First published on the public account "Film Detective"
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Author: Banana Sister
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Six years ago, "Let It Go" took the world by storm.
It was the Ice Queen, who escaped from the castle because of her magic exposure, from repression and tolerance to embracing herself with an open heart.
The majestic symphony is accompanied by high-pitched singing:
Let it go, let it go; (let it go, let it go)
Can't hold it back anymore;
Let it go, let it go; (let it go, let it go)
Turn away and slam the door;
Music gives the film an eternal charm.
At that time, it became the world's best-selling animated film (until it was surpassed by The Lion King this year) with a box office record of $1.27 billion.
And won the Oscar for best animated feature film, best original song awards, it can be described as fame and fortune.
Six years later, the Queen of Ice and Snow came, and came with a water horse:
Disney invited Tantan to watch the premiere of "Frozen 2".
Two or three days after watching, Sister Jiao was immersed in the magnificent picture and the beauty of Queen Aisha and couldn't extricate herself from it.
And wrote this comment:
"When you still stay in the memory of Aisha waving a hand, it is the world of ice and snow, the second Queen Aisha has already stepped on the dark sea, riding a water horse, and galloping among the glaciers."
To be honest, "Frozen 2" has been upgraded in terms of visual effects, and the pictures are indeed amazing.
In the second half of the film, Aisha jumped up and down with the rolling waves, subduing the water horse,
To enter Ata Horan, listening to the call of the past in the ice castle is the most dazzling chapter in the whole film.
The Snow Queen, wearing a veil that is as thin as a cicada's wings, is riding a horse on the ice. With blue and purple, she is no longer a queen, but a goddess.
But I have to mention that, compared to the first bold innovation in the story,
The second audio-visual feast package is a story that appears to be weak.
There are four branches in Frozen 2——
Aisha's search for belonging, Anna's transformation, Xuebao's growth perspective, and the conflict between two civilizations.
The most eye-catching thing is still the clue that Aisha "find his belonging".
In the first part, Aisha's ice and snow magic formed a terrifying force that forced her to imprison herself.
When Aisha broke through the psychological burden, burst out the passion and power of life, and transformed into a colorful world of ice and snow, the life contained in it was throbbing.
In the second part, Aisha, who accepts her original appearance, has learned to control her own magic, but she is confused about her origin and belonging.
This confusion and restlessness drove her to follow the "mother's song" and search for secrets about the past...
The other branches are unremarkable, without much surprise.
On the whole, "Frozen 2" is a sequel that has achieved an excellent upgrade on the screen and is not good in the story.
The first half of the narrative is lengthy and the rhythm is slow, and it starts to exert force in the second half, and the climax continues.
Musically, it is too difficult to make a golden song like "Let It Go", the middle one or two singing is a little cumbersome.
Although there are many regrets, I will still be surprised by the magnificent scenes, exquisite production, and magnificent imagination;
I will also be moved by Anna's bravery, and be transformed by Xue Bao's "laughing point".
In addition to the movie itself, what Jiao Sister wants to talk about today is the story behind the "Frozen" series.
01.
Everyone knows that the movie series story was born out of a single "Snow Queen" in "Andersen's Fairy Tales" (also translated as "The Snow Queen")
The ice queen in fairy tales is an illusory, evil, seductive, and cold existence.
"She is beautiful and charming, but she is made of ice-sparkling ice. But she is alive again, her eyes twinkling like shining stars, but her eyes are not calm and erratic." "Andersen's Fairy Tales"
In the book, Andersen puts the Snow Queen as the opposite of the innocence, purity, and piety praised by fairy tales, that is, the villain in our usual sense .
The fairy tale has spread to the present, and modern people have issued a challenge to it:
Why should the glamorous and intelligent queen be labeled "evil"?
Why do nothing and wait for the saved principal to be praised?
Perceiving the changes in the ideological trend of the times, Disney had to adapt the traditional princess image.
Before the adjustment, Disney had a bitter lesson.
In 1959, the box office of "Sleeping Beauty", which took six years to produce, was bleak after the release, and even the production cost was not recovered.
"Sleeping Beauty" failed miserably in 1959, and "Sleeping Beauty", which was a major adaptation of the "Sleeping Beauty" story, was a big success in 2014
At that time, a large number of women had already walked out of the house and went out to work, implying that "struggle is useless", and how could sleeping beauty who are waiting for others' rescue be favored?
After this fiasco, Disney did not touch the princess series for 30 years until the great success of The Little Mermaid in 1989.
"The Little Mermaid" is a subversive adaptation of Andersen's fairy tale "The Daughter of the Sea".
The mermaid who lost her self-expression for love is adapted into a maverick and a tenacious woman who is brave enough to fight against her destiny.
This is undoubtedly adapted to the feminist trend of the time, and the "silent mermaid" has the right to speak and speak.
It is true that movies are the vane of social and cultural thoughts.
The specific point is that the Disney animated heroines always match their era.
What kind of role models are needed in the times, and what they are best to look like.
This can explain why "Frozen" was so popular in 2013 and became the first animated film in Disney's history to have a box office of over 1 billion U.S. dollars.
In an era when love is generally not believed, who would believe in love at first sight, who would believe in the love of a prince who has never seen each other a few times?
The Snow Queen brings not only the gorgeous ice sculptures, but also a taste of rebellion and innovation.
In the movie, the prince becomes a "Phoenix Man", a lively villain.
The princess is no longer so foolish, she chooses a man who is in the same boat and we are in common trouble.
The Ice Queen is also rescued from the fairy tale seal (patriarchal culture), so that she can no longer be suppressed.
As the main line of the narrative, the love of the prince and princess has become a sisterhood that accompanies each other and depends on life and death since childhood .
At the end of the first part, the sister's act of love melted her frozen heart.
"Love can melt ice and snow", it became so logical at that moment.
Through "Frozen", Disney completed the subversion of fairy tales and also completed the subversion of the past itself.
Therefore, after reading the second part, many people will be disappointed that the innovative attitude is gone, and the story begins to repeat the old ways of others.
Director and screenwriter Jennifer Lee has an interesting point:
Aisha is a mythical character, and Anna is a fairy tale character.
This view made me understand at a glance why Aisha is loved by fans all over the world.
Aisha has extraordinary ability, noble character, but suffers bad luck, something fatalistic goes with her.
She has the tragic core of an ancient Greek mythological character, which is why she can inspire sympathy, pity and affection for her in the audience.
As for Anna , she has the positive, undaunted, and always optimistic spirit of fairy tale characters.
Therefore, the film adapted Andersen's fairy tales in form, but the truth, goodness and beauty praised by the fairy tales have been preserved in different ways.
02.
See the shocking scene effects of the movie, four words: rich, great!
Disney Dad is really rich, and money is really willing to spend.
You can see from all the details that "Frozen 2" is worthy of 200 million U.S. dollars.
On the day of the show, many people, like Sister Jiao, cried for Aisha's beauty!
Aisha is not beautiful, it is obviously the taste of RMB, and the beauty of money burns.
Look at the queen's hair, one by one, slender and submissive, I want to touch it.
In the second half, when Aisha's hair spreads out and swings in the wind, she is too sexy!
The sequins inlaid on the clothes are clearly visible, and there is also a tights in the skirt.
It is said that the sequins on Aisha's clothes will flash correspondingly according to the reflection.
(I didn’t notice it, you can observe it when you watch it)
If you zoom in again, you can even see the fluff on Aisha's face.
The details are so delicate and lifelike that I want to sigh as I watched Aisha's chest rise and fall as her breath, and the sea water wet her hair like life:
Where are the animated characters? They are obviously real people.
Look at the special effects of the waves.
The surging waves hit the black sandy beaches of the Northland, and the rushing waves felt like they were on the scene.
If it weren't for the camera to switch to Aisha, for a moment, I would think that I was on the beach, and the sound of waves rang in my ears.
It must be admitted that behind the realistic details is the result of the huge human, material and financial resources invested by the behind-the-scenes team.
In terms of hair production, the team developed a new set of "hair care" animation equations to improve the effect.
Aisha's hair alone needs 400,000 3D strands.
In the first part, in order to present the ice and snow scene, the production team invited physicists to make snow on site, drawing more than 2,000 different shapes of snowflakes.
In order to restore the true form of snow, a new MPM (material point method) engine was developed to simulate different forms of snow in combination with the material point method.
The pictures taken from related research papers are too professional to understand
Unfortunately, so far, there is indeed no brainwashing song like "Let It Go".
But Sister Jiao still wants to mention the quality of Disney's animation music. Seeing a live recording video of the "Frozen" soundtrack was touching. The magnificent soundtrack in the original movie was recorded like this.
The circulation of classic music is longer than classic movies. Nowadays, many people still listen to Mozart's classical music, but few people watch Chaplin's silent films. Classic Disney music endows the movie with immortal charm. When you hear "Beauty and the Beast", you will think of "Beauty and the Beast". Although 6 years have passed, I still feel passionate when I hear "Let It Go".
When "Frozen 2" was released in South Korea, it was boycotted.
Director Zheng Zhiying and other Korean filmmakers held an emergency press conference in Seoul to protest the monopoly of "Frozen 2" on Korean cinema screens.
Like the situation in China, after the movie was released in South Korea, the box office topped the list for two consecutive days, squeezing the living space of local movies.
This kind of boycott is meaningless, and it still respects the laws of the market.
Even if there are no Hollywood blockbusters, movies that audiences don't want to watch will still not go.
The quality of imported films will inevitably pose a threat to local films.
But if you want to surpass it, please acknowledge it first.
You can see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Text/Sister Banana
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