Perhaps, in the eyes of the creators of the film "Miss Potter", Beatrix Potter, the creator of the famous "Peter Rabbit", has a long life. The story is more magical and exciting than imagined, a little more decoration seems redundant, and a little less line drawing seems to be insufficient. Therefore, although the film is not a very eye-catching film in the past year, it is just the right work. At the same time, to be precise, it is also very eye-catching.
The eye-catching feature of "Miss Potter" is not the superficial actor's appearance and exaggerated dazzling skills in the usual sense, but the seamless atmosphere of the times it creates - the quiet and poetic scenery of the Lake District, the British style of the early last century , lovely and wonderfully painted animals, the sentiment and actions of caring for the mountain and river farms... The film is filled with pure and childlike joy in the long stream of water, and permeates warm and distant sadness in the tranquility and refinement, as if it is a fresh and meaningful sketch. While nourishing the eyes, it nourishes the mind, giving people a feeling of tranquility and far-reaching.
In the film, Miss Potter (played by Renee Zellweger) was 32 years old when she appeared on the scene, but she was not married yet. She lived with her parents and used hand-painted small animals as the joy and all of life. For the daughter who has delayed the blooming season, the mother has obviously given up all efforts, and is dismissive of her daughter's paintings, and the father (played by Bill Patterson) does not seem to be optimistic about her daughter's future, thinking that she has to support her for a lifetime, As everyone knows, in the near future, her daughter will become one of the few rich women (earning more than Rowling, the mother of "Harry Potter").
The Potters belonged to the wealthy new middle class. In their early years, the father, who was keen on art and leisure life, did not send the Potters to school for a rigid education, but let them develop freely. In her spare time, Beatrice is keen to use a brush to record small living animals, and her younger brother is willing to make more taxidermy... Vacation in the lake area, close contact with the lakes and mountains, make Beatrice's thinking and painting days points to get more room for development.
Beatrice, 32, plans to publish her own work, just as publisher Norman Vaughn (Ian McGregor), the third child of the publisher's Vaughan family, is preparing to get involved in the family business, and his brothers plan to make him "go through once." "Failure" and then retreated in spite of the difficulties, and dumped Miss Potter, whom they disliked, to him. So two people who were not favored in their respective homes decided to join hands and show it to everyone. They succeeded, creating the best-selling picture book fairy tale Peter Rabbit series in history, and the two people who influenced each other developed secret feelings, shared feelings, and unforgettable. Beatrice also befriends Vaughan's sister, another old girl, Millie (Emily Watson). It seemed destined that Porter and the Federico Vaughan Company would eventually have a love and friendship that would last a lifetime.
Beatrice was a celibate and never thought about love - that's because she hadn't met the person she liked yet. The fate that belonged to her came too late and too short. Norman Vaughan died suddenly of a sudden illness, and happiness was at hand but fleeting. In grief, Beatrice locked herself in her studio and nearly collapsed. Finally, under Millie's persuasion, she left London and came to the Lake District to regain her brushwork and confidence in life. One by one, well-known animal images were born: in addition to The naughty and timid Peter Rabbit, the flat pig, the wayward bad mouse brother, the ignorant little duck...
Since then, Miss Potter has transformed from a personal love to a great love for nature - she uses the income from her creations Buying back the Lake District farms that were forced to auction due to economic decline at a high price, so that the natural landscaping would not fall into the hands of profit-seeking land developers (the four thousand acres of Lake District land that remained in her name before her death, fifteen The farm, as well as several small lakes, were donated to the National Trust for the protection of Britain's natural ecology). This kind of love is very emotional. It seems that it is not easy to be a pure environmentalist. At least one must be as rich as Miss Potter and be able to do it, instead of just shouting slogans and running streaking protests or something.
It was indeed wiser to choose Renee Zellweger to play Miss Potter. I always felt that this American had an English idyll in him, a little shy and ignorant, naughty and uncertain in his eyes, and plump and rosy cheeks, a little cute. In addition, she practiced a pure "London tone" when she starred in "BJ's Single Diary" earlier, so in this film about the past of British literary women, she seemed very harmonious and created a heart full of children. Fun and pure love Miss Potter. In the film, the acting skills of other actors are also appropriate, which makes the film full of British style and restrained and comfortable performances. However, the emotions contained are full and abundant.
The use of a trick in the film is very moving: when Norman Vaughn and Miss Potter dance in the studio, Norman sings a song "I Teach You How to Dance" to the music box, with subtitles at the end of the film. At that time, the soundtrack song was "You Teach Me How to Dance" by a female voice. What about now and then? At this time? Such mutual responses, such aftertastes, euphemistic lyrics, and emotional melody make the film reveal a unique taste in the light sentimentality.
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