, as the most authoritative and influential award in contemporary film, every Oscar award has attracted the attention of global audiences. Every year the mainland will choose a movie to represent the mainland of China and compete for Oscars. There is no doubt that "Nezha" was selected to compete for the Oscar, which is a great recognition of this movie.
However, "Nezha" competed for the Oscar, but it caused many netizens to question. Many netizens said that "Nezha" is indeed the benchmark of domestic animation movies in recent years, and it is a rare phenomenon-level animation movie in China. But letting "Nezha" go to compete for the Oscar is undoubtedly a "cannon fodder" and can only waste a place in the competition.
In fact, "Nezha" does have flaws such as not smooth plot and depth of content. And the traditional core that we are proud of is also difficult for foreigners to understand. It is really difficult for "Ne Zha" to stand out from many excellent movies.
But in fact, for "Nezha", winning is not the most important thing.
"Nezha" competes for the Oscar, which can encourage domestic animation filmmakers.
Although the Oscar is a very golden award, the mainland film selected "Nezha" to compete for the Oscar. The greater significance is that it can encourage domestic animation producers. .
Everyone knows that domestic animation movies have always been the shortcomings of the mainland film and television circles. When we refer to animation movies, we often think of Hayao Miyazaki in Japan and Disney in the United States, but few people can think of excellent domestic production. Anime movie. In fact, domestic attempts at animation movies have never stopped.
started from 2009's "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" with nearly 100 million box office, to 2015's "The Return of the Great Sage" became the highest-grossing domestic animation film in mainland movie history with 956 million box office, and then to this year's "Where "Zha" has a box office of nearly 5 billion, and domestic animation movies have actually been advancing slowly, and the public is getting more and more hope of seeing domestic animation movies.
and "Nezha" competing for the Oscars is undoubtedly a recognition, promotion and encouragement of domestic animation. It tells many domestic animation film producers that domestic animation is promising and even more promising. It can even represent mainland movies and compete with many excellent foreign films.
"Nezha" competes for the Oscar, the focus is on cultural output
and winning the Oscar, is it really important for Chinese films? Actually not necessarily.
Looking at the list of Oscars selected by the Mainland in recent years: 2009 "Mei Lanfang" 2010 "Tangshan Earthquake" 2011 "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" 2012 "Search" 2013 "1942" 2014 "Nightingale" 2015 "Get Out "Tumor King" 2016, "Datang Xuanzang" 2017, "Wolf Warrior 2" 2018, "Evil Do Not Suppress Righteousness".
From the above-mentioned movies, it is not difficult to find that, in fact, movies such as "Datang Xuanzang" and "Search" are not strictly "good movies". But why these movies can represent mainland movies to compete for Oscars?
Because mainland movies do not need to be recognized by the Oscar, to put it bluntly, the Oscar is only a foreign award. No matter how high it is, there is no way to eliminate cultural differences between different countries, nor can it be guaranteed to be complete for all participating films. Justice.
Therefore, compared with winning awards, mainland movies pay more attention to cultural output. "Datang Xuanzang" represents ancient Chinese mythology, and "Search" represents the current status of China's contemporary Internet. To a certain extent, these films can represent Chinese culture.
and "Nezha" represents the combination of ancient Chinese mythology and domestic animation movies. "Nezha" competes for the Oscars, which will allow more people around the world to see Chinese traditional culture and at the same time deepen their understanding of domestic animation movies. "Nezha" can let more people know that China is not unable to make excellent animation movies. On the contrary, not only can we make them, but we can also have a strong cultural core.
"Nezha" competes for the Oscars, which can help mainland audiences build cultural confidence
The mainland chooses "Nezha" to compete for Oscars, which can also greatly help mainland audiences build cultural confidence.
Cultural self-confidence has always been something that we lack, and this is exactly the origin of "Cultivation of foreigners". Many people always think that everything is good in foreign countries, but not in China. In fact, Chinese can also be very good.
Many people say that "Nezha" is not eligible to run for the Oscars. Why is "Nezha" unqualified? As an anime movie, "Nezha" has the best 3D special effects, character creation with distinctive personality, and the fighting spirit of "I can't control my life".
No matter where you look at it, we cannot deny that "Nezha" is a good movie, and it is not worse than the so-called "Marvel".
The mainland selected "Nezha" to compete for the Oscar, it was precisely this group of people who slapped them in the face and told everyone that we should improve our cultural confidence. The moon in foreign countries is not rounder, and the moon in China can be larger and rounder.
So, "Nezha" competes for the Oscar, "cannon fodder" is not "cannon fodder", winning or not winning is actually not the most important thing. The important thing is to be able to encourage domestic animation filmmakers, to strengthen the output of Chinese culture, and to build up our cultural confidence. Compared to these, the so-called "awarded" is not worth mentioning.
