Today, let's talk about the movie "Black and White Witch Kuila".
Title Cruella / Cruella de Vil (2021), alias Kuila / Black and White Devil Queen (Hong Kong) / Fashion Wicked Girl: Kuila (Taiwan) / Black and White Witch / 101 Loyal Dog Live-Action Prequel / Kuila Deville.
Produced by Disney, the film is the third live-action film adaptation of the 101 Dalmatians series and the first prequel film.
Disney had high hopes for the film, and the announcement was unambiguous, giving enough cards, and it was also the first red carpet premiere film since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States.
Unlike other Disney family fun genre films, this film reveals its own unique temperament. The protagonist is not a silly white sweet princess, but a rebellious girl who takes revenge as her own responsibility.
Kuira the Black and White Witch is Disney's second live-action film with a villain focus, the last of which was Maleficent (2014).
It can be seen that the villain is not immutable, as long as it gives enough tragic background story and makes enough character preparation, any role can be whitewashed.
Glenn Close, who played Kuila in the first live-action film of 101 Spotted Dogs, served as executive producer in this film.
The film's director was Alex Timbers at the beginning, but he quit the project due to scheduling conflicts. Replaced by the current director, Craig Gillespie.
In addition to the popularity of the protagonist, the villain Baroness von Hellman was also popular. Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore and Demi Moore are all competing for the role of Baroness von Herman. In the end, Emma Thompson took the role.
Emma Stone was banned from smoking when she played Cruella because Disney's films have banned characters in the film since 2007.
Emma Stone didn't have all the best during filming, with rumors that she dislocated her shoulder at a Hot Girls concert in London, leading to a delay in filming. Emma Stone later explained that the night before the Spice Girls concert, she accidentally slipped while running on the wooden floor in boots, broke her shoulder in two places, and insisted on going to the concert with a suspender until the next day to get an X-ray. She only then began to recover, which led to the postponement of filming.
Kuila has been portraying the big villain in the 101 Spotted Dogs series, but no one has set out to be a bad guy in the first place. Most villains have suffered a series of deceptions and betrayals before embarking on the blackening route.
This prequel details Kuila's past and present lives, and Kuila has faced various challenges since birth, and she needs to grow up with difficulties and find out the truth to complete her revenge.
Kuila also has a real friendship with Horace and Jasper, not as if they were idiots in other films, but as family.
Through the film, the audience will have a more comprehensive understanding of Kuila, and good and evil are not fixed.
Kuila's natural black and white hair in the film is not completely fictional, and has a certain basis in real life.
Polio is a genetic disorder that causes hair to lack of pigmentation and appear to be completely white.
If it happens that one side of the head is all white and the other side is all black, that is the image of Kuila.
As a prequel film, "Black and White Witch Kuila" has a lot of homage to the previous game.
The armor-studded Hall of Hell, for example, copied the earliest animated film, One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).
For example, when Kuila honks her horn at the entrance of the police station, the sound of the garbage truck horn is the same as the sound in the animation.
In addition to the road of revenge for the growth of the heroine, another major attraction of this film is the very eye-catching costumes. Costume designers naturally play a role.
Jenny Beavan, the film's costume designer, was hired by the director, who had seen Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
Jenny Bevan created and designed 277 costumes in the film, including 47 in Kuyla.
Another highlight of the film is the soundtrack, which incorporates a lot of 60s and 70s rock, punk, jazz, funk, blues and other musical styles, all of which are classic old songs.
The song is very suitable for the content of the film, rendering and setting off the atmosphere at the same time, making a very appropriate annotation to the film.
Bee Gees' "Whisper, Whisper," The Doors' "Five to One," Nina Simone's cover of the jazz classic "Feeling Good," Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," the Beatles' "Come Together," Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy," Blondie's "One Way Or Another." The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go"... As an old music fan, I was instantly excited when I heard this.
The big heroine's anti-traditional revenge,
Prequel films are more interactive.
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