"Ice Age 1", I watched it when I was in college, in English class; I read it again today, it seems to be completely new, and it is still joyful, and at the end, there are small tears. Compared with the "Ice Age 4" I watched in the cinema today, it has quite high-tech 3D, very mature dazzling skills, and beautiful pictures, but looking back at 1, it feels better to return to the basics.
The first one is simple, with simple characters and simple plot, but the picture is beautiful and clean, and there are tight ups and downs everywhere.
"Mainstream audiences are still accustomed to single-clue stories and twists and turns of conflict, especially cartoons." This sentence is appropriate when comparing the two films. In general, I analyze the reasons (or highlights) for the success of the film in three points:
1. Beautiful pictures. Clean ground, blue sea water, pure white glaciers, blue sky, pure brown mammoth Manny, orange saber-toothed tiger Diego, silver-gray sloth Sid, plus pink and flesh-colored children , and later red magma. There are some pictures that are so clean and even a little monotonous, but it can be said that this is "pure beauty". On the screen, the roller coaster-like "skating" scene of the four protagonists (including children) is very cool and enjoyable!
2. The narrative structure is good. Two lines, compact and comprehensive. One is the bright line: the three escorted the child to find his father, especially Diego, who was fighting openly and secretly. The second is the dark line: the tiger group waiting to exterminate the three. And the connection is Diego. Survival in a double-sided attack is very interesting. This leads to the fascinating suspense that ties the whole story: Since Diego is not bad, what will he choose in the end? The suspense is very clear, paving the way for the attraction of the audience.
3. Connotation. How should humans and animals get along? This is a question that the entire film attempts to explore. How to strike a balance between killing and love? Diego and his group of tigers, although they are villains, always want to eat babies, but the reason is not only because they are carnivores, which is objective and natural, but also because of the direct reason: the parents of the baby's parents killed their compatriots, only But it is more natural to pay blood debts in blood. Mammoth Manny is decent, right? The baby's salvation mainly depends on him, but his parents were killed by humans, or it was the creatures like babies and the baby's elders who made Manny an orphan. Therefore, both the positive and negative factions have hatred with humans or with babies, showing one good and one evil, but in the end they chose to save the babies, ignoring the sins of human beings. So what is the answer to the film? At the end, when the baby was about to bud at the moment when it was delivered to its father, Manny used his nose to gently and forcefully remove the father—the spear in the human hand—the tool of hunting and killing, and then slowly Take the baby out and serve it. Clearly, peace and love, not killing.
With a special highlight: babies. His presence also makes the whole movie full of fun and fun. Children are angels, so cute and kind - why did they become murderers when they grew up? It is true that from a biological point of view, this is the food chain, killing is just a way of survival, there is no right or wrong; but the film gives us a childlike innocence, a fairy tale. It is also vaguely revealed: at the beginning of human beings, nature is good; peace begins with a baby. In other words, the hope of mankind, the hope of peace, is not in adults, but only in infants.
In the end, the three animals, the three saviors of the baby, all made the baby laugh again with the "crappy" face-covering that once made the baby cry and suddenly let go of his face: I know, this is their last " Exclusive", this moment is the dividing ridge where they change from master to passive, which is the most simple and the only thing they can do for their children. Seeing this, I burst into tears.
Animals are so innocent.
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