The great "modernity of translation", the great is too big! Maybe we should reach a minimum consensus on "Burger", whatever it is, translate it into "hamburger", which is cheap and easy. Zheng Zhihua sang in the song titled "Middle Class": "I often drink Coke and I eat hamburgers, but the emptiness and hunger in my heart can't be filled"-you see, regardless of what foreigners think, hamburgers are already It has become one of the life signs of the Chinese middle class.
Wes Anderson used stop-motion animation in "The Great Fox Papa" to once again draw a castle to satisfy our hunger-"we" here refers to those who live in front of a computer and watch online videos or download them illegally. According to sociologists The theory is very likely to become the future "middle class" generation ant clan youths and movie fans of the 70s and 80s.
Why bother? "Middle class" is actually not a commendatory word in its bones-indeed, in American language, "Almost everyone thinks that he (she) belongs to the middle class, but no one wants to be accused of being a bourgeois" [1]. But neither Bourgeois nor Bohemia of Bohemia can conceal the inferiority of the middle class. Alan Bloom made it clear through Rousseau’s mouth: “Bourgeois has no poetry, love, and heroism, neither aristocracy nor aristocracy. The people; Bourgeois is not a citizen, his religion is poor, this world... Bourgeois is an individualist in society... Bourgeois is a hypocrite... Bourgeois’ morality is pecuniary" [2]. In contemporary daily life, Bourgeois “means a lack of refined aesthetic taste, living in an ugly cabin, decorated with small tablecloths on the tables and chairs, listening to unglamorous music... The way of prose culture has replaced the way of poetry, and even made life a spiritual desert" [3]. Needless to say, to take a look at the scenes of Daddy Fox’s married life in Wes Anderson’s lens is almost the most intuitive portrayal of this description.
Daddy Fox is a so-called columnist who writes a column in a small town newspaper (like me always concocts sick moaning or absolutely correct nonsense to survive), he always wears neat trousers and shirt (the cowboy belongs to the Wild West Style), the gentle and elegant wife who married Fengzi engaged in a cold war (the battlefield is usually at the breakfast table). What's more, the fox son Ash has inherited his father's middle class traits just right-he doesn't fight, doesn't take drugs, he just spits anytime and anywhere to show his existence. Christopherson, who practices yoga, represents the image of an excellent middle-class successor. He can handle complex cricket (?) rules and the hearts of young girls in a short time, and his hairstyle is not messy when using karate. The three farmers are actually very pitiful. They unfortunately acted as a sparring with the fox father's "old man chatting with juvenile madness". Under the protection of the fundamental principles of capitalism (and modernity) that private property is sacred and inviolable, they did not commit any crimes. Wrong, but the middle class always need to export. That kind of hypocritical life that must be supported by the evaluation of others always requires arrogance from time to time. Therefore, Dad Fox drove away in the rain of bullets on a motorcycle, letting him go. Behind him, the sound of firecrackers makes a sound, and he is still personable.
George Clooney is too suitable to voice this role. I hardly remember the appearance of Mr. George in jeans (the look in "Perfect Storm" is obviously not his standard look). He and Brad Pitt are simply middle-class and The best spokesperson for the two images of rebellious grassroots (if the personality of Daddy Fox is split, it would be "Fight Club").
The middle class is almost always middle-aged (there are also two self-evident labels "white, male"), so the middle-class mullet who is tired of hamburgers always has a nerve attack when encountering a middle-age crisis, like Like in "The Great Fox Daddy", turn your back on the burden of your wife and family, and relive the unruly youth. Then, everyone returned to the family again happily. Meryl Streep’s calm and breezy "I'm pregnant" always makes me who have passed the year to listen to me like a thunder. For a man who yearns for life but is not available, his girlfriend's sentence Words are tantamount to a sentence-it almost means that I have to give up the "free" life that I have been familiar with for thirty years; it also means that I am forced to finally throw away my fantasy and prepare to fight into the hamburger pile. Pierced.
Father Fox finally saw a wolf. He always thought that it was the freedom in his life he had given up (why didn't he ask Brad Pitt to accompany the howling of the wolf?), he waved to the wolf, and the wolf waved to him. So, the little indulgence that came alive during this betrayal ended vigorously and infinitely. The last sentence of mother fox, "I am pregnant again", obviously once again pronounced the life path of father fox in the future-thinking about the benefits, father fox finally "Mature" as Aunt Bai Wanqing said.
Of course, all the betrayals are fake tigers. Foxes are foxes, not wolves. They can only think that they are like wolves, but they really want to be stray and lonely like wolves. The foxes have long collapsed-this once again shows the middle class. The inferior nature of the class: good-looking and low-handed, following the rules, only daring to overstep in a small way, but not really to make a breakthrough.
I haven't read Roald Dahl's original work, but Wes Anderson's interpretation is very to my appetite, the freeze frame is very fanciful, and the large lines and detailed designs are also meticulous. Several soundtrack speeches by Father Fox ridiculed the sensational passages commonly used in Hollywood (plus the death of the rat who fell into the winery guard), and the naive Mr. Possum-this is the legendary "Stupid B" "This is the one that the middle class often talks about when complaining about society, but this is actually a good middle-class burger. When using a credit card to pick the door, Mr. Possum actually took out a platinum card and was caught by Daddy Fox. After questioning, the opossum proudly told him: I repay the loan on time and have good credit.
Zizek commented on "Titanic" and said that Jack must leave because the upper-class Rousi only needs the lower grassroots to accompany her to indulge. When the journey is over, Rousi is still the one who wears a wide-brimmed hat and has suicidal thoughts. Middle-class women who dare not take action-this is the same as the human-animal warfare created by Daddy Fox. Come to think of it, if this double crisis of middle class and middle age is changed to a non-comfortable version, Daddy Fox will probably entangle with Ash’s female classmates like Kevin Spacey in "American Beauty."
Of course, for China, it is not yet time to reflect on the middle class. The Year of the Tiger is here. It is the first step for most citizens to calmly fake the tiger's power.
Until that day, I will lead my wife and children to watch "The Great Fox Daddy" while eating burgers, and then I will meet the next generation who will educate the next generation: It is better to be middle class, thanks to the party's policy Yaxie!
[1] [3] Werner Tanghauser "The Problem of the Bourgeois (Section Translation)", "Academic China" website: http://www.xschina.org/show.php?id=7349
[2] Bloom "Giant and Dwarf", China Publishing House, 2007, p. 236
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