I just finished watching "Paddington Bear 2" and I was showing a crazy smile. After reading this fairy tale movie, which is a full-scale demonstration for the healing family carnival movie, it is the correct way to get to winter. Although the first part of the series in 2014 is cute, the plot is a little simple and childish. In the past three years, it has completed the upgrade and reloading of low drive and high walk. With the special Christmas style of family adventure comedy + sightseeing film, "Paddington Bear" " will probably become the "Homecoming" series of our time. John Hughes, who wrote "Home Alone" and "There's a Beethoven in My House", can be regarded as a successor, and Wes Anderson, the director of "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Fantastic Daddy Fox", is secretly nervous. In addition to being very entertaining, this cute bear will teach you how to be a person in minutes: love your family, friends, work, be optimistic, brave, and positive, and you will not be mistreated by life.
"Paddington Bear 1" tells the story of a little bear from a mysterious Peru who came to London through experience, knowledge and adventures. London as a white moonlight travel destination is a desire rooted in the heart of an explorer many years ago and preserved as a tradition. After he came to London, he was adopted by the Brown family. Although there was friction, embarrassment and crisis, Paddington still won the recognition of his new family with his integrity and kindness and saved his life. In "Pa 2", the bear, who has adapted to human life, brought positive energy to his family and neighbors, but fell into a predicament due to being framed. The whole family mobilized to stage a chase and escape drama. The method ended successfully.
From 1 to 2, Paddington completed the transition from intrusive nature bear to task social bear. In the first work, Paddington is like a silly country boy who went to the city to see the world. The villain vowed to catch the bear as a specimen for Yixue's father. After Paddington was kidnapped, he had to wait for others to rescue. The sequel allowed the "new immigrant" to give full play to his subjective initiative. In order to realize his wish, he went to work and save money. He took the initiative to open the situation when he was falsely accused of being in prison. The struggle against the villain was also positive and rigid, which made people intuitively see the growth of the bear.
In this process, the value of "Home, sweet home" emphasized by the family carnival series is also consistent. In the first mile, Xiongzi came to the city from his hometown, and the fantasy scene through the white screen was amazing; in the second mile, there was a tear in the prison, turning into a forest, and the hometown is always the softest imaginary destination. The owner of an antique shop in 1li also suffers from homesickness. He is also an immigrant. He said, "The body has come, but the heart has not yet come." At 2, the polite and sensible Paddington and the new family accepted each other and had a good time with the neighbors. It can be called "this place is my hometown". Even in prison, Xiaoxiong, with the spiritual energy of daring to think and act, transforms the prison cell into a livable place, turns the inmates into dignified people who rediscover their own value, rebuilds one after losing their home, and even after the prison Banners with "Prison, sweet prison" were hung.
The villains of the two films have family feuds and regrets, and fight for the name of profit, but compared to the weak dishes of Nicole Kidman, the director of the Natural History Museum, Hugh Grant's old-fashioned male star villain can make him glow. The second spring of the business.
Grant, who has been compared with "Uncle Face" Colin Firth all the year round, has a good face in young fashion and can fight, but as he grows older, Uncle Face's charm becomes more and more mellow, and the Oscar winner is in hand. With the blessing of commercial productions such as "Ace Agent", Uncle Xiu, who is restricted by the role of romance niche, can only be regarded as a middle-aged man, so playing this role can be regarded as a chance to meet his real identity. Echoing bitter intertext.
However, it is precisely because the burden of idols is no longer that they can have a good time. Uncle Hugh's villain is laughed at as "the essence of drama" and "British Cai Guoqing" (see "Peerless Master"). Following the outdated singer in "K-Song Lover" and the flurry prime minister in "True Love First", Uncle Hugh once again showed his singing and dancing skills, plus the gift package of cross-dressing and one-man show, although his beauty is no longer pleated (in the movie, he is still There are handsome photos that have been swept away), but this unique piece of narcissism, Ming Sao and arrogance is still quite a fan!
After talking about the characters of good and evil, let's look at why the quality of "Pa 2" is excellent. Some movies don't feel like they're finished in one go. The reason may be that there are too many idle strokes, and the front and back cannot be echoed. The roundness of the "Paddington Bear" series of scripts is that it can throw out the settings like playing a yo-yo, and then take back all the points spread out in the previous paragraphs. For example, the two hobbies of the daughter's self-printing newspaper and the son's steam train are used in the later journey, and the funniest split in film history is also an emergency application for the father to participate in yoga classes during the mid-life crisis.
The strengthening of the more credible atmosphere of reality is also an upgrade point: there are very few secondary characters in the previous work. When the screenwriter first started this project, it seemed that he did not dare to do too much, so he tried to reduce the number of people who had direct contact with Paddington and concentrated on drama. Deal with conflicts; in 2, the group portraits of the neighbors are completely spread out, and everyone's emotions are affected by the news of Paddington's safety, and the human touch is even stronger.
The degree of conscience in the art costumes of the film is clear at a glance. Needless to say, it is worth mentioning the scene of wandering the streets of London after opening the three-dimensional picture book, the animation shots of swimming between paper characters and architectural backgrounds, and the scenes from 1976 to 1987. The stop-motion animated series Paddington Bear is very similar, but the technical sophistication makes the camera movement more fluid and agile. This is a magical scheduling and highlight moment that unlocks a new movie viewing experience, second only to the dollhouse section translation in 1 li to introduce characters.
The colors of the movie are very bright and full, and the part of the prison is even more pink and sweet and endearing. The visual sense of "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is very obvious. Aside from the colors, desserts, and escapes, there's probably plenty of frontal, tiled, symmetrical shots that make the film reminiscent of Wes Anderson, this familiar aesthetic of "bringerism" coupled with a less-Andersonian boyish story , you can't win if you don't win!
Those familiar scenes during the movie viewing include: Koala in "The Voice of Joy" cleaning the car windows with his body and Paddington's wet and dry window cleaning work, and the fingerprints and letters of "Night of the Hunter". Nicknames on Iron Fist in Prison, Walking Through Gears from Modern Times, Train scenes from No Thieves and The General, and more. These movie stalks are scattered throughout the film just right, familiar but not routine, but rather interesting.
I believe that no one will refute the fact that "Paddington Bear 2" is a movie with an excellent cinematic viewing experience. In addition to the cute crit, there are also dense jokes, and it is easy to synchronize with the laughter of the surrounding audience in the theater. Different from the way some pompous movies use language jokes to be funny, "Pa" takes the route of ironing situational jokes. The joke is not told by force, but occurs naturally in the situation where the characters interact. For example, in the face of disgusting neighbors forbidding Paddington to return to the community, Dad made a solemn protest and got in the car. The engine was so loud that people thought it would be a complete ride, and immediately turned off the engine for you, the momentum disappeared in an instant, and the comedy effect was lost. Produced in the contrast of this dynamic process. In addition, the film also follows embarrassment and confesses stupidity for certain moments of play, and it seems natural that the characters are desperately trying to make up for it. For example, when Uncle Hugh came home and ran into the Brown couple looking for evidence in his house, if he didn't hide well and was discovered, he would give up the pretense, and the nonsense became a joke.
As a sequel, "Pa 2" is still quite friendly to audiences who haven't seen the previous work. But here we can still mention the details of continuation 1 by the way. On the characters: there is the rigid and annoying neighbor Mr. Kerry, who is unhappy with Paddington and intensifies; there is the security staff who is obsessed with women, who is attracted by his father and uncle Hugh, who are disguised as women. Aesthetics are also fascinating. Paddington's design: the gentleman who is very particular about British etiquette also has a bear stare when he is blown up. "We are not easy to mess with" has small sparks and crackles in both parts; the upper part is covered with tape, and this one has wires Around the body, in short, do not deal with such things; rely on strong suction to complete the eaves and walls, 1's handheld vacuum cleaner and 2's apple toffee balls, etc.
All in all, "Paddington Bear 2" is the kind of work that will make you feel good when you come out of the theater. It doesn't need to tell any big truth, just the fairy-tale life and adventure of a little bear and his family and friends can make people willing to re-believe in being a kind and upright good person, so as to be gentle and happy by the world . Those beautiful qualities were learned in kindergarten. Even though the process of growing up will polish our edges and corners, we hope that our insides will still be shiny.
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