Film Name: 罗小黑战记 / The Legend of Hei
The movie I’m most looking forward to this September has to be The Legend of Hei.
As a fan, I was waiting for the official release on September 12, but last week a friend who saw the screening came back and praised the film, saying that the quality of The Legend of Hei is not limited to a “fan film”, which stimulated me to go to the screening as well. I couldn’t wait to go to a screening.
(PS: Tickets for the screening were too hard to come by, not only were there fewer screenings, but they were only available in a few cities, and they all filled up very quickly …… got posters and bookmarks.)
After watching “The Legend of Hei” movie, let’s be honest: even after removing the “fan filter”, this is still a good enough animation movie, and if you consider its 2D animation positioning, unique style, and pioneering genre attempts, it should be rated even higher.
Let me give you a brief introduction and recommendation of this movie….
There are not many works that can be called “Lifetime” series, and domestic web animation “The Legend of Hei” is definitely one of them.
This independent animator MTJJ led the production of flash animation premiered in March 2011, nearly eight and a half years a total of only 28 episodes (2018 is a whole year did not come out), an average of only 6, 7 minutes or so per episode, you can imagine the frequency of its updates ……
The Legend of Hei” may be small in content, but it’s got real substance. The cute and cuddly image, unconventional subplot, fresh and solid drawing, witty and deep story, and other advantages have made it have a lot of loyal fans, even if you haven’t watched the anime, you must have seen the little black cat’s expression on the Internet (bag).
On the basis of this achievement, MTJJ (wood) and his buddies wanted to do more, so there is this “The Legend of Hei” movie.
As a cinema movie, in order to take care of more passers-by, the film specifically tells a prequel story with “zero threshold for viewing”, so even if it’s your first time contacting Luo Xiaohei, you won’t have any barriers to understanding.
At the same time, the movie version of the original animation on the basis of the character design, background dimensions, image texture, laughs set, as well as the depth of the script have been fully upgraded, so there is no need to worry that the film will be revealed on the big screen network animation a certain “thin” – such as this high-definition promotional image, in which the film is shown to the audience, the “zero barrier to entry” prequel story. For example, in this high-resolution promotional image, the characters and scenes are well presented in the movie (you can search for a larger version of the image if you want to).
In addition, the film’s action scenes gave me many surprises, high fluidity, strong sense of impact, the two-dimensional animation (better than three-dimensional animation) that the “sense of painting” and moderate exaggeration of the “stretching toughness” and other characteristics of the best show, placed in the current In the current environment where “mainstream commercial animation is more 3D and less 2D”, it has a very positive significance and is guaranteed to refresh many viewers.
The Legend of Hei” in terms of hardware actually has not much to pick on, as for the software, director and screenwriter Wood contributed a high degree of completion of the script, which also improves the overall watchability of the film.
If you are a fan of Luo Xiaohei or are planning to watch the movie after its release, you don’t need to read further in order to keep the mystery; if you are not familiar with this IP and don’t think or plan to see the movie, then hopefully the following will change your mind.
The movie takes place in a world where goblins and humans coexist, and the protagonist, Blackie, is a small goblin who usually takes the form of a cat, and after losing his home in the forest, he begins to survive and roam the city on his own.
The Legend of Hei is a story of childhood innocence, growth and belonging, which can be seen in his characterization and image changes.
Unlike adult demons such as Wind Breath, Luo Zhu, and Void Huai, when Xiao Hei first changed his human form, his ears and tail could not be hidden, and he wore baggy clothes that were too “homey”, making him a child who lacked parental primping, with the phrase, “I’m not very good at changing yet! ” The phrase “I’m not very good at changing yet!” also reflects his young, sensitive and stubborn youthfulness.
Xiao Hei’s position is that of a child, pure and innocent, like a piece of “white paper” curiously feeling the world around him, waiting to be painted with the colors he sees.
But because of this simplicity, Xiao Hei is rescued by Wind Breath (the human who attacked Xiao Hei was obviously controlled) and allowed to be “abducted” by the other party.
Although the wind breath in the acquaintance of small black trick, but he and his side of the partners are also sincere to small black good, magic to make him happy, give him roast meat to eat, provide a warm shelter …… for small black from childhood “wild”, this For the young “wild” Xiao Hei, this favor is unprecedentedly intense, so only half a day of acquaintance, he took the wind rest as their family, and in the “strongest executor” unlimited to capture them to save themselves.
It can be said that the first color of Blackie’s involvement in the world is left behind by Wind Breath, and the person who painted the bottom color for his entire life is Infinite.
After being captured by the other by mistake, the two of them embark on a journey that melts their hearts and defenses.
The journey is mainly from Blackie’s point of view – the viewer, like the protagonist, feels the “world” slowly unfolding in front of his eyes, and gains a new understanding and experience. In this world, humans have gradually become the masters, and a certain balance has been struck between humans and demons, so that they can live together peacefully, and most of the goblins will live in their human forms next to humans, while some prefer to stay away from the crowd. ……
For a long time, Blackie was always hostile to humans, until Infinity took him to see many things, many people.
The most typical one is the first time that the goblin enforcers of the “Guild”, such as Hatao Lao and Ruoshui, appeared in front of Xiao Hei – the Guild is an organization that manages the affairs of the goblins in the human world, and most of the goblins who believe in “balanced coexistence with human beings” are under its rule. Most of the goblins that believe in “living in balance with humans” are under its rule, and the “enforcers” are specialized in dealing with all kinds of difficult events.
Prior to this, Xiao Hei contacted the same kind of people are only isolated wind breath and other people, he more or less will think that the way of survival of the goblins is “away from the human”, but the existence of Hatou Lao and others, so that Xiao Hei realized that the goblins can also have another kind of “close to the human” living method. But the existence of Hatchet Old Man and others makes Xiao Hei realize that goblins can still have another “close to humans” way of living.
At the same time, infinite to take Blackie to see all the “prosperity of the world” experience, but also make Blackie greatly changed the perception of mankind and the world.
Taste the rich cuisine, experience interesting inventions, ride a motorcycle, take the subway, live in a hotel, sleep in a big bed (PS: Infinite and Blackie into the room when the door also dropped a small card, which shows that “The Legend of Hei” in the details of the play in the finer points of the game as always) ……
Many days of intimate time spent together melted Hei’s wariness and resistance, to the point of saying to Infinite, “Wind Breath is not a bad person …… Neither are you.”
In my personal opinion, small black and infinite journey, the plot before entering the next stage, the most meaningful is the small flower demon of the scene, she is also infinite “picked up” wild goblins, power is not strong, not to mention when what the executive …… now she is in human cities Now she is working in a human city selling flowers and delivering flowers, and at first glance she looks no different from an ordinary human.
It turns out that the life of a goblin is not just about chasing and being chased, fighting and resisting, but that a goblin can also live a worldly, simple, happy and colorful life.
In the end, Black considers Infinity his family, and that means a home: home is not a place of residence, but a place where there is family.
I’ve left out a lot of the key elements of the plot, but I believe that just by relying on this part of Hei’s experience, you can get a general sense of the tenderness and kindness conveyed in The Legend of Hei.
There’s no real bad guy in this movie, just a wide variety of good people who are transparent or have good intentions, and that’s partly like the way we (positively) look at the world when we’re young: fresh, wonderful, beautiful, and always enthusiastic and sincere about the unknown.
In short, the movie’s style, story, and theme are highly consistent, like a pair of round-tipped scissors with cartoon patterns, warm and not sharp, but also in the hands of innocent children to cut beautiful paper cuts.
What is “healing”? This is called the healing system. If you still have tenderness and childlike innocence in your heart, “The Legend of Hei” will softly and tenderly melt your heart.
However, this greatest strength of the movie may also be the “flaw” that limits its sales – it is too warm, too soft, too harmless, with no bloodshed in the fights and no positive deaths, which, given the content of the plot, makes it a bit like In terms of the content of this episode, it’s kind of like a children’s playhouse with sponges everywhere, where the audience will never get hurt, but it also lacks some weighty “intensity”. ……
To be honest, “The Legend of Hei” is a genre movie with “very strong personal (author) style”, and usually this kind of movie will not have strong “compatibility” in the market, and it is not easy to get out of the circle of fans, some people will like it, and some people will not like it. It’s not easy to get out of the fanbase, some people will like it, some won’t, and that’s normal…
However, I still hope that people will go and see this movie, the quality of the movie itself is quite good and the “personal genre” deserves more attention in this market.
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