Anno Hideaki said, wait for me to have a dream first

Curtis 2022-01-29 08:11:43

Japan was a defeated country in World War II, and it was the only country in the world that was bombed by two atomic bombs. This must have urgently forced Japanese literature and art workers to reflect on the role of nuclear weapons. There are many Japanese animations and live-action movies, Godzilla is the most famous image among them. Everyone remembers that Godzilla is a huge destructive force and nuclear material production, and after that, a lot of films have been filmed, and I will not mention this for the time being.

Now that Anno took over, Toho asked him to shoot a new Godzilla movie. Anyway, the production cost can't be too high, anyway, I don't expect to make a Hollywood-style blockbuster. (The domestic market is here, and now the overseas output capability of Japanese live-action movies is too poor, it is absolutely impossible to expect foreign markets to pay back. "New Godzilla" finally shot 1.2 billion yen, about more than 70 million yuan, which is actually Already high.) Anno Hideaki chose to return to the political side of Godzilla. It is a product of politics in itself, and in the end it has to be resolved through Japanese politics.

So for this movie, most people's impression is that there is a meeting, a meeting. Godzilla appears, meeting. Cause havoc, have a meeting. Attack, meet. Everything is resolved through meetings. Meeting Godzilla caused, at least to a certain extent, certainly caused the delay in dealing with Godzilla. But as the characters in the film say, the meeting is also a manifestation of a "democratic society" from a certain point of view, otherwise the Japanese high-level officials who were almost destroyed by the regiment would not be able to rebuild in a short time. And after all, it is a new thing, and it is definitely impossible to deal with it well. Although meat eaters can't plan far, but blindly listening to ordinary people will cause more harm. At the core of political films, Hideaki Anno is also in a state of contradiction for politics, especially Japan's politics. He knows Japan's clan politics and the problems of old people ruling the country, but it seems that he can only hope for the health that exists in the system. Promising talent.

Many Chinese viewers watched the film disappointed because they had expected it to be a special effects blockbuster, expecting a personal heroic way of destroying monsters. Seeing Godzilla's peculiar behavior, it turns out that most of the film we don't know where Godzilla is. Godzilla is a symbol. The film is basically full of conventional weapons. Even the final plan didn't show up on the outside, and we didn't see what happened to Godzilla's cells anyway. People who often watch special photography may find movies entertaining. In the film, I thought Godzilla was a leather case at first, but I thought that the leather case is of high quality. After a long time, I realized that several forms of Godzilla are all CG. I will miss the feeling of using CG to make a leather case. , after all, the earliest Godzilla is a leather case, and Anno Hideaki is a fanatical special camera fan. Godzilla's attack basically gives the crowd running shots first, then cuts Godzilla's attack, and then gives the vision. This is the normal way of thinking about shooting special films. If the Hollywood blockbuster is definitely the long shot, in the middle shot, in the close shot. This is the reason why many people think that movies are not good-looking, and they lack the viewing skills of such movies.

The movie is quite EVA style. The "Anno Blast" attacking Godzilla was the same as attacking the Apostles. Godzilla also has a pair of eyes, exactly the same as EVA, consciously engaging in the Uncanny Valley effect. Even the battle command room is the same as the EVA, there are a lot of terms and terms that you don't expect you to understand, you just need to feel very cool.

So what this movie is about is actually very simple. The movie calls on the new generation of Japanese to work hard, do their best, work hard for the people of the country, and preferably manage all the affairs of their own country by themselves. Unfortunately, as the characters in the film say, the time after the war is infinite. Did I become the Prime Minister of Japan as your (US) puppet? A call from Hideaki Anno, he has no intention of carefully designing complex and profound political satire criticism, and he does not know the solution. It is simply to say that I have this dream. Whether it is useful or not is another matter. Even if the condensed statue of Godzilla in the film coexists with the Japanese people, Godzilla is, after all, illusory and something that does not exist.

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Extended Reading
  • Clemmie 2022-03-22 09:02:56

    The fun of the meeting is really long aftertaste | I never imagined that I would be able to see the live-action version of eva in the cinema in my lifetime. The ruffian's telephone pole, railway, zero, Asuka, LCL, subtitles, commentary, left-leaning military house attributes, Germany, Heron Shiro, Mosha Xue, there are many. Godzilla in True Night is a heartbreaking beauty, unfortunately Shi Yuan's acting skills are not good

  • Einar 2022-03-23 09:03:26

    Godzilla's combat power has been fully upgraded, but an intermittent mode has been added, allowing humans to take advantage. But evolution doesn't stop, does it? The caricatures of bureaucracy and international politics are disingenuous. Hasegawa's performance as a politician is still crazy, and his aura is slightly inferior. The setting and music of Godzilla as a monster are back to the original. good!

Shin Godzilla quotes

  • Kayoko Ann Patterson: I won't see a third bomb dropped on the country of my grandmother, who lived through it.

  • Prime Minister Seiji Okochi: There is no precedent.