I always think that never forgetting is the happiest memory. Billionaires don’t always talk about how many zeros they have earned now, because for them, this series of zeros are just some unfeeling numbers. , On the contrary, they will always smash the first gold they got. In fact, I have always been fortunate that I have caught up with a good time, that is a time when a new era is handed over to an old one. We played various games handed down by our fathers, pushing hoops, taking pictures, playing slingshots, jumping grids, even climbing up trees and digging out bird nests, and digging mud loaches; we also felt all kinds of novel things, the eight-position machine The Nintendo games of the era, the transition from comics to cartoons, and the must-see cartoons at 6:30 in the afternoon. Although those novel things are nothing to children nowadays, for me as a child, it is a kind of stuff from cats in boots and little match girls to saints and Seiyas. Perfect transformation. You can hardly imagine a little boy using a cardboard shell as a holy cloth to paste on himself, or using the mousse that has just appeared on his head in order to create a little silly look like a super Saiyan hairstyle, but that I was when I was a child-until now I stubbornly think that I was the cutest person back then.
What makes me annoying is that I am not cute anymore. I have to consider the eyes of others when I do too many things. I completely lose the wanton imagination of my childhood and the excitement of exclusive enjoyment. And happiness. Although this excitement and happiness can only be found by memory, it is better than never feeling it again. So, at midnight, I went into the cinema, full of longing and reverence for the past time, looking forward to the performance of "Dragon Ball", silently thinking of those familiar names: Monkey King , Tortoise Immortal, Kiki, Piccolo Demon, Leping, Kobayashi...
Disappointment is unavoidable. I was mentally prepared when I watched the trailer in advance, but I was still a little caught off guard by the extreme disappointment. If it weren't for the small reactions of the people around me that can stimulate my excitement, I'm afraid I would fall asleep prematurely. Based on my understanding of Hollywood, I know that they will adapt this cartoon based on some assumed culture and structure, which is not part of the American cultural system, but I did not expect to be so horrible to gamble. As the absolute male number one in "Dragon Ball", Monkey King's name has been changed to "Wu Kun"! I really didn't expect that Americans would dare to be so bold. Could it be that they really changed their names out of the protection of Chinese cultural image? Monkey King (I don’t want to use the name "Wukun" for 12 million points) was designed as a student image, and he listened to his grandfather’s teachings. Although he has trained in martial arts, he cannot use it in school. . But because of the appearance of the heroine Qiqi, he had to make a move, and the two also fell in love with each other because of martial arts. Subsequently, the appearance of the Demon King Piccolo triggered a series of conflicts to save the world due to the search for the dragon ball and the awakening of the dragon. The characters in the movie selected the names of those who appeared in the earliest comics, including Guixianren, Leping, Bulma, etc., all appeared in succession. In addition to the two most important characters, Qiqi and Monkey King, they basically kept the comics. The character image in. The lust of the immortal turtle, the thief status of Leping, Bulma's high-tech methods, especially when Bulema sacrifices that unknown little thing in the movie to transform into a high-tech product, you can not only feel that this is in the whole film The details that are most naturally faithful to the original work make Yi Xi still feel some of the excitement of childhood.
As the original manga, "Dragon Ball" actually posed a big problem for later adaptors, which is the contradiction between the immortal expression of primitiveness and the high-tech expression of modernity. In the early pages of the comics, the Monkey Kings basically belonged to the category of primitiveness, bulky aircraft, flying somersault clouds, competitions, and even fishing and hunting. In the middle and late stages, more and more high-tech Means are flooded with them, sophisticated spacecraft, probes, aliens, and so on. For a comic with more than one hundred episodes, this change still has a relatively natural transition, but for a film of only 90 minutes, it is indeed difficult to mix all of these together. In particular, the background of the story, in order to meet the imagination of Western audiences, had to be placed in a modern American city, and even more so that the original fantasy full of mystery was greatly compromised. The somersault cloud that had been with Wukong was simply deleted, and the tournament has become an incomprehensible place-if it hadn’t been designed for a Kiki to be calculated by Bick’s men, it would lead to the plot of "true and false Kiki" behind. , The tournament will definitely be deleted. Through these two small changes, it is not difficult for us to find that it is not the lack of imagination that swallowed our childhood memories in the movie version of "Dragon Ball", but the compromise and impatience with modern cultural phenomena.
But the most important phenomenon of swallowing is based on the unshakable and even aggressive nature of American culture. The most typical example is that in the temple where the Turtle Immortal got the secret to kill, the master in charge was played by a black actor. Perhaps the Chinese audience will be very surprised that such an important "golden" character is a black actor, but those familiar with American film culture will know that Hollywood, which attaches great importance to ethnic culture, has people of various skin colors in a movie. All of them need a modulating performance. Just like the heroes and heroines of Wukong and Kiki must be a pair of student lovers, you can hardly imagine that if it is really like in the comics, Wukong is a child who grew up in the jungle, and Kiki is the daughter of the bull demon king. Then the West, or simply the American audience, will be surprised what it looks like. I always think that one of the main characteristics of modern culture is compatibility, but complete integration is always an ideal state. Americans shooting Batman and shooting the Lord of the Rings can become a classic, but they shooting the king of kung fu, shooting Dragon Ball will surely become a clown of four different things. The most exploitable of the two cultures is the phony expression of human nature itself. Like Kurosawa Akira's works of Shakespeare, he "turns you into me" in the cultural level, but retains the most authenticity in the depths of human nature. Connectivity. Of course, we can't compare such an entertaining "Dragon Ball" with the deep "Chaos", but what cannot be tolerated is the erosion of our childhood memories or cultural memories by American culture.
I don’t want to go to the cultural phenomenon that has been talked about for a long time, but when you see Leping and Bulma having a relationship in a bar, when you watch Qiqi seduce and inspire Wukong with a kiss, when all of this is happening When subverting your childhood memories, no matter how many special effects are used in such a film to fill the space of imagination, it will not make up for the lack of cultural memory that has passed away.
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