This year's Oscar's Best Animated Short Film "Dear Basketball" is very short, only 5 minutes in total.
Director Glen Keene, who served as the director of masterpieces such as "The Mermaid" and "Rapunzel".
The soundtrack is Williams, for "Star Wars" and other well-known movies.
The voice and producer is Kobe, so it goes without saying, basketball superstar.
"Dear Basketball" was inspired by Kobe's poem of the same name written in 2015. It first appeared at the Kobe jersey retirement ceremony on December 19, 2017. It is a very memorable work.
The style of the whole film is very simple, and the whole process is drawn in pencil.
But don't watch the film so simple, but it took as long as 6 months to make. Sports works have always been more difficult to do, especially Kobe Bryant is known to the world.
It's really not easy to be able to make every frame of Kobe's basketball play so natural.
Because this film is derived from a poem written by Kobe Bryant himself, the whole film has a strong sense of intimacy.
It feels like Kobe's love letter to basketball, coupled with Kobe's magnetic voice, it's easy to make the audience who like Kobe burst out of emotions all of a sudden.
Coupled with Kobe's excellent positive image, a positive value for dreams and hard work.
Combined with stick figures, which are dreamy, childlike, and simple, the effect is indeed more impactful than a live-action documentary.
So many good things have been said, I can say some not so good ones.
As my title says, this is a work where political correctness is greater than the content itself.
Kobe's public relations image is the essential reason for his award. Anyway, I see it as chicken soup for the soul of some big names. At most, Kobe made a relatively unique curtain call short film.
No one is denying Kobe's achievements, and the idea of dreams conveyed in this film is indeed very inspiring.
But just based on these old stalks with chicken soup for the soul, it doesn't make me feel that he has anything unique or even award-winning compared to other nominated animated shorts.
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