The much-anticipated live-action version, ah, the real lion version of "The Lion King" has finally been released.
When the trailer just came out, I believe that many small partners were like the sister killer, and were brushed by this super cute little lion.
However, after brushing the new version of "The Lion King", Sister Killer is more angry than watching "Agent of the Plains" two days ago.
Cough, in order to maintain demeanor, or according to the convention, first talk about the advantages of this film:
1. Little Simba and Little Nana are super cute.
2. The special effects are extremely realistic, Hollywood's top industrial level.
3. The music is very good, especially "Hakura Matata", and childhood feelings are added to MAX.
Okay, the advantages are all said and done, now start to hit the soul of the problem-finding link.
In order to ensure fairness, we will also say three shortcomings.
01
Facially paralyzed animals
In order to match the realistic special effects, the animals in "The Lion King" returned to their original nature and no longer have an anthropomorphic expressions.
This also brings a serious problem to the film:
Animal characters that are too real can reach the expressiveness of the original version, and the appeal of the story is greatly reduced.
All the characters in the original version are extremely infectious, and every time the sister is revisited, she is eager to rush into the screen and eat bananas with Peng Peng Dingman.
In the new version, the audience is like sitting in the zoo's sightseeing bus, coldly watching the lions outside, and there is no interaction between inside and outside the screen.
No matter how soft and cute Simba was when he was a child, how handsome he was when he grew up, let the audience face paralyzed for nearly two hours, and anyone wanted to yawn.
It should be noted that this pot should not be directed by Jon Feiru.
After all, people have just talked to Spider-Man's aunt about love, and career love cannot be taken into account...
Ah no, after all, people just filmed a similar theme of "Fantasy Forest" three years ago, and the reputation is not bad, which shows that creating a sense of reality is a way out of "animal films".
At least in Jon Feiru, it is feasible.
"The Jungle Book" uses motion capture technology to ensure the realism of animals while also allowing them to have rich expressions, which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects that year.
Real bears are definitely not so expressive
However, "The Lion King" directly abandoned the motion capture technology, so that the CG animals in the film were paralyzed and returned to the original.
You know, Jon Feiru, who wrote the propositional essay this time, has absolutely no right to make such a decision for "The Lion King".
The one who made the film abandon motion capture technology must be Disney Benny.
But it turns out that Disney played a mess, and the huge gap in the ratings of the two "Lion King" is enough to explain the problem.
In fairy tales, don't be too realistic.
You let the lion and the warthog sleep together, why play what realistic!
02
Dubbing and music
The second problem with the film's failure to use motion capture is that the mouth shape is not right.
Although the voice actors are very good, everyone can sometimes rely on brain patches to restore the classic dialogue in the animation.
But most of the time, the movements of the animals' mouths are too small, often giving the illusion of being narrated, which is especially evident when the animals are singing.
Disney has not let the animals dance in order to pursue the sense of reality, and the dubbing is no longer right, which really does not look like the animals are singing, but like the animals dancing in the background music.
If you remove the dubbing and change the teacher Zhao Zhongxiang to read a narration, then "The Lion King" can really become the theatrical version of "Animal World".
03
Copy-pasted plot
Although there are a few minor additions, the main story of the new version of "The Lion King" is no different from the old version of the animation.
The story of "The Lion King" is not complicated, and some of the side plots in the original version really need to be added.
Like what:
The plot of Simba and Peng Pengdingman living together (adding a middle boss to increase Simba's growth process and so on);
As well as the flashbacks of Mufasa and Scar when they were young, tell how the scars on Scar's face came about.
Sister Killer thought that this Disney supreme cold meal could at least fill the pit dug by the animated version.
But in the end there is nothing, and most of the plot of the new version is a direct copy of the animated version.
If the audience in 1994 thought that "The Lion King" was an animal version of Hamlet, and found it full of novelty.
That 2019 audience really can't beat the spirit of this untouched plot.
Just as China will produce a journey to the west movie every year, Hollywood has also held "Hamlet" for all these years, "Thor", "Black Panther", "Aquaman"...
We are tired of watching the stories of various brothers fighting for the throne, but "The Lion King" is still the least twisted plot in this template.
Disney had two strategies when changing the animation to a live-action version -
One is copy-paste, such as Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast;
One is a major adaptation, such as Sleeping Curse and Aladdin.
Unfortunately, for a remake of a common routine at the moment, they chose the former.
Compared with Cai Xukun's promotion ambassador who can't find eight rods, the screenwriter of this film is the most enigmatic.
In this film, there are as many as five signed screenwriters alone.
Looking at this copy-pasted plot, Sister Killer only wanted to say:
In addition to eating a few more box lunches from the crew, your work intensity may not be greater than Cai Xukun's basketball.
Over the years, Disney's laziness in creation has reached its peak in the new version of "The Lion King".
This year's Summer Box Office of Chinese and American Movies has both regressed, which is the most direct proof of the market.
When a large Disney sucked up the market share of several other production companies with Marvel movies, it did not want to make progress, and even its most classic "Lion King" could reproduce the circle of money.
In Disney's eyes, it may feel like it is blind to all things, just like the line of Mufasa in the movie:
"Wherever the sun shines, it is our land."
But sorry, the audience is your sunshine.