Before watching " Falling into the Mortal World ", I thought it was nothing. The serious gods in the sky were not enough to cause harm. Now is it the turn of the son of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl? After watching
, I realized that the dark horse of this summer animated movie is probably this one!
"Falling into the World", which is a new Chinese-style Chinese comic film, originated from the short film of the same name from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts that became popular on the Internet four years ago. At that time, it was an original short film adapted from traditional mythology led by 13 students led by an associate professor of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Student's graduation project.
This short film was very popular at the time. It became a short film with tens of millions of views on Bilibili. It also won many awards in 2020. Hundreds of thousands of netizens "urged updates" in the comment area. Finally, five years later, an original video was produced based on this short film. The anime movie "Falling into the World" is released.
The story of "Falling into the Mortal World" is adapted from the folk legend "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl". Here we must thank God and thank God that our animated movies finally no longer need to repeat " Journey to the West ", "White Snake" and " Nezha " Now, 28 Stars has begun applying to compete!
Yasuo, the screenwriter of this film, said about the story of "Falling into the Mortal World": "The love and warmth obtained by the golden wind and jade dew in the mortal world are used to realize the unfinished mission of the Weaver Girl. This is a story of love and power flowing between family members. "
I am thinking about what it means. Our folklore "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" has a be ending, but it failed to get a good result. Later generations can't stand it. Let's give it a perfect closed-loop ending. After all, Parents have already suffered all their lives, and we can no longer suffer for our children.
The world view and script of "Falling into the Mortal World" are quite smooth, and the content can be regarded as a supplement and continuation of the Legend of the Weaver Girl.
The background of the story explains that the human world and the divine world were originally like two pieces of cloth, which were sewn together by the ancient gods when the world was created. At the same time, the threads left on the sky became the twenty-eight stars.
The original duty of the Weaver Girl was to use golden shuttles and golden threads to control these stars and maintain the basic stability of the sky.
The story of the Weaver Girl in the film is different from the traditional mythology we are familiar with. She is not a love-minded character who yearns for human love, but because of the jealousy of the villain, she is ready to use the power of 28 stars to cut off the connection between the human world and heaven.
The Weaver Girl, who was very professional and did not want to be separated from heaven and earth, stole 28 stars. She was attacked by lightning and fell to the mortal world. The person who rescued the Weaver Girl was the mortal Cowherd. Unfortunately, the two did not make it to the end and were killed by the villain. Leaving behind a son and a daughter living in the world.
Before talking about the male protagonist and the female protagonist, I need to mention that the names of the film, Jinfeng and Yulu, have their origins. Their names come from the song "Magpie Bridge Immortal Xianyun Nongqiao" written by Qin Guan, a poet from the Song Dynasty. The first lyric to describe the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, "Falling into the Mortal World" is very suitable as the name of the two children of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
After losing his mother and father, his elder brother Jinfeng worked as an immortal disciple under his master Lingbi Shenjun for 12 years. He was once deceived by the heaven. He felt that what his mother left behind was mostly shame and guilt. He passively accepted the rules of the heaven and even " "Recovering family memories" was also planned by a fairy.
Most mortals, like Jinfeng, especially believe in the orthodox authority of heaven, build many temples, and pray to the gods to change their destiny.
Because her sister Yulu is younger, her memory of her mother is very vague, but the nature of her blood relationship makes her have an indestructible attachment to Zhinu, and she has never succumbed to heaven. So later on, she inadvertently accepted her mother's spiritual inheritance and took her destiny into her own hands. Therefore, in terms of personality, the younger sister is more determined than the older brother.
Yulu and Jinfeng have a clear personality contrast due to their different environments. Although they both have a lot of feelings about their mother's absence, the elder brother Jinfeng follows the rules of heaven, but the younger sister Yulu likes to rely on her own way of thinking.
But later, Jinfeng was infected by Yulu and came into contact with the mortals at the bottom. He saw the fireworks of the human world and the hypocrisy and ugliness of heaven. This also allowed Yulu and Jinfeng to develop deep emotions, guiding Jinfeng to make decisions step by step. Change.
There is a very poignant section in the second half of the story. It tells about the rebirth of Jin Feng and Xiao Fan after the Weaver Girl's Golden Shuttle restored her divine power. On the surface, it seems to be talking about blood, but in essence, it is the Golden Wind that drives the Golden Thread's belief, allowing them to take the initiative. Choose to be each other’s family.
As far as our current animated feature films are concerned, passion has become the mainstream track. The story of "Falling into the Mortal World" is just like what director Zhong Ding said: on this track, predecessors have already made very successful cases.
There are already more case samples proving that this is a feasible business route, but for us, we definitely want to do something different, that is, I want to be creative and make some innovations. "
Therefore, "Falling into the World" can be regarded as stepping out of the comfort zone, getting rid of the routine assembly line story operation, setting an emotional direction of appropriate scale, assisting a certain degree of feminist tone, making the story full and moving, and more watchable. .
Although many details of the movie are a bit sloppy, the overall flaws are not hidden, and it has the potential to be a dark horse. If it is done well, there will be no problem!
