Fifty-eighth sentence

Trycia 2021-12-25 08:01:10

Since "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck", cartoons have always been Americans. We are also happy to appreciate the brilliant colors, smooth mission modeling, and high-tech special effects. It seems that only this is a "real cartoon". I've grown bored for a long time, so when Miyazaki's "The Hidden Girl-Spirited Away" came out, it immediately won numerous applause and applause. From another perspective, it also illustrates the scarcity of non-Hollywood cartoons.

Are there any cartoons outside of Hollywood? How do they shoot? After watching the French cartoon "Les Triplets De Belleville" (Les Triplets De Belleville), I sighed: "Culture must be in France."

There are no special grades in this film, no 3D characters, and very little dialogue--- There are only 58 lines in 77 minutes. Moreover, the most shocking thing is the style of the whole film: Hollywood makes the face of a lion show a gentle look, while under the hands of the French, even the human body is extremely exaggerated and deformed, looking more like animals or insects. Nothing in the film is beautiful, everything is plain, simple, shabby, and full of nostalgic atmosphere.

The movie started on TV, and the Melody Trio was played on black and white TV until the end of the show. The grandma said the first line: "My dear grandson, why don't you tell grandma when the TV is over?", and brought out the background of the whole film: grandma and grandson live by each other, living on the edge of the small town, and there are trains from the door every day go through.

Grandson’s only hobby is bicycle racing. Year after year, both grandchildren and grandchildren practice in the small town and don’t go home until late at night. There is only one dog in the house, and its tail is run over by a toy train, so its biggest hobby is to bark at the train passing by the window. The days are simple. My grandchildren practice bicycles, and the lonely dog ​​is at home, ready to bark at the train at any time.

During the Tour de France, his grandson was kidnapped by a mysterious man in black. Grandma rented a pedal boat with only a little money, and crossed the Atlantic to find her grandson. In the unaccompanied beauty city, grandma met the famous beauty city trio --- now she is three old ladies. The four old ladies joined hands to fight the underworld and finally rescued the grandson.

Grandma and grandson Fei generally escaped from the colorful and dazzling beauty and returned to the town. Many years later, the grandson has gray hair. After watching the TV, he turned his head and said the 58th and the last dialogue of the whole film to the space next to him: "Grandma, the TV is over." With

just one sentence, I was beaten to pieces.

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Extended Reading

The Triplets of Belleville quotes

  • [first lines]

    Madame Souza: Is that it, then? Is it over, do you think? What have you got to say to Grandma?

  • [repeated lines]

    The Triplets of Belleville: Swinging Belleville rendez-vous / Marathon dancing, doop-de-doo / Voodoo, can-can aren't taboo / The world is strange in rendez-vous