The Chinese-style family theme of the "Hostel Wizard" series, and the integration of diversity, equality and tolerance, make it an absolutely correct existence in both the East and the West.
On this Chinese Valentine’s Day, blockbuster movies will be released together, but the most important thing you can’t miss is not "Europe X" or "New X Dragon Academy", but this "Hotel Spirit 3: Crazy Holidays" (hereinafter referred to as "Hotel Spirit 3" ").
As a classic of Hollywood family carnival animation films, the "Hotel Wizard" series produced by Sony Animation not only gathers a large number of familiar monsters, but also has a positive theme of "love and acceptance" that has been widely accepted worldwide. Sought after. Up to now, the total box office of the series has exceeded 1 billion U.S. dollars, and the opening box office of "Hotel Wizard 3" is to rub "Ant-Man 2" on the ground.
In the first two parts, Dracula, the Count of Vampire, built a "Scream Hotel" as a shelter away from humans for her and her fellow monsters in the dark world to protect his daughter Mephis. In this movie, Dracula, who was wary of mankind, was finally eliminated. Under the arrangement of his daughter Mephis, he walked out of the hotel and embarked on a cruise ship to embark on a holiday carnival journey.
△If you change to Pixar to shoot, the title should be "Monster Story".
The same is the family theme, "Dream Travels", "Despicable Me" and "The Incredibles" have already talked about the truth.
The same is the monster gala, the Gothic style has "Zombie Bride", and the warm cute system has "Monster Power Factory", and it seems that there is not much role gap.
With so many jewels ahead, "Hotel Spirit 3" certainly has its own housekeeping skills.
The monster version of "Avengers" assembled
From the very beginning of "Hotel Wizard", the most eye-catching feature has been its large number and distinctive monsters.
As a monster movie, as many as dozens of classic monster images in literary works appeared in "Hotel Elf": vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein, transparent people, mummies, zombies...the latest "Hotel Elf 3" again Unlocked a new Deep Sea Cthulhu monster.
△Dracula’s monster friends are the cutest and most eye-catching existence in the "Hotel Wizard" series.
Vampire Dracula
As the absolute protagonist, Earl Dracula is a famous vampire. His Romanian accent also pays tribute to the prototype of Dracula's role: Vlad III. (For the textual research on the character prototype, please refer to [Facts] Dracula of the True·Villain Series: Other vampires are high imitations )
△Don't speak noble and glamorous, change expression pack in seconds when you speak.
In this novel, the classic monster that only appears in the dark night, usually lives in a coffin, and lives on human blood, is no longer fierce and terrifying in "Hotel Wizard". In his own words, "Monsters cannot kill people. The monster civilization goes backwards for hundreds of years", it can be said to be a pacifist.
They don't drink human blood, but artificial blood. In the first part, Dracula once said to Jonathan: There are many brands of artificial blood, and the taste is very good.
For hundreds of years of human misinterpretation of the vampire family, Dracula said that he couldn't bear it.
△Tucao "Twilight". This "five directions of tender cows" is very vivid.
△Tucao "Four Hundred Years of Fright" Dracula's style.
In "Hotel Wizard 3", Dracula finally took off his signature black cloak and put on a flower shirt for vacation. His temperament suddenly became very Moori Kogoro.
△ Enchanting posture.
Frank Frank
Dracula’s friend Frankenstein, whose name comes from his creator "Frankenstein", this equally famous monster character comes from the novel "Frankenstein" written by British writer Mary Shelley in 1818 , The work is also considered to be the world's first true science fiction novel.
In the original book, Frankenstein is a very lonely monster whose body is stitched together from many corpses.
In "Hotel Wizard", this tall monster becomes very honest and loyal. He will send himself to the hostel by mail separately. After getting on the luxury cruise ship, this honest man loses his hands because of indulging in gambling. , Replaced by a pair of crab claws.
△ Human Jonathan was first arranged by Dracula to be "Frank's relative on the left hand side" in order to conceal others.
Werewolves Wayne & Wanda
As one of the earliest and most popular topics in Western mystical culture, werewolves are usually set in literary works that their appearance is no different from ordinary people, but they will transform into a wolf on the night of the full moon, bloodthirsty and brutal. .
In "Hotel Elf", Dracula's friends, Wayne and his wife, are more like two dogs in their daily lives. What they are most interested in is playing the game of throwing and catching the ball. But because they have to deal with dozens of children every day, it was not until the third part, when they sent the children to the children's paradise for foster care, they finally realized their dream of playing toss and catch the ball.
△ Wolf father Wayne steams in the sauna.
Mummy Murray
As a highly popular character in the "Hotel Wizard" series, Murray, the mummy, is definitely one of the most successful images created.
The mummy was originally the corpse buried by the ancient Egyptians with antiseptic spices.
But in "Hotel Spirit", this mummy becomes a "flexible fat man". Not only does he have outstanding dancing skills, he is also Dracula's love counselor and life mentor, often giving his friends some unreliable bad ideas.
△Spherical shape is also a kind of figure.
Griffin the Invisible Man
This role comes from the science fiction novel "The Invisible Man" published by British novelist Herbert George Wells in 1897. The protagonist Griffin is a "genius physicist who has never been seen in the world." He invented a method to make the refractive index of the human body consistent with that of air, so that the human body can become invisible to others.
Although Griffin in "Hotel Genie" usually only relies on glasses to gain a sense of existence, he is very good face. After the first film that pretends to be a girlfriend and is forced to be dismantled, in "Hotel Spirit 3", he finally succeeded in getting rid of his single dog status and embarking on the pinnacle of his life.
△In order not to reveal whereabouts, Griffin is usually naked...think carefully!
Slime
In 1953, William Joseph Brennan Jr. published a short story called "Slimes." This is how the amorphous creature slime was born. He looks soft, like a pool of green jelly, wriggling forward on weekdays.
In "Hotel Wizard", this beach of "green jelly" can not only "swallow" everything into his body, but it can also reproduce indefinitely. In the latest "Hotel Wizard 3", he successfully had his own son .
△The seasick slime monster treats his vomit as his son.
In addition to these hotel regulars, many new monsters have appeared in "Hotel Elf 3": a goblin who likes to trick or treat, a cold waiter with a British accent, the ultimate Cthulhu North Sea Giant Monster (Kraken), and even one Only the nine-tailed fox of the oriental monster in "Shan Hai Jing".
These famous monsters in the field of fantasy literature gathered together in "Hotel Wizard", with the most unfamiliar appearance, showing the most hilarious comedy effect, and also made "Hotel Wizard" in the monster movie. Unique position.
"Chinese-style family" reappears
Speaking of the "Hotel Wizard" series, the biggest difference from other family-themed animated films is that it focuses on a very Chinese perspective.
From the overprotection of Dracula’s adolescent daughter by the blood-sucking earl Dracula in the first part, to the conflict of educational ideals for the next generation in the second part, to the third part, Dracula’s sunset red old life of a century-old single dog, no matter what it describes Parent-child relationship, or the core contradiction of the movie, looks very oriental.
△In the first part, "I always thought that the worst thing was that you left me. In fact, the thing that saddened me the most was that you were unhappy." In the past, countless audiences were also moved.
1. Parent-child generation gap
Although there is a generation gap in the West, in "Hotel Spirit 1", Dracula, a single father who was widowed in his early years, tried his best to stop her 118-year-old daughter from the danger outside. Fleeing from his side, he even combined with the monster employees of the hotel to act in a play, using castles and lovingly painted dungeons as prisons. This kind of "father love is like a mountain" makes Dracula look more like a Chinese father who is overly protective of his daughter.
△ A picture on Weibo that was very popular two days ago, "When you told your mother that you were going out".
2. Differences and contradictions of intergenerational education
In the second part, Dracula, who was upgraded to grandfather, began to worry about the vampire bloodline of his hybrid grandson Dennis again. While his daughter was away, he took his grandson named "Denisovich" to go out, hoping to let him grow fangs, learn flying, scary and many other monster skills.
△From "Batman, a cool man in a cloak who is active at night" to "You are the most handsome man in a cloak, Grandpa Dracula", Dracula has learned a lot from growing up with his grandson many.
The difference in educational philosophy has caused a huge contradiction between Dracula and his daughter Mephis.
In addition, the plot of Dracula taking Dennis to visit the Monster School again in "Hotel Spirit 2" is also very enlightening. Dracula has lived in the mountains for a long time and is not in the world. He has long been incompatible with the outside environment and new education. The teaching methods of the school are changing with each passing day. This new generation of scientific parenting has had a great impact on Dracula's traditional parenting experience.
△ Dracula's simple and rude way of education-"Go!"
Themes like this discussion of the conflicts of inter-generational raising, the differences in family and school education concepts are rarely involved in Hollywood animated films of similar themes, and these are the hottest topics in the film and television of the celestial dynasty.
3. The sunset red life
In "Hostel 3", Sony extended the tentacles of the subject matter to the old life of the widower Dracula.
There is no shortage of tourist attractions clock-in + square dance (er, Beng Yang Sheng Di), and the old wife Zeng who always wants your life is simply a mother-in-law PLUS who wants to trouble you. The core theme has also changed from "Children need to experience their own life". "Parents also have the right to pursue love", and the content of the discussion touches on whether the elderly (huh?) can love again after their widowed.
△ Dracula's zing (in the monster world, zing refers to true love at first sight) comes as if an old house is on fire, out of control.
If it weren't for the colorful scenes, all kinds of Western monsters grouped to sell cute, just looking at the theme of "marrying a daughter-being a grandpa-another spring", it would be a trilogy made by Zhao Baogang.
In addition to the theme, there are also many small details in "Hotel Wizard 3" that make Chinese audiences smile.
Like the "Superbirth Partisans" werewolf couples who worked hard to drag their babies, they finally had the opportunity to foster a large car of bear children and immediately let themselves go, which made people laugh and sigh with emotion.
△Werewolf couples with more children than one, people can't help thinking that only one is good.
There is also a TV show "Kung Fu Shaolin Monk Master" that made the young man Jonathan Diaosi say "the most important thing is to understand that love is an infinite puzzle beyond our understanding".
And the most Chinese sentence in "Hotel Spirit 3" is precisely its core line:
"Yougotta be greater than the haters."
This Taoist thought of "repaying grievances with virtue" is the most "Chinese-style" answer given by "Hotel Wizard 3" when dealing with "what should a great-granddaughter who fall in love with the world's feuds do".
At the center of the Trump era, calling for an American theme
"Hotel Wizard 3" can be called a "monster version of Romeo and Juliet" that crosses ages, races, and hates.
This is exactly the continuation of the main theme of this series of "diversity integration, equality and tolerance", which has been widely admired by Western audiences and has been criticized by Eastern audiences at the same time.
△ Shemales have different paths + deep hatred, Dracula's courtship road is very bumpy.
In "Hotel Spirit 1", the vampire Mephis and the human youth Jonathan broke through the yoke of race, and an accidental collision made them believe that each other was their destiny.
In "Hotel Wizard 2", the wolf girl Winnie and Dracula’s mixed baby Dennis are greeted at a young age, and they cross the boundaries of species.
△It's just watching a movie. The old and the young are rushing to give out dog food. It's not easy to be a single dog.
And in this one, the old Bacon Dracula, who has been single for hundreds of years, cried to the mobile app and screamed that he wanted a date. Under a careful plan, he and the great-granddaughter of Van Helsing, Erica Fall in love on a luxury cruise ship and finally get married.
△"zingr"——Explore the monster world, swipe the screen to find the person you like.
Looking at the three films in this way, the main story of "Hotel Wizard" is very unified. It is nothing more than the achievement of identity after a lot of jokes . In essence, it is a racial story.
Dracula and his monster friends were originally scattered in the corners of the world and mixed among humans. They did not associate with humans because of conventions, and of course they could not marry humans. This seemed to be a reflection of real social racial issues.
At the end of each movie, this racial contradiction was resolved without exception.
Like in the second half of the first part, in order to retain Jonathan who was about to board the plane and leave, when the monsters rushed to the street, they found that the entire street was dressed up as they were for Halloween.
△The Halloween crowd dressed up as monsters, and the banner that was pulled up read "WE ❤ DRACULA" (we love Dracula).
The two sides who had been opposed for hundreds of years reached a tacit understanding at that moment: the human world accepts and even worships the monsters headed by Dracula, and the monsters also abide by human rules, learn and enjoy being integrated into human society, "alien "Intermarriage" not only appeared, but also became fashionable...
The equal rights theme of anti-establishment and anti-discrimination is highlighted at this moment.
The theme of different species seeking common ground while reserving differences is just like the sentence in "Hotel Wizard 2":
"Canwe stop using the word'normal'? He is who he is. And you can't change him."
A similar plot also appeared in the third part.
When the dust settled at the end of the story, Erica and the monsters told Van Helsing: Whether humans or monsters, whether blue skin or no skin, we are all the same.
Calling for equality and justice, eliminating discrimination and prejudice, isn't this the most mainstream and correct American thinking?
This also coincides with what the director Geundy Tatakovsky said. He once said in an interview: "I think the reason people like "Hotel Spirit" is not only because the characters in it are too interesting, but more importantly, Dracula and the people around him chose tolerance, sympathy and understanding. "
△Russian director Gondy Tatakovsky took a group photo with the cute "Mummy Murray".
It’s no wonder that this sequel has even better reputation in North America than the first two, as the American media commented: “It ("Travelling Spirit 3") conveys a message in a timely manner-accept, love and tolerate those who are with us. Different people. This is what is needed in the Trump era, and it inspires the audience to choose goodwill rather than conflict."
Speaking of Trump, the handsome hairstyle and generous face of the villain, Uncle Van Helsing in "Hotel Elf 3", as well as the neurotic style that makes people unable to touch the routine, are really like someone who is lost.
△I don't allow you to be so blatant about Trump.
As a family carnival-themed cartoon, "Hotel Wizard 3" not only follows the popular monsters’ collective setting to sell cute fans, but also unlocks the "Bermuda Triangle", "Atlantis" maps and the ultimate Cthulhu monster. Through the dazzling fireworks show, high-altitude flight, deep-sea monsters and other lenses with a sense of visual effects, it creates an extremely relaxed and cheerful atmosphere.
△The final boss is a giant octopus awakened by the Indian Divine Comedy.
After boarding the ship, the interspersed with various singing and dancing bridges, as well as the high-energy DJ battle bridge at the end, not only used the god setting of "square dance to save the world" to solve the boss battle problem that even Disney Dad could not solve, but also this. This work won the title of "universe-level leg shaking movie", it is really shameful but useful.
In this way, Sony used Western cooking techniques to cook Chinese ingredients ingeniously, accompanied by a DreamWorks-style subversive spoof and two spoonfuls of Pixar-style exquisite gossip, and finally presented this Chinese Tanabata family feast for the audience suitable for all ages.
As for whether the core it discusses is blunt and necessary, the benevolent sees benevolence, the stewardess will not prevent everyone from entering the cinema to feel and think for themselves.
*Choice of topic / Boss Fang
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