Xin Haicheng finally went from "two-dimensional" to No-Maji world

Maxine 2022-03-22 09:01:33

"Your Name" has accumulated a total of 19.49 billion yen at the box office, surpassing Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke" and ranking third in the box office of Japanese domestic films. The top two are "Howl's Moving Castle" with 19.6 billion yuan, and God-like "Spirited Away" (30.8 billion).

If the box office cannot prove that the movie is good, then the novel of the same name "Your Name" won the championship of the annual library sales list with 1.197 million copies sold, which is enough to prove how popular this story is.

The love story of high school students not only moved the fans of the two-dimensional boys and girls, but also made countless middle-aged uncles burst into tears.

Xin Haicheng finally went from the "two-dimensional" to the No-Maj world.

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A fan girl asked at the director's meeting: "Director, what kind of love did you have in high school to make such a work?" I have never been in love, so I can conceive such a movie."

Uncle Shinkai Makoto, Nianfang 43, a genius in the animation industry, is world-renowned for his beautiful painting style. How beautiful is the picture? Everyone says that just taking a screenshot can be used as a desktop.

Most of Shinkai's works are about student romances. Why is he so obsessed with high school girls? Is it because of the regrets left in high school, or is it simply a kind of idiot behavior? unknown.

But maybe we can find the answer from the resonance of the uncles. It is said that many straight men cried to death in the cinema, so there was such a social news: A female high school student in Chofu City, Japan was approached by a strange man in a baseball uniform and said to the girl, "I I seem to know you. The other party then called the police.

You can't imagine how pure the heart of an uncle who has never been in a relationship in high school is like Makoto Shinkai, and the idiot who talked to a girl after watching a movie.

It is conceivable that Makoto Shinkai was ordinary and lonely like most people in high school. He secretly liked a certain girl, but he couldn't resist the low self-esteem in his heart, so everything can only be imagined. Does that girl also like me? ?

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to take a look, and I fainted in the crowd. All are regrets, lifelong regrets, even if we live under the same sky and pass by countless times, there is no way to say, I love you.

You see, Xin Haicheng's story is basically this routine. From "Five Centimeters Per Second" to "Your Name", the emotions and routines are similar. The purest feelings at first always make people feel a little sad after they grow up.

At the end of the movie, the male and female protagonists finally meet on the street. Although they can't remember each other's names, the face with the story is imprinted in their hearts, "Your name"? Let all lonely and searching souls get warm comfort. When can I find you among thousands of people, it is the knot that many single uncles have been dreaming about.


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Xin Haicheng's several feature films have always been criticized for one thing - the stories are scattered and trivial, and behind the beautiful pictures is actually an endless emptiness.

In fact, Xin Haicheng really can't tell stories? No, his films are more emotional than narrative. Emotion is a double-edged sword. If you feel it, you will feel the same. If you don't feel it, it will be incompatible.

Makoto Shinkai's films, whether it is a beautiful picture or a BGM that is so good to hear, are all designed to bring the audience into a certain mood. Once the mood is in place, the story is not so important.

It's like your first love, after a while, whether it's sad or sweet, smiling or crying, it's all emotions. You may have forgotten the trivial details, but it still feels so close.

Makoto Shinkai's works are designed to make you relive certain emotions, memories, loneliness, regrets, loneliness, and reluctance. It may not be a specific event that strikes you, but rather a sudden surge of emotion.

It's just that emotional movies are especially easy to get out of control. Too much immersion will make you feel self-pity and hypocritical. Once the emotional transmission fails, the whole work will be lost. "The Garden of Words" is the best example, blindly setting off emotions, but ignoring the audience's expectations for the direction of the story, so that it seems so boring and uninteresting.

Audiences don't want to experience emotions blindly. Regret and sadness will become boring soon. They like twists and turns, suspense, last-minute rescue, and happy ending. This is an eternal truth.

In fact, "Your Name" has been constantly expressing the urgency of not being able to meet, just like "Five Centimeters Per Second", even the scene of searching on the street at the end is the same. But why is this movie so touching that the idiot uncle believes it to be true?

Because "Your Name" not only focuses on emotions, but at the story level, it is closer to the people, rather than just being emotionally oriented. Shinkai Makoto perfectly integrates emotion and narrative. Although it's a bit cliché, the storytelling can only rely on routines. If you don't play cards according to the routines, you will be smashing the old ancestor's signboard and be the enemy of the audience.

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"Your Name" is a bit more complicated than Makoto Shinkai's previous works. Parallel worlds, time and space travel, emotional connection between people, bridges of male and female body swapping, especially the plot of touching the chest after the body swap, add a lot of joy and amusing atmosphere to the story.

It's still a high school student's love, but it's not limited to that. The connection between people is the only driving force for the operation of this world. Once people lose contact with each other, the whole world will be destroyed. Connection is life, time, and the meaning of existence.

The encounter between people is not so much an accident as it is an unavoidable necessity.

Maybe I'll forget your name, it's okay, I'll find you and tell you my name myself.

Saving the world with love has become the grand theme of the movie. On the basis of this theme, it is still the ignorant emotion of high school students. Regret and grief turned into a happy ending in the end. Once the audience is brought into that situation, it's no wonder you don't cry to death.

Some people say that it is because there is no way to surpass Ghibli, so Makoto Shinkai decided to make a movie that can be understood by middle school students, high school students and even fools. Well now, he has succeeded. The idiots not only cried, but also learned from the people in the movie to find people on the street to talk to. "Your Name" is such a movie for idiots to watch.

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  • Janiya 2022-03-20 09:01:33

    After reading it, I suddenly feel that my wife is good, um, I myself feel that my thoughts are inexplicable

  • Zechariah 2022-03-21 09:01:39

    No one really sees that this is about Fukushima? ? ? ? Wallpaper Cheng paid tribute to himself over and over again, but fortunately it was still comfortable. Scores are deducted from the mix, the music is too loud, although it is really hypocritical, but the hypocritical is really comfortable... Even if the setting is approved, the rationality of this film cannot be carefully studied (doesn't the mobile phone change for three years and this is still the biggest one) stalk). I thought the rescue at the last minute would be a teenager, but I didn't expect it to be a girl, and it wasn't filmed...

Your Name. quotes

  • Miki Okudera: Thanks for today. This is far enough. You be happy someday too.

    [waving goodbye]

  • Mitsuha Miyamizu: I shouldn't for her sake

    Yotsuha Miyamizu: [Walks into room to find Mitsuha touching her boobs] You sure do like your boobs.