"Dumbo" was put on the screen by Disney in the 1940s, not only created "Dumbo" (Dumbo), a highly popular and cute cartoon image, and the movie won the Cannes Film Festival in 1942. The best film award.
Everyone thinks "Dumbo" is a pretty traditional cartoon, because of its happy ending, because it looks like a story of a weak man embracing miracles, reunion and defeating misery. But for me, it is really too sad. The elements of human inferiority, the law of the weak and the strong, fatalism, and malice interlaced violently in just one hour, and Dumbo's pollution-free actions and demeanor greatly aggravated the tragedy.
This is a baby elephant with a pair of big ears. When walking, the ears will drag on the ground, but the existence that looks like a fetter is given a magical function: flying aids. Thanks to the enthusiastic little mouse brother, Dumbo stumbled upon his supernatural powers. So in my mind, the best ending of the story should be: the little elephant flew away from the circus and lived a free life ever since. Or, it could have another more bloody, more Odyssey version: the baby elephant flew back to the circus after a period of "exile" and burned the entire circus, revenge succeeded.
However, in this movie with a very "realistic" core, the little elephant returns to the circus again. He gained "respect" in the circus with his flying skills, counterattacked as a pillar, and became a shining superstar. In the end, he and a group of animals sat on the shuttle bus and rushed to the next performance of the circus. The most heartbreaking thing about this movie is that when you feel that Dumbo has the power to escape the old fate, that power actually pushes him into hell, in a way that convinces Dumbo. The circus is the whole picture of the world he knows. He descended on the circus and he opened his eyes to see a female elephant in a performance costume. According to this plot logic, the little elephant could not have the consciousness of "resistance". He just has a kind of instinct, a certain primitive driving force. Even if he has the ability to fly and has too many opportunities to escape, he still wants to return to the circus because the female elephant is still imprisoned in the small black room. Only through good performance and survive in the circus can he get more opportunities to meet the mother elephant.
Not to mention the black fables on the surface, the iron room with the title "Crazy Elephant", the elephant herd mocking Dumbo, unscrupulous human beings, all writing the oldest and most sinister desires, animal life in the circus. There are no rules in the regiment. Even in the collective of the weak, it is divided into classes, and Dumbo, who was forced to be separated from the mother elephant, naturally became the target of being expelled.
Perhaps jumping out of tags such as "animal" and "circus", the essence of "Dumbo" is an outline of "evil". Evil is full of mountains and plains, does not know the geography, and does not know the boundaries. When you think you can reconcile with the "evil", in fact, you just obeyed. That is an "evil" that is difficult to overcome.
Whenever I see Dumbo's face, I always think of those violent moments, and then I am completely overwhelmed by the images and data records that exist among the elephants that are related to family and friendship.
Maybe you didn't know that the prototype of Dumbo was an African elephant called Jumbo. It witnessed its parents being hunted by humans and then sold to the zoo, from Paris to London, bumping all the way.
In the London Zoo, it was reduced to an entertainment project. People used to ride it for fun. Long-term imprisonment in the park caused Jumbo to suffer mental and physical torture. However, the greater catastrophe lay behind. The London Zoo sold Jumbo to the Lingling Circus in 1882, because Jumbo's deteriorating body was completely unfavorable to the zoo's profit plan. The emergence of Jumbo rescued Lingling Circus in trouble. Jumbo quickly became a star, and the infamous "Greatest Show On Earth" of the circus agent Barnum became a reality. In the last six weeks of its life, it generated $336,000 in revenue for the circus. In 1885, Barnum's dream broke into London: Jumbo was hit and killed by a train during a business in the circus. Regarding its death, there are two versions: one mentioned earlier, it was hit by a train in order to protect another baby elephant named Tom Thumb, and the other is Jumbo deliberately crashing into the train's "suicidal behavior" .
According to a witness named Edgar Flach, Jumbo was like this when he died —
The animal… reached out his long trunk, wrapped it around the trainer and then drew him down to where that majestic head lay blood stained in the cinders. Scotty cried like a baby. Five minutes later, they lifted him from the lifeless body.. . That night Scotty laid down beside the body of his friend. At last exhausted from the strain, he fell asleep.
Even though the words seem to have tried hard to make Jumbo's death sound less heartbreaking, you can still feel that kind of "heavy", and I really can't bear to look up these records about Jumbo over and over again. In fact, it took Jumbo 15 minutes to actually leave. (24 years, 15 minutes, these cold numbers are unable to define the pain deep into the bone marrow, young Jumbo, after bearing the cruel memory of the death of his parents, got on the train to death. The slow flowing breath of death, can you imagine After Jumbo's death, Barnum bought another elephant named Alice, who took Jumbo's remains on the street (until he died, Jumbo could not rest in peace), and later in a fire, Alice was burned to death , And Jumbo's ashes survived.
So when people describe Jumbo as "superstar" and "the most famous elephant", I am particularly disgusted. Those adjectives about it are all human beings who are "eager to control, manipulate, and utilize". So when Flavia, known as the "loneliest elephant in the world," died recently, the entire city of Cordoba regarded it as the light of the city, and I really felt powerless. Perhaps the most original "evil" of human beings is really a fetter that is difficult to overcome, so that even death can't teach us how to remain humble and how not to hurt a lonely heart. A Jumbo has fallen, a Flavia has fallen, and there will be thousands of elephants, and baby elephants will follow their broken fate.
And Dumbo in "Dumbo", the way to go is the rough, rugged, thorny, tragic dark way that Jumbo has walked. After the death of Jumbo, people found police whistles, gold coins and other objects in its stomach, unbearable pain, I think, shrewd humans, humans who are good at telling the pain of life, and advanced animals that sing the race against life, will never understand. The true meaning of the word.
ps: Elephants are actually a very emotional species, so if you hit them, the pain will be doubled. If you ask them to draw and do some movements that do not conform to the laws of physiology, they will be very painful and unbearable. The weight of life. Protecting animals is not a slogan. It is actually very easy to put it into a small implementation. Not going to the zoo or watching the circus to prevent the children and adults from doing the above two things are ways to help the elephants.
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