In a blink of an eye, "Ice Age" has been photographed 5, but this series of funny and cute ancient animals seems to have reached a dead end.
Movies undoubtedly open a window for people to expand their imagination. People imagine the future and then focus on the past. There are a lot of movies about primitive people. The most famous one is "La guerre du feu" shot by the French in 1981. This film has no dialogue. In the era it describes, human beings have not yet learned to save And the use of fire, the story of the movie is that the male protagonist is looking for fire, and the male protagonist learned to have face-to-face sex from other tribal women. They were all backward-style like dogs before. This film describes the history of human evolution. A few important moments: learning to use fire, and face-to-face mating. Of course, these events in real history may span tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.
In the 1980s, the Chinese made a feature film that reflected primitive people. It seems that it has not been reviewed and released. It is also the earliest attempt by the Chinese to this type of subject matter. It is said that real beasts (bears) were used during the filming, and the actors hit the beasts with stone knives and axes, and casualties occurred. This film seems to be an experimental film of the school-run Youth Film Studio of the Beijing Film Academy at that time.
The ancient movies made by modern people are basically dressed in the costumes of primitive people in modern imagination. Obviously, there is no common language at that time, so any primitive people movies with dialogue are complete bullshit. In this regard, the French film "Battle of Fire" is a more serious original film. But if there is no dialogue, the charm of storytelling will be lost. It is said that the original films shot in that era are all competing to use some proud bodybuilding champions. There is no charm of language, but at least the charm of body. In the end, it is The charm of sex is actually in line with the audience's expectations for this type of film. The people all know that the ancient human beings were naked. It is said that the actors who have played primitive people in history all became popular because of their proud bodies.
But in fact, the authenticity of the primitive human beings performed by live people cannot be verified. What human beings were like in ancient times, modern human beings basically rely on imagination, and a little more reliable is to follow the appearance of primitive tribes living in the jungle now. Just painting a scoop. In fact, the history of human beings is quite long. Now, the human imagination of 10,000 years ago is the same as that of 100,000 or even 1 million years ago. It all depends on how big the brain hole is. Hollywood later discovered that cartoons might be the best way to tell stories about primitive people, and it was at least very safe to shoot cartoons with ancient themes. So they made "Ice Age" more than 10 years ago. I remember that the earliest episode was made in 2002. In the film, the producers can open their minds and imagine the environment a long, long time ago, just like they imagined the future. And the scene, this film seems to also undertake the mission of popular science, seeing these prehistoric animals that have disappeared is almost equivalent to giving children a vivid prehistoric animal common sense lesson, although these animals can only be seen in the natural history museum. of fossils. The primitive man movie that has risen in recent years is "Crazy Primitive Man" whose schedule intersects with "Ice Age".
"Ice Age" is a story of saber-toothed tigers, mammoths and primitive humans from the beginning of the first episode. If the story is a bit reliable, dinosaurs appeared in the sequel. Humans may not have become like in the movies until 10,000 years ago, and the ice age in the scientific sense may be even longer, and the dinosaurs have been extinct for a long time, and that species died 60 million years ago, even compared to saber-toothed tigers and longhairs Elephants, and even the common ancestor of all mammals, dinosaurs existed too long ago. But everyone knows it's just a movie, so don't take it too seriously.
Everyone also knows that in the era when cross talk artists were still performing on the streets, the Chinese had a joke "Guan Gong vs Qin Qiong" that satirized the fight between heroes across the era. Of course, in a country without history, no one would care about this sense of time, especially in In the field of entertainment, people actually prefer the joy brought by such spoof-like creations. Han Fuqu in the comic dialogue is an uneducated warlord. He has the right to watch what he wants. This is actually just like people like time-travel dramas nowadays. It's just a play, and the sentence "I like it" expresses a sense of superiority that even ordinary audiences can have now, while in the past only warlords who were dominant could be so domineering (yu chun).
But "Ice Age" undoubtedly wants to be a family movie that will be released in the summer. From the first episode, it has done enough to sell cute and funny, just like the early "Tom and Jerry", a man who can never catch up with nuts. The squirrel should be comparable to Tom, who can never eat a mouse. Of course, he has already stepped on the big gray wolf, who can't eat a sheep, 100 meters underground, but the movie obviously neglects to accompany the children to the cinema during the summer vacation. "Adults" watching movies, remember that the earliest 3D version of "Ice Age" with children was in 2006. At that time, 3D glasses were extremely uncomfortable to wear. It took a lot of patience and courage to watch with children. What is suitable for adults in cartoons are the clips and topics of love and marriage. Mammoths went from falling in love to marriage to having children. This is also the life trajectory of many young people in the past 10 years. It's just that many of those children who still needed to be led by adults to the theater 10 years ago are now taking their children to see the big movie "Ice Age 5".
The basic routine of "Ice Age 5" is of course the same as before. It's cute and funny and popular science. In today's era of routines, it can only be the same. Even the routines for popular science for children are the same. It's just that this cute and funny movie about prehistoric animals is getting farther and farther away from prehistoric stories. The prehistoric animals in the movie not only speak fluent American English as before, but also fall in love with American sports ice hockey and American sports. PARTY. The point is that this cartoon has simply turned into an American sci-fi story, and audiences around the world who come to appreciate a story about a prehistoric animal will finally see a hodgepodge movie full of American-style life, American-style sci-fi and fantasy elements.
In this animated film, at least half of the time is spent on PARTY, just like other American movies, PARTY is an essential cultural element in American culture, in most American movies, the garden party is an essential part. elements of life. PARTY is not only liked by children, it is also the main way of socializing in Americans, and the rest are bars and churches. It symbolizes the way of life and values of the American middle class. Cartoons such as "Tom and Jerry" and "Despicable Me" are full of these PARTY elements. Of course, Chinese people never open a party. It seems to be the lifestyle of the rich in China, not the middle class. Just like in the circle of friends of the middle class in China, they are always on the road. There are always steering wheels and roads in the photos. On the scene, at most some high-end restaurants will appear. Americans’ fanaticism for partying not only appears in these animal movies, but also in religious movies depicting heaven. The paradise life imagined by Americans is that they are always engaged in partying, eating, drinking, beauties, children and pets. It doesn't matter where or when.
It seems that, like all American sci-fi movies, this movie can no longer endure the loneliness and loneliness of prehistoric stories in an era of more and more brain holes. Prehistoric animals seem to have no more interesting things to do than find food, mate, and migrate, and they will continue to do so for a long time. Therefore, in this movie, they all lived a happy contemporary life in the United States, and in many scenes, they can also see the shadow of indigenous Indians and pirates in American popular culture. Of course, as long as you can enter the universe, there is also the kind of American willfulness that turns clouds and rains in the earth and the universe. Therefore, the subtitle of this cartoon is the brain-opening "Interstellar Collision",
And the scientific and educational function that this series has had from the very beginning seems to be getting weaker and weaker. Only the squirrel is attracted by the adjustable gravity in the alien flying saucer. So it was never mentioned. Even in the movie "Jupiter Ascending", which depicts Jupiter more than 1,400 times larger than the earth, the characters still live in a gravitational environment as large as the earth. Science students with little scientific knowledge can calculate the weight of a person on Jupiter. It will become as high as hundreds of tons, and people will be crushed to death by their own weight. Of course, the serious problem of animation image will turn into a ridiculous gimmick. The squirrel in the flying saucer is crushed on the floor by its own weight. , while the nut becomes a giant crusher. Of course, not many people actually mentioned the movie "Jupiter Rising". Like "Thor", most people treat those wearing ancient Greek and ancient Roman costumes as fantasy movies, and they don't study the inside. details. Of course, in "The Avengers", Thor can ride the Otis elevator with an extremely heavy hammer. If it is science, people will laugh at it, and it will not be fun to go deeper. Everyone knows "Thor" And "The Avengers" is a fantasy movie. Although these heroes defending the United States are from different eras, different countries, and even different planets, as long as everyone knows that this is a movie, and it is an American fantasy movie, it will not be the same. Need more explanation, let alone an American cartoon!
Of course, there are also comments that it is unscientific for the mammoths to roll the crystal ball. According to the principles of physics, it is unscientific to let the crystal ball of Nuoda naturally fall to the volcano by gravity. It is unscientific to press the crater with small stones. The track is even more unscientific. Of course, if you are serious, the entire movie is unscientific from its birth to the present. The only scientific place for it is that people watch it. It at least conforms to the laws of mathematics, statistics and psychology. Because of the need, at least in cinema, all possibilities can be created.
In the past, some netizens questioned why the author, who wrote serious film reviews, likes to comment on cartoons, and suggested that the author must be accompanied by a child when watching cartoons. film and watch it with them. Just like the problem of gravity change mentioned above, I just conducted a popular science for children a few days ago. The theme is to distinguish between truth and fiction, and tell children the importance of distinguishing between right and wrong to prevent being cheated. It's not good to be deceived. When children read the Chinese "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" series and "Bald Head Strong" series, they don't need this kind of explanation and worry. The reasoning and right and wrong are very simple. At present, American cartoons seem to be more cultural propaganda than simple entertainment, which requires more analysis and explanation, just like what the author has done in this article. Different from those who support the turtles with positive energy of the US emperor, my brother will tell the children that everything does not have to be taken seriously, what is on the screen is just an entertainment and an illusion.
Xiangfei 2016/8/25
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