Pocahontas makes me feel particularly moved. It's not because of the plot, but the extreme exquisiteness, which makes me especially touched. Really, that extreme exquisiteness.
Before commenting, I would like to tell a real story called Katana and Craftsman.
In Kyoto, Japan, there is an old shop that makes samurai swords. The craftsmen who make knives make knives very carefully, and only make one a month. Someone asked him, how can you make money if you only make one handful a month? He replied, I am a craftsman. My focus is not to make money, but to make a good knife. I hope that every customer will only buy a knife from me. If the customer comes back to me again to buy a knife, it can only prove that the knife I made last time is flawed and not good enough. My father sold a knife to a customer thirty years ago. Thirty years later, the customer's son brought the knife and asked me to repair it. Looking at the knife made by my father that has been used for 30 years, but is still shining, I feel very proud. This is what I pursue, and what a craftsman should pursue.
This is actually the craftsman spirit that has been said to be bad in 2016. But how many people really have the spirit of craftsmanship? How many people in this exaggerated society care about craftsmanship? How many people will be as calm as water, pursuing the never-ending ultimate for decades like a day?
Disney did it, this Pocahontas did it.
When the movie started, when the child heroine Moana walked to the beach for the first time, I was shocked. That sea water is the warm sea water on the side of the islands in the South Pacific. The detailed waves and ripples completely refreshed my concept of animation technology. The shallow green seawater in the near distance, the sea that keeps turning blue with the depth of the sea in the distance, the gradation is very soft and natural. Coupled with the sunlight shining up, the shimmering waves reflected, making me feel:
Where is this cartoon, it is obviously a real ocean.
It even gave me a strong sense of substitution, as if it brought me back to the Maldives I visited last year (although the Maldives is in the Indian Ocean, the texture of the sea is very similar). I was completely conquered by the sea created by Disney. It is too real.
(Probably like this, but the real movie is much more detailed)
But this shock does not end. As the protagonist Moana grows up, that gorgeous hair refreshes my concept of cartoons. Yes, gorgeous, the word is used very accurately. You can even see every strand of her hair, and the reality presented in different light is unparalleled. It's like real hair, but it's beyond reality. I can only say that it is really beautiful.
(Is the hair great?)
Of course, not only the hair and the sea, but every detail of this film is done to the extreme. Monster pictures, aboriginal house design, boat design, tattoo design, beach texture, animals The feathers are extremely delicate, even the grass that appears in the corner without being noticed by the audience, they are all meticulously expressed.
The hair, water, flame and other elements are the most difficult things to deal with in CG animation, because the units that make up them are too many and too small, and they all move the whole body. Therefore, the requirements for the rendering system are extremely high. In order to achieve this effect, Disney has spent a lot of energy, specifically writing a new set of engines for making seas and a set of engines for making new hairs. I even looked for many volunteers to simulate the hair swinging effect after being wetted by water.
Such extremely demanding requirements for details can make real craftsmen. In a sense, these cartoon-making engineers are real craftsmen.
But the reason why Disney became Disney is not only on technology. The more important thing is imagination. It has a kind of magic power. It can bring you into fairy tales and make you forget your worries. In 100 minutes of movie time, you can completely be a child.
The protagonist Moana is Disney’s fourteenth princess, the first princess born in the South Pacific, and the second who did not kiss me and my prince. She yearns for adventure, has courage and love; she sets sail to save her people; she experiences pain and loss, and regains confidence and friendship; in the end, she defeats the devil, gains love, and ends perfectly.
Quite cliché, isn't it?
But this is a fairy tale, the breath that I feel every time I see a shooting star passing by the Disney Castle. However, clichéd plots can also produce different surprises.
A group of pirate gangs made of coconuts, a dull chicken who likes to eat stones, a demigod who can clap and chat with his tattoo, a cute and cute ocean. Yes, an ocean, because it is alive.
In this film, Disney's imagination has also reached new heights, so I won't do too much spoiler here, and I will feel better when I am truly wonderful.
Pocahontas, 8.5 points. The film is almost perfect except for the excessive cutscenes of Disney's standard musicals.
Finally, I want to share some things about the creation of this movie.
From the idea to the real film, it took 5 years.
In order to shoot a different mind, more than 700 scripts have been written.
Thousands of people auditioned for the voice actors of the heroine alone.
I found Dashi Johnson to voice a character in it. In order to make the character fit with Johnson, the character's eyebrows and expression were modified.
When the overview of the movie's story has been finalized, there is almost no time to revise it. The chief creative officer of Disney and Pixar, John Lasseter, felt that one of the small animals was not likable enough, so he pushed the role to redo, and within the next 48 hours, it became a nightmare for the screenwriters, but in Under such persecution, a better effect was indeed obtained.
Okay, let me talk about the craftsman I understand. First of all, there must be extremely demanding requirements for details. Secondly, only do one thing perseveringly. Finally, on the premise of doing this well, as one's own growth and perception, to continue to improve and innovate, to pursue the never-ending limit.
Disney has done it all. It has extremely demanding requirements for the details of the animation. It persists in bringing all audiences into fairy tales. With the advancement of technology and its own exploration, the audience's understanding of the limits of animation is constantly refreshed.
So I think Disney is a company that truly has the spirit of craftsmanship. The computer engineers, screenwriters, directors, and artisans who produced the animated cartoon of Ocean Pocahontas are real craftsmen.
I am really moved, not because of the plot, but because of this seriousness and obsession.
over.
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