However, these reasons have never dampened the director's enthusiasm for adapting films. The adaptation of the film itself can generate a wide range of cognitive effects with the help of the original book, and no more brains need to be spent on publicity, and those die-hard fans will definitely spend money to find out. Therefore, although one film of this kind of adaptation has been scolded, the directors still rush to use the adapted film as their own transport stone. And this "Supernatural Powers" is also the product of this trend.
After experiencing the "baptism" of "Chunli Biography", "Tekken" adapted from games, and "Dragon Ball" adapted from animation some time ago, it is difficult for people to have much affection for this kind of movie. The screenwriters always tamper with the plot in the original work. For example, in the appalling "Dragon Ball", I am afraid there is nothing worthy of its name except Qigong Bo. In this movie, which was also adapted from animation, Shyamalan faithfully restored the plot of the original work. Although many places were deleted, the original plot was not added indiscriminately. In terms of special effects, for a film whose investment is less than one-tenth of "Avatar", this film also has the word "Avatar" in its original name. contacted). According to the performance of the scenes in the original work, the battleships of the Fire Kingdom, the palaces of the Shuishan Kingdom, the Chinese-style buildings of the Earth Power Kingdom, the huge bison appa and the flying lemur momo in the movie are all vividly displayed. The special effects of water, fire, wind, and earth elements controlled by dance movements are also above the general level. The foreign media commented that "you need to half-close your eyes to see the special effects", which is actually a bit exaggerated. However, whether the budget cost of 150 million yuan should have better special effects is also worth considering. Although Shyamalan is faithful to the original work and the special effects are acceptable, the film has not received any praise. This is the same as Zhang Jizhong's version of Jin Yong's TV series, which is also faithful to the original work and the special effects are acceptable, because it has lost the essence of the original work.
The slow pace and blunt dialogue are the film's most notable flaws. Incorporating the length of the first 20 episodes of the original animation into a short film of about one and a half hours, the plot should have been very compact and rich. But Shyamalan, who was the screenwriter, obviously did not realize this, but chose some plots to combine together. It's just that after he deleted many plots in the animation, he suddenly found that the remaining plots were not enough for a movie, and as a result, he used long and obscure dialogues and narrations to supplement them. This sense of slowness, in a fantasy action movie, will kill people's goodwill like a dose of poison. And the unpleasant-looking little monk with big nostrils kept showing "wu" to the camera, and the dart man Soka became a soy saucer in the middle of the film; when the prince appeared on the stage, his expression was fierce and he looked like the second generation of officials. , but suddenly became gentle and sensible in the mid-term; the "white-haired" princess who fell in love with the grass-roots dart man at first sight, the general Huozong who spoke cruel words all day but was instantly stunned by unknown people, and the little girl of Shuizong who always seemed to have a low IQ , these characters have lost the lovable features of the characters in the original work, and they seem to be a hodgepodge of pieces. The flawed details and the hard-to-like characters propel the film into the abyss of rot.
Many years ago, "The Sixth Sense" was regarded as the most classic and insurmountable peak in the history of suspense movies. And "Tian Zhao" is also a remarkable one among various alien movies. With the emergence of "Undead Robbery" and "Mysterious Village", Shyamalan's films clearly make people feel that he is going downhill. It can be seen that what Shyamalan needs most at the moment is a film that is well-received and swept away his long-term bad luck, so he chose to remake this TV animation that is well-known in the United States. It's just that his films have always been known for their suspense, and this transition to making Harry Potter-style fantasy movies is obviously a misplaced effort. We don't expect another "Sixth Sense"-like classic, but we also don't expect Shyamalan to make another movie like "Absurdity", which ruins both the original book and his own talent.
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