Directed by Wu Ershan, director of the "Fengshen Trilogy", and adapted from the "Peak Chinese Man" "Under One Man", the fantasy action masterpiece "Under the Alien" was released nationwide on July 26. In the recent premiere and roadshow, whether it is the setting of the new Inhuman worldview, or the cool and dazzling visual effects and music of the film, it has received praise from the audience.
The film is adapted from the comic "Under One Man" created by Mi Er, which tells the story of Zhang Chulan (played by Hu Xianxu), who has always hidden his identity as an alien, and after meeting Feng Baobao (played by Li Wanda), who has a mysterious background, he is involved in the whirlpool of battles between different alien sects.
One of the highlights of the film is the "unique" action scenes, each of which is based on traditional Chinese martial arts, and also incorporates pop culture elements such as dance and sports.
For example, when Liu Yanyan (played by Lan Xiya) performed puppetry, she integrated Tai Chi body method with hip-hop posture, showing the manipulation of the puppet, which is full of modernity and fashion.
In addition to the wonderful actions, the film also has more than 70% of the special effects shots, and the ability exercises have been greatly shocked "visual effect enhancement". When Zhang Chulan played the Golden Light Technique, the energy wave like the "Sun Corona" surrounded his body, making the "Golden Light Technique" seem to explode with energy; When Shen Chong released the "usury Qi loan", the "colorful Qi ring" was suspended in his arm; When Xia He played the "Prajna Palm", a pink lotus flower bloomed enchantingly, and countless crystal clear particles showed the effect of diffusing the fragrance; And Dou Mei's "intestinal poisonous smoke" gives you a "gentle but deadly" hug like a pair of big hands...... All of these make the audience instantly feel the extremely powerful attack power of the Inhumans. The audience expressed that they were so surprised that they couldn't take their eyes off it, "The concentration and excitement of this special effect directly make people speechless"!
Not only that, the film also added a variety of auditory elements, music director Monke Zhuolan listened to thousands of songs during preparation, and finally added a variety of music styles such as traditional Chinese folk music, pop music in the 80s of the last century, heavy metal music, etc., and each alien has his own exclusive music, just like the "fashion mix and match" of "DJ to DJ for you". From the "comic-sense" action design, the dazzling and shocking visual impact, to the "electric" dynamic music, and the cool and explosive high-burning scenes, the movie "Under the Alien" brought the audience a comic-like surreal visual tension and presented a new audio-visual feast of "different".
In order to pay homage to the original comics, director Wu Ershan drew inspiration from the comics to achieve a perfect fusion of the visual style of the comics and the interpretation of live-action. In the comics, Xu Xiang (played by Peter Chen) rescued the abducted Feng Baobao, Zhang Xilin (played by Shang Tielong) entrusted his orphaned young grandson on his deathbed, and Ah Wu (Feng Baobao) and the dog baby (Xu Xiang) accompanied by the countryside and other famous scenes were shown one by one, which attracted countless "original comic fans" to shout "Dream back to comics". The "time freeze" freeze-motion effect and the "comic-like" animation presentation show the "comic sense" to the fullest, which makes many viewers' eyes shine, "as if watching an immersive comic" and "feeling the love of Wudao for the original comics"!
Director Wu Ershan introduced that from shooting to filming, the reproduction of each "famous comic scene" must go through a total of 5 processes: real action shooting by actors, original picture facsimile, dynamic facsimile, 3D special effects production, and 2K to 4K technology. This time, it also solves the two most difficult core problems of traditional facsimile animation - one is to ensure that the image quality and accuracy are clear enough, and the other is to ensure that the face no longer flashes and the picture remains stable under long shots. Director Wu Ershan and co-director Xia Peng led the entire crew to constantly innovate in technology, realizing the first application of live-action facsimile animation combined with artificial intelligence technology in theatrical film production. With the blessing of new technology, the film not only retains the precious performance details of the actors, but also has the visual tension of painting style, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the various "joys, sorrows, sorrows" in the alien world in the comics, creating an unprecedented audio-visual feast of two-dimensional and three-dimensional integration.
It is worth mentioning that after last year's movie "Fengshen Part 1" set off a summer movie-watching boom, the movie "Under the Inhuman" rekindled the summer file this summer, setting off a new national trend of "Inhuman Summer". "I watched the gods last year, and I watched the stranger this year" has also become a movie-watching ritual for many fans this summer. The audience was attracted by the strange world full of Chinese cultural heritage created by the movie "Under the Alien", and many young audiences also intuitively felt the "cool and fashionable" of traditional culture after watching the film.
Director Wu Ershan not only insists on arousing the audience's enthusiasm for traditional culture through his works, but also continues the "strict selection criteria" for the quality of his works.
In addition, director Wu Ershan took the industrial production experience accumulated in "Fengshen Trilogy" and the main creator behind the "Fengshen team" into the production of the movie "Under the Alien", bringing everyone a cool and explosive audio-visual feast. And this also made many fans who are familiar with "Fengshen Part 1" feel quite surprised, "Last year was a magnificent mythological epic, and this year is a trendy Chinese ability, and Wu Ershan never disappoints."
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