Even though birds are enviable, they also get food on the ground. No matter how beautiful the dream of flying is, they have to be down-to-earth after waking up.
Hayao Miyazaki used "City in the Sky" to show us his love and strong desire for the sky, aircraft, shuttle between the blue sky and white clouds, feel the blowing of the wind, be free in a wide field, and have endless imagination. Hayao Miyazaki has been dreaming of flying since his first animation "Nausicaa", depicting his purest fantasy about the sky. Afterwards, "The Witch's Delivery Service", "Porcupine", "The Wind Rises", and even the "On Your Mark" video for Asuka and Chuck have all been expressing his unchanging ideal of conquering the sky. And "City in the Sky" is the most imaginative film among them, which makes people want to fly to the clouds and take a deep breath.
The film begins with Dora's pirate ship, passing peacefully among the huge clouds, accompanied by the sweet sound of the propeller stirring the air, and when they see the big ship below, they quickly dispatch four small flying machines like bees. The cloud opened to the moon, and the small aircraft approached the big spaceship and launched an attack. Hida, wearing a flying stone, fell from the ship and fell into the clouds.
In Hisaishi's classic music, Shida passed through the clouds upside down, and together with the leaking beam of light, galloped towards the ground, when the tone rose, the flying stone emitted a dazzling blue light, and Shida's body fell upside down. Turned to lie flat, slowly floated to the ground, and fell to the village at night.
Everything is so beautiful, making people calm, free of distractions, clear and transparent.
What follows is a classic scene in the whole film, full of dreaminess, arousing the infinite reverie of countless people who yearn for beauty. Baloo saw the spot of light falling in the air, and soon he realized it was a person, so he ran over quickly, reached the wooden board at the front end of the shelf, and reached out to pick it up. Just when he couldn't feel the weight, the light of the flying stone went out. Xida suddenly became heavy, and Balu was caught off guard. It took a lot of effort to stabilize himself and catch Xida.
The reason why this scene is classic is because it satisfies the fantasy of many people. Who doesn't want a beautiful princess or a prince charming suddenly fall from the sky, and he also bravely lends a helping hand, showing his heroism and winning the praise and gratitude of the other party. And Shida is a beautiful princess full of mystery. Pirates and the military are looking for her. She needs the help of a boy as brave as Balu. For Balu, Shida is like an angel. He He took the responsibility of protecting her without hesitation.
Angels naturally come from the sky. When we look up at the sky, we will be full of expectations for the sky. It represents the unknown and infinite possibilities. It is an excellent carrier of imagination. When something falls from the sky, we will Unconsciously excited, even if there is only a balloon floating in the sky, it is a gift from heaven, full of holiness, maybe this is our innate longing for the sky, there is temptation in it, tempting us to be with the palace. Like Hayao Saki, he is fascinated by it, infatuated with it.
There is a skeleton of a flying ship in Balu's house, which is his wish to find Laputa after listening to his father's description of Laputa, and Laputa is the crystallization of Hayao Miyazaki's fascination with the sky.
In the film, Hayao Miyazaki designed Dora's pirate ship and the military's flying battleship in order to go to Laputa.
The whole pirate ship is a bird, with a head and a tail, the hull is made of steel, and the belly is made of cloth. There is a passage specially designed for the little bees under the boat, and there is a watch platform on the top of the boat. The watch platform can fly to a higher position like a kite. The cabin is carefully designed, so that every part is clearly identifiable and realistic, and the rumbling engine In the sound, large and small gears turn, with a strong mechanical texture of the industrial age. Although the pirate ship is old, it has everything in it. The microphones are located in every corner of the cabin, and they can quickly issue orders. The ability to complete such a detailed design of a pirate ship shows Miyazaki's understanding of ships and his deep mechanical skills.
Miyazaki's depiction of flying battleships is much simpler than that of pirate ships. The flying warship is large and long, not in the clouds, just like a whale. It has a pointed head and a pointed tail. If the fins on both sides are removed, it is completely a huge missile. There are cannons all over the body. war machine.
In fact, both the pirate ship and the flying battleship were destroyed by Hayao Miyazaki at the end of the film, except for the little bee on the pirate ship. The little bees can be cranked with a joystick, similar to an old-fashioned tractor, with four transparent wings flapping rapidly, making a buzzing sound like a bee. The little bee is simple and flexible in operation, fast, and can carry two to three people. Balu used it to rescue the trapped Hida on the tower, and the other three little bees used smoke bombs to confuse the attack of the flying warships. When Cida and Balu chanted the destruction spell and the whole castle shattered, the four little bees joined together, like flying centipedes, and escaped with everyone on the Dora pirate ship.
About Laputa, we learned from the movie that it came from Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver's Travels". It is said that there are a lot of gold and silver treasures hidden in this uninhabited castle, so many people flock to it, but there are many more People just want to see Laputa's style to satisfy their expectations for the city in the sky.
It can be said unabashedly that Hayao Miyazaki brilliantly translates people's expectations into pictures, and the effect is amazing, shocking, and incredible.
Cloud peaks as high as a mountain, with strong winds raging, there is a dragon's lair, and there are countless lightning bolts in the shape of dragons. The curtain-like clouds were pulled away, and Laputa revealed her true body, with a spherical foundation at the bottom, a circle of castles on the top, and a huge green canopy on top. , and like a huge aircraft, it floats in the air, accompanied by white clouds, away from the chaos of the world. If there are people living on it, it is a pocket version of the earth, an independent kingdom that has nothing to do with the countries on the earth, just like Tao Huayuan in Tao Qian's writings, and Utopia in Thomas More's writings.
But there are no humans in Laputa. Except for the gardening robot stepping on music and the sleeping attack robot, there are only ruins, green grass, flowers, birds, insects and fish. Inside the castle is a forest, and the forest wraps the entire castle. , a giant tree grows in the center, its branches and leaves are higher than the zenith of the castle, and its roots penetrate into the core of the castle and spread to the lowermost spherical shape.
Before Hida destroyed the castle, he understood the reason for Laputa's demise. There is a lyric in the Kendeya Valley that reads:
The roots must be rooted in the soil and survive with the wind.
Spend winter with bamboo and sing spring with birds.
Even if Laputa has flying stones as the source of power, it cannot stop the growth of trees and the continuous reproduction of life. The limited castle cannot satisfy the growth of infinite roots, and the city in the sky can only stay in fantasy, on the ground. Everything, no matter how high it flies, it has to fall to the ground, and the earth is the destination of everything.
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