> GKids bolstered its animated slate with its first Chinese acquisition, “White Snake,” from Beijing-based Light Chaser Animation and Warner Bros., which premieres in competition at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival this week. The CG fantasy, co-directed by Amp Wong and Zhao Ji, is inspired by one of China’s oldest romantic fables, “Legend of the White Snake,” a love story between a snake spirit and snake hunter.
>In the animated “White Snake,” a young woman suffering from memory loss discovers a link to a whole other identity within the spirit world. “Light Chaser Animation are true innovators, raising the bar for top notch Chinese animation and storytelling,” stated David Jesteadt, president of GKids. “We are overjoyed to be releasing this stunning epic to North American audiences.”
Nah man it's all shitposting. The real story is Snake spirit falls in love with nerd, turtle monk wants to banish her because all spirit bad, romantic tragedy ensues, but it's funnier to call the turtle mage a cuck and the other snake one too
Austin Turner
>GKids, which is going for its 12th Oscar nomination, boasts seven additional contenders, including a few with provocative political topics, led by last year’s two biggest Animation Is Film Festival winners: “Funan,” the acclaimed family survival drama (from director Denis Do) about the cruelties of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge in 1975 (currently in limited release); and “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles” (directed by Salvador Simon) about the legendary Spanish director’s scandalous struggle to make a documentary about his country’s poorest region.
>Other releases include “Another Day of Life,” (co-directed by Raúl De LaFuente and Damian Nenow), which documents the horrors of the Angola civil war of 1975 by mixing graphic, mo-cap style animation with archival footage and interviews; “Weathering With You,” director Makoto Shinkai’s follow-up to his Japanese blockbuster, “Your Name,” about a romance with a new twist — the ability to create positive climate change; “Okko’s Inn,” the latest female-driven ghost story from Studio Ghibli veteran animator Kitaro Kosaka; “Children of the Sea,” the latest anime from Japan’s STUDIO4C (“MFKZ”) about ghosts in an aquarium; and the Belgian stop-motion political drama, “This Magnificent Cake.”
Disney’s going to be BTFO at the Oscars twice in a row.
>the sex scene was kind of out of place Interesting
Henry Ortiz
>this is not a stupid shitpost. >Gkids
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John Green
I'm sure they'll remove it, it's not an important part of the story but I'm not bullshitting for a meme. You can probably find the thing online if you doubt me.
Evan Rodriguez
Why is all Chinese animation/manhua the same with the whole fantasy setting, superpowers, dragons, battling on rooftops. Even Japan has some diversity.
Elijah Robinson
Fuck You!
Nolan Bailey
Would you want to hear a story about how a lady cut off the legs of a big turtle to hold up the sky? Or how the heaven is a messy autocracy? Or how the Eight Immortals tried to cross a sea?
Connor Hill
I guess it's the kind of setting where the government will be less controlling on the setting as it is not a direct commentary on their current society.
Old Folk tale are safe because everyone know them already, so the green lighting is easier. It's pure speculation from my part, though.
Thomas Green
New Super-Man honestly introduced me this legend
Aiden Hill
>I'm sure they'll remove it It’s Gkids, not 4kids.
Isaac Ramirez
Jet Li was in the live action film of the fable. I disliked the ending. fuck Buddha, man.
Jaxon White
What does Gkids mean? Like Ghibli kids?
Sebastian Rodriguez
This looks pretty fucking gay.
Jaxson Powell
Based turtle monk patrolling demon thots
Benjamin Barnes
>Or the democracy movement in 89 was really a CIA psy-op to destabilize China. Not really. While the student were effectively protesting for more democracy, it was because they hadn't their words to say in China giving up the communist way for a more capitalist approach. Chinese student were protesting the Reaganomic and the power that'd be had every interest for the protests to fail.
Them failing lead to delocalisation and the currrent mess we are in. Trully a sad day for eveyone.
