The story begins after Slater, the villain, is completely defeated by the Teenage Ninja Turtles: new york has regained its former tranquility, and Mr. Sprint (Macau) sent Da Vinci, the most skilled of the four turtles, to South Africa to learn Ninjutsu in order to enhance the fighting capacity of this underground escort. Turtles seem useless without bad people doing evil. After Leonardo da Vinci left, the three brothers lived a boring life: Michelangelo earned his living expenses by creating an atmosphere at the birthday party by a clown dressed as a turtle; Inventor Einstein hid in the underground world as a technician; When the turtles stopped exerting their magical powers, a Batman vigilante appeared in new york to maintain public order. In fact, he is Raphael with the strongest sense of justice among the four turtles.
Sprint sent Leonardo da Vinci to further study. The original intention is to use a strong leader to gather the strength of the turtles. As a result, the turtles who were busy with chores became more and more unfamiliar, and the proud Raphael did not believe that Da Vinci could shoulder this heavy responsibility. Finally, when Raphael insisted on carrying out the task alone, a quarrel broke out, and the desperate brothers turned against each other.
Bad guys always use this time. Millionaire Max (Patrick? Stewart) has terrible ambitions under his healthy appearance: he concentrates on collecting mysterious cultural relics from all over the world, in fact, he wants to use these sacrificial vessels to summon evil forces from ancient times and instruct a terrorist army composed of monsters and robots to capture the world when the planet produces illusions; Slater's ghost-footed ninja, led by the mysterious Kara (Zhang Ziyi), joins the evil camp.
At present, new york is facing an unprecedented threat. How does the broken Teenage Ninja Turtles rally and Qi Xin work together to repel two more powerful opponents?
Behind the scenes:
The unknown director reproduces the collective memory of a generation.
In the early 1990s, before Pizza Hut was popularized in China, four turtles who walked upright and were good at dancing sticks instilled the concept of pizza into children's minds. The anime Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has become a symbol of childhood memories of a generation together with Mickey Mouse and Transformers, which is why the news that it will be made into a movie has set off a green turtle wave around the world.
In fact, in the United States, which is rich in superheroes, the shape of Teenage Ninja Turtles really has some unprecedented cult flavor: the protagonist is not tall or handsome, and there are no artifacts and no divine power around him. It's just a real fist and fist trying to save the world. Author Pete? Lald and Kevin? Eastman 1984 published this cartoon that followed the trend of superheroes, but it was unexpectedly more popular. Only 3000 copies were printed at that time. I didn't expect it to be sold out immediately after its launch, and then it was adapted into an animation and swept the world for more than ten years. Toys and other peripheral products also sold well temporarily.
How can smart Hollywood people waste such materials that have the strength to dig for money? So 1990, New Line produced the first Teenage Ninja Turtle movie, with a box office of 1.35 billion. A new line that tasted great sweetness, and then two sequels came out. Although it has been criticized as shoddy, this series has earned nearly 300 million dollars so far.
Warner Bros. took a fancy to this once-popular "fat meat" ten years later, but this time they didn't want to put on a rubber coat as a stunt makeup like in the past, but used the more widely used and popular 3D CG technology to shoot and make all the works. But after producer Galen Walker told author Pete, at first Warner Bros. was not sure whether they could get the adaptation rights from the original author? Peter suddenly said, "Tortoise!" When Lald submits his creative proposal, wait for the other party's response. At this time, a little turtle crawled slowly in front of them. Perhaps it was this unknown turtle that brought Galen Walker good luck: he sat on the return plane and opened the signed cartoon that Pete gave him. The title page reads impressively: "Let's make it into a movie together, man!"
The shooting plan is gradually determined. Besides Kevin, he is one of the producers, screenwriters and authors of the first three films of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Eastman has also attracted its subsidiaries, and Warner is also looking for a suitable director. Soon they gave Kevin the position he dreamed of. Monroe. This name is quite strange to most people who are not familiar with the trend of American animation industry. In fact, in the past ten years, he worked for Disney, Warner Bros., Animation Channel and other big companies, and served as a director, scene designer and even screenwriter for many TV programs, movies and advertisements, but it was the animation industry that made him famous, and the authoritative American media Animation magazine named him "a new star in CG industry". Monroe expressed her love and understanding of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a high-profile way, shot a flower and successfully got the director's pass.
As for the actors who voice the film, Monroe has her own opinion. He is not interested in DreamWorks' way of bowing its head to become a big name. He specially invited several actors with greater strength than fame to sing for this role. Unfortunately, Mako, the Japanese actor who voiced Mr Sprint, died the day before the end of the film. This cartoon has become the legacy of this old actor who has worked hard in Hollywood for more than 40 years. China fans have to pay attention to Zhang Ziyi, who is the voice of female ninja Kara. The reason for choosing her is simple: Americans still regard her as a star with yellow skin and black hair, which is more in line with the image of this role.
How to fish in troubled waters between continuous martial arts and PG grading
Because of Kevin? Hysmans hoped that Teenage Ninja Turtles would make a breakthrough, so he not only adopted the most advanced digital technology, but also told a brand-new story. Monroe discussed with the original author to create a script that has nothing to do with the original clue, and removed Slater, the villain who has been "accompanying" Teenage Ninja Turtles, and replaced it with a cooler and worse new character. Many "turtle powder" are very dissatisfied with this. After all, Slater has always been an inseparable and important part of this work, but Monroe insists that this idea has even been recognized by the original author Pete, and there is no need to question it. In addition, the new story not only carries forward the spirit of preventing evil and punishing rape, but also emphasizes the family friendship function of the "Ninja Turtles" combination, plus the grading of PG, which is an absolute family inspirational film.
Referring to this PG rating, Monroe understands that the generation of children deeply influenced by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has now grown into adults, but there is still a generation of children being influenced by them. These children and adults who take them to the movies are the most potential audiences for this film. For these two groups of audiences with different ages and requirements, in order to strengthen the visual shock, it is necessary to carry out fierce fighting scenes in the whole film without exaggerating the violent scenes. He needs to show the wonderful action on the camera and do it very cleanly. This time, we cooperated with IMGAI, a famous CG animation company in Hong Kong, and IMGAI has a close relationship with the American animation industry. The main production work was completed by colleagues in Hong Kong, challenging the time difference, and the two places started in shifts 24 hours a day. Hong Kong animators who grew up in martial arts films also provided them with the most ideal action scenes. The sewer world where Teenage Ninja Turtles live in the movie is also modeled after the sewer structure in Hong Kong.
As a film of 2 1 century, Monroe and designers never forget to transform it into a ninja turtle with more fashionable and trendy elements. Compared with the rubber man in the old movie version, the new Teenage Ninja Turtle has thinner appearance, slimmer lines, and a more even ratio between the shell and the body, which even makes people think that it is chest muscles and abdominal muscles. Moreover, in order to highlight each character's personality, there are many small details in modeling settings-such as small movements and skin texture. However, some people don't buy it. Some turtle fans think that the new Teenage Ninja Turtles are too thin and dark to match the original. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of the film, because the object of the film is already dark comics (Monroe's original idea is to make the film directly into a black-and-white effect of comic style), rather than the more smooth and exaggerated cute image in comics. What is really worrying is that the film is only 85 minutes long. How to allocate time to tell the story with scattered clues clearly without delaying the audience to enjoy the wonderful repertoire?