Everyone has their own favorite toys in childhood. They like them so much that they don’t want to share them with other friends. They like to play with them for a while every day. But, as we grow up, there comes a time when we inevitably get bored with those toys. They may be given away, or they may be thrown away. Many years later, perhaps inadvertently a scene reminds us of those toys that accompanied our childhood, and it will still evoke familiar memories in our hearts.
For example, Transformers, from cartoons to toys, the names of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron and Decepticon are probably childhood memories of generations of Chinese people. Therefore, when the "Transformers" series of films were released in China, they all created box office myths. But embarrassingly, since the second film of "Transformers", audience word-of-mouth and media reviews have been declining.
Fortunately, the director of the first five films, Michael Bay, finally stopped, and Paramount realized that it was time to restart and update "Transformers" and tell a different story. So, with this rumored movie "Bumblebee". After its release in North America, Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB have both good reviews.
Directed by "Nike Boy" Travis Knight, who was born in animation, he has injected a new look into "Bumblebee". He pays more attention to shaping the human side of Bumblebee. A large number of story scenes in the film are portrayed Bumblebee and the heroine's emotions and camaraderie develop rather than violent fights and special effects. This gave the audience a very different perspective to re-look at "Transformers".
The story of the movie is set in 1987. The beginning is a fierce fighting scene. The Bumblebee lost his planet Cybertron in the fight. Optimus Prime told him to find a base to hide first, so Bumblebee came to Earth. . Not long after, he was chased by the Decepticons. After a desperate fight, Bumblebee defeated the enemy, but the memory module and pronunciation device were damaged during the battle. After falling off the cliff, he scanned a yellow Beetle. , it falls into a dormant state.
Charlie, the heroine living in a small coastal town in California, is in her puberty but has lost her beloved father. Unable to accept the fact that her mother found a new husband, and unable to get over the grief of losing her father, Charlie became a rebellious girl covered in thorns.
Charlie wears smoky makeup, rides a scooter every day, and goes to work at the hot dog stand in the playground. The most hope is to get a car of her own on her 18th birthday, but as expected, her mother and stepfather And her brother let her down. But to my delight, Charlie found a yellow Volkswagen Beetle in the scrap corner of the garage, and the old man in the garage generously gave it to her. Charlie was very happy to drive the Beetle home and gave him a name - Hornet.
At this point in the story, the girl and the Autobot started to depend on each other and gradually grow up.
The aphasic Bumblebee, facing this strange world at first, with great confusion and fear, finally came to life with the guidance and help of Charlie. The lively bumblebee is very cute in the film. The movie deliberately gave a lot of shots to bumblebee's eyes. It's blue and shining, full of innocence and loyalty. It makes people want to hug. hug.
Not only that, Bumblebee is also like a smart bear child. He often surprises Charlie in language learning, and he is also curious about the world around him. He accidentally broke into Charlie's house and smashed the house into a garbage dump because of his clumsiness. , after being blamed, the appearance of shrinking into a ball makes people laugh. All this makes people forget that this is a "Transformers" spin-off movie.
So far, the movie has achieved more than half of its success. It not only got rid of the image of "Transformers" in the past, which started a fight without a word, but also created a particularly flattering image for Bumblebee. In the film, the usual interaction between Bumblebee and the heroine is very warm and healing, but when fighting side by side with the heroine, they are very brave and good at fighting. To sum up, it is fatal to be cute, but not fatal to be cool. Even after watching the movie, people yearn for the Volkswagen Yellow Beetle.
The climax of the movie begins after the Decepticons find Bumblebee. The intensity of the fight made people sweat for Bumblebee. What made the audience even more tearful was that Bumblebee did not forget to protect Charlie during the fight.
There are two scenes in the movie that are particularly poignant. One is when Bumblebee was beaten to death by the Decepticons, Charlie ran over and hugged it tightly, crying: "I don't want to lose you too. !" The second is when Bumblebee knelt down on one knee and held Charlie's hand in the smoke of gunpowder. Both of these scenes, which show how important Charlie and Bumblebee are to each other, give the Autobots a very human side and Bumblebee's image is more specific.
The resurrection of Bumblebee awakened his memory and retrieved his mission. In the process of fighting, Charlie gained the trust and help of her relatives, gained friendship, and also gained courage. When she released the signal battery and plucked up the courage to jump into the water, it was the proof of her courage to grow.
Personally, I think this part is the sublimation of the film, because whether it is a machine or a human being, it cannot forget its mission and must face growth. At the end of the film, Charlie and Bumblebee stand side by side on a high place, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. That scene is meaningful and touching.
I have to say that "Bumblebee" saved the "Transformers" series of movies, because after the film ended, people began to be curious and wanted to know who left Charlie, transformed into a yellow Camaro, and found Optimus Prime. Bumblebee, what kind of story will follow, let us wait and see.
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