Annual facial paralysis giant system, animal world adaptation edition! The lion king is just a large-scale collective nostalgia. Why?

The magic of technology can never express artistic imagination!

Twenty-five years ago, Disney's classic cartoon The Lion King was born. Twenty-five years later, the audience was lucky enough to see Simba, the king of beasts, appear in front of the big screen again. This time, it is not an animation, but a "real lion".

Many people say that the animated version of The Lion King is a must-see movie before the age of ten, and even influenced the world view of a generation. This one-and-a-half-hour short film contains an understanding of affection, love and friendship, as well as groundbreaking visual wonders and action scenes. So far, it has been called "the peak of Disney animation".

This time, the upgraded version of The Lion King adapted by Disney is really beautiful on the screen.

CG capture technology of "real people" animals has realized the real texture of a large number of pictures. Especially the lion in the film shows the real world of the lion.

Every detail is the ultimate reproduction of the original animation. From the moment when the sun rises on the African continent, to the moment when the footprints overlap, and then to the moment when the little prince Simba is lifted, even the birds take off in the same direction as the original animation. Whether it is the collocation of colors or the flexible use of long shots and fragments, the scene of the lion king in memory will be reappeared in front of the audience.

On the other hand, the song content of this movie is really rich. Many in-film songs of Little Lion and Big Lion can make fans enjoy aesthetic pleasure.

Especially when these songs are accompanied by the vast African prairie, the audience has an illusion of being in the animal world in front of the big screen.

The "Lion King" made with the most advanced shooting technology makes "real animals" appear on the screen. While we are amazed, we can't help asking: Is this attempt really ideal?

The score of watercress painting was 7.7, and now it has dropped to 7.5. If the China market is tolerant because of emotions, the scores in North America will be less polite.

The freshness of rotten tomatoes is only 58%, and it is still declining. The rating on IMDB is only 5.2, and 29.6% of the audience gave a one-star evaluation.

The evaluation given by rotten tomatoes is that although the achievements of visual special effects are indeed worthy of their pride, The Lion King is still the number of remakes, lacking the emotional and spiritual connotation of the original.

The success or failure of this matter is all because of the same person.

I was fascinated by the beautiful pictures when I watched the movie, and the first few shots of the movie were amazing, but strangely, after watching the whole movie, people felt unspeakable.

A strange feeling is spreading. To put it bluntly, this smell is what we often call "disobedience."

Technically, the characters in the film are no different from those played by real animals, and the hair and muscles are completely finished. It can be said that Disney's animation technology has achieved a new breakthrough.

However, success is also a skill, and so is failure.

Realistic animal images and natural environment create novel effects, but also greatly limit the rich, exaggerated and distinct artistic expression ability of animation.

This leads the audience to feel the animal world no matter how hard they try to get into the play.

Once the atmosphere in the play is lost, many scenes will become absurd without the blessing of the original feelings.

When Simba and Timon meet in the animated version, they can sing cheerful songs together and grow into mighty adult lions innocently, which accords with the characteristics of fairy tales and myths in animated films and does not need real biological laws and realistic logic.

However, once the characteristics of this cartoon are broken, it becomes too realistic, and the whole picture is like the national zoo in Africa. It is extremely unnatural to continue to adopt "animation logic".

The animated version of The Lion King is the pinnacle of traditional hand-drawn 2D animation. It uses anthropomorphic vivid texture to shape the animal body of the character ... it does not stick to the truth, but can show imagination and creativity in an unconstrained way, thus showing the spiritual connotation.

By carefully comparing the same scenes in the two versions of The Lion King, we will find that although the real lion version can be copied, it can often vividly show distant scenery and still pictures. The closer the close-up dynamic scene is, the stronger the sense of disobedience is.

Moreover, it is not only a matter of disobedience, but also the attraction of communication is greatly reduced. Let's give an example:

The animated version of Pumbaa the Warthog is stupid and cute, making people want to hug her. Do you still have this lovely impulse to Pumbaa in the Real Beast Edition?

Therefore, the realistic version of animals lacks a broad basis for the audience to have a sense of substitution and empathy.

Before the film was released, some critics asked, is it strange to see real lions and animals talking and singing in front of you?

This kind of question was considered unnecessary by some fans at that time because there was nothing to be picky about.

Unfortunately, after the official release, this movie really gave everyone this strange feeling!

I don't think it's finding fault, nor is it deliberately pushing the bar, but the technology of your film itself has brought the audience to a three-dimensional world, not an animated world.

In the third dimension, lions will become friends with warthogs. Can hyenas rule the territory with lions? It's impossible.

And this sense of dislocation and discomfort has become the negative source of this film.

The essence of art is imagination rather than technology.

The details of the lion king's hair and eyes created by cutting-edge special effects and virtual reality are moving, but imagination should be the belief of Disney's works, not the pursuit of form rather than essence.

The original classic color matching, the rich facial expressions and body language of different characters, and the humorous comedy song and dance style of Disney animation, once replaced by the live-action version, suddenly lost their souls.

Without the soul, the classic spiritual theme of the lion king is deeply missing!

Film is an acousto-optic art, and the artistic expression should be reflected by the rich expressions and body language of the characters, as well as the exaggerated and fierce conflicts.

In our general live-action movies, actors often give professional expressions when facing close-ups.

In a movie, the close-up of facial expressions is the most important.

Although Disney's "real life" dynamic capture technology is very mature, the "real life" animals really can't provide richer expressions. So this movie is too bland.

For another example, without background music, Simba and Nana's love is just two lions' numb faces, and they rush to each other after drinking water. Do you feel good?

The ultimate pursuit of realistic and beautiful pictures is that technical logic is far greater than creative logic. However, no matter how copied technically, the real beast version will never be as unconstrained as the animated version.

On the other hand, although songs and other action performances are very rich, they also hurt the story rhythm of the whole movie to some extent.

Disney's films lack richer and more intense conflicts in animated versions, and a large number of scenes are full of singing and other behaviors.

The film starts with the plot itself. Even the best MV can only appear as an ornament.

On the other hand, the song MV "The Lion King" similar to the African prairie has a problem that overwhelms the whole story.

The film is more like a beautiful MV documentary, but it is a documentary without the cruelty and conflict tension in the real world.

The battle between lions and hyenas is hugging and rolling. After waiting for almost two hours, the last battle between Simba and Scar was an enlarged version of two cats scratching, and then a big cat scratched for a few seconds and then fell down for a group of dogs to eat. ......

This is not consistent with the spiritual core of the original animation.

This question has also been raised in many audience comments in North America. Obviously, the audience in the country of origin of The Lion King has more specific requirements for the story, but this film can't meet the aesthetic requirements of fans.

Without imagination and spiritual core, it will become a superb and beautiful "plastic imitation"!

That's just a feeling.

In the large-scale African prairie cat song and dance film The Lion King, affection, friendship, love, growth, war and life cycle are all packed into a technical shell. What really touched the audience in the end was emotion. It is because of feelings that the audience can forgive the embarrassment and discomfort caused by the obvious real beast version, and even various problems in the rhythm of the film.

Familiar melodies and stories, high-fidelity restored scenes, the growth and love of little lions, the confrontation between justice and evil, and the feelings of father and son can all be sharp tools to earn feelings.

The real beast version of the lion king is just a large-scale collective nostalgia scene.

But if the lion king today is the magic of technology, then Simba 25 years ago is the magic of movies!