When it comes to director dumplings, everyone will think of Li Nezha who turned the tide in the film industry last year.
"Doing "Nezha" is nothing else, it is dead." It took five years, the creative team exceeded 1600 people, because of the dumplings, when "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" was extremely glamorous, the audience's perspective began to shift to the behind-the-scenes production of the film.
In fact, before "Nezha", Dumpling also had a dead-end work "Hit, Hit a Big Watermelon" (English name "see through"), which took three years and eight months, and the producer was the only one.
"This is the most bullish animated short film I've ever seen, not this year, not one of them, made by Chinese!" This is the evaluation of this work by the webmaster of VeyCD, as a cartoon that swept the whole network at that time, the comments under it will always have two words - cow x.
And this short film of Niu X tells the story of two countries launched an all-out war because of an island, during which the pilots of the two countries fell on a desert island together because of the crash, so that the insiders can look at the war from a new perspective, set off the cruelty of the war, and cause thinking, is it to be a person on the desert island, or to do the cards in the hands of others? It mainly expresses anti-war sentiments.
The story is a very simple story, but this 16-minute short film can make so many viewers applaud continuously, there must be its superiority, and then the small fish point accompanies everyone to enjoy the debut of this dumpling.
First, the details are continuous, full of metaphors.
War is a big gamble, and in the anime it's a war between playing card nations, which hints at the nature of war.
At the beginning of the movie, a series of playing cards are dropped on the cobwebs, and the cobwebs here become the bonds between countries, connecting the playing cards and finally converging into a sphere, a new world.
Politicians from the two big countries of the Red Peach Country and the Plum Blossom Country shook hands and hugged in the flashlight, and the two smiled and announced the peace between the two countries to the world.
But a closer look reveals that the map of the world behind them has betrayed them. For a bone, the two vicious dogs do not give in to each other, and the result is bound to tear up, and the peace they show has been extinguished in name only.
At the negotiating table, the two men talked about wine, but under the seemingly joyful and laughing peace talks, the hands of the two had begun to slowly extend, and for the sake of profit, they finally tore their faces, drew their swords against each other, and the war was about to break out.
The war began, the gambling began, the politicians revealed their true faces, and between the shuffles, countless soldiers held steel guns and waited in strict formation. At this time, the details appeared, and a soldier did not know whether it was tears or sweat flowing from the steel helmet, and the hand holding the steel gun also trembled.
As the movie "Troy" said, "the so-called politics is the talk of the elderly, the bloodshed of the young." There may be many soldiers as nervous and afraid of war as he is, but they have no choice but to charge forward against the shells at the sound of an order.
After a brief break at the end of the film, the two armies continue to fight, and the cobwebs on the coconut trees are also shot through, suggesting that the bond is completely broken, the war has destroyed the relationship between countries, it must take longer to maintain, and for those who live in war, peace is always unknown.
Second, use the most fragile cards to fight the most modern and fierce battle.
Most of the length of this short film is depicted in the depiction of war scenes, although it takes place between playing cards, but because of the novel brain hole of dumplings, the battle scene is particularly intense.
In the animation, the playing cards are two-dimensional, and the weapons are three-dimensional, which makes this war have countless dimensions of transformation, which is why the short film has made countless people sought after and worshipped as gods.
With politicians waving, planes, tanks, submarines, aircraft carriers, and even satellite weapons from outer space are not spared to fight wars.
The audience's eyes follow the plane, follow the shells in the war, in order to show the reality of the war, even the first perspective of the game across the line of fire.
When the weapons are exhausted, the number of people begins to determine the situation of the war, and soldiers flow out of the hands of politicians like flowing water.
The battlefield now became a meat grinder, with shredded playing cards being thrown out, falling to the feet of politicians in pieces and covered with newly thrown shredded cards.
Compared with the human war picture, perhaps the fierce battle between the playing cards can better reflect the cruelty of war.
Third, although it is a pantomime, the sound effects are touching.
In the picture with horror at the beginning, the tense and anxious background music makes the beginning of this short film feel like a word: long, the beginning of a few seconds makes people feel like there are tens of seconds, so that people can quickly integrate into the atmosphere of the plot.
Just as the so-called silence is better than sound, the picture of politicians negotiating may have no tension atmosphere, and the more it is almost impossible to hold back, the longer the silence will suffocate people and leave a deeper impression.
As for the sound effects in war, the little fish point can only be described in one word: explosion. With the switching of perspectives, the explosion of sound effects makes the war full of excitement, bringing the audience a feast of visual and auditory senses.
Among them, when two soldiers who had been displaced to the desert island because of the aircraft battle saw a ship coming, their happy excitement was replaced by background music and pictures, which was particularly joyful.
Fourth, like Zhou Xingchi's dumplings, Nezha has a shadow of reference
Because after the fire of "Nezha", everyone knows that dumplings like Zhou Xingchi, in fact, it is more reflected in "Hit, Hit a Watermelon".
As far as the name of the short film is concerned, it is borrowed from the original words in Xingye's "Deer Ding", Wei Xiaobao, played by Xingye, fought with the big villain to the ground, found the dragon vein, and the pile of gold made the two shake hands and make peace, so much gold was divided, what to fight, hit a big watermelon. But as a result, the two still fought, because it was better to take half than to take all.
The plot is similar, the politicians shake hands and make peace behind the want to extend their hands to get more benefits, when the interests of the two can not be equal, they will also want Wei Xiaobao and the villain to fight.
Everyone must remember the bridge section in which Nezha, Taiyi, Ao Bing and Shen Gongbao were frozen into a ball in "Nezha's Demon Boy Descending", and Taiyi let the ball move by farting, in fact, it has long been in "Play, Hit a Watermelon".
The two air forces that landed on the desert island fought as soon as they landed, and as a result, they were tied into a ball by rope, and one of the air forces rolled the ball by spraying nosebleeds, winning the victory.
At the end of the film, Miyazaki Hayao, Stephen Chow, Jet Li, Jackie Chan and many famous characters appear at the end of the film, they did not participate in the production of this short film, it should be dumplings want to be like Star Ye, to a spoof.
For dumplings, "Hit, Hit a Big Watermelon" is the cornerstone of his development, and dumplings' unremitting persistence has made this mountain grow taller and higher, and eventually grow into the peak of "Nezha".
The 16-minute short film can present so many things to everyone is really bullish, no wonder some people said at the time that this was the rise of the national comic. This film has always been rated 8.8 on Douban, and there are many interesting places that are worth watching.