One star for Jim Carrey, three for technology, just sauce

Joana 2022-09-12 15:16:29

I did a lot of mental preparation before watching this movie - it's me who likes one ear when watching "Black Cat Sheriff" and who likes Tom when watching "Tom and Jerry", what kind of mentality do you have to face Disney+Dickens Double D combination... Just Disney's "This is a small world, full of truth, goodness and beauty", I can pretend to be CJ with amnesia and try to arouse the child's innocence to take it, it's just Uncle D's "Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, good people Good things go to heaven" I can also swallow the delicate story, these two teaming up~~~ It's a bit too heavy for an uneducated rebel like me.

In the end, I decided to go to the cinema with the expectation of enjoying a "very technical and educational Christmas cartoon", so the fighting ability was better than expected.

It's not that Uncle D's stuff can't be filmed, so there is a TV version, and it's not that it can't be made into animation, but you have to think of a way to do it in a standardized way. In fact, the illustrations of this story I have seen are pretty good. You can follow that model. You need a little European style of painting, and you don’t have to be so realistic. To tell the truth, you need Uncle D’s steel teeth to insist on the world, “Good is rewarded, and evil is rewarded. For evil, God is always on the side of the weak.” It is difficult for a writer who is a “realist” to write fairy tales. If you are not as reductive and “realistic”, it will become very boring. It's a pity that Disney is taking this "cute and realistic" route again. We can't pursue the storytelling method or something (recite it a hundred times in silence)

Technically speaking, it's really good, it's really hard... London The restoration degree is really high, and the snow all over the sky - when I saw Scrooge lying on the ground at the door of his house, frightened by the ghost on the doorknob, there was a string of strings left behind that just turned into three points and was trampled on. It solidified into footprints on the icy mud, the tiny cracks under the fingertips, and there were some small bubbles inside. The transparency was just right, as if you could see the thin ice of the cold air, and the tip of the fingertips was clearly visible on the nose that was red and swollen due to the cold air. When the pores are opened, my tears are rushing out - China should just give up the field of animation! Ah, this technical fairy has painted!

I think that for Disney, the biggest technical problems in the animation adaptation of Uncle D's novel are not the character setting and the final restoration degree, but the London sewer gentleman's nightgown, the lady's soft hat and the British accent. With the wind. We, Mr. Darcy and Oldman, have no problem with accents. Jim Carrey's accent is very strange. Anyway, I didn't understand it very well at first. It took me a while to get used to his accent. However, Uncle JC's ventriloquism level is still very strong, and if he is born in Japan, it is also a good material for seiyuu. On the contrary, Mr. Darcy's voice acting skills are somewhat problematic, on the verge of breaking the sound, and there is no really happy feeling.

There are some small irregularities in the individual body movements of this film, but the background drawing and the facial expression simulation of the characters are really amazing. Especially when you can clearly see that it was drawn according to the actor's face, when Scrooge grinned, he could literally see JC's grin, the raised fingers, the hunched back, the youthful bean when he was young ~~~I think it's hard to spend all this time trying to educate everyone "don't do bad things on Christmas if you're afraid of death" and with Mr. Scrooge, a stingy and mean person who has been frozen for a lifetime and has 30 feet of ice is hard to see from side to side. It's a waste of an example to illustrate the feasibility of an example of a person who is enlightened overnight because one glance at the poverty of his employees gives birth to sympathy, and one glance at his own grave gives rise to fear. If there is a more brisk, humorous, childlike, less preachy and less religious book, what a wonderful viewing experience it would be with this technology.

Alas, Disney, will you never think about "Blue Bird"?

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A Christmas Carol quotes

  • [From trailer]

    [catching himself laughing like the Ghost of Christmas Present]

    Ebenezer Scrooge: I've heard that laugh before.

    [resumes laughing]

  • Fred: A Merry Christmas to you, uncle!

    Ebenezer Scrooge: Bah! Humbug... What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

    Fred: What reason have you to be so dismal? You're rich enough.

    Ebenezer Scrooge: BAH! Humbug!