The vertical screen movie Wukong is on fire. What does Huawei want to tell the world through this short film?

Yesterday, Saiya Skirt joined the film group and received a short film "Wukong" forwarded by some friends.

This film is the first bare-metal (zero external camera) vertical screen movie jointly shot by Huawei P30 pro mobile phone and Cai.

Although it was only 8 minutes, the majority of netizens were generally amazed by the beautiful vertical screen composition, retro nostalgia and absurd magic style.

In addition, Huawei is currently in a special period, and the film quickly detonated the network.

Wukong

Director: Cai

Screenwriter: Cai

Type: drama/short film

Country of manufacture: Chinese mainland.

Language: Mandarin

Release date: 2019/05/23 (Chinese mainland)

Duration: 8 minutes

Let's put aside Huawei for the time being and look at the film itself.

A series of still life descriptions at the opening made netizens exclaim as if they had really returned to childhood.

The first scene is the "Beetle Pulling a Car" that we used to play when we were children. In fact, all male friends must have done more cruel things to insects except pulling carts.

Glass balls, goldfish and small crabs set each other off in a fish tank.

And the kind of clock that hens peck at the ground.

Bad textbooks, old lamps. Handwritten notes pressed under the desk glass.

Glass photo frames full of black and white photos, black and white TV with long antenna.

And this part of the house was specially tuned into a warm dark yellow light.

As can be seen from the elements and positions presented in this film, the director has carefully designed every picture.

I don't know if it's really the "first movie". It's the first time to watch it at night.

It turns out that vertical screen movies are so beautiful.

After the boy was bitten by a snake, the film began to step into the magical realism style familiar to the director.

Magic realism is a style of painting and literature.

Reflected in the film, that is, in real life, under the premise that people are not easy to find, bizarre and grotesque phenomena are gradually derived, but people are unaware of it and take it for granted.

That is, it is an exaggerated artistic technique to organically and skillfully combine realistic things with exaggerated and illusory scenes.

Magic plots generally start with the least probable event in reality. The creator turned this minimal probability event into reality in the image, and on this basis, let the audience believe in the final result in this step-by-step process, which is far from the actual conditions.

In the film, after being bitten by a snake, the little boy quickly smeared herbs on himself and burned the snake and ate it.

Steal eggs from trees, catch fish from rivers, and start plug-in mode.

At this time, the soundtrack of the film also cooperated with the gradually crazy plot-adding drums and rich vocal background sounds, which was powerful.

The little boy came to a cinema. But obviously, the decoration style of this cinema is very modern.

The ticket inspector also told the boy that the movie ticket was decades ago and could not be used for a long time.

The little boy stood alone in the crowded cinema, and the costume of the Great Sage was out of tune with the environment.

When he came to the square, an old couple looking for their son recognized the boy. He looks exactly like the son they are looking for on the old woman's T-shirt.

Cai's magical reality reached its peak at the end of the film. A seemingly unexplained ending is also a clever and powerful metaphor-leaving half-life and returning to adolescence.

The film was released on the eve of Children's Day. Huawei official micro said that this is a "children's" dream of Wukong, and this film is also a holiday gift for children.

Night Road, like everyone else, thinks that movies are gifts from Huawei.

A while ago, it was reported on the Internet that Huawei independently developed a mobile phone system, and the new system was named "Huawei HarmonyOS System".

In the ancient times of China's myths and legends, before Pangu created the world, the world was a chaotic vitality, which was called "HarmonyOS System".

First, the system named "HarmonyOS System" was registered, and then the movie named "Wukong" was released-"Exactly: HarmonyOS system didn't have a surname at the beginning, which broke the stubborn need for Wukong" (in the first chapter of The Journey to the West, Bodhi ancestor named the stone monkey the Monkey King as the ending poem).

In order to realize his dream, the little boy waded through mountains and rivers and staged a Bell-style survival in the wild-after all kinds of hardships and dangers, he didn't flinch, but climbed mountains and killed all the way.

Isn't this the Monkey King's experience of finally learning from the classics after 81 difficulties?

Look at this posture before we get to the city. Isn't it the Great Sage?

This road not only inspires Huawei itself, but will not be afraid when it is difficult, but will forge ahead even more;

It is also to encourage every ordinary person to "face up to the dripping blood and face the bleak life" and not to be a deserter of life.

At the end of the film, after the teenager crossed the mountain and the river from a small mountain village in the 1990s, he didn't find the cinema he longed for, but traveled through time and space to the present day of 2 1 century.

What is the moral of this paragraph?

Founded in 1995, Huawei has become a giant in the world communication industry after 30 years. Looking back today, the hardships experienced in these 30 years can be said to be "a flick of a finger."

This ending is that Huawei encourages itself not to forget its active mind and "go back to the past"-let go of the existing figure, pick up the passion of starting a business at the beginning, be down-to-earth, start again, "find the future" by itself and let the giant rise again.

"What makes you sad, you will say it with a smile one day." With this mentality, we have reason to believe that one day in the future, we can tell our children the difficulties we experienced today with a smile.

Cai, who won the best film and the best director at the first Youth Film Festival with "Endless North", was originally a director of the legal channel of CCTV. He resigned from CCTV because he dreamed of becoming a film director.

Cai was deeply influenced by Castulica and Garcí a Marquez's Song of a Wanderer, and he had a special liking for absurdity and magical realism.

This style is very obvious in his first two works-the first feature film "Boundless North" and the short film "body double" for Ant Financial.

The little widow in Endless North can always help others in good faith and mysteriously hit the divination prophecy; While describing the real world realistically, the film exudes absurdity and even magic in many details.

In body double, the director uses twins to disassemble and modify the good and evil sides of human nature (similar to the way set by Detective Du Qifeng), and discusses the relationship between people's choice of good and evil and the trust chain between people.

Perhaps Cai can use this short film to win the opportunity to direct mass production in the future. We will wait and see.

Most of the popular short videos are shot in vertical screen. With the rise of short video, vertical screen movies have gradually attracted the attention of the industry.

As early as 20 15 and 16, there were "vertical screen film festivals" abroad.

At present, the well-known vertical video in China includes night amusement park series released by Taobao 20 17. Some netizens even sorted out the photography, composition and art production skills of vertical screen video based on night playground.

Night Road thinks that the vertical screen format is especially suitable for horror, suspense, documentary and other types of movies, but it is not necessarily suitable for other types of movies.

I look forward to seeing a vertical screen movie on the big screen one day earlier.