Never an island, a dream that never wakes up, grows up, and ends with death.

Isobel 2022-03-20 09:02:10

"Peter Pan" is a classic fairy tale like Cinderella and Aladdin. I wanted to look for the previous version, but I forgot the content, but it belongs to the fantasy and pure type. The film differs greatly from previous stories, with some adaptations. Quote: The god Pan is the faun in Western mythology, and the pan flute and flute are his best musical instruments; in the afternoon, Shen Huan, lascivious, and ugly are the characteristics to describe him, but it is said that Pan is a shepherd and a savage. The patron saint of hunters and sailors in the Age of Chaos. Main story line: It revolves around a fantasy boy, how he wandered on Never Island, discovered the secret of his life, became the heir to the land of elves, fought against the blackbeard pirate captain, and finally gained his freedom. The style of this film: The tone of the film tends to be post-modern and surreal. The scenery, character modeling, lines, and performances are all exaggerated, ranging from the gloomy and turbid gray-tone single set to the splendid mix and match of the primitive tribal style of the tropical rain forest. Although the film is suitable for all ages, it has a dark fairy tale and dark humor, and the dialogues of the characters are a bit like an adult using a child's language to speak witty things to a child. However, the soundtrack is more ethereal. (By the way, the character modeling is really inexplicable, especially the appearance of Captain Blackbeard, and the one-line curtain headgear of Tiger Lily. The casting is exquisite, the children are delicate, and the shapes of the characters tend to be feminine.) Symbols, some bizarre, psychedelic, intuitive perceptions that refer to other things but have unclear intentions. Never an island, a dream that never wakes up, grows up, and ends with death. __________ • Peter, the key to the door of the spirits as his inheritance, the token his mother left him, is a necklace in the shape of a pan flute. When he gets used to flying, he will have the identity of Pan in the forest tribe. The keepsakes and letters his mother left him stated, "If you don't meet in this world, you must be in another world." As far as this film is concerned, "another world" It is a dream fairy world - the world of Neverland. It means finding a sense of belonging; it also means death is dead, or facing the death and end with it. The background of the story is set after World War II, coupled with colonial mining and slave trading, the combination of reality and surreal makes the tone of the story biased towards gloomy and dark fairy tales. Never Island, which could mean a dying or nonexistent world here. Peter and Nibbs grew up in an orphanage. They are full of fantasy and adventure, but they live very poor and difficult lives, so they expect another ideal world. The Blackbeard Pirate Captain is a man of actual age, but due to the effect of the magic dust spirit stone, he maintains his youthful appearance. Possessing the Spirit Stone, you can live forever, this is one of the secrets of Never Island. This is another aspect of death and dreams. Analyze a storyline: When reading the personal file, Peter could not understand the text, and the text was messed up. It was not his own visual problem, but that the child was illiterate, but in the dream world, he was able to use his own perception. , emotions to understand and communicate, so he can read "elf language" . And his good companion Nibbs, literate, but used to reading silently, you can imagine the reality in the film. Plus, in the surreal world, Peter is the son of an elf-turned-human prince and an ordinary woman, (and the prince is worse off than Cinderella and the Neverland mermaid, who only exists for one day.) This could be Another self-soothing imagination of why Peter grew up in an orphanage. • Montage, with recurring ambiguity effects similar to Impressionism, The Shining, Overprinting, etc. Incident 1, two children leaving the orphanage... Incident 2, the vicious dean of the nun in the backyard ordered "climbing the stairs to clean the pipes and falling" curses, Incident 3, when the plane bombed, found the secret room of the orphanage, the sailboat in the drift bottle , the pirate ship, the unilateral nostril of the Virgin Mary (the chamber of secrets), on the passing city railroad tracks, the well-dressed child playing with model airplanes and her mother... The image of the abbot may have been shaped by Peter's perspective, Exaggerated, imagined, extraordinary. The Abbot there is a symbol of an unquestioned power, while Peter is a symbol of rebellion or rebellion. Peter projects the resentment and stress caused by the pain of starvation and lack of love onto someone who is a symbol of power, which could be the abbot of the nun, or the imaginary pirate captain of the "Canada" Ore Mountains. (Peter imagines the warehouse of the orphanage's storage supplies as the dean's private collection, due to the dean's obesity, starvation and hardship, power-related, and her own character setting. In the dream world, the dean of the nun is a malevolent The Harlequin.) The most difficult to detect and judge superimposed figures are: 1. The two disappearing children, with Peter and Nibbs, as two close companions; 2. Peter and the grown-up Hook; 3. Hook and Sam A tenuous friendship between Smegger; 4. Hooker and Hulian, Peter's parents, Jolly Roger, finally sailing to the Never Island's Sailboat. • Children's language, or parody, has a burlesque effect. Such as various self-made words; calling the head of the nun in the orphanage, the flight maid Ma'am, and so on. There are also the same appearance lyrics by the orphanage nun and the blackbeard pirate captain. • Other imagery: Saturn, magic dust, ore mountains (spirit stones), atmospheric water bubbles and exotic animals in water bubbles, flying fish. Magic Dust is "sold by" Labor excavation, magic dust is like Saturn's dust halo. Labor and child labor are like slaves in mining. The Never Island mermaid or water monster looks the same, like a clone of the same person. Or it can be said that like elves, there are thousands of shadows, but there is no specific and fixed image. There are trillions of words and songs, and they receive and send messages along with the wind and waves. __________

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Pan quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Hook: So pirates are afraid of Mermaid Lagoon?

    Tiger Lily: Because of crocodiles.

    [Hook quickly sticks his hand out of the water]

    Tiger Lily: Afraid?

    [a large crocodile comes out of the water and jumps over the boat]

    Peter Pan: Holy pootie!

  • [from trailer]

    Tiger Lily: If you don't believe, Peter, then neither will they.