Considering that the plot of the film is too noisy - for example, the film uses anger as the key word, but does not establish a relationship between anger and the growth of the hero; for example, the film makes the invasion of the green pig first appear as a deception, and then the birds His revenge is completely equivalent to a violence, and these elements are unhealthy and ungreen; for example, how the spiritual leader Condor awakens himself, and how he transmits the hero's spirit to Fat Red, these are not clear.
Not to mention the various interpretations of the film's "ideological" conspiracy theories that have flocked to major websites, which undoubtedly come from the Western world, and that our audience simply reads them, then translates them, and paraphrases them. and exaggerated. This is one of the things that Chinese people especially like to do, that is, echoing citations, and relatively, we rarely do original thinking.
In view of the above two points, I think it is meaningless to discuss the success or failure of the film too much from the plot. This is a popcorn movie that doesn't pay much attention to logic, this is a soap opera that doesn't pay much attention to character curves, and this is a vulgar comedy in which the value of memes and gimmicks is higher than the value of the plot itself. Especially the stalk of Condor peeing, have you ever seen a really green, safe, family-friendly Disney animation do this? The inherent ruffianness of these films makes the nice creative and emotional high point that the birds finally include the fat red house in the village seems a bit bleak.
However, there is still a point in the film that deserves the attention of animators, which is its character design.
This is a point that is easily overlooked, because when we are accustomed to various cartoony and anthropomorphic animal shapes, we are innately insensitive to this setting of character eyebrows. If you look back at the history of animation, most cartoon characters of birds have no eyebrows. You go to see "Rio Adventure", "Happy Feet", or "Chicken Run", "Zan Bird Adventure", these works with birds as the protagonists never deliberately add to birds Eyebrow. Unless it's a bird - an owl.
Since the beginning of the game, "Angry Birds" has made an important attempt in the setting of bird characters, not only adding eyebrows to birds, but also strengthening the function of eyebrows - expressing emotions, especially anger . The seaweed eyebrows of the two birds, Fat Red and Dahong, are impressive, and the images of their hair standing upright when they are angry are vaguely visible. In fact, you can never think of other such vivid bird and eyebrow settings in your mind. In the movie, other birds also have their own distinctive shapes and even textured eyebrows.
Actually, I quite like the setting of the three-dimensional and elongated birds in the movie. Fluffy is cute. But in fact, this texture conceals the truth that these three-dimensional birds are no longer what "Angry Birds" used to be. "Angry Birds" has no feet in the game or in the TV animation series of short films, and the whole body is summed up into a circle, which is extremely concise and bright. It is this simplicity and brightness that makes these images Distinguish and leave a deep impression in people's minds.
In the movie, the people added feet and wings to the bird—and even added a body and feet to the head of a contra-horned pig. The walking birds do add a sense of anthropomorphic reality, but at the same time they lose the fun and rhythm of beating; the winged birds make a basic worldview setting of Angry Birds no longer clear, that is, Mingming With wings, why can't they fly. The wings that can be hidden in games and TV animations strengthen the motivation of the bird to use a slingshot to fly, which is absent in the movie.
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In the final analysis, such a furry texture and realistic design are actually a compromise of the director. He was unable to control and was too lazy to perform the various movements of simplified birds - the simpler the image, the more complex the movements - he needed the birds to have long hands and feet, so that they could perform the movements more easily. This simplification cannot be said to be a mistake, only that it does not give us a more authentic taste of "Angry Birds".
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