Fairy tales are like a dream bubble that bursts as soon as you poke it, but who can bear it?
It is precisely because Disney has fulfilled everyone's "childlike innocence" that it is popular all over the world and can be called a hot source. After a series of popular fairy tale films such as "Alice in Wonderland", "Maleficent", "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast", Disney is obviously not satisfied with this, and wants to carry the legend to the end, using In the previous story structure, the heroine was a "lost generation" at the beginning, and inadvertently broke into a perilous fairy tale world, but also found the meaning of self-existence, resolutely provoked the important task of saving the whole world, and finally ushered in Happy Edding.
In order to achieve this small goal, Disney appointed the original cast of "Beauty and the Beast", investing as much as 130 million US dollars, using Morgan Freeman, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and other big-name stars, in costumes, props , The scene took an unimaginable amount of time and energy, and the effect was quite remarkable. From the colorful and gorgeous flower kingdom to the pleasing fruit kingdom, to the powder makeup and jade kingdom of snowflakes, the pictures are extremely beautiful and dreamy.
There is no doubt that Disney understands the "fairy tale" best, and perhaps it has become a "cocoon" because it understands too much. According to the diminishing marginal effect, people are like things of the same kind. If they are always the same, their interest will only drop geometrically, just like Jay Chou sang "No surprises, no changes" in the song. Reflected on "The Nutcracker and the Four Kingdoms", it was a double failure at the box office and word of mouth.
If there is one word to describe "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", it is estimated that many people would prefer "flashy". It's true that The Nutcracker and the Four Realms takes the visual experience to the extreme, but it's like a vase, beautiful on the outside, but empty on the inside.
It is said that poverty limits the imagination, but "rich" does not let the imagination of the screenwriter fly, and focuses all on the "shell", but turns a blind eye to the most fundamental story core. The story is as thin as a piece of paper. Looking at the end, the rhythm is also lukewarm, it has already ended in a hurry before the climax, and the logic has never been online...
Aside from the plot, the title of the film is full of slots. Although the title of "Four Kingdoms" hangs, it is actually just a guise, and it does not really come in handy. It only uses ballet as a medium to look at the flowers. Flickering, at best, it's just a background board. Not to mention the "Four Kingdoms", even "The Nutcracker" is a pretense, occupying the "male number one" spot, but not the "male number one" life, completely reduced to the foil of the big heroine. There is no shortage.
Of course, there are still many guise, including the most important prop of the film "music box". From the setting point of view, the music box should be a "spiritual pillar", but it is not as important as imagined, and even the heroine's "awakening" bridge is not much convincing. This is due to the film's failure in plot construction and characterization. The characters did not stand up, and the emotional change came so unexpectedly, how can people feel a sense of substitution?
This film was originally a fairy tale film, and the screenwriter chose to use "technology" to package it, forcing the heroine to instill a "protagonist halo". As the saying goes, "The heroine understands technology, and no one can stop it." As expected, the big villain was aggressive in the first second, and was beaten back to the original shape the next second, and it was "returned to the original shape" in the true sense, returning to the doll state. .
In the end, the heroine reached a reconciliation with her "passer-by-like" father without warning. The elder sister and younger brother, who are also from human backgrounds, finally smashed flowers and grabbed the spotlight, so the family danced happily to the melodious music... …
I found that in the end, what I can watch the most is the prosperous beauty of the heroine McKenzie Foy. Maybe it can save the four kingdoms in the film, but it can't save a mediocre film!
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