insufficiency

Dane 2022-03-24 09:02:04

Chris Butler's Stop Motion Animation

Contemporary animation, whether it is stop motion or 3D, strives to create a perfect and smooth picture effect, or the ultimate goal of American animation for a hundred years seems to be like this, and the second is to be funny. Much like the other animations, it lacks punchline and depth. It's not that American animation/film and television don't have such ability. Sometimes I think they are deliberately avoiding punchline instead of continuing to dig. There is a feeling of "the front is shaped, the eunuch is behind", "it may be better if the xxx part is strengthened". So looking at it with such a feeling, the film has a small idea, but it is a bit like a touch of water.

In my opinion, it is actually a pity to spend a lot of money and time and energy to create such a film that makes people "not too many ideas". I think the crew should draw more time and energy to dig and develop the story itself.

The intro and end credits are okay, capturing what the audience is interested in, loneliness, isolation, family troubles and conflicts. However, these developments were not given enough in the process, so that the audience often forgets "how lonely this boy is". It's actually very simple, and it only takes a few small details to shape it better. But for now, this "loneliness" that is intended to run through the whole article is really a bit blunt. It's like he said "there used to be girls who were lonely", but they didn't show up. Instead of thin conversations, give a few shots. Including the part about the little witch, it can give a few fragments of memories of the little witch. Instead of "my mom used to bring me here". To be honest, such a large number of ways that need to be narrated in words is a failure of the film.

Because the emotions you describe in such a bland way can only be bland.

Briefly talk about the part that can continue to expand mining.

Family line, the conflict between Norman and his father, and his sister. Some events can be added to the plot to ease. It wasn't solved all of a sudden, especially when my sister suddenly held Norman's hand so strangely. So abrupt.

Norman's friend, he has no friends, not a single one, but he still has the right to say to the little witch "there will always be someone who cares about you"? How did he have such courage if he was a person who was completely alone and had nothing? The characters are very rigid. In other words, if you want to create a state of "he also has friends, so he knows that the world also has love", then you need to give such a setting in the plot. I think that little fat man is not enough. These two people poor emotional interaction. Actually, I think the interaction with the ghosts is a good idea. Unfortunately, after the first part, these ghosts have been completely forgotten...

Laughs, yes, but a little bit. The expansion of the imagination is not enough.

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Extended Reading
  • Jacklyn 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    It's really just average, not as good as a ghost mother at all

  • Darian 2022-04-22 07:01:31

    The old-fashioned plot destroys the aura that animation should have

ParaNorman quotes

  • Aggie: Aggie... My name was Aggie... I - I remember... My mommy brought me here once. We sat under the tree and she told me stories. They all had happy endings. Then those horrible men came and took me away and I never saw her again!

    Norman Babcock: Sometimes when people get scared, they say and do terrible things. I think you got so scared that you forgot who you are. But I don't think you're a witch. Not really.

    Aggie: You don't?

    Norman Babcock: I think you're just a little kid with a really special gift who only ever wanted people to understand her. So we're not all that different at all.

    Aggie: But what about the people who hurt you? Don't you ever want to make them suffer?

    Norman Babcock: Well, yeah, but what good would that do? You think just because there's bad people that there's no good ones either? I thought the same thing for a while. But there's always someone out there for you. Somewhere.

    Aggie: I just want my mommy.

    Norman Babcock: I'm sorry, Aggie. She's gone.

    Aggie: That story you were telling. How does it end?

    Norman Babcock: I think that's up to you.

    Aggie: Is this where they buried me?

    Norman Babcock: It's a pretty good place to sleep. Then you can be with your mom again.

  • Neil: So what do we do now?

    Norman Babcock: Uhh... I... I - I really don't know.

    Courtney: Yes you do, Norman. You've gotta get to that witch's grave.

    Norman Babcock: But...

    Courtney: But nothing, you listen to me, buster. We didn't turn away when Daleridge High was slaughtering our volleyball team, did we?

    Norman Babcock: Yeah, we did.

    Courtney: No, we didn't. I have cheered the un-cheerable, Norman. And I'm not letting you give up now.