WTO, I think he is more like a group of people in our modern life, the years have smoothed the edges, but still do not forget the ideal in the heart, Gao Shi is very clear about what he wants and wants to do, so he has a firm goal, I think this is also the attitude to life that should be had.

Many people feel that this animation may not portray Li Bai very well, and there is even a black and white statement. Because the movie gives us the feeling that he is more like a college student who has just graduated, this is good to try, when he encounters a setback, he stops halfway, although he is indeed talented, but in the end he has achieved nothing in the workplace.

The maid asked Gao Shi why he did not include Du Fu's poems, but Gao Shi did not answer directly, thinking from a thicker black perspective, Gao Shi's position was not too suitable to accept Du Fu's poems. Moreover, in history, Du Fu's poems were not more respected until after the Middle Tang Dynasty.

The place names that appear more often in the whole movie are three places, Chang'an, Yellow Crane Tower and Yangzhou.

And in the movie, Yangzhou appeared earlier than Chang'an, in fact, there are still some problems in the movie, the Anshi Rebellion has little impact on Yangzhou, and the Yongwang Rebellion is also a short time, and Yangzhou has not been seriously damaged. Otherwise, Du Mu would not still be writing "Spring Breeze Ten Li Yangzhou Road".

If Bai Juyi faced a ruined Yangzhou, he couldn't think of such an ancient famous sentence as "a thousand sails pass by the side of the sinking boat, and ten thousand wood springs in front of the sick tree". However, the animation is still very realistic, Yangzhou's Qiling Tower, Big Hongqiao, and Twenty-Four Bridges all appear in this movie.

This animated film takes a more adult approach, showing the two poets in the technique of light and dark lines. There is a plot, there are characters, there are poems, there are connotations. Adults look at it with emotion, but children probably can't see it. It's not an adult with a certain background in appreciating poetry, and this estimate is just swallowing dates.

In that romantic era, Li Bai's unruly appearance could be accepted, forgiven, and praised, showing an atmosphere. Watching this film, it is an open-minded and proud person! If you have to compete in the movie environment, I think this audience is not worthy of such a movie.

Children recite Tang poems to make people scold? "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is really good

Here is another talk about the problem of children reciting Tang poems, I think watching this movie and hearing children reciting poetry is precisely the best BGM to appreciate this movie. Because of its historical significance, the educational significance is relatively strong, but it also contains a relatively broad range of humanistic colors.

For example, the bumpy encounters of shaping characters, the encounters of Huai Cai, this is a more realistic warning.

To say that it is misanthropy is rather the ultimate pursuit of self-rights, so that it is natural to ignore the rights of others in public.

Of course, it is definitely not right to disturb others in public, after all, not everyone likes to watch children recite Tang poems. In fact, it is not to be disgusted, but to pursue his right to watch movies to the extreme. Are children disgusted by such extremely egoistic egoists?

In the final analysis, this is to consolidate one's own rights at the extreme while ignoring the rights of others, thus displaying a sense of prejudiced disgust. In recent years, there have been countless similar public incidents, and this time it has stepped on the special group of children. This time the movie scene is typical of the combination of parents and children, and it is impossible to avoid it.

I think it's a good thing that children can participate in memorization, and I don't get angry at all because there are children reciting poems in this movie theater, but I feel that the purpose of the movie has been achieved. Isn't the original intention of the film creation to use poetry to resonate with everyone, recall the gorgeous era of the Tang Dynasty, and feel the grand ambition and pride of Li Gao and the two of Li Gao's "Dapeng in one day with the same wind and soaring to 90,000 li"?

Let people feel this kind of poetry, can resonate, isn't it what the director pursues? It's just that it may be adults or children.

Imperfect, controversial adaptation of history? Chinese animation needs "Chang'an 30,000 Li"

"Chang'an 30,000 Li" really achieved the propaganda of a certain animation at the beginning: taking history as the bone and art as the wing.

The main line of this movie is to raise the banner of the story, lead to the past with the present of the military and political double crisis, the past of Gao Shi, and then lead Li Bai with Gao Shi, lead Chang'an with Li Bai, Chang'an in the movie is not a location, not a background, not a slogan, it is a petri dish of time, it is the rise and fall of history, the characters enter and exit several times in Chang'an, and the relationship is always changing.

When he was young, he entered Chang'an, his life was lost and he entered Chang'an, he entered Chang'an proudly, and the world entered Chang'an in chaos, and finally only Gao Shi was left, not in Chang'an to enter Chang'an. It was not Li Bai who supported the flag with his life, but Gao Shi.

There is Li Bai's Sheng Tang The more romantic and exciting, and the more bitter and sad the historical reality represented by Gao Shi, and all this is actually traceable, as early as more than thirty years ago, when Gao Shi first came to Chang'an, he saw the foreshadowing left by the past for the future.

Therefore, when Li Bai was most proud and joyful in the middle of the movie, Gao Shi left Chang'an hastily with only one glance, and voluntarily gave up the opportunity to follow his best friend to climb the high branch. Only those who can't melt into Chang'an can see it clearly, and such people can save Chang'an. But why save Chang'an? Since there was an early crack between its bricks and tiles, wouldn't it be right to let it collapse and rot?

Because Chang'an is really worth saving, because the prosperous Tang Dynasty is worth remembering and lamenting every Chinese.

At the end of the movie, Li Bai was educated by Gao Shi's book children, as if he had lived in vain in this life, but he laughed heartily with Li Bai's "The apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the light boat has passed through ten thousand mountains", and it is really romantic when sailing forward, this is the cuteness and innocence of heavenly people, this is the romance of the immortals.

The threshold of this animation actually lies in the age and experience of the viewer, which is a gorgeous picture in the eyes of children, the characters in the textbook are alive, and the Tang poems they have memorized, in the eyes of middle-aged people, it is the gap between ideal and reality, and it is the experience of falling down and getting up again and again.

But if you're a guy in his early twenties, he has neither exciting business scenes, nor tear-jerking emotional expressions, neither cool special effects nor the aura of the protagonist against the sky, or even a clear output of mainstream values. He is more like a glass of spring, the level is light and clear, but it is worth savoring.

China needs such animations, and it also needs such movies, hoping for more "Chang'an 30,000 Li".