Whitewashing

Eriberto 2021-10-22 14:35:26

Because I can't see the answer I want to see, I write something by myself.

Let me talk about the advantages first. First of all, there is something to write about the background and themes of the conflicts between the western colonial invaders and the indigenous Indians. The male and female leaders represent the various camps and their love stories should be dramatic and tragic. Having said that, what I want to say is that this is a good hand.

But the card was not played well. While I acknowledged its advantages, the various discordant perceptions left me like a throat.

The first is characterization. Let’s talk about the heroine first, a free, enthusiastic, and independent persona. "Gao Gang is too serious. I want to pursue my heart. I want to resist family marriage. The man in my dream is tall and handsome and full of strange and unknown charm." It's almost to be golden hair and fair skin. The love at first sight of the heroine to the hero is unacceptable. The heroine is not well prepared, and there is no golden light on the hero's character. Besides, the male protagonist is too weak in characterization, and it gives people the feeling that not only is not a kind heart, but a charming personality, but a kind of arrogant, cunning, scheming boy feeling, and full of love, but people don’t feel that they are sincere. It is very characteristic of a white man. In contrast, the male protagonist’s little fan is truly ignorant and kind. Besides supporting roles, I personally think that the most successful characters are the female protagonist’s girlfriend, then the female protagonist’s fiance Gao Gang, then the colonist’s trotter, and then the male protagonist’s little fan. These talents do reasonable things. Especially the female protagonist's girlfriend, worried about the female lead, told the female lead not to meet the white man, but turned around to help the female lead lie. There are quite a few, this is the complete and successful creation of character and image. The civet cat and hummingbird who gag around the hostess are actually dispensable, amused by embarrassment, and are far inferior to the image that Disney has always taken on a joke. The old tree spirit grandmother in the image of the wise elder has no wisdom at all, and has not played the role of the heroine's inner guide. Only say, follow your heart! A bowl of poisonous chicken soup. The heroine her dad, the image of the stubborn old chief of the tribe. When the daughter lay on her man, "Kill me first if you want to kill him", within a few seconds, the old chief's thoughts turned 180 times, and he agreed to live together peacefully. Hey, I know that I want to act like this and give a reason for transition and self-justification?! What about Gao Gang, who has just received the lunch and the body is still cold? It's over? Maybe the heroine's dad was not convinced by his daughter, but watched When I'm afraid of Gunslinger, find a reason and step down! A little conspiracy theory haha~ It's a bit cooler. Poor Gao Gang was destined to be a childhood sweetheart, but the woman ran away with others and died. No one in the show shed tears for him. Seeing the female lead and male lead secret cave tryst, the kind of thing that I don't say is that I get angry and do it, this is really a reasonable behavior of a man!

Then the plot advances. The first is the love line of the male and female protagonist. It is too monotonous, too prince and princess, and it is not attractive. It even makes people feel that the female protagonist's so-called pursuit of freedom and independence and his heart is just fancy the male protagonist’s skin and the freshness of the picture. . And the male protagonist is emotional when he sees a woman, and he talks so much. It's really begging to see him want to kiss the female protagonist several times. Then there is the evolution of the conflict between the two camps. Hey hey hey, it's over before you upgrade (Gao Gang's death is an upgrade)!? Of course I didn't say that I wanted to watch them fight. At the end of the story, it is impossible to fight, but you must have the atmosphere and advancement in place! (I am really strict)

Thinking of the advantages, I would like to mention it again. For example, the passage where the heroine takes the hero to experience the vitality of the earth is very good, and the lyrics are very sincere. There are also places where two factions call each other barbarians.

Let's talk about the comparison, who should we compare with? Disney's Tarzan. It also mentions the conflict between civilization and primitiveness. Taishan's sense of self-identity when encountering human beings and the sense of surprise when seeing new things are all described incisively and vividly. Taishan's childhood sweetheart (the female orangutan), who is arrogant and reluctant to bear Taishan, is especially true. The little elephant has always acted as a honest and honest companion. When the female orangutan said that Taishan just ran away with a woman, we forgot all our little friends. In that sour time, the little (big) elephant said, I could not understand your yin and yang weirdness a long time ago. It looks like, I can't bear to say, if we want to save him, we will leave immediately! You see, don't be stupid and affectionate, this is the successful characterization. Tarzan’s gorilla father is so stubborn. Finally, I said temporarily, I’ve long considered you to be one of us, and you have to shoulder the responsibility of the family. At that time I still felt a little bit of caution, that is, Taishan, you can't be abducted by a woman, and the family depends on you, I want to tie you hahaha)

Finally, click on the title to decorate the peace. This is why, in fact, it feels like "Green Book". The contradiction between white and black people is created in a white-dominated movie to create a racial harmony. In this way, I understand why the colonial invaders and Indians finally reconciled. The male lead and the female lead can still love each other. The white-skinned niche of the male lead is just to please women, eh, this is just whitewashing and deceiving yourself. On the contrary, the history and the truth are more cruel and ruthless, making this happy ending become unsmiling (fortunately, the heroine did not run with the man in the end). In my imagination, it should be like this. The male and female protagonists love each other, but because of the different backgrounds and camps, they can only be manipulated by fate. They end in a tragedy and even fall in love and kill each other? Ou and I are too gloomy.

In the end, I was also convincing myself. This is just an animation, and it is aimed at a small audience. Why do I say so much?

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Pocahontas quotes

  • [first lines]

    Chorus: [singing] In sixteen hundred seven, we sailed the open sea for glory, God and gold and the Virginia Company/for the New World is like heaven, and we'll all be rich and free or so we have been told by the Virginia Company/so we have been told by the Virginia Company/For glory, God and gold and the Virginia Company.

  • John Smith: Pocahontas!

    Pocahontas: John!

    John Smith: Listen to me, my men are planning to attack your people. You've got to warn them.

    Pocahontas: Maybe it's not to late to stop this, you have to come with me and talk to my father.

    John Smith: [stopping Pocahontas] Pocahontas, talking isn't going to do any good. I already tried talking to my men, but everything about this land has been spooked.

    [They hear howling in a distant]