"Golden Compass" selects the most popular theme now: magic. However, another meaning of popular is flooding. From Fat Peter's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, to "Harry Potter," to "Narnia" to "The Golden Compass"... all kinds of movies are under the banner of magic, and then use VFX bombarded.
"The Lord of the Rings 3" won eleven Oscar statuettes, making the new line a lot of money. "Golden Compass" has lost everything, so that the new line, which is expecting to turn over, has no choice but to be taken over by Warner. The same are magic movies, why is the difference so big?
Lu Xun once said that he is not afraid to speculate on Chinese people with the worst malice, but I rarely use "bad movies" to evaluate a movie. But after watching "The Golden Compass", I really couldn't help but want to give it a bad word.
The story of "The Golden Compass" is simple: a "little sister" (son's favorite) gets a golden compass that can tell her everything she wants to know (mirror children's version?). One day, a good friend of this young lady was taken away by bad guys, so she went to swear to save him. Along the way, she met many friends, including a polar bear. With the help of friends and the golden compass, after a long journey of seven, seven and forty-nine days, the lovely lady finally defeated the bad guys and rescued her friends... The plot of the story is used to bluff my three-year-old son. Maybe okay, how many adults can be expected to expect this kind of melodrama?
Honestly, the film's stunts are so well done that I'm watching and thinking: the animal's hair is well rendered; the robotic insect effect took a lot of time to do; the polar bear runs and kicks in the snow The snowflakes are also quite realistic... In the end, movies are all about storytelling (except documentaries), but the story of "The Golden Compass" is so naive that you can forget that there is such a story, but focus your attention on the computer Stunt on! The director should really watch "Forrest Gump" a few more times to see how people incorporate stunts into the story with almost no trace.
"The Lord of the Rings" succeeded because the story was embraced by pocket-sized adults. The mysterious medieval style, the huge war scenes, the open high-altitude aerial shots... With the help of computer stunts, people feel shocking. The same computer stunts are almost used on a few small animals in "The Golden Compass". The only bright spot is the fight between two polar bears. That's all, there is no reality from the "animal world".
In any movie, the story comes first. The story is well told and everyone loves it. The same are magical themes, "The Lord of the Rings" caters to the aesthetic style of adults. "Harry Potter" is a children's story on the surface, but when you look at the plot and style, each one is darker than the other, and it looks like a children's film. It is completely filmed according to the preferences of adults. As for "Narnia", I was surprised by the popularity of the first episode. Such a childish movie made a big hit at the box office, which puzzled me. Maybe it has something to do with the popularity of the story itself in North America. This year, "Narnia 2" The bleak ending may be the result of this series. And "Golden Compass" is completely a children's film in terms of story and style, but it uses adults as the target of publicity... In addition, even if it is full of stunts, I still have to say that my old man is very concerned about the so-called so-called The "magic themes" have been exhausted.
The Golden Compass is one of the Dark Materials trilogy. But it is estimated that it is only one, two or even three? Unless the studios have their heads flooded.
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