Now whenever I see a very amazing movie, if the content happens to involve friendship, dreams, willpower, facing setbacks... When I see it, I will think "this movie must be rewatched with the children in the future"! The last time I felt this way was when I saw the musical "Famous Around the World", and the most recent time was watching Alfonso Cuaron's "The Little Princess".
About the original author Burnett
The film is based on the novel "The Little Princess" by Francis Hodgson Burnett. We are all familiar with this author. The cartoon "Secret Garden" that we liked to watch when we were young is right, there is the eldest Miss Mei Yali from out of town, and a little boy who is always sick, separated by an iron gate. The beautiful garden... This cartoon is based on Burnett's novel "Secret Garden" of the same name. Burnett's writing is not only beautiful and delicate, but also good at writing magical magic believable. The New York Times once commented that she "only outstanding writers can write a book full of skill and magic, pure and suitable for everyone to read. Meaningful children's books, Mrs Burnett is one of the few authors."
About the movie geek "Mexican Three"
The biggest advantage of publishing is that you can learn a lot of good books, many of which are classics that have stood the test of time, and you can find many high-quality movies along the famous books, so as to know many geeks in the film and television industry. For example, the director of this film, Alfonso Cuaron, is one of the "Three Mexican Heroes" of the film geek group. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Son of Man, Gravity. The other two are Del Toro and Gonzalez.
The top of "No Monster No Movie" is good at telling stories from the perspective of children, and has its own special effects company. Its representative works include "mutant DNA", "Pan's Labyrinth", "Pacific Rim" and so on. Gonzalez, who has the title of "Quentin Tarantino of Mexico", likes delicate multi-line narratives, and the pictures are full of colors. His masterpieces include "Babel Tower" and "Birdman". The three Mexican heroes have excellent personal relationships, which leads to traces of each other in the movie, so watching their movies is a great pleasure.
About Family Rewards
Such high-quality IP can lay a solid and impressive cognitive network, which is very suitable for parent-child sharing, and there are too many things to discuss. Thinking of the rebellious period of youth, parents would be disgusted even if they glanced at the screen while the water was being delivered. Taking advantage of the very warm elementary school stage, they read a lot of good books and enjoyed some good movies. In the future, the nodes on these grids will be It's all a common topic to discuss.
Back to "The Little Princess", I originally just watched it with my children in class to pass the time, but I didn't expect it to be amazing. There are many movies adapted from famous novels, and there are even many good and bad ones. Only some movies can match or even surpass the original work. Alfonso's "The Little Princess" can be regarded as comparable or even surpassed.
Story structure: multiple lines, clever connections
"If a movie is a journey, then the story structure is the map." Audiences have a natural instinct to recognize good stories, and high-scoring movies generally have a good story structure. For example, "Slumdog Millionaire" is better than flashbacks and interludes. , Gonzalez's "Tower of Babel" is a multi-line advancement in several scenes. Xi Ma is also the most admirable of the multi-line and then not chaotic, and can hide the suspense while shaking the burden, humorous and contemplative, and finally a good story that makes a big reversal or makes you suddenly realize.
The movie starts amazingly, followed by a classic sentence from Sarah's father: "Because this is magic, you have to believe in it, so that you can manifest." Then Sarah's story, the Indian princes and princesses Sarah told the girls The story begins in parallel. Yes, that prince is also played by Sarah's father, who is the embodiment of the magic of this movie. He turned Sarah and Betsy's dream into reality; he asked Mr. Rudolph to take back Sarah's amnesiac father in the hospital; at the most critical moment, he reminded Sarah's father of his daughter... …
Screen color: dark green, dark brown, dark gold, bright yellow
When I first opened this movie, it was full of sense of the times, and the picture was very dark. It seemed to imply that Sarah was about to start a difficult life. The strict principal and teachers all wore black dresses, and Sarah, who was transferred from school, also changed into dark green ones. Uniforms. The table and the dead tree leaves outside are all dark brown, as taught here, learning some graceful manners but very rigid and uninteresting.
Sara is like the yellow rose that brings a touch of color to this school. She tells wonderful stories that she makes up, plays different games, and takes care of all the troublesome children... When faced with the headmaster's rebuke, she said the beautiful Sentence: "I am a princess, and so are all girls. Even if they live in cramped attics, even if they dress in shabby clothes, even if they're not pretty, they're not smart, they're not young, they're still princesses. All of us. Don't they? Didn't your father tell you this? Didn't you?"
Sarah cast magic on the school, and the dark green school was filled with golden sunlight. Her full of love makes everyone around her very happy. Everyone sneaks into her room at night to listen to her storytelling. Betsy, who is barefoot, gets a surprise gift: a pair of delicate bright yellow boots in a green box. Let every audience brighten their eyes and hearts.
The most beautiful and unforgettable scene, of course, is Sarah, who was hungry and gave the bread to the little flower girl in exchange for a bright yellow rose. She said "For the Princess." Sarah put it in a In front of the little baby's house, the yellow rose with dewdrops in the cold wind touched every audience. Sarah's heart is truly a noble princess.
The finishing touches: photo box necklace, rag doll Emily, yellow warm boots, yellow roses
Good film and television dramas are very good at using some finishing touches to suggest the relationship between characters, the core connection of clues, and even metaphors. This article also has small objects that do this, such as the photo box necklace around Sarah's neck.
Mitchell of the power said hypocritically: "You are not allowed to wear jewelry here, but if you insist..." Sarah's answer was "Yes, I insist." So this pendant seems to have become a symbol of resistance , it has become a thorn in Mitchell's eyes, questioning the hierarchy and rules here.
Ragdoll Emily convinces Sarah that magic exists. There is a scene where Sarah ran out and back several times and saw that Emily didn't move, she muttered to herself: "It's really fast!" She smiled knowingly when she saw this, she was really innocent. ! But it is this unquestioned belief that makes Sarah so strong when faced with any change.
I remembered that there was a hot post on Zhihu about the "law of good luck", which seemed to say that as long as you make a silent wish reverently, there will be gods to help. Xi's mother also uses this rule from time to time (but often encounters complaints from Xi's father), thank all the gods for their help, and hope that everyone will do more good deeds and accumulate good luck.
The yellow warm boots and yellow roses mentioned above will not be repeated. They represent a kind of spirit and hope, implying that the willows are dark and the flowers are bright.
The beauty of this film is that there are many remarkable places. In addition to the above-mentioned highlights, various characters in the school are also very interesting. Each character can be developed to write another story, such as the proud Lavigne. Ya, why is she so arrogant, is she really so strong? Or feel very empty and insecure? What kind of story does she have?
A slick and sophisticated principal, has she always been so elegant and deliberate? Was she also a little princess when she was a child? What exactly changed her? Why did she feel sad when she heard Sarah's classic sentence? What is her past?
Lottie, who often screams, and Betsy, who is clever... all kinds of characters with distinct personalities, it's good to feel with the children slowly, and the characters that we can't meet in life, we feel together in the movie.
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