As the title.
I watched the new version at the movie theater at night, and when I got home, I couldn't help rewatching the old movie, and then I was... very disappointed.
After all, who would have thought of remaking a classic movie after 20 years, the only improvement is the special effects (not all of them), and other aspects are completely crushed, which is very embarrassing. Countless flesh-and-blood characters have become very flat, and Simba's Scar is simply a bit broken.
· Simba as a child
In the old version, Simba's relationship with Knife Scar in the early days was a little intimate and a little affectionate. But in this version, the relationship between Simba and Knife Scar feels more like opposition. , Simba sees Scar not like "Uncle Scar", but more like "Ah, this is the bad relative of our family who is always against my father".
There is no way to determine which is better or worse, but I feel that in the original situation, the little lion is deceived is more suitable for cleaning up. After all, being deceived by trusted elders and being deceived by despised elders, the former seems to have a higher IQ.
Second, although silly and upright went to the elephant cemetery, after encountering danger, he also showed his excellent qualities as a prince: for example, when Shazu was caught by a coyote, he bravely came back to rescue; For example, when Nana was in danger, she quickly scratched a paw on the coyote's face;
When Mufasa came to rescue the two little lions, Nana said to him, "I thought you were very brave.
And in this version, those brave, shining moments that belonged to the protagonist have been cut out! Simba was recklessly deceived into taking an adventure, and ended his adventure in a disheartened manner. The last sentence Nana said to Simba directly turned into "I thought you were brave (I don't remember English, it's a disappointment anyway)"
Angry, motherfucker! ! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Why! This is not simply a matter of deleting a few plots and changing a line. This directly makes Simba's character design collapse! What is the writer's mind thinking? what!
My young and inexperienced, proud but brave Simba, became a pure two-five-eyed, big idiot.
· Scar
The old version of Uncle Scar was a sinister and deceitful conspirator. He was tough enough to kill his brother and soft and tough. In the early days, he bent down to his underage nephew and spoke softly, fooling the little lion into a stunned moment.
This version of Scar is... very upright, upright conspirator, eh? Whether it's against Mufasa or Simba, it's like I'm very stinky and I'm very dissatisfied with you guys. Big brother, if you want to usurp the throne, you have to coax the little lion to do stupid things. You have to act in the early stage! What are you doing with all your disapproval written on your face! (The key point is that Simba is still coaxed by such a scar, which makes the little lion even more stupid, ah, more angry┌( ´_ゝ` )┐)
PS, why did you add so many scars and Mufasa's wife's emotional scene in the later stage? Does it mean anything? Can someone please explain
· Baboon
I have no major resentment about baboons, just a little regret. After all, the character design has not collapsed, and I am very satisfied? It's just that many small details that are very poignant are gone (there is doubt here, I have the impression that the following scenes have been deleted, but I don't rule out the possibility of my bad memory... Welcome to correct me).
Here the baboons cry when Scar announces that both Mufasa and Simba are dead. He sees more and knows more than everyone else, and at the moment is crying like a normal person, the emotional moment of a crazy and psychic elder, this is so poking me QAQ.
In addition, when I found Simba, there were many such as: hitting Simba's head with a stick, scenes of madness and Simba gags, many dialogues were actually quite interesting, and these were also infinitely simplified.
Then, when it comes to the baboon getting back to Simba, I have to add a disappointment to the adult Simba (really, this movie, the more I think about it, the more angry I get)
· Adult Simba
Before the baboon enlightened Simba, Simba actually showed very complicated and sad emotions-
He didn't dare to agree to Nana's request, and the joy of meeting suddenly turned into the timidity that he didn't dare to face the past. Simba said to his father, who didn't know if he still existed in the sky, "You said you would always be by my side! But you didn't". This is a small grievance and small grievance for the people closest to him. I complained, but the person I was most involved with was no longer. This grievance became "it's all because of me, it's my fault, it's my fault", how much self-blame, how cruel, I felt distressed at the time he is. This is one of the most tearful places in the whole article. A few simple lines make Simba's image very three-dimensional, and I like it very much.
But in this version of the film, I didn't see any of these, these complex and surging emotions were simplified into relatively dry "self-blame and dare not face the past". It just feels dry.
· Coyotes
It turns out that the image of Sabie Xixi and the three coyotes is so classic! It has become the setting of "a majestic female leader + the main younger brother x2 + a number of miscellaneous fish younger brothers", why is it changed like this! ! In fact, the most laughing points are the three of them, right? (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)
There are many more, do not want to say.
The only innovation and brilliance of this movie to me is that it explains why the kingdom gradually declines after Scar takes power. I have always had doubts about this before: why did this country fall in an instant after Scar came to power, and there was no grass in an instant? Just because Scar and Coyotes are villains? What is the causal relationship between them? The movie explains a lot about overpredation, balance, ecological cycles, and it feels like it answers an otherwise confusing part of the movie.
Finally, it's about special effects
The special effects are very good, and there is a sense of pride in contemporary technology in the cinema. But I sincerely believe that contemporary technology can also make people more proud——
Because it is a real animal, it sacrifices a lot of expressiveness that is unique to animation, such as various exaggerated expressions, and the excitement of many classic scenes is also sharply reduced. Zu's big orgy
Like the scene where Scar meets the coyote for the first time
Now we may think that due to the limitation of technology and cost, it is inevitable for physical movies to sacrifice exaggerated expressions and exaggerated scenes in animation, but in the future, there must be more possibilities. Hope the future will be better
In general, it is quite disappointing, two stars for special effects and one star for feelings.
After all, 20 years later, I still somewhat take it for granted that time can bring more and better progress, not only in special effects.
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