"I am completely intoxicated with your fragrance."
Recently, there are two animated movies "Spring Is Short, Girls Go Forward!" " and "Song of Dew Announcing the Dawn" freshly landed on Station B.
Both works are from the hands of an animation director, and the current Douban score is more than 8 points.
Xia BB has long been concerned about these two works, and there are schedules at this year's film festival, but unfortunately the tickets are too difficult to grab (resentment face).
A ticket is hard to find and at the same time the praise is overwhelming. After the screening of "Spring Supper", the entire audience stood up and applauded, and some people said that this was the most surprising work of the whole Shanghai Film Festival.
After watching "Spring Supper", the most important thing I want to ask is where to drink "pseudo-electric brandy!" ”
After the last "Mental Game" that cooled over flying marijuana, this is director Masaaki Yuasa's second foray into the film industry after 13 years, bringing two new works with great style, which is exciting.
Although Yuasa is far less famous than Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai, he is a god-like being in the eyes of fans, which can be found in the list of his Douban works.
The number of people watching is not large, but the ratings are quite high▼
The reason why the new work "Spring Supper" is popular is largely due to the original work.
The original author, Noboru Morimi, won the 3rd place in the Japan Bookstore Award for "The Family with a Roof" and is a best-selling author.
The most well-known Yuasa work" is also adapted from the original work of Morimi.
And other works, why is there a small audience?
A big reason is Yuasa's "unacceptable" style of painting, which is like an effect of food, which determines whether some viewers will choose to eat it.
The painting style is exquisite, the beautiful girl has long legs and a thin waist, and her eyes are shining like stardust, no matter whether the back collapses, it can still deceive people.
▲ The money is spent on the heroine's painting
Therefore, there are many animation masterpieces that have been rejected by the public because of the curious or non-mainstream painting style, and among them there must be Yuasa's works, who may be the one who has been walking on the "niche" with his own peculiar and even a little "disgusting" painting style for ten years.
In the "Ping Pong" with the highest score on Douban, it is not a self-selling boast by Xia BB, and from the evaluation of all aspects, it is undoubtedly a divine work.
Of course, from the beginning, it was like this
▲ If you want to be beautiful, you can't draw nostrils
And this style of painting keeps people away from the thousands of miles away.
▲I feel very touched when I get used to it
However, please be sure to stick to the end of the first episode, the appearance of the Chinese player Kong Wenge will make you interested!
Kong Wenge, as a player in the Chinese delegation, was sent to Japan for making a mistake.
Skinny camels are bigger than horses, and defeated Chinese players can still torture them to death in Japan. At the end of the first sentence, the mouth cannon of Kong Wenge also became a famous line that everyone opened their mouths.
"Your backhand is weak, your forehand is not refined, your steps are loose, your reaction is sluggish, none of your movements are decent, do you still want to compete with me on the same stage?" Make your dreams! ”
▲ The voice actor is Chinese Wen Ye star, and it is rare to hear such a standard Chinese in the Japanese manga
Although, in a Japanese animation, our friend Kong Wenge did not hang all the way, the animation's in-depth exposition of this character makes him not just a character who serves the plot and a small boss that the protagonist brushes off on the way to growth, but also a "person" who can trigger resonance and affect the audience's emotions.
This is also the special place of the sport of "Table Tennis", the focus is never on the winning or losing of the game, the competition of the score, the sweat of youth, and the pace of the devil.
▲In recent years, sports have become more and more magical
Taking Kong Wenge as an example, he was arrogant and arrogant all the way in the early stages, and his self-confidence was due to his growth in a ping-pong country, after arduous training and standardized management.
After being sent to Japan, he knew he was "far from enough." Because in China, a place full of talents, talent is not enough to reach the top.
Later, in the face of many excellent players in Japan, Kong Wenge also realized more about the limits of his ability. And how he let go of his nostalgia and put the ping-pong ball down from the utilitarian position is the focus of this character.
▲ Take your mother over for Christmas and eat the ravioli by hand
Not only Kong Wenge, but even passers-by characters have their own inner dramas, which make people have real resonance.
A heart-wrenching and funny supporting character who has no talent but simply loves ping-pong
It is a pity to miss such a good work just because of the style of painting.
Not to mention that the visual effect of the picture exploded, and the frame rate also exploded. Each screen has a lot of information.
Bi Gan, the director of "Roadside Picnic", said: Masaaki Yuasa is completely genius. Genius is that you can never keep up with his rhythm.
That amazingly fast-speaking, huge amount of information "Four Stacks and a Half Mythical Series", not pressing the pause button a few times will really miss a lot of information.
@★☆☆☆☆☆: What the hell is this, is this what people see, why is the speed of speech so fast and gushing can be watched for several episodes in a row I was spartan and suddenly found that I was also a shaky M trapped in it and could not stop for a day without looking uncomfortable, but it was over I should do what I should do...
Of course, only the speed of speech is a genius, and in Yuasa's works, many pictures can express the psychology of the characters, which is also a point of Yuasa's rather genius, figurative of abstract concepts.
This picture intuitively shows the inner pressure of Kong Wenge
"Whenever I see the surface, something will come out of my heart, prompting me to change, is it not okay to do something like this, so what about this?" Yuasa has always created with this consciousness.
For example, the picture depicted in "Spring Supper" when the girl drinks the fine wine "pseudo-electric brandy", not only the expression, but also the use of "butterflies flying around her, the space distortion behind her is elongated", such a convincing and attractive picture.
Of course, you would say that this is seen a lot in "Chinese Little Boss" or "Spirit of the Eater".
So what about this passage —
The ordinary watches of young girls and the watches of the elderly who run fast use concrete pictures to express the abstract concept that the time of the elderly is getting faster and faster, and time is like an arrow.
Or when people fall in love, their minds are full of their sweethearts, and Yuasa naturally presents the chaotic thoughts of love on the picture.
▲From "Beast Claw"
Back to the painting style, in fact, Xia BB, who has read countless films, accepted Yuasa's "ugly" painting style at the beginning, because it was really cool!
Seeing more and more details to improve, more and more close to the real exquisite painting will also be aesthetic fatigue.
▲When the wallpaper is still excellent
The animation still depends on the effect of the picture after it moves, and Yuasa's charm is all in this "movement".
"Seahorse", Yuasa's masterpiece. If you watch stills, a children's cartoon suitable for the whole family to watch together.
But the moment the picture moves, it is not so simple.
Wide-angle lens, sports background, typical Yuasa▼
The storyboard of "Chaos Samurai" is Hiroyuki Imaishi, the original painting is Masaaki Yuasa, and the two neurotics have added ten tons of psychedelic to this scene. The characters flew off on a field of lit marijuana.
▲ Too cool!
Yuasa's animation style is described by the word "wild", "He pays attention to lines, likes wide angles, stretches, twists, and often uses a low to dusty elevation angle." ”
It's hard to know how Yuasa developed this unique style, he debuted in children's animation, and Yuasa at that time had extremely simplified, childlike brushstrokes.
▲ Yuasa participated in a total of 11 theatrical versions of "Crayon Shin-chan", and he had a copy of the early theater version of the God Paintings
But at the same time, in order to make up for the overly simple and out-of-shape picture, he uses wild, creative action scenes and psychedelic imagery to achieve the effect he wants.
▲ "Welcome to the Universe Show", the scene of psychedelic DJ
The scene of this song and dance in "Cherry Maruko: My Favorite Song" was directed by Yuasa throughout the process, and you can see his rich and interesting inspiration, and these changing shooting angles, which are difficult to see in ordinary Japanese animation, have attracted attention in the industry.
Later, his first theatrical animation "Mental Game" was released, and various awards were won, and the value of Masaaki Yuasa was truly discovered.
It's really cool to fly marijuana▼
▲A lot of realistic pictures are integrated
Of course, there is so much to say about the picture, what about the plot?
In fact, with such a cool picture expression as above, for Xia BB, the plot is secondary. Yuasa's works do not have a complex worldview, complex character relationships, and everything is driven by imagination, just like his wild painting style.
Take the industry-shattering "Mind Game" as an example, the male protagonist loser cartoonist was shot from the chrysanthemum in the opening 20 minutes and died.
After that, he restarted his life and made the opposite choice, killing the underworld and dying with the goddess (the belly of the whale).
It seems that I can't understand the plot, after all, every moment is super unfolding.
In the end, it is only about the general truth of chicken soup for the soul that "every life is its own choice, and there are different wonderful things".
But Yuasa's use of such a surreal, illogical story to achieve it is breathtaking.
As spectators, we just have to give Yuasa the time and let him take us to cool.
▲ Have you ever seen such a cool xx scene?
Other themes such as animal love, memory storage, body trading, are very different.
Therefore, many people say that only the original work of Morimi can eat Yuasa, at least the story itself is drawn out enough to be attractive enough to understand, if you let Yuasa play alone, you definitely don't know where to fly.
Yuasa's own style was destined to be a god only among a small number of people.
In the industry, Yuasa is known as a ghost talent, and he is one of the most talented and creative people in the world in the animation industry today.
Certification from Hayao Miyazaki▼
Yuasa used crowdfunding sites to raise funds from fans to create animated shorts, raising a total of $200,000 to produce a 13-minute short film "Romeo and Juliet of Wrestling".
Unknown people look at this animation and think "$200,000 you show me this?" ”
Others agreed that this was the funniest short film of 2013 and was honored to be part of the crowdfunding.
▲ There are not many people watching, and they can't tear it up
As a fan, Xia BB has the idea of "if you don't understand his good, don't look at it", but I hope that more people can accept things outside the mainstream, understand these creative and interesting animations, and know that Japanese animation is not only beautiful girls who control robots and high school students who save the earth.
The new work "Song of Dew That Announces the Dawn" marks Yuasa's ambition to march into the mass market, and it is necessary to continue to pay attention to the results, after all, Yuasa is busy next.
▲ Ghibli-style Yuasa
The adult-to-TV animation "Demon Man" in collaboration with Netflix will be seen next year. Yuasa revealed that he is also planning to make a romance film, or some daily work.
▲ Super looking forward to "Demon Man"
Gossip, Morimi Sensei's early trilogy, the only remaining "Tower of the Sun" that has not been adapted may also be in production.
In short, it is always right to expect such a genius of inspiration and creativity to bring us something.
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