Did you watch it in standard screening, 3D, or IMAX?
Which character designs did you like the best (aside from the prairie dogs)? I like 石姬娘娘, her memetic popularity is well deserved. Also the female 西海龙王, very pretty design. 熬光 was kinda disappointing to me, given all the hype around him. I also liked 鹿童's archery animations, even though I found his personality kinda meh (he totally raised villain flags even before his boss's reveal).
> criticism of the current administration
Do you see see the villain faction as primarily identifying with the CN government then? A lot of the analysis I've seen online have been more equating them with the USA.
> I find one of the biggest differences between Western and Eastern storytelling is the importance of being motivated by family's safety, especially the mother's.
Word. In western stories, the family is rarely outright featured. At the very most, they're part of the main character's issues (like Aragorn's fear about repeating Isildur's mistake, Iron Man's daddy issues) but actual parent/ancestor is only ever tangentially referenced, and the main focus is still on the MC.
Whereas in CN stories, the parent if they exist will feature prominently. Even in qidian trope of orphan-background MCs, some of them will also gain the trope of "discovering their 'real' parent with mysterious/angsty/powerful origins", lol.
> The movie clearly tapped into this origin by making the monsters (妖) the good guys
I dunno if that was the inspiration they drew from, or from more recent trends in enovels favoring edgy anti-hero MCs and grimdark/conspiratorial re-interpretations of stuff.
I mean, when browsing 慌洪 genre novels, or QT novels that feature 慌洪 arcs, the 2nd most popular trend I've seen has been for the MC to support the 通天教主 side against the 阐教 side. (The 1st most popular trend is to unite the two daoist sects against the nascent buddhist faction.)
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Which character designs did you like the best (aside from the prairie dogs)? I like 石姬娘娘, her memetic popularity is well deserved. Also the female 西海龙王, very pretty design. 熬光 was kinda disappointing to me, given all the hype around him. I also liked 鹿童's archery animations, even though I found his personality kinda meh (he totally raised villain flags even before his boss's reveal).
> criticism of the current administration
Do you see see the villain faction as primarily identifying with the CN government then? A lot of the analysis I've seen online have been more equating them with the USA.
> I find one of the biggest differences between Western and Eastern storytelling is the importance of being motivated by family's safety, especially the mother's.
Word. In western stories, the family is rarely outright featured. At the very most, they're part of the main character's issues (like Aragorn's fear about repeating Isildur's mistake, Iron Man's daddy issues) but actual parent/ancestor is only ever tangentially referenced, and the main focus is still on the MC.
Whereas in CN stories, the parent if they exist will feature prominently. Even in qidian trope of orphan-background MCs, some of them will also gain the trope of "discovering their 'real' parent with mysterious/angsty/powerful origins", lol.
> The movie clearly tapped into this origin by making the monsters (妖) the good guys
I dunno if that was the inspiration they drew from, or from more recent trends in enovels favoring edgy anti-hero MCs and grimdark/conspiratorial re-interpretations of stuff.
I mean, when browsing 慌洪 genre novels, or QT novels that feature 慌洪 arcs, the 2nd most popular trend I've seen has been for the MC to support the 通天教主 side against the 阐教 side. (The 1st most popular trend is to unite the two daoist sects against the nascent buddhist faction.)