Book-loving monsters --- "The Spiderwick Chronicles" (The Spiderwick Chronicles)

Beulah 2021-12-12 08:01:13

The story goes like this: a family of four, a divorced mother with three children, moved into an old house on a dark and windy night for a month. Choosing to move at this time is simply not planning to live a peaceful life. The house is really not peaceful either. There lives an elf who likes to drink honey, guarding a book that shouldn't be written. This book is called "The Spiderwick Chronicles", translated into Chinese, it can be called "Spiderwick Work Notes: A Guide to Field Research on Fantasy Creatures". A man named Arthur Spadewick spent his entire life studying fantasy creatures and wrote all his discoveries in a book. But his research was so thorough that he even knew how to destroy fantasy creatures, and he also wrote it in the book. The evil monsters in the fantasy creature world were thinking about this book, and tried every means to take it away, killing all the fantasy creatures (including humans, so we are also fantasy creatures).

The most frequent line that the demon said: "Give me the book! Give me the book! Give me the book!" It was so affectionate. Xidu missed the "Nine Yin Zhenjing" but so.

I have seen a lot of cute villains, not many nerds. The old monster is very interesting, although the shape is ordinary.

After the test of "Yangtze No. 7", I found that many people don't know how to watch children's movies. It's okay not to watch children's movies, and I don't watch horror movies and porn movies. But please friends like this, don't talk about children's movies as simple and mentally retarded in the future (I never said A movies for mentally retarded), please go around if you don't watch it. The main audience of children's films is children. Things that are too complicated, scary and cool cannot be brought out, but they are actually more difficult to make. The picture is beautiful, the music is nice, the imagination is rich, the plot is compact, and it is good for children to watch. I have always felt that "Narnia" is a good children's film, and "The Lord of the Rings" is not a children's film. So they can't be compared together.

The "Fantasy Elf Incident Book" adapted from a 2003 children's novel is also a good children's film, suitable for children over eight years old. Be careful under the age of eight. The story involves the divorce of parents, and some scenes are scary. There is a period where the monster turns into a father to deceive the book, and after being seen through it, it returns to its original form. If it is a young child, it may not be easy to digest. But beyond that, the heart of the whole movie is family affection. The plot and details are what the child likes. For example, in order to protect the book, the book-keeping elf put a "warning" on the book: reading this book will have fatal consequences. You think of a teenage boy with a more rebellious and curious character. What will happen after this warning? If you didn't want to see it, you have to look at it. Very cute details.

I like the picture of this film. The bright colors are very dreamy, and the dark colors are not gloomy. Although the time setting is modern, the sense of fantasy is full. The elves and monsters inside are more traditional in shape, which is common in Western folklore. In fact, there are many books about Fairy. I have a copy of "Faeries" by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, and I have always loved it. The fairies in that book are all weird elves. Never tire of it.

The main reason for this film to receive media attention is that one person in the film plays the twin brother Freddie Highmore. This child, in half-old popular Chinese, is "too talented." The acting is pretty good. Lindsay Lohan, who is now dead, did it before. I only hope that Freddie will grow up safely.

It is my illusion or something. I always feel that there are fewer and fewer happy families in today's movies, and children's movies are full of single parents and divorces. In this movie, the mother took three children. I watched "Juno" a while ago. It is even more so that women have the final say in giving birth and raising children. Men are either ignorant or escape. Are we going back to matrilineal society?

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  • Trent 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    Little monsters are blown up by tomato juice, big monsters are eaten by pigs - is that all the wisdom of "Field Guide"?

  • Graham 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    Better than Pan's Labyrinth. For children's films.

The Spiderwick Chronicles quotes

  • [Jared gets his mother on their side to help them]

    Jared Grace: [Jared hands his mother two giant kitchen knives] Steel, it cuts and burns.

    Helen Grace: Good thing we're New Yorkers.

  • [Thimbletack yells at Jared for reading the Guide book]

    Thimbletack: All these years protecting it now ruined by a little twit! Circle, circle, little jerkle. Little jerkle broke the circle!