The real "Summer Show" kicks off tonight:
Taobao ticket real-time "want to see the list", first; Douban annual theater new film "want to see" data, the top three.
The data isn't the most tossed for.
Sir was even happier to see that he had returned after two years.
Guoman is no longer a "dark horse"——
White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery
After the release of the work 19 years ago, a joke from netizens has been circulated to this day:
"The inferior online game you are talking about is not the box office champion of this year's animated films."
Jokes come true.
"White Snake: Origins" finally earned 460 million box office, winning the national comic box office champion that year, until it was surpassed by "Nezha" 6 months later.
Note that "White Snake" was released in January that year, which was an absolute off-season before the Spring Festival.
Why can it be a dark horse?
A word in "love".
In the past, most of the national comics took the hot-blooded, tough style, and the sword of "White Snake" was sideways, sincere sisterhood, and a soft Chinese style, which was called a silky slippery.
Another word, in "dare".
Escorted by the solid production of the light-chasing animation, "White Snake" dares to write a new chapter on the classic text, with a sharp style and a big scene.
To have demons and demons, to burn and burn.
The sequel is expected to be full.
Can it still be "black" to the end?
One-sentence summary:
Open "White Snake 2" and you will be able to see it with the naked eye to upgrade it into a real "national comic benchmark".
No nonsense, Sir still captures the key words and slowly picks them up for you.
01
Hijack
The sequel looks first and foremost about novelty.
White Snake to Green Snake, subtitled from "Origin" to "Robbery".
Notice the difference between this word.
This means that Whitesnake 2 will enter a new setting and open up a new and larger universe.
What do you mean?
The whole game of chess has been played since this year's Spring Festival.
Also produced by the light-chasing animation, the Easter egg at the end of "New God List: Nezha Reborn", the green snake appeared.
One shot is reminiscent:
The green snake woke up in the haze and actually traveled through the modern urban jungle...
The Easter egg reveals a lot of information.
One, the worldview upgrades.
Qingbai shuangshu will take the lead in creating a "new legend universe" that chases light.
So we saw the trailer.
Some of the doomsday wind scenes that appear in Whitesnake 2 are not "change for change", but the original setting.
"Dependent arising" is still a tentative creation.
The main line explains the greatness of human desire in ancient time and space, and at the end, five hundred years later, Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing meet Xu Xian in the West Lake, and the traditional story of "The Legend of the White Snake" begins.
But at this time, the three people in the play have been reborn and are the characters of the new legend.
Second, role upgrades.
"White Snake 2" begins with a direct climax, without hiding the pride.
The first scene is the day of the sting —
Dou Fa Hai, however, Xiao Bai was town Leifeng Pagoda.
It's the highlight and the tone for the story.
The green snake drama intensified.
The previous work was the triangular balance of power of white snake, Xu Xian and green snake, and now focuses on the sisterhood of white snake and green snake.
In particular, the change of the green snake is a major attraction.
The functionality is greatly weakened, and the human flavor is stronger.
Or more boldly —
This serpentine girl is the real protagonist of Whitesnake 2.
02
Shura
If there is a new protagonist, there must be a new stage.
The stage of "White Snake 2" is also one of the biggest highlights of the whole film, and the almost original setting.
Shura City.
It was the modern city that made Xiao Qing hair baffled, the other world that Xiao Qing fell into after the failure of the Fahai Fighting Method.
Is this a little green adventure in the modern city?
No, no, no.
Sir once had the illusion of watching Attack on Titan while watching the movie.
i.e. -
What you see may always be only 1% of the total.
For example, do you think Thule City is a city?
Actually it looks like this:
The giant snake-like circular terrain not only corresponds to the protagonist green snake, but also alludes to the cyclical trapping of fate in the other world.
Do you think that Shura City is a high-rise building, a modern city?
Take two more steps --
There is a mixture of ancient, medieval, modern, modern and modern architectural mixtures of various periods and regions.
You think that's the end of it?
Stay a few more days --
The whole city of Shura, all the buildings, the landforms.
It will continue to destroy and rebuild with the passage of time, and there is no trace of change.
In such a Shuluo City, who are the people in it?
The trailer has spoiled some of them:
Those who come to Shuluo City are all unwilling people.
But in the movie, for this setting, a code was added -
The suffering people in Shura City come from all dynasties, histories, countries, the world...
There are people, there are demons, there are minotaurs, there are locha demons.
They even form gangs and kill each other.
The three teachings and nine streams, the six reincarnations, will all come here.
What is the nature of unwillingness?
It is resentment, it is desire, it is greed, anger, and delusion.
In other words, what is hidden here is the desire of the whole universe, like the hell of Shura, which goes on and on and
Only in and out, didn't Shuluo City already burst out?
Pay attention to another line.
From your favorite Bao Qing Fang:
Hijack up and down
It is the breath and inhalation of this Shura City
Right.
You're bold to guess —
This City of Shura is alive.
Each calamity is a nirvana in Shuluo City, and it is also a collective annihilation of the people in the city.
To die in Shura City is to be truly dead, and the soul is scattered.
Not to mention fahai's off-site intervention —
So, in the eyes of director Wong Ka Kang.
Shura City is the "protagonist" of the core of "White Snake 2":
"Shura City" is the core of the film's story, and how to make it believable became the most difficult part of the production of "Green Snake Robbery".
Have to say.
The display of Shura Castle in the movie makes the visual style of the "White Snake" series almost 360° twisted.
The previous work is plain and elegant Chinese style.
The new work is a cold weapon that is really fierce.
In particular, the city makes the film appear an "X factor".
The people here will be stripped of all spells.
Xiaoqing had to learn to use knives, guns and sticks and use guns and ammunition to defend herself like ordinary people.
The struggle between desires, the whole time bloody, naked.
03
Obsession
Of course, no matter how cool the setting is, no matter how big the worldview is.
The background of the "White Snake" series is still emotion.
The emotions of ordinary people.
This is also the reason why White Snake 2 uses Green Snake as the "protagonist":
Compared with the earth-shattering love between white snake and Xu Xian, the sisters and Fahai's earth-shaking fighting method.
The obsession of the green snake is more direct and pure.
Closer to "us".
The source of the "robbery" of the green snake is very simple:
Escape from Shura City and rescue her sister.
Her commitment to the people she loves is brutal:
I can die for you.
In order to prove the innocence of the sister, what a thousand years of cultivation, what status and fame.
No, I guarantee it with my life.
The source of this power has actually been the most important emotional vein in the story of "The Legend of the White Snake" other than love.
The love complex of the green and white snake.
This is something that was not originally thought of in a strange novel like "Three Words and Two Beats", and it can even be said that it is a "conspiracy" between modern creation and the audience.
The classic drama "The Legend of the New White Lady", the casting was successful, Xiaoqing's cleverness became the audience's white moonlight, and the image of "loyal servant" was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
And the old monster Xu Ke.
Adapted from the novel "Green Snake" by Li Bihua, the "demon girl" of the literary world, it is necessary to visualize a "demon qi" and get the help of wang zuxian and Maggie Cheung.
What is a "demon"?
Of course, it is not only the wind and bones that are within sight, but also the lust that is flamboyant.
Both Li Bihua and Xu Ke mentioned one point:
Some "demons" are nothing more than normal, repressed and stigmatized human nature.
This is the characteristic of the green snake -
She is not inhumane, she is just more digging and more "shaft" than everyone else.
You say that there are sentient beings in the human world, but what is love?
It's ridiculous, none of you have figured it out, and when you figure it out, maybe I'll come back?
She questions "human feelings" precisely to yearn for true feelings.
She is trapped in human ethics, which is precisely a more inclusive human nature.
This is the paradox that Tsui Ke constructed in 1993:
The more human, the more "demon" the smell.
Coming to the summer of 2021, Whitesnake 2 takes it a step further.
It is time for the "green snake" to take the new stage and become the "big heroine" who influences more people.
04
shortcut
It is easy for all people to get lost in "obsession".
How does the green snake get rid of it?
The movie gives a very crucial prop: the mask.
When Xiao Qing first came to Shuluo City, she was in danger, and a masked teenager saved her.
Sir's true identity under the mask of the masked teenager, Sir, is not a spoiler, but this is the most critical puzzle in "Green Snake Robbery".
In Shura City, whether it is to choose sides or struggle to survive, everyone is looking for an answer.
Who are you?
Do you live for attachment or fight for yourself?
The difference is.
The former is easy to take shortcuts.
Just like Xiao Qing, who had just fallen into Shuluo City.
She encountered two "shortcuts":
At first, she hates Xu Xian's weakness and inability to protect her sister, so she craves more powerful forces to protect herself, such as Sima and the masked boy in the movie.
This is a shortcut to exhaustion.
Later, she came across an exit in Shura City.
"No pool" -
Jump into the pool, let go of obsession, avoid disaster, and escape the shortcut of Shura City.
It's about the shortcut to "letting go".
Isn't that tempting?
Jumping down can be saved from suffering, a hundred.
Are you sure?
Pay attention to the artistic design of wuchi, those hands that pull the body, is not it the malice of dragging people into the water and colluding with the dirt?
What is cleansed without a pool is not obsession, but human nature.
What do the two shortcuts add up?
The dilemma faced by Xiaoqing.
In a sense, it is also the common dilemma of all women, even young people, at present.
On the one hand, there is the world that no one can trust, and on the other hand, it is the temptation to persuade you to take the convenient path.
How to choose?
Everyone has their own choices.
The key is to see the "Shura City" you are in.
The inner world that is constantly being filled, the immersive adult society.
Later generations called the battlefield the Shuluo Field, and life was a protracted, lonely confrontation.
This is also why Sir said that "White Snake 2" is a real "benchmark for national comics".
It tells the story of Xiaoqing's battle of kicking the wind and stepping on the rain.
It is dedicated.
It's you, it's me.
It is countless ordinary people who have no change of morale and cherish their true feelings.
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