Nezha himself began to believe that he can be a hero, and it is in one of his rescue missions that he encountered Ao Bing. Thus, Taiyi Zhenren took Nezha as his apprentice, training the end-of-the-world bringer to harness his demonic powers for good in his short remaining days. Other kids despise him, so the impish protagonist amuses himself by pranking the villagers, which only fanned their hatred for him. The boy is under permanent house arrest – a promise his parents made to the repulsed villagers of Chentang Pass when he was born so that they would spare the demon baby’s life.īut the restless Nezha frequently escapes into the village. But his more pressing ‘punishment’ are extreme boredom and a lonely existence. Source: Beijing Enlight PicturesĪs Ao Bing trains diligently, Nezha’s death sentence draws near. In Chinese mythology, it’s sometimes hard to tell. With the powers of the pearl, the pretty boy with dragon horns shoulders the hope of his entire condemned tribe to escape their ‘prison’ in the ocean depths and ascend to higher office. In the meantime, Shen Gongbao has stolen the heavenly pearl and presents it to the dragon Ao Guang, Lord of the Eastern Sea, who used it to birth his own son – Ao Bing (Han Mo). Hence, Nezha (Lü Yanting) is born a demon-child, and destined to be killed in three years by Tianzun’s irreversible curse. However, in a drunken stupor, Taiyi Zhenren fell to the sabotage of his rival Shen Gongbao (Yang Wei) and caused the demon pill to be infused with Lady Yin’s baby instead. This would lead to the birth of their son, who is to be named Nezha. The Lord of Heaven then tasked the celestial being Taiyi Zhenren (Zhang Jiaming) to place the heavenly pill inside the womb of the pregnant Lady Yin (Lü Qi), who is the wife of Li Jing (Chen Hao) – both nobles of the demon-infested Chentang Pass.
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The movie begins with the Primeval Lord of Heaven, Yuanshi Tianzun, quelling a sentient Chaos Pearl by splitting it into a ‘heavenly pill’ and a ‘demon pill’. What anchors the animated blockbuster is a heavy emotional core – which is refreshing for a production targeted at kids from this part of the world.
Nezha ’s strength, however, extends beyond rich visuals. Its pupil-popping action – especially during the climactic showdown – does seem indulgent at times, but come on, it is a fantastical fight between celestial superheroes and the ruler of heavens. Nezha ’s gorgeously-rendered settings (such as the utopia/training ground hidden inside a painting) is a joy to watch. Nezha, a boy deity whose brattiness is just as well-known as his enchanted ‘gadgetry’, is brought to life with spirited kinetics and emotional flourish.Ĭarrying the imaginative vigour of Pixar and Dreamworks, the computer-generated (CG) visual fest remains rooted to its Chinese origins, both in its aesthetics and its soundtrack. Loosely based on a story from the epically-named classic literature Investiture of the Gods, the animated feature directed by Yang Yu (aka Jiaozi) puts fire in the belly of a famous character. It’s often fun for me to watch actions and scenes leap from pages to screens – I have a pretty low-budget imagination so movies these days tend to look way better than what my inner Ed Wood can conjure. While some folks find screen adaptations of stories they heard or read almost never living up to their mental movies, I’m not in that camp. The mythologies I grew up with never looked so good.
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