The cute little lamb is back - "Shaun the Sheep 2: Doomsday Farm"
Today, let's talk about the movie "Shaun the Sheep 2: Farm at the End".
The title is A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019), alias The Laughing Sheep Movie 2: The Aliens Are Here! (Taiwan) / Shaun the Sheep 2: Armageddon.
This British stop-motion clay animation continues to revolve around the seemingly unreliable but unusually responsible Shaun the Sheep.
Shaun the Sheep and his companions as sheep, their main task every day is to produce wool. In order to pass the rest of the time after eating and sleeping, Shaun the Sheep and his pals turned the farm into their own ocean of joy.
Shaun the Sheep alone won't be able to innovate on the farm, nor will it be a matter of tossing around the watchdog and sheepdog Bitzer all day long. In order for the farm to be worthy of the word "doomsday" in the subtitle, Shaun the Sheep needs to welcome alien lifeforms from outer space this time.
When people face the unknown, they will naturally have all kinds of wild thoughts, and pessimists are prone to conjectures of doomsday. Isn't the farm under the alien invasion the doomsday farm?
Stop-motion clay animation is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and each frame needs to be built slowly by the staff. And to complete a feature-length stop-motion clay animation, the amount of work is naturally staggering.
Fortunately, one of the advantages of stop-motion clay animation is that it can give full play to the imagination.
What is certain is that the director of "Shaun the Sheep 2" must be a fan of science fiction movies, and there are a lot of familiar science fiction movie elements in the film. Those classic sci-fi works were all paid tribute to by Shaun the Sheep here.
When the audience watches the movie, they will find that many scenes are familiar, and the original sci-fi movie has a unique flavor after being re-posted by clay.
Crop circles in "Omens", blue tractor beams in "Havoc in the Sky", sky bikes in "ET", maintenance space stations in "Gravity", the same agent in "Men in Black", "Men in Black" The researchers in Arrival, the same cleaning robot in Wall-E the Robot, the classic soundtrack "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" in "2001: A Space Odyssey"...
In addition, the film also uses the literal meaning to explain English proverbs many times.
For example, "A bull in a china shop" refers to people who act recklessly. A cow in a china shop is not a piece of chicken feathers. In "Shaun the Sheep 2", the cow was thrown directly into the china shop many times, and it was heard for a while.
There are no lines in "Shaun the Sheep 2". The dialogue between humans is carried out in the form of pantomime, while there is no dialogue between animals. At most, there are some physical movements.
This is not because the director is learning Kim Kidd and playing the experimental technique of "Möbius", but because the animals and alien creatures in the film speak not human languages.
The advantage of this setting is that children can watch without any barriers, and viewers of any age can watch the film without any obstacles.
As a cartoon for children, "Shaun the Sheep 2" also has an important task to maintain the innocence of children. There is no conventional meaning in the film, the villain, even the seemingly ferocious man in black is just a little girl who is just pursuing her dream back then.
Human nature is inherently good, and no one will aspire to be a bad person, only those who have not found the right method and path. All the characters come back at the end, and children can watch with confidence and boldness, as long as they are responsible for being happy.
The cute little lamb is playing with treasure and returns,
No need for dialogue to be happy all the way.
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