Once a year, the thunder can't move, and the theatrical version of Detective Conan comes again.
Boxing of Black Youth is the 23rd bullet in Conan's theatrical version, but it didn't catch fire first, and the title is sufficient-Japan changed its title and called for the disappearance of Sherlock Holmes for 20 years, which is "the last Conan film in Heisei era"; The story stage leaves Japan for the first time, and the "dead pupils" will go overseas with their "murder constitution"; In Japan, it has broken the box office record of 96,543.8 billion yen for the last theatrical version of The Executor of Zero, setting a new milestone for the series to surpass itself for seven consecutive years.
According to the cat's eye data, the box office forecast of this film in China mainland is 65.438+0.5 billion, which will reach a record high if it can be realized. On the day of the release, Xiao Dianjun hurried to buy a ticket, but he was a little embarrassed when he left. The actual quality of boxing in Qing dynasty can't be compared with its stunts. Just like a sandwich squeezed out in a hurry, I barely ate enough, and I almost didn't finish every layer.
As Kōbun Shizuno, former resident director of Conan's theatrical edition, said, "Reasoning, love and action are three indispensable elements in Conan's works." The latest "sandwich" is also matched and filled in this way. However, after kneading, the reasoning part of the role is lost, the motivation is a mystery, and the love part is incomparable, resulting in a crisis. Part of the action is chaotic, the scene is degraded, and the overall taste is dull.
However, for an evergreen series, even if the quality of a work is overturned, it will not hurt the bones. The more interesting phenomenon behind it is why there is an argument that "Conan's theatrical version is getting worse and worse" every year, but the golden attraction of movies is rising instead of falling. Obviously, the previous theatrical version has been praised to the altar, but the production mode has gradually changed?
And the question that has plagued us for many years, both love and fear-when will Conan grow up, when will Conan end, and should it end?
20 Years of Theater Edition: Three Stages and Three Models
Except the latest Qing Quan and the Zero Executor last year, Conan Theater Edition has always adopted the "director resident system", which went through three complete stages from 65438 to 0997.
Each director has seven films. If the top 2 1 films are arranged in order, we will find that their douban scores constitute a very coincidental and neat three-step ladder.
Looking back from now on, we can see the origin of change and the regret of quality decline.
M22 and M23 mainly rely on selling people to establish their charm and role relationship. An Shitou, the second protagonist in The Executor of Zero, is known as the "9 billion box office goddess", while Guo Qingzhi's Boxing features Serena Sebastian and Kyogoku Makoto, and the film style is basically the same as the previous stage.
In recent years, the most prominent feature and the biggest noise point of Conan's theatrical version is undoubtedly "strengthening action scenes and weakening reasoning plots", which was developed by the third director kūbun Shi Nuo. M 15-M2 1 directed by him has an average score of about 6.5. Among them, Sunflower of Fire and Nightmare of Pure Black, which cooperated with screenwriter Takahiro Sakurai, have the worst reputation.
Kūbun Shi Nuo's work experience is quite special. After graduating from high school, I went to study in the United States and worked in the United States for several years. He is a rare returned director in Japanese animation industry. Conan's theatrical version also parted ways with his "Ben Gail Reasoning", and gradually injected into the shooting style of Hollywood action movies. The scenes were grand, the car chase was exciting, the fighting was exaggerated, and the main character was omnipotent.
20 1 1 -20 17, the explosion of a football stadium (the 11th vanguard) that violates the laws of physics, stealing military information from the Aegis warship (a detective in the distant sea), a skateboard that is fire-proof, bullet-proof and collision-proof (an alien sniper), and breaking the wall with one foot.
With more and more explosions and weaker reasoning, the functions of skateboard, suspender and football are getting worse and worse. Under the situation that the screenwriter has limited control over the story, the director made a new idea and directly upgraded the "action drama" to "science fiction film", which is the transformation made by kūbun Shi Nuo for the theatrical version and his "legacy". 20 18 Conan's football has been able to change the trajectory of satellites, and cars can rely on trains to run smoothly on the rails.
Compared with the popularity of Shizuka Sakamoto Wild, the second director Yamamoto Yasuichiro's style is more moderate. Yamamoto Yasuichiro has a deep relationship with a famous detective Conan. When the TV version of 1996 was released, he joined the production team, directed more than 30 episodes, and participated in each theatrical version to varying degrees, among which M8-M 14 was the director, with an average score of about 7.5.
The ratings list of Yamamoto Yasuichiro's drama edition.
It can also be seen from the professional experience that from 2004 to 20 10, Yamamoto Yasuichiro's seven works often give people the feeling of "lengthening TV series".
He expanded the story stage, with planes (the magician of the blade), cruise ships (the plot on the horizontal line), islands (Bibi's coffin) and airships (the sunken ship in the sky) appearing in turn, but the presentation of the "three elements" was not as exquisite as that of his predecessors. I'm afraid what the audience remembers most is the trembling music.
The formula of "reasoning+love+action" has actually been established in the first seven theatrical editions, but the key lies in which one is the main one and whether the distribution is appropriate. From 1997 to 2003, M 1-M7 directed by Kenji Kodama was recognized as the highest level of Conan's theatrical version, with an average score of about 8.5.
The cooperation mode between Kenji Kodama and screenwriter Kazunari Kouchi is basically based on self-consistent detective stories, decorated with reasonable action scenes, and finally brought * * * sound with delicate emotional scenes.
In addition to the pictures quoted by CCTV, Death of Baker Street involves artificial intelligence and virtual reality, the serial killing of playing cards in The Fourteenth Goal, the castle puzzle in The Magician at the End of the Century, the confession line "I like it better than anyone else on earth" in Murder of Primary School Students, and The Crossroads of the Maze are full of gentle winds, which push everything to the top, and all these have become the best.
Strive for transformation: Surrounding the core or expanding the audience?
It is not difficult to find that Conan's theatrical version often repeats itself. Some ideas have been used up even in the first seven films.
M2 1 Tang Hong's Love Song is a companion piece of M7' s Crossroads of Labyrinth, and M 10' s Song of the Detective's Soul is an amusement park where M4' s Murderer among Pupils is reused. Since Haidong Blackfield appeared in M3' s The Magician at the End of the Century every few years, it will once again appear as a propaganda point. Similarly, every few years after the M5 "countdown to heaven" appeared, a black organization would come out to save the scene. At last, one of the CP would be in trouble, and then the routine of saving the United States (mostly Lan Xin) would be staged. It has not changed since M 1 "Bombing skyscrapers". ...
The classic bridge of "Detonating Skyscrapers"
No matter in China or Japanese, the first seven works are all highly rated. However, Kenji Kodama, who was also the director of the first 250 TV series, stepped down, and Kazunari Kouchi, the screenwriter, was too old (20 16 passed away with regret). Hisashi Nozawa, who only wrote for M6, hanged himself ... His creativity was limited, and his main creation was gone. Under various objective conditions, it is difficult to reproduce the classic model, but the film version is always taken.
Just as Conan faces the eternal problem of red and white roses, the theatrical production team may also be entangled in this set of choices-whether to keep the original flavor as much as possible, continue to take reasoning as the axis, emotion+action assistance, or change the formula to find another way out?
At the same time, the external environment and audience of Detective Conan are also changing. When it was born in the 1990s, its rival was a book by Koda Ichi, which was more original in reasoning and darker in painting style. It is not only diligent but also unusual, so compared with Jin Tianyi, Conan's readers are more teenagers.
But more than 20 years later, Conan was able to go to Didan Primary School with his schoolbag on his back, and the audience was bigger than Xinyi.
This means that the original audience is bound to be lost year by year. Taking care of the core audience or attracting passers-by fans is a trade-off that all IP movies have to make, and Conan's "long life" brings a particularity: some former "cores" have also begun to become "passers-by", and it is good to have a high level of reasoning, but seeing Kidd's handsome players and a new Xiaolan sprinkling sugar is enough to replace a movie ticket.
Change didn't happen overnight. In the second seven years, the theatrical version fell into a swing, but it led to mediocrity. In the third stage, just by chance, all three ingredients are the same, but the primary and secondary are reversed. In the mode of Hollywood action movies, running all the way.
Facts have proved that after kūbun Jing Ye took over, Conan's theatrical version did have a better response in the market. Each of his independent films, M 17-M2 1, has set a series of new box office records. M22 and M23, which follow its model, have successively exceeded 9 billion yen, and Boxing to Win the Blue has risen to the top 50 in Japanese film history.
In addition, contrary to the domestic audience's cognition, on Filmarks, Japan's largest rating website, the reputation of the drama did not decline as in August, July and June, but Kenji Kodama > Shizuka Sakamoto Wild > Yamamoto Yasuichiro.
It can be predicted that since a business model has been proved to be feasible, the future theatrical version will continue to shoot like this. "The return of the classic theatrical version" is probably just a delusion that will not come true.
Contradictory feelings: should Conan end?
There are 23 theatrical editions, 23 years of TV broadcasting and 25 years of comic series. Detective Conan has long been the feeling of a generation. Continue to chase or just watch, there are always memories of his childhood on the TV.
You may have forgotten some bizarre killing methods in your early years, and the wooden door creaked open by the midfielder ... but you will always remember these old terrier dug up every year: Hang Conan, Shadow, Hawaiian Technical School, Gin is too difficult, Don't mess with me, Conan, I have watched more than X00 episodes. ...
Conan is no longer just an anime work, but has become an important part of popular culture.
Things have changed for a long time. In reality, we are getting old, and Conan is changing unconsciously. For example, the face of a character is comparable to plastic surgery. For example, the mobile phones used in the drama range from mobile phones to direct computers to smart big screens ... It may be difficult to find another work, which not only records the times synchronously, but also adheres to the "companion positioning" for so long.
It is this virtual companionship that makes "parting" particularly difficult. All the audience will have such ambivalence-on the one hand, we often ridicule "Life", hoping to see Conan grow up and see the end of the struggle with black organizations, especially how several emotional lines will end. On the other hand, if that day really comes, it is likely to be accompanied by a little bit of panic and loss, which represents another seal of memory.
Over the years, I bid farewell to Naruto, Death and Silver Soul in turn ... Those well-known novels have been serialized, and now only Conan and One Piece are still strong, which magnifies this ambivalence of "hope and fear" several times.
But up to now, detective Conan really can't stand it. The increasing commercialization of the theatrical version is only a signal, reflecting the fact that the quality of the whole work line has declined.
After all, G?sh? Aoyama can't stand years of erosion. When he announced the long-term suspension of publication on 20 17, countless audiences at home and abroad were worried, and everyone realized that the author's physical and mental strength was no longer enough to support high-intensity output. In fact, Detective Conan has been interrupted frequently in the past two years. From 2065438 to 2009, there are only four episodes of comic stories on TV, which is far lower than the normal frequency in the past.
The original work is not supported enough, and there is still a long industrial chain dragging downstream. Numerous staff members rely on IP to eat, and the style change of the theatrical version becomes inevitable. The basic plate is big enough, and the practice of "eating the old money" and "selling feelings" is becoming more and more obvious.
If Conan drags on for a few more years, not to mention the new ones, the age of the first audience is almost close to Uncle Maori, how much affection can we leave to welcome Conan's ending?
Richard Moore seiyuu was changed as early as ten years ago, and the "big Boss" that has been speculated on the Internet for many years has also been published by the author with the word 1000.
Perhaps it is time for Conan to say goodbye to his companions and companions, and it is also time for the theatrical version to launch the "final chapter".
Natural and man-made disasters such as Honshu earthquake and Kyoto animation fire will not happen again. There is also a more terrible hidden worry than the ending: the rotten tail. No one should want to see, for example, Detective Conan dragged on and failed to end in an ideal way, and then "dog tails" like Empresses in the Palace and Dragon Ball Super appeared to tell Kudo Lan's story.
Of course, before that day comes, Xiao Dianjun will continue to wait with you.
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