Round Table字幕 第20190801期 哪吒是中国动画历史上最赚钱的电影

小和尚念经: 最近忙着个人"修行"，所以出节目慢了，望海涵。

和我的她去看了哪吒，所以，今天出哪吒的字幕。

有网友说让我开放评论，我研究下，貌似没找到地方。

By the way, 电影好不好看，真的要去看了才知道。我们去看之前，我查了下影评，有些评论并不好，但是，看了之后，觉得挺不错的。刚看了新闻，票房已经过30亿了。

正经:

今天有几个比较少见的单词，或者易混词

1. Strikes a chord with: 拨动了弦，比喻打动心弦，引起共鸣。
2. Bizare, 这个是极其怪诞的意思，和Bazaar集市易混淆，注意发音
3. Resonates with: 这个和上面第一个类似，也是产生共鸣
4. Patriarchal:这个单词，整个单词我忘记怎么拼写了，不过我主要记住了Patri-这个词根，父亲，所以在听力的时候，听出来感觉是父系社会(男权社会)，当然还有对应母系社会，Matri-词根是母亲的意思。Patriarchal的意思是男人统治的，男人主宰的，在文中的意思是重男轻女的意思。其中arch是控制，主宰的词根，无政府主义就是an+arch+ism=anarchism, 无政府主义
5. Grumpy: 这个是脾气坏的，爱生气的，估计泼妇应该用这个词吧。背单词的时候最好联想到Frumpy, 指穿着打扮土里土气的，或穿过时的意思。这两个单词连起来记也可以，一个泼妇穿着过时的衣服在骂大街。
6. Revamp:这个是翻新，改进的意思，注意和Ramp区分，ramp是契型,斜坡的意思。

7. Meticulously: 及其仔细的，一丝不苟的。想当初背这个单词，我着实花了不少功夫，无论怎么的都记不住，后来根据音标来记了Meti/cu/lously, 主要是前面Meti的发音有点像温州话的棉被，让我联想绵里藏针，所以，一定要非常仔细，一丝不苟查看棉被，否则要被戳到。【忠告】总之，对于那些不好背的单词，想尽一切办法记住。但是，不要对所有单词都编故事，否则，脑容量不够，效果可能适得其反。

【20190801 Nezha becomes highest-grossing Chinese animation in history音频】

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【20190801 Nezha becomes highest-grossing Chinese animation in history 文本】

Heyang: Monkey King move over, please. Nezha, now a teen hero, the animation movie that starts this character. The Summer has become the highest-grossing Chinese animation movie in history. It surpassed the previous champion, Monkey King, the heroe's back five days, only five days after its initial release. And this new take on an old tale really strikes a chord with the younger generation of movie viewers. Let's take a look at what explains the success of Nezha and who is this guy.

Huangshan: So, according to the latest figures, it shows that by this morning the box office has surpassed 1.3 billion, which is equal to 189 million US dollars. And so, as you mentioned before like beating the previous record holder-Monkey King Hero is back, and now it's on its way to beat utopias, 220 million U. S dollar record to become the biggest ever animated film from any country. I think when the film was released last Friday, many people just took it for granted and buzzs of mountain, word of mouth recommendations. More people are buying tickets and go to a cinema to watch this film and we can tell from the movie reviews platforms like the ticketing platform Maoyan. The figure like is showing that 50% of the film's audience is aged from 20 to 29 years old. And it's currently has a 9.7 rating Maoyan and an 8.7 rating on influential film review site Douban, and also another very influential movie platform called Mtime, rating is like 8.4, really high. I think Nezha is a very, very famous or like a popular mythology like figure in our childhood, and but I think this movie the reason why is sopopular and making a huge splash is because its creative adaptation and I think when you check out the figure of Nezha, it is very funny because it has a bizare and kind of ugly look, cute and ugly. And like he has a very heavy, dark circle in his eyes and he also has a scary cooked teeth and, it's being like praise for hitting this soft spot in many hearts, as cool, smart, entertaining because we had a, I think grow up with this mythology, we had a very sterotype of figure for Nezha, but now It turned out to be a very cool guy, like, and also I think it is very interesting to see another character whose name is Aobing, who is the third son of the East Sea Dragon King. Yeah, because he's so handsome. like, I think he's dope for his charming look and a well-mannered, and he has a very complicated personality and I think now many Generation Z has a frenzy of idolizing him because it's so hot, good looking guy who never fails with the ladies. and also I think the stats(statistics) that has been put into this movie is very suiting for the younger generation's taste, and if you place a comparison between the current Nezha andwhen he appeared on the big screen last time, which was forty years ago, itreally reflects a change in the appreciation of beauty among the Chinesepublic. 40 years ago, this was a really cute good looking little boy, andalthough there was this rebellious bone in him, but there was so much heavyemotion that was, I think, bringing him down and a lot of it came from thefamily. The debt he felt that he owed from his father, and that I meanthe father & son relationship can be very complicated and heavy, and sometimesit forges and destroys a boy's life. And that was sort of the original version.But 40 years later to now, this boy is, he looks like, yeah, he's not pretty at all until he sort of becomes. I shouldn't be given out too much, but you know he has this moments, I promise you, that's all I'm gonna say. As for most of the movie, Nezha is this troublemaker, and everybody in the village hates him and areafraid of him and it has something to do with his life story. In the moviethat he supposedly was born as a demon, so he was gonna become one of theworst guy, so that was his life story written for him before he was born.That was so, that's part of the story, ok. Aobing, so who becomes hisbest friend, who is the exact opposite of what he looks like. and he's reallygood looking guy and well mannered, and has a good heart. And he, his lifestory in the movie was he was born to become a savior with all the virtues. Andyou know a guy with a good heart and the looks who doesn't fall for that right? butthen you see these two characters. And they grow, their friendshipevolves, and they become increasingly aware of who they are. And what Ireally love about this movie, just checked it out last night, and I have to

make a confession was mainly just to do today's show, That's why I went to

watch it, but I don't regret for a second, and there is one line from this movie

that will hit you in the heart when you see it and it made me cry. But ifyou know me or listen to the show, you know that means nothing coz, I crywatching the Transformers, but I saw the guy, stranger sitting next to me,probably in 25 **, I didn't really want to like look exactly, buta pretty young guy. Oh, you got it in my flashlights, are you serious? I saw that guy crying. Wow, yeah, so that guy was sobbing. And so here it comes that line that hit us: 我命由我不由天So I am the master of my old fate, and that could just be, you know the sloganin any T shirt and this kind of attitude that resonates with today's youngpeople. You know the psyche and the thought that you are in control of yourlife and you fight whatever you see that is injustice; that is social bias; that is social exclusion; that is something that you don't believe is right and you deserve better treatment. Yeah, you go for it, you make your voice heard and you make people know that you are a good person in your fighting for their destiny too, and that was a part of it.

Nillah: Yeah, I have a question for you. For me, I've never heard of this movie until today because mostly because it's in Chinese, I haven't seen in an English version up there. When you were watching this, besides the moral part of this whole story. Would it bring back like nostalgia, would it bring back those childhood memories because this is supposed to be a classic that a lot of Chinese people grew up with.

Heyang: That's a really good question and no, it didn't, because unlike the Monkey King, as we mentioned earlier, Nezha a far less popular cultural icon, I think a little bit less known, as Chinese people, we've all heard of Nezha, but not everybody knows his stories to the great detail, unlike Monkey King.

Huangshan: and also he's very famous for his tools, like the 风火轮, the wind and fire the wheel, that one is really popular.

Heyang: can we think a better...

Nillah: for some reason the name, for some reason, I can't. I'm just thinking this, she's a female. if you don't say, but it's a he. he has a name.

Heyang: Interesting, this is also quite hard to pronounce for even some Chinese people. Yeah, Nezha, in dialects. Yeah, that kind of thing, and so your question was nostalgia or not. and surprisingly, no, and I think a lot of people are sort of getting a brand new Nezha and not really feeling much of resistant towards him. And there are so many things about this film that I find to be a very good indicator of understanding today's people's minds. For example, in the old version, which I don't even remember watchingit, but I did a little bit research for the show and the father and mother relationship was very different from what's portrayed in the new version.Back in the day 40 years ago, the father was horrible in my opinion, andthere wasn't much portrayal of his relationship with his wife, but certainlyit was very traditional in a bad way. As in it was clearly, it was a patriarchalfamily and the wife's opinion did not matter, and she was very weak andjust, well, I don't have much things to say about her. But with the new version,from the beginning, even within the first five minutes of the movie, you seethat the father was of very considerate and gentle towards his wife and ok, so in themovie his wife was pregnant, holding this ginormous stomach for three years,and she couldn't give birth. So this woman's mad, and she's like she can't wait to get rid of that, and so she's grumpy, and she had this

drum stick in her hand, a chicken leg to.. use playwords, and then her husband

was accommodating her to a temple, and he was like almost to almostsaying, like honey, be careful, you know, I understand, this is really hard,kind of thing. You will not see a man behave like that even in an animation film a few years ago. But in this one this is what Nezha's Dad was like. And i was like,Bravo to you, you know, Mr Li Ting, and for all of the guys who are watchingthis film now. Yeah, this is a good example to you. So there is this a lot ofnew revamps that changed the characters, plots and their temperamentcompletely. And I think that has a lot to do with why it resonated with peopleso much today.

Huangshan: and also the reason why many people love this movie is about they

believe it inject some contemporary values into the film because you know

there's in this film, there's no absolute good or evil. All the characters,they try to like start from their own standpoint and do what they think isright. And also, I think the director tried to reconstruct therelationship between parents and kids, because in the old story, actually, dad is a very indifferent dad, he doesn't care about his kid, but in this one, he's very calm, but he's not good at expressing his love for his children and also it's interesting for the mom, because the mom is supposed to be a very career oriented lady. But you know, in the traditional Chinese society, I think most women, they are housewives. But in this one, like the mom is also busy with her works, and also she thinks about, Oh, do I have enough time for my kid? So this gives some modern parents thinkin, they ponder on a question like, Oh, whatshould I do if I'm so busy with my work? How should I treat my kids, especiallywhen I find his being isolated, how can I expire him, it's a very goodstory, and also we really admire the director's persistence and also hiscontribution into this movie because it has been prepared for 3 years andhe fired lots of like visual effects designers, and he's so picky and he's such a perfectionist. That's why we can see a movie with such highquality.

Heyang: Well, Do you think that this movie could mark a booming period for

Chinese animation movies in the near future?

Huangshan: I think it's a very inspiring story. It makes me feel like, oh actually, I could trust the animation quality made by our own designers, or our own directors because nowadays, I think influenced by Hollywood, people have a really highstandard of animation films, even for Hollywood, they are famous for theirtechnologies and especial effects. Even for them, for Disney and Pixer, when they want to create like movie that can Wow the audience, they need to prepare for 5 or 6 years, like toy story or any other like animation stories. But nowadays I think China, I'm happy to see we are catching up and actually we have lots of sources to create such amazingly good stories because we have our classical like literature, we have mythology. Actually, it's a very good resource to use, as long as you can put some, you know new thought into the old story.

Heyang: Well, I think China does have a rich mythology that embodies a lot of characters, possibly that you can pick and choose anddevelop it into a socalled universe, just like what Marvel has already done andwhat.. the thing about Marvel is that it has planned things meticulously beforehand, and you see what a slew of almost 20 movies that constructed this thing called the Marvel Universe. And then each character is connected,and some of the bigger ones deserve their own movie, kind of thing. This hasbecome a success formula that I think a lot of people are trying to emulate andhere with that the sudden birth of Nezha in the Chinese animation movieindustry. Actually, after watching this movie, I believe this could possiblybe able to be emulated here in China, and that has to do with inthis movie, at the end of it, there are a few, so called Easter eggs that youare, you should sit around and wait around for them to appear, and you see thatthere are other characters that already have movies planned out for them, andif they're as good, if they're as good as this one, then this could be a封神榜 universally adapting from traditional Chinese mythology， and this could be it. but also I have one reservation, that is with Hollywood, why is it so consistently good is because there's a whole industry behind it, there is this industrial production line that doesn't rely on one person, one good director or one good cartoon person, and then there are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people who are like new blood that are pumping the industry and creativity, and here in China, with animation films as popular as they have become since 2015 when Monkey King Hero is Back and we talked about it on the show aswell. It was a sudden outburst of faith as well as popularity shown by theChinese public. It's still relatively young, and it's not as profitable asHollywood to say the least, so I'm really hopeful, but I see that there arestill roadblocks and still a very much a long way to go to make it somethingthat success after success.

Nillah: Yeah, I mean with Hollywood, I can understandbecause like with them, the classics, like we say the Disney classic arepopular everywhere, including in China, so they already know they have thatmarket. And now the Generation Z, who are the parents now have the youngchildren. So depending on the nostalgia of the parents to pass onthat their childhood, their memories to their kids, and then they build up onthat and then they have this huge market. now and also on top of that,Hollywood is good with adopting comics because they look at which are thepopular comics and most little boys, most people are at... most men I know my agegrew upreading a lot of comics, so when movies are made out of their favourite comics, they're bound to go and watch them and takealong their kids and stuff like that. But I'm not sure if that's the culture inChina because I mean how big is like storytelling in China, forexample, how big is the classics, and how much of a volume do you haveof stories that traditional Chinese stories that you can actually get them froma piece of paper and transfer them onto the big screen?

Heyang: Yeah, that's interesting. I think there is actually multiple treasure troves of things to work at, but to make it up to date and resonate with the new generation, that is the hard part and with Nezha, I think it successfully managed to do that.One last question about this animation thing is that why is there so much buzzabout animation movies? Now we see that Disney, well, actually Disney is goingthe other way, re-making a lot of these animation movie classics into reallife action movies. We're thinking.., what was the latest one, the Lion King,Aladdin, Beauty and Beast, and those kindof things. Cinderella. I watch Cinderella almost every week. Oh, well, OK. But there was... it was a good feel go to annimatedfile. Uh, huh, and with animation movies here in China, there is like so muchpeople, almost like a special accolade that's reserved for it andhoping that China can come up with like, its own cultural product that way. Why doyou think that is happening?

Huangshan: Because now is the summer season, it's summer holiday, you know the schools are off and all the children they love like animation. And I think it's a good thing because it brings back ourvery familiar like the characters in the mythology, but into a newinterpretation, I think like may be the sponsors, and they need to have morefaith in Chinese animation because I do think these people, they need morefinancial support so they can have their mature team, they don't need tooutsource some jobs to some, for example, the special effects company. They canhave a complete team to provide a better quality of animation.

Heyang: and in this sense, actually, I think market economy winds caz the market has proven that something that's been put in with so much thoughts and heart called Nezha. This animation movie has proven that is profitable as well and inthe future. We probably gonna see more movies in animation form becomingpopular with people, and we see them more in cinema here in China, you'relistening to round table.