Fireworks? Cannon?

Hollie 2022-03-15 09:01:02

Fireworks? Cannon?

--- After I really fell in love with this panda



There is no doubt that I really fell in love with this cute panda, and there is no doubt that this is a successful animated film. This "love letter to China" can only be said to be more affectionate after 3 years!



At the beginning of the film, the Chinese paper-cut art was used vividly. In the later part of the martial arts fight, the Chinese folk music such as the pipa was used as a weapon, and a wonderful kung fu performance with folk music as the rhythm was staged, and then the next scene. In flashbacks, the DreamWorks animators show their hands on the prints again. So such a 3D animated film produced in 2011 actually brought me back to my childhood when I was sitting in the cinema. I recalled the "Little Tadpoles Looking for Mother" produced when we still had animation masters a few years ago. Scenes from the ingenious use of Chinese landscape paintings and Chinese paper-cut paintings in "Havoc in Heaven". In that distant and ambiguous era, China has cartoons that I can still remember fresh and unforgettable, as well as animated shorts that have won international awards. I don't know what kind of memory will today's children recall "Blissful" 20 years later?



The story of this sequel seems to have less jokes, more touching elements, and more room for people to think. It seems that DreamWorks has also embarked on the road of pixar and began to create animated films suitable for all ages. I love animation. I am very happy! The 6 people who watched the movie with me (no Chinese, no children) had similar feelings after watching it: first, "Ah! China's landscapes are so beautiful!"; second, "the story is actually quite simple and not so simple."; The third is "I forgot that the movie was in 3D." Well, I admit, this is the only movie I've seen and forgot it's in 3D. This is indeed a mild 3D movie with mature techniques, not the kind of childish and low-level 3D that stabs you in the nose with a stick from time to time, or throws a stone directly on your head, as if to constantly remind you: "Hey, don't forget, I'm in 3D, 3D, 3D, 3D! You paid a lot of money to see me." Mature 3D is just right to the point. The effect is like a stage play, with characters performing live. Kind of immersion. So, if you want to experience that "into the picture" feeling, sit in rows A to C (not AAA, BBB, you have to look up in those rows), watch 3D, where you sit The effect to be achieved is: the screen just fills your field of vision, and do not include the "EXIT" sign of any safety exit in your field of vision.



Going further down, I just want to talk about the story of "it's actually quite simple but not simple". Since the following text contains spoilers for details, I'll be considerate and present a picture of "A Bao eats buns" as a dividing line~~ ~~





(This is Po who stuffed 40 steamed buns in his mouth, the dong dong that is said to be steamed buns, how do I think it looks like a tea egg.)





The protagonist of the story is a peacock this time, who seems to be a prince. This extremely clever peacock prince saw the fireworks set off at people's festivals and thought, "This is really a good thing. Since it can be blasted into the sky, why can't it be blasted wherever it wants?" This thought made him Studying day and night, in our opinion today, wow! What a scientist with scientific literacy and research spirit~~~ But his parents don't see it that way. They think that their son has evil thoughts and is obsessed with ghosts. Why study and manufacture explosive weapons that can hurt people? The Peacock King sent his son to what appeared to be a temple, hoping that his son would turn his back on his wrongdoing. But Prince Peacock is determined to use the new weapon to conquer the whole of China. With this new weapon, what will he do with martial arts? Are you, flesh and blood, the opponents of my gunpowder cannon?


Prince Peacock built artillery behind closed doors year after year, until after his artillery fleet was built, A Bao and his team of martial arts masters came to stop him from his plan to "conquer the whole of China and conquer the world". The goat fortune teller asked the Peacock Prince:


"When will it be a head if it goes on like this? Do you know that you want to fill a bottomless cup? Look, the city was bombed by cannons, and it has been completely destroyed."


Prince Peacock's answer is very interesting: "What about destroying a few cities, in the future, the whole of China and even the world will be our territory."


I'm afraid the goat fortune-teller doesn't know, and Prince Peacock himself doesn't know that this cup has a bottom, although very deep. Outside China is Asia, outside Asia is Europe, Africa, America, Oceania. Prince Peacock's artillery fleet was finally defeated by A Bao and his party. This is a movie, which also alludes to similar scenes in ancient Chinese history. In the real world, in 1840, the foreigner's "Prince Peacock" pioneered the cannon fleet and finally woke up the moderate and moderate Chinese with one shot. Fill that deep cup little by little with water, blood to be exact, and ruin cities? What about killing countless people? He really opened up the territory, and after his descendants enjoyed the fruits, they also put on the cloak of benevolence, righteousness and morality.


What moved me the most was that our Po, after being bombarded with one cannon, two cannons, three cannons and four cannons, stood in front of the Peacock Prince again and again, and in front of the cannon muzzle again and again. My Bao is not afraid of you, you make cannons because you are afraid in your heart, your kung fu is not as good as mine, you are afraid of me in your heart! I know that my Po is of flesh and blood, and can't resist your ten thousand cannons, but I still have to stand in front of you to stop you until I fall completely. In the movie, A Bao really blocked the ten thousand cannons (exaggerated, there are not as many as ten thousand, only one or two), and how to block it, I will not give any in-depth spoilers. The finale, As happy and peaceful as ever, China has returned to its former serenity and tranquility.




Reality is not a movie, and kung fu cannot stop the cannon.


So what? This is a spirit, a spirit full of dignity, glory and courage. Knowing that there is no chance or possibility, I still dare to stand up and challenge you. I can't help but think of the spirit of the ancients, who dared to show his sword and face challenges even if he was facing the best swordsman in the world.


dignity. glory. courage.


Not only can we provide the world with splendid fireworks, but can also provide the world with cannons that will disappear when necessary.


No one dared to attack such a group.







































Easter eggs: I have already predicted the story outline of Kung Fu Panda 3: Bear and Tiger Love plus Wanli Searching for Children

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Kung Fu Panda 2 quotes

  • Mr. Ping: So, how did it go? Did you save China?

    Po: Yep.

    Mr. Ping: Well, I knew you would! That's why I had these signs made! "My son saved China - you too can save! Buy one dumpling, get one free!"

  • Mantis: I didn't have any problems with my dad. Maybe it's 'cause Mom ate his head before I was born...