In magic movies, the image of the dragon is often seen, but due to cultural differences, although it is a legendary creature, the concept of the dragon in china and the West is different, the dragon in the West is generally a symbol of evil, and the Chinese dragon is the existence of a national totem. Here's an inventory of the dragon image in the film:
The dynamite-necked dragon in Alice in Wonderland is as tall as a dinosaur, with a pair of reptile wings, covered with scales, and a vicious appearance, with a large Tim Burton style.
A dragon in Gringotts in the Harry Potter Finale.
The Hungarian tree bee dragon that appears in The Goblet of Fire in Harry Potter is a very ferocious species. Harry Potter mentions many types of dragons, but only six seem to have actually appeared (Hagrid's former pet Norbert, four dragons used to guard the Golden Egg in the Triwizard Tournament, and one dragon in Gringotts), and it is believed that there will be more visual representations in Fantastic Beasts.
The dragons mentioned in the section:
Australian Protein Eye Antipodean Opaleye (New Zealand)
Chinese Fireball (also known as Lion Dragon)
Common Welsh Green
Hebridean Black
Hungarian tree bee Hungarian Horntail (Hungary)
Norwegian Ridgeback (Norway)
Peruvian Vipertooth (Peru)
Romanian longhorn (Romania)
Swedish Short-Snout (Sweden)
Ukrainian iron belly British Ironbelly (Ukraine)
The design of the dragon in Dragon Empire is very much in line with the principles of aeronautical science, with a wide wingspan and a relatively small body, which is very suitable for flying.
The fire dragon Smaug in "The Hobbit" has a large body and a fierce nature, which is in line with the image of the dragon that has always been in the West.
The dragon wings in Dragon Knight have feathers, and the image design must have referenced the body structure of birds such as swans.
The dragon in Heart of the Dragon seems bulky.
Dragons also appear in the American drama "Game of Thrones", but the image does not have outstanding features.
In cartoons like How to Train Your Dragon, the image of the dragon becomes strange, mainly showing imagination. The image design of the protagonist Toothless boy is based on cats and bats.
Dragons with Chinese characteristics are not common in film and television, on the one hand, due to the long-term backwardness of Chinese film special effects, on the other hand, the dragon as a totem is not in line with the principle of movement, and to a certain extent, it is rarely seen in European and American films that pay attention to science.
The US-South Korea co-production movie "Dragon War" is a bad film with only special effects, most of which is a big snake doing damage, and at the end of the film, there is a dragon image with Chinese characteristics, and a dragon and snake fight is staged, and the stick and lao Mei once again take our traditional culture and make a serious joke.
The Sino-US co-production film "Dragon Hunt for Treasure" is a bad film without compromise, but it is a golden dragon with Chinese characteristics created by a 5.5 cent special effect.
With the development of domestic technology, in the past two years, in the "Great Haunting Heavenly Palace", "The Return of the Great Sage" and other films, we finally have our own design of the dragon, but I personally feel that the image is too single. Although we have the image of the five-square dragon and the five-colored dragon, (according to the concept of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, the dragon has been arranged in five directions in the southeast, south, and northwest, and five colors are applied to the five colors of blue, red, white, black and yellow. So in the dragon family, there is the image of a five-square dragon and a five-color dragon. ), but it is inevitable that there will be aesthetic fatigue when the same image is painted with different colors.
After all, Chinese culture is broad and profound, and the image of the dragon is strange, and it is completely possible to break through the mold and launch some novel images.
For example, the following four kinds of dragons with total scores: (Those with scales are called dragons, those with wings are called ying dragons, those with horns are called dragons, and those without horns are called dragons. ）
In the case of those dragon sons and grandsons of dragons:
And in the end, foreign flying dragons and Chinese dragons who are more powerful, personally of course feel that Chinese dragons are more powerful, which day they really fight on the screen, may be a bit like an upgraded version of the eagle snake war:
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