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Before the start of the year, if you ask the old editors what they expect from China movies in 2020, the answer is no doubt — — "Seal the universe".

　

In the summer of 2019, an animated film (hereinafter referred to as "Nezha") won 5.013 billion yuan at the box office by word of mouth, becoming the first animated film to top the box office in China.

Considering the determination of the following "deification" theme projects, professional film media, including Today Film Review, have predicted that Nezha will be the prelude to "deification universe" in 2020.

Unfortunately, affected by the epidemic, Legend of Deification became the first film to quit the Spring Festival. It is not known whether the first part of the trilogy of deities, which is scheduled to be released in the summer, can be released as scheduled.

　

However, while waiting for the "universe of deities" to take shape, Sha Dan, the curator of China Film Archive, who is a guest of "Watching the Movie", as a film history researcher and film critic, has freshly cracked the "heaven" big villain mystery of "Nezha".

Today’s film review: the antagonistic relationship in Ne Zha

Emotional opposition bred by Tai Chi Yin and Yang

For most China audiences, it is not easy to make a decision to go to the cinema to watch domestic animation.

On the road of "Nezha" to the top box office of Chinese movies in 2019, it has a solid accumulation of "Guo Man" films that have been well-received by people in recent years.

In addition to the "burning" texture that has been rapidly improved in animation technology, the content arrangement of these "Guo Man" works, which is most talked about by the audience, still lies in the great integration of the essence of traditional culture and the spirit of the new era.

"Everyone says that this movie is particularly popular, but from a professional point of view, (it can succeed) is not a burning problem, and there are very strong skills." From a professional perspective, the outstanding impression that Nezha brought to Shadan originated from the antagonistic relationship between the concepts of Yin and Yang.

“The aura of heaven and earth, after the year before last, gave birth to a mixed pearl … …"Do you remember whose tone this sentence appeared at the beginning of the film?

He is a potbellied, trumping Taiyi real person. At the same time, he is also the point of view of the whole film.

"Taiyi is a Taoist, and Taoism has a very important Tai Chi symbol." Digging deep into the essence of viewpoint, Shadan found the key to the narrative structure and character composition of Nezha — — The antagonistic relationship between Yin and Yang in Taiji.

From the narrow perspective of film language, Shadan introduced a film term (knowledge point): the opposition between sound and painting.

Sound is contrary to the content of the picture, that is, sound is not an accessory or supplement to the picture, but excavates the inner activities of the characters from the opposite direction, or creates some emotions and hints some thoughts. The opposition between sound and painting has produced a new appearance and formed a new quality.

In Nezha’s innumerable opposites between sound and painting, Shadan chose two typical paragraphs in which Nezha started from joy but fell into sadness.

First, it is a scene in which little Nezha tries to play with other children in Chentangguan.

Looking at the children playing hide-and-seek in the streets, Nezha in babbling spread out his arms and planned to join them, but he didn’t want to be thrown into the mud by the older children who just thought he was a "magic boy". The innocent smile on the immature face is in sharp contrast with the vicious words around "the monster gets out of Chentangguan".

Secondly, it was Nezha’s third birthday party that Excavate "forced" all the people to attend when he learned that Aiko was dying soon.

Persuaded by his parents, Nezha finally smiled and went to the birthday party happily. But at the same time, people who have always been afraid of Nezha’s stubbornness are hard to smile, and musicians even play funeral music on this big occasion.

It is the strong emotional contrast that leads to the more tragic fate collision of the film theme.

The real "villain" who makes twin heroes

Compared with the original "Romance of the Gods", the biggest subversion of Nezha lies in the ingenious adaptation of Nezha and Ao Bing.

In Shadan’s view, Nezha and Ao Bing are actually the "double protagonists" of the film. "This kind of dual protagonist form is called the’ twin hero’ narrative style in the history of movies."

The term "twin" is materialized in Nezha by the concept of the opposition of Yin and Yang. "(Nezha and Ao Bing) One is the magic bead, and the other is the spirit bead, because the spirit bead itself is confused, which makes their respective emotions and humanity have a very twisted place."

What makes Shadan feel "twisted" is the huge collision between their completely different surfaces and their coincidences. Nezha’s keynote is sunny land red, while Aobing’s background is blue and depressing deep sea blue. However, hatred between different races has melted into heroic brotherhood in the warm scene of kicking shuttlecock on the sunset beach.

Analyzing the source of opposition in this theme, Shadan thinks of the "heaven" in the shocking sentence "I am not determined by heaven" instead of the obvious villain Shen Gongbao who plays a role in provoking the relationship between them.

"Who is’ God’?" In his view, there is a bigger "dangerous person" behind the fight between Nezha and Ao Bing, the incarnation of the White Dragon. "It is the God of the Yuan Dynasty, because of his reasons, Nezha and Ao Bing are doomed."

Distributing the wrong spirit beads and magic beads by Taiyi’s hand comes from the lofty and exaggerated "immortal" in the film — — Yuan Shi Tian Zun

In Shadan’s eyes, the image of Yuan Shi Tian Zun in the film represents an old and outdated attitude, and it is the director’s fiercest critical emotion that he closes the door at the critical moment of survival and does not see the bridge between Taiyi and Li Jing.

"In fact, the biggest villain, I don’t think it’s Shen Gongbao, but Yuanshi Tianzun, who made an established routine for everyone." Nezha, who didn’t give in to fate, rebelled against the ancient Buddha.