In the last century, Disney almost occupied the childhood dreams of countless children. They allowed cartoons to walk out of the narrow space of the TV, into the cinema, and towards the Oscars. Later, with different ideas, some people walked out of Disney and founded DreamWorks and Pixar. They were no longer satisfied with the two-dimensional flat world and developed into 3D animation. From "Toy Story", which has won a big win in both the box office and word of mouth, to the "Monster Company" and "Looking for Nemo" with increasingly sophisticated production techniques, animation companies have made a lot of money. Until this year's "Kung Fu Panda" and "Robot Walli", the market seemed to confirm that 3D has completely become the mainstream. In the past few years, Disney and DreamWorks also produced several two-dimensional animation films, such as "The Legend of the Seven Seas of Sinbad", "The Legend of the Bear" and "Star Silver Island", all of which were disappointed. Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of the founders of DreamWorks, said: "3D movies must be the trend of the future, just as sound movies replaced silent movies, and color movies replaced black and white movies. This is the inevitable result of the development of movie history. , Nothing can stop it.” However, no matter how the film develops and the technology is perfect, the reason why the film can attract the audience is whether it can affect people's emotions.
"The Iron Giant" (The Iron Giant 1999) belongs to the kind of work that can easily touch the soul whenever it is taken out. It does not use the traditional Disney animation mode of singing and dancing, nor is it a popular 3D production. It uses a simple two-dimensional picture to tell a sincere friendship between children and the mighty giant. There are exciting adventures, carefree play, unintelligible loneliness, brave persistence in the face of doubts, thinking about people and technology, and criticism of society and politics. The most important thing is the film. The touching friendship between the China Railway Giant and the children is what makes it last forever and moves the soul of audiences of different ages and different languages.
Today, animated movies are not only for children, they are not limited to telling a bedtime story to children, they attract adults to a greater extent. Animated films amplify those innocent elements of emotion, those things that may have been forgotten and ignored. As people grow up, they will gradually become accustomed to another language as the environment changes, and children’s languages will be abandoned if they are not used for too long, leading to a gap between adults and children. The beginning of a dispute is often like this: the adult speaks one language, and the child speaks another language, neither can see the other's world clearly. Saint-Exupéry once complained about this: If you want to describe how beautiful a house is to an adult, just say "I saw a house worth 100,000 francs", don't try to describe the charming colors of the house and its Geraniums on the windows. They use numbers to measure things. But this does not mean that they will never be able to understand the narration of fairy tales. The childhood and the language they have spoken will not be forgotten, but they will not be remembered. A little reminder can awaken the emotions that have been sleeping for many years. And everyone, more or less, would want to go back to see their childhood and look for something worthy of nostalgia. The pilot who crashed in the African desert, because he was not recognized, gave up painting when he grew up and chose to be a pilot. But after meeting the little prince from another planet, he picked up his paintbrush again and discovered the beauty and sadness of the world. Similarly, after seeing "Steel Giant", we will again see that long-lost world.
The background of the "Steel Giant" story is the United States in 1957. People have just experienced a golden age from the end of the Korean War in 1953 to the autumn of 1957. The increasing prosperity of life and the advancement and development of technology made Americans think that they were far ahead of the Soviet Union. Until October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union announced that they had launched the first artificial satellite into space. The impact on American confidence was no less than the previous Great Depression. The beeping satellite opened up the next arms race that cost hundreds of billions of dollars and brought people into the age of technology. Marvel and fear.
At the same time that the Soviet satellite took off, an incredible alien creature, carrying a dazzling trajectory of lightning, broke through a thunderstorm, crashed into the sea off Maine, and smashed a fishing boat. Its appearance is as disturbing as a shipwreck, and it deeply feels the threat and fear of foreign creatures.
Hoja Seuss does not fit the image of a well-behaved and perfect child in the usual fairy tales. He has fan ears, and his teeth are not neat enough. The teeth that fell a few days ago have not yet grown, and his speech is a little leaky. His head is a little bigger, and it is inevitably out of proportion when he rests on his thin body. It looks clumsy and cute. Being not deep in the world makes him more fearless and more exploratory than adults. This imperfect image makes him no different from ordinary children. He lives with his mother in the peaceful town of Rockwell. His father's premature death made him lonelier than the other children, so he has always longed for a friend to talk to each other. The night when I saw the Iron Giant for the first time, Hogar almost became the male protagonist in a horror movie, almost dying under the huge feet of the robot. Seeing this alien creature ate the steel in the substation by mistake and was trapped in the leaking wire, Okga pulled down the switch with the fearless brute force of the child and saved the iron giant. He didn't realize how dangerous he was. Like all curious children, he thought the adventures he experienced at night were very cool.
Just after dawn, the residents of the small town discovered the strange things that happened in the village. Many people's cars became incomplete, just like a hungry man biting a big hamburger.
The school’s educational video shows how to avoid an atomic bomb. The fear of the arms race has slowly penetrated into life. Okay didn't care about these at all, just wanted to find the tall and cool robot earlier. He walked into the forest again with expectation, and this time he really had a face-to-face contact with the steel giant. Just thinking about it can make people tremble with excitement. The Tin Giant looked like a robot, as high as a dozen stories, full of industrial cumbersomeness, and of course the momentum and power of a locomotive. His body proportions are very similar to those of humans. All parts of his body are made up of cylinders and cones. His rounded arms remind people of Popeye's muscles after eating spinach. His facial expression is very simple, his eyes are like two huge searchlights, his mouth is especially like a bulldozer dump bucket, and the upward shape makes him look like he is always smiling. You can judge his mood from the shape of his eyes. People always have the worst expectations for this behemoth, but he did not attack Hoja as imagined, but more like a newly born bird, who can do nothing except instinctively eat. Seeing Hoja, who had saved him, was like a baby with a strong sense of dependence imitating every movement of him. Seeing such a giant has the immaturity of a baby, learning the language bit by bit, and knowing this brand new world. Everyone will have a unique impact in their hearts. He can only understand things in the simplest way of thinking. When he encounters a problem that is too difficult, he will tilt his head and put a question mark on his face. If he studies for too long, he will doze like an impatient child. After observing for a long time, you will find that there is no essential difference between the inner heart of the giant and the child. How much headache and love Okay can make the mother, then the iron giant can make Okay how dumbfounded. This huge gap between appearance and heart makes the iron giant full of charm. The contrasting characters in the movie are very unique and touching, like Forrest Gump with an IQ of 75, King Kong who climbed the Empire State Building, Quasimodo, the bell striker, they all have "deficiencies", such as low IQ and appearance. Shocking and ugly, these "defects" make them different from ordinary people, and make their first judgments biased. They did use their extraordinary kindness and courage to conquer those with a sense of superiority." Ordinary people".
In the simple moral world of children, there are only good people and bad people. Okay taught the iron giant that we like good people and hate bad people. For example, Superman, he is also a person from another planet. He uses his superpowers to do good for the people. He is a good man. Atomo, the steel alien, is a villain who specializes in bad things. Iron giants are good people, good people like Superman. Dean, who likes to use scrap iron to make works of art, is a good man, and we should not hurt him. Guns are weapons that take lives. Guns are not good things. We hate guns.
When the iron giant was walking in the forest with Okay on his back, even the frightened deer didn't fear him. Although he was huge, he was harmless. It is so afraid of humans because people always hunt them with the muzzle of a black hole. The little deer, who was still alive a few minutes ago, fell under a human shotgun in a blink of an eye. It died, lying motionless on the ground, and could no longer jump among the trees. The Iron Giant was very sad, and since then he has determined that the gun is a bad thing, as long as he sees something similar to a gun, he will instinctively attack it. And when the government sent troops to attack him as a foreign weapon, the iron giant became a powerful weapon.
Kent Mansley, a government official, is an unpopular character in the movie. He was full of excessive fear and hatred for the iron giant, and he was even unwilling to investigate the truth, so he made up his mind to destroy him. He said: "Whether he is a Martian or a Russian, we must act first, before they attack us." His sentiment represented the distraught politicians in the White House in Washington in 1957. It represents the news world awakened from the ease of the golden age, and it's time for painful thinking again. The "Oregonian" commented: "It is horrible to have Soviet satellites staring at us in the air." The people are also worried under the influence of such emotions. The appearance of the iron giant is simply to add fuel to the fire on this flammable fear. He has high-tech weapons, an unknown life experience, and unpredictable destruction capabilities. They did not hesitate to shoot cannonballs at him. This kind of battle makes it very easy for people to fall into irrational madness and fight for no reason. In order to destroy him, the president even signed permission to launch an atomic bomb. The town of Rockwell faces the fate of being razed to the ground.
Okay used to comfort the iron giant who was gloomy because of the death of the deer on a night looking up at the stars. He said that although the Iron Giant is a robot, he understands sadness and thinking, and thinking means that he is a creature with a soul. Good creatures have souls. Their soul is an eternal thing. The iron giant is not a weapon wrapped in iron skin. What people see with the naked eye is only a shell. The really important things are invisible with the naked eye. It is like a spring hidden in the desert or a treasure buried in an ancient house. Add loyal love. Before they met, he was just a robot that knew how to eat scrap iron. It was indistinguishable from all the robots in the world. Then Okay taught him to play, to appreciate life, and to enjoy friendship. He learned to laugh and learn. Hanging "S" in front of her chest and acting as a superman, she learned sadness and love. When there is something lacking, adults always say that they can go to the store to buy, but friendship cannot be bought. On October 4, 1957, when the U.S. government fell into panic, Okla and the Iron Giant reaped the most precious friendship in their lives. This day is of great significance to them, but this day allows the former to do things that are irrational, but allows the latter to find themselves when they lose their minds. The iron giant pushed Hoja lightly, and said to him: "You stay, I'm leaving, don't follow." Then, he stretched out his arms and flew towards the atomic bomb in the sky. This time he did not make an instinctive self-defense attack. He hit the atomic bomb with his body and detonated it. Disappeared in the huge flames of the sky. He is to be a superman, to be a good man and not to let Okay get hurt.
The little prince once said: "Because there is a flower that we can't see, the stars become so beautiful." If you have fallen in love with a bird in the sky, then, just look up at the sky and you will see it flying. If you have lost something important in the sky, then, looking up at the sky from now on, it is no longer just a canvas covered with blue sky and white clouds. The sky in your eyes will no longer be the same as in others' eyes. It will make you smile. Make you cry. The most important thing is always invisible to the naked eye. Maybe, he is like Okla’s steel giant, hidden in a corner of the world that you can’t see. When you look at the sky in a daze, he is slow. Walk towards you slowly.
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