I felt very happy when I watched it in the theater, because the actor is excellent in figure, Rinko Kikuchi is handsome and beautiful, the two scientists quarrel with each other and the endless joy and the oriental elements that appear from time to time.
However, I have seen many people say that it is like EVA and Gundam. In fact, apart from mecha modeling and human-operated mecha settings, where does it look like? Depressed, this level of "likeness" is at best only the level of American sushi. Although they look the same, they are nothing more than rolls composed of rice, seaweed and raw fish, but they are actually two kinds of dishes. American sushi is said to be Japanese sushi made by American YY.
This film is like American sushi, using American ideas to make Japanese rice balls. Judging from the main line of the plot, it is a standard American story, and the elements of it, such as the cudgel contest between pockmarks, the hero and others, and the setting of the Hong Kong scene, can show some oriental flavor-well, of course it is also from the Americans. From the perspective of understanding.
I personally think that the most rare aspect of this film is the exquisiteness of the details, which is not achieved by many blockbusters (maybe because of the supervision of the production by a Japanese team?) For example, the car He Ohashi that was destroyed during the battle between mechas and monsters , The model is made clear and lifelike, while other details are appropriately turned into a joke in the movie, such as the seagull that was frightened off by the mecha in Hong Kong Bay. It’s fun, like it.
Part of the topic... I still want to talk about the oriental elements of director YY that I like very much in it.
1. The first synesthesia test of the male protagonist in Hong Kong was actually a stick fight. It was neat and tidy, with a faint sense of Zen (?).
2. The Hong Kong scene is so beautiful, magical, old-fashioned and dilapidated.
3. Rinko Kikuchi can’t be more beautiful~
4. The name "Monster" is actually in Japanese. Probably the director heard most lines when he was staying at home and watching Godzilla, "Weird 獣だ——". I thought about it for a moment. It’s a laugh.
5. At the end of the subtitles, there is a bunch of thanks and very special thanks to EVA, Godzilla, and Mecha Angel’s supervision, revealing the truth that the director is an anime dead house.
Well, if you look at the whole movie, the source of its shock is not limited to mecha VS monsters. From the beginning of the film, the death of the male protagonist’s brother definitely grabbed the hearts and nerves of all the audience at the beginning, especially in the comfort of “the battle has been won again, this is a matter of course” before this clip, suddenly Come here for a while, it really made me so fragile that I almost cried with fear and sadness.
In addition, the introduction and rendering of the mecha itself also increased the tension of the audience during the battle. Perhaps this is the difference between anime and movies. In anime, mechas can behave like human beings. There is no need to worry about a series of questions such as "Mechas can react quickly and freely like human beings. Is it really reasonable?" In the movies, everything is too real. Now, a cable as thick as a water pipe can be seen between the steel armor and the steel armor. It takes time to gather energy to launch missiles, and it takes time to switch between weapons and hands. This gap will be attacked by monsters. When destroyed, the parts will fly all over the sky. , Two pilots stand in the huge control room to control the mecha in a suspended standing position, and there is no protection device except the outer shell. In the case of EVA, the driver sits in the pop-up cockpit and controls it. In contrast, how safe is the EVA?
All in all, it's worth seeing. It is able to maintain the plot while showing the special effects, and there are so many cute and memorable details, which are much better than the small age of the next door to worship the golden turtle Si Niang and Yu Ma's brain damage palace lock agarwood, right~
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