I read the original English version, and I was once again impressed by English, a language that is very suitable for singing. To be honest, after all, we don't have the boy skills to appreciate musicals, and we don't have the environment, so watching the two princesses never talk since they were young, but communicate with songs that are so high in the vocal range, for a while. Maybe this is the elegance that some Chinese audiences don't like, but if you appreciate it patiently, you will find that when a group really loves to express their mood with beautiful and elegant melody in their hearts, it is indeed a non-pretentious and quite happy thing. I believe that many viewers have this feeling. When listening to the children's duet of the two princesses when they were young, it is more moved than admiring our children wearing two blushes at the campus party and singing so and so high. The two composers of this film are a couple, Robert Lopez and Christine Anderson Lopez, both of whom are masters of musical drama composers. This is another thing we can rarely do in the film industry. Thing.
When Chen Danqing was a guest on the film talk show of the famous Taiwanese filmmaker Jiao Xiongping, he commented on Chinese films that "the humanity level is broken", which was objective and sharp. "Frozen" provides us with the basis for this conclusion, except that the musical composition is a traditional culture that is inherited and respected by the society. It is adapted from the story of "The Snow Queen" in Andersen's fairy tales, which also reflects what is the humanistic level. . After watching the film, I deliberately searched for the original story, and found that except for the plot "Heart is hit by ice magic and the person will be frozen" the plot setting has not changed, and the rest of the character settings are completely recreated. Moreover, they are not fabricated, the essence of the story has not been changed and disabled, and it is still the way to redeem the tragedy of death with love. In terms of creative concept, it also breaks through the pure but naive flaw of Disney Animation's past "Prince and Princess live happily together". Presumably, many people were shocked to see that the prince in the film turned out to be a power madman in the end, right? The complexity and difficulty of love in reality, appearing in cartoons, are not abrupt and more sincere. This seems to be a breeze in Disney, which has a complete talent team, but after enjoying such a product, you will have a sense of satisfaction after consumption.
It is not that we do not have our own animation national brand products. The two animated cartoons "A Harassment in Heaven" and "Nezha Nausea in the Sea" are noble and people-friendly masterpieces produced in the spirit of Peking Opera. The difference is that now it is not how we improve the humanistic level of movies, but that we do not have such a spacious channel to consume high-level movies. At the end of the year, everyone can pay for the big movie "Where are you going, Dad", and you can also devote nearly two hours of boring time to "Breaking Out in Heaven". It's not that the audience is not level, but it is all occupied by these blockbuster films. Do you want to ask where the time of those good directors go? I think they are also standing in front of the investor's money counter in a daze.
Also, directors like Diao Yinan, who rarely had the opportunity to meet with us, stood in Berlin to accept the award. It is said that he made art films and was recognized by a foreign jury as possessing a high level of humanities. I hope we can come back with the same compatriots and cheer for him in the theater, I hope.
Published in "Taizhou Daily" on February 21, 2014
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