" Is Dumbo by Tim Burton? " is probably the first question that pops into your head when you step out of the theater.
Maybe you have already begun to doubt when the movie is showing, because when you carefully scan every frame and every shot, eager to see the logo dedicated to Bolton, you find that you only rely on jump scare to scare you. You've got nothing but a jumping monkey and a few pretentious monsters from the Horror Island in Phantasialand.
This is a Tim Burton movie. It's Burton, who made "Zombie Bride" and " Edward Scissorhands". "The heavy taste of the scene.
So you decide: This is a work that Burton bowed his head to Disney, and it is a childish fairy tale with a very high sugar content.
You can't find Burton's whimsy, you can't find terrifying scenes and characters, you can't find the dark core of sarcasm, all you can see are family-friendly plot settings and lectures Meaning Disney Core Values: Those are the core values that are unique to the American Dream, believe in the power of freedom and love, that will make you incredibly powerful.
But I want to tell you that this is still a film with Tim Burton's stamp on it, and it's still a dark adult fairy tale.
Let's recall the horrific and desperate ending of the original Disney classic "Dumbo" in 1941: Dumbo became the circus' top card, it won the "approval" of the circus and the audience, and it stayed on. in the circus.
This is not the happy ending of the family fun. Dumbo is an incarnation of being discriminated against, bullied and even enslaved. It was forced to learn to fly and has its own skills, but only to win the respect of human beings, and then continue to stay in the circus Serve humanity to make a profit for it.
Human beings are of course the happy side, as active enslavers, as authorities, have achieved a double victory of thought and action.
In the live-action version more than 70 years later, the plot follows the basic setting of the animated version, the circus and our protagonist: "Bumbo" Dumbo with two fan ears.
The plot of the movie can be summed up very simply: retired soldier Holt lost an arm in the war, and he had to find a job looking after elephants in the circus as an equestrian master.
The mother elephant in the circus gave birth to Dumbo, but was ridiculed and ridiculed because of its big ears. Holt's pair of children discovered the peculiarity of Dumbo and successfully let Dumbo rely on it. The ears flew up.
In this way, Dumbo became an instant hit, and the circus became famous, so it attracted the attention of Wendeville, the owner of Fantasyland, who bought the circus, hoping that Dumbo and his beautiful acrobat Ma Qian But the truth is not so simple, the evil and selfish businessman Wendeville has an evil conspiracy in his heart.
Bolton likes to use children to construct opposing values of good and evil, which was vividly shown in his last "Miss Pei's Fantasy Castle". Children, as the absolute protagonists, battle the villains and win the final victory.
Here, Bolton uses two children who grew up in the circus as the absolute core of the good side , and in the process, the siblings not only have a huge impact on Dumbo, but discover that Dumbo can rely on its ears. He has the talent to fly, and brought back his father, who was passive because of the war and didn't know how to get along with his children, and became kind and brave again.
In the end, the father and daughter work together to destroy the plot of Dreamland together with the friends of the circus, so that Dumbo and his mother are reunited and returned to nature.
But we can't simply have a confrontation between good and evil in this film. Are the members of the circus and the head of the team who finally sent an assist to help Holt escape? Are they all good?
The thought provoked here is the core of Bolton's adult fairy tale, and it is also the despair revealed in the ending of the original animated version of "Dumbo": the circus, a enslaved and enslaved, watched and watched "The Land of Dreams" .
Before and after the birth of Dumbo, the movie was very clever and set us an absolutely evil character - the fierce-faced animal trainer , who was eventually crushed to death by the collapsed circus pillar because of the mother elephant's behavior of protecting her son, so that the audience Our thinking about the many roles of the circus will simply and rudely be attributed to the opposition between pure good and pure evil, and the suppressed anger will dissipate with the disappearance of pure evil.
But we must understand that the circus and animals are never friends, they are slavery and oppression . The circus forced wild animals that should have returned to nature to become objects to be watched and trained , and tools for entertainment .
This is also the true meaning of the subjective shots of Dumbo in the movie. Through the perspective of Dumbo, we can see: the audience full of sarcasm, they respond to the difference of Dumbo instead of understanding. It was wanton ridicule, and they looked at Dumbo, who had turned into a clown costume, with a " freak -looking" look.
And Bolton deliberately chose Holt, who lacked an arm, as his companion who also painted clown costumes, which has the same meaning, because they are all freaks in real society and are the object of discrimination.
Remember the fascinated bubble performance before the Phantasialand show? Elephants split into small elephants, and eventually the small elephants are swallowed by elephants. This is the rule of the adult world and the creed of human society.
The biggest difference from the original version is the ending of the live-action version. People in the circus help Dumbo and Elephant mother escape from the cage and return to nature. Dumbo flies freely among the elephants, and can show their own and Different.
This version of the ending has Disney's unique family-friendly attributes, but we were surprised to find that with Dumbo regaining his freedom, the collapse of Dreamland became a foregone conclusion.
Also, does that collapsed Fantasyland look like Disneyland? (Text_The Seventh Continent)
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