The Amazing Wildness of "Fantastic Daddy Fox"

Lilyan 2022-04-23 07:01:31

This is a stop motion animation by Wes Anderson. This animation anthropomorphizes animals, animals in suits and shoes, forming their own small society and living the same life as humans, but Wes Anderson did not completely kill the wild side of animals, when foxes and other underground animals eat It's not chewing and swallowing like humans, but eating fast and almost brutally, crunching the food, gobbling it down, and after eating it, it's a mess. This is the wildness of the animal left in the fox, and it is the most natural side of the fox. Foxes are strong and capable of digging holes by nature. When the mother fox was not pregnant, they made a living by stealing and fighting with three bully farmers. Stealing was their choice and their nature. Farmers have all the bad qualities of human beings, evil, greedy, stingy, cunning, selfish, stupid, they have a lot of wealth, a huge chicken farm, a cellar of high-end cider, but they have absolutely nothing as a human being. Self-cultivation is only the appearance of a snob who is chasing money and scheming. But the grievance between the fox and the farmer is not just because of the farmer's wealth, the farmer's snobby attitude, but also the fox's nature, and the father fox steals for his so-called fox's nature. It's also a dark thread that drives the whole story. At the end of the film, the fox father drove the child across the wasteland, and saw a rebellious lone wolf in the distance, standing on all fours, without an inch of thread. Father fox must have longed for a wolf-like life. The moment he saw the wolf, tears rolled in his eyes, but in the end it didn't fall. He waved at the lone wolf, then drove away to meet up with him. The family has a peaceful life. The film is talking about foxes, but it is also about people. By reflecting on the various behaviors of human evolution through the fox that has not completely lost its animal nature, we have evolved towards a highly developed society, put on figurines, learned etiquette, behaved properly, chewed slowly, unconsciously domesticated ourselves, and finally slowly Lose the animal's original animal nature. Is this all right? The animals have formed their own small society, put on clothes, have a bank, and want to buy a "tree" (ie, buy a house), and it is foreseeable that they will forget their thievery nature after a long time, and they will no longer even gobble their meals. Live a happy life. The wildness of the lost animal has become exactly the same as the present human being.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox quotes

  • Kristofferson: Uh, do you mind if I slide my bed roll slightly out from under the train set? It's hard to sleep in that corkscrew position.

    Ash: [in the top bunk] There's a lot of attitudes going on around here. Don't let me get one.

    Kristofferson: No, it's only just my spinal cord getting...

    Ash: Sleep wherever you want, man. Here, take my bed! I'll just uh... I'll crawl under the bookcase! Who cares if I get splinters in my ears?

    Kristofferson: Never mind.

    Ash: Oh, you gonna pout about it? 'Cuz I've had it up to HERE

    [gestures with his hand]

    Ash: with the "sad houseguest" routine.

    [Ash turns off the light and continues to read his White Cape comic in bed]

    Kristofferson: Good night.

    [he lies down under the train set and begins to quietly sob; Ash comes down, turns on the train, Kris gets up and they watch it]

  • Beaver's Son: [lays down a box of supplies during a Science lab class] Why's your cousin such a wet sandwich?

    Kristofferson: I beg your pardon?

    Beaver's Son: What's that mean?

    Kristofferson: That means that I don't understand what you just said. A wet sandwich?

    Beaver's Son: Yeah! A wet sandwich. He's too short, he dresses like a girl, he's

    [makes a motion with his hands]

    Beaver's Son: different.

    Kristofferson: Are you a bully? You're starting to sound like a bully.

    Beaver's Son: Watch this.

    [he takes a spoonful of yellow powder and drops it into the bubbling liquid over a Bunsen burner; it explodes and covers both of them in the yellow substance]

    Kristofferson: That's... you just destroyed the whole experiment. We'd better extinguish this magnesium.

    [they raise their safety goggles]

    Kristofferson: Stand back.

    [Kris sprays the fire with an extinguisher]

    Agnes: [watching from a few feet away] Wow.

    Kristofferson: [whistles] Whew!

    Agnes: [to Kris] Hmm. I like your ears.

    [gestures to her own]

    Kristofferson: M... Mine?

    Agnes: Mmhmm.

    Kristofferson: Thank you! I like your... spots.

    Agnes: Really? I used to cover them up, but, you know...

    Ash: Ugh.

    [scoffs]

    Agnes: Hmm?

    Ash: You're supposed to be *my* lab partner.

    Agnes: I am!

    Ash: No you're not. You're disloyal.