DreamWorks: Carry out the spoof and subversion to the end~

Evelyn 2022-03-23 09:01:47

[A certain coffee chatting]

As the first 3D animated film that landed in mainland China at the beginning of this year, it
was no less popular than the poor and rich.
Unfortunately, the fare of 100 yuan at that time successfully scared me away
two days ago. If you are familiar with Shrek produced by DreamWorks, you will find the
spoof unique to DreamWorks again The masterpieces in the hearts of sci-fi fans can't escape "doom". Many people are picky about the plot. Pediatrics and 3D are not enough. Curry thinks this film is very funny and fun . The trousers squat toilet access control identification system , the fluffy giant caterpillar is actually very shy "Why UFOs always land in the United States" "We should issue US green cards to aliens" Anyway , it runs all over the place with spoofs Bridge section: 1. When the President of the United States walked up the steps and started to play the electronic keyboard, the first piece of music that came out was from Spielberg's "Encounters of the Third Kind", and when the second piece of dance music style The music is based on the Beverly Hills Police soundtrack. (This song is also the most famous melody of the dance music brand Crazy Frog) 2. When the alien robot wakes up, the president stretches out his left hand, separates his middle and index fingers, and greets the alien, this standard gesture is for the "Interstellar Travel" hobby For readers, the effect is definitely laugh-out-loud. (This gesture is exclusive to "Spock with Pointy Ears" from the Star Trek series.)

























3. The scene where the alien robot turns its face and starts attacking humans will also make viewers who have seen another translation of "Independence Day" feel deja vu. In particular, the details of the alien robot's transparent force field shield, whether in "Shenzhen Earth Strikes Back" or "World War", we can see this kind of alien super technology.

4. A fighter jet fired a missile with the words "ET go home" prominently written on it. The subtitles of the domestic screening version were translated as "Aliens go back to their hometown". For ET Alien viewers, there's obviously more fun here. ("ET go home" is a classic line in "ET Aliens") (To tell you the truth, I burst out laughing)

5. The paragraph where the president held a meeting in a secret conference room to discuss how to deal with alien invaders, and the library The scene in Brick's Doctor Strangelove is very similar. And the huge nuclear bomb launch button in the film that is exactly the same as the coffee machine is undoubtedly a parody of similar bridges in this film.

6. The passages where the evil octopus aliens invading the earth appear in a large number of parodies of "Star Wars", "Independence Day" and "Martians Playing Earth", "I, Robot!" A similar scene in .

7. The Squid Alien is a replica of the clone scene in Star Wars.

Character introduction and the prototype of the spoof:

[Giantwoman Susan]

Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon will voice the heroine - California girl Susan Murphy, the total lackey The lucky girl gets hit by a meteorite at her wedding and grows like crazy until she's 49 feet 11½ inches tall (parody of the 1958 movie "The Attack of the 50-Foot Woman") , was later arrested by the military and renamed Ginormica.



Prototype film: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958).
In fact, this force is the sum of 1,000 women. The source of the image of the giantess who can easily destroy a row of buildings is the 1958 sci-fi film "The 50-Foot Woman", which is also the first time a woman is portrayed as a female. The Monster as the protagonist is an iconic film about a kind-hearted girl, Nanxi, whose family is wealthy but not happy. Her husband, who she regards as her life, is actually a playboy, who not only searches for flowers and asks willows, never caring about her, but also tries to occupy her father's property. One day, Nancy accidentally encounters a flying saucer and makes contact with aliens. Unexpectedly, she magically turns into a fifty-foot giantess, and Nancy's life has changed dramatically since then. She is no longer a pitiful creature in her husband's eyes, and a submissive little girl in her father's eyes. She started to live her own way, started to declare war on all injustice...

Apparently, Susan Murphy from "War on the Aliens" was talking to Nancy Archer in "50 Feet Tall Woman" Tribute to Er - both turned into giantess by alien powers, and they are even very similar in height, the only difference is that Susan in "Aliens" and her monster friends take on the rescue together world's responsibilities.


【The Missing Link】

Half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link is a lost link between primitive and human marine ancestors. This ancient murloc was originally evolving, basically crawling to the shore from the lagoon where he lived, but at this critical moment, the earth fell into an ice age, and he was instantly frozen. After many, many years, he was finally thawed and tried to return to the lagoon where he lived, but unfortunately, his original home is now a resort, so he had no choice but to scare the tourists of the resort. Even though he was held in a secret military prison for fifty years after his arrest, he was still alive and well. But when he tries to fight the alien robot, he soon discovers that he can swim as fast and climb as high as before.



Prototype film: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
As one of Universal's most famous monster-themed films, "The Monster of the Black Lake" tells the story of a group of geological expeditions that went deep into the Amazon jungle and discovered a prehistoric fish monster, who fell in love with and kidnapped a scientific expedition team member girlfriend. The fish monster in the film is a monster image that combines horror and sadness, and although the lost monster in "Battle of Aliens" is also a half-human half-fish monster that walks upright, it is a humorous and funny character. Understand the language of insects, and have a good relationship with the insect dinosaur baby.


【Jelly Monster BOB】

The translucent BOB without a fixed shape is actually a mixture of genetically modified tomatoes and chemically modified rustic dessert sauces. He's a gooey monster who can't be beaten to death and has an amazing appetite. BOB may not have a brain - it's true, he really doesn't - but he's the center of gravity for the Monster Corps, even though he doesn't have a heart either. He may not be the smartest monster, but in the end he found the simplest and smartest battle plan.



Prototype film: The Blob (1958).
Steve. Andrew and his companions found a large meteorite that flew from space, it was like a huge jelly, at first they didn't find any difference in this stone, but by accident they found that there were aliens hidden in this stone come creatures, and they may bring disaster to the townspeople. But people in a nearby town don't believe some teenagers who have witnessed the monster's destructive power, while the giant jelly monster continues to grow bigger and aliens start to attack the town's supermarkets, restaurants and movie theaters

... In "Battle of the Aliens", the jelly-shaped monster BOB is almost a replica of the "Blob" of the alien monster, but compared with the advanced alien creatures in "Shape Monster", BOB was born due to the mutation of tomatoes in a cooking accident and has no brains , IQ is not as high as Blob.


【Dr. Cockroach Ph.D】

When this super smart, but a little bit crazy scientist was trying to give humans a long life as immortal as a cockroach, a mass transfer device suddenly protruded (no way, this kind of thing always fails ). Fortunately, the scientist's brain was not damaged, but unfortunately, his head turned into Xiaoqiang's big head. In fact, Dr. Xiaoqiang is a mature and charming cockroach gentleman, but he is often distracted by craving for garbage. He can build all sorts of ingenious devices, but it's a pity that these devices, like the mass transferer, can cause some unpleasant side effects.



Prototype film: The Fly (1958).
A mad scientist invented the technology of interlacing time and space, which can transfer the disintegration of the human body to another place and reassemble it. He experimented on his own, and he didn't expect a fly to fly into the machine, combine with his cells, and produce a teeny monster (David Cronenberg also made a brand new remake of this story in 1986).

Dr. Cockroach in "Battle for Aliens" is also a combination of humans and insects, and he is also a scientist. In terms of shape, big eyes and a white coat are all elements borrowed from "The Fly". This monster scientist can invent anything from a pile of garbage, but it is often a creation with little practical value. One of the most human-like monsters out there.


[Larva Baby Insectosaurus]

Nuclear radiation turned a tiny larva into a 106-meter-tall monster, and he completely destroyed Tokyo in no time - but he didn't mean to destroy it, he was just using high-rise buildings to grind his teeth. He makes a roar that no one else can understand, but only his partner, the Lost. Not only is he huge in size, but he can also spin silk from his nostrils. He is definitely a terrible larva, but in fact he is very sensitive and shy, and his heart is very kind. He was hit in the confrontation with the alien, and his companion thought he was dead. Unexpectedly, the baby bug developed a huge cocoon and finally turned into a cute big butterfly. so cute! ❤Prototype



film: "Mosura" Mosura (1961).
Mothra (originally "モスラ", sometimes translated as "Mothra" or "Mothra") is a giant moth monster created in the Japanese Toho monster movie series. The English name is "Mothra", which is created by Moth ( Moth) and mother (Mother), so Mothra is a monster symbolizing motherhood, and is usually set as the patron saint of humans. As long as there are monsters, Mothra will fight for humans. The plush worm dinosaur baby in "Battle of Aliens" combines many of the appearance features of Mothra's larvae and adult stages, and skills such as spinning and bite also come from Mothra's larval stage.


[Crazy General WR Monger]

is a typical old-fashioned crazy general who imprisoned all the monsters he caught in the mysterious Area 52.




[US President]

An alternative US president who doesn't mind performing ridiculous musicals in front of everyone, and he also tries to communicate with aliens. He played the keyboard in front of the giant robot, jumped crazy frogs, and spoofed the 1997 movie "The Martian Plays on Earth".




[Galaxhar]

A squid with four eyes and a big head. Half human, half squid, but completely alien at heart, he is an extreme egomaniac who would destroy his own planet in order to rebuild another planet in his own image elsewhere. He roams the galaxy in search of the most powerful quantum element in the universe. Once he finds this thing, he can complete his evil plan, which is to conquer the whole universe, and his first step is to send his clones to invade the earth first. There was a failed marriage.



Prototype film: Mars Attacks! (1996). Coneheads (1993). Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957).
The shape of the alien leader Galaxy Shaxing can be said to be a combination of several classic alien images: the overall shape is exactly like the Martian and Edward Kahn in the film "The Martian Plays on Earth" directed by Tim Burton The alien image in the "UFO Invasion of the Earth", the long head is from the "Pointy Alien", of course, the very conceited Galaxy Sha in "Aliens" also has a few more eyes And a few squid-like tentacles, it's really a hodgepodge of traditional alien images.

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Monsters vs. Aliens quotes

  • Derek Dietl: Wow, you really are big.

    Susan Murphy: Yeah, but I'm still me. I'm still the same girl you fell in love with.

    Derek Dietl: Except you did just destroy the Golden Gate Bridge.

    Susan Murphy: Well, but that was the only way I was gonna stop that giant robot. Did you ever think I could do something like that?

    Derek Dietl: No, I didn't. I can honestly say that it never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever occurred to me.

  • Susan Murphy: Look, I-I know this is a little weird. Okay - it's a lot weird. But we'll figure it out. I know that together, we can find a way to get me back to normal.

    Derek Dietl: Susan, try and look at this from my perspective. I have an audience that depends on me for news, weather, sports and heart-warming fluff pieces. So you expect me to put all that on hold while you try to undo this thing that happened to you, that I had absolutely nothing to do with?

    Susan Murphy: Yes. That's exactly what I expect. What-what about the life that we always talked about? Don't you still want that?

    Derek Dietl: Of course. I just... don't see how I can have that with you.

    Susan Murphy: [on the verge of tears] Derek, please. Don't do this.

    Derek Dietl: Oh, y-you have to faced facts, Susan. And don't crush me for saying this, but I'm not looking to get married and spend the rest of my life in someone else's shadow. And you're casting a pretty big shadow. I'm sorry. It's over. Good luck, Susan.