Extended Reading
  • Sincere 2021-10-22 14:34:53

    giant

    giant

    The first time I thought about life (after the deer died): I have my own thoughts, and what I can communicate is life. Life will die, and oneself will die. And if there is a thought, there is a soul. He was told: the soul is immortal, and the kind soul is immortal. So he likes to be a...

  • Cristina 2022-03-15 09:01:03

    while crying

    I think I'm still too emotional, I don't analyze the social background and the world, I'm simply moved. I was moved by the most complete and pure friendship in the story. Although I want to say that this ending is really beyond my expectations, why did I cry when it came as promised?
    I like when...

  • Paige 2022-03-20 09:01:23

    Brad Bird is a director who is too good at creating the beauty of the picture, and he is absolutely outstanding in animated films. The quiet snow scene, the quaint town, the heavy sunset, the anti-pattern use of camera positions, and the elevation panning mirror fully demonstrate the sense of shock and oppression. Inheriting the texture of traditional hand-painted animation, it has produced a completely modern movie, which is the most skilled and perfect combination of trying to add 3D technology to 2D animation at the end of the last century. Regardless of the style of painting, the action scenes like a disaster movie, plus the background of political allegory, it is enough to be regarded as a non-traditional genre in the history of animation and a work of epochal significance. A resolute "I want to be a superman." Then he chooses to die with the nuclear warhead. As a weapon developed, he can also become a hero who protects the city. The final ending is very pleasing in the animated film, avoiding the hero's only sacrifice.

  • Leann 2022-04-22 07:01:05

    (7.0/10) I finally watched this "masterpiece" in its entirety. The amazing thing is that the work that was not too long ago has become an important source of tribute. What's even more amazing is that the Cold War, the style of painting and the bird guide can appear together in such a classic to cliché story template.

The Iron Giant quotes

  • Hogarth Hughes: Hey, Dean! Watch this!

    Dean McCoppin: All right, we're watching.

    Hogarth Hughes: This one's for professionals only! Banzai!

    [dives into lake, starts shivering]

    Hogarth Hughes: Come on in! The water's... great.

    Dean McCoppin: No, thanks.

    Hogarth Hughes: You... weenie!

    [to the Giant]

    Hogarth Hughes: Come on in. It's really, really refreshing.

    [the Giant walks away]

    Hogarth Hughes: What? You too? You... big baby!

    The Iron Giant: [the sound of the Giant running is heard; suddenly he jumps into the water] Banzai!

  • Hogarth Hughes: Well, goodbye.

    [Hogarth starts walking away, the Giant follows him]

    Hogarth Hughes: No, no. Me go, you stay. No following. Good.

    [Hogarth walks, the Giant still follows him]

    Hogarth Hughes: I told you! I'll come back tomorrow! Now, stay!

    [Hogarth leaves, the Giant follows him]

    Hogarth Hughes: No, no, no! Bad robot!