This article has been published in an April issue of "Shanghai TV". If it is reproduced, please indicate it and contact me. -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- --- "Fantasy Forest" except for the wolf boy Mowgli, all are made by computer CG special effects. This is a gimmick for the promotion of the film. In other words, everything is fake except the wolf child. Not long ago, we also praised that the tightrope hanging between the twin towers in "Walking in the Clouds" and the fight between Xiao Li and the big bear in "The Revenant" are the use of special effects where they should be used. But this movie is a demonstration of the achievements of computer CG technology. Fortunately, it also has a good story. Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" (The Jungle Book) was made into the animation "Prince of the Forest" as early as 1967, the same story was adapted into "Fantasy Forest", the name is different Only the Chinese translation is different. To be precise, it was a collection of Indian forest short stories featuring Mowgli and a host of anthropomorphic animals, cleverly strung together into a complete story of growth and adventure. The wolf child was chased to the edge of the cliff by the tiger Sheri Khan and fell into the cattle. We can easily think of the classic children's animation "The Lion King", but in the original book, the tiger was trampled to death by the cattle. As for the film that burned it to death The "red flower" (fire), the first time Mowgli lifted it, was enough to scare off a tiger. These changes are more in line with the needs of film drama. Many character settings in the original work have been changed to be more in line with the tastes of modern audiences. For example, it is very similar to the interaction between the brown bear Balu and the wolf child in the "Hakulamatta" paragraph in "The Lion King". His life mentor is quite serious, and if he fails to learn the animal language taught by Baloo, he will suffer the paw. The Black Panther Bagheera is on the contrary the godfather who is gentler and encourages him to protect himself in a human way. The changed Baloo, like Pong Pong and Timon, is optimistic and sloppy. He teaches Mowgli to face life easily, encourages him to try new things and achieve self-realization, whether it is a free lifestyle or self-realization values. Disney tradition, not Kipling-era mainstream. Kao, the male snake, turned into a female snake with a seductive temptation sound by the sexy goddess Scarlett Johansson. In the original book, he even helped Baloo and Bagheera rescue the wolf child from the monkey pile. Disney failed to dig deeper into human nature and values. Audiences don't know that the distorted character of the tiger in the original book also stems from his born lame disability - it may be a discriminatory error to shoot. In the original book, the black panther once returned from human society to call for the wild, and the wolf child also lived an amphibious life between the human world and the animal world, but the wolf child in the movie chose to live in the forest, which gave the movie a paradise-like closed space atmosphere. I don't know if this is progress that respects free choice, or whether it is content with the conservativeness of the fairy tale world. Disney animation often has songs that play the role of chanting, but this movie is abrupt because of the small number of songs. Every story in the original book basically begins with a poem, and even the laws of the jungle that the wolf clan shouts every day are directly intercepted by the movie from the original book.
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