For example, the "Iron Giant" directed by Brad Bird did not get enough attention from the audience when it was released due to a mistake in Warner's distribution, but the gold always shines. "The Iron Giant" won the American Animation Award that year. Award" 15 nominations, surpassing the 10 nominations of "Tarzan", 4 nominations of DreamWorks "Prince of Egypt", and "A Bug's Life" and "South Park", and finally won the Best Animation of the Year Award, the best Director Award and 9 other awards. There is no traditional Disney cartoon singing and dancing mode, and there is no magical animation effect. The simple 2D and 3D composite pictures are actually a little mediocre from some professional perspectives, and the film also conveys some political information, but it is a work that can easily touch the heart no matter when it is taken out.
The film tells the story of a sincere friendship between a child and a mighty giant. There are exciting adventures, carefree playfulness, incomprehensible loneliness, courageous persistence in the face of doubt, and thinking about people and technology. And the criticism of society and politics, the most important thing is the touching friendship between the iron giant and the child in the film, which is what makes it enduring and touches the soul of audiences of different ages and languages. This is a film that keeps digging deep into our hearts and exploring our purest side.
The story takes place in the United States in the 1950s, a time when ignorance and innocence coexisted with Cold War fanaticism. At that time, people were worried about the Beat Generation on the one hand, and the mighty Soviet Union on the other hand. The fierce collision between them is also vividly reflected.
The nine-year-old Okja looks clumsy and cute, and his inexperience makes him more fearless and exploratory than adults. On the night that he first saw the Iron Giant, Okay almost died under the huge soles of the Iron Giant's feet. Seeing that this alien creature ate the steel of the substation by mistake, and was trapped in the leaking wires, Okay pulled down the switch with the fearless brute force of a child to save the iron giant.
The iron giant's eyes are like two huge searchlights, full of industrial cumbersomeness, and of course there is no lack of momentum and strength. Nothing but an instinct to eat metal. Okay and the iron giant don't understand the language, but they can communicate with heart, just like the pure feelings between aliens and little boys in "E•T". Perhaps only children can have no utilitarian contact with other beings. Okay said to the iron giant "You stand, I go, no following", but the giant always followed him closely and refused to leave. He can only understand things with the simplest thinking. When encountering too difficult problems, he will tilt his head and put a question mark on his face. If he studies for too long, he will doze off like an impatient child. Looking at the expression on his meticulously facing the broken rails, looking at his pitiful appearance of starving without iron, looking at the sadness when he gently touched the deer killed by the hunter with his huge fingers, looking at him. He almost ate Dean's scrap metal art with a foolish look, watching him learn how to dive like okha but turning the whole pond's water into the sky, watching him hang a sign on his chest to be a superman seriously , you will find that there is no essential difference between the heart of this giant and that of a child. This huge gap between appearance and heart makes the Iron Giant full of charm. The contrasting characters in the movie are very unique and touching, like Forrest Gump with an IQ of 75, King Kong who climbed the Empire State Building, Quasimodo the bell ringer, etc. Their "defects" such as their ugly appearance and ugly appearance make people prejudiced in their first judgment, but they have indeed conquered the public with their extraordinary kindness and courage.
Just like there are always people who want to catch ET for research, there will also be people who are eyeing the Iron Giant. Kent, an investigator from the government, is bent on finding out the Iron Giant's secrets. He claimed to protect national security and protect people's lives, but when the Iron Giant ran away with the Okja, he lied to the army that the Okja was killed by the giant, and let the army open fire on the giant regardless of the boy's safety. The people in the town are also full of worries, rumors abound, some say aliens are attacking, some say the Soviet Union's secret weapon, Rockwell's peace has been broken. When the hateful Kent ignored the life and death of the residents in the town and forcibly ordered the launch of an atomic bomb to destroy the Iron Giant, when all the people panicked as if the end of the world, Oka and the Iron Giant gained the most precious in their lives. friendship. The iron giant gently pushed Oka, said "You stand, I go, no following" to him, and then stretched out his arms and flew towards the atomic bomb in the sky. This time, he did not make an instinctive self-defense attack. He hit the atomic bomb with his body, detonated it, and disappeared into the huge flames of the sky. He said, I'm not a gun, I'm a good guy. It turned out that under the cold iron skin, there was also tenderness.
Fortunately, after the sadness, the film has a reassuring ending with the lyrics of "Prince of Egypt": "As long as you believe, miracles will happen." Inspired by his brain signal, the broken pieces of the iron giant slowly ran towards Iceland, where they will regroup, the iron giant will be reborn, and the human power he represents will be reborn. easily destroyed. Like all the people we call "giants" in history, the iron giant is not the body, but the spiritual power full of inspiration.
Like most American animation, The Iron Giant's plot is uncomplicated, and the saga of a human iron hero against a peculiar but realistic backdrop is deeply moving. Certain episodes will feel familiar to us. The iron giant who fell from the sky became the secret friend of a little boy in a single-parent family, made up for the lack of friendship and care in time, and indirectly helped him rebuild a new family later, allowing a single mother and a scrap iron artist who helped the boy and the iron giant Form a good relationship. This part is obviously very similar to Steven Spielberg's 1982 "Alien ET", which uses science fiction to package the spiritual product of melodrama. The iron giant has a simple mind. Because he doesn't understand the world, he almost accidentally hurt the little boy and caused the fear of ignorant people. The part that wants to eliminate him is based on the allusions and spirit of James Whale's "Frankenstein" in 1931 to shape this The delicate inner and noble soul of the behemoth are incompatible with the external world, so self-sacrifice has become an inevitable outcome. As the saying goes, the world's articles are copied, and the movies are no exception. There is nothing wrong with this kind of imitation and borrowing, just like the okha asked the iron giant to learn the flying attitude of superman, and the giant finally prided himself on being superman, sacrificing himself, saving The plot of the boy and the town is even more obviously related to Superman, which makes people laugh and cry. Therefore, how to use these things learned from others and adjust them into their own original flavors, "Iron Giant" has indeed achieved this, and it has been skillfully sensationalized in the second half.
More feelings are that such animated films are not only for children, of course, children will be excited by the childish plot of the little boy pretending to be an adult in the movie, and they will also like this kind of story setting: the little boy is an "adult" , while the steel giant is a "child" who needs to know the world from scratch; but it attracts adults to a greater extent. In the early stage of the plot, most of the words and actions are humorous, which makes it easy for the audience to integrate into the animated story. In addition to the beginning of a series of mysterious events and the little protagonist's desire to explore, they form a point of attraction, which is in line with human exploration of the unknown. desire. On the other hand, domestic animation works obviously underestimate the intelligence quotient of the audience. Too much emphasis is placed on the so-called educational effect, but it is only for the purpose of educating people to make the main meaning of the animation to be expressed at a glance. It's better to do a good animation seriously, just like the second half of "Iron Giant", we can't help but reflect on some human behaviors. The okha is the embodiment of humanism, and its brave image of not afraid of danger is in sharp contrast with the panicked people at that time; while the iron giant is a product of human science, representing a kind of disaster, and has become a dramatic savior of mankind. . The Iron Giant became a real hero, which was unexpected, and made the film with a sense of ridicule, and the classic line of the Iron Giant "what you want to do is up to you" also deeply moved countless people. Heart. The film not only reflects the value of humanitarianism, but also reflects people's aversion to war and their strong desire for peace. The high-tech weapons such as the atomic bomb we made in the military were originally designed to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, but in the end, they often destroyed human beings themselves. This is also the theme promoted by countless humanities scholars. destroying human society.
Very good and powerful, this sentence is sent to "Iron Giant". Thanks to Brad Bird for bringing us pure moving with a pure story and humanity wrapped in steel.
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