Watching Hollywood cartoons in the early years was purely a pleasure to make up for the regrets of childhood. My heart has been heavy since Hollywood took the image of our national treasure and reworked it and dumped it in China. This year, I saw the scene in which the porcelain country was in disarray and the porcelain dolls had to be saved by Uncle Sam ("The Wizard of Oz"). In the face of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" that has been occupying the TV screen for ten years, and perhaps also the recently popular "Bears in the Northeast", I think that the domestic film and television industry can still fight against other film themes For a moment, in terms of cartoons, he is still so reluctant to make progress, and he really can't help but "mourning his misfortune and angering him without fighting".
Since the birth of DreamWorks, the style of American cartoons has also changed a bit, and the silly and sweet Disney style has also shown signs of gradual improvement under this stimulation. "Crazy Primitives", which was released on April 20, represents the latest height of DreamWorks animation. It almost includes the success of all excellent Hollywood animations. Promote the construction of a harmonious society.
From the perspective of subject matter, we can easily see the shadows of "Madagascar" and "Ice Age", both of which are themes of escape and exploration, but they are all supported by rich knowledge of geography, paleontology, and archaeology. Choosing the "species factory" Madagascar, so the local lemurs can shine and attract attention; choosing the era of mass extinction, the warmth on the escape road has a solid foundation; choosing the escape and evolution of primitive people, we can Seeing prehistoric murals, the use of fire, the invention of shoes, and other historical common sense science popularization... I can't help but admit that even in cartoons, Americans can well integrate resources from other disciplines. So I think if I have children, watching this kind of cartoon will be a good opportunity to popularize science, much more interesting than going to the museum to see dinosaur skeletons.
From the audience point of view, it is not empty words for all ages. One of the major skills of American cartoons is to play the family card, which is not accidental. Many animations in recent years have been performed by a noisy family or team. Some are responsible for being funny, some for being steady, some for being irritable, some for being cute, some for being virtuous, and some for hooking up... In this way, the storyline is easy to unfold. , the relationship between characters is easy to combine. Coupled with Hollywood's tried-and-true model of "Family conflicts are finally repaired after hardships" (you can insert links here to "2012", "Jurassic Park", "World War", huh), a large number of family units have been gathered unconsciously. loyal audience.
In character design, Hollywood has a deep taste for the essence of keeping pace with the times. The popular combination of sturdy King Kong and soft girls ("Tarzan of the Ape"), which was popular in the Disney era, has also become a combination of a female man and a high-IQ scholar in due course. Is bear child a buzzword all over the world now? When I was watching the film, I saw the little loli like a stray dog, and I couldn't help but think that compared to their American counterparts, Chinese teddy bears are still gentle and kind.
The animation is unrestrained, and the imagination is indispensable. Various prehistoric animals have appeared in strange combinations, such as leopard-print mammoths, parrot-colored saber-toothed tigers, turtles and ostriches, crocodile-headed dogs, McDull bats, crocodile blue whales... and so on are even more awesome than "Shan Hai Jing". The audience was hooked. Many viewers may not have noticed that the canyon where the Gollum family lived is the prototype of the Red Cliff National Reserve in Arizona, USA. The wavy rock here has always been one of photographers’ favorite scenery shooting scenes. Compared with the tropical rainforest and savanna scenes that followed, I think the design of this canyon is more brilliant, and it is more worthy of reference for Chinese cartoons. After all, when it comes to scenic spots, China is much better than the United States. It is also a brand-new publicity idea to do landscape soft articles in cartoons.
In the end, in fact, I think the most lacking thing for domestic animators may be the ability to tell a compelling story. Here we can't help but admire the fact that this film really has no urine in the audience. From the introduction of the flat living environment and characters at the beginning, to the debut of the characters who came out of the hole at dawn, to the collective sports demonstration of poaching ostrich eggs (simulation of rugby), there was no delay. The appearance of the high-IQ guy and the fast-moving doomsday coercion, the rapid transition but seamlessness, makes people addicted, and harms the audience's bladder. In the middle of the roller coaster-style rhythm, the front and back echoes make the plot more compact, the front and back of the parrot-colored saber-toothed tiger and the crocodile-headed dog, the front and back of the prehistoric murals, and the combination of asphalt, fire and predatory birds in the last scene. Combining the experience completely, this original airship makes the story reunion without being rigid, it is simply a stroke of genius, and it is admirable.
At the end of the film, the primitive people are running on the golden beach under the sunset, and the story comes to an end. I believe that a sequel will be on the agenda soon. After all, the primitive people escaped and began to study prehistoric technology to deal with the challenges of nature along the way. By the way, the theme of love is such a good theme, and the smart people in Hollywood will definitely continue to use it.
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