Non-mainstream animation

Sigurd 2021-12-25 08:01:10



Crazy dating in the beautiful city,

my days are full of endless waiting, time passed, I gradually washed away my
youth, wrinkled
like a beautiful city trio,

my days are full of
wind, snow and moon, playing the role of a little white face, emptiness, loneliness, and torture I spend my years in Singapore
like a trio

of Bellevilles, carefree as a fool
, ignorance of life, and ignorance about the future,
like a trio of Bellevilles

I long for life in Honolulu, free as a bird,
I am willing to open Happy, without worry,
like a beautiful city trio.

I also wanted to live in Catmundo, let go of all my worries and sorrows and
live my own life, live wonderfully
like a beautiful city trio. Swinchen, the beautiful city, have a date

with you Stop
here, dance lightly
, don't leave in a hurry, don't leave, have an appointment with you.

Paris was once the cultural center of the Western world, when the United States was still barbaric. It embraces cultural forms from all over the world, and all celebrity artists come there to find their home. The French love their own culture just as they love themselves. They are like proud roosters, always proud of their own culture. The decline of France after World War II and the rise of the United States caused the American fast food culture to invade the world, with Hollywood movies and Disney animations everywhere. The French maintain their dignity like a deceased nobleman, and never want to be like the United States. In the eyes of the French, the United States is like a nouveau riche, mechanically creating a large amount of garbage culture.

Even in cartoons, France is reluctant to follow the path of the United States. As we all know, the United States and Japan are the world's largest animation producers, and in the world's animation film market, the United States occupies a dominant position and has become the mainstream force in the world's animation consumption. American animations, such as Disney, and most of the animations produced by Warner Bros. Inc. are increasingly pursuing technological excellence, with increasingly perfect images and almost extreme visual effects. The French animation is the opposite of it, pursuing simplicity and nostalgia for the picture, on the contrary, it is more full of content, just like this French animation masterpiece "Crazy Dating Meidu".

Nostalgia is a feature of the film "Crazy Dating Mirador". There is nostalgia for the silent film and the era of black and white movies, just like the performance of the Meidu trio in the beginning of the film with black and white rough images. It is witty and exaggerated, just like a cartoon. The original Mickey Mouse animation was produced, and the characters in the film rarely had dialogue, and body language was used instead of dialogue. Under the nostalgia, there is an aesthetic style of freehand brushwork, those few fallen leaves passing by, the moving mood of a simple town emerges spontaneously, which cannot be replaced by exquisite drawing. Of course, the Frenchman Xiao Fan did not blindly reject technology. He still used CG technology where appropriate. For example, CG technology was used in the stormy seas, but this is only the finishing touch, not a comprehensive replacement. Because the French always believe that no matter how advanced technology is, it cannot replace culture and art, otherwise it can only be reduced to industrial products.

There is ridicule everywhere in the film, with the French's contempt and disdain for American culture. For example, Mirador, which is the insinuation of New York in the United States, the torch in the hands of the Statue of Liberty has become Bing Qilin, the book has become a hamburger, and the goddess has become very obese, almost a symbol of the material world. The French gave it to the Americans, but the French felt that it made her taste bad for the Americans). The word of Hollywood changed from "HOLLYWOOD" to "HOLLYFOOD" in the film. The French sense of humor is brought into play here, with the fat citizens all over the street, alluding to the material kingdom created by the American fast food culture in addition to bringing obesity. The body still has no cultural contribution. And the fall of the once smashing beauty metropolis trio seems to explain the ultimate fate of culture and art in a material world like the United States, and it is difficult to find a way out.

The real brilliance of the film lies in the depiction of family affection. It does not show family affection all the time like "Finding Nemo", it is extremely exaggerated, lest the world know it. Because there is not too much language dialogue, the film's performance of family affection has almost reached the realm of silence rather than sound.

In the film, the boy who lost his parents lives with his grandmother. The boy is autistic and depressed all day long. To make him happy, grandma found him a puppy, but after a brief joy, there was endless melancholy. Inadvertently, grandma found the scrapbook of grandson, and found that grandson's love for the Tour de France, so she bought a bicycle for him. From then on, he began to train his grandson, intending to help him achieve his ideals. There are a lot of French exaggerated humor in it, such as grandma's use of their own crude tools to help grandson regain physical strength, control diet, and maintain weight. The most exaggerated thing is that grandma used a small pedal boat to follow the huge ship that took her grandson across the ocean to Mirador, expressing the extreme of affection with an impossible way. The grandmother, who has no money, was rejected by the beauty of money, and finally she lived on the street to get the help of the trio of beauty who had fallen into old age. In the bar, they used a variety of useless objects to interpret beautiful music, which seemed to imply that true art does not necessarily depend on matter, it can be expressed in various forms. The four elderly women finally rescued the grandson of the cyclist who was used as a tool from the casino by virtue of their wit. During the chase, the French humor once again exaggerated the performance, which made the process interesting.

When the gray-haired grandson said to the empty seat beside him in the scene before the end of the film: "Grandma, the TV show is over." This scene echoes the scene at the beginning of the film: Grandma asks her body. The grandson next to him: "Is the TV finished? Why don't you tell your grandma." But the grandson left silently. When I watched the last scene, tears almost filled my eyes. This is what the French think of as artistic rendering power, an inadvertent expression.

There is actually a small episode in the film. Why does Bruno the puppy bark at the train passing by the window all day? It's because the puppy was run over the tail by the toy train when he was young, and the pain is still fresh in my memory. On the other hand, the railway traverses the suburbs, completely destroying the overall scenery of the beautiful suburbs. The barking of the puppy is also an attitude of dissatisfaction with the destruction of nature and art in the process of civilization.

The French’s humor is exaggerated and sharp, with a unique extraordinary imagination, using a minimalist way to create an extremely moving family story, but under the extremely abstract picture, it contains moving, which is a strong humanistic atmosphere. French animation. The form of cartoons is not single, and here is also full of different choices.

Text: Eyebrow Ruler

has been published in the June 2004 issue of "China Radio, Film and Television"


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The Triplets of Belleville quotes

  • [repeated lines]

    The Triplets of Belleville: Swinging Belleville rendez-vous / Marathon dancing, doop-de-doo / Voodoo, can-can aren't taboo / The world is strange in rendez-vous

  • [last lines]

    Madame Souza: [voice over] Is that it, then? Is it over, do you think? What have you got to say to Grandma?

    [cut to Champion as an old man watching TV]

    Champion: I think that's probably it. It's over, Grandma.