(This film will be released on February 12)
Taiga Viditi is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Just for him to shoot the Third Reich in 1945 in the movie "Jojo's Whimsical World" as splendid as spring, I also have to give him a compliment. .
Of course, he is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He can't restrain his loneliness. He sticks an exaggerated moustache and plunges into the head of the little protagonist Jojo. Whenever this 10-year-old is frustrated, he will come out of his mind and enlighten him in a funny and playful way. That's right, the role played by our director Taiga Viditi is exactly the man Jojo most admires in his heart-Adolf Hitler!
No one would describe this murderer with such words as playful, just as no one would bring the streets of Germany to life in 1945, but Taiga Widiti did it. His uncharacteristic operation not only created the most funny Hitler in history, but also set the tone of the movie-although the background of the story is heavy enough to describe it, even Jojo's mother was hanged by the cruel Nazis. However, the film still uses a light-hearted comedy, which makes people want to laugh when they are sad.
This was a dangerous attempt by Taiga Viditi, and he succeeded. So when we see the Führer lying on the bed of the little Nazi and two people chatting like good friends, we must be amazed at the finishing touch of the color throughout the film. This crew undoubtedly has a very good art director, no matter whether it is persuasive or all kinds of hidden details, they play a role in the promotion of the plot, no less than the wonderful performances of the actors. Let us first take a look at how this movie "rescued" the lifeless Third Reich from the perspective of color.
Red, yellow and green-a gorgeous world of warm colors
Yellow is a warm color. It is fresh and agile, and it has become a favorite color system for many literary film directors. Kieslowski is very good at using yellow filters, maybe you have already learned about it in his movie "Veronica's Double Life". In this "Jojo's Whimsical World", the sandy light yellow has become a basic color system that is almost "standard". It is the color of the German Youth League uniform worn by the little protagonist. . The German Youth League is an affiliated organization of the Hitler Youth League, and its members are all teenagers aged 10-14. After reaching the age of 14, these teenagers will automatically be upgraded to a member of the "Hitler Youth League". It's no wonder that when someone sees these children in yellow uniforms gathered together, they immediately think of Wes Anderson's movie "Moonrise Kingdom". In this movie, director Wes Anderson also used a lot of yellow filters.
Also in yellow is Hitler played by Taiga Viditi. In Qiaoqiao's imagination, his head of state is still a young and middle-aged person, wearing a brown-yellow uniform of the Nazi stormtrooper. When two "little yellow guys" squeeze together and stare at them, they have a comedic effect. Most of the film’s location takes place in a sunny world. There are also many light yellow buildings in the small town. This small and fresh combination of high brightness and low saturation makes the film naturally present a kind of Positive style. Imagine a common World War II movie. Wherever German towns and cities appeared in 1945, there were all lead-gray skies and lifeless faces. The use of color can directly express the inner temperament of a movie.
Green is also the favorite color of this movie, it is the exclusive color of two brave women. As soon as Scarlett Johansson played Rosie, we noticed that she was wearing a mint green shirt and a pale green cardigan with a tan pattern, beautiful, elegant and charming. Green breeds hope, just like the mother in the movie. Her true identity is an underground worker and a gravedigger of the Third Reich. Green symbolizes youth, just like the Jewish girl Elsa. When she was free again, she was wearing the green sweater left by sister Jojo. She could finally dance unscrupulously in the sun.
Green is still the color of the German Wehrmacht M36 uniform. Captain K always opens his neckline habitually. We will talk about this later. Green also hid in Jojo's "Nazi Room", and the medium-green wardrobe appeared in the camera many times, making it particularly conspicuous. You can think that this is a consideration of the art director to balance the color system of the film, and you can believe that this is an icing on the cake.
In addition, although red does not have much ink in the film, it is extremely impactful every time it is used. It is the red swastika flag hung in the streets and lanes, and it is also the very romantic red cloak of Captain K at the end. Of course, the most impressive and magical thing is the cute red tin robot. With that silly bucket head and rectangular body, coupled with the slogan of collecting pots and pans for the empire, who can not be spoiled? You see, it is obviously a thing that forces children to do coolies. After Taiga Widiti's wild toss, people can't help but clap their hands.
Numerous details-determine the success or failure of this movie
After talking about color, let's talk about the details. If the movie has created a splendid and colorful world, then these numerous and colorful details determine the success or failure of this world.
In "Jojo's Fantastic World", there are a lot of characters who appeared on stage. Among them, whether the protagonist or supporting role, or even some dragon sets, their styles are mostly lifelike, and their performance styles also have the exaggeration or absurdity of comedy movies. The previous article has mentioned Scarlett’s mint green dress, but what really makes the audience feel the pain is the pair of vintage leather shoes under her feet. Rosie once angrily asked Jojo to take a good look at these people who were hung on the gallows. Unexpectedly, when the gallows appeared again, Jojo saw his mother's shoes. In a short set of shots, the director did two detailed back and forth echoes: once for the gallows and once for the shoes. On the grassy riverside, Rosie used to tie Jojo's shoes. Now, it was Jojo's turn to tie her dead mother's shoes.
Tying shoelaces is a metaphor, marking Qiaoqiao's growth: he must say goodbye to an ignorant little boy and choose to be an adult. At the same time, this echoed that he would tie the shoelaces to the Jewish girl Ilsa he liked afterwards. Ilsa is not a monster with horns on his head, but a "rabbit" that is "imprisoned" in a dark room. The rabbit is of course a major metaphor, and Jojo couldn’t bear to kill the rabbit, and finally released it after a ideological struggle. This is probably the most important choice he made in his life. It released two Significant signals: First, Jojo has since kept the goodness in his heart, even when facing the threat of his Nazi beliefs, his first choice is still kindness; the second is to "release" the Jewish girl Ilsa in the future and plant it. Foreshadowing.
There is an ancient Chinese idiom called "Cunning Rabbit Three Caves". Ilsa told Jojo that she had changed several "caves" in order to survive. Qiao Qiao was not the rabbit, he was carried to the muzzle like a rabbit in front of the Russians who were not more merciful than the Germans. The English name of the film is "Jojo Rabbit". Perhaps all those unarmed civilians in the war years are nothing but the poor rabbit.
It was not the Russian who "released" Jojo, but the captured Captain K. Ironically, if he hadn't "slandered" Jojo as a Jew, the Russians would have shot Jojo as a Nazi. Suddenly, the Jews who were inferior to the ants became the life-saving talisman of the little Nazi Jojo. What a ridiculous response before and after. And Captain K is my favorite supporting role in the film. He is a real German with flesh and blood, and the film also shows the complex heart of this German soldier through a series of trivial details. From his first appearance, we noticed that the neckline on his M36 uniform was open. The military discipline of the Third Reich was extremely strict, and if it was discovered by the German military police, it would be punished if it was discovered by the German military police. And he still goes his own way, which shows that his heart is numb and he no longer offers any hope for this war. This gave him a more convincing motive to spare Ilsa and save Jojo later.
As for the exaggerated red cloak and the red wing on the M36 helmet, it pushes Captain K's inner romantic complex to the extreme. This is definitely a man who has a delicate mind and knows how to enjoy life, and there seems to be some ambiguity of detached friendship with the loyal adjutant. It is a pity that he was born in a cruel age of war. This was the fate that millions of Germans could not escape at that time, and the crime and punishment that was never recovered.
With such starry details, several more can be captured. Even in some roles that are almost a dragon set, the director has not forgotten to "echo before and after." The five men in black, the Gestapo, are also impressive. The boss is a thin and tall man, and the four short men are tightly surrounded by him. When they reappeared, the Allied forces had already captured the town. All these bad guys took off the black suits that symbolized their status, put on clothes of different colors, and planned to escape as civilians. This is a very realistic scene, how many cunning demons have escaped the sanctions of the war, it is incalculable. And the fat woman, known as the female secretary who gave birth to 18 boys in the country, has dramatically become the representative of the "sleepy beasts still fighting". Not only did she turn the child into a human bomb, she almost killed Jojo, who didn't want to fight. Under the brainwashing of the Third Reich propaganda machine, she has been completely frantic. At the last moment, she even picked up an MG machine gun and went to the battlefield filled with gunpowder...
I remembered the conversation between Ilsa and Rosie. When Rosie told Ilsa helplessly that Jojo's thoughts were a bit extreme, she must have fallen into deep confusion. Judging from her life and encouragement to Ilsa, everyone understands that this is a good mother who is gentle, wise and brave. But such a good mother, why can't stop her son from becoming a Nazi? I think this is a hidden problem thrown by Taiga Viditi, and it deserves our deep reflection. But in any case, keeping the goodness in your heart is always the bottom line of being born. As Taiga Viditi said in the interview-"May we be able to destroy ignorance with love." I hope everyone will be like Jojo, facing the entangled devil in their hearts and bravely speaking to it Out-"Fuck off"!
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