Rango: How a hero is made

Barton 2022-01-27 08:01:03

The world has never lacked heroes. What it lacks is the soil for heroes to grow. The so-called times create heroes. Therefore, heroes are never born, but the product of a specific era, a special environment, and a special force. Since ancient times, heroes have been born in troubled times, and poor people have created troublesome people. From the perspective of historical development, the definitions of "heroes" and "trouble people" mostly depend on victory or defeat. So there is the saying that heroes don't ask where they come from, because most heroes have humble and dirty pasts, and one successful political correctness is enough to annihilate all humiliating mistakes. The cartoon "Rango" tells the story of how such a humble and vain person can become a true hero step by step.

The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Gore Verbinski, director of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, joined by the late special effects giant Industrial Light and Magic, and dubbed by stars such as Johnny Depp. As we all know, any one of these many halos as a publicity stunt is enough to set off a movie viewing storm, not to mention the powerful alliances of many powerful factions, which is tantamount to multiplying the quality of the film. Insurance. And the film did live up to expectations, opening the box office in North America with $38 million in its first week.

The story runs through the bizarre adventures of a little lizard. With big protruding eyes, a slender neck, and a flowered shirt for summer on the beach, this upside-down look is just like a "cheap look". Alternative attire is bound to have an alternative life. This is a story routine used by film and television screenwriters. Of course, this little lizard named Rango is no exception. A lonely pet, while playing different identities to pass the time and lose himself, in the later process, it is not so much the exploration of the potential self, but the return and redemption of the soul. The dialogue between the soul of the middle and the west is more like a monologue of the soul, a contradictory choice between the sense of escape and the sense of challenge deeply rooted in the heart. It was the fantasy of becoming a hero that allowed Rango to acquire the pseudo-identity of a hero, and it was also the identification of a real hero in his heart that made Rango break through the weak shell of a pseudo-hero and transformed into a real hero.

The film subverts the beautiful and realistic production style of Hollywood animations in the past. The picture is rough and gray, and the group portraits are wretched and ugly. However, it is such a distinctive and alternative style of painting that gives "Rango" a strong western style. In the film, Huangsha Town, with flying yellow sand and scattered buildings, and the plot of Lango entering the hotel in Huangsha Town, as well as Lango's standard western cowboy dress, can be seen from the American Western films "Red Dead Redemption" and "Golden". The meaning of tribute to films such as The Bad and the Dead. The horses of the group of "Western Knights", the galloping bird, are somewhat similar to the "birds and horses" in Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaa". The soundtrack of this film is also one of the highlights. The wandering band composed of several owls not only plays the role of transition between each small paragraph, but also the lyrics have some metaphorical flavor, or lively, or playful and passionate music. Under the interpretation of a few "Jianghu Weigu", the funny effect is self-evident.

Obviously, the ups and downs of the story and the generation and confrontation of contradictions are the most eye-catching aspects of the film. Whether it's the transformation of the little lizard before and after, or the huge hidden conspiracy of the old turtle, or the ultimate PK with the rattlesnake, in addition to mobilizing the audience's viewing emotions, spoofed irony clips, and more It's hilarious. The lines also add a lot of color to the film. The dialogue between Rango and the soul of the west can almost be regarded as a classic philosophical sentence, and Rango's lines, in Depp's very changing voice interpretation, a lizard version. Captain Jack jumped on the screen.

"Rango" is a film suitable for all ages. Although the children have not fully grasped the subtle meaning and dark humor of the lines, they can achieve their dreams come true only on the heroic road of a weak gradually becoming a strong , Who didn't have a heroic dream when we were kids? Not to mention adults, Western complex, heroism, and bad taste can all make us linger and indulge in it. It is not difficult to see that Lango's transformation and redemption benefited from his dreams. Dreams are the extension and care of reality. Only with dreams can we work hard. Therefore, people who have dreams are happy, and the greatest happiness is to turn dreams into reality through personal efforts.

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Rango quotes

  • Maybelle: [annoyed] You've got a lot of nerve coming back here, lawman. What is it that you want?

    Rango: [dead serious] Yer pappy and them boys are gonna hang for something they didn't do.

    [pause]

    Rango: But I've got a plan...

  • Rango: [taken aback] Golden guardians... Alabaster chariot... The Spirit of the West!

    [to Spirit]

    Rango: Ahem... excuse me... Mister Spirit... sir?

    Spirit of the West: [eyeing a fish hook] Now there's a beaut. Sometimes you have to dig deep to find what you're looking for.

    [to Rango]

    Spirit of the West: So, you made it.

    Rango: Is this Heaven?

    Spirit of the West: If it were, we'd be eating Pop Tarts with Kim Novak.

    Rango: Yeah, ain't that the truth. What are you doing out here?

    Spirit of the West: Searching... same as you.

    Rango: [downhearted] I don't know what I'm looking for. I don't even know who I am.

    [brighter]

    Rango: They used to call you 'The Man with No Name'.

    Spirit of the West: Nowadays, they have a name for just about everything. Doesn't matter what they call you... it's the deeds that make the man.

    Rango: But my deeds just made everything worse. I'm a fake... a phony. My friends were counting on me. They were looking for some sort of hero.

    Spirit of the West: [emphatic] Then be a hero!

    Rango: [disbelief] Oh, no! No, no. I'm not even supposed to be out here.

    Spirit of the West: That's right. You came out here looking for something that didn't exist. But don't you see?

    [pause]

    Spirit of the West: It's not about you... it's about them.

    Rango: But I can't go back.

    Spirit of the West: Don't think you have a choice, son.

    [draws rectangle on windshield]

    Spirit of the West: No man can walk out of his own story.