In the film industry, it seems that every sequel can not escape the curse of "unpopularity".
Since the childhood classic "Hulu Brothers" was broadcast in 1986, countless people have watched it repeatedly, and the image of seven gourd babies has become a classic in the history of national comics.
However, although "Hulu Brothers" is well known, its sequel seems to be little known.
Compared with the previous work, the sequel "King Kong Little Gourd" is richer in content, not only adding emotional drama to the gourds, but also criticizing many real-life dross through the animation plot.
After watching it, I found that the original huluwa sequel is a love cartoon, which can be called "ruining" childhood, breaking the public's inherent impression of huluwa, not only the story is wonderful, the intention is also profound, the metaphor is full of points, but it is too realistic.
Premiered in 1991 and produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, "King Kong Little Gourd" is the sequel to the famous animation film "Hulu Brothers".
After the advent of "Hulu Brothers", with its unique visual expression form and wonderful story, it suddenly exploded in the country and became a cartoon suitable for all ages, and almost all children in the 1980s still remember the theme song: Huluwa, Huluwa, Seven Flowers on a Vine...
The story of the Hulu brothers saving their grandfather was also widely circulated, and five years later, the Shanghai Art Factory continued its efforts to launch a sequel to Huluwa.
The story told in the sequel is that when the seven-colored peak transformed by the gourd brothers suppressed the snake essence, the snake spirit's sister Qing Snake knew about this and vowed to avenge her sister, and decided to pry the gourd brothers down one by one, throw them into the alchemy furnace, and refine them into seven hearts, resulting in the gourd baby combining, killing the snake essence, and calming the green snake.
Unlike the previous game, the sequel adds moving emotional scenes, which is also a highlight of the animation.
At the beginning of the story, the snake spirit pried down the colorful peak one by one, and the gourd brothers sent heads one after another as before, and the snake spirit put it into the alchemy furnace, but did not expect that the gourd brothers had the protection of the mountain god, the seven colors were one, and a small gourd of Kongo popped out of the alchemy furnace.
The small gourd of King Kong is the length of seven babies, not only has strong ability, but also has a good head, and the green snake can't beat it, so it can only slip away.
So the little gourd of King Kong took the knife in the cave and looked around for the green snake, but he did not expect to meet love at the corner and saw the poor little butterfly.
The little butterfly was hung on the mountain by an iron ring, her wrists were grinding blood, and her big eyes were full of tears, even the steel tough man King Kong Little Gourd, facing this beautiful girl, the knife in her hand could not get off her hand.
The hero is also sad for the beauty pass, King Kong little gourd saw that the little butterfly was pitiful, he saved her, the little butterfly turned around and gently thanked her, thank you, little brother, you are so powerful.
Which boy can withstand the praise and adoration of a beautiful girl?
So The little gourd of King Kong firmly promised the little butterfly that he would rescue her.
As a result, the small gourd of The turning of the head was smoked by the poisonous smoke of the green snake, and the painful little gourd was wandering around in the cave, and at the critical moment, fortunately, the little butterfly saved the little gourd.
The little gourd was deeply moved, so the two began to play happily in the cave, the gourd brothers have been fighting since birth, and have not enjoyed such a happy life, so the gourd brothers indulged in the gentle countryside of the little butterfly, happy, almost forgot to fight the snake spirit.
In the process of the two playing happily, the little butterfly knew that the weakness of the small gourd was on the waist, so he took advantage of the small gourd to fall asleep and took out a sharp knife from the back and stabbed at the small gourd.
The little gourd woke up in an instant, kicked away the little butterfly, and asked her why she wanted to harm herself. Unexpectedly, the little butterfly actually said, little brother, I just want to try to see if you are not really King Kong is not bad.
In the face of this green tea speech, although Xiao Hulu was angry in his heart, what else could he do, he could only choose to forgive her.
So the two began to live a happy life again, but they did not expect that the snake spirit was still secretly doing things, and after the snake spirit was drunk, the snake spirit's spy bat stole the treasure hanging on the neck of the gourd baby, and also beat the pair of children into the dungeon.
The gourd who lost the treasure no longer has skills, can not fight, very angry, the little butterfly is also very sad, this is the gourd to comfort her, it does not matter, as long as there is sunshine, my gourd will be a good man again.
So with the help of the little butterfly, the treasure returned to the gourd baby, the gourd baby regained its strength, and was talking to the little butterfly, but did not expect the bat spear to shoot, although the gourd baby broke the barrel, the gun head shot into the chest of the little butterfly.
The little butterfly was dying, and before she died, she told Huluwa that she was forced by the green snake to confuse and kill Huluwa, but Huluwa's kindness made her unable to do it.
Finally, the little butterfly told the gourd about the weakness of the green snake and died. Losing her beloved, Huluwa was enraged for a while, angrily looking for the green snake to settle the account.
But the green snake has set seven levels, and these seven levels are also very interesting, each level is a metaphor, full of critical reality.
For example, the first monster, "black eating black", was to mock the evil forces in the society at that time. The second monster is the spider monster, which uses spider web bullets to confuse people's voices, typical of "sound and color seduction". Fortunately, Huluwa woke up after being reminded by the hedgehog brothers.
Then there are the nine-faced hypocritical monster that can be transformed into a beauty, the enchanting beauty monster, the greedy monster who is not profitable and greedy, and so on.
These levels experienced by Huluwa are actually metaphors for the temptations in our reality and the various social darknesses and chaos.
However, in the face of these temptations, Huluwa broke through many obstacles with a kind and upright heart and courage, and finally defeated the snake spirit and sealed the snake spirit again.
The relationship between Huluwa and The Little Butterfly also makes huluwa, a warrior full of divinity, more humane.
In fact, in the 1980s and 1990s, many domestic cartoons had rich connotations and made a powerful criticism of the chaos of reality, such as "Black Cat Sheriff" and "Zodiac".
In the eyes of the former national comic staff, cartoons are not only cartoons for children, but also a unique audiovisual carrier that tells stories that film and television dramas cannot be filmed.
Although the previous national comics were backward in technology, the content ideas and stories were stronger than many of the current national comics, and many animations were not only watched by children, but also loved by adults.
Although the picture of the current national comic is becoming more and more exquisite, the story is becoming more and more shallow, and the animation left for adults to watch is less and less.