Yesterday, I watched Pixar's new film soul, and I wrote down a few thoughts, mainly my thoughts on the illogical aspects of character and growth, as my own notes. It's just a short article, it took ten minutes to write...
First of all, the male protagonist of this film is a person with a particularly Haidian personality. He has a dream and is very hardworking. He has a clear goal and is not willing to go wrong. At the same time, he also feels that pure art is unreliable. Yijin's "serious" work, this part of the character set I believe that heavy-duty social animals with a heart of literature and art will especially resonate. The problem is that the character of the male protagonist is not jazz at all. I don't quite believe that a person with such an outlook on life will not encounter bottlenecks when exploring jazz, but simply underestimate his talents. There is a high probability that he will not be able to improvise outstanding jazz works. It might be more convincing if the film is set that he did not do jazz well at first, or that he did classical and metal speed play at first and finally did jazz after experiencing a spiritual journey. Of course, this kind of plot is not easy to understand for non-music fans.
Secondly, the management of the quantum world is really too backward. In 2020, I am still rummaging through the abacus drawer by drawer, which reminds me of that joke. An engineer woke up crying and said that he dreamed that he would die after a sudden death. He makes an automatic management system for the life and death book. Anyway, when I see their document management level, I always feel that they have to upgrade to enter the information age. The sequel can shoot a certain entrepreneur dead, and in the quantum age, we will make a full set of scanning code registration and intelligent management systems, so that everyone can die properly. A group of engineers who died suddenly wrote code to reproduce the glory of Internet hot money in the quantum world.
The third is that the teasing of the accountant is very uncomfortable. He is just doing his due diligence. Why should he be exaggerated like this? And the protagonist finally went back to the earth through the back door, which was boring. If the protagonist has gone through this journey and bravely faced the next life, is it so difficult to obey the rules and regulations for the positive characters of Pixar?
Pixar animation seems to often miss the villain-going back door, the pattern is not big, except for the Toy Story series, other works are more or less a little too hard, and the characters that are not in the interest of the protagonist will be very illogical to say that others are other All aspects are not good, all their practices are pure evil. So the villains are all portrayed as heinous, and after they die, they have to engage in some scenes where the crowd is watching and applauding. The plot of the protagonist going through the back door is uncomfortable. In fact, it may not be a good material for entertaining and entertaining, because it takes a long time for children to put these things in their minds to make this kind of illogical and not very useful. The enforced good-will culling of a person may even be immersed in such ethical notions into adulthood.
In the end, the setting that impressed me the most in the whole film is "if you are too obsessed with something, you will become a monster". I've had this experience several times myself, and I feel like my mind is filled with obsessions. But my experience is that compared to the character of the heroine 22 who loves no one and no one cares about nothing, the male protagonist is more likely to be obsessed with such a hard-working style of never giving up (don't ask me) how did I know). Therefore, it is easier for the male protagonist to become black and keep saying "I want to be a jazz musician, I want to be a master". The female protagonist's heart is easy to solve, but the male protagonist is much more difficult.
To sum up, the characters are moving up, and the film is somewhat unsustainable.
So if I were to write this script, I would probably make a character design. The male protagonist is a classical musician who is arrogant and proud of his talents. He is very sad about his identity as a middle school music teacher, but after this spiritual journey, I feel The joy of teaching has also solved the bottleneck in performance. I have threw myself into the embrace of jazz music, and realized that it is a happier life to experience life freely and freely. So he can say: Live in the moment~
It's not hard to think of a more logical character direction, but why didn't Pixar adopt it? A more interesting question. The imprisonment of the values of the family carnival film production is still too serious.
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