What kind of idiot would invite a group of professionals to attend the premiere of an animated movie?

Many people are very puzzled.

"If I fall asleep later, please don't wake me up,"

Film critic Choi Sung said with a smile to his companion around him.

"You know, I've been busy over the past two days with my daughter's affairs and I don't even have time to sleep. Now is a good opportunity."

The Mr. Sun, who was sitting next to him, was a film critic like him. The two met at a premiere and became good friends afterwards. After hearing his good friend say this, Mr. Sun also smiled and whispered: "Don't worry, I can't. Maybe I slept earlier than you."

Apparently both of them have no interest in this movie.

Yes, they both already have children, how could they still be interested in this kind of animated movie?

Cui Cheng hasn't watched this kind of thing seriously for more than ten years. He only occasionally saw it when he was with his daughter. The ones who were more impressed were Blue Cat and Pleasant Goat. For adults like him, they are things that can't be watched with just a few glances. Of course, that's TV animation, but is there any difference between animated movies and TV animations?

At least in Cui Cheng's opinion, there is no such thing. Animated films have always been a weakness of the Chinese film industry, and they are not as strong as the small country next door.

Mr. Sun and Cui Chengshi have similar ideas, so when the music came with a majestic momentum at the beginning of the movie "The Lion King", both of them were stunned.

“#@…%#@”

The lyrics are not Chinese or English by the masses, but rather a strange prophecy that they have never heard of, like a shout or a call.

Music has no borders, but this is full of wild shouts, which suddenly reminds people of something like the primitive tribe. The pictures on the screen are constantly montage, scenes after scene appear one after another, rhinos, zebras, leopards and other animals appear continuously, giving close-ups. Different scenes and different species have the same action, all looking in the same direction.

This is not the end. Accompanied by the primitive wild singing, the camera follows a group of geese, the long view of the waterfall in front, the distance of the elephant, the long depth of field overlooking the sky, the close-up scene of the antelope cycling by...

Where is this an animation? It’s completely a movie!

And once it starts, you can't stop.

They watched the newborn lion being raised high, looked at his naughty as a child, how his uncle designed to kill his king's father, how he stayed away from his hometown to escape his inner anxiety, how he grew up and eventually grew up to become a truly strong man and the king of the forest...

As an animated film, "The Lion King" obviously cannot be as complicated as "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum". The entire storyline is extremely simple, almost a straight line, and is not wrapped around, but it makes adults not tired of it. Choi Sung is just when he saw the ending subtitles appearing, he realized that he had finished watching the movie.

He actually finished watching an animated movie? Not to mention sleepy, he didn't even want to go to the toilet?

If you are an ordinary audience, your first reaction is probably "This cartoon is good, I like to watch it", such as some viewers sitting in the back.

In addition to media people, the crew also specially sold some tickets to the audience. The specific requirement is that if families with children, parents can bring their children to watch the movie, and the ticket was naturally sold out. These audiences are now sitting on the scene and watching the movie in full.

The reactions of those children are very simple and direct, and they will not hide them. If they get close, they can hear them, "Dad, I want to be the Lion King! I want to be the king! Mom and Dad, let's watch it again. Mom, buy me a lion. My birthday gift this year, I don't want Pleasant Goat, I want Simba! Mom, let's not eat pork today."... The adults were also talking, "This cartoon seems pretty good. I don't know if your son understands it. He definitely can't understand it, but you can see his excited look, you must like it very much, just like it. It's not easy to let him sit quietly for more than an hour. Your daughter still wants to watch it, are you still watching it? I'm afraid it's too late to go back. I can only go to another place to watch it. I only have one show here, and I don't have a place to buy tickets."...

These are the reactions of ordinary audiences, and as film critics, senior professionals will naturally make a difference.

Cui Cheng was surprised that he was not asleep at first, and then sorted out the memories of the movie just now before gradually recovering.

This is a unique cartoon.

"Did you notice it? The lens."

Mr. Sun said this to Cui Cheng. When he turned his head, he saw Mr. Sun looking at him with bright eyes. "Close-up, long view, close-up, long view, push, pull, turn, shift, and montage order of the lens... and so on, all of this is exactly what I once told you about my idea. Now someone really uses this method to make animated movies, and the technique is so skillful and smooth, it is completely a real movie!"

Cui Cheng nodded, "That's right..."

For ordinary audiences, the focus of watching this kind of animated movie is all about the story, picture, and character image, but for professionals like them, the focus is different, with many more aspects, such as the use of lenses.

In most cartoons, the producers only make stories and pictures, and never care about the lens. If you use movies as a metaphor, then most cartoons now have only one kind of lens against each other. This is the most basic, rigid and boring lens language. It can be said that cartoons and "lens" are insulated. Cartoons do not seem to have this concept, and even animation movies are the same.

Take the Pleasant Goat movie released at the beginning of this year for example. In addition to the story being pitifully retarded, the camera is also pitifully retarded in Choi Sung's opinion, with infinite fighting against each other, which makes him unable to see the difference between this so-called "big movie" and the family animation version.

This kind of thing is called "movie", which makes him feel that he is insulting the word "movie". This is also one of the reasons why he was not optimistic about "The Lion King" at the beginning. It is because he was bombarded once at the beginning of the year.

But "The Lion King" gave him a completely different feeling.

He just seemed to have forgotten that he was watching an animated movie... Yes, animated movie, after watching this movie, he finally admitted the meaning of the existence of this noun.

Not to mention the seemingly simple but profound meaningful stories, people of different ages seem to have different understandings, sometimes magnificent and sometimes exquisite music, real and full scenes, vivid and likable character styles, interspersed in all stages of the story from beginning to end, and some of them make him, a mature adult, laugh at him...

Oh, my God, when I recalled it carefully, he realized that this movie has so many advantages, but all of this is organically integrated to form the simple and smooth story just now, which does not appear to be bloated or difficult to understand. It truly serves the story, adds color to the story without overshadowing the main point, which is the most valuable thing.

So Cui Cheng couldn't help but stand up and applaud when he saw the main creative team come on stage again.

Compared with many teams in China who are eager to make a work that is just trying to shock the world, perhaps only this kind of team that has been working silently for 90 minutes and has been working hard for three years can make such an animated movie. They deserve such applause.

Many people liked this movie. Duane only heard the applause from below on the stage, which lasted for a long time, and the children cheered and noisy and whimpering sounds that were almost unheard by some people around him on the stage.

He glanced quietly and saw that several people, including Shen Leping, had their eyes red, and some people bit their lower lips hard, and their chests were undulating violently.
Chapter completed!