(Because I haven't read the original work, all my opinions and ideas are based on these two adaptations of the film. If there is any misunderstanding or error, please point out.)
The prototype of the film is a fairy tale, and the audience of the original story is For children aged 8-11, to read that book, it will not be too difficult for children to understand. After watching these two movies, I think there are many things expressed in the movies, and we need to explain many problems to the children now or in the future. I feel a little worried about the dialogue between them-people who lack childlike innocence to watch fairy tale movies may have a great misunderstanding of the movie.
1. This is a movie about "Believe in Miracles and Impossibility".
One, there's a potion that can make you shrink.
Two, a cake that can make you grow.
Three, animals can talk.
Four, cats can disappear.
Five, there's a place called Wonderland.
Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky!
All children are naturally curious. Children will have some weird ideas at the beginning. Alice always had the same dream. When she went to a place called Wonderland, she met some very weird creatures. When she told her father, his father didn’t train or feel like other people at that time. She went crazy, but went to enlighten and enlighten her very gently, eliminating her inner anxiety and fear. My father told Alice that sometimes he believed six impossible things before breakfast. And these things, as we all know, constituted the main experience in her dream.
However, even if my father said that, when Alice really entered the dreamland and saw everything that happened before her eyes, she still couldn't believe it, and that self-doubt and unresolvedness gradually changed from the character of Mad Hatter. Lead her to discover her true self, which is the final climax of the first part.
Therefore, after Alice completed the last task "Kill the empty dragon", she felt that after experiencing these, she should be more brave and insist on what she wants to do. As long as she believes, the impossible can become possible. .
In this regard, at the beginning of "Pocahontas", Alice kept her boat at sea and made an amazing move. Then the words to the deputy captain are well connected with the first part: "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that is possible." This is what Mad Hatter (or her own heart) told her .
2. "Are you Alice?"
Whether it's the first or second "Pocahontas", there is an implicit instruction, "If you believe, then you are the only Alice."
In the first part, Alice first entered a dream, and she didn't believe that she was the person who killed the empty dragon described in the scroll. Sophisticated worms said "Not hardly", which was a bit close, because Alice hadn't accepted it at the time. Everything I saw when I entered the fairyland. And when the wise worm reminded her before she turned into a pupa, Alice realized that this encounter was connected to her dreams from the past to the present, "Alice...At last." She knew her mission, She is the Alice.
In the second part of "Pocahontas", Alice, who has just returned to her dream, hears Mad Hatter talking about her life and family. Alice feels that his family that Mad Hatter once said was killed by Konglong. How can you still believe that they are still alive? Said "It's not possible." I didn't believe in Mad Hatter, which is why Mad Hatter kept saying "You are not my Alice. My Alice would believe me." Later, after Alice knew the truth, she returned to the dying Mad Hatter. There, as soon as you say "I believe you." Mad Hatter is alive and well.
Alice is just a name. For people in dreams, as long as she has a firm belief and a clear self-awareness, she is the only Alice; otherwise, it is not the Alice they know.
2. About the emergence of dreams.
In the story, the contrast between reality and dream is great. Wonderland is a world woven by Alice herself, with fictional characters and things, which on the surface seems to be an escape from reality, but in fact, in the dreamland, she constantly grows, strengthens her beliefs, and tries her best to make it impossible. Possibility becomes possible, giving her the courage to make amazing moves and behaviors in reality.
In the first part, the hallucinations will be introduced into the dreamland. It is at the engagement banquet where she is suddenly told that she is going to be proposed. She is at a loss when everything is not ready. At this time, the rabbit holding the pocket watch introduces her into the hole. And killing the empty dragon after experiencing everything is not unrelated to reality. After experiencing everything, Alice believed that her destiny should be in her hands and do what she wanted to do, so she returned to reality and said something amazing to everyone, opening up her own way of sailing to inherit the wishes of her father.
In the second part, an illusion will be introduced into the dream, when she learns that her mother has signed the contract to sell the house and she is forced to exchange the remaining ship, and her mother is forced to face reality and not sail anymore. Once again, she was confused and missed her father, and entered the world in the mirror.
After going through a series of fantastic things, the experience of helping Mad Hatter find his family, let Alice understand that the deceased is gone and cannot be changed but can only be missed. So back to reality, Alice made a decision for her mother's sake, and the ending was happy ending.
3. Foreshadowing related to "time".
1. At the beginning of "Pocahontas", the conversation with the mother, the mother said: "Time is a cruel master." For women, time is not forgiving. Mother means that Alice should hurry up when she grows up. My lifelong consideration-find a stable job, get married and have children. And Alice said "Time is a thief, a villain." Alice felt that time slowly stole the important things in her life, from her father to the house and the boat. For such an idea, after experiencing all of it, she realized that it was reflected in the final dialogue with "Time", and it will not start here.
2. The conversation between Alice and her mother in the corridor. "Time is against you." reminds Alice again, "Time is not waiting for a woman, don't obsess about sailing. At the end, after the dream comes out, Alice said to her mother "Time is everything, but not money, nor our enemy. "Speak to Hamish, but also to her mother. This is her insight after experiencing the "encounter in the mirror". The original Alice believed that time was a bad person and took everything from her, but after experiencing all After the incident, she understood that time is not an enemy or a villain.
By the way, in reality, the relationship between Alice and her mother is also brought closer by helping the Mad Hatter to find someone home in the mirror. The two are commensurate. Because Alice Si said to her mother "This is the last thing I would like to end up like you." Mad Hatter said to his father "The last thing I would like to end up is like you." Some things will be presented in another way in the dream. That is to say, the process of helping others in the dream is actually helping oneself and self-salvation.
3. At the beginning of "time", tell Alice " You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it." This sets the story for "You can only understand and cannot change."
Returning to the level of fairy tales, such a setting and education are telling children and readers subtly that the deceased is gone, we can miss it, but we can’t fall into it.
Fourth, the author's imagination and the expressiveness of the film are exquisite.
1. "Time is a he?!" Time is a "person" in a dream.
The author was born in England in the 19th century. At that time, Britain just started to use a pocket watch to calculate time in minutes and seconds, so many people are vague about the concept of time. The author presented the "concept of time" in this form in his own works, which seemed to be very advanced at the time. (In fact, I think even now, it is a very good way to educate children about the concept of time.)
For a child, the "concept of time" may be difficult to implement in early education. Most parents may be when the child is a child. It is to instill similar very abstract concepts like "hurry up", "time running out", and "time is precious". Too much talk like this is actually useless. For a child, he may not know what it really means. What's going on. But in "Pocahontas in the Mirror", "time" is a real "person" that manages the life and death of a person, no matter which timeline Alice crosses, he can know, "You cannot escape time" ." (Of course, the conversation that happened with the Mad Hatter group at "Time" afternoon tea was very interesting.)
2. The life and death of a person is counted by a pocket watch.
Two rooms: The Living Garden and the Dead Garden. In these two rooms, everyone's life is timed by a pocket watch. Such a setting is self-evident. Alice kept the pocket watch her father gave her, so the pocket watch is a relic of her father to Alice, so she has always hated time and felt that time is a thief, and her understanding of life and death Limited to "time stole my father from me", the author has such a wonderful imagination.
3. Time machine and space-time gap.
The time machine that the magic ball of time turns into is an operating system like a ship. In Alice’s dream, these are so easy because it belongs to her dream, and sailing is her hobby and dream, so in the dream It’s not surprising that these tools are what she is good at. As for the hand-operated rickshaw railcar used for "time", it was a relatively common means of transportation that she had mastered in her time (author Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898). If you are loyal to the original work, these details must be preserved, because that is the imagination of the author and is limited to that era.
Let's talk about the space-time gap. It should not be difficult to find that the time and space journey Alice entered is the folded sea, and the waves are the timeline, so Alice's time and space journey is her best sailing. The author's creation of Alice's dream is so ingenious and very interesting.
4. Connect the details of the two stories.
The first time Alice escaped with the magic ball of time and space, "Time" went to catch him, but after hitting Alice, "Time" couldn't stand still and was swallowed by a huge wave. Later, he fell to the crazy hat who was drinking afternoon tea. After they fooled around, "Time" locked them 1 minute before drinking tea at 4 pm, and said that they would always stop at that moment until Alice appeared. In this way, the conversation when Alice met Mad Hatter for the first time in the first part is worth remembering.
Also, because Alice was teleported to Mad Hatter when she was a child in Pocahontas and Little Mad Hatter took Alice to his house, so Mad Hatter has known Alice since she was a child, but that’s just Alice grew up. They also knew the young Alice, because in reality she had been to Wonderland since she was a child. So Mad Hatter will say:
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2016.5.30 Make some additions:
add some views on the line of the White Queen and the Red Queen.
Like many people, when I watched the second part, I discovered that when we went back to the past to learn about history (learn from the past in "time"), the real situation turned out to be caused by the lies of the White Queen when she was a child. When the tragedy of the Red Queen occurs, we will all have a new understanding of these two roles. "It turns out that a good person on the surface is not necessarily a good person, and a bad person on the surface is not necessarily a bad person." This is what we call "the real world." People are not black and white".
That's right, the white queen is green tea, and the red queen is "whitewashed" at the end. (In this way, the movie seems very crude, understandable.)
And why did the White Queen answer "No" after returning to the past?
Since I answered "No" again outside the door, the apology of resurrection after experiencing petrification is very pale and false.
I have a self-considered explanation for these problems: Alice was designed to go to the Temple of Time to steal the magic ball and go back to the past. The White Queen is a green tea who has stolen and lied and has not admitted her mistakes for so many years, and Being the first victim only wants the world to know the truth, not an extremely violent villain.
1. The White Queen
I didn’t watch the first part of "Alice" in 2010, because I was going to watch "Pocahontas in the Mirror" in the near future, so I made up the first part. When I finished watching the first part, I felt that the White Queen was very special. (It’s not that Hathaway’s acting skills are not good, but the role of the White Queen looks very pretentious, unlike the traditional "goddess of justice".), and always feels very false and insincere in what she said to Alice. I don’t know how many people felt the same as me after watching the first movie?
Now that I think about it, this is actually a foreshadowing. Queen White is not a good character of kindness and justice at all. She has been so selfish and hypocritical since she was a child, and she will still be like this when she grows up.
Judging from her performance in the first part, she doesn't feel like a very decent role!
i) When Alice gets back the decapitation sword:
ii) When the dog came back and reported that she hadn't waited for Alice, the White Queen didn't care about Alice's safety, but she was very confident that Alice would not die and would follow the plot.
2. Alice's travel through time and space is designed.
If you agree with my previous point of view, please recall that when I watched the second part, Alice asked how to save Mad Hatter’s family (they thought that Mad Hatter’s family was dead), and the White Queen appeared typical With a gesture of "satisfaction and indulgence", "If you use that method...", the rabbit was still talking, "Oh, no, you can't use this method." And the blue cat said suspiciously "We all" before closing the door. count on her."
The occurrence of the "freeze frame 1 minute before 4 o'clock in the afternoon tea" incident, for the group of them (Mad Hat, Blue Cat, Rabbit, Mouse) at that time, all knew that "time" appeared to catch Ellie Silk, this means that they know that at some point in the future, Alice will definitely steal the Chronosphere and cause "time" to catch her. ——So it is necessary for the White Queen to "flick" Alice to the Hall of Time and Space (acting in true colors).
3. Why did Queen White still say "No" after returning to the past, and why did she suddenly apologize so religiously?
When the White Queen introduced Alice to Crossing, she said, "No one in Wonderland can use Macross because they have two selves after returning to the past. If they look at each other, they will be crushed. Alice has no past in Wonderland. use". At that time, the Red Queen had already grabbed the Super Time Magic Ball. The White Queen knew this setting, so she still said no, just to lie to anger her again. The Red Queen would impulsively enter the room and "try to change the past", so that the Red Queen would be destroyed. .
Can it be said that yes does not change the past? Impossible, because if she admits that she has made a mistake, the Red Queen will let everyone take a look at the scandal, so all the White Queen could say at the time was No! You die and die.
In the end, the apology is right after the crisis is over. The situation is already so ugly. Alice and others already know what the White Queen lied and did wrong. What else can I do besides apologizing? It must be confession to make my sister forgive herself. Everyone sees that the White Queen who dares to admit her mistakes can still accept it.
Therefore, the Red Queen is the poorest in this line. For the younger sister, the "dearest enemy", all she can do is accept her apology, and originally hoped to coax "time" to change the past with the magic ball. After trying it, she knew this. It is irreversible, so you can only accept reality and accept your own sister.
In the first part, the villain, the Red Queen, was forced to go to Liangshan, all because the White Queen wanted to seize the throne. Take a look at why the Red Queen is chasing Alice:
(Pay attention to this line. In "Adventure in the Mirror", Alice returns to the Queen’s Day of Battle. After the Red Queen destroys everything with the empty dragon, after catching the Mad Hatter family, she hangs on the feet of the empty dragon to watch Flew away with Alice, so I said "I have seen it.")
(Typical strange circle: The Red Queen was gimmicked to find someone who might kill her in the future, but this was developed in accordance with the historical process. So the Red Queen was not a villain who killed anyone at the beginning, but for the sake of Protecting his own empty dragon to find Alice, step by step was forced to Liangshan by Alice and the White Queen.)
4. Finally, let’s talk about the red queen "Helena"
Helena's acting skills are excellent in both the first and the second part. of. From "the arrogant queen fan" to "pretend to be pitiful and deceive the space-time magic ball", and "time" telling her that Mad Hatter knew that her family was not dead, her eyes were tilted back twice (because of the reduced Hightop The family is in the photo frame behind her), the role of the Red Queen does not have much body language, because the head is big and the expression must be very accurate. Helena is very successful in playing this role and I like it very much.
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"I'm drunk too."
Finally, I want to express my feelings when I heard a back row viewer say this in the theater.
When Alice struggled to put the magic ball back into the clock of aeons, seeing that both Alice and the magic ball were petrified, the audience said, "This ball should fall." Then he saw the magic ball and the clock of aeons in the screen. The electric current was activated, and the audience said, "I am also drunk. Fairy tales are fairy tales. There is no way, otherwise I can't shoot them."
Yes, fairy tales are fairy tales. . It is understandable that some people will go to this movie for entertainment.
But I think, what does Disney make a movie, shoot a fairy tale, show the children, what do the children need?
"hope".
Beautiful fairy tales must have a happy ending. Even if we know that all this is not true, the reality cannot be so beautiful, but we still have to tell our children that we must be full of good hope for life, be curious, and Be brave, be kind, and believe that there is a will.
Perhaps Alice’s father did this, and the author and screenwriter did the same, because only by telling her that Alice can grow into the only Alice, overcome many difficulties, help her partner, and then proudly follow her. Come out of the dream and calmly face this not-so-fairy-tale world.
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2016.6.6 Supplement: The
following is quoted from the comment of netizen twosuns:
"After reading the film review , I have some questions about the views of the White Queen:
1. If the White Queen deliberately let the Red Queen meet her in the past to destroy her, doesn't the White Queen herself know that the world will also be destroyed after the encounter? The result was that they both died together, instead of the White Queen's benefit alone.
2. The White Queen was holding the petrified Red Queen when the world was about to be petrified and planned to save her. If it is green tea, how can this be explained? "
My understanding:
1. I also thought of this, that is, does the White Queen know that staring at each other will destroy the entire time and space. My feeling is that she doesn't know, because she only said when explaining why they couldn't use it in their dreams. Looking at each other will destroy oneself. I don’t know it will destroy the entire time and space. I don’t have such words in my mind. I will check the conversation later.
2. The hug before the petrification is understandable. I can’t think of the white queen. Telling a lie made the Red Queen hate herself for so many years, and then panicked behind the door again and almost destroyed everything. Seeing that the entire world is about to be destroyed, the White Queen may "recognize herself out of regret or fear" "For her sister, she is more guilty than kind.
Thank you for reading carefully, and thank you for sharing your opinions with me. I am very happy to see so many people who share the same feelings and have different opinions. We will only meet people who are interested in this movie.
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