近日,一部横空出世的国产动画片在上映三天后迅速突破6亿票房,成为平淡的暑期档的一大爆款。
这部电影就是80后导演饺子(本名杨宇)耗时五年的新作《哪吒之魔童降世》(以下简称《哪吒》)。

The film, which has grossed 600 million yuan in merely three days, is Ne Zha, taking the 1980s-born director Jiaozi to produce for five years.
“史上最丑”小哪吒
许多80后心目中的哪吒也许是1979年动画片《哪吒闹海》里那个极具反叛精神的悲情少年英雄。
哪吒“割肉还母,剔骨还父”的情节现在来看依然震撼。

“爹爹,你的骨肉,我还给你。”1979年的动画片《哪吒闹海》
还有一部分80后观众关于哪吒的童年记忆则来自《封神演义》的绘本小人书,以及1986版《西游记》和1990年版的《封神榜》电视剧。
For most Chinese born in the 1980s, their collective knowledge of Ne Zha — a mythological figure — comes from then popular comic books adapted from the ancient novel Fengshen Yanyi (The Investiture of the Gods), as well as the 1986 TV series The Journey to the West and the 1990 hit drama Fengshen Bang.

1986年《西游记》版的哪吒

1990《封神榜》版的哪吒
而在90后的童年里,“是他是他就是他,我们的朋友小哪吒”是人人耳熟能详的歌曲,印象中虎虎生威的小哪吒似乎永远不会长大。

2003年《哪吒传奇》版的小哪吒
尽管哪吒的故事,在不同的时代有不同的演绎。但无论是幼童时期小肉团子的模样,还是少年时的俊美,哪吒的颜值,从未掉线。
The stories of Ne Zha are retold in diverse ways in different times. But Ne Zha has always been depicted on-screen or in comic books as a physical attractive figure.
40年后,重回银幕的哪吒,却长成了这样↓↓↓

But in the new animated film Ne Zha, the title protagonist has a big change to his look.
他顶着齐刘海,耷拉着苦瓜脸,还有让人始终无法忽视的烟熏妆,时不时目露凶光,声音粗哑,标志是邪魅的笑。他的一举一动、一颦一笑,无不挑战着观众的传统审美。

对于为何把哪吒设计成这个样子,导演饺子透露,前前后后大概设计了一百版的哪吒形象,最后选了这一版,据说造型灵感来自集体熬夜赶工的团队。

经典故事的颠覆性改编
除了哪吒形象的变化,情节和人物的设定,更是从头到尾的颠覆。
To cater to new audiences, there are also several changes in the storyline and other characters from the original Ne Zha story.

在原来的“哪吒闹海”故事中,哪吒闹东海、抽龙筋、痛打龙王三太子。四海龙王水淹陈塘关,哪吒为了不连累父母,挥剑自刎。
他反抗的是父权和封建专治。
In the past, Ne Zha was known for his fight against patriarchy and autocracy.
patriarchy /'peɪtrɪɑːkɪ/ :父权
autocracy /ɔːˈtɒkrəsɪ/ :专制制度

In Yang Yu's film he is fighting prejudice: Ne Zha is hated, feared and shunned as the reincarnation of a devil. But Ne Zha believes his fate is not predetermined and that he can choose to be a demon or a god.
在饺子这部电影里,哪吒反抗的是偏见:魔丸转世的他被陈塘关的百姓疏远、恐惧和憎恶。但哪吒相信“我命由我不由天”,是魔是神,只有他自己才能决定。
最后哪吒变身的场面,六臂出现的那一刻,引得全场热血沸腾。

电影对哪吒个性的改编无疑是成功的,“逆天改命”的不屈不挠和拽劲儿,十分契合时下年轻人的燃点。
表面个性十足,内心却十分孤独,渴望被人接纳,这样的哪吒有血有肉,在某些时候,像极了生活中曾经迷茫的你我。

电影对龙王之子敖丙的改编也非常颠覆。
在原版故事中,哪吒和敖丙是仇敌,哪吒曾经打死敖丙,抽取龙筋,自此与东海结下不共戴天之仇。
而在这部电影里,敖丙冰清玉洁的形象堪比“小龙女”,还与哪吒成了相爱相杀的朋友。

Another character, the Dragon King's third son Aobing, is the mirror image of Ne Zha's personality. Though born as a god, he almost destroys Ne Zha's mythical birthplace, Chen Tang Guan, in a selfish quest to revive his family's fortunes.
另一个人物,龙王三太子敖丙,是一个与哪吒的个性形成镜面对比的形象。虽然生而为神,却自私地为了龙族利益,差点毁掉了哪吒的家乡陈塘关。
而仙风道骨的太乙真人在电影中则变身搞笑角色,肥头大耳,说一口四川普通话。虽然“笑果”非凡,但也有些观众不太认同这个角色的一些“三俗”玩笑。
哪吒》能获得认可,不仅因为它拥有让观众惊讶的技术含量,更是因为电影对传统神话的重新解读让人颇有新意。
而每一份成功背后,都隐藏着不为人知的努力。

《哪吒之魔童降世》导演饺子
在此之前,导演兼编剧饺子已经和哪吒“死磕”了五年。光剧本就磨了两年,总共经历了66版修改。
It took Yang Yu, the film's director and screenwriter, two years to refine the script of Ne Zha, and the film was in production for three years. It is the most complex animated production ever made in China.
导演兼编剧饺子花了两年时间打磨《哪吒》的剧本,又花了三年时间来制作。这是中国有史以来最复杂的动画制作。
哪吒也像饺子生的一个小魔球,怀胎时间长而痛楚。而他自己和整个作品的经历也很“哪吒”。

比如,在电影中反复出现的线索,他们就考虑过许多物品,放风筝?太温柔,不适合哪吒。蹴鞠?够活泼,但那个时代又没有。
反复考虑后,才最终敲定了哪吒最喜欢玩的游戏——“鸡毛毽子”。

不仅是情节,动画效果上的制作也耗费了许多心血。
Ne Zha has more than 1,300 special effects shots, and it took over 20 Chinese special-effects studios, employing more than 1,600 people, to realise the film’s fairy tale setting, the mysterious Dragon King’s palace, and a stunning fight between fire and water. One spectacular scene alone took two months to complete.
《哪吒》里有1300多场特效镜头。20多家中国特效工作室的1600多名员工,将这部电影里的神话故事背景、神秘的龙宫与一场惊心动魄的水火大战逐一呈现。仅其中一个壮观浩大的场景,就耗费了两个月时间才完成。

正是精心的打磨,才造就了炸裂的口碑。
One of the highlights is that Oriental aesthetics are often featured in these productions. The new Ne Zha film also has such designs, especially in the scenes about a painting scroll dubbed as The Mountains and Rivers.
国产动画片让人眼前一亮的一点,就是经常将东方美学融入片中。新版哪吒也是如此,尤其是山河社稷图中美轮美奂的场景。
其中的山河社稷图,一幕幕天马行空的场景和画面让人惊艳。山川湖海,神笔变换,无处不展现了中国神话的无穷想象力。