Five years ago, the first part of the light-chasing animation "White Snake" series "White Snake: Origin" will be familiar to everyone with the story "new wine in old bottles", it relies on the beautiful painting style and moving story, allowing the audience to appreciate the charm of the reshaping of classic legends.
Five years later, the third work in the series, "White Snake: Floating Life", will take everyone to relive the moving and continue the frontier, the film will be screened nationwide on August 3 and August 4, and will be officially released nationwide on August 10, meeting with the audience on Tanabata.
At the world premiere ceremony of "White Snake: Floating Life" held in Hangzhou Impression West Lake, the main creators of the film gathered together to share the behind-the-scenes story, as well as the singers of the ending song "Waiting for a Thousand Years" Zhao Yazhi and Ye Tong, and the singers of the theme song "Floating Life" Chen Haoyu and Chen Lijun and other guests made surprise appearances, bringing wonderful performances to the audience.
Reimagining the classics with a modern perspective
The story of "White Snake: Floating Life" inherits "White Snake: Origin", which tells the story of Xiaobai who finally found Xu Xian, the reincarnation of Ah Xuan, after 500 years, and the two reunited on the broken bridge, and tied the knot after several twists and turns.
Subsequently, Xiaobai Xiaoqing hid in the streets and alleys, and Xu Xian and his brother-in-law Li Gongfu started a lively life in the world, opening a pharmacy to treat everyone, but he didn't want something strange to happen in the city of Hangzhou. In this life-and-death catastrophe, where will Xu Xian and Xiaobai go......
In the view of directors Chen Jianxi and Li Jiakai, the film has been innovatively reshaped on the basis of "The Legend of the White Snake", "The story of the White Snake can be passed down to this day because it contains the most simple emotional values of the Chinese: love and loyalty, integrity and bravery." ”
In terms of plot, the main line of the third part is the story of the White Lady that the audience is very familiar with, such as the beautiful love of the White Lady of Xu Xian, famous scenes such as meeting on the broken bridge, boating on the West Lake, and classic plots such as Fahai collecting demons.
At the same time, the various characters also continue the tone of the previous work, and the main creator tries to reconstruct the classics through a modern perspective, such as the White Lady is more brave and persistent, Xiaoqing is more agile and agile, Xu Xian is more responsible and responsible, and finally Xu Bai's two-way love has moved countless audiences.
From Xu Xuan in "White Snake: Origin" to Xu Xian in "White Snake: Floating Life", Yang Tianxiang, the voice director and voice actor who contributed to these two roles, sighed that their biggest common denominator is fearlessness for love. "They are all very pure people, and they can be fearless and unapologetic for love."
Xiaobai's voice actor Zhang Zhe said, "I remember" is very important in this character's lines, "She has traveled through 500 years, and even gave up thousands of years of practice, and still has no regrets, and still remembers, because in this dream-like world, she got a mood that makes her regretless." ”
A new attempt to incorporate comedy elements
is somewhat different from the previous two films, "White Snake: Floating Life" also added some comedy elements, such as the amusement of the brother-in-law, Xiaoqing's blind date and other plots that made the audience smile.
In this regard, director Li Jiakai said that "White Snake · Floating Life" is a new attempt of light-chasing animation in comedy, "We feel that life is not boring, and Xiaobai's journey is not boring, and I hope the audience can experience the joy of floating life in Song Yun's market." ”
Another highlight of "White Snake: Floating Life" is that it allows people to immerse themselves in the charm of elegance and song rhyme and the beauty of natural scenery. The story of the film is set in Lin'an, Southern Song Dynasty five hundred years later, and the life style of the people of Lin'an is vividly displayed in front of the audience.
Let the audience feel the beauty of traditional culture, which is the original intention of the film's creators. Yu Zhou, President of Light Chasing Animation and also the producer of "White Snake: Floating Life", said: "Light Chasing Animation has always been committed to exploring how to better use domestic animation to present traditional Chinese culture. ”