Director Ne Zha： Nezha is ugly to break stereotypes.
Qi bangs, dark circles, a Beijing film, and teeth from time to time. When Nezha, who stepped on hot wheels, came to the audience, the 2019 summer file finally ushered in a domestic film Ne Zha that really made the market "dry up". The film was released yesterday, and with the good reputation of large-scale fermentation in the previous screening, the box office exceeded 140 million yuan on the first day.
Jiaozi, the director of the film, was born in 1980. He has been a loyal fan of cartoons since childhood. In 1979, his masterpiece "What’s wrong with the sea" was his favorite. Being obsessed with animation, he graduated from West China University of Medical Sciences (now West China Medical Center of Sichuan University) and "abandoned medicine to pursue literature" and embarked on the road of self-taught animation creation. In this process, he had encountered a lot of prejudice and contempt from outside, and he liked Nezha, a bold character, since he was a child, so jiaozi came up with the idea of creating a new version of Nezha.
At the beginning, jiaozi wrote the script outline fairly smoothly. After sending the animation of Fang Caitiao House, the main producer of the film, everyone thought it was done well. Jiaozi quickly wrote the first version of the script while the iron was hot. "At that time, I was quite confident. I didn’t think it would change much. They called and said that it was well written. Why don’t you come and have a meeting? As a result, various problems of the script were pointed out at the meeting. " However, the script is an organism, which affects the whole body. A slight change in one place may affect the whole article. In this way, in nearly two years, the script was revised to the 66 th edition before it was finalized.
Nezha, the leading actor, and the role of "playing soy sauce", Ne Zha has made a brand-new design different from the previous version. Nezha’s image was nearly 100 editions. Later, when the final edition was selected, some people thought that this little Nezha with eight eyebrows and dark circles was too ugly to accept, but jiaozi thought that such a design was exactly in line with the central idea of the film, that is, "breaking stereotypes and turning around fate".
Aobing, the third prince of the Dragon Palace, has always appeared as cannon fodder killed by Nezha in previous stories, but in this film, his scenes have greatly increased and he has become a "spirit bead" role in contrast to Nezha, the magic pill. In appearance, Nezha is a combination of man and demon, while the opposite Aobing is a combination of man and fairy, with elegant figure and elegant manners, and a beautiful young image. In action design, jiaozi drew lessons from the series of movies "Huang Feihong" starring Jet Li: Ao Bing’s fighting refers to Huang Feihong, which is chic and light, and has its own master style; Nezha’s movements refer to Ghost Feet 7, and he is wild and passionate, chasing after him.
In the audience’s impression, Tai Yi, a real person with a sage like style, completely subverted his image this time, with a big belly and a mouthful of "Trump", which became the comedy of the whole film. For such a change, jiaozi revealed that the founder had also carefully thought about it. The Dojo of Taiyi, Qianyuan Mountain Jinguangdong, is located in Jiangyou, Sichuan. He said that the Sichuan dialect is not groundless. As for the pair of clown boundary animals who are in charge of guarding Nezha in the film, the image comes from the cultural relics of the Yin and Shang Dynasties unearthed from Jinsha site in Sichuan.
As a veteran movie fan who has read countless films, jiaozi designed many bridges and details in the film to pay tribute to his favorite classic works. For example, Nezha’s double-ball-head modeling and Ao Bing’s double-hammer weapon come from the 1979 edition of What makes the sea noisy, and Nezha gets the dance gun after mixing the sky silk and the fire-pointed gun, which completely reproduces the animation of that year; The action of the enchantment beast to pick up the enchantment with weapons is based on the domestic classic animation "Make a scene in Heaven"; Taiyi real people read "Self-cultivation of Immortals" and the people in Chentang County were surprised to bite their mouths. At first glance, they knew that they were paying tribute to Stephen Chow’s comedy; As for Nezha playing tricks on Ao Bing and Shen Gongbao with transformation, he was inspired by Jackie Chan’s masterpiece "Shuanglong Club" … … The extensive use and reference of old Hong Kong films, China traditional animation and even Hollywood animation has made the film form a mixed style.
It is worth mentioning that the names of more than 60 domestic animation companies appeared in the credits, and the number of people involved in the production reached more than 1,600, which is the film with the largest number of participants among domestic animations so far. This not only represents the current situation of China animation industry, but also is a collective self-help for the whole industry. Jiaozi said frankly that the productivity of domestic animation is limited, and many large companies are reluctant to accept Nezha’s order because the budget is too small, and they may lose money. They had to distribute it to a large number of small companies, some contracted the whole scene, some only made animations, models or special effects, and some companies were even willing to help at a loss, which made jiaozi very moved. "Everyone is holding on, hoping that domestic animation can produce more fine products, so that more people are willing to invest in this industry, can support themselves, and can live more proudly." (Reporter Yuan Yuner)