Recently, the animated film "Mr. Miao" was released nationwide, and the film industry that was hit by the epidemic this year began to gradually recover its vitality, and "Mr. Miao" as one of the few cinema animation films is not a low topic. But the box office and word of mouth are really unbearable.
At the same time, while the offline release was in full swing, "Mr. Miao", which prides itself on being the sister article of "The Great Protector", also ushered in mixed reviews.
In the plot, the three different world views of "Duck Catcher", "Ding Guo" and the heroine "Yin Feng" are used as conditions, and the flowers on the other side are used as clues, so as to guide the contradiction of the three concepts of good and evil, and also think about these three concepts of good and evil.
First, "Mr. Miao" under the fame of "The Great Protector" is pale and weak
From the time of the film's release, it has been inextricably linked to "The Great Protector", and even the two have launched a joint promotional poster.
Perhaps because of this depth of bundled hype, the audience's expectations for "Mr. Wonderful" are not low.
There are also two short films directed by Bu Sifan, such as "Mr. Miao's Wild Goose Falling Avenue" and "Mr. Miao's Fire and Laughter Biography".
Under such circumstances, Li Lingxiao's "Mr. Wonderful" is really difficult to shine. And the introduction of "The Great Protector" to stir up heat for themselves, unless the film itself surpasses the former, otherwise the word-of-mouth decline is inevitable.
From the overall viewing of the film, we can also clearly see that the whole movie is rooted in the world view of the extraordinary comic, and the drawing style, plot, etc. are very unusual style.
When "The Great Protector" was released, the box office was not low, and the reputation was relatively high. I wanted to use this Qingyun Avenue to send "Mr. Miao" to the clouds, but now it seems that this abacus is wrong. With the hype of "The Great Protector", the expectations of the audience have been greatly increased.
Although the scheduling rate is low now, people's enthusiasm for watching movies after the epidemic is unprecedentedly high, and the box office difference between the two is nearly eight times, and it can only be said that the answer sheet handed over by "Mr. Wonderful" is not good.
Remember why the "Great Protector" of that year had a super high reputation?
First, it got rid of the adaptation of Online IP and literary works by Chinese animation, and created its own unique story structure and world framework.
Second, "The Great Protector" gets rid of the problem of anime and manga aging. Not only was the rating system introduced for the first time, but the suspense, violence and other elements in the film opened up the style of Chinese animation.
It really got rid of the problem of "daily cartoonization" of Chinese two-dimensional animation and formed its own unique "aesthetics of violence".
On closer inspection, "Mr. Wonderful" seems to fully meet these two characteristics, but its problems are also exposed.
The plot of "Mr. Wonderful" is relatively clear at first glance, and it is also easy to see the core of the story that you want to express at a glance.
However, it is difficult for the male protagonist to accept that he "does not speak human words". Although the Great Protector has the same problem, it has also been criticized on the Internet because of such a problem.
However, "The Great Protector" still appropriately introduces many points of black humor, and the part of "not speaking human words" is relatively not much, while "Mr. Miao" is almost the same throughout.
In fact, this is not to blame "Mr. Miao", "Mr. Miao" has incorporated a lot of Buddhist and Taoist ideas from the beginning of the production of the series of short films. Just as we Chinese emphasize freehand in painting and calligraphy. This one-and-a-half-hour movie actually can't accommodate such a large and abstract content.
It's called "Mr. Miao", but Mr. Miao only appears a few times in the film, and the whole film looks more like a prequel.
Second, the human thoughts under "Mr. Wonderful"
Although the reputation of "Mr. Wonderful" on the Internet continues to decline, the decision to withdraw the file has been made. Netizens joked that it was "ppt animation", and there were bugs in some places where frames were dropped.
That being said, I'd like to say that the movie is already pretty good. To be fair, leaving this uncomfortable hype movie is still very much for me to enjoy.
First of all, the story proposes to think about good and evil, or over-interpret, it can be said that it questions the worldview guided by capital.
The three different worldviews represented by the duck catcher as "there is no absolute good and evil, believing that no human being is a better world", Ding Guo as the representative of "killing good people to save bad people", and Yin Feng as representative of "killing one person and saving a group of people" have become the main reasons for stimulating the contradictions in the plot.
And there is also a biological chain in the middle, "the other side of the flower – fire cicada metamorphosis – ice jade".
Rich people like to play with extravagant ice jade and play with ice jade for a long time will get a kind of cold disease, the treatment of this cold disease must be fire cicadas, so the poor catch fire cicadas in large quantities, resulting in not enough fire cicadas to eat the spores of the other side of the flower, so that they multiply in large quantities.
The other side of the flower is undoubtedly an important metaphor, symbolizing a certain desire or evil thought rooted in people's hearts.
A good person will blossom golden flowers in his heart, but the people around him will become evil.
Only by killing the host of the other flower can the people around you restore their kindness.
In fact, perhaps without the heat hype of "The Great Protector", this "Mr. Wonderful" is not inferior. At least in all current theatrical animation movies can occupy a mid-to-upper level position.
In addition, as this film says, it is not recommended for children under thirteen years old to watch the movie, the first is that it is not understood, and the second is that some pictures are indeed bloody. We all know that there is no rating system for domestic films, and the movie-watching suggestion can only be said to be a kind of "self-classification". This kind of statement, in the editor's view, the gimmick is greater than the actual meaning, invisibly raising the expectations of adult audiences, not necessarily a good thing.