The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 367 The body is like dark iron, with piercing eyes!
"Monkey King, Sun-Wu-Kong!"

"The body is like black iron, the eyes are golden! Immortality, there are 72 transformations."

"One somersault cloud is one hundred and eight thousand miles away!"

"Pull out a hair..."

Jiang Yong watched the lovely Jiang Liuer on the big screen gesticulating with punches and kicks, and suddenly felt a little moved in his heart, which came from that distant childhood time.

After the scour of time, but still timeless.

"interesting……"

It stands to reason that Jiang Yong, as a senior film critic, has watched tens of thousands of movies, among which there are quite a few IP movies of Journey to the West.

As the hero with the most popularity and the strongest feelings in Huaguo, Journey to the West IP is definitely the darling of capital.

Not to mention the Spring Festival stalls in the past few years, the Westward Journey IP has a strong sense of presence, and its box office results are quite impressive, even if it is a big bad movie, it can make a lot of money.

In this way, the capital will naturally not let it go, and I am afraid that it will not let go easily unless this IP is completely squeezed out.

As a film critic, Jiang Yong's views are relatively harsh.

There is no original book, and traditional stories are always just hatching eggs, not laying eggs.

We have too many spiritual heritages, and we cannot get rid of these spiritual heritages.

In his view, borrowing this well-known IP is a trick.

In fact, if "The Return of the Great Sage" hadn't been an animated film, and it was a work of DreamWorks, he would have been less interested in the screening invitation.

It's not that he has any particular preference for animated movies.

Jiang Yong, as a film critic in Huaguo, has always seldom watched animation works, especially domestic animation.

He didn't watch the animated works such as "Star God" and "Space Super Battleship", which were overheated the year before last, and of course it has something to do with these works not being animated films.

But last year's "Your Name" changed his mind.

A [-]D animation film beat all the live-action films in the highly competitive summer season, and won the daily box office champion and the weekly box office champion, which of course aroused his curiosity.

After watching it admiringly, he also had to admit that, as many viewers and colleagues have said, this is an animation as a carrier, but the actual core is completely a work of a live-action movie.

It's quite appropriate to think of it as a sci-fi youth romance movie.

Jiang Yong had heard about DreamWorks' investment in the animation industry for a long time, but it was in "Your Name" that he suddenly became aware of the ambitions of DreamWorks, or Chen Jingxing, a talented filmmaker.

The audience of "Your Name" is not children or anime fans, but ordinary audiences of love movies and sci-fi movies. Otherwise, it would not have won the box office of 7 million yuan, which is far beyond the ceiling of animation movies in the past.

Jiang Yong couldn't help applauding Chen Jingxing's courage, he was really amazed like Dugu Nine Swords.

Since animated films have a ceiling, I jumped out of the traditional audience of animated films and really succeeded.

Since then, he has become interested in animated films, to be precise, DreamWorks animated films. In his eyes, DreamWorks is a pioneer, whether it is in the field of science fiction or animation.

And the start of the screening of "The Return of the Great Sage" made him look forward to it even more. It has been a long time since DreamWorks has held screenings. Screenings are usually for word-of-mouth marketing before the screening.

Dreamworks' brand reputation itself has a certain appeal, coupled with its ever-changing and unpredictable publicity methods, Dianying seems to have become a tasteless one for it.

At this time, "The Return of the Great Sage" is screened, which shows that DreamWorks obviously has great expectations for the upcoming Spring Festival.

Because "Tang Detective II" is scheduled for the Spring Festival, and the sci-fi blockbuster "Edge of Tomorrow" directed by Guo Fan, who became famous after the "Mekong" battle, has not yet been scheduled. Instead, an animated film is stuffed into the Spring Festival. It can't help but make people think that DreamWorks will do its best to protect "Tang Detective II" and not want to kill each other.

After all, everyone knows that DreamWorks is also the main producer of "Tang Detective II".

But now it seems that most people in the outside world have underestimated DreamWorks' positioning of "The Return of the Great Sage".

And this movie really surprised him at the beginning.

The havoc in the heavenly palace at the beginning, the confrontation with the heavenly soldiers and generals, and the fights with the giant spirit god, Nezha, Erlang god and Tota king are all eye-catching.

It directly reminded him of the classic animation "Havoc in Heaven" decades ago.

The colors are strong and the painting style is beautiful, with the aesthetic style of traditional painting, and the artistic conception and charm of the East, but combined with the richness and richness of Western oil painting.

And the most important thing is that it is perfectly combined with 3D animation. It has the shape of 3D animation and the bone feeling of [-]D animation, but it is completely different from the two-rendering three or three-rendering two.

The movements are extremely smooth, and the camera switching is extremely sharp. Even if Jiang Yong does not have a deep understanding of [-]D animation technology, he can still feel a feeling of burning money.

In his impression, the pinnacle of Hollywood 3D animation was last year's "The Jungle Book", but the opening part of "The Return of the Great Sage" made him a basic judgment - "The Return of the Great Sage" is definitely a domestic [-]D animation technology The pinnacle of "The Jungle Book" may be far behind, but it seems that there is no distance from other Hollywood animation movies he has seen?

The exclamation of other movie fans and film critics in the screening room is also enough to confirm his point of view.

The shock brought to him by "The Return of the Great Sage" is not the same as last year's "Your Name". "Your Name" is a two-dimensional hand-painted animation. The beautiful and fresh style of painting impressed him deeply, but the technology did not surprise him. .

Two-dimensional animation itself is difficult to produce technical surprises, it is nothing more than the accumulation of the animator's own level and labor intensity.

If the cost and time permit, it is not impossible to draw a picture for each frame of 24 frames per second. This can be accumulated by the genius and hard work of the animator himself.

However, the technology of [-]D animation is not driven by the genius of the animator himself, which even involves the measurement standard of the film industry level.

The special effects level of "Gravity" is absolutely top-notch in the world, and Jiang Yong also knows that the main special effects work of this film that has won nine Oscar nominations is still in charge of the Hollywood special effects company. Let's do it.

Now it seems that Mo's technical level has reached a level that surprised Jiang Yong, even if he is just a striker.

There are still many film critics and film bloggers in the screenings. When the technical level of Hollywood animated films is presented in a domestic animated film, they will inevitably be amazed. This surprise is definitely much stronger than that of ordinary audiences. .

The more well-informed and the more people who have read a lot of films, the more people know how difficult it is to do this.

In "Your Name", DreamWorks proved that it has the ability to integrate interesting and complex stories into animation works, and in "The Return of the Great Sage", it at least shows that DreamWorks has sufficient [-]D animation technology reserves.

Can reach the technical reserve of Hollywood level.

In Jiang Yong's erratic thoughts, on the big screen, Jiang Liu'er and the Great Sage met a mountain god made of huge stones who guarded Monkey King in the name of Tathagata Buddha.

After a fast-paced fight with a strong visual impact, Jiang Liu'er took off the yellow charm on the back of the mountain god, and the mountain god disintegrated. While Jiang Liu'er was falling down the cliff, the great sage rushed down the cliff and killed him in mid-air. He grabbed it and clung to a ledge of the cliff.

Later, when the Great Sage escorted Jiang Liu'er back to Chang'an to look for his grandfather, he was chased by a mountain demon. The leader of the chase turned out to be Marshal Tianpeng who knocked him down when the Great Sage once made a disturbance in the Heavenly Palace—now he is gone. Turned into a pig demon.

Under the fighting between the two sides and the rhetoric of the Great Sage, the pig demon awakened his memory and broke free from the restraint of the Five Elements Mountain Demon King.

It turned out that Marshal Tianpeng had his memory banned by the mysterious Five Elements Mountain Demon King and was enslaved.

Under the narration of Marshal Tianpeng who is still a pig demon, the screen recalls the plot when he met the demon king of Wuxing Mountain and fought with him, but was devoured by mana and sealed his memory.

This demon king's name is Chaos, and he often shows himself as a scholar and Taoist, arresting boys and girls to make alchemy, cunning and vicious.

Jiang Yong nodded slightly, so far the big boss of the movie has appeared.

Although seeing this, the general plot did not exceed Jiang Yong's expectations, and it was considered a relatively classic hero routine, but he also suddenly realized where the touch in his heart came from.

Heroes are the ones that attract the audience the most. In this regard, the Great Sage of Huaguo is actually quite similar to the Superhero of the United States.But when they are not so brilliant, they are sometimes troubled and sometimes lonely. This is the charm of heroes-dreams start from dust and return to fireworks.

"The Return of the Great Sage" is the biggest charm of this animated film. The hero of the past is sealed, and the tiger falls into the Pingyang and becomes a bully.

Even though there have been so many Journey to the West IP film and television dramas in recent years, "The Return of the Great Sage" can still arouse the emotion in his heart, which is due to this.

The angle chosen by this animation is wonderful and appropriate. With this point, this movie can resonate and develop the feelings of Journey to the West IP to the extreme, which is far better than "The Monkey King". live action movie.

Just when Jiang Yong was estimating the movie's box office potential, the tone of the movie once again changed from the light-hearted after the formation of the three-person team of Dasheng, Jiang Liuer, and Pig Demon to darkness.

The three encountered a bustling town on the way to Chang'an.

Although the town is bustling with people, it is extremely eerie.

It is lively during the day, just like Dacheng market town, and it is rainy at night. Although the lights are bright, it is like a ghost town.

After a series of horrible and strange events, although the pig demon was devoured by the demon king, he still has supernatural powers. He sensed the strangeness of this place, but several people couldn't leave, like a ghost hitting a wall.

An oversight, and the little girl carrying the basket on Jiang Liu'er's back disappeared. It turned out that the town here was a trap set by the demon king of Wuxing Mountain, an ancient alien species called Chaos.

The town is real, but everyone is dead, and all the humans in the town are transformed by the mountain demon.

This trap is not only to capture the little girl who was rescued by Jiang Liuer in Wuxing Mountain, but also to capture the great sage.

This demon wants to devour the great sage's mana, and like the previous pig demon, seal his memory, enslave his soul, and accept him as a minion to show his power.

Chaos wants to become the new great sage of the demon clan by subduing Monkey King, and establish a demon kingdom here in Dongsheng Shenzhou!

(End of this chapter)