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Lakers haven't won the championship yet. The famous Lakers won the Oscar first. He Dou Dagger retired less than two years ago. He gave birth to his son and made zero shots in three shots. Jack Nicholson will be silent and Plum will cry.
Even this year, it is the 20th year that I have known Kobe Bryant, but from a rational point of view, this Gold Cup is not like the five previous championships, it is a well-deserved personal struggle. It is said that there is always some historical itinerary. How did a retired NBA star win an Oscar?
Several other works of the best animated short, personally feel better. "Lost and Found", refined imagination, campus bullying, healing department, a boutique produced by Pixar. "Negative Space", the visual creativity is great, and it describes the father-son family in an abstract way. "Garden Party", the picture is so detailed that it is almost the same as the real shooting; in terms of content, it tells a story of a black Trump with a few toads and frogs as the medium. In China, it is very violent and full of meaning, and in the United States, it is very correct and full of speculation. If I had to choose, the award would be awarded to this film.
Although "Dear Basketball" is well-made and full of feelings, it can't be false. After all, Kobe's real experience is a story that is better than a movie. In contrast, it is still more like a visual poem recitation. From the fans' ass, the gold content of this Best Animated Short Film Award is indeed not very sufficient.
Lao Ke's black identity and NBA status, I am afraid that "Dear Basketball" has received a lot of attention. After all, Hollywood and the NBA are almost also a lovelorn front alliance that hates Trump and is useless. This award is awarded to Kobe Bryant, but also to the entire NBA world. This year's Oscar, a number of basketball media accounts are also involved. If it wasn't for Kobe Bryant, few people would know and discuss the small award for Best Animated Short Film.
Perhaps what the organizing committee wants is the diffusion effect of 1+1 greater than 2. After all, there is also a finalist with such influence as Kobe Bryant. Next time there will be an NBA star who can play from CCTV5 to CCTV6. It is estimated that it will be LeBron James, filming "Dear Decision" or something...
Fans' ass
But aside from Oscar, from the fans' ass, the weight of this animated short is heavy. Every frame of the picture carries infinite memories and emotions. Here, let's take the ass of Kobe fans to introduce the content of the film.
"Dear Basketball" is derived from Kobe's retirement letter of the same name published on November 31, 2015. He experienced a torn Achilles tendon, a fractured knee, a torn shoulder muscle, three consecutive seasons of major injury reimbursement, and the 2015-16 season. Kobe Bryant has lost the athletic ability of a superstar, and the Lakers have also entered a dark period, without any competitiveness, so that the [Lakers Championship], for the Zijin giants who have won 16 times, has become a stalk today. After struggling for half a season, the arrogant Lao Ke wrote this letter announcing his retirement after the season.
As soon as this letter came out, it immediately became a sign of the end of an era, setting off the sadness of countless people. Every away game of the Lakers has become a tribute and farewell to Kobe by local fans, forming a retirement tour for most of the season. In 60E China, Kobe retired after Jay Chou married, another grand tombstone symbolizing the end of the youth of the post-80s and 90s. Although this has been damaged by many follow-up dogs, its significance for the times is beyond doubt.
After officially retiring, the letter of retirement was made into an animated short film, which condensed Kobe's life about basketball in the form of pencil drawings, read aloud by Lao Ke himself, and soundtracked by the famous John Williams. On December 19, 2017, this animated short was played at Staples Arena during the retirement ceremony of the No. 8 and No. 24 jerseys in the midfield of the game between the Lakers and the Warriors.
The prelude to the short film comes from the 2012-13 Lakers game against the Nets, where Bryant dunks the ball into the net against Wallace and Lopez's double blocks.
The background at that time was particularly tragic. That season, the Lakers recruited Nash and Howard, who originally ran for the sixth championship of Lao Ke, but the old Buss died. The management palace fight led to the wrong coach candidate. In addition, Huo Zhongcheng's happy basketball, the ball The team's injury made the Lakers unable to even enter the playoffs, forcing the 34-year-old Kobe Bryant to burn his sports life at the end of the season, playing every field until he was seriously injured.
This is a very classic action scene in the dance of life when the veterans went mad.
Enter the feature film, follow Lao Ke's own recitation, and turn back to the place where the basketball dream started. The boy who rolled his socks into a basketball fantasized about his lore moment, which blended with the scene where his dream came true later.
The posters on the wall are Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, both Kobe Bryant's childhood idols, the volute when he grew up, one side is the successor of Magician, another totem of the Lakers for life, and the other side is Jordan's Chaser, the end of his career is the most chasing the back of God.
Because of his father playing football, Kobe spent his childhood in Italy, which is why the volute clearly cooperated with Jay Chou in "A Fight between Heaven and Earth", but the song "The Little Blacksmith in Milan" is the most deeply rooted. In a lonely and unfamiliar environment, Kobe's only friends were basketball. His grandfather would send him videos of NBA games from the United States, and Kobe's favorite team was the Los Angeles Lakers.
In this group of pictures, the boy studies the video tape with the words [Lakers] written, and sets up his own chair to practice dribbling. It is exactly this period of time. The little blacksmith in Milan is already giving birth to the legend of [Los Angeles at four in the morning].
Just after graduating high school, Bryant's dream came true, entering the NBA, wearing a Lakers jersey and meeting the gods wearing No. 23 on the court. Kobe in the picture is already the mushroom head shape of the No. 8 jersey, and he is childish and goes all out to be one-on-one with Jordan.
The next set of shots tells about the growth of No. 8 Kobe, and the No. 10 jersey of the national team also appeared. In the 2008 Olympic Games, Kobe Bryant made Beijing his home court. I am afraid that no one would have thought that ten years later, this guy actually jumped from the Olympic Games to the Oscars.
No. 8 was the peak of his athleticism. At that time, Kobe, who was flying in the sky, often used his powerful waist and abdomen to make exaggerated aerial levers, flying from one side to the other, laying the basket or dunking. The short film uses a very powerful ball in the background. In the face of Garnett, the peak of the wolf king's No. 21 period, he broke through the bottom line, pulled the bar in the air, and hit a reflexive dunk at the moment when he lost his balance.
Regarding flying over the air, there is another ball that, although not selected, is also very suitable as a shot material, that is, the perverted lever that Kobe Bryant passed over the four Spurs (the background includes another stronger No. 21 power forward) in the air. Pictures are also widely circulated. The characteristics of the volute body, technology and character are vividly and vividly in this ball.
The peak of No. 8 was achieved in the 2005-06 season, averaging 35.4 points per game, 62 points in three quarters, and a season of 81 points in a single game. In the playoffs, the Lakers played against the Nash Suns of Fengwu for nine days. They once won the match point, but they fell short and were reversed and eliminated. The animated short film uses the 50-point fly dunk knocking down Nash in the sixth game, and the roar of Kobe tearing his jersey after taking a 3-1 lead in the fourth game.
This is also the 10-year midpoint of Kobe's career. After this season, the No. 24 jersey came on stage and scored only 43 points after four consecutive 50+ games, MVP, two consecutive championships, everything reached its peak in June 2010, the finals The Zijin Lakers defeated the Green Celtics in the tiebreaker. Kobe Bryant took advantage of this best rival to win one of his favorite championships.
Holding dear basketball, standing on the technical stage with open arms, this classic picture naturally entered the animation. , This is the peak of Kobe's career, as if I can still hear Zhang Weiping's guidance [champion, champion, hahaha...].
But the sweet moments are fleeting, just as no one thought that the life of the Lakers' No. 24 jersey is only 10 years. In the background narration, Lao Ke read [But I can't continue this love any time soon], and the screen jumped to the most unbearable game for all Kobe fans.
On April 13, 2013, the Los Angeles Lakers played against the Golden State Warriors. Today's Cosmos team is very strong at the beginning of that year, and the Lakers have been suppressed. Kobe, who had been extremely physically squeezed in the previous few games, chose to continue to burn his life. During the game, he injured his knee and twisted his ankle, but he persisted until a breakthrough and suddenly slipped to the ground.
In the end, the Lakers won the game, but a post-game diagnosis announced that Kobe had completely ruptured his left Achilles tendon. At the end of the season, the full-court dance of life came to an end, and Kobe pulled the Lakers into the playoffs at the cost of a torn Achilles tendon. It was this game that announced that Kobe had burned out the life of the superstar ahead of schedule, and was destined to retire after three years of struggle.
Perhaps the moment when the Achilles tendon ruptured was too tragic. The animated short did not choose the scene where Kobe was holding his heels or insisted on limping off the court after completing the free throw. Instead, it chose the second injury before, twisting to the ground. Stagger behind the ankle, lie down, and get up.
In the subsequent picture of Kobe's dunk, the picture flashed, and it was pulled away into a perspective view of the body. This body, which unfolded in a heroic dunk posture, had muscles, joints and bones covered with injuries. As the narrator says, the body can no longer support the spirit and mind.
At the end of the short film, the rolling basketball turns back into rolled socks, and the superstar turns back to a boy. From the imaginary of facing the chair, to challenging opponents taller than himself, the boy turned into a superstar and turned around for a dunk, much like a reflexive dunk taken from Kobe's early back dribble, which caused the commentator to shout [what did I just see?].
Between the boy and the superstar, overlapping and parallel. The classic fallback jumper, connected to the childhood days of falling back to bed. Narrator reads [No matter what I do next I'll always be the little boy who balls his socks into a ball and throws it in the trash can in the corner, pretending there are 5 seconds left on the timer, 5...4...3...2...1 ], socks group into the net into the box.
The boy was immersed in the excitement of imagining the success of the lore, and the basketball boy who faded into the picture gradually grew up and became a superstar in a purple and gold shirt. lore.
The theme of "Dear Basketball" can actually be summed up in one sentence: Men are teenagers until they die. Although this sentence is a bit chicken soup, at least in Kobe's body, it is a solid fact. After all, among the celebrities who have turned their childhood dreams and bragging rights into reality, Kobe is a very representative one.
At the end of the animated short, the Zijin back of No. 24 gave a high five with the audience, walked into the player tunnel, and disappeared at the end of the light. The finale after the release of this letter of retirement has been known to the world. On April 14, 2016, Kobe Bryant used a film scriptwriter dare not write, the same farewell battle as recorded and broadcast, and ended his career. , 60 points, reversal, quasi-lore, sprinkled all the power of basketball on the court, and left vigorously.
Even though he looks old and seems to look at everything, at the last moment, Kobe still did not hide himself. This old dog is actually the [sports boy] of [I want to play basketball], and the man who will never give up. , the love of basketball [to the end of the world].
For Kobe himself, this farewell is "Dear Basketball", and for others, it is "Goodbye, Sports Boy". After retiring, Kobe seems to love thoroughly and decisively. He maintains a resounding distance from the identity of the former player. Even when he goes back to watch the Lakers game, he only has one time when his jersey is retired.
From the first double jersey retirement ceremony in history, to the animated short film participating in the Oscars, these are fragments that can vaguely remind Kobe of his identity as a player, but there is one less time, and in the future, I am afraid that only the Lakers will build a statue for him. .
In fact, it is not a happy thing for Kobe to hold the golden man. Yu Li, some political correctness has insufficient gold content. Yu Qing, seeing Kobe at a Hollywood party, can't help but feel sad. It should have been Hollywood bigwigs going to Staples to see him. According to Kobe's original characteristics and advantages, if it weren't for the burning life forced out by the management's civil strife, he should still be fighting on the court now.
De Anthony, the Lakers head coach in 2013, and now coaching the Houston Rockets, another major home team in China, not only confirmed that his tactics can be powerful when properly staffed, but also confirmed that Chris Paul and the first point What kind of power will Wei join forces. It's a pity that for the Lakers and Kobe, these can only be passed by [if].
In 2008, Kobe won a certain award, and he took the teammates of the Lakers who won two consecutive championships to the stage to accept the award. On the podium in 2018, Kobe was standing next to the animation director. The teammates before and after ten years ago have already become those flowers, scattered all over the world, among them Luke Walton has become the current Lakers head coach. I sincerely hope that Lu Xun's famous words will be realized as soon as possible: the Lakers championship. Perhaps on the day when Walton brings Brother Ball back to the finals, we can see the volute at Staples again.
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