What is Pixar? What is Disney?
This question was put ten years ago, and it is a very easy answer: Pixar, who has just entered the pinnacle of creation, is a fish in the water between entertainment and artistry. While maintaining emotional power, it can well shape charming characters and stories. And in the post-"Toy Story 3" era, after the inevitable fusion with the home Disney, what we see is from "Tangled" and "Crazy Destruction King" to "Frozen" and "Super Land". "Team", and gave the Disney animation "Crazy City" that is both creative and ideological, and Pixar himself has fallen into a long period of out of focus and adjustment. The response to the development of the sequel was mediocre, with excessive focus on the effects of the picture, the universality of the story, the difficulty of newcomers, and the continuous decline of the studio’s originality. The only "brain agent team" worth mentioning It is also an experimental work with a lot of glitches, and the concept is much larger than the story itself.
At this time (the head of the patriarch, John Lasseter, also temporarily resigned due to the sexual harassment scandal), Pixar desperately needed a morale-boosting work.
As a result, Lee Unkridge, the perfect ending of the "Toy Story" series, stood up again.
Similar to Disney animations in recent years, "Dream Travels" also has a double blood protection: the adult theme from Pixar and the complex and easy-to-understand plot, as well as the humorous cells, singing and dancing and aesthetic characteristics from Disney. Compared with "Pocahontas" which also adopts foreign culture as the main body of the story, "Dream of Dreams" has inherent advantages on the basis of the spread of Mexican culture. Whether it is folk music, folklore or traditional design, it is very fascinating.
For most of the time, there is an interesting reflection between "Dream Travels" and "Back to the Future". From Disney's point of view, in this very lively comedy, every few minutes there are gorgeous action clips to feast the audience; of course, this is also a typical Pixar movie, subtly establishing an emotional offensive. What's interesting is that this formula has been used by Pixar for 20 years, but it is still simple, straightforward and effective.
Although it crashed with the 2014 "Book of Life", the innovative spirit that belongs to Pixar can still be seen in the "Dream Quest". Although the movie itself is still an exaggerated animation, the material effects, especially the excellent performance on the skin and metal, can almost make people feel real. However, what is more pleasant than the update of animation technology is the animator's imitation of the displacement and defocus of the old camera in the physical space-this is an important aspect that has been greatly ignored by Pixar in recent years.
For Pixar, it is more important to make a good animation than to explore new and illusory concepts.
Although the suspense of the story was established early, "Dream Quest" did not adopt the traditional detective story to unfold, but achieved a unique adventure through the rabbit hole like "Alice in Wonderland". The scripts written by Matthew Aldrich and Adrian Molina have significantly improved the level of storytelling, making the tracing of the roots of the individual to the family and the offspring to the parents seem relaxed and unintentional-this is in the recent past. It seems quite rare in Pixar movies.
In such a story, an important bridge is the family photos. How to use these photos to connect the story is a very easy topic, and Pixar did a good job. Since "The Flying House", Pixar has never explored the relationship between generations so deeply. Although on the surface it is an exotic Mexican culture, but inside is still the classic Pixar highly tolerant, maintaining and praising the concept of family, so that it can transcend cultural background-which is far more than the typical American family of "Brain Agents" To be more acceptable.
The end result is to provide a rich enough viewing experience for different audiences: a story about family and culture, a story about death and relief, and a story full of Latin vitality. Compared with "Pocahontas" a year ago, "Dream Travels" reflects people's views on spirit and culture in a non-American context, rather than a way of "changing the skin" to bring the audience. Kaleidoscope day trip. Therefore, even if "Dream Travels" is far less successful than the Pixar peak triple-strike in 2008-10, with its originality and Latin style, it is enough to revive Pixar, which has been weak in recent years.
What is Disney? What is Pixar?
In the past, Disney kept away from social issues, but not anymore; in the past, Pixar never had a cabaret show, but now there is. But "Dream Quest" is still like most Pixar classics, full of attention to the history of film, especially the history of animation-many characters are almost from the cartoon short films of the 1930s and Hayao Miyazaki. Borrowed directly. The wide-screen composition is also worth noting. It puts a large number of characters in the same frame and is decorated from head to toe in the form of old-fashioned musicals and 80s Hollywood comedies.
In this regard, we should also find that what makes Pixar truly become Pixar is not the sensationalism again and again, but the true love of movies and CG animation. As long as this is the case, even if all the fairy tales in the world are used up, Pixar can create another one.
This may be what Pixar really looks like.
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