Roald Dahl's original fairy tales seem to have an innate temperament especially adapted to being transformed into a film. The strong plasticity of the original theme is especially suitable for the director's secondary play. In the classic fairy tale movies like The Great Fox Dad and Charlie's Chocolate Factory, innocence and reality have reached a very harmonious balance, so there is no accident to achieve a win-win at the box office and word of mouth.
Frankly speaking, before the feature film is released, the strong paper strength of this film is still expected: the sacrifice contribution of Anne Hathaway's disfigured version (topical), plus the escort of famous fairy tale works (original quality) and Hollywood's leading role. Proud of the stunt scene bonus (technique), and in such a cold market, you can't find a reason not to watch this film.
But the result is extremely disappointing, it can be said that this is the worst adaptation of Roald Dahl's work, bar none.
The most important thing about fairy tale movies, I think, should be the theme and connotation. The classic Charlie's Chocolate Factory, through the lure of candy heaven, lures all kinds of children's shortcomings. And this process of seduction and stimulation covers not only the cognition of children, but also the mapping of adult society. The connotation of the whole story has reached a synergy and balance on the basis of being suitable for all ages. Children see goodness and ugliness, adults see hypocrisy and sincerity.
From this point of view, I don't quite understand the theme of this film. Whether it is the kindness and shrewdness of the grandmother, or the adventurous spirit and optimism of the male protagonist trio, or the witch's disguise, ugliness, hypocrisy and viciousness. . . All these elements seem to be involved, but they are not deeply involved.
The main creator obviously lacks Tim Burton's ability to reflect diverse and profound connotations in all aspects, but he doesn't want to abandon his deep understanding of the original work. The result that he has to compromise in the end is a mediocre to boring adventure film.
To put it simply, there are good people on one side and bad people on the other. The good people are hurt in ignorance, and in the end they work together to defeat the bad people. This is the plot of this film. There are no twists and turns at all. I can guess the whole plot until I see it for half an hour.
The witches in the film are designed to be disgusting, they hate children for no reason. In this way, although the witch's badness is successfully displayed, the badness is not three-dimensional. The original book did not give a more in-depth introduction to the background of these witches, which is one of the few, allowing the main creator to play a second time, but the main creator obviously put all his energy on witches. How to make Anne Hathaway better The image of human discomfort is on.
Besides, this uncomfortable image has to be related to the positioning of the film. If you say that the film is positioned as a child, then some of his representations of the image, including the depiction of the image of the witch that is too realistic (the maggot on the head, the bloody mouth and the claws, etc.), will definitely make children extremely fearful. If you say that the film is positioned as an adult, then his paediatric family-like plot is completely unconvincing, and the entire plot progresses, even the end of the plot, in the midst of slapstick. More precisely, This is a farce, not a movie.
One of the settings in the original book, I think it is quite different, that is, the three male protagonists have not recovered until the end, and they are facing the reality of shortened life expectancy. This plot is also faithfully reflected in the film. But that's all. Personally, I think that the author's unique plot design is that he has not recovered his personality (in classic fairy tales, no matter what the male protagonist becomes, he will always return to his original appearance), he must have his own considerations, perhaps telling readers not to care One's own appearance may inspire readers to face any adverse conditions calmly. . . What a good space for the creative intention of the main creator, but it is still ignored.
Some of the details of the film are set very speechless. The witch's method of murdering children is to give sugar, but when the witch first appeared, her face was sluggish, an evil snake appeared on her arm, and the sugar in her hand was dirty. How about successfully delivering the candy?
Anne Hathaway's performance was also poor. Too impetuous and exaggerated, and there is also the suspicion of using too much force. Maybe the character in the film does not give him much room to play. In more cases, he uses extremely distorted facial expressions and extremely exaggerated limbs To reflect a perverted evil, it makes people uncomfortable, and it makes people feel that this witch king is a little bit two. . .
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