It has been six years since Frozen was born. With the virtues of many companies, such a profitable IP should be harvested again and again as soon as possible, but the main creator is still willing to spend six years diligently to clarify and Telling the story of Elsa and Anna's life experience, enriching the integrity of the sisters' story, just to this point, there is sincerity.
Frozen solves the question of who they are, and I think it's done well; Frozen II tries to solve two problems at once: where do they come from and where are they going. Two such complex questions, many American TV series take several seasons to answer, and it is almost impossible to solve the animation in less than two hours. What if it is possible? Don't worry, Disney can do it in his own way.
When I first saw Frozen, I felt very comfortable, but what made me feel comfortable and why, I didn't really realize it at that time. I attributed this kind of comfort to let it go, because the melody of this song is really good. Too high.
Then I realized: Frozen was anti-Disney at the time.
No matter how many years Disney's princess series routines, it seems that it is difficult to leave the routine of the prince saving the princess, no matter how many years the princess image changes. There are also Rapunzel and Brave, both of which are also talking about female consciousness, but they are not as big as Frozen. Maybe it is because Frozen has gone further in this consciousness: Frozen is more daring to play the image of "Prince". It is very anti-Disney to reshape the broken into an enemy. Before, the male protagonist was at most a return to ordinary people; he also boldly defined the kiss of true love as the love between sisters rather than the love between men and women, and finally let Anna rescue Elsa. These two paragraphs are the highlight moments in Frozen.
DreamWorks' Shrek relied on the spoof of Disney's routine fire, but unfortunately it is still the story of a hero saving beauty. The difference is that the "hero" is not handsome and rich, and the "beautiful" finally accepted her original appearance. For a real love, the end point is still in love.
Frozen cleverly took a step that DreamWorks did not take, and told the girls who grew up watching Disney animation: Don't believe in love at first sight, don't believe in princes, believe in yourself, and believe in your sisters Oh, and even if you don't have a male protagonist by your side, it's okay. It's very clever that Disney does it by itself. Self-destruction will definitely increase the popularity of passersby than competitors' hacking. Self-subversion is definitely more memorable than competitors' subversion.
After watching Frozen II, my opinion on Frozen also changed:
As the carrier of American mainstream culture, Disney animation will actively reflect whatever the mainstream culture advocates. In 2013, Hollywood's struggle for affirmative action continued, but it wasn't as violent as it was after Me too. The girl power Frozen showed at that time (in fact, it was still Disney-style) was slightly ahead of the mainstream culture, not very advanced, just It's a little bit ahead, so it can be accepted by the widest range of people, and it is more profound than other cartoons.
Looking at Hollywood in 2019, most people firmly hold high the banner of anti-Sichuan, and after the baptism of Me too, political correctness has reached the point where almost no one dares to challenge, so it will be trivial to talk about girl power at this time. .
Another point that cannot be ignored is that the story of Frozen II itself is not solid enough. It seems that the topic of discussion is deeper than that of the first part, and there are hidden political and historical metaphors. While searching for their own life experience, Elsa and Anna also hope to solve this problem. The historical conundrum of the kingdom. It sounds a bit interesting, but the presentation is really simple and rude, as simple and rude as Xuebao's storytelling. The life experience of the two sisters was discovered like this, and the two sides of shouting and killing suddenly stopped, and Elsa decided to be in distress after her own adventure. , Anna blew up the dam by mistake, the historical grievances were resolved, Elsa was rescued, and the country of Arendelle became more peaceful and loving.
Let’s call it a problem. I didn’t feel the difficulty of this question very much. I didn’t feel the resistance that Elsa and Anna encountered in facing this “difficulty”, or their struggles in breaking through the obstacles. It is not difficult to form a group to fight monsters, not even a villain that can make people hate it, and the real feeling that can be substituted for people is also lacking. This movie is to "upgrade" the girl power that Elsa and Anna already have - the main It's done through Elsa's flamboyant cross-dressing, as well as "sublimating" the deep friendship that already exists between the sisters - mostly through comparative cliché conversations.
It is really tangled after reading it. Frozen will not explode in 2019, but it is still a classic work; and Frozen II is like a replica of this classic work. Qualification is qualified. After all, the foundation is still there, but in the end Falling into mediocrity. Originally, I had some expectations, and I was looking forward to seeing another work that was not so Disney, but it also failed.
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