One time I chatted with netizens and occasionally mentioned issues related to perspective and identity recognition. He said that he often feels like a supporting role in a story, and he has become accustomed to seeing things around him from the perspective of a supporting role, which makes me very puzzled. Regardless of the problem of portraying acting skills, I always feel that the supporting roles in each story are very pitiful, without the weight of carving, they always appear thin, and at best they can only be "short and powerful", lacking breadth.
The protagonists in adventure stories are usually young people, while parents and other elder guardians are the focus of attention. Parents who only live at the beginning and the end are normal, and it is not uncommon for them to cross without a word. Oda Tsai said that mother is the opposite of adventure. The same is true for dad. For children, he will even become the first mountain the protagonists have to climb for free adventure: if it is a boy, he will become the target for the protagonist to prove his growth, if it is a girl, he will Become an old age barrier to overprotect the protagonist. No matter where it is, he is destined to be the target to be defeated. In some stories, in order to show his dignity, the creator will call him a respectable "father"
If mother-in-law and mother-in-law are a common template image of mother's image, then taciturn, forbearance, and tragic are the classic template image of father's image. They seem to be addicted to the "tragic" addiction, taking "not speaking well" as their own responsibility, while working hard while working hard. Desperately stinking, he vowed to grit his teeth with blood pressure soaring to the protagonist and the audience in front of the screen. Of course, this is more to create a feeling of "distance", so that the second half of the story allows the two generations to understand and reap a wave of tears rich in life experience, as a qualified family relationship routine template, this trick Tried and tested. Including the previous work "Song of the Sea" by the main creative team, the corresponding routines are also used, with the brother's journey to find a girl as the open line, and the parent-grandmother and the witch-stone doll contrast structure as the dark line. Obviously, he has also experienced many things together and gained some growth, but the image of the father is always far away from the audience. There are few scenes of heartbreaking. Most of them are just turned into a catalyst for a pleasant atmosphere or cover the growth of the protagonist. The qualified stamp on the list, such as a father-son fight in a famous fighting comic.
As a father, Bill is obviously much more qualified than Connor. When Connor was depressed and ignored Ben and Saoirsa because of his wife's departure, Bill was actively participating in Robin's life and taking her to hunt together. The life of a hunter gave Robin the skills and courage to survive in the wild. It also gave her a flexible mind and unconventional thinking. These shining points are in the two incidents of saving Miba's mother and annihilating the soldiers in the second half of the story. Played an important role, the last time I saw such a fierce girl was Melida in "Brave". As the protagonist, Robin is more free and more energetic. Correspondingly, as a contrast to her, Bill, who is a supporting role, is less free and lifeless. He is from England who appreciates his hunting skills as a protector of the country, and is specially hired to mop up. Hunters in the forest to wipe out the wolves. As the story progresses, he is naturally "a wolf" who should not be caught. He was then demoted to an ordinary soldier and participated in the "Wolf Taming Exhibition". Finally, he was eager to threaten Miba’s safety. Mother Miba turns into a wolf. In addition to the dramatic effect of "the wolf hunter" turning into a "wolf", what is more important is that in the next valley offensive and defensive battle, Miba's mother's feat of protecting Miba in the city is reproduced: for protection The wolf-shaped Robin who was stunned by the artillery fire, the wolf-shaped Bill and the protector of the country duel on the edge of the valley cliff, the two sets of comparisons showed the strong willingness of parents to protect their children, and more importantly, highlight Bill's transformation: once for his daughter, He changed from a free hunter to an unfree full-time hunter. At this time, for his daughter, he turned from a shackled person into an invincible wolf. At the same time, it also laid a logical chain for the four people at the end to form a family and go together on the road, forming an echo with the two lone wolfwalkers at the beginning.
As a hunter, Bill may be the most embarrassed. Although he eats public meals, his performance indicators are harsh. The boss is paranoid. Every day 996, he has no colleagues and no friends. Most of the time in the movie is a lonely person. , Unlike Nohara Hiroshi, he could still complain with his subordinates for a drink after get off work. Bill is depressive. He is almost the former warrior with the highest degree of submission to power I have ever seen. He is worried about not being accepted by the locals and afraid of Robin being fettered. Compared to the father’s concerns in other stories, his concerns are Concretized, this also made him look particularly "counseling", and he would do whatever he wanted. Anything that was prohibited would be a shame, especially like Lin Chong in front of the Fengxue Mountain Temple, with a martial arts.
The depressed mood was finally released. It was at the beginning of the climax. The guardian showed the captured wolf-shaped Miba mother to the people. Miba ran away angrily after making a fuss. He threatened to bring the wolves back to the bloodbathed city state, and Bill was ordered to shoot. When killing a giant wolf. Robin removed the maid's hat, and also pulled off the Orion's hood, showing the third dress since the beginning of the movie-the disheveled hair. In addition to conforming to the story development logic and the appearance to set off the emotions, I think this also shows her position. Completely biased towards the wolfwalker clan, returning to the wild and natural.
When I saw this in the movie theater, I thought it was Robin who distracted Bill's attention. The wolf broke the cage forcibly. One man and one wolf escaped, leaving Bill's tragic routine. I didn't expect Bill's confession to follow. Faced with his daughter's question, he finally answered her face-to-face for the first time. His caregivers say everything else, even if they are unreasonable requests, they will follow them, all because of "fear and fear". These fears made him afraid to imagine a new life, and fear made him unwilling to believe his daughter's explanation. This true confession not only revealed Bill’s heartfelt thoughts, but also allowed the character to truly get rid of the stereotyped father image of the template and become a living person. To me, this confession is comparable to the ending of "Diet Men and Women." Then Robin opened the cage and rode away on the wolf. What opened was not only the cage of Miba's mother, but also Bill's cage. I like this paragraph very much, and think it is the most worth watching other than Miba Robin running under the moon.
As a fairy-tale fable-style animation film featuring folklore, the duality of good and evil in this film is very simple. It still opposes the transformation of nature and adapting to nature, and the tendency is very obvious. Most people who advocate intrusion of nature look like wholesale. People who adapt to nature and listen to advice have their own ways of being handsome. Bill obviously belongs to the latter, standing tall and straight, and the main creator should still want to be portrayed as a positive image. I think this role is the best father image I have seen on the screen this year.
Looking forward to the next movie in this studio.
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