The unique artistic style of the animated film has its own independent aesthetic significance and artistic characteristics. "Crazy and Beautiful Dating City" breaks through the traditional setting of all the characters' images. The film mainly tells the story of Grandma's redemption of her grandson Chapin through vivid audio-visual techniques and shows a story about society and human nature combined with memory-style narrative techniques.
French films have always been full of their unique creative style, achieving a win-win situation of artistry and entertainment. In "Crazy and Beautiful Dating City", the animation drawing technique of pen and line is adopted. The rough picture style combined with the unique composition brings a kind of animation to the audience. The strong visual impact, exaggerated and deformed characters, and architectural designs also fill the film with more aesthetic metaphors. In the film, time and space are switched through objects such as television and newspapers, giving the audience a dramatic visual experience. In the handling of space, the hut where the grandparents and grandchildren lived appeared many times in the film. In the long-range shot, the hut appeared to be crumbling, with thunder and lightning, and the plane was flying, which brought a dangerous atmosphere to the audience. For animated films, it was originally a fixed picture, but through the conversion of the lens, these animations are moved again and the story is narrated. In the end, Grandma took everyone to escape the control of the gangster. She rode a bicycle customized for the competition, and the gangster was in hot pursuit. Through the switchingof the camera, grandma calmly threw various tools to block the car. The camera showed the chase through different close-ups. tension between.
As a critical film, the film mainly uses green, yellow, black, and gray to present a nostalgic visual style to the audience. In the film, when Grandma plays the piano with Chapin, the colors are mainly warm yellow and crimson, which shows Grandma's expectations for Chapin. When Chapin doesn't like the piano, Grandma's mood changes from expectation to loss. The color also changed to dark purple, but the grandmother did not lose heart. She bought a bicycle for her grandson. Chapin was very interested in the bicycle, and the color of the scene became warm again. The colors in the movie are not just for visual appreciation. Through the changes of color, the audience can intuitively feel the inner emotions of the characters, thus generating emotional resonance.
The emotional expression brought by the sound in the film plays an important role. There are only a handful of lines in the entire film "Crazy Dave in the Beautiful City," but the audience can understand the story and feel the theme of the film through sight and hearing. The background music in the film is mainly jazz, full of local French characteristics. In the beginning, the background music of the three sisters singing and dancing on the stage allows the audience to see the state of the three sisters when they became popular. In the film, when Grandma meets them again, the same background music played again, producing a strong contrast between sound and picture and showing a sense of irony. A large amount of sound in the film also enhances the realism of the picture. With French-style bagpipes, xylophones, saxophones, and other music, the audience seems to return to a depressing and strange European society, making the film full of the aristocratic filmmaking atmosphere unique to French culture. Full of artistic tension.
The film is the recorder and the presenter of the times. The exaggerated train model, the distorted Statue of Liberty, and the oppressive towering chimney in the film allude to the great changes in human nature and society after the advent of industrial society. On the one hand, it also attacked the distortion of human nature in a capitalist society, making the audience think and reflect on human nature and society again.
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