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As one of Disney's rare spring animations, the consciousness and state shown in "crazy animal city" is not what an animated film should be.
In a GREAT way.
Since 2008's "lightning dog", with Pixar big guy John lassett's full control, the new generation of Disney animation shows extraordinary progress and achievements. No matter original or adapted works, 2012's "invincible Destruction King", 2013's "ice and snow", 2014's "super Marines" are enough to make any audience who love animation cheer. At this point, the performance next door is very ups and downs (the forest warrior and the story of old Reyes). Sure enough, experience and knowledge are the more important spiritual core than technology.
In 2016's "crazy animal city", Disney presents a super city that only Disney can imagine. It is a classic and amazing Los Angeles style crime story with the style of "murder green toe" or "sex is evil". It is a time not to carelessly preach the dirty adult world and the beautiful fairy tale world.
This is one of the most sincere works in Disney animation.
2016's "crazy animal city" is a great film, almost comparable to the 2008-10 Pixar works (robot story "," flying house Tour "," Toy Story 3), and even a little bit higher in conception. At a time when animal themed animated films are declining and hard to come up with new ones (the endless ice age), Disney has a good lesson: not only in technology and art, but also in plot. Different from the spoof spirit that can not be removed from illumined Entertainment's "pet secret" and Sony's "angry birds movie", crazy animal City inherits Disney's fine lineage - from director to screenwriter to producer to sound effect - and has a new atmosphere on top of it.
The script of "crazy animal city" can be regarded as the most solid animation script since "Lion King". Even if all the characters are hairy to bleeding mammals, you can easily forget that these characters are not human (!). In this animation, we can vaguely see the life propositions discussed more or less in "little ant soldier" and "monster University" -- ideal and reality, effort = success? ——At the same time, it also exudes a fresh wind because of the new elements of the spirit of the times. Hidden in the framework of the classic story of "small town girls go to town to realize their dreams", it is actually an extremely grounded and rich theme about racial discrimination and inherent prejudice.
In an unprecedented, grand and detailed utopian world, we can clearly see all kinds of people represented by cute animals. Farm rabbits, DMV sloths, and the DNA gap between carnivores and herbivores. Even living in the same "animal city" Zootopia "still has to follow various basic rules (FA). Animals of different sizes still enjoy different living spaces. Speculators like foxes will still make use of the loopholes of this rule to earn profits. There are still" drug dealers "and devious villains in seemingly peaceful cities, and predators are still predators The big trouble in the hearts of grass animals is that just because of one case or even one sentence, it will arouse blind confrontation between different classes, shouting to let each other get out of this happy land.
Do you look familiar? Just look familiar. In this modern fable, the mapping of human society can be found almost effortlessly.
Judy rabbit, because of prejudice, no one believes that she can become a good policeman; Nick fox, because of prejudice, no one believes that he is a sincere person (Fox); Mayor lion, because of prejudice, is extremely worried that he can't be trusted by the masses Class bias, race bias, professional bias, historical bias——
It's easy to fall into prejudice, but it's hard to break it
In "crazy animal city", the animation designers can no longer point out the central idea of "great unity of people of all ethnic groups", with the change of the protagonist from the victim of prejudice to the unconscious perpetrators, intending to plant a seed of sincerity and relativity in the hearts of the audience. "Crazy animal city" skillfully and acutely combines tenderness and wisdom, and timely spreads and calls for more tolerance and equality. In my opinion, the real highlight of this film is that in the current social environment, it can generously involve the discrimination of race and religious belief and raise some interesting questions. Both children and adults will think after the end of the story. Considering the recent ethnic tensions, especially the refugee crisis in the United States and Europe, this is obviously a very interesting and bold viewing experience.
Although a lot of lines may be a little nagging for immature audiences, the message of the film is very obvious: prejudice and stereotype are extremely dangerous. In the face of this irreproachable theme, the theme song of mad animal city should be Michael Jackson's heal the world.
Therefore, just from the theme point of view, "crazy animal city" has gone beyond the scope of general animation discussion, and should be taken seriously as a mainstream, appealing light comedy crime movie.
In this film, Disney presents the most ingenious architectural design and animal image, using a rabbit and a fox to represent human dreams, ambitions, talents and defects, creating a perfect metaphor. Around two characters who have produced excellent chemical reactions, a crime thriller style drama is staged in an elaborate crazy animal city (with countless amazing details waiting for the audience to discover). The design of urban environment refers to many popular and modern cultural elements, trying to provide a mild and colorful stage for this serious theme.
With Judy rabbit and Nick Fox's ghost horse double police journey, the audience not only comes into contact with their world, but also reflects on the world around us. The roles of the two protagonists have been well developed in the film, with logical expression and change. Of course, as an animated film, a lot of humor space is essential. There are many very interesting puns and pictures that reflect the stereotype of all kinds of animals, and they are not vulgar at all.
On the whole, this may be the most surprising Disney animated film since Disney embarked on the road of great rejuvenation. Crazy animal city has excellent and lovely characters, a gorgeous story stage, some good jokes, and the most important thing is that it conveys a strong and positive message to children and adults
Peace makes greatness.