There are tigers in the heart, and the roses are sniffed. The adventures of Ferdinand, the bull who cannot escape the first battle in life

Eliane 2022-04-19 09:02:26

Blue Sky Studio's "Adventures of the Bull" does not fight or grab the Buddhist calf love and peace Ferdinand's growth experience, reminds me of the poem "There is a tiger in the heart, sniffing the roses", the fusion of human nature from rigid to soft.

"In me the tiger sniffs the rose" comes from British anti-war poet Siegfried Loraine Sassoon's masterpiece "In me, past, present and future", "In me the tiger sniffs the rose", poet Lieutenant General Yu Guang Its translation is: I have a tiger in my heart sniffing the roses. He claimed to be a "reluctant translation", but this translation has gradually become a classic, and some people even mistakenly believe that Chinese is the original text.

Unlike the poet Sassoon, who was born in an upper-class family in London and studied at Cambridge University, but volunteered to join the army in World War I and performed bravely, Ferdinand was born for Spanish bullfighting, but he gave birth to sex, flowers and peace. Built to Fight, Born to love, the ad slogan of the movie poster is extremely eye-catching.

He is a Buddhist who does not fight, a Taoist who escapes from the bullfighting world to avoid farms, and a Confucian who tries to resolve disputes and strive for Datong, but he is forced to be born and sent to the arena.

After deeply realizing the cruelty of war, Sassoon withdrew from the army and expressed his anti-war stance with a large number of poetry and literature. Bull Ferdinand witnessed the tragic ending of his father's generation since he was a child, and he could not escape the tragic fate.

Life is originally a battlefield, and only a tiger can grasp his destiny against the current. Ferdinand, the bull, joined forces in the ultimate fight, saved himself and his companions with strength and love, and won the final freedom of choice and the respect of spectators and opponents.

With roses, you can feel the sprouting of flowers and plants. With a sword in one hand and a rose in the other, we can finally choose to be one flower and one world, one leaf to come, one thought to be peaceful, and lotus flowers to bloom everywhere.

Look inside yourself, dear friend, and tremble, for that is who you are. Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble / Since there your elements assemble.

Whether it is Sassoon's active participation in the war to the anti-war, or the bull Ferdinand's avoidance to the last battle, the perfect realm of life, if you have to face the knife and gun in order to smell the flowers, then take out the nature of bullfighting, let the opponent tremble, and finally To achieve an organic fusion of firmness to softness, stillness to movement, and enjoy the floral fragrance.

Life is the ultimate battle. The calf who loves love and peace, built to fight, born to love.

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Extended Reading
  • Corine 2021-12-27 08:01:26

    The appearance is mighty, the heart is gentle, the bull sniffing the rose is cute and cute, and the shooting of the beasts is very ironic. This is the last animation of Blue Sky Studio, right? I don’t know if I can see that squirrel chasing pine cones again...

  • Jamison 2021-12-27 08:01:26

    Watching this kind of Hollywood-produced cartoons, I am deeply moved, when the production level of domestic animated films can catch up to half of others.

Ferdinand quotes

  • Angus: [blindly stumbling about the yard, trying to blow his hair out his eyes] Ooh! Who did that! Oh, who pushed me? Who? Who... .

    [bumps into the tractor]

    Angus: It was YOU, wasn't it?

    Ferdinand: Actually Angus, it was me.

    Angus: Aw, I'm doomed. I'm doomed, I'm doomed, I'm doomed! Primero picks a bull tomorrow, and I'm talkin' to a bloomin' tractor!

  • Angus: [Ferdinand figured how to get his hair out of his eyes for the first time in his life] I can see! Look, a rock! And another rock!

    [sees Lupe]

    Angus: And the world's most ugliest dog! And there it is, my nemesis! I'm comin' for YOU, ye wee wooden devil!

    [charges the barrel and destroys it]

    Angus: I did it! I finally beat you!

    [Jumps up and down on it]

    Angus: Beat you! Beat you! Beat you! Beat you! Beat you! Oh, look at that, that's spectacular!

    [he goes to admire the view across the countryside]

    Angus: You've given me a fighting chance, Ferdinand. Why would you do such a thing?

    Angus: If we don't look out for each other, who will? Besides, it wasn't that big of a deal.

    Angus: It was for me.