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"Frozen 2" This film gives me the biggest feeling of lively. A week before the release of
, I went to the 711 convenience store in Taipei to check out several times, and the cashier would give away the Frozen collection stickers with a smile.
When you visit Watsons, you will see Frozen concept perfumes, as well as small handbags and dolls with the image of Xuebao on the most conspicuous shelves of the supermarket, as well as pillows and blankets with Aisha Anna printed on them.
also makes a splash on the Internet.
Aisha is so beautiful, "Frozen 2" is so beautiful, such entries are also popular on Weibo after the release.
is beautiful?
is of course beautiful.
But is beauty enough?
"Frozen 2"
Let's talk about the "good-looking" of "Frozen 2". In fact,
is far more beautiful than Aisha. The details are more meticulous, and the perspective is more magnificent. Visually, this film can be said to be impeccable. The biggest innovation of
"Frozen 2" is actually the slogan on the poster:
"step into the unknown world"
It walked out of the ice kingdom and opened up a more ambitious worldview.
We were able to see the spiritual forest background, magnificent fjord scenery, magnificent fantasy light and shadow. The new elements, new characters, and new scenes are still closely linked to the Disney-style freedom. The technical level of
is becoming more and more exquisite and exquisite. The characters are given more detailed and diverse expressions, which all demonstrate the increasingly sophisticated level of Disney's film industry.
But what about after the United States?
Sorry, I didn't see anything.
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"Frozen 2" disappointed me the most is that it became another downright formula movie.
It is so lazy that the structure is directly copied from the previous princess movie "Sleeping Mantra 2":
double heroines, plus a small attendant responsible for playing treasures, the two countries have misunderstandings and struggles, and the two heroines are separated. , And finally discovered the truth, and let go of the previous suspicions. The ending is a happy reunion. There must be racial harmony in the reunion. Even the two soldier leaders must be two people with different skin colors and genders. Even the details of them will suddenly become CPs. The end of
must be that the heroine finally moved from one country to another to be the queen, and the other heroine stayed in the old kingdom. The last scene was that the two sent a letter inviting to get together, and everything went well. What remains unchanged is that the male lead is still useless and the movie ends.
Please answer, is the above plot I described "Frozen 2" or "Maleficent 2"? Can't answer
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That's because the way, the rhythm, and the way to create the arc of the characters in the two films and three acts are exactly the same.
is similar to how you can sing the visuals of "Frozen 2" with colorful and bright lights. The music level is removed, and Maleficent and Sleeping Beauty Princess in "Sleeping Beauty 2" are replaced. The story of the same script of
is still plausible, and there is absolutely no difference in the ending direction. Even the waste prince can be directly replaced by the lost Christopher, which has no effect on the plot.
This is called a formula movie.
Disney has completely formed an assembly-line operation in princess movies in recent years.
is like a batch film manufacturing method that does not require a screenwriter and director. It only requires a group of story assembly workers, and everyone follows a fixed assembly line.
sets plot points in fixed positions, uses visual differences to conceal the homogeneity of the plot paragraphs, and then thinks about a universal ending that can be applied everywhere. When the ingredients of feminism and racial politics are correct, the painting will be released immediately.
Do we really just want to watch this formula movie?
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let’s talk about the degradation of this one compared to the previous one. The most serious thing about
is that the theme of this movie has begun to approach a kind of hollowing.
The feminism in the last film is good, but it's substantive.
is really functional against traditional Hollywood moviesMarginalized female characters, to praise the beauty of women’s sex separation from men, and the power of independence after marriage. In the first part of
, it is self-consistent for men to be reversed, because he himself has a standing scum prince, and There is also a positive male Christopher to balance this gender expression.
Under this premise, the feminist manifesto of the film is convincing.
It is aimed at social constraints, not gender, all of Aisha's bravery and tenacity.
's hard work is real, like a punch on that high wall, you can feel the power of your fist.
But in the second part, I can't feel how strong this fist is. He didn't even hit the wall, only waved against the air. The funny thing was that the wall fell on its own. The
part relies entirely on dwarfing men to bring out the power of women at a low level. The self-consistent feeling of
in the first part is gone, and the only male character Christopher is also positive. What should I do?
is very simple. The screenwriter has portrayed him as a love-brained fool with no IQ. Then, in order not to affect the storyline of the two sisters' dual heroines, he rudely disappeared in the first half of the movie.
, whose name said "because of a coincidence, failed to keep up", after another burst of singing, he was lost.
didn't exist for half of the entire movie, and in the end he accidentally appeared suddenly, becoming an embarrassing existence that barely exists when talking about a functional background role. What is the essential difference between
and those Hollywood male hegemony movies that "Frozen" rebelled against at that time were not friendly to women and had nothing to say?
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Even if we do not talk about these deep-seated doctrines, the story of Frozen 2 is still unqualified.
It is too rush, and it is too peaceful. Because there is no real villain in
and lack of crisis drive, the internal motivation and character dilemma are weak.
In such a weak situation, the film chose a stable road: follow the remaining energy of the first part to finish the story and answer the questions left in the first part.
Therefore, "Frozen 2" seems to have a task, and I want to finish the task quickly and go home for dinner. An obvious example of
is the relationship between Aisha and the four elements.
said very mysteriously at the beginning, the magic forest is shrouded in mist and isolated from the world, and it contains the mysterious power of the four spirits-wind, fire, water and earth.
This should be a world full of unknowns.
When I was expecting these four elements to appear one by one like fighting monsters, and bringing exciting challenges to the adventure, the film explained the origin of these four elements in a blink of an eye.
then easily tamed the two forces of wind and fire.
The water element and the earth element don't even have the so-called taming, so I didn't bother to explain it, and passed this paragraph quickly.
This led to the disappearance of the mystery and unknown created at the beginning.
On the other hand, many plot points and challenges in the movie have been weakened by seemingly coincidental arrangements, causing the story to fall into a dilemma with heavy thunder and rain. The tension and sense of crisis in the story are often weak.
Aisha has the same way of obtaining clues step by step in the process of solving the mystery of her own life experience.
relied on the phrase " water has memory" mentioned by Xuebao casually, and used his own magic to reproduce the scene, which is almost the crudest way to advance the story.
screenwriter "whatever I say is what".
does save her a lot of effort, but it will undoubtedly make the audience feel less than a trace of the fun of exploring with Aisha, single and open.
This "thunder and rain, little rain" feel even worse in the final.
is ignoring everywhere, even wasting "tension".
For example, there is a passage where Anna is trapped in the Stone Valley. The sacrifice of her sister is accompanied by Xuebao's disappearance. Christopher is also lost. Everyone is no longer with her. Her home country and the people trapped in the forest are still waiting. To help her.
Blowing up the dam can make up for the fault of the parents, but at the same time it will flood your own kingdom.
No helper, dilemma, what a paradoxical decision with tension.
But in the next second, Anna almost chose to blow up the dam and let the flood flood her country.
For a happy ending, Aisha, who somehow came to life, and somehow knew that Anna blew up the dam, suddenly appeared again, casting a spell to block the flooded city.
OK, all problems are solved in this way, easily, but everything seems to be in a hurry.
obviously can dig out more exciting characters, but if you don't do it, I want to hurry to the end and hurry to finish.
Aisha and Xuebao are resurrected, Christopher reappears, the kingdom of Arendale is back to normal, and the magic forest is no longer shrouded in fog.
The sacrifices and grandeur of the previous stacks disappeared and returned to the play-style low-school movies.
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let's talk about the role. In
, except for the two sisters, the other characters are not stable enough.
Let me talk about the most "charming" and most lovable Xuebao in the whole film, a functional role that gags and adjusts the atmosphere. The second part of
emphasized the pen and ink on Xuebao, giving it the theme of growth. He sang his song about "grow up" many times in the movie.
only later, as the plot progressed, the screenwriter didn't care about Xuebao's growth theme at all. It was nothing more than that, it seemed that this character theme song was unnecessary and abrupt. While the old role of
was not stable, the new role introduced by the film was not well displayed. There was almost no portrayal of the North Wuzhuo tribe, except for creating a sense of primitiveness.
Of course, none of the above is the biggest problem with the role. The fundamental problem with
is that compared to the first part, there is no new character arc in the second part, that is to say, from the beginning to the end, the characters have no transition curve. The two sisters
seem to have pursued themselves in this adventure and completed an inner sublimation. But there is actually no essential change.
In addition to feeling the love of the sisters again in the movie theater, do the audience see new shining points in the two sisters?
is not at all.
is written at the end
Of course, I cursed so much, not to say that it is a bad film.
just wants everyone to realize that compared with the first part of the inspiration, appeal, and resist.
I am very dissatisfied with the catering, feeding, and perfunctory of this movie.
And I just don't want to open my mouth so actively and be fed these things.
Music/Glee Cast-Let It Go
Photo/"Frozen 2"
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