Today, I turn to an animated film from a long time ago, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" released in 2004, and I always remember its aesthetic portrayal technique, whether it is raindrops gently hitting flowers and plants such as lotus leaves, or the characters riding on the wind, it is full of oriental poetry.
The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai belongs to the familiar traditional classic drama, and there have been many versions, and this animated film that combines tradition and innovation has its unique charm, just like a few strokes can outline the feeling of the soul. The best thing is to improve some stereotypes, even if very modern music and consciousness are integrated into it, so that this treatment can attract the attention of the younger generation, while inheriting the classics, a win-win situation.
In ancient times, the constraints on women were reflected in many aspects, as a daughter, Zhu Yingtai also had the same desire to study as the boys, and under her constant begging, her parents promised to let her dress as a man to go to Qiantang to study. The birds and flowers outside made Yingtai, who had been living in the deep boudoir for a long time, experience the freedom she had never had, everywhere was fresh, sitting on the side of the road with flowers and resting, she looked at the men who hurriedly walked differently, or tall or short or fat or thin, there was no one she liked, when she was tired of looking around and looking at an ancient pavilion on the high ground, a literary scholar was climbing the pavilion step by step, the wind was blowing the wicker that had just spit out new shoots, he was enjoying the beauty of March, just at that glance, Zhu Yingtai felt that the deer in her heart began to collide, and her face also floated with burning clouds. For the first time in her life, she dedicated her heart to the teenager who went to the West Building alone.
When she continued to hurry, she and the teenager met head-on, the same student, the same private school to arrive, they gradually talked very happily, the conversation in the Middle Yingtai knew that this teenager's name was Liang Shanbo, there were thousands of miles to meet, they worshiped as brothers, at that time Liang Shanbo did not see that Zhu Yingtai was a girl, but Zhu Yingtai already had a heart for him. When they got to school, they stopped Marvin Cai's rampage, thus offending him, and Marvin Cai always wanted to find an opportunity to tease them.
The years in school were the most pleasant time in the lives of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. They learn in the spring flowers, cool off in the summer wind and thunderstorm, laugh in the autumn fruits, and play in the winter snow. They also starred together in the drama of Hebo marrying relatives, playing a couple, Liang Shanbo as husband Zhu Yingtai as his wife, in a very real set, one by one brides appeared, because they were all played by men, so the makeup of several people who appeared in front of them was funny, which caused the audience to laugh. When it was Zhu Yingtai's turn, she did not stand firmly and rushed out, and everyone opened their mouths to look at her, not because she was funny, but her black hair reflected the delicate and lovely appearance, too much like a fairy, she hugged Xianggong Shanbo in the play. The bold Yingtai, in full view of everyone, said goodbye by kissing Shanbo, and the messenger theory of Hebo, maintained the respect that women deserve, and she successfully reversed the ending of the play.
Yingtai received several letters urging her to go home, and the farewell scene in the play did not take long to move outside the play. She wanted to confide in The Mountain boy before leaving, and asked him to meet him at one place. However, he let Marvin Cai take the lead, and after confirming that Yingtai was a woman, he declared that he wanted to marry Yingtai and then walked away triumphantly. After a while, Shanbo appeared, he saw Yingtai with a low eyebrow, walked over, Yingtai got up, told him the truth that he was a woman, a moment of consternation, Shanbo slowly walked into the pond to calm down, he carried Yingtai into the water to wake up, remembering the two of them in the past three years together, looking at Yingtai's beautiful face in the water waves, the mood became cute.
They stayed together in the starry sky, such a beautiful night, such a beautiful mood, this was a moment of brilliance before the meteor disappeared. On the second day, the two met after meeting, sitting on a boat that was gradually drifting away from Yingtai, and could not bear to let go of the hand of the mountain boy on the shore, but it was still separated by the distance of thousands of rivers and mountains. Returning home, Yingtai saw that the courtyard was full of gifts for relatives, and when he entered the house, he realized that it was Marvin Cai and his father who came to propose to Yingtai. Even if Yingtai used words to repel the Ma family's intentions, they could not resist the unreasonable other party, and for the safety of their families and Shanbo, they could only agree to it with grievances.
Thinking about Yingtai day and night, under the advice of his master and mother, he decided to go to Yingtai. He happily entered the door, but saw the lost Yingtai, who wrote on the paper with a brush dipped in ink, "Ten thousand thoughts are broken, and what words are still said to the deceased." At the end of the writing, because he knew that the mountain was coming, he threw a heavy stroke, leaving a scattered ink print through the paper. Shanbo looked at the sentences on the paper, through the narrative of Yingtai's close-knit beard, he knew about Ma Wencai's family's kissing, he regretted and had no other way, lifted the brush, also wrote a poem, coughed a few times, waited for the poem to be written, turned and walked out of the door and left. Yingtai approached the piece of paper, surprised, the paper was stained with a piece of red, it was just coughed out by Shanbo, he wrote a poem sad, the poem said: "A good dream hastily woke up, the heart has been broken, it is difficult to stretch; from now on, I will not go to Qiantang Road, afraid to see Mandarin ducks flying."
After Yingtai read the poem, she immediately chased it out, but because Marvin had already guarded the Yingtai family's house tightly, she couldn't go out. Ma Wencai saw Liang Shanbo at the door of Zhu's house, asked the entourage to teach Shanbo a lesson, heartbroken and physically injured, anxious Yingtai could only reach out his hand through a circular skeleton of the wall to visit Shanbo's injury, the weak Shanbo grabbed Yingtai's hand, and said happily, the happiest thing in his life was to meet Yingtai, hoping that she could be well, and then sat down and fainted, and the obstruction of a wall made it impossible for the two to see each other.
Not long after returning home, Yingtai heard the news of Shanbo's "resignation", she took advantage of the moonlight, dressed up, changed into bridal clothes, picked up a red lantern inlaid with happy characters, and went to the last shelter of Shanbo alone, surrounded by weeds mixed with cool air, she couldn't bear it any longer, crying and begging Shanbo to come out to see her, take her with her, a beam of light suddenly appeared, Shanbo really appeared, the family and Ma Wencai who were looking for traces of Yingtai also arrived, they saw Shanbo and Yingtai in an incomparably bright place, very surprised, just like this, Shanbo and Yingtai disappeared with the light. Then, around the disappearance of the beam, trees and flowers grew, and on the blooming flowers fell two butterflies of beautiful colors, and the two butterflies slowly flew up, and wherever they flew, the flowers bloomed everywhere, a piece of life, and people knew that they were transformed by Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, so they were moved by their touching love.
Dreaming of butterflies, back to the time when the flowers and plants are fragrant. This distant and beautiful legend.