Special feature of 1905 film network Since its release, it has won the single-day box office champion in a row, and the platform has also improved the forecast of the final box office. animated moviesList of New Gods: Yang JianIt showed the same sincerity as the audience expected, and also got corresponding feedback.
Douban score rose from the initial 7 points to 7.1 points, which was much better than the previous series.
What can’t be ignored is that in the face of this achievement, there are also some controversies: plot setting, character setting and drama style … … Faced with this series of questions, the 1905 film network exclusively talked to the director of this film, trying to find the answer from it, and perhaps under such watching, we can find a more convincing motive for the story.
1905 Film Network Interview with Evonne, Director of "The New God List: Yang Jian"
01. Establish Yang Jian.
Who’s Yang Jian?In the animated film, he is a black-bellied uncle and a proper villain; In the novel The Journey to the West, he is handsome and handsome, and he is an absolute positive image; In the TVB version of the list of gods, he is also the simple and honest person.
In short, in the minds of most audiences, the recognized image of Yang Jian, namely Erlang God, is born with three eyes and a roaring dog, and there are no more pictures. Unlike the Monkey King or Nezha, he has a consistent personality, which also brings various creative opportunities to Zhao Ji and his team.
"Yang Jian’s (image) will be vague. Can we sort out a brand-new image for everyone through a film?" This has become one of the key purposes and reasons why people choose Yang Jian after deciding where to go.
But how should we solve the problem?In the novel The Journey to the West, the pre-history mentioned when describing Yang Jian is that "the axe split Taoshan once saved the mother, and played the palm and the double phoenix"; In the well-known "Lotus Lantern", agarwood once saved her mother by chopping a mountain. Even at the beginning of the animation "Lotus Lantern" of Shanghai Meiying Factory, when Erlang God was dealing with the Three Notre Dames, the Three Notre Dames once questioned that she was born of a mother and a mortal. Why do you still have to do this?
"I think there is something wrong with it, so there is a story to explore."Based on this setting, the team started the creation of New God List: Yang Jian. At that time, around the middle of 2019, the team was working hard on the production of New Gods: Nezha Reborn, and at the same time, it was exploring the possibility of the follow-up of the "New God List" series.
As all the audience’s feedback, Yang Jian in The New God List: Yang Jian is very handsome."Compared with Nezha, I think Yang Jian is very handsome, and he is a noble, fighting capacity, and has always had a sense of distance and mystery with the audience. But when we are creating, we hope to bring the role closer to the audience. "Therefore, from the early stage of creation, Evonne decided to highlight his humanity.
In order to make this Yang Jian jump out of the past, the team made him even more down and out. "What would it feel like to be blind, wearing a headscarf on his head and losing his past aura?"
In the first act of the film, Yang Jian’s comments about the outside world remained irrelevant. It’s just that in his mind, everything is for the sake of righteousness."The eye of the eye is actually the mind’s eye", and Evonne has set the stage for the reopening of the eye of the eye behind.
02. Yang Jian X agarwood
Heaven and earth are cruel, and everything is a dog.When the story advanced to the end, Yang Jian really understood that what he was guarding was just a scam. At this time, his eye was reopened, and he was no longer "feeling covered" as he said before.
"From the beginning, his eyes were blindfolded, and at the end, he opened his eyes and saw the truth." This is a change in his mind’s eye, and Zhao Ji wanted to show the growth of Yang Jian.
In this growing process, Aunt Shen Xiang’s split mountain is not the main line, but an important branch line to help Yang Jian open his eyes. "He is helping the new person (Shen Xiang) and his new self to do this from the perspective of an experienced person."
In Evonne’s creation, when Wan Luo told him the truth of the story, Yang Jian began to understand, and the whole story entered the third act. "On the beacon tower, when he was playing the harmonica, he wondered what all this was for, which were real justice and which were so-called scams."
"At this time, he has to make a choice. After all, for a long time in the past, he always thought that what Master said was correct, but now it seems like a joke. "The agarwood beside him is his nephew, and it is his most real blood relative. What he wants to do is not to believe unconditionally in one side, but to find the truth together.
On the one hand, Evonne hopes that Yang Jian can achieve self-growth in the process, and at the same time, he hopes that the audience can "feel their affection and selfless understanding of this love" in the film.
After all, this love is not just family, but in the end, the sacrifice of the Three Notre Dames is a responsibility that can be passed down and protected the world.
03. agarwood X Shen Gongbao
Yang Jian may have stood still, but the setting of Aquilaria sinensis and Shen Gongbao has caused a lot of controversy.In the "New God List" series, Yuan God is the key play eye, which proves the growth of the characters.
However, unlike Li Yunxiang in the previous New Gods: Nezha Reborn, there are three different forms of Yuan God in this film.
In fact, this change is the performance of the team’s growth in the role of agarwood.
"There is a line in the movie,’ You became a Yuan God at an early age’, but Aquilaria Resinatum is actually a Yuan God with the help of Shen Gongbao." Plus, influenced by Shen Gongbao, the whole Yuan God is green, not orthodox gold. "Because he is eager to save his mother and hopes to gain energy, that Yuan God is just like Li Yunxiang’s early one."
"The second time, although I didn’t control the Lotus Lantern, with its power, I still made the Yuan God more complete and became golden." But his ability is still limited, which leads to many weapons that don’t belong to him.
It was not until the end that he really grew up to be a teenager who guarded the world’s righteousness that he and the Lotus Lantern became one and formed the final appearance.
On him, besides his uncle Yang Jian, Shen Gongbao is another key figure.In many film and television works in the past, Shen Gongbao either had a leopard mount or a leopard became an elite. But in the original work, he is actually a Taoist image, and his mount is a white-fronted tiger, which has nothing to do with a leopard.
In The New God List: Yang Jian, the team restored this image as much as possible.
In Evonne’s view, Shen Gongbao is a good and evil character. "He is a very sincere person with his own ideas, demands and ambitions, but at the same time he is also a kind person who takes care of the younger generation very well."
In the creative process, the team referred to Liu Ling, the "Brewmaster" among the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest. "His values of doing things are just like those of the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest and the celebrities in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Because he was frustrated in troubled times, he found a more chic lifestyle."
His ambition and pursuit actually saw hope in agarwood. In the movie, he has a line. I think this child is like me.
"On the one hand, he regards Aquilaria as an apprentice. On the other hand, he is lonely, and Aquilaria is an orphan. They are a companion. Although they have their own purposes, their feelings are true."
With the promotion of emotion, Shen Gongbao’s ending has become inevitable. As a villain, he has more sad faces. But in Evonne’s view, this does not necessarily mean that he is dead. "I think this is an interesting place for immortals. They have their own possibilities. In fairy tales, many characters become gods after sacrifice. So we thought that we might let him out in other forms later. "
As for what the future will be like, Evonne kept the mystery for the time being.Only for the whole series of "New God List", many viewers expected that there would be a linkage between New Gods: Nezha Reborn and this work, but little did they know that this linkage only appeared in the eggs.
"I still hope that there will be opportunities in the future to make these characters really collide."