With the arrival of the Qingming Festival, the 2024 Qingming Festival has begun. Among the 8 new films released during the Qingming Festival, the 96th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, animation master Hayao Miyazaki's new work "What kind of life do you want to live " performed well at the box office and continues to lead the Qingming Festival. As of 17:36 on April 4, the film's single-day box office exceeded 148 million, surpassing " my sister " and setting a new single-day box office record for new films released during the Qingming Festival in Chinese film history.
Currently, the film has been released for 2 days, and the total box office has exceeded 250 million. This work condenses Hayao Miyazaki's 83-year-old life experience and insights. It is called Miyazaki Hayao's "life movie" and is also his work that won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film again after "Spirited Away ". .
It took seven years
Dozens of painters insisted on hand-drawing with pencils
"What kind of life do you want to live" currently has a Douban score of 7.8. The movie tells the story of a young real man who forms a new family with his father and stepmother after his mother is killed in the fire. Zhenren, who was deeply saddened, was gloomy and lonely. In an accident, he followed a talking heron into the mysterious tower, entered the fantasy "world of life and death", and began an incredible adventure...
Watch the movie Afterwards, some viewers said, "I believe everyone can find their own answers about life, ideals, good and evil from this movie." Some viewers also said, "Every frame is full of vitality and vitality, as if you are in a magical world."
The imaginative fantasy world, the cute wow wow, the changing heron... the film brought visual surprises to the audience. "What kind of life do you want to live" lasted seven years. Dozens of painters participated together and insisted on hand-drawing with pencils to create a magnificent fantasy picture. It is the largest-scale production of Studio Ghibli.
It is reported that Hayao Miyazaki has very strict requirements on the details of the film. He spent a full 4 days on the scene of real people eating jam in the movie, just to maximize the reality of the flow of fruit seeds and jam.
Facing the scars of childhood
Hayao Miyazaki drew many close friends into the movie
"Retired seven times, comeback seven times", will "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live" really be Hayao Miyazaki's last movie? ?
Before the film was released, Toshio Suzuki, chairman and producer of Studio Ghibli, went to Shanghai to meet with movie fans. Starting from Hayao Miyazaki's famous film "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", Toshio Suzuki was deeply involved in 11 of Hayao Miyazaki's animated films. Film production. Suzuki Toshio revealed that after finishing "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live", Miyazaki said to himself, "This is really the last one."
Hayao Miyazaki, 83, uses his love for animation to support his body that "has to retire". At the beginning of creation, Hayao Miyazaki was "prepared to die while making this movie", and he also projected his own personal experience on the real protagonist. This character has a reflection of Hayao Miyazaki in his childhood: he was introverted and gloomy since childhood, and his mother was tortured by illness and could not get close to him...Miyazaki faced his childhood scars in the movie.
Hayao Miyazaki once said to Toshio Suzuki, "The heron is you." It is worth mentioning that Hayao Miyazaki drew many of his close friends into the movie to accompany him on his adventures. In addition to the prototype of the heron, Toshio Suzuki, the "tower owner" uncle symbolizes Hayao Miyazaki's "life mentor" Isao Takahata in his animation career, and the sassy fog symbolizes the color designer Michichi Yasuda who has worked with Hayao Miyazaki for many years. World.
During the production of the film, Isao Takahata passed away due to illness, which was a huge blow to Hayao Miyazaki. In the film, the real person refused to inherit his uncle's legacy. Suzuki Toshio said "this is a very critical scene." This refusal was a very difficult decision for Miyazaki Hayao to make. In the movie, Hayao Miyazaki finally completed his farewell to Isao Takahata, which moved countless viewers to tears.
Toshio Suzuki also revealed an interesting story about his daily relationship with Hayao Miyazaki. Hayao Miyazaki would call him in the middle of the night just to tell him that he couldn't sleep, which made people laugh.When talking about the 46-year friendship between the two, Toshio Suzuki said, "I have many paths to take, but when I met Hayao Miyazaki, I decided to go with him." "The two of us will always be together until the end of time." Until a person dies."
Red Star News reporter Zhang Shihao editor Zeng Qi
