Today's Movie Reviews review of Sea King: Powerful details build a fascinating underwater world

Following Wonder Woman, DC's acclaimed comic book adaptation Sea King was the first to be released in China on 7 December 2018, with Asian-American director Ziren Wen presenting audiences with a magnificent underwater world like never before in this otherwise unpopular film. Not only is it a change from the comedic image of Sea King in the comics, but it also creates a visual spectacle of the world of Atlantis that is comparable to the Pandora world in Avatar. In order to unravel the mystery of Atlantis and the King of the Seas, Today's Movie Review recently invited Ji Shaoting to explain the past life and success of The King of the Seas.
DC's second-rate heroes make a comeback on the screen, and the legend of the deep sea blends the modern with the classical
As the first film and television production to feature the eponymous character of The Sea King. Arthur of the Sea was not taken seriously in the DC Comics world, and was often teased by audiences even in Justice League, and was even referred to as a second-rate hero in the US, at the bottom of the food chain of DC's hero series. However, in Today's Movie Review, Ji Shaoting said that Sea King's image has a sublimated feel in the movie, partly due to the movie's successful and unique casting, which makes Sea King's image vivid and three-dimensional enough to convince audiences that he is the result of a hybrid between humans and sea people. The characterisation of the Sea King is also very pleasing to the eye, as he is a bearded man on the outside, but the director has created a very childlike inner character, giving him a strong sense of 'contrast'.
And Atlantis, the home of the Sea King, is a country from under the sea. In Today's Film Review, Ji Shaoting points out that the mythology of Atlantis was first recorded in Plato's works and is extremely science fiction and mysterious. The first science fiction film introduced to China, The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic, featured a protagonist who claimed to be from Atlantis. Before that, a large number of Chinese and foreign science fiction works had been written on this theme, such as Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, among others.
In Today's Review, Ji Shaoting argues that the ocean is one of the mother themes of human art, due to the fact that in the past it was extremely mysterious to humans, but as time and science progressed, the mystery of the ocean was slowly lifted. This has tempted science fiction writers and readers to imagine that Atlantis may have sunk and survived as a civilisation to this day. The imagination of Atlantis has often gone to two extremes, with the idea that it is highly advanced and technologically advanced, while at the same time it retains its ancient political institutions and classical cultural content. In Sea King, WEN reconciles these two ideas by giving the underwater world advanced equipment and Star Wars-like soldier armour, but maintaining the classical style of the kings from their clothing to their weapons.
Details make the world go round, novelty is the key to winning comic book films
After the release of Sea King, more audiences said they were drawn to the vast underwater world, and some even commented that Sea King was an oceanic version of Avatar plus Star Wars. In Today's Movie Review, Ji Shaoting said that the elements that Sea King shares with successful sci-fi works are the detailed treatment of the world are very detailed and the racial details are set very clearly. In addition, science fiction works that have sunk Atlantis have shown the direction of evolution, such as the evolution of an advanced civilisation, or complete degradation. In "Sea King", WEN expands the underwater world into a vast multifaceted world, showing all the imaginable possibilities for the audience. At the same time, Wenzijin's motion shots make complete use of the principle of weightlessness at the bottom of the sea, turning the camera freely upside down and around 360 degrees, not only making the audience feel the powerful freedom of the sea, but also creating a strong sense of strangeness and wonder when watching the film.
In Today's Movie Review, Ji Shaoting believes that DC's attempt to expand around the ocean in Sea King is particularly successful because the underwater world is difficult for ordinary humans to reach and still retains its own sense of mystery. Conversely, Marvel has also been expanding into mystery in recent years, with Ant-Man entering the tiny world and Doctor Strange showing a kaleidoscopic-like multi-dimensional world. This is due to the fact that the necessary ingredient for a successful comic book movie is a very strong sense of surprise. Nowadays, audiences have seen so many surprising settings and ideas that it becomes a challenge to overturn their perceptions. Ji Shaoting points out that the science fiction element in comic book adaptations is gradually increasing, and that good science fiction works can lead audiences to another world. He hopes to continue to see works like Sea King leading audiences to wild imaginations, and that in the future science fiction films and television works can continue to create new worlds and open up infinite possibilities for audiences.