Let’s start with the characters. The main role of "The Simpsons" can be called various representatives of American nationals: Homer, a childlike but greedy, lazy, and selfish dad, Homer, who despises religious beliefs and laughs at the goodwill of his neighbors, is a typical ordinary little person; The pious and upright mother Marge takes everything seriously; and the daughter Lisa, who is also deeply influenced by her mother and is also "pious" and serious, is an activist. Will get better; and the son Bart who is in confusion, worried about the weird affection he got, but is unwilling to deny all this. Apart from this family, the neighbor, Flanders, is a good citizen, a good believer, and a good father.
The personalities of these characters are so similar to those around us or even ourselves, so even if they are depicted as comically exaggerated yellow people by a single line, the audience can accept them. What's more, the "simple" two-dimensional animation can also make use of its own characteristics. For example, at the end, Dad drove his son Bart and the bomb into the sky. Bart almost fell in the middle. The simple curved lines of Dad's hair were straightened out one after another, and a simple picture suddenly had a subtle sense of four or two. In the ice and snow of Alaska, Homer drifted into the river with heart-shaped ice floes when Homer was disappointed. The ice floes were broken into two pieces with dad’s heartache, making the film’s flexibility in form give the content a touch of comedy and romance. feelings.
However, as an annual comedy boutique, the essence of "The Simpsons" lies in its irony and ridicule with a hippie taste from the inside out. It spoofs the government from time to time, such as the game style of President Schwarzenegger and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency in handling important tasks, such as the police's attitude of turning one eye and closing one eye when facing the underworld bosses, such as the mayor and experts invite fools Self-deception when testing the effectiveness of the river embankment and so on. It also does not let go of any sensitive topics in American society, the left paragraph is a mockery of religion, and the right paragraph deliberately understates the issue of race and homosexuality. The most interesting thing is that when the Dome was about to land in Springfield, people heard the sound and ran out of churches and bars (the two were on the same street side by side) to watch. After being frightened, the two groups of people exchanged places instantly. , Fled to the completely opposite situation. The believers finally embraced alcohol, and the alcoholics rushed to the church like an epiphany, where the producer seemed to mock the confusion and loss of the popular faith.
Many well-known classic movies have also been hand-picked by the producers, and they have changed their appearances, making movie fans enthusiasm. If the well-known rock band Green Day was invited to perform soon after the opening, not only did they call for environmental protection issues to no avail, but killed themselves at the bottom of the lake. When the ship sank, I believe many viewers who were moved by "Titanic" will laugh tacitly. Another example is Lisa's speech when he called on the public to pay attention to lake water pollution. It was clearly ridiculing the "environmental guardian" in "An Inconvenient Truth"-former Vice President Al Gore. There are also "Big Fish", "Prison Break", "Spider-Man", "Harry Potter"... Almost any popular quotes and spoofs. Disney's classic animated characters also made guest appearances in the couple's intimacy scene, and even paid tribute to the same enduring drama "Cat and Mouse" at the beginning of the movie. In addition, the owner of the convenience store complained about the shortage of water and electricity in Springfield after the closure of the round lid. After the light was turned on, he discovered that the goods were stolen, so he turned off the light, hoping that the stealer could take advantage of the second time. The dark thing returned to its original owner. As a result, after the lights came on, even the clothes of the shopkeeper were taken away. This passage seems to be taken from Milos Forman's allegorical bureaucracy film "Firefighter's Ball" in the 1960s. After the pungent ridicule against the self-privateness of the bloated and incompetent bureaucratic system of Eastern European socialism was misappropriated to the predicament of the American-style "democratic" system, the irony remained undiminished.
Some typical phenomena of mass communication today are also seamlessly integrated into the narrative, such as the "Round Cover Real Estate" advertisement that came into being and the advertisement of Trapuccino coffee inserted in the news, tampering with the name of Cappuccino coffee to refer to the Springfielders. The distressed situation (the male anchor who spoofs facial lift) is unique; there is self-deprecating about the phenomenon of movie channel commercials, and the opening of the film uses the mouth of the characters to cleverly express respect to the theater audiences who support the box office, as well as the illegality. The ridicule of a large number of fans who downloaded the movie; even serious things such as the presidential choice bill have been interpreted as a mode of price guessing programs flooding on TV, which is astounding. Many showbiz stars (Green Day, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, U2 lead singer Bono) have also been stringed into the plot, forming a powerful and rich collection of spoof ideas.
Such a satirical masterpiece seems to target the audience in the adult group: the scene of peaceful negotiations between the cat and the mouse in the opening moment turns into an extremely violent scene of a mouse beating a cat; Bart is naked in the brave game and "swaggers across the market" on a skateboard. After a long time, the little chicken finally showed his face in the gap between the bushes. The above design can not help but make people sigh. The producer must have been subject to the censorship mechanism of TV programs for a long time. Now that he has stepped onto the big screen, he finally got the opportunity to export his "badness." This film is rated as PG-13 in the United States. I don’t know if children can understand the meaning and smile when they see the jokes in the film. And the adult viewers who are more suitable for watching this film, after having a laugh, decide to start taking the many issues presented in it seriously? Laughter may be able to dispel our worries about this increasingly worse world, but it cannot dispel the real bad problems behind the screen. At the end of the film, Lisa and Collin, the only ones who care about the water of the lake, went hand in hand to eat ice cream. Then, who should take care of the lake?
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