Do fairy tales have to have princes? Disney tells you again, no need. Without a prince, a princess can save the world, and the friendship between women is more interesting than the traditional fairy tale of princess and prince love.
The female element and the water element run through this "Legend of Finding the Dragon". The picture of the dragon Xisu stepping on the auspicious cloud-like water waves and galloping into the sky is the most beautiful moment in the whole film.
In this story, a big river connects the five kingdoms together. In the movie, we see the protagonist passing through each kingdom in turn along the river, so the water connects the whole country of Longyou.
The special effects of several story backgrounds are very well rendered, not to mention the animation effects produced by Disney headquarters.
Dragon Heart City - the birthplace of water, the inheritance of faith, the source of all hope.
Dragon Tooth Valley - surrounded by water on all sides, the base of rebellion, the decisive battle place for revenge and saving the world.
Longji Mountain - an isolated and remote mountain, lack of water, so lack of trust, extremely unfriendly to outsiders
Dragon Claw Bay - a floating market in the center of the Five Kingdoms, where liars and thieves thrive.
Dragon's Tail Beach - a land of destruction, a remote desert land without water, more isolated as the river dries up, deadly in decline.
Water represents all hope, the reproduction of races, and the inheritance of emotions. Water is gentle, a symbol of femininity,
It's interesting to check out the behind-the- scenes footage of the movie, which is produced by a techno group that's entirely female-led . Tech Lead Kelsey Hurley, Associate Tech Leads Gabriela Hernandez and Shweta Viswanathan are all great in animation female representatives.
Not to mention the only two protagonists in the whole film who save the world, Princess Raya and Shenlong Xisu, are also women (females) with a strong sense of belief.
The image of the water element runs through the whole film. At the beginning of the animation, Raya's father tried to use food and soup to restore the trust between the five kingdoms, but failed. Afterwards, Raya began an adventurous journey, constantly attracting new friends to join,
One detail is the pot of soup that Captain Apo has been cooking. What kind of soup is this?
That’s right, it’s the Tom Yum Kung soup that we can’t stop. The sweet, sour, bitter and spicy flavors in the Tom Yum Kung soup are actually mixed together, and it’s delicious. A beautiful vision of harmonious coexistence.
And Princess Raya made the delicious taste finally, what was the secret recipe from her father that was added to the soup at the end?
It is the emotional inheritance from her father - trust. She injects the most critical emotional condiment into this pot of soup. With trust, the most important magic agent that seasons alienation in the world of indifference, the little friends on the boat, including Ateng and Abo, Xiao Nuo, the heart of the monkey Tiantuan gathered together firmly, and used the broken heart to piece together the complete dragon crystal to save the world.
And the last dragon in the world is also the most interesting dragon. It is the water element, the king of water skills, and the best swimmer, Xisu, is definitely the most interesting character created in the whole film. The dragon turns into a humanoid. Funny, self-deprecating, clumsy, and playful, it's like Awkwafina Bena for dragons.
Xisu is silly and cute, and is the character with the strongest sense of trust in this animation. It seems that the sense of trust flows in her blood, it is innate, and it is the source and true meaning of her life as important as water. . There are many times when Xisu's trust can be said to be absurd, unrealistic, ridiculous, or even a kind of crazy obsession.
And Raya's sense of trust was acquired when she was a child, and then she lost it completely, and finally found it again. The process of Raya's search for dragons and crystals is also a process of finding the trust that has been rooted in her heart since she was a child. Raya's sense of trust is rational, sensitive and fragile, extinguished and faintly about to be reborn.
Why is this movie called Legend of Xunlong? What is the last dragon in Xunzi's world?
Disney is the dream factory of weaving a better world, and I think maybe Disney is telling us that the dragon that doesn't exist but is still looking for is the sense of trust between people in our lives that are dying.
This fairy tale that Disney weaved at the moment when the epidemic (like the black devil like the plague in the film) spreads in our real world comes at the right time, for the lovely people who still have a sense of trust in their hearts and are willing to open their hearts to communicate with this world As a boost of heart, the five different tribes also symbolize the five continents on the earth map, and I also hope that the people of different countries in the face of the epidemic can regain trust and reunite and cooperate, not because of our reality.” "The Darkness" is even more fractured, although we know it's a distant dream.
So, why do we want to look for it when we know this is an unattainable dream?
Going back to the daily reality of our migrant workers, I feel that living requires a sense of trust, but also a silly and cute obsession like Xisu, a goal, and a hope, not to rely on this dream, this obsession is really It can be achieved, at least it can hang you and prevent you from being crushed under the blow of life.
In the real world, we are accustomed to using anger to cover up our incompetence and indifference to embrace the enthusiasm of others. We become no longer trusting anyone.
People who are accustomed to being indifferent and losing trust once had an extremely fiery heart. Now they just don't want the fanaticism buried in their hearts to be spied on by unrelated people, so they chose to hide. Perhaps, before that flower bloomed on their faces, now they just hid it in their hearts.
Princess Raya redeemed herself with this story, and finally put the flower on her face again. I believe you can do it after watching the movie.
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