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Review of Shrek 4 in English
Post-criticism is different from film criticism.

The former is a kind of "feeling", feeling and ridicule. You can hold a big face that you like and hate, and release emotions with a loving attitude. The so-called "feeling" emotion means that "seeing, hearing, tasting and smelling" is the product of five emotions: feeling and feeling. There are thousands of people, there is no right or wrong, so there is no need to be serious.

The latter is "evaluation". The critic's meaning of "ping" is also. In other words, it should be "reasonable and meaningful". Everyone can listen calmly. The "lover" applauds, and the "hater" can also nod and say yes, and the four words are "objective and fair".

Obviously, with my personality and level, I can only write "feeling" at most in my life, and I am also happy to write "feeling".

I like history 3.

Compared with Transformers, Harry Potter and The Fuse, I don't hesitate to say that I like History 3. Tired of the excitement of change, the dark memory of Kazakhstan, and the old-fashioned program of the guide. Movies in July and August made me "not relaxed". It's not that the last three films are not good, to be honest, they are all remarkable masterpieces. In the words of the beautiful woman who went with her, whether a movie is good or not is success, and the most feared thing is that nothing will be said.

For 90 minutes, the beautiful woman who went with me looked at me and smiled like a silly child for more than an hour. I can't help it It's not that my jokes are too low. It's that history 3 jokes are too thorough.

Personally, I don't think history 3 should be a classic. History 3 is not the godfather, Shawnk's redemption, bridges of Madison County, burning years. Those who want to look at History 3 with a classic eye had better give up this idea. Just like a plate of hot chicken wings with three layers of honey sauce and three layers of hot sauce, you must finely break them with a silver knife under the background of Bach's piano music, and then carefully put them into your mouth with a carving fork to avoid the oil swelling your mouth. If you chew them in this way, the taste will definitely be greatly reduced. If nothing else, we'll watch you. The way you eat there is to have a big meal. Eating chicken wings means holding an iron drill in one hand, putting your mouth together and taking a hard bite. Tender outside and tender inside, oily in the sauce, all over the cheeks. Spicy or spicy, but your face is bright and your mouth is bulging. Don't forget to say "delicious ~ ~ exciting, too."

I think History 3 is like eating roast chicken wings at a roadside stall. It's not elegant, but it's really enjoyable

Zhou Xingxing once asked, "Do you need a reason to love someone? Need it? " No one answered. Actually, how can there be no reason? People in the world are like the stars in the sky, but I only love you. You must be different. That's the reason. I like History 3 because it is different. Let's comment.

The first reason: subversion

From a psychological point of view, one of the biggest characteristics that distinguishes people from other animals is ambivalence. Humans are always willing to work hard to create an idea and rise to it, and then destroy it intentionally or unintentionally. Just as people expect peace, but they often exchange it with war, the theory of "self-destruction" has been heated up in philosophy and sociology.

The struggle between tradition and anti-tradition has never stopped from the moment when human beings appeared. Interestingly, in this power disparity contest, people often remember the names of those "subversive". From Galileo to hooligans, from Wu Zetian to Sister Jimmy, all ages, men and women, old and young. Old ideas are constantly being replaced by new ones. On the one hand, people denounce this "anti-traditional" approach, on the other hand, they are "complacent" about it. I don't know when "subversion" became synonymous with "avant-garde progress". Shrek is such a subversive work.

First, the subversive concept impact.

History is subverting some traditional concepts of our psychology, such as comics, fairy tales, good and bad, beauty and ugliness, good and evil.

Shrek is not a children's cartoon.

Cartoons often equate people with children's movies. For example, big head son, small head father, big face cat, blue mouse and so on. This phenomenon is particularly prominent in China. I have also seen some film reviews, saying that History 3 is a movie suitable for children around 5 years old. I really don't agree with this.

"History 3" was released in the United States in May, and the box office income in three days exceeded 654.38+0.2 billion, setting a record for the first week of animated film release. In box office analysis, 50% are family audience, and the rest are ordinary audience. It can be seen that the real audience of American history is not children, but adults. On the day of going to the movies, because it was Tuesday morning, the attendance rate was around 70%, most of them were college students who were still on vacation, and some children. But it is by no means an imaginary children's charter.

Not to mention whether children can understand the black-gray humor that often appears at the end of the play, just saying that the original English characters without Chinese dubbing will inevitably make children "eldest sons." Only suitable for children under 5 years old, a bit irresponsible.

I want to borrow a classic line from history 1: "We monsters are like an onion, we are hierarchical, hierarchical ... layer by layer, do you understand ..." History 3 is like an onion, and naive children may only see the outermost purple skin, which is bright and beautiful; Say goodbye to young teeth. Students and friends who are experiencing growing pains can take off the purple skin and see the white onion slices inside, which makes them feel smooth and tender. There are also some people who like to investigate its ending and have some life experiences. They insisted on dialing layer by layer, and finally let the tears choked by onions soar. They felt a little sigh in their hearts: "No matter how big the onion is, it is still skin in the end, and the process is sometimes more important than the result."

History 3 subverts the idea that cartoons are children's movies (although this has long been recognized abroad), and individuals define it as "onion" movies suitable for all ages.

Shrek is not a fairy tale.

Fairy tales, literally, are what children say or say to children. Snow White, Magic Pen Ma Liang, Thumbelina, Nine-color Deer ... The protagonist and story in fairy tales are either black or white, and good and evil are clear. There is no princess who is not beautiful and kind, and there is no prince who is not handsome and handsome. The vicious queen will suffer, and so will the stingy stepmother. No one thinks this is bad, because this is a story for children. It is difficult and cruel to tell simple people what is "relative" without knowing what is "absolute". I remember after reading History 2, a friend's child asked me:

Is Shrek a good man? "

"yes."

"Then why is he so ugly?"

"……"

"It still stinks."

"Being ugly can also be a good person."

"Isn't it better to be a good-looking person and a good person?"

"……"

"Is the princess's father a bad person?"

"Not really ..."

"He is a bad guy!"

"Why?"

"When he did something wrong, the nun punished him and turned him into a frog."

"……"

"Is the princess a good person?"

………

After that, I refused to discuss Shrek with the children. ...

Children's eyes are clean and their thinking is linear. Beauty is good and evil is ugly. This is their logic. Fairy tales are stories fabricated according to this logic. Obviously, history is definitely not such a fairy tale. I feel a bit like a book I read recently, Dolls See the World (another translation of Mafalda's World). Say some adult words through the child's mouth. It is not a fairy tale told by adults to children, but a "fairy tale" told by children to adults.

Secondly, subversive role positioning.

How would you "outsource" yourself if you had the chance to be a prince's princess? There are 10,000 Hamlets in the hearts of 10,000 people, but Hamlet is Hamlet, not quasimodo. Forgive me for digressing. Let's say that the Red Chamber draft, regardless of the shady, is not one in a million. You are not satisfied with the outstanding beauty and handsome guy in Wan Li. Why? Because you have decided sex in your heart, Sister Lin should be like Chen, and Jia Baoyu should be like Brother Ouyang. Unless you get a modern version of Sister Lin with a round face and Brother Bao with a long face, it will look awkward. This is called subversion.

The subversion of the role in history is thorough. Our Princess Fiona has Shen Dianxia's figure, Hulk's skin, tigress's temperament and the habit of "eating worms and washing mud". The man is a four-headed man with two eyebrows like weeds and big eyes like cow bells, and a big mouth that makes the frog feel inferior and throw himself into the river. Not only that, but also because of the psychological shadow of "domestic violence" from childhood (in History 3, I was almost eaten by my father when I was a child. The hero shows obvious defects in personality, such as autism and inferiority in history 1 The grumpy and indecisive people in history II. Immature in history and shirking responsibility 3. I want to ask, can there be such a clown couple when watching the prince and princess movies?

Look at the supporting role. In common sense, stupid donkeys have become the most talkative, and cats who like to live alone have become popular lovers. The frog prince was replaced by the frog king, and the cruel red dragon should have staged "The big bird depends on people". Fiona's mother's iron fist is very powerful, "The Queen is Crazy".

Personally, one of the highlights of History 3 is its anti-angle setting. When I saw Prince Charming inciting villains in a bar, I really thought he had a point. I really sympathize with Captain Hook, Snow White's stepmother, Cinderella's two sisters and others. Actually, what's wrong with them? They were beaten into villains and never turned over. I don't want to blur the concept of good and evil. It is not clear how many opportunities Captain Hawke and others have lost in reality because of prejudice.

All the characters have one thing in common, that is, none of them are in their original positions, and even the "extras NPC" who plays ordinary people are so individual, either watching the prompt board for on-site cooperation or following the audience ... but you don't mind at all. Why? Because subversion is wonderful and interesting.

Third, subversive plot arrangement.

The plot of history is subversive, which is a little close to the "rebellious" psychology of teenagers. To put it bluntly, it is to carry out subversion to the end on the principle of opposing our subjective judgment. ...

You said golden couple, princess and prince, but I became a monster couple. The first episode first gave up the chance for the princess to become a beauty, and let everyone know not to judge a book by its cover. In the second episode, I gave up the chance to turn a monster into a handsome guy, telling everyone that true love will not be affected by any factors. (This is better than Slimming Men and Women. I don't like the ending when the last two people get thinner and meet again. They are fatter and cuter. The third episode gave up the opportunity for the prince and princess to become kings and queens, telling everyone to recognize what they really want. The main story of each episode does not follow the mainstream ideological context but runs counter to it.

You said there must be something hateful about the poor. I am partial to say that hateful people must have compassion. Listen to the complaints of the villains in the bar and see the scene of the one-eyed ghost and loving his daughter. Don't you think he is beautiful, too?

You say that beauty is unlucky since ancient times, but I prefer to say that women hold up half the sky. Are there any women who don't keep an eye on the wind in Shrek? Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella became the new version of Charlie's Angels. Fiona's heirloom is more practical, unlike Prison Break, which took more than a year to come out, and finally Mi Shuai was arrested. I don't know when I can come out at once. See somebody else's Philippine mother a mallet, ruthlessly smashed out.

You said that the king would come back domineering, and I wrote that the weak would find another way. King Arthur is a famous figure in history, honest, powerful, shrewd and tenacious. But our Arthur is a "melon boy" who was bullied at school. When everyone thinks he is useless, you arrange for him to play the secret of "fast man" and kill each other with tears. ...

In front of Prince Charming, the white horse that forced the princess to find her whereabouts, the first confession was not Pinocchio, a cowardly boy who loved to lie, but three "smart pigs" who fought against wolves. Cao Ge's series of clauses of "but", "if", "but", "must" and "therefore" are enough for a foreign language English teacher to talk to 15 people for half a month. Compared with him, I think I am a dumb head.

Examples are numerous. You might as well find it yourself.

The second reason: spoof.

I am a radical person. Spoofing is my favorite. I prefer watching the bloody case of steamed bread to watching Wuji, which is extremely boring. Rather than watching the "narcissistic video" created by this elegant woman for youth entertainment, I would like to see how experts from all walks of life drowned her with saliva. I learned the peerless Qigong of Beijing girl Mao Mao and the stormy carpet bombing of Northeast girls.

Shrek erased all popular spoof factors from American entertainment culture. In the first episode, Fiona's kung fu obviously comes from the true biography of Neo in The Matrix. When the magic mirror introduced the princess, it also applied the routine of American TV talk show. In the second episode, the Lord of the Rings fell on Fiona's hand in the air. We are all familiar with the star-studded scene on the red carpet. In the third episode, Harry Potter, which was released at the same time, became the object of spoof. Arthur wore Hogwarts school uniform and gave a speech in the cathedral. Wizards flew around in broom arrays. Arthur's crazy magic teacher reminded me of the "old urchin" version of Dumbledore. Careful people can look for it, and the hidden blockbusters are more than these.

Distant Mountain replaced the original Hollywood. Hollywood, where you live, can be used as a spoof. Carson, one of the three bosses of DreamWorks? Berg, how can you let go of your old boss who used to be a Disney executive? A number of Disney classic fairy tales, led by Snow White, were used as spoofs. While satisfying the revenge mentality, it also reminds the audience that it is time to pour some "sewage" into the real world for naive, delicate and immature Disney characters and themes.

The third reason: imagination

Eight Hollywood studios (six to be exact after the merger). I like the LOGO of DreamWorks most. In the cloud, the little boy was leaning against the faint crescent moon, and a thin fishing line hung down to the water and rippled. The dreamlike LOGO naturally reveals the theme of "dream". DreamWorks was acquired by Paramount just over 65,438+00 years since its establishment. Chicken Run, Egyptian Prince, Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan and Little Ant Magic all achieved good results, and it has also become a grave digger in other traditional companies. People who create dreams must first have superhuman imagination.

I like to see the "dream" world created by the imagination of a group of geniuses.

What should the love crystallization between donkey and dragon look like?

Genius replied: donkey dragon (so cute)

Why is a cat wearing boots?

Genius replied: the bag that hides money.

How do toads and snakes become romantic love gifts?

Genius answer: blowing hydrogen balloons

What will Cinderella's personal weapon be?

Genius answer: crystal shoes darts

…………

DreamWorks. Sounds like a romantic mess. How can I not fall in love with you? ...

The fourth reason: exquisiteness.

The same roasted chicken wings, although civilian, do not mean uncooked.

What caught my eye in History 3 was his leap in animation creation. I went home to review the first two films, and from the perspective of color fidelity and skin texture fineness, their level of improvement was very obvious. It is said that this film adopts the most advanced PDI technology at present. The expressions and shapes of characters are not simply depicted, but are "made" from bones, bodies and clothes layer by layer. There are hundreds of controllable "mechanisms" in the small joints, and nearly 30 computer animators are responsible for the princess alone (there are 275 computer animators in the whole film, which takes several years to complete). The authenticity of vision has reached an unprecedented level. The biggest technical highlight of History 3 lies in the design of movements, and the rich expressions make each character really come alive. I have always had reservations about the expressive power of animated characters, and I am really impressed. "It seems that only we can't think of it, and there is nothing they can't do ..."

In fact, in terms of animation technology, the domestic professional level does not suffer. One of the directors of History 3 is Xu Chengyi, a Hong Kong native who once worked in Quantum Studio in China. Domestic 3D has been depressed. I think the problem may lie in two aspects, one is creativity and the other is professionalism.

There is a story circulating in the animation company. In the process of creating Shrek, DreamWorks engineers met Kasenberg in the corridor and had to make a detour. This escape originated from Shrek, in which Kasenberg asked for 28,000 trees. If the 3 billion leaves on the tree are connected end to end, a leaf bridge will be formed, which is equivalent to four times that of the earth to distance to the moon. Kasenberg hopes to create a realistic environment in this film: the leaves on every tree are shaking; There is flying dust in the air; Dust raised by the wind-let the audience feel that all these factors that make up the environment are real and can even be smelled! Even if ordinary viewers watch cartoons, they will not study how the hair on the donkey presents different luster under different light; But DreamWorks animators will hold dozens of meetings to discuss the solution to this problem. Can we do that? Maybe we can do it, but will we do it?

The fifth reason: sound.

Animated characters will never replace real people. Because even if one day the technology can be developed to the point where it is fake, without the help of voice actors, we can only return to the silent film era.

Due to technical problems, "Shrek 3" is limited to cinemas that meet DCI digital film standards. Therefore, the film can only be released in English with Chinese subtitles, and there is no Chinese dubbing version. This makes us lucky enough to have a good time. Princess Fiona of Cameron Diaz, Shrek of Mike Myers, eddie murphy of Donkey, banderas of Puss in Boots, and even Justin all made guest appearances for King Arthur. I always admire the actors who dub cartoons, because a good actor can not only create with facial expressions and limbs, but also sound is the touchstone of an actor's acting skills. If you think about the classic "escape", you should know what I mean.