Text|Linghu Boguang.
Domestic animation in 2023 is good, in addition to the animation collection "Chinese Strange Tan", there are more excellent ** animations. But this year's animated movies are also good, the originally highly anticipated "Deep Sea" has mixed reviews, but there is a "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" that continues to counterattack at the box office.
This animated film has triggered a wave of movie-watching because of the good quality of word-of-mouth, and the original box office of about 600 million yuan ended on October 7, with a total box office of 182.4 billion, ranking second in the domestic animation box office list, surpassing the second place is 156.6 billion.
"Bear Infested 9" leads the third place with a box office of nearly 1.5 billion, and "Bear Infested 8" 97.7 billion followed, and the box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" was 97.7 billion, "Deep Sea" 91.9 billion, "Bear Infested 7" 59.5 billion, and the rest is "White Snake 2 Green Snake Robbery" 58 billion, "New God List Yang Jian" 55.5 billion, "New God List Nezha Rebirth" 45.6 billion.
Domestic animated films are probably like this, and they can be divided into three grades at present, the first class of "Nezha's Demon Boy Descends" (hereinafter referred to as "The Devil Boy Descends"), with a box office of more than 5 billion, is unbelievable, and it is already a phenomenal film that has broken the box office record in Chinese film history.
The second gear is below 2 billion, "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" is close, and "Jiang Ziya" and "Bear Infested 9" are about 1.5 billion. In fact, strictly speaking, only "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" is special, because it is a new animation without accumulation, "Bear Infested" relies on IP accumulation, and "Jiang Ziya" is obviously picking up the propaganda of the magic boy.
Over the years, I believe that many people who pay attention to domestic animation have discovered one thing, that is, whenever a domestic animated movie is released. There will always be people who compare "The Birth of the Demon Boy", what is overestimated, what I think is just like that-
The result?The buffs of "Jiang Ziya" and "Bear Infested" are stacked, but the box office is difficult to break 1.6 billion. "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" is similar, but it is difficult to hit 2 billion with its word-of-mouth. 4 years have passed, why is "Nezha's Demon Boy Descending" still the box office ceiling of domestic animated films?
Don't look at the magic boy who tramples on every time an animation is released, and there is no shortage of animation fans who dislike "The Birth of the Demon Boy". But "The Birth of the Demon Boy" is the first Chinese commercial animation to be an animation fan, an ordinary audience, and a family audience, which is the so-called family carnival animation. The laughter, tears, ignition, explosion, and knock points of this animation are very balanced.
The only thing that netizens complain about the most is probably at the artistic level, and other animations have also taken into account, but it is indeed not as artistic as the old version. But the question is, does the box office of movies with high artistic achievements have to be high?Here is an example, the mythological animation "Nezha and the Sea" of "Shangmei Factory" can be called a representative of Chinese animation art.
But even those who have not watched the original work of "Romance of the Gods" know that the original Nezha can be called the representative of "bear child paper", which is different from the Liangshan heroes that many viewers who watched CCTV's "Water Margin" think. In the original book, Nezha used Chaotian Aya to alarm the Dragon Palace, and the third prince of the Dragon King and Yasha came out to inquire and were killed for no reason, and the third prince was pulled out of the dragon tendons.
Later, Nezha tried an arrow to kill Shi Ji Niangniang's innocent apprentice, and Shi Ji Niangniang went to reason and was killed by the master and apprentice
Modern audiences can stand it, so "Nezha and the Sea" has to be changed to a drought and the earth is cracked, the Dragon King of the East China Sea does not rain, and he also asked Yaksha to go to the beach to rob boys and girls, Nezha killed Yaksha because of righteousness and bravery, and then killed Ao Bing, the third prince of the Dragon King, who came to reinforce - this setting.
Generally speaking, at that time, mainland mythological dramas were the same as all kinds of TV dramas, the cultural awareness of Chinese in the new era + the pursuit of traditional Chinese culture + the serious artistic expression of the mainland state-run = early domestic art dramas.
"The Birth of the Demon Boy" is so popular with the audience, I believe there is no need to talk about this production aspect, although the aesthetic is definitely not as good as "Nezha and the Sea", but it clearly surpasses the new era to open the first stage of domestic commercial animated films "The Return of the Great Sage", there are also a few in the middle but it is obviously inferior, and the second stage of "The Origin of the White Snake" can be at the same level.
4 years have passed, and the overall production level of "The Birth of the Demon Boy" has not been lost, and the individual level has been slightly inferior to the later domestic 3D animated films such as "White Snake 2", "Lion Boy" and "Yang Jian". Of course, the only one that surpasses the first gear in an all-round way is "Deep Sea".
But this technical level has never been an absolute guarantee for a movie to achieve box office results. Otherwise, you can't explain why the domestic animation box office was not so successful later?For example, Tian Xiaopeng's "Deep Sea".
The reason for the success of "The Devil Boy Comes to the World" is that the story is told in a new way of mythology, while ensuring the ignition, tears, laughter, pain points and explosion points, and in the new era of Chinese children's families, parent-child education must be involved, and the most important thing is that it is also very smooth.
And being able to impress the audience is what makes it successful.
For example, the whole dragon clan ripped off their hardest scales to make armor for Ao Bing, which is more like the whole family sending their children to prestigious schools.
For example, Li Jing's compromise and persistence for the sake of his own child, recalling that scene and saying that he was my son's touching and so on.
We have watched so many domestic animated films in the next few years, and you will find that the storytelling level of the director of "The Birth of the Demon Boy" is not the top in the world, but it definitely surpasses other domestic animated films by more than one grade. The script is only close to "The Return of the Great Sage", "The Origin of the White Snake" and "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an".
These three animations don't have as many "family-friendly" comedies, explosions and dramatic conflicts, and they are not as successful at the box office.
"The Birth of the Demon Boy" is a "family carnival", allowing the general public to spend money to buy tickets, which is not the main theme movie. Those who scolded what unit chartered always said that it couldn't come up with this movie, it was the public who spent money. checked it, and the number of viewers of "The Birth of the Demon Boy" reached 14.1 billion ranked second.
At the top of the list is 15.9 billion people, the third is 12.4 billion.
China's population of 1.4 billion, which has reached one-tenth of the movie-watching, what kind of charter, overreputation, overestimation, and hype can be obtained in exchange?Many people just don't want to admit this, it's just pretending to be a sense of superiority with high taste.
The evaluation of "The Birth of the Demon Boy" later began to be controversial, mainly because the public exited, fans, anime fans and some netizens began to quarrel. The evaluation concept of these people is completely different from that of the public, and the public looks at the points listed above.
It's funny and crying, the blood is boiling and tears, the family can educate the children, ** can ignite the heart against the sky, and even some female viewers can knock cp, even if they pursue something with depth and something to express. Does this animation have settings and plot lines such as "the prejudice of the human heart is a mountain".
This anime is also experimented with in depth, and it is well done.
If you want to talk about the shortcomings, it is probably for the sake of laughter and entertainment, and there is no depth to explain and portray the scene of this expression, resulting in some ambiguity and controversy in the expression.
Here is written from this point of view, the dragon clan gave birth to Ao Bing, what do you want him to do?It's okay to carry the hope of the whole clan and help the whole clan to be liberated, but what is the way?The Spirit Thief Pill was injected into him, and then he was asked to kill Nezha, who was supposed to have the Spirit Pill, and entered the Heavenly Court.
How did Ao Bing do it?At the beginning, I listened to the teachings of my father and ** without knowing it, and practiced martial arts and immortal methods hard, which meets the requirements of filial piety. Later, the plan of the Dragon Clan and Shen Gongbao was exposed, and they wanted to kill everyone in Chen Tangguan to conceal it. He was forced to be helpless and finally decided to make a move, but was defeated by Nezha.
Then Nezha is about to cross the catastrophe, at this time he hides and waits for Nezha to die, isn't it the same to achieve the goal?As a result, he ran to help Nezha, indicating that he felt that his behavior was wrong.
Such a character has his own thoughts, is sensible, and cute, and he can understand the audience's fans. Not to mention Nezha, he was originally the owner of the spirit pill selected by Yuan Shi Tianzun, but as a result, the spirit pill was stolen and the magic pill was injected into his body, causing him to have a tyrannical temperament by nature.
This is the theme of the movie, fate. No way, this is Nezha's fate.
Later, when he wanted to play with those little kids on the street, what did people do to him?When they saw him, they hid, scolded him, beat him, threw eggs at him. Combined with the attitude of the children when they mentioned Nezha, what is reflected here is the hearts of the people. You haven't done anything bad, but your strength is too strong, and you're a "monster", so we don't accept you.
Nezha was only teasing them, and little Nezha was only treating them with the means they wanted to treat him at first, and only lost control after they provoked him again and again. Li Jing, Mrs. Li and other characters are the same, there is no big problem.
The biggest problem is still with Taiyi Zhenren and Shen Gongbao, and Yuan Shi Tianzun is suspected of treating the two apprentices differently.
Shen Gongbao made trouble because he was not valued by Yuan Shi Tianzun, and he also said the famous line:"The prejudice of the human heart is a big mountain, which is also in line with what happened to Nezha and Ao Bing."
The counterpart to Shen Gongbao is Taiyi Zhenren, although this fat man who speaks Sichuan is very funny. But he often does bad things, and the follow-up story can be established because he drank and misunderstood, and in the end, although the spelling is a highlight to save people, it can't offset the title of "the prejudice of the human heart is a mountain", and the strength is still far from enough.
The other is the "Nezha Myth", which is mainly a rebellion against feudal patriarchy. Although "Nezha and the Sea" has been adapted, it is still the core of the work to return the bones to the father and the flesh to the mother.
Is "The Devil Boy Descended" a good movie after all?It must be.,4 years without animation can surpass it.,There's something you want to express.,The production is also OK.,The story is quite interesting.,For me, I think it's okay.,5 billion may be too much.,At least for now, Chinese animation movies are still top-notch.。
So, is "Magic Boy in the Sea" expected to surpass the box office of the first film?Because of the popularity and popularity of the first part, its starting box office should be 2 billion for "Jiang Ziya" and "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", etc., I think it is still relatively stable, but can it catch up with the first part or even surpass.
It depends on the quality and reputation of the movie, and whether the adaptation can be fully upgraded like the first one. Personally, of course, I hope that it will surpass it in terms of quality and reputation, and it can catch up with the best at the box office.
After all, 4 years have passed, and the color bar house and the mythical animation of chasing the light have proved that it is the real god.