This article is divided into 3 parts: 1. Micro Tucao 2. Plot introduction (with spoilers) 3. Movie analysis ------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- 1. Kubo always said: "If you must blink, do it now." Makes me blingbling. 2. Q: This qin obviously has three strings, why is it called "two-string qin"? Where did the other string go? A: I went to think about the Chinese New Year with Yizhu. 3. When Kubo went to the movies, he said: Can I buy half-price tickets? I promise to see with only one eye. 4. The fact that Kubo was chased and killed tells us: Please take care of trees and save paper. 5. Kubo's father said to Kubo's mother: "You are my quest." The translation into Chinese is: I want you to give birth to monkeys for me. 6. When Kubo was performing, he said that Hanzo had found an indestructible sword and an indestructible breastplate. A passerby asked him: "What would happen if the breastplate was pierced with a sword?" This is a "self-contradictory" allusion. 7. It's not necessarily a pirate standing on the boat wearing a blindfold, it could be Lee Joon Ki. 8. At the end of the film, the villagers all told the grandfather that he was a good man, because it would be convenient to borrow money in the future because he had a good relationship. 9. Why does Kubo have so much paper at home and why his father and grandfather have bad memory, which made me ponder deeply. -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -------------------- On a dark and windy night for a month, Kubo's mother supported a long wormwood and traced back to the greener grass; a boat full of Xinghui, sing in the colorful stars. But she couldn't sing because a huge wave knocked her into the sea and hit a rock and got a concussion. This scene made me feel like I was on the set of "Interstellar" (it's worth mentioning that "Interstellar" star Matthew McConaughey's "Beatles" voiced in the film).
Kubo is a teenager who graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music. When he was a child, his grandfather Wang Mang, the mentor of "The Voice of China", asked him, "Come, tell me your dream!"
"I want to be a student of Zou Jielun." "Are you blind!" Grandpa was very angry, so he gouged out his left eye, and since then the left ear has become the organ closest to his heart. Don't tell me that the left nipple is dissatisfied, can the nipple be regarded as an organ?
Still young, Kubo shoulders the burden of supporting his family, and he goes to the market every day to perform. His father was killed in order to protect their mother and son, and the only thing he left to his son was a pile of toilet paper that was not used up. Kubo, who has been single for 30 years and graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, has quite flexible hands, so what chemical changes will occur between flexible hands and toilet paper? That's right, he controls the paper to change into various shapes by playing the piano to perform, which can be called a 4D version of shadow play. He has already started using toilet paper to support his family while his peers are still using toilet paper for other things.
For example, today he is telling the story of a very popular internet celebrity and a very yellow chicken.
The scene is very pornographic and violent, not suitable for children. One day, his mother's two sisters, Yaoyue and Lianxing from Yihua Palace, came to him and wanted to take away his other eye. In order to save her from an unfortunate death, his mother used magic to resurrect the monkey pendant and accompany him to find the three treasures of sword, breastplate and helmet to defeat the enemy.
On the way, they met a Beetle. He said that his name was Hawkeye, a descendant of his nickname. He was called Green Arrow by Jianghu people. He also joined the Black Belly Alliance because of his superb archery skills. Unfortunately, he was later cursed to become a Beetle. Together they fought the skeleton giant and found the sword.
Kubo made a boat out of a lot of leaves, which is literally a living 3D printer. They set sail to the Caribbean in search of pirates, but the pirates did not find the breastplate. But when he was looking for the helmet, he was ambushed by the Palace Master Yaoyue, and both the monkey and the beetle were killed. It turns out that the monkey is actually Kubo's mother, and the beetle is Kubo's father. It seems that in order to become a superhero, both parents must die, which is an eternal law. Kubo turned his grief into strength, finally found a helmet, collected three treasures and turned into a golden saint, ready to fight to the death with his grandfather.
"I'll give you one more chance and tell me your dream." Grandpa said. "I still want to be a student of Zou Jielun." The grandfather became angry and turned into a centipede. Kubo gathered three treasures and could not compete with them. He cried and said, "It turns out that the fairy tales are all lies!" The two strings on Kubo's violin are his mother and his father. He used his own hair to make the third string. Unexpectedly, this action turned the sanxian into an ancient artifact and summoned the dead souls of the cemetery to fight against it. , and even Grandpa Mao. (Okay, Grandpa Mao is not in Babaoshan, so don't pay attention to these details.) As expected of Grandpa Mao grasping the truth of the universe, he sneered: "All reactionaries are paper tigers!" Immediately with a slap, Grandpa became mentally retarded.
When the villagers saw that their grandfather was beaten as mentally retarded and could not remember anything, they all said, "Xiaotian, you are the purest and kindest person I have ever met."
It's a pity that Kubo's parents really died. In order to see his parents again, he had to smoke marijuana, and the movie was reunited. -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ----------------- This is a story about love and family. The "two strings" in "two strings" refers to parents, Kubo defeated his opponents with the huge power that he generated after condensing with him as the "third string", and defeated the villain with love. This is a bit like "Harry Potter" similar. In addition, "memory" is also a theme of the film. Kubo said: "Memory is the most powerful magic." Grandpa can take away his eyes, but not his memory, which contains people's soul and love. While that's a valid value, it's not very convincing to beat the villain just because of memory and love.
The plot of the film is a little mediocre, but it's really beautiful in terms of graphics. To put it rudely, this film made a so-called "Twelve Years Grinding a Sword" cartoon a while ago into slag. What is the sword you grinded in twelve years, and the embroidery needle is easy to cut. !
More importantly, the production method of this film is stop-motion animation. There are 11,007 kinds of Kubo's mouth expressions, including the wooden boat made of leaves in the film, which is also produced by the design department piece by piece. In this era of maximizing profits and making a lot of money by making bad movies, it is rare to have such a spirit of making good movies with such dedication. I feel very lucky to have such a studio as a movie fan. This reminds me of "Havoc in Heaven" in 1964. Since there was no computer production at that time, it all depended on a paintbrush in hand. A ten-minute animation requires 7,000 to 10,000 original animations, so it took nearly two years to draw "Havoc in Heaven".
"Kubo and the Two Strings" comes from Laika Studio, including this film, there are only four works by Laika Studio, and the other three are "Ghost Mom", "Psychic Boy Norman" and "The Box Monster", all of which won the Oscar for best animation without exception. Nominations for feature films are all rave reviews but not very high at the box office. Compared with some directors who make money from bad films, this is completely two extremes. It is worthy of our admiration for this attitude of making movies seriously. Laika Studio CEO Travis Knight is the son of Nike founder Phil Knight, known as the American version of Wang Sicong. He worked as an animation intern at Will Vinton Studios after college. "Dad, Will Vinton it..." "Buy, buy, buy!" So Phil Knight invested in Will Vinton Studios many times, became the largest shareholder of Will Vinton Studios, and renamed it For Leica Studio. Travis Knight rose from intern to CEO, not only because of his father, but also because of his obsession with stop-motion animation and hard work. "Kubo and the Two Strings" has a good reputation since its release. Unfortunately, the box office of the opening weekend was not as good as the first three works of Laika Studio, and it is even hopeless to recover the cost just by looking at the box office. "Kubo and the Two Strings" is Travis Knight's directorial debut and a satisfactory answer to those who questioned him. At present, the film and "Zootopia", "Kung Fu Panda 3", "The Little Prince", "Ocean Moon", "The Return of the Great Sage" and other films are participating in the competition for the 89th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
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