The name of the animated short film "Rebel Nursery Rhymes" is very interesting, nursery rhymes are songs sung by children, generally innocent and beautiful, how can it be described by the word "rebellion" that cannot be beaten with children?
"Rebel Nursery Rhymes" as its name suggests, is a dark and "unorthodox" fairy tale, many netizens say that the "Three Views" have been ruined by the BBC-produced film, because its prototype comes from the familiar fairy tales "Snow White", "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Three Little Pigs", "Jack and the Pea", but tells a completely different story.
The original "Rebel Nursery Rhymes" is an adaptation of the eponymous collection of poems by the British children's literature master Roald Dahl.
Unlike the traditional "Final Prince and Princess Lived Happily Together" beautiful Grimm fairy tales, Dahl's world is extremely realistic.
In terms of character portrayal and description, the biggest highlight of "Rebel Nursery Rhymes" is the courage to break everyone's stereotype of fairy tales.
This article will start from the three characters in the movie, analyze the "rebellious" spirit of "Rebel Nursery Rhymes", and uncover the secret of Dahl's "unorthodox" fairy tale.
<h1>01. Snow White in civilian clothes</h1>
Do you remember Snow White wearing a beautiful dress, high heels, holding a dwarf in her hand, with a smile on her face, noble and dignified.
But in the short film "Rebel Nursery Rhymes", Snow White finally took off her dress and became an ordinary princess, not an ordinary ordinary person.
When the princess went from fairy tale to reality, she completed the transformation from a vase to an independent woman.
Still widowed as a child, the king's father married a stepmother with a talking magic mirror, the stepmother bribed the hunter to kill Snow White, the hunter was kind enough to let Snow White go, the princess met seven dwarfs in a small town, Snow White earned living expenses by working for the seven dwarfs to wash and cook.
Although these seven dwarfs were rich merchants, they could not withstand gambling, and soon they were surrounded by walls, and they could not even get the money for tomorrow's meal.
The princess without a dress did not wait for the prince's rescue, but found a way to sneak back to the castle to steal her stepmother's magic mirror and get through the difficulties with the dwarf.
The story of Snow White is no longer a story of a princess waiting for a prince to ride a white horse to save her, but a story of an ordinary person who encounters difficulties and will not be helped by anyone, and has to find a way to save himself.
Wherever you can meet noble people everywhere in life, you are the only sure noble person in your life, and you are the biggest backer in your life.
Dahl plucked Snow White's "heroine aura", stole the prince from her side, stole love, but gave her a girlfriend, a friendship.
Little Red Riding Hood, who grew up with her since childhood, was the only person Snow White had ever treated with sincerity in her life.
When Snow White's mother died, Little Red Riding Hood accompanied her, and when Snow White was in a bad mood, Little Red Riding Hood took her to fried rice. They share joys and sorrows together, and you will never think that the princess ended up living happily with her good girlfriend, and at the most difficult time of Snow White's life, when she couldn't open the pot the next day, she missed Little Red Riding Hood, her only friend.
The princess doesn't necessarily need a prince, she needs love, but she does have to have a friend.
Love will have betrayal, and the prince will have new love. The illusory love at first sight is far less than a sincere friendship in Dahl's eyes.
This is the story of Snow White, a strong and independent ordinary girl in civilian clothes.
<h1>02. Little Red Riding Hood after blackening</h1>
The story of "Little Red Riding Hood" in Grimm's fairy tale is basically familiar to everyone, and the big bad wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother when Little Red Riding Hood goes out to pick flowers, and disguises herself as a grandmother and waits for Little Red Riding Hood at home.
Little Red Riding Hood saw through the trick of the big bad wolf, killed the big bad wolf, and lived peacefully ever since. The story of Grimm's fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood ends here.
Have you ever wondered if a naïve and kind child will change his mentality after killing a life?
Dahl seized on this and made an extension of Little Red Riding Hood's character.
The little red riding hood who only picks and sells flowers pulls the trigger and kills the big bad wolf with a gun, but he does not save his grandmother. Grandma is Little Red Riding Hood's only relative, she hates wolves, or resents the unfair fate of this world, she has less, why should she take it away from her?
She hated the wolves that had taken her grandmother's life, the people who had bullied her, and she took the hatred to heart.
This once-kind child took off her own red cloak and silly red turban and put on a coat made of wolf skin, and she grew up, and she became a killer.
She killed the brother of the big bad wolf who came to take revenge, and killed the piglet that pit her money.
She made a second wolfskin coat and gave it to her good girlfriend, Snow White. As for the piglet, she made it into a pig skin bag filled with gold coins stolen from the piggy bank.
She was no longer the kind Little Red Riding Hood, she had become a person with a vendetta. She was strong enough, fierce enough, she built herself armor, and the world could no longer hurt her as it had before.
When you try to blame her, you find that she is not wrong, this is her way of survival. Her experience has made her like this.
Little Red Riding Hood in Grimm's fairy tale has always been kind, even after killing the big bad wolf, but if you think about it, whether the fairy tale is too romantic, Dahl shows the bloody cruelty behind Little Red Riding Hood and restores a more complete story of Little Red Riding Hood.
<h1>03. Choose uncle wolf who let go of hatred</h1>
"Rebel Nursery Rhymes" this story Dahl uses Uncle Wolf to string together all the fairy tales, creating a character image independent of all fairy tales.
There are so many fairy tale images, why did Dahl choose the wolf to play this important role?
It seems that the wolf in the fairy tale is never a good wolf, eating Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, eating piglets... They are vicious, grumpy, and specialize in bad things.
People have always had this stereotype of wolves, and the biggest "rebellion" in the whole text is that Dahl has created a "different" uncle wolf.
The two wolves that Little Red Riding Hood killed were Uncle Wolf's nephews, and Uncle Wolf had only those two nephews.
Uncle Wolf, who learned of his nephew's death, decided to seek revenge on Little Red Riding Hood. He found Little Red Riding Hood's address, and on a rainy night, when Little Red Riding Hood went out, disguised as a nanny, tricked Little Red Riding Hood's two children into opening the door.
Little Red Riding Hood's daughter is older, and she recognizes the wolf, but her brother does not know that the wolf is an animal that is extremely ferocious and has always been very affectionate with the wolf nanny.
The most heart-pounding part of the whole text is that Uncle Wolf said he was hungry! Casually, I went into the kitchen to find something to cook, found the ingredients, and started cooking soup.
You will involuntarily substitute yourself into the scene, as if the next moment Uncle Wolf will kill the two children, throw them into the pot of soup, and become Uncle Wolf's dinner together. Uncle Wolf wants to use his human way to heal his body, so that Little Red Riding Hood can live in the shadow of the pain of losing his son for the rest of his life.
Uncle Wolf was waiting for the gap in the pot of soup and told the two children the story of Cinderella, the younger brother was very happy, and the sister was full of wariness about the wolf at first, but was soon attracted by the story.
When Uncle Wolf finished telling the story and got up, everyone thought that Uncle Wolf was finally going to eat the child. No, Uncle Wolf didn't, looking at these two lovely children, he chose to let go of hatred and the past, he chose to forgive, he came with hatred, let go of hatred and walked.
Or maybe it was the cute brother who changed his mind, people are born equally to all animals, the two children have never seen wolves, the sister's fear of wolves comes from the description of adults, it is adults who tell the children the rules in their eyes with their own eyes.
He decided to keep his image in his brother's mind, he was just a wolf with a cute tail, nothing more.
His nephew kills Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood kills his nephew for revenge, he comes to get revenge, and then Little Red Riding Hood's children come to get revenge?
Let the hatred end in this generation!
Little Red Riding Hood returned, Uncle Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood made a face, and Little Red Riding Hood's heart mentioned the throat eye.
"Goodbye, Little Red Riding Hood!" All the grievances finally turned into five fluttering words.
Uncle Wolf took off his clothes disguised as a human and returned to the forest, where Little Red Riding Hood stood in front of the door and watched Uncle Wolf go away, with a look of disbelief.
Must the wolf be the most heinous? After you watched this animated short, did you change your prejudice against wolves?
There is no absolute role in the world, and the one who looks fierce may be a person with a good heart, and the person who looks good may be a person with a vicious heart. When you look at a person with colored glasses on, you have preconceived notions and cannot make an impartial judgment.
<h1>04. The world is rewarding people who break the fixed number</h1>
There is never a certainty in the world, a princess does not necessarily depend only on a prince, a good child can become a killer, and a fierce bad wolf will have a time of mercy.
As soon as "Rebel Nursery Rhymes" came out, it won the Best Animation Script Award at the 23rd Shanghai TV Festival "Magnolia Award", the TV Animation Crystal Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, and the nomination for the Best Animated Short Film oscar in 2018.
And Dahl, the writer, has also begun to be recognized and recognized by us.
The world is also rewarding people like Dahl for daring to jump out of the prison of thought.
Xu Zheng invited everyone to watch the movie "囧Mom" for free on the first day of the Chinese New Year, which caused a hot discussion during the Spring Festival.
Must a movie only be shown in a movie theater, and can it be made by selling movie tickets?
Because of this year's severe epidemic, the box office will definitely shrink sharply and postpone the release? There is no end in sight, and it is possible to choose a worse point in time.
"囧Mom" in the pre-sale, the box office is only one-fifth of "Detective Chinatown 3", raised to the Chinese New Year's Eve, and then withdrawn, Xu Zheng and "囧Mom" has received a large negative voice, in the "囧" series before "囧Mom" "Hong Kong 囧", film reviews are not very good, so that everyone is not very optimistic about "囧Mom".
If you can't move forward, then you will retreat, and Xu Zheng will fight a beautiful battle with reverse thinking. 630 million sold this movie, although it may not make much money, but it certainly does not lose money. Please watch the movie for free this thing also let Xu Zheng harvest a large wave of popularity, the original "囧Mom" attitude to eat melon netizens have said that they owe Xu Zheng a movie ticket, and so on the movie line, must go to the cinema to support.
After Xu Zheng, other New Year movies have followed suit, but there is no such explosive effect as "囧Mom", because Xu Zheng has made the impossible possible, while others just copy the homework and promote the possibility.
conclusion:
The world is not certain and complete, and when we encounter things, we are always easily limited by the impossible and ignore the impossible possibilities.
We have to ask ourselves, is it really impossible? Why is it impossible? What if I did? Can we think of a way to make it feasible?
When you break down entrenched thinking and prejudices, you find that you open a door with a whole new world inside.
Yu Ji Tao Doll: Headline emotional field writer, a science student but a love for words, full of curiosity about all the unknowns in life, hope to use a pen to share life with you.