How much depth does a movie really need?

Duane 2022-04-22 07:01:32

After watching "Zootopia" a few days ago, I watched "Dinosaurs" again today. To be honest, I prefer the style of "Dinosaur Master", which looks pleasing to the eye and does not clutter the brain because of the rich and implicit amount of information. The story is very simple, the dinosaurs can farm the land, but one of them is very weak and meets a human who is even weaker than it. Because of unexpectedly coming to a distant and strange place, he has to start to find the way back home.

In terms of conception, it is the same as the cartoon "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother" by Shanghai Art Studio in my country. You will meet bad people, meet good people, and grow up (the little tadpoles seem to have turned into frogs later), and they will recognize the world more clearly. In the process of watching the movie, I basically enjoyed the beautiful scenery and was moved by the dinosaur baby's nostalgia for his father.

But when I was about to write a review, what I noticed was the line on the poster:

Tiny but Tough.

Why choose dinosaurs? They look tall and mighty, and they dominated the world hundreds of millions of years ago. Brontosaurus, it can be said that it was the largest creature at that time. Many sci-fi films envision the death, wounding and mourning of the human world on the day the dinosaurs come back to life. However, they are extinct and turned into a pile of bones. This world, currently occupied by humans, is a Tiny but Tough species. And dinosaurs, Big but Weak.

It looks like the strongest dinosaur dad was swept away by the flood and didn't survive. I've been looking forward to the final flip as the baby dinosaur flopped around in the water. But no, Dinosaur, like the dinosaurs who ruled the earth, never came back. The weakest dinosaur, after going through all kinds of difficulties, finally returned to the arms of the dinosaur mother.

A young human, who looks no more than 3-4 years old, can show his teeth and threaten everything that looks dangerous. All its movements are dogs, so I can't help but suspect that when 3D motion capture is used, it is a dog baby Bar. Tiny but Tough, can't imagine when its parents left it, but it survived alone and felt kindness from the dinosaur baby, so it also casts kindness to it.

Kindness is the most important thing for us to survive in this world. Loyalty, friends, are the only things we can rely on without our parents. Parents, sometimes they can't give us too much, weak, ordinary, dinosaur dad has always let the dinosaur baby overcome the fear, but it is not the best way to educate. On the contrary, it was the Tyrannosaurus Rex father, who told the baby dinosaur that fear is always there, and the life that has never been feared cannot be called life. The important thing is how to move forward with fear. This, was told to the baby dinosaur by a friend, not from family.

In the end, little by little, the dinosaur baby grew up, and it was precisely because of the words of the Tyrannosaurus Rex father that it jumped into the flash flood to protect the child, and was no longer afraid of the lightning and thunder that took away the dinosaur father. The grown-up dinosaur baby came home and took on the responsibility of protecting the home. Dinosaur mother is far away, thinking that dinosaur father is back. Her children have grown up.

Tiny but Tough. Do we sometimes feel that we are too weak to ignore the dreams we can achieve? I suddenly remembered that this kind of body shape comparison is also widely used in "Crazy Zoo".

What "Inside Out" presents is, first, we are "we" because of our past memories, but the selected plot can't explain this profound topic at all, and the depth is still lacking; second, the sadness The meaning to us is no less than happiness, because there is sadness, there is happiness, we should not suppress our sadness, expression is very important. The second level of meaning is expressed fairly well. It's just that such extreme optimists really exist? Anyway, I have never been brought in. I feel that such an optimistic person is really fragile, and I thought it was common sense. So I have never understood why it won the Oscar, probably because last year's cartoons were so bad.

"Zootopia", a mediocre Hollywood detective plot, I don't know what to express. Maybe it means that animation can also have depth, or Disney can also have depth?

A simple and clear idea is always more meaningful than the stacking of patterns. "Dinosaur Master" did not emphasize the issue of Tiny but Tough in the whole process, but the moment I saw the poster, I understood, and I also understood the meaning of Dinosaur Dad, you are me and more than me, and why we use dinosaurs and humans. Compared.

But what about Zootopia? The whole article is saying, i am a trier. It's just that this kind of forced indoctrination is really good?

The form of this film is indeed a bit old, but the old must be bad, right? Do old things have to be thrown away? Family, growth, and self-breakthrough are the focus of life.

I like "Wonderful Flowers" very much. In the first issue, many new and wonderful flowers began to find tricky angles to debate the topic in order to stay. Ma Dong said that sometimes, it is the most common and common sense angle that can impress the audience.

For animation, yes. After watching "Inside Out", I remember the scene when the family island collapsed, but how many people ran away from home because of amnesia? After watching "Crazy Zoo", I only remember the handsome fox, and by the way, I miss "The Great Fox Dad". After watching Dinosaurs, I thought that people really have to leave home to grow up. I wanted to call my parents far away, and I remembered that maybe one day I won't be able to return to my hometown. I can remember that patch of fireflies and that circle.

Simple but touching.

Tiny but tough.

easy but touch.

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Extended Reading

The Good Dinosaur quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Butch: If you ain't scared, you ain't alive.

  • [from trailer]

    Arlo: I missed my family.

    Spot: Huh?

    Arlo: You don't understand.