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As a live-action CG film, "Bid Rabbit 2: Escape Plan" (hereinafter referred to as "Bid Rabbit 2"), although it is a co-production between Australia and the United States in terms of pedigree, the whole film is incompatible with hollywood's habitual pompous painting style, and its temperament is closer to the British-led "Paddington Bear" series (2014, 2017).
Although "Bid Rabbit 2" is an original story, it has to be said that the main creative team has learned quite well in inheriting the British humor of the original author Beatrice Potter herself.
Bid Rabbit 2: Escape Plan poster
With the blessing of digital technology, it is not too difficult for live-action CG movies to be ready. Looking back at "Who Framed Roger the Rabbit" (1988), the Garfield series (2004, 2006), and the "Smurfs" series (2011, 2013), the same frame of animals and real people in "Bede Rabbit 2" is undoubtedly more natural and smooth.
Compared with "Sonic the Hedgehog" (2020) and the badly criticized "Tom and Jerry" released at the beginning of this year, "Bid Rabbit 2" is more "real" and more "cute" because the characters are not limited to the two-dimensional painting style of the original paper animals in terms of modeling, which has a three-dimensional sense and is plush.
For viewers who believe in "cuteness is justice", watching a group of animals (in addition to the Bede rabbit family, there are foxes, hedgehogs, pigs, badgers, ducks, frogs, elk, etc.) playing on the big screen is already worth the fare. But "Bid Rabbit 2" does not stop at "selling cuteness".
In the film, As a "bear child", Bid Rabbit can "bear" not to make the audience hate, thanks to the fact that the screenwriter does not condescendingly deal with the theme of the plot from the perspective of an adult, that is, the "escape" and "knowing return" of adolescent rebellious teenagers, and the attention grab war between family members in family life with the meaning of "fighting for the wind and jealousy".
Stills from "Bid Rabbit 2: Escape Plan"
Audiences who grew up in multi-child families are aware of the complex emotional relationship between siblings. As animated films increasingly see children not only as audiences, but also include children's parents and elders as the main force of watching movies, this plot theme has been repeated in different ways in many animated films: "Toy Story 1", "Pet Secret 1", "Garfield 1", "Queen's Corgi"... "Bede Rabbit 1" Rabbits are happy to play the role of CP between the male and female protagonists, and the emotional motivation is the same.
Therefore, if the film wants to have a happy ending and convince the audience, in addition to the need to use one adventure plot after another to make the original "jealous" and "killing" characters "love each other", it is also necessary to help the audience believe that family and friendship will not be cut by sharing, and in the maintenance of family relations, mutual concern is the most solid bond.
The title of "Bid Rabbit 2" is "Escape Plan", but the Bid Rabbit in the movie is not Updike's "rabbit", and after the "escape plan" of chicken flying dog jumping, it still needs to return to the family. The conservative stance of "Bid Rabbit 2" in the concept of family may be very different from the mainstream Hollywood animated films that emphasize individualism and heroism, but it is in the minds of the current audience.
Creating ups and downs and rollercoaster plot reversals are not the story effects that "Bid Rabbit 2" is committed to achieving. The audience can smile the whole time, "watch" Bid's runaway from home with a relaxed and pleasant attitude, join the "villain" gang, and plan and carry out the farm "big robbery" that is the highlight of the film.
In addition to quoting and ridiculing Dickens's golden sentences, the film also "rebounds the pipa" of Dickens's novel "Orphans of the Mist" - of course, without the bitter vendetta and tragic supporting roles of "Orphans of the Mist". Like the Paddington Bear series, the "Bid Rabbit" series is a fairy tale written by the creators for both child audiences and childlike adult audiences. Reality can be cruel, fairy tales are not beautiful.
Cinema transcends the sense of the times and beyond the sense of space. The rural scenery and small-town scenery in the film are of course full of British flavor, but there is no clear sense of the present and regional direction. The film is closest to the cynical "poisonous tongue" plot and the "self-black" plot, and it is only a joke about the exaggerated and vulgar style of the publishing industry to the end - the sense of distance between "Bid Rabbit 2" and real life preserves and maintains the pastoral life charm of the original to the greatest extent, avoiding the film becoming a lame reproduction of the boring life of modern people.
"Bid Rabbit 2" doesn't need spoilers or worry about spoilers. Film throws and picks up stalks that make the audience overwhelmed, which is the traditional skill of English literature and British comedy films. The bun is delicious not on the pleats, and the cuteness of the animals in "Bid Rabbit 2" is not only on the "cute".
Audiences with "bear children" can take "bear children" to the cinema to learn to learn from rabbits' "knowing mistakes and changing them"; audiences with inherent prejudices against "bear children" can also try to understand children's thinking and behavior patterns from a different perspective like the male protagonist in the movie.
Of course, if you just want to go to the cinema and laugh for ninety minutes or so, then this movie is also a real-life adventure in space (please understand this word after watching the movie!). ), and a short and pleasant "escape".
This issue is edited by Zhou Yuhua