Du Xianghai, Li Yi's favorite film critic, will naturally not miss this movie.
However, after watching "Nezha Hao Hai", he immediately bought another ticket for the midnight show and watched it again.
The notebook contains many notes about "Nezha Naohai".
But even after watching it twice, Du Xianghai still didn't write a movie review for a long time.
He can imagine that there will be many, many people who will interpret and comment on the "deviant" plot of this animated film. Therefore, he does not want to follow the crowd. For this reason, he hopes to interpret the film through other aspects.
Because there are really too many Chinese elements used in this Chinese cartoon. He doesn’t know much about many of them himself, and he still needs to look up the information. Fortunately, he is only a film critic, so he only needs to go through it at a superficial level. Just know how to leave a review.
Otherwise, I'm afraid it will take more time.
Even so, Du Xianghai didn't officially start writing film reviews until the next morning.
"Based on the mythical story of "Nezha Hao Hai", it contains a strong Chinese flavor!"
"Hua Guo Animation, referred to as Chinese Comics, but what kind of animation movies can be truly considered Chinese Comics? Does it only need to be domestically produced? Personally, I don’t think so.
The current domestic animated films that have been released, including "The Return of the Great Sage", actually imitate and incorporate cultural elements such as Japanese comics and American comics.
Of course, we cannot say that "The Return of the Great Sage" is not a Chinese comic, but there is still a clear gap compared to "Nezha Naohai".
I believe many movie fans can feel that many elements in "Nezha Haohai" have a sense of familiarity and are eye-opening!
Earlier, Zhang Haiyang of Xingman said that he was trying to incorporate more Chinese elements into "Nezha is in the Sea", but after watching "Nezha is in the Sea", I felt extremely shocked. This is not an attempt. , which has made the movie "Nezha Hao Hai" a milestone in the history of animation in our country. This film contains rich Chinese elements, including folk paper-cutting, Dunhuang murals, New Year pictures, Chinese paintings, and theatrical masks.
It can be said to be a true collection of the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought. Regardless of the background, the characters are all unique in style. With the help of folk art shapes, they form a unique fantasy color.
From traditional mythology to visual animation, this film contains literary background and traditional culture that are worthy of our careful appreciation.
First of all, let’s talk about the image of the characters in this movie. In our traditional Chinese aesthetics, red represents enthusiasm and joy. In drama masks, red represents loyalty, bravery and chivalry.
The facial makeup of the characters in "Nezha Hao Hai" is used to tell good and evil from the image, showing the vividness of opera facial makeup.
The facial makeup and costumes in opera are bright and gorgeous. Facial makeup is divided into red, yellow, blue, white, black, purple, green, silver and other colors. Red represents loyalty, bravery and uprightness, water white represents insidiousness and cunning, and gold and silver are often used to represent gods and monsters.
Let's take a look at the main character in "Nezha Hao Hai", Li Jing, who is dressed in a red robe as soon as he appears. In this way, the movie confirms Li Jing's identity, the commander-in-chief of Chentangguan! He is an official and a powerful person!
And Li Jing is a military general. Perhaps many people will find that in the film, many of Li Jing's movements, such as pointing swords, holding a sword in his left hand, holding clothes in his right hand, etc., are all based on the movements of generals in operas.
This is almost rare to see in existing animated movies.
It must be easy for everyone to find that many of Li Jing's movements are in the style of opera, but it is not difficult for everyone to understand his mentality and emotions at the time through his movements and expressions. This is the charm endowed by traditional drama culture.
Let’s talk about the protagonist Nezha. He was born wearing a red bellyband and is a typical Chinese doll. The color red originates from nature and represents the worship of the sun and fire. It is obviously a hint that Nezha is the embodiment of justice.
It can be seen from the following plot: Nezha has the nature of a child, lively and cute, and does not know the world. He also has a tenacity that refuses to admit defeat and a fearless spirit of sacrificing for the people. The shaping of this character is also inseparable from the intuitive expression of the image.
In addition to using drama elements in character creation, drama is also fully utilized in stage effects and fight design.
In the stage effect design, although modern computer special effects are used for presentation, you can still clearly feel the fighting scenes of "Nezha Hao Hai", there are many Peking Opera stages, and the beautiful movements in the flying murals.
The fighting also incorporates the characteristics of opera and martial arts.
Nezha's movements such as dancing the Hun Tian Ling, shaking the dragon's tendons, brushing the fire spear, and playing with the luminous pearls all come from opera dance and fighting dramas. When Nezha fights with the Dragon King, in addition to the fusion of Peking Opera martial arts movements, it is also accompanied by powerful Peking Opera percussion music, which is thrilling to watch, showing a strong Chinese style and a distinctive Peking Opera style.
It can be said that this is indeed an extremely bold attempt, but everyone has seen the effect. It has a completely different style from the special effects, actions, and fighting scenes of those animated movies we have seen in the past.
Returning to character design, in the traditional colors of our country, colors are very decorative. Art works are usually bright and bright, gorgeous but not vulgar, showing simplicity in luxury, thoroughness in thickness, and thick but not gaudy.
Many places in "Nezha Haohai" draw on the exaggerated shapes and rich colors of folk paper-cutting. The images of the dragon king and the sacred deer all come from folk paper-cutting shapes. Even if 3D technology is used to present it, it can still be seen.
The color processing is based on the five elements of color, and the colors are balanced and transitional, giving people a completely new feeling. In terms of background processing, in most cases, the background is dark and the foreground is bright, which sets off the subject, creates a visual impact, and grabs the audience's attention.
When depicting the Dragon King of the East China Sea, it actually combines the auspicious "dragon" pattern in traditional New Year pictures and the treacherous characters in opera and New Year pictures. In the film, the Sea Dragon King in the Middle East is green and skinny, and his eyes glow green when he is angry. At this point, a ferocious dragon appears on the screen.
In addition, Nezha's master, Taiyi Zhenren, has white hair, a kind face, and flowing clothes, giving him the image of a loyal elder.
The villain Xiao Bailong is all white, with cinnabar eyebrows and a white cloak. Against the background of the turquoise sea water, his two eyes are shining, and his turquoise white teeth are menacing. On the one hand, this color scheme shows that he is of noble birth, and on the other hand, it also implies that he is an arrogant little bully.
Nezha changed clothes three times in the film, and I believe they all left a deep impression on people.
The color of Nezha's clothing style comes from the colors of New Year paintings and murals. The first time Nezha dressed was when he was born. Li Jing's wife was pregnant for three years and six months and gave birth to a flesh ball, which was finally born in a lotus. He picked it. A lotus petal transforms into a red bellyband and is wrapped around the body. The lotus has a high status among the people and symbolizes purity. In Buddhism, children are born in lotus flowers, which is a symbol of beauty. The Chinese nation's "appreciation of red" is reflected in all aspects: choosing red wedding clothes and decorations when getting married, red lanterns, paper-cuts, red envelopes during the New Year, and wearing red underwear, jewelry, etc. in the year of one's life. Red is in traditional Chinese culture It has the meaning of seeking good luck and avoiding bad luck, happiness and contentment.
The second time Nezha changed his clothes was after he killed the third prince of the Dragon King. Nezha began to wear a long white coat, blue trousers, black cloth shoes, and a red belt around his waist. This costume paved the way for the subsequent development of the plot. White is considered an unlucky color in traditional folk costumes, so white is often avoided in costumes to create a tragic atmosphere for later plot development.
Nezha changed his clothes for the third time when he was reborn. He wore a lotus suit, with a top made of pink lotus petals, and a green lotus leaf skirt on his lower body. He also held a red tassel gun, stepped on a hot wheel, and wore a Hun Tian Ling. At this stage, green and yellow are the main colors used in Nezha’s design, which fully draws on Buddhist colors. Green is often used in Dunhuang murals, and yellow is the most noble color in Buddhism. In the film, Nezha’s circle of heaven and earth and wind and fire The chakras are all golden, which means that Nezha's identity after rebirth is that of the Holy Spirit.
There is also a soundtrack that must be mentioned in the film. I won’t go into details here, but I believe that those who have watched the film will easily find that the soundtrack of this film draws heavily on our country’s opera-style soundtrack. , but it is matched just right, from the chimes at the beginning to the sadness when Nezha commits suicide, the soundtrack plays an important role.
Therefore, I think the greatest success of "Nezha Hao Hai" lies in the fusion of traditional aesthetic ideas and the penetration of national elements. Our country’s traditional culture is an inexhaustible resource for animation creators.
Animation development cannot rely solely on technology, nor can it all be copied from foreign countries.
Perhaps we should look back at the essence of our Chinese culture and explore the vitality of national culture with a modern perspective. Carry forward excellent traditions and reshape domestic cartoons with China’s unique artistic style.
I hope "Nezha Hao Hai" is just the beginning! "
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