"Kung Fu Panda 2": The awakening of "calm down"

Freddy 2022-04-22 07:01:04

Following the successful launch of "Kung Fu Panda" by American DreamWorks in 2008, "Kung Fu Panda 2" in May 2011 set off a "China craze" in the world. It has to be said that Americans know how to combine traditional Chinese culture with the narrative style of American films, and have released "Mulan", "Kung Fu Panda", and this "Kung Fu Panda 2". It can be said that these films are popular in China. From this point of view, Americans are much smarter and more insidious than the Chinese.

It is said that the Phoenix Generation is the family business of the Peacock family, because they invented beautiful fireworks and brought joy to everyone. Unexpectedly, the future successor of Phoenix City, Lord Shen, advocates violence and will use gunpowder to dominate the world. Lord Shen's father is very worried about this. At this time, Xiangxian Gu makes a plan for Lord Shen, saying that if Lord Shen continues like this, it will lead to disaster. No way, my father had no choice but to expel Lord Shen from the city. After leaving Phoenix City, Lord Shen vowed that one day he would return to Phoenix City, and he would defeat Kung Fu and dominate the Central Plains.

After being awarded the title of "Dragon Hero", Kung Fu Panda Po has become a hero in everyone's mind. One time, Lord Shen's minions, the wolf boss, came to provoke him. A Bao, the savage tiger, the fast mantis, the crane, the monkey king and the snake beat them to nothing. However, with the last counterattack of the wolf boss, A Bao was accidentally knocked down, vaguely. I saw a picture that confused me. After returning home, he shared his doubts with Duck's father. Soon, Lord Shen relied on the cannon to retake Phoenix City, trying to implement the plan to eliminate Kung Fu and dominate the Central Plains. ...

Compared with "Kung Fu Panda", "Kung Fu Panda 2" embodies the "Chinese style" more vividly: Qingcheng Mountain, Dandan noodles, Mapo tofu, ancient architecture, ink painting, shadow play, and erhu, Suona and other folk music, especially Sichuan characteristics are particularly prominent. Judging from the theme of the story, "Kung Fu Panda 2" not only continues the style of comedy and inspiration, but also expresses some family affection and the inner world of the characters, as well as more thoughts on human nature.

A Bao saw that Master was practicing the exercises, but he did not understand the true meaning of it. The master said that he worked hard to "quiet his mind", and then he made some moves, so that Bao could see the power of "calm down". Helpless, A Bao was swayed by the name of the Dragon Hero, and he didn't take it seriously. Soon, when repelling the provocation of the wolves, the last blow of the wolf boss made him see a scene of deja vu, which seemed to be related to his life experience, so he left an unsolvable knot in his heart - "Who am I? Where do I come from? Come?" Until he met with Prince Shen, he found that the knot in his heart was getting bigger and bigger, and the bigger he was, the more he had to pursue the truth, he just fell into the trap of Lord Shen, and was shot into the river by Lord Shen, almost Lost life.

In fact, what Master Raccoon said about "calm down" is actually a supreme state of life. Today's society is full of impetuousness, desire and pursuit of fame and fortune. Almost everyone is involved in it and cannot extricate themselves. People often get angry and speak ill of each other because of trivial matters. Nothing happens but they create troubles out of nothing. .....As everyone knows, too many desires and excessive impetuousness will form invisible constraints and obstacles in our life, which will make us full of confusion about the world, and feel that the world has no illusions of hope. This is the case with A Bao, being knocked down by the wolf boss and letting go of Lord Shen at a critical moment has a lot to do with the inner demon. And Lord Shen's fatal shot was not so much a fatal blow to A Bao's body, but rather that Lord Shen used this shot to intensify the contradiction in A Bao's heart infinitely, pushing A Bao to the brink of collapse.

A Bao, who was bruised and exhausted, got help from Fairy Yang. She told the desperate Po that the scenes that seemed familiar were not dreams, but memories. And the reason why these memories seem familiar to A Bao is vague, just because he doesn't dare to face those memories, and the intensification of the contradiction between the pursuit of truth and the face of reality. With the help of Yang Xiangu, he followed his master's words, calmed down, and retrieved the memories of his childhood: It turned out that this is the village where pandas have lived for generations. When he was a child, Bao lived with his parents, played together, and lived a happy and happy life. day. However, Shen Wangye, the heir of Phoenix City, led a pack of wolves to wash down the panda's village. A Bao's father resisted and told A Bao's mother to take the child to escape as soon as possible. Upon seeing this, Lord Shen and the Boss Lang pursued A Bao's mother relentlessly. Bao's mother had no choice but to put Abao in a bamboo box and put the bamboo box on a hidden snowdrift to say goodbye to the young Bao, and rushed out to fight with Lord Shen. . At that time, Bao didn't know what was going on. He just saw his mother throw himself away and left in tears, followed by a peacock and a wolf desperately chasing him.

Calm down! Through this baptism, A Bao finally realized the true meaning of "calm down", which is to control his desires, change impetuousness into calmness, calm his mind, and be able to truly think and face difficulties. By "calm down", let go of all the harassment, but let yourself clear all the fog and see a clear and clear front - so, when A Bao faced Lord Shen's cannon again, "calm down" and put the cannonballs away Turned into "lifting the weight lightly", he fought back to Lord Shen, hit the cannon, and the warship where Lord Shen was.

Compared with A Bao, the villain of "Kung Fu Panda 2", Lord Shen, although he made A Bao unable to extricate himself from the inner demon, he himself is the victim of the inner demon. Shen Wangye was frail and sickly since childhood, and his parents did not place much hope on him, which made Shen Wangye determined not to let others look down on him, but let others submit to him, and from then on he embarked on the road of advocating violence. In order to eliminate the threat of "black and white warriors" (Yang Xiangu said that Lord Shen would be defeated by a black and white warrior), he did not hesitate to slaughter the pandas; in order to avenge his father's expulsion, he recaptured his father after taking back Phoenix City. The king's throne was thrown downstairs; in order to dominate the Central Plains and defeat Kung Fu, he used gunpowder to create a number of cannons in an attempt to realize his ambitions. However, too much sin, hatred and revenge filled Lord Shen's heart, and he was never able to get real happiness, and finally lost in front of A Bao, who "calm down".

The dialogue between A Bao and Shen Wangye in the second half of the film is worth savoring. Lord Shen asked, "How did you do it?" A Bao replied, "Well, first of all, you have to lift your shoulders, then relax..." "No, I mean how did you calm down? I took your parents, and I hurt your life scarred." "That's the point, the scars will heal." "No! The wounds will heal." "Oh, the wounds, and the scars, I think. Go away!" "I don't care about scars or wounds..." "You should care, what happened in the past doesn't matter, what matters is your choice now." For "the choice now", Po, and The Five Heroes of the World, and probably the director, plus those fans who were attracted by Lord Shen's handsomeness and temperament, all hope that Lord Shen can face up to the past and be a good person. However, Lord Shen still chose to be enemies with A Bao and the others, leading to destruction. In fact, Lord Shen was not born a bad person, but just a character, unable to escape the tragic fate.

Let the panda think of ourselves, less impetuous, more thinking, less desire, more practical, less hostile, and more peaceful, what's wrong? Just like the line "Gods and horses are floating clouds" that appeared in "Kung Fu Panda 2", what is worth worrying about and entangled in it? Inadvertent accusations from others? School's inhumane policy? Or is it the setbacks and difficulties for a while that make us never recover? In fact, if we can really "get calm", we will find that the world is not so turbid, the future is not so bleak, the future is not so dark and long, and there are many beautiful things.

In fact, from "Kung Fu Panda 2", we can see that the biggest gap between Chinese cartoons and foreign cartoons is not in technology, not in painting, not in subject matter, not in story, but in thinking about human nature. The narrative style of Chinese animation is just plain and straightforward, and there is a little more truth that the animation tells you directly, not what you understand yourself, but foreign animation is different. On the one hand, the level of narrative is higher than ours, on the other hand, they will tell you Humanistic thinking is integrated into the storyline and characterization, which is still far from being achieved by Chinese cartoons that have gradually moved away from preaching and childish style.

Calm down, think hard, and make your heart stronger. This is the real awakening, the real redemption, and the real growth.

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Kung Fu Panda 2 quotes

  • Mr. Ping: So, how did it go? Did you save China?

    Po: Yep.

    Mr. Ping: Well, I knew you would! That's why I had these signs made! "My son saved China - you too can save! Buy one dumpling, get one free!"

  • Mantis: I didn't have any problems with my dad. Maybe it's 'cause Mom ate his head before I was born...