In recent years, Disney has been very keen to adapt some fairy tales or classic animations into live-action movies, trying to interpret and deconstruct past stories in modern ways and concepts. A speed is rolling out. However, the results of the attempts are mixed, there are "Maleficent" as well as praise, but more are still very naive movies like "The Wizard of the World" and "Cinderella".
Unlike "Alice in Wonderland 1" six years ago that largely followed the well-known fairy tale, "Alice in Wonderland 2" revolves around the hatter and introduces a new character "Time" . A major highlight of Alice 1's plot is that it added a simple fantasy story to the modern female consciousness of self-identification and self-positioning, and finally sublimated the plot to a story of girl power. Nowadays, Disney's female-themed films, whether it is a live-action story or a princess animation, have a strong sense of female independence. For example, the kiss of maleficent in "Maleficent" broke the outdated view that the sleeping princess could only wait for the prince to rescue, and it used women to wake up women and express the support and friendship between women. In "Alice in Wonderland 1", Alice, who belongs to the old era, is like a commodity on the shelf, under the strong pressure of social atmosphere, forcibly get engaged to someone she doesn't like. And Alice's dangerous journey is actually a journey of Alice's search for herself. The truth caterpillar full of wisdom will always remind Alice at a critical moment to find the lost true self in her heart. Alice, who was originally gloomy and indecisive, finally successfully transformed into the confident and brave Alice when she was a child. Captain of China. These all symbolize the process of a woman's growth through self-knowledge.
Of course, the plot of Alice 1 is not new. It is a commonplace to take it apart, but the idea of borrowing the old gourd from the fairy tale of Alice to install the new wine of female independence is quite good. That's why "Alice in Wonderland 1" stands out from other Disney fairy tale live-action movies.
In "Alice in Wonderland 2", the main line of the story is that Alice's practical time machine travels through time and space to help the hatter save his family, and from it brings out a past story of the Red and White Queen, as well as Alice's real life. A story of the problem. Compared with Alice 1, Alice 2 pays more attention to the rendering of the tone of the whole story.
Unlike the first film, which focused on the growth and independence of women, and focused on the portrayal of each character, the tone of Alice 2's plot is family affection - the hat dealer accidentally discovered his family because of his relationship with his father. He may have asked Alice to help him find his family when he was still alive; when the Red and White Queen was a child, the Red Queen's temperament changed greatly due to improper parenting; Disagreeing with her mother by selling her father's boat. These three are the main lines of the story, intersecting with each other, but the core is family love - Alice tried her best to steal the time machine, and at the risk of completely destroying Wonderland, she found the whereabouts of the hat dealer's family, and saved the hat that almost died. Shang; the White Queen apologized to the Red Queen for her childhood mistakes, and the two sisters shook hands to make peace; in reality, Alice finally understood her mother, and the two worked together to set up a shipping and trading company that was completely independent.
Whether it is the hat dealer who has been thinking about family love, or the red and white queen who regains family love, or Alice who slowly understands family love, family love is the core concept that drives the entire story of Alice 2. At the end of the film, Alice, who ended the journey in the mirror and returned to reality, told her mother that she could buy another boat when the boat was gone, but there was only one mother. The mother who hesitated again and again did not sign the agreement to buy the boat in the end, and scolded the complacent man. , she was very happy that her daughter did not marry him, and then the mother and daughter started a company together. In addition to pointing out the theme of family love, this episode is also a continuation of the previous female consciousness. In fact, in the beginning of Alice 2, the disagreement between Alice and her mother has a cliché about what a woman of this age should be like, which represents an outdated female concept, while Alice's rebuttal is a modern female consciousness. The most intuitive performance. Therefore, Alice 2 still inherits Alice 1 in the spirit of the film.
"Alice in Wonderland 2" is still a movie about the awakening of women's consciousness at the core of the story. The director uses the method of head-to-head to explain this concept. Of course, family love still occupies a larger position. However, compared with Alice 1, the director of Alice 2 focused on the laying out of the concept of the entire movie story, which resulted in a less strong sense of individual existence for each character. In the first part, you can feel the red and white queen, the bald twins, the air cat, the truth caterpillar, each character is very fresh and has its own characteristics, thanks to the good interaction between each character and the story , But in Alice 2, the story is too routine, so that not to mention the supporting roles, even the protagonist Alice has not been able to show her character charm in the main line. The inability to interact well with the story line has led to the mediocreness of every character in Alice 2, so the new character time in this film is not as exciting as imagined, even the Queen of Hearts featured in the first film, in the first film. Even her signature laugh in the second installment couldn't bring the Red Queen back to the way she was in the previous installment.
Another problem with the plot of Alice 2 is that it is too routine, and the concept of shuttle time has long been a bad street. Alice uses the time machine again and again to travel through different time and space, which is easy for people to watch the movie. produce fatigue. Of course, the director also noticed this problem, so unlike the previous movies that changed this and that after crossing the border, the past in Alice 2 cannot be changed.
In addition, compared to the first work 6 years ago, "Alice in Wonderland 2" is a clear technical improvement. Alice 1 is probably because the director is Tim Burton, who is good at shooting gothic-style movies. Although the characters are colorful, the overall picture style always feels gray and gloomy. A bit old, and Alice 1's special effects level It was not high, and it was barely qualified in the Hollywood special effects films at that time. But in Alice 2, the director emphasized the performance of different colors on the screen, so the colorful characters in the original version are as bright as the back garden in midsummer in the second part. As for the location of the new character's time in this film, dark colors are used to express it. The director deliberately uses cheerful and bright dangers and dark time castles to distinguish the screen. The visual effects of Alice 2 are generally very good. Not bad.
"Alice in Wonderland 2 Through the Looking Glass" is a standard Disney fantasy film, and the production team's limited imagination makes the story unsurprising, but it is still a film with attitude, excellent production, and a Bo's excellent actors, in Disney's fairy tale adaptation of live-action movies, are much better than "Cinderella" and the like.
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