"Big Man Napoleon": The Victory of Freezing Point Comedy

Gage 2021-10-22 14:31:23

Here, Napoleon was not an invincible French emperor, he was just an ordinary but weird high school student in a small town in Idaho. In fact, his "contributions" are not so tragic. At best, he only showed off his dance skills in the election for the president of the student union, and by the way helped his friend sit on the throne of the president. But from him, he can clearly hear the powerful inspirational voice, read out the sincere essentials of "big men", and then look back at our youth, unexpectedly smiled unconsciously. The film "Big Man Napoleon" has a grass-roots feeling. It always cares for and stays close to those "marginal figures" who are usually difficult to enter our vision. Enjoying youth is not only the patent of football quarterbacks and cheerleaders, but also the strangers around us. The "little people" of the chickens are as brilliant as their youth, and they are also full of heroism, but they bloom in different ways. Our eyes have been blinded by mainstream things for too long and too long. The protagonist in

a basket of weird people in
"Napoleon Napoleon" is a guy with a strong personality that is almost overflowing. Whether it is dress, dress, talk, or hobbies, the personality characteristics are full of alternative. As a result, for a long time at the beginning of the film, I felt like I was in a lunatic asylum, and then I tried to search for a few faces that matched them well from my reading career. Let’s say Napoleon himself, with fluffy red curly hair and awkward hiking boots. He spends more time without expression than other expressions combined. Napoleon almost treated all the living and dead around him in a dull and dull manner. Together with the complaints, he was often the weak word idiot (idiot), and I am afraid that I would have FXXK sounded a long time ago. Facing the girl he likes, as a senior otaku, Napoleon’s classmate naturally can’t lack the shy nature, but in fact, there are very few internal depictions of his stage fright. In the final analysis, his character traits show a "cold" character, which is the most excessive. Nothing is better than hanging her female companions aside at the ball. In fact, Napoleon’s classmates who believe that silence is gold have no shortage of personal talents. Those personal talents and enthusiasm during the period cannot be concealed by the appearance of indifference, but the people who really understand him appear too late, so that he has too many too many. Behavior has become self-entertainment. As for Napoleon’s family, relatives and familiar classmates, they are definitely not idle generations. This can be seen in the time machine plan made by his older uncle and the older brother.


The victory of the little guy
is worth noting that Napoleon's parents never mentioned, except for the desire to return to the last base outside uncle, Napoleon's only one careless parents, grandmother injured in motorcycle racing. The shortcomings from the family also appeared in two of Napoleon’s classmates. Pedro is a Mexican immigrant, and the social status of the family can be imagined. There is also a girl, although her background is unknown, but the family is cold and self-reliance is obvious. In summary, the "Napoleons" are not taken seriously and not found. Apart from the factors of personality, there are also factors of family background involved. In this sense, they are all small people through and through. What really turned Napoleon into a "big man" came from the blatant declaration of war on the big man, that is, assisting Pedro in running for chairmanship and eventually overthrowing the opponent he had hoped for. One of their slogans was to provide protection for the weak. In the end, Napoleon realized their shouts and received a deserved response in a way that was acceptable to the mainstream public and admired and admired by them. Seeing this one can't help but find that the film and "Little Sunshine" are really similar.

The humor to the freezing point is the
same as the "cold" of Napoleon's character, and the tone of the film is completely enveloped in a layer of ice. The noise and vitality that youth comedy should have is replaced by cold humor that is eager to talk or stop at the point, and instead uses the subtle talk unique to humor to tell the whimsical beauty. As for the ridiculous and embarrassing splendor, there is still another expression of splendor, that is, the "good and evil retribution" that we hope to believe and realize. This is the faith that the film has always accumulated and managed. The film advances smoothly and does not lose its ups and downs, and puts away the intense dramatic tension, creating a knowing smile in the tepid disturbance, like a warm current flowing through a solid ice layer, with warmth The enthusiasm of the film melts the distance from the audience that should have existed due to the desertedness, appealing to the value of people, so that the temporarily frustrated ones can share with each other, and the self-confident superiors are eclipsed. No wonder the film is so popular at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Napoleon Dynamite quotes

  • [Napoleon has snuck tator tots out of the lunch room and is eating them during class out of his pants pocket]

    Randy: Napoleon, give me some of your tots.

    Napoleon Dynamite: No, go find your own.

    Randy: Come on, give me some of your tots.

    Napoleon Dynamite: No, I'm freakin' starving! I didn't get to eat *anything* today.

    Randy: [Kicks the pocket with the tots, crushing them]

    Napoleon Dynamite: Ugh! Gross! Freakin' idiot!

  • Kip: I'm just really trying to raise a few bucks now so I can bring her out for a few days.

    Uncle Rico: Yeah, well what does she look like?

    Kip: She's uh... she's got sandy blonde hair. She's uh... pretty good looking face, but I'm just getting really... just kinda T.O.'d because... I mean she hasn't even sent me a full body shot yet.