In the blink of an eye, it's July again, and I still haven't encountered a wonderful thing in summer, and I'm a little lost!
I just watched "Mary and the Witch's Flower". This movie was released in mainland China before. I didn't go because I couldn't find a friend to watch the movie with. Now I think about it and regret it, because this movie The animation picture is still the familiar Ghibli formula!
But I don't regret it too much, until I watched it, I always felt that this movie was too short to mention it! At the same time, I also saw the figures of other Ghibli animations in it. Mirin Hongchang , holding " I also want to make such a movie" , seems to be in some kind of unbreakable predicament, unable to move forward.
The following spoilers, please be careful!
"Ma" is also adapted from the European children's literature "Little Broom". Why do you say "also"? Because Ghibli's consistent style is to adapt children's literature, such as "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Loaned Girl Arrietty", their painting styles are all oriental European pastoral styles.
Large tracts of grass, flowers of different colors, European-style buildings and home styles, fair skin and beautiful eyes... Such a world and characters are undoubtedly a paradise and a real existence for the grandpa Gong who has experienced war and chaos, but For Maro, it is an illusory story.
This difference can be seen everywhere, just like in "Howl's Moving Castle", the palace veteran remodeled the moving castle and added a flying function to it; in "Mani in Memories", the beautiful building , things are different, giving people a feeling that they were once reduced to ruins.
In Maro's spiritual world, those wonderful people who live in Miyazaki's world are like a distant illusory existence, they are fading and collapsing. There is no doubt that Maro has experienced that world, but now he Farther and farther away from that world, like a fleeting dream.
I felt very uncomfortable watching "Mani in Memory" before, but now I think about it and understand the reason: I was preparing to enter the fairy tale world, but it was rejecting me, pushing me to reality again and again. There seems to be anguish here. Maru wants to create characters that can be integrated into Gong Lao's fairy tale world, but finds the gap between reality and ideals. He doesn't want to be engulfed by the shadow of giants, so he has to choose reality.
Undoubtedly, fans who have been creating animations similar to Hayao Miyazaki's works will always buy it, but it is a heavy burden for Maro's creative life. I hope Maro can find his creative direction as soon as possible!
The next step is to find the same link. For a Miyazaki fan, this animation has too many imitations, and of course it is not useless, so let's suppress it first!
"Mary and the Witch's Flower" vs "The Witch's Delivery Service"
The house of Mrs. Charlotte, who appeared at the beginning, is similar to the house of Kiki's parents, and even the angle of the camera is very similar, but the color temperature and saturation of the previous one are higher, and the scene is more profound. , the latter one is actually more realistic, and it maintains the same style as the house in "Mani in Memory".
Aunt Charlotte's appearance is actually quite disappointing to me. Isn't this the kind old lady and maid in "The Witch's Delivery Service"? ! (Do you think I won't recognize you if you change your clothes?)
Aunt Charlotte's voice ending when she speaks a little louder is very similar (because she has watched it too many times...), but the details of the character lines and characters are a lot perfunctory.
"Mary and the Witch's Flower" vs "City in the Sky"
There is a magic academy in "Ma", floating in the sky, but the house is as happy as the Russian Red Square, but one by one, I still recognize it. This is the fancy version of the city in the sky~ Even all the last The abandoned scene after the magic is lifted is similar to the honey juice of "City in the Sky"~
I also don't want to admit that the little guys on the right have shadows of giant soldiers...
When I watched "City in the Sky", the biggest shock was not the castle floating in the sky, but the thick cumulonimbus clouds, not cotton candy, but giant floating creatures, "Ma" The cloud in the middle has reproduced such a feeling, which is very gratifying. Thank you for the original painting and art supervision. Wow!
The above are a few details with a relatively high degree of overlap, and there are probably scattered ones: Mary lying on the grass and saying that she has achieved nothing, which is perfectly similar to the time when Xiao Chun complained that she was useless in "Cat's Repayment". Of course, this may be a habit of showing the confusion of girls There is a way...
The way the little broom took Mary back to Charlotte's former house, and it crashed with the lights in "Spirited Away" when Qianxun jumped on one foot when she went to find Granny Qian... and there was also a bug here, The flames in the glass cover clearly said to Mary, "Welcome home, we thought you would never come back." In this case, the magic flame actually recognized Mary as Charlotte... but did not explain Mary. Relationship with Charlotte.
But the house built on Crescent Island is really beautiful!
After talking about the comparison with other works, let's briefly talk about the characters!
The protagonist Mary has red hair, blue eyes, and a round face, which can be said to be quite pleasing in appearance, but Maro did not match her with a distinct character, which is a pity.
I don't want to match the male protagonist, because after reading it, I won't think about him anymore. He is like a prop to promote the development of the event, which is not attractive to me.
Mary's black cat with emerald eyes, I am quite fond of it, with a round head and a chubby body, which is much better than Gigi, and I can see from many details how well Maro has portrayed this cat, but Well, does a cat with such fierce eyes really have no dignity at all? Aren't you afraid of being slapped casually?
Finally, a favorite episode is the "Animal Kingdom Parade"!
The animal kingdom or something, I started it myself. When I was a child, I dreamed of such a scene. My animals and I have been running in the wilderness. It is really free and happy to think about it!
It is similar to the picture of dinosaurs breaking through the bondage in "Jurassic World 2" that I watched tonight. Although I watched "Garfield" and "Cats and Dogs" when I was a child, there are similar scenes, but I still feel comfortable physically and mentally! Every time I want to shout " Long live freedom !"
Finally, when I saw the preview of this movie, I relied on two original paintings to make up the whole story! As a result, one of the original pictures of the four young magicians taking a group photo did not appear in the movie...
Ma Lu, you compensate me for 10,000 words!
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