A textbook-level family-friendly movie, showing the strength of the script industry

Caterina 2022-01-15 08:02:40

"Crazy Primitive 2" is really a textbook-level family-friendly movie. It flattens the aesthetics of different age groups and merges them together to achieve the effect that is suitable for all ages. It really shows the industrial strength of the script industry, which is worthy of domestic study.

The difficulty of family reunion is difficult for people across age groups to adjust. Younger-aged plots are happily watched by children, adults are like sitting on pins and needles, such as "Bears and Infestation"; while adult-oriented plots often scare children, such as "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Mermaid".

"Crazy Primitive 2" obviously has multiple aesthetic levels:

  • For children: cat-and-mouse-style comic performances, cute objects, stunning scenes (such as a forest mimicking butterflies)
  • For young people: Queer culture and secondary disease, Daddy issue (over-protected/American-style urban-rural cultural conflict)
  • For young adults: Meme has a big bang, playing desperately
  • For the middle-aged and elderly: retro aesthetics (wind in the 1980s) + contradictions between men and women (love, husband and wife) + troubles for children
  • For serious film critics: multicultural tolerance + girls power

The beauty is that it assigns different areas of a movie to different aesthetics:

  • Text style: partial to children, burlesque mainly
  • Character setting: for young people, mainly queer culture
  • Dramatic conflict: youth's rebellion, middle-aged people's anxiety
  • Plot clues: For middle-aged and elderly people, starting from the appearance of the high wall, the plot clues are infinitely close to "King Kong"
  • Theme sublimation: for film critics, feminist + immigration + multicultural tolerance

As a result, there is no direct conflict between various aesthetics, and a high degree of integration is achieved, which makes the audience particularly satisfied. People of every age don't have to get the happiness of other layers, just get their own highlights to be satisfied.

Give two typical examples:

1. Two daughters riding a saber-toothed tiger out of the wall for an expedition:

  • For children: children’s fantasy, such as a forest mimicking a butterfly, which flies away one by one when the cat comes
  • For teenagers: girl-like friendship, respect for queer culture (wow when you see every scar)
  • For the middle-aged: Fully express the excitement of the middle-aged people who love cars and realize the reverse metaphor of the beast to the sports car (usually the sports car is compared to the beast)
  • To serious film critics: the collision of urban culture and rural culture, the budding of freedom and subjective consciousness!

Two, thunder mad flower

  • For children: Unknown Jue Li exaggerated performance
  • For teenagers: Don’t want to be too cool
  • For middle-aged and senior citizens: retro soundtrack, appearance introduction, punk style, rioters, wasteland style
  • To serious film critics: Feminism! Just ask if you are afraid

The feminist theme of the film has become a prominent school in Hollywood in recent years. "The Incredibles 2", "Invincible Destruction King 2," "Zoo City", "Captain Marvel", "Wonder Woman", "Frozen 2"...all have confident and independent female protagonists who rescue men or Defeat the anti-traditional stage of men.

As Zuo Qing, I certainly support this. After all, The Teacher said "Women can hold up half the sky". Chinese men, especially men in industrial areas, have long been accustomed to the culture of "fearing wives". This is called respect and understanding. ?

Of course, my favorite is the endless play stalks in the movies. The King Kong Terrier runs through it all the time. From the scene when the caveman family saw the high wall, my mind is full of the "King Kong" that is about to appear.

Of course, the most hilarious part is the monkey terrier. It turns out that the iron fist monkey is not only an iron fist monkey, but also an iron head monkey ("Shaolin Kung Fu is good" in my head), iron tail monkey, iron cloth shirt monkey, and the most funny thing is that there is another The iron egg monkey that flashed past (playing another monkey’s egg madly, but the screen only gave the legs, it is estimated that this stalk will not pollute the children), it is really too dirty.

The most dirty thing is of course the Banana brothers. I wanted to make a "you are not right" emoticon on the spot.

The loudest thing I laughed at was the movie fan stalks, the most classic of course is the tribute to the Lord of the Rings stalk, the "toe" ring king-here is not a spoiler.

The director was addicted to playing terrier, and finally let the bird hit the fourth wall.

These stalks, children and old people may not be able to get them, but they will not affect their happiness in any way. Because the aesthetic and comedy elements of "Crazy Primitive 2" are expressed in layers and proceeded simultaneously.

This creative method is very worthy of reference by domestic animation practitioners. The biggest inspiration for me is that movies can span ages, but the aesthetics and logic of a certain level must always be consistent, and it must also meet the expectations of the main audience at that level.

It's no wonder that domestic animation is always in a dilemma that is difficult to adjust. Animated films can easily become works across age groups, and each age group puts forward requirements according to their own aesthetics. Judging from the mentality of my middle-aged person, the theme of "Jiang Ziya" is quite adult, but the dramatic conflict is very naive. The role of "Nezha: The Demon Boy Comes into the World" has always been a giant baby and lacks growth. "Big Fish and Begonia" is purely a secondary disease without brain.

The characters in the play are obviously old and young, but they all act according to the logic of children... But the movie is not willing to be younger, and insists on applying children's thinking to the grand logic, which naturally makes the theme or drama conflict collapse. Out of shape.

The most disgusting thing is that the first half is forced to be absurd and funny, the second half is forced to die and the characters are sensational, and finally the sublime sublimation theme is forced. The logic is like a roller coaster. A good movie is a switch of different clues, and a bad movie is a broken splicing of the same clue.

I think they should learn "Crazy Primitive 2" from the perspective of the script industry. The character's words and deeds can be naive, and the personality can be two-pointed, but the conflict of the drama must be in line with the lives of contemporary people, the logic of the plot must be in line with the aesthetics of adults, and the theme of the story must be in line with mainstream values. Only in this way can we gain reputation, which is exactly what the market needs.

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Extended Reading
  • Liana 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    Waiting 7 years for such a sequel to come out, I don’t think it is necessary. I almost committed all the problems of the sequel. The story is weak, the characters are flat, and the jokes are not enough. The modern set is mechanically copied to the primitive era, so that all aspects of the sequel are lazy. After reading it, there is no fluctuation or even feel noisy.

  • Alana 2022-04-24 07:01:21

    You can't get most of the jokes

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