This name may be unfamiliar to you, but when it comes to "Zombie Bride" and "Mother Ghost", you may have some impressions. It looks like a horror film, but it is innocent and sincere and simple in the gloomy and cold, and then used stop-motion animation to show its characteristics. The so-called stop motion animation means that the content of the animation is shot frame by frame from the real model, which is extremely time-consuming and laborious, but it has a different kind of sincerity and simple and vivid atmosphere.
In LAIKA’s latest work "Kubo and the Two Strings", the Gothic style and the tradition of stop-motion animation have been preserved, and it is more surprising to learn from Japanese culture and obtain rich oriental aesthetic elements, this oriental mystery and gothic The combination of the gloomy wind forms the unique and charming temperament of this animation. The protagonist is naturally not a sunshine boy or a cute monster, but a one-eyed ugly boy who is hunted down all the way. However, the ugly boy has his own charm. He can play the shamisen (a Japanese three-stringed instrument) and tell a good story. More importantly, he will turn the paper into a living creature to perform his magic. story.
This magical magic also breaks the barriers built by the common sense in the audience's mind, and thus more participates in the various "disregarding common sense" fantasy shows in this animation. Whether it is the huge energy of the six-finger koto demon, or the ship made up of thousands of red leaves, the psychedelic giant eyes under the water, or the pieces of paper flying in reality based on dreams, or the monkeys, beetles and samurai who crawled out of Hokkaido hot springs. The magical combination is so intoxicating that the lack of explanation and some inexplicable plots of the film will no longer be questioned. Under such an atmosphere, it is more like an ancient legend or Bedtime story told by the old man. If I say that the only flaw is the big worm image of the big boss, it is too uncreative and goes against the style of the whole film, even if Voldemort is invited to dub it.
In spite of these oriental elements, each character looks like they are from Japan, but when they speak, they suddenly become Americans.
This is not obtrusive, but it allows this oriental mystery background to better highlight the effect of some American cold jokes in the film. The oriental background, American characters, and the story is an uncomplicated American adventure. But in the end, what makes the protagonist defeat the enemy is not the mysterious treasures or love and justice that are common in the West, but the strong oriental atmosphere-the memory of the loved ones, the thoughts and memorials, the powerful ideas and huge energy formed. The title of the film "Kubo and the two strings", two strings seems to refer to "two strings", in fact the protagonist plays the three strings of shamisen. Therefore, the "second string" refers to the recollection of the parents who reunited briefly but passed away forever, as well as the infinite energy formed by the third string that symbolizes oneself.
This also explains the ending of the film. Memory is both the source of strength and the source of evil. And when a vicious person, the memory that he eventually loses becomes a kind innocent person, and his salvation is to reinject good memories.
And all of these weirdness are actually taken frame by frame by the real model, which is lifelike.
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