The Slam Dunk movie version of The First Slam Dunk launched a special New Year’s Eve show in Taiwan. This work has been serialized in Jump since 1990. After the TV animation version was broadcast in 1993, it has become the youth of many people, even because of this work. Basketball once became the sport of choice for high school students. The movie version of Slam Dunk reappeared on the big screen 20 years following the TV animation version was broadcast. After watching it, I felt that Takehiko Inoue did not hand in a sports manga adaptation movie, but awakened the youth of fans. The movie version of Slam Dunk will be officially released on January 13.The following article on movie viewing experience will reveal part of the plot, please read carefully.
The National Competition Chapter and the Sanno Industrial War that was missing from the TV version
In 1993, the plot of the TV animation version only went to the Xiangbei High School to enter the national competition, and the story of the battle with Sanno Industry only stayed in the comics. The movie version of Slam Dunk is equivalent to making up for the regret of the lack of key battles in the hearts of fans, and using brand-new animation Presenting the game with Sanno Industries. In the manga, the Xiangbei High School team faced Fengyu High School in the first match, and then faced Sanno Industry, who was preparing for the third consecutive battle. In the end, the five protagonists were not only exhausted during the confrontation with Sanno Industry, but Sakuragi Hanamichi also injured his back because of saving the ball. Lost to Aihe Academy in the next battle.
At the beginning of the movie version, it directly cuts into the scene of Sanno Kogyo’s battle, directly bringing the audience to the climax of the battle. Sanno Kogyochu is the strongest college basketball team in the country in the comics, especially the small forward Eiji Zebei is the strongest among the slam dunks In addition, the center Masashi Kawada made Sanno Industry’s area defense almost difficult to crack. How to tie up or even narrowly win the scores with a huge gap? The detailed movements that are difficult to express in comics, and the characters and their offenses are presented in animation The movie version is also good-looking with defensive body movements.
▲The movie version of Slam Dunk makes up for the lack of TV animation, and makes up for the shortcomings in the hearts of fans.
▲ How Xiangbei High School gradually equalized from the huge score gap is the best part of the movie version.
The perspective of the strongest point guard Miyagi Yoshita
Strictly speaking, the Slam Dunk movie version of Sanno Industry is not the point at all, but from the point of view of the point guard Miyagi Yoshida. The movie starts from the fact that Miyagi Yoshida was influenced by his brother on the basketball school team when he was a child and liked basketball until his brother After passing away in a shipwreck, Miyagi Yoshida no longer regards basketball as an ordinary sport when facing basketball. In addition to projecting his emotions for his brother, basketball is also something he can gain a sense of accomplishment.
Takehiko Inoue himself is regarding 167 cm, and Miyagi Ryota’s height is set at 168 cm. As two people who are not tall enough and started to like playing basketball because of the influence of his brother, he projected many of his ideas on Miyagi Ryota. Looking at the battle between Shonhoku High School and Sanno Industry from the perspective of this character, it is speculated that the audience can understand the author’s own thoughts through the perspective of Miyagi Yoshida.
▲The movie version uses the perspective of point guard Yoshida Miyagi, which can also be interpreted as the author’s perspective.
▲ Inoue Takehiko and Miyagi Ryota are similar in terms of height and settings influenced by their older brothers.
The smooth action picture is like watching a real football game
When watching the manga of Slam Dunk, Takehiko Inoue has already realized the basketball picture he wanted to give readers, but the movie version also fully shows the detailed movements that cannot be presented in the manga, such as when Takenori Akagi moves into the card position, Cracking the enemy’s original perfect defense, such actions can be fully understood by audiences who are not familiar with basketball when they are shown in the movie. , and only the movie version can feel it.
The screen of the Slam Dunk movie version retains the hand-painted style of the comics, and the overall tone is also adjusted relatively lightly. The smooth movements of the characters are almost the same as the real ball game, whether it is stepping on the spot or cutting into the position. It is worth mentioning that at the critical moment in the second half of the movie, the movie version retains the no-dialogue and no-line scenes in the comic version. It is completely silent and slow-motion so that people watching the movie hold their breath like people watching a football game inside. The level of tension will make people forget for a moment that this is an animation mistakenly thinking that they are in a real ball game.
▲The color tone of the movie version of Slam Dunk has been adjusted, even if there are a large number of fast-changing action scenes, it will not make the eyes tired.
Slam Dunk Movie Is Like a Love Letter to Fans
Sakuragi Flower Road, Akagi Takenori, Mitsui Shou, Rukawa Kaede, and Miyagi Ryota are still the same as the memories. When I was a child, I wanted Sakuragi Flower Road to be hot-blooded, want to be as cool as Rukawa Maple, and want to have genius-like intuition like Mitsui Shou. The courage of Akagi Takenori and the speed of Miyagi Yoshida, the readers have not changed but grown up. In the second half of the movie, the sentence that Akagi Takenori left the deepest impression on me: “Although our relationship is not very good, but thank you.” What the author said.
▲The movie version following 20 years has awakened the emotion of watching Slam Dunk comics back then, and fans must watch it.
