With the continuous improvement of animation technology, there are not many directors who use stop-motion animation production methods to engage in animation, and Anderson is one of the best. The so-called stop-motion animation refers to a form of animation in which objects are shot frame by frame and then continuously displayed. Usually what we call stop-motion animation is generally performed by clay puppets, puppets or characters made of mixed materials, such as "The Story of Avanti". The reason why there are so few stop-motion animations is for no other reason than a problem. The so-called form that is closer to consciousness is freer, and the form that is closer to matter is less free. Because all the background settings and puppets had to be made manually, it was much more difficult than CG. There are more than 1,000 puppets in the whole film of "Canis Island", all of which are handmade, with 500 dogs and 500 humans each. For each individual character, there are a series of puppets of different sizes, including extra large, large, medium, small and super small. It is said that in order to avoid forgetting some characteristics of the objects, the puppet production team also kept a lot of puppies in the studio, meanwhile, the nitpicky Wes Anderson asked for "dubbing first and then animation", that is, the lips of all characters are first For those left blank, the matching mouth model is made after the dubbing is completed, which shows the difficulty of making the film. In such a complex external form, Anderson did not lose the film's content expression. "Isle of Dogs" has a strong political color, and various symbols and images that reflect history and real society appear frequently - mustard gas, concentration camps, official hereditary... At the same time, humans and dogs also have a set of their own in their own worlds. very special system. In human society, violence is empowered to gain legal status. Democracy on the surface is actually a brainwashing tyranny of the minority. On the island of Canis, it seems that freedom and equality are all "rubbish", but in fact, minorities often discuss issues. Losing the right to speak, you can only obey the majority, and there is even a "class" contempt chain - a dog that turns out to be a stray dog is not as good as a dog that turns out to be a pet dog, which is embarrassing. "Canis Island" is a movie that describes Japan from a Western perspective, so although it is very Japanese, it still uses Western-style shooting techniques when shooting, using chapters, flashbacks and other means to advance the narrative. What is even more interesting is that in this film, the dog speaks English and has subtitles, while the human speaks Japanese without subtitles, which is a metaphor for the estrangement between people under different discourse systems, which is really well-intentioned. By the way, I hope some Japanese bigwigs will watch it again with me, I really want to know what they said. The end of the film is not a particularly satisfying ending. Although the bad guys have been punished and justice has been served, when someone said "the death penalty for dog abusers", I began to wonder, is this slipping into another abyss? The road is long.
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