Thinking of this, Zheng Rong was suddenly filled with awe.
As an oil painter, he also worked hard and spent three full years just to paint the artwork in his mind. Because of this, he understood better than anyone how difficult it was to complete a work like "The Old Man and the Sea".
But, this is the attitude an artist should have!
Regardless of the actual content of "The Old Man and the Sea", at least, judging from the meticulous attitude of the production team when making the animation, this animation is completely worthy of the finale status!
His eyes inadvertently glanced at Mu Suxing sitting in the front row again, and Zheng Rong nodded secretly in his heart.
He also knew about the news that was making a lot of noise online some time ago. Although he would not draw conclusions about a person based on the news on the Internet, he did not have a good impression of Muxuxing because of it. After discovering that "The Old Man and the Sea" became the finale of the art festival, this bad impression turned into dislike.
However, after catching a glimpse of the actual scenes of "The Old Man and the Sea", Zheng Rong changed his mind about him.
In this day and age, goods can be faked, faces can be faked, news can be faked, but a person's diligence and hard work cannot deceive anyone.
Take the list of the production team as an example.
In the art world, there has always been an unwritten rule: when a performance or a work is completed by a team, the order of the list on the official list is usually arranged according to each person's contribution to the work.
In the list of producers just now, Mu Suxing's name was ranked first.
Those who ranked behind him were all well-known seniors in the animation industry. Zheng Rong did not think that these seniors would give up the first place to Muxuxing for some other inexplicable reason. If so, then there was only one answer left -
In the animation "The Old Man and the Sea", Mu Suxing does not exist as a minor character brought in by his predecessors to gild the reputation. Rather, it is quite the opposite. He is the real core of this animation project team!
A young man who has reached the pinnacle of commercial animation at a young age, but is not affected by the material environment at all, and is able to calm down like a true artist, and devote himself to an art animation that cannot bring him much actual profit. How could such a person be what people say on the Internet, a person who seeks fame and reputation
Of course, for a work of art, the medium and method are secondary. The most important thing is the expression of the creator contained and represented behind the work.
I just don’t know if the spiritual core of this animation is as shocking as its appearance
Zheng Rong began to feel a little excited.
In the huge Huaijiang Grand Theater, some people watched the show seriously, while naturally there were also people who watched it carelessly.
When the animation just started, the young reporter actually watched it very seriously.
As the saying goes, if you don't investigate, you don't have the right to speak. Even if he wanted to write an article about this in the newspapers afterwards, he should have read the actual content of "The Old Man and the Sea" first, right? But he never expected that such a finale work at the Muse Art Festival could be so boring!
He watched along with the others for a while, but within three minutes he began to feel drowsy.
That’s it
He considered himself to be a person with a certain level of art appreciation. He had seen the world when he participated in other art interviews before. At that time, many artists would praise him for his good questions after the interview. He also thought that "The Old Man and the Sea" was at least good, but the result was just like this
If this isn’t a blatant lie, then what is
Thinking of this, the reporter was too lazy to read on. In order to avoid falling asleep due to the hypnosis of the animation, he simply thought about the press release he would write later.
Because of this, he did not notice that the artists who had previously looked at the animation with strange eyes, now leaned forward uncontrollably, and their previous indifference and slightly careless expressions on their faces were replaced by full concentration.
Accompanied by the sound of waves, after the subtitles ended, the animation camera quickly shifted from the panoramic view of the small harbor to the protagonist of the animation.
This is a very haggard old man, he looks skinny, his dark face is full of wrinkles from wind and fatigue. This old man who lives in a harbor where fishing is the main industry, has not caught any fish for 84 consecutive days.
Once again, the old man climbed ashore with nothing. The acquaintance child took the fishhook and harpoon for him, and the two walked back while talking.
"There's a pot of fish and yellow rice. Would you like some?"
"No. I'm going home to eat. Do you want me to light a fire for you?"
"No need. I'll be reborn in a while, so maybe I'll just eat cold rice."
"Can I take the net?"
"Of course."
It was a very tedious conversation, but it made everyone's eyes light up, and their hearts also became heavy.
What really brightens my eyes is the precise and realistic portrayal of this animation. With just a few shots and a few lines of dialogue, the old man's character and current situation are fully expressed vividly - and the heaviness of the mood is naturally due to the dilemma the old man is facing at the moment.
It seems that the conversation between the two people does not seem to have any gold content, but those who have followed the plot all the way know that there is actually no so-called fish cooked with yellow rice in the old man’s impoverished home, and the big net that is easier to catch fish was sold to others due to the pressure of life during the days when no fish could be caught.
This seemingly plain and simple conversation is actually nothing more than a lie told by two people who know the truth to deceive themselves.
Wang Chan was silent.
Ordinary audiences might feel puzzled by this plot, but Wang Chan, who was born in a peasant family and had suffered a lot since childhood, would never think so.
She had been through similar times.
Obviously, the food at home is no different from pig food, and there is nothing slightly better. When we occasionally talk about eating in our daily life, we always say some inexplicable things. One says, let's have braised pork for lunch today, and the other says no, I'm on a diet recently, let's do it next time.
It may sound ridiculous, but for their family who had a poor harvest that year, this lie, which seemed meaningless and self-deceiving to outsiders, was a tiny bit of strength that supported them during that period.
However, the animation in front of her was so delicate and realistic that she almost immediately recalled her youth, and she couldn't help but start worrying about the old man in the animation.
What fate will he face next
Can he catch fish
On the big screen, the animation plot continues.
In the following plot, the production team seemed determined to depict this kind of heart-wrenching suffering to the extreme. After waiting for a long time, the old man took his fishing gear to the sea again and started another attempt, hoping to successfully catch fish and improve his life, but he was once again devastated by fate.
The old man finally caught the fish.
But the fish was so huge that the old man not only failed to pull it up, but was dragged by the big fish along with the fishing boat to some unknown place. This torture for both the fish and the man ended in the failure of the big fish after more than ten hours.
It finally died.
Wang Chan, however, was looking intently at the old man on the screen.
He looked very tired. For an old man who was already skinny, going without food and sleep for more than ten hours was a cruel torture. His hands, which had been tightly grasping the fishing rod, had already cramped like a corpse.
Will he return safely to the harbor
Reason tells Wang Chan that as an artistic animation short film, "The Old Man and the Sea" is not just a story about fishing. But emotionally, because she has the same experience, she subconsciously puts the old man in the animation into her heart, and secretly hopes that he will be seen differently by others and no longer live such a difficult and embarrassing life.
It was at this time that another piece of bad news befell the old man.
The small boat loaded with the old man's catch was attacked by a shark on the way back. As it jumped out of the water, it took a big bite out of the big fish that was full of the old man's honor.
The old man wanted to protect his spoils, but he didn't have any decent weapons in his hands.
Just when Wang Chan thought that the current situation could not get worse, the old man, who had finally driven away the shark with a knife tied to his paddle as a weapon, was greeted by another shark that was eyeing his trophy. His hands were bleeding profusely due to the cuts, and his body was numb with pain, but he still stubbornly raised his weapon and fought every shark to the end.
One shark, two sharks, three sharks...
The old man had more and more wounds on his body, and the big fish he was protecting was becoming more and more broken because of the shark's gnawing.
This should have been a tragic scene.
But the producer did not have any intention of sensationalism for such a scene.
To be precise, she has not been able to see the producer's emotions from the beginning to now. The other party is like a calm and rational bystander and narrator. He is fortunate to have seen all of this, so he tells it all in the form of animation without any personal emotions, in a straightforward way.
But it is precisely this kind of plain-drawing technique that makes the audience, who are just watching the animation live, feel as if they are caught in such a cruel torrent of fate just like the old man in the animation.
Wang Chan took a deep breath and felt a tightness in her chest.
It's so uncomfortable.
Over the years, she had read works that focused on human suffering, but none of them was as heavy and real as The Old Man and the Sea. It was so real that she could almost find her own past in the old man in front of her as soon as she closed her eyes.
She closed her eyes, almost unable to bear to watch any further.
In fact, she did so - as if only in this way could she temporarily escape from the world of animation. But in fact, even if she closed her eyes at this moment, those dark and painful memories in the past still corroded her heart like some kind of poison.
But just at this moment, she heard the old man say -
"A man is not born to fail," the old man said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
She opened her eyes blankly.
There was almost no meat left on the big fish at this moment, only a bare skeleton, but the old man stood up again, persistently and stubbornly, picked up his weapon with his hands stained with his own blood, and walked towards the shark step by step.
In the camera, the old man's back is still so thin and dry.
As Wang Chan watched, her eyes turned red and tears started to flow.