Unlike Disney and DreamWorks, French cartoons did not follow the path of animation industrialization in unison, although it was Émile Cohl, a Frenchman born in 1857, who was known as the "modern animation get rich".
In France, which has a deep cultural soil and romantic creative feelings, animation has always maintained a unique French childlike heart and humor, freshness and romance. The most well-known to Chinese audiences is "The Little Prince".
In fact, French animation deserves to know more.
A few days ago, the fantasy adventure animation film "Wormwood Battle" newly created by the production team of the French classic animated film "The Little Prince" released a final trailer and poster. The film will land on the big screen on April 13. Previously, the film was nominated for the 91st Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
The story is adapted from the classic IP "The Whimsical Life of the Little Bugs", which influenced a generation of French people, and tells the story of a wandering "artist" Cricket Apollo, who by chance comes to a mysterious garden, encounters a group of interesting and cute insects, and together with them in the garden a story about friendship and courage.
To say that its biggest temperament must be a childlike heart, just like "The Little Prince".
The film was written and directed by Arnaud Bouron, a renowned French animation director who won the Annecy International Animation Film Festival Infimbuy Award, and scored the film by Bruno Coulais, a French film music master who was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song. The vivid, exquisite and meticulous image design of the protagonists in the film, and the beautiful picture effects all show the profound skills of the production team.
In the final trailer, characters such as Apollo the Little Cricket, Margaret the Queen of the Bees, and LarryLaus the Flea all appeared. Handsome crickets, round bees, furry fleas, cute baby bees and "little fairy" fireflies, and worker bees that yawn and "go to work" to collect honey, have changed people's original impression of insects. In the trailer, Apollo, a cricket, arrives at the Secret Garden by chance to perform for the insects here, and meets the Queen of Bees in the River, but it seems that there is also a deal with the "enchanting" wasps. Can the Bee Legion defeat the Wasp Legion to win? In the battle against the wasps, could Apollo retreat? Stir up the curiosity that belongs to childhood.
In order to better inherit the excellent production and imagination of French animation, the whole film uses CG technology to restore the original picture book and create it according to the real scenes in reality. In order to perfectly present the transition from hand-painted watercolors and real scenes to CG animation, the production team of "The Little Prince" lasted 6 years and cost tens of millions of euros to finally present the beauty of the mysterious garden and the lively and vivid images of the protagonists to the audience.
In the past two years, animation has "crossed the line" into the adult world, which is regarded as a trend. In the storm, "Worm Forest Battle" does the opposite, but also adults a childhood, give children an imagination, return to the truth with cute insect image side to depict the beauty or ugliness of human nature, soothe the adults in reality of the pressure of the heart, to the children to pass on courage, unity and other positive energy. The film retains the innocent childlike fun of the original picture book, while injecting more emotional elements such as friendship and courage, and also integrates funny laugh clips, making it a cartoon suitable for the whole family. The English dubbed version of the film was written by Hollywood actor Justin? Lang and Kevin? Adams and others offered their voices.
1《机械心》(Jack and the mechanics of the heart)
Adapted from the novel of the same name by the ghost writer Mathias Malzieu, known as the "French literary artist Tim Bolton". It's a black fairy tale with a strong gothic atmosphere. It tells the story of a boy with a mechanical heart, Jack, who travels across half of Europe. On the journey, the imagination of creativity gives it a unique temperament: such as the heart of the clock, the spine of the instrument; such as when the winter is too cold, tears turn into ice, birds freeze; for example, when the girl protects herself, her body will be wrapped with vines, and the witch on the mountain is actually a steampunk scientist; of course, when the protagonist is in love, the beautiful snowflakes and the ladder of stars...
2 Ernest & Celestine
A deep feeling across races, a magical journey that reaches the bottom of the heart. This is a super super super warm cartoon. A bear and a mouse, isolated and marginalized by their respective worlds, collide with each other by chance, and it is enough to have each other. Even if it's snowy and snowy outside, even if the whole world is spreading the arrest warrants for me and you, we're hiding in our huts, I'm calling you up and feeding you breakfast, and you're listening to my broken thoughts about setting up my home for me. Once in a lifetime, one couple... Love across species, persistence beyond prejudice, light piano plain watercolor, gentle slender stupid cute warmth. This is the French romance in the heart of the editor.
3 Les contes de la nuit (Tales of the Night)
In a beautiful style, it tells six "pillow stories" such as the entanglement of werewolves and princesses, the unknown beauty in the land of death, the magical legend in the Golden City, the drum boy in Africa, the boy who does not lie, the son of an architect and the cursed lover.
The story is not too complicated, not even too deep connotation, more like the "Grimm's Fairy Tales" of childhood, but simple.
4 The Magician (L'illusionniste)
This is probably one of the few sad and lonely French cartoons. There is a lot to say about the ending. The animation is an adaptation by director Sylvain Chomet of a private text written by Jacques Tati to his illegitimate daughter. It tells that in the late 1950s, magic has ceased to be noticed, and magicians have become unwanted characters in the new era. However, for the sake of his daughter's trust in magic and her yearning for the bustling world, the magician has to think of various ways to make money... Such animation is both a tribute and an elegy, and we all bear the fate of abandonment and abandonment alone in a cruel time. The Frenchman's black humor.
5 "Un monstre à Paris"
In Paris in 1910, a giant monster caused panic among the people. Despite being chased and intercepted by police chief Meynot, the monster remained unscathed and difficult to find. In fact, this monster has a good heart and an amazing musical talent. Throughout the animation, both the city's landscape design and the romantic story and soundtrack fully demonstrate the charm of Paris. It is worth mentioning that the soundtrack of this animation is a classic. Vanessa Paradis presented "La Seine", the flood of Paris in 1910, the streets and alleys were flooded by the river, even the Eiffel Tower was soaked, the only dry land was Montmartre, but this song is the Seine River that sings, admiring the romance of the French, the terrible flood is associated with such a wonderful mood.
6 Kerity, la maison des contes (Kerity, la maison des contes)
Natha will turn 7 years old, but he will never be able to read. He was disappointed in the collection of books his aunt had left him. It is not until night falls that the characters in the book appear and inform Nata that they are in danger of disappearing forever. So Natta throws herself into an adventure to save his friends and their story.
This is a very typical French animation. Touch people's hearts with simple yet meticulous graphics, warm and heartfelt storylines! Do you still believe in fairy tales, do you still have a childlike heart?
Author: Wang Yan
Editor: Wang Yan