Tim Burton, maybe people's evaluation of him should be very extreme, either fried chicken love, or sighed! Yes! Varied! What! ghost!
He has created a classic image of a new style of painting from generation to generation, and the characters he has created are highly recognizable. Even in the English world, new words have been developed to describe his unique style - Burtonesque (Burtonsque). wind).
If the Marvel comics were to be drawn by Bolton, the style might be like the following. The slender limbs and the big whites of the eyes are the presentation of the morbid gothic dark aesthetics.
Although this stop-motion animation was not shot by Tim Burton himself, as a producer and screenwriter, he still injected a strong personal character into the film, telling the dark fairy tale he preferred.
The following spoilers, careful
fairy tales always take place a long, long time ago, but this one is an exception.
The protagonist of the movie, a pumpkin prince admired by thousands of people, exists in modern society. His name is Jack, and he was named the Prince of the Ghost Realm for being the most scary, the most leader, and the most capable of bad ideas.
He and his people live in the notorious and eerie "Halloween City". They work diligently every day and rack their brains for the most important day of the year - Halloween.
Just after the annual festival, the fairies held a celebration banquet and awards ceremony.
However, invincible is how lonely, invincible how empty. Jack finished the year-end summary. In the carnival of all the ghosts, he left silently, walked alone to a wasteland, and sang a lonely and emotional song. The lyrics revealed his heart - he was tired of scaring human beings.
From night to dawn, from the hillside to a forest, he was surprised to find that some of the trees had strange patterns on their trunks.
In fact, these patterns are doors leading to major festival cities. Valentine's Day, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas... Just turn the doorknob and you'll be teleported to another world.
Sure enough, the bigger the difference, the bigger the attraction, and Jack reached out to the colorful Christmas tree! The moment he opened the door, he was drawn into a peaceful, snowy Christmas city.
He was so excited about everything he saw, snowflakes, bells, candy, gingerbread men, Christmas ballads, elk, Christmas elves, and all kinds of laughter. Simply unheard of!
Jack danced with the snowman. By the way, he also quietly visited the factory where the elves made cute gifts, saw the elk with horns pulling the sleigh, and the tall Santa Claus.
All this is so wonderful, he even secretly took a large package of Christmas gifts back to Halloween City, including the Christmas tree below.
Jack danced and advertised what he had seen and heard and a bold idea in front of his people!
On the night of December 24th, he will copy the Christmas pattern, pretend to be Santa Claus, and go to the world to give the children his carefully prepared "gifts" (ﾟｰﾟ)!
Jack called on every citizen in the city to help. Dr. Strange studies flying elk, vampires make toys with scary images, witches are responsible for packaging...
And the pumpkin prince himself, in addition to assigning work and coming up with good ideas, he is also responsible for researching those delicious candies, and... Snowflake paper-cuts ? No problem, just grab a decoupage spider!
In order to do a good job in this Christmas event, the meticulous Jack is even still on the blackboard, deducing the formula for the correct holiday. Trying so hard seems to have finally found the meaning of his existence for so long.
As the time draws near, everything is ready, only one last step - let the trick-or-treaters kidnap Santa to Halloween City °△ °|||.
In this way, Jack can wear the Christmas dress sewed for him by his admirers, drive a replica elk skeleton sleigh, and send "gifts" to the world with confidence and boldness.
When he gave gifts to each family, he was as happy as a child who received a gift, happily shuttled between the chimneys, wanting to bring Halloween-style "joy" to people!
That's right, for Jack and the others, fear = joy, screaming = joy. However, this kind of happiness only belongs to the city of Halloween and does not meet the expectations of human beings. The Christmas that was originally expected by everyone has become a dream of people overnight.
Jack was attacked with a cannon by humans and nearly killed. Frustrated, he finally returned to Halloween City, released Santa, and returned the holiday to him.
As an educator, I also paid attention to the rating of the film.
The children's movie viewing index given on Common Sense Media is 7 years old and above, but there are also parents of 4-year-old children who wrote down their children's feelings after watching it.
So, parents, decide for yourself~
A good movie, like a good book, stands the test of time.
Why do we like Prince Jack, because he is kind, naive, persistent and creative. He wants to reform himself according to other people's standards, but he does bad things with good intentions. As mentioned above, in his understanding, fear = joy, screaming = joy, and there are fundamentally different values.
When he understands that the Gothic carnival is not destined to become a reunion-style warmth, deliberately pleasing will only turn into disgust. Be yourself, is the most correct decision.
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