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This article is a side-by-side review of the Disney Princess movie series.
The movie "Magic Romance" to be reviewed this time does not belong to Disney's official princess series, but its various configurations are standard official princess movie configurations. In fact, in 2007, Giselle, played by Amy Adams, was almost chosen as Disney's ninth official princess, but considering that this move may pay Amy Adams a fortune Due to the protracted image royalties, it was a pity that the film was not included in the official princess movie list. However, as a tribute to the classic Disney princess movies, with its unprecedented combination of the "reality-animation" worldview in the Disney princess series, maintaining a consistently high level of singing and dancing scenes, and bringing us the same moving as past classics, this film It's definitely worth giving it a side review spot near the end of this series.
The most successful thing about this film is that while paying tribute to the classic Disney movies of the past, it can also radically innovate the series tradition, creating a world that combines the fairy tale world (animation) and the real world (real life) without being obtrusive. .
The fairy tale world that does not occupy much time in the film, its world view setting can almost be said to be a stew of the classic elements of the old Disney princess movies: a lonely girl who can talk to small animals and is good at sewing clothes ("Cinderella" ), a moron prince ("Sleeping Beauty") who is on the hunt for someone, a pudgy and inept squatty valet ("Beauty and the Beast"), and a vicious stepmother queen ("Snow White"). In such a fairy tale world, of course, the stories that take place are as smooth and happy as a fairy tale. In just ten minutes, the prince and the girl completed the whole process from acquaintance to agreement. With the wedding ceremony into the eternal happiness (Happily Ever After). However, at this time, the mastermind behind the scenes, the stepmother, the queen, killed the girl who was about to become a princess and pushed the girl who was about to become a princess into a world where "Happily Ever After" did not exist, leaving her to face the abyss called "reality" alone. .
The story in the real world takes place in a city that has nothing to do with fairy tales - New York. The last time New York was in a Disney movie was in the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment of Fantasia 2000. New York in "Rhapsody in Blue" is in the Great Depression period where everyone is in danger. In this city, some people are worried about losing their jobs, some people are suffering from two-point and one-line assembly line work and cannot pursue their music dreams, and some are being Bound by materialized love relationships, some people lose the warmth of family affection at a young age. Even if the four protagonists at the end of their intertwined fortunes all achieve satisfactory results, in general, New York City can be said to be far from the spiritual core of "innocence, kindness and beauty" preached by Disney. of a city. I don't know if it's a coincidence or intentional, the male protagonist's daughter Morgan in "Magic Romance" and the little girl who is one of the four protagonists in "Blue Rhapsody" have striking similarities - in appearance, the two Their looks and hairstyles are quite similar; on the inside, the two little girls yearn for warm family affection and simple fantasy, but they are constantly instilled with the realism dogma from the adult world. Through the borrowing of these symbols, the film seems to imply to the audience: this is a money and material interests that really have the right to speak, never leave the soil for kindness and idealism to breed, and it is the least likely to produce true love and "" forever happy" place .
The confrontation and conflict between the two worlds thus contracted the biggest attraction of the film. It is in the collision and fusion of characters from both worlds that we can re-examine the real world we live in, such as "true love" and "kindness" that have traditionally been maligned in Disney films. its role and significance.
As one can imagine, the princess in the fairy tale world has naturally encountered all kinds of indifference and criticism in New York, which only recognizes practical interests. But Giselle's extraordinary kindness and simplicity also inspired the kindness of the male protagonist Robert. Therefore, on the rainy night when a taxi should have been called to take her away, Robert took in Giselle with a soft heart, and the entanglement and the inner transformation of the two followed.
Facing this real world, Giselle gradually learned to vent her negative emotions positively, instead of just using negative forms of positive words to express her inner negative feelings ("You're a not-so-friendly old man" - Giselle Err said to the tramp who stole her crown); her transformation is also reflected in the clothes , from the dreamy princess dress she stumbled when she first entered New York, to the simple yet gorgeous bed curtain dress, to the prom part and other The retro court costumes are the opposite of a smart purple dress. The transformation of this series of costumes suggests to us that the princess from the fairy tale world has finally gradually adapted to the real world, but she has never been materialistic. The innocence and kindness of the lost heart in the real world.
The dance part, which is the final climax of the fusion of reality and fairy tale in the intermingling of two worlds, is the first part of a Disney princess movie that I personally feel deeply moved by whenever I see it. This moving comes from the combination of the sense of substitution possessed by the real theme itself and the "unfamiliar sense of familiarity" produced by integrating fairy tales into the real world . Just as the "uncanny valley" effect occurs when the artificial creation reaches a level that is infinitely close to the real person but not completely equal to the real person, when a plot that takes place in the real world suddenly and fairy tales are ingenious in a golden ratio Combined, this episode has a unique magic that is neither non-fiction nor pure fiction.
The subtlety of this episode is that the farewell scene we see in the real world is actually so brutally befalling a Disney princess . But in the fairy tale world in which she and her princesses live, there is always a divine power to save them from danger in times of crisis. So, if this episode only takes place in a fairy tale world represented by hand-drawn animation, it is no surprise that there will always be some magic to help them achieve a happy ending forever. Just like: after the beast dies in "Beauty and the Beast", we know that he will be resurrected by true love; in "The Little Mermaid", after Ariel was framed by Ursula's tricks and almost turned into a small fish, we know that the prince must be Will come forward to defeat Ursula to break the curse; when Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty" completes Melificent's curse and falls asleep, we know she will be resurrected by the prince's true love kiss. This setting of "there will always be magic to save the protagonists who hold on to goodness and kindness in their hearts" is also the reason why previous Disney movies failed to completely impress us in the climax of the protagonist's life and death .
In "Magic Romance", although everyone at the palace-themed ball wore court clothes that seemed to come from "Cinderella", the R&B music and princess modern costumes that only appeared in the modern three-dimensional world He reminds us: this is not a magic world, after the clock strikes midnight they will eventually leave their own, from far apart - a side of the edge and just set it back to the fairy tale marriage of Prince After getting married in the world, a fiancee who stays in the real world and has been running for five years in love but has not yet achieved fruitful results continues to run in. Seeing that this icy real world can't cast any magic to save them, how can this dance not make us move? As a result, this film just uses the unique chemical reaction that occurs when the real world and the fairy tale world are combined in a delicate proportion, trampling the iron hoof of reality on the beauty of fairy tales, and creating the most beautiful Disney princess movie of all. Pure and powerful tragic beauty.
Of course, Disney movies rarely end in tragedy. In the handling of the ending, this film makes the fairy tale world redemption from the real world - the "Kiss of True Love" is still valid in the real world, thus completing the power of "love" and "kindness" in a most unlikely A powerful statement of where Disney magic happens.
When this film was born, it had been eight years since the upper princess movie. With the end of Disney's renaissance, the outside world has gradually begun to question whether the "truth, goodness and beauty" touted by Disney in the princess movies still has universal significance. This film has obviously handed over the most perfect answer to this question and where the "truth, goodness and beauty" will go after the interaction between the real world and the fairy tale world.
Therefore, this movie can also be described as a staged summary of Disney's princess movies and a successor to a new chapter. After that, we saw the "Princess and the Frog", which failed at the box office but at the dawn of time, and saw the original intention of sticking to the original intention yet The fully revived "Tangled" has seen "Frozen", which has allowed audiences of all age groups in the world to appreciate the unique charm of the princess series, and seen the "Frozen" that makes the princess movie remove the gender and love labels and still be able to justify it. Oceania". Although I don't know what kind of sublimation and transformation will be experienced by future princess movies, "Magic Romance", a movie that is nominally independent of this series, obviously contributed a lot to the follow-up development of this series. For me personally, it's a perfect ending to this long journey by putting this film on the sidelines of the Disney Princess series review, as a lingering dessert at the end of the meal. now~
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