Beijing News
"Becoming a Secret Agent" 70 points
Movie location: Broadway Cinema Guorui City Store
Attendance: 15
The Agent Comedy Adventure Animation "Becoming Agent" produced by Blue Sky Animation Studios is currently being screened, and this film is co-directed by Troy Quean and Nick Bruno, who have participated in "Snoopy: Peanuts Movie" and "Ice Age 5", and the main characters Super Agent Lance and teenage scientist Walter are voiced by "Men in Black" Will Smith and "Little Spider" Tom Holland, respectively. The film has been released in North America on December 25 last year, Imdb score of 6.8 points, described by many fans as a very creative agent animation, the setting of the two protagonists also cleverly "pastimed" the top agent in film history 007 and the prop design partner "Q".
Character Lance very "Will Smith"
Inspired by Lucas Martell's 2009 blockbuster animated creative short "Dove in the Dove," Agent Transformation tells the story of a well-dressed, single-handed, and bomb-out super-agent Lance who turns into a pigeon by mistake and has to form an impossible duo with peace-loving tech otaku Walter to save the world. A 15-year-old gifted teenager who graduated from MIT, Walter often makes a lot of unusual brain hole equipment, and he has been working on an invention called "biological dynamic camouflage", which can turn the user into something that most people ignore - make them disappear in full view. When Lance accidentally drank the recipe, he turned into a pigeon. As Walter believes "pigeons are everywhere and no one notices them!" It was the most perfect disguise for an agent. So the two began a strange journey to save the world.
In addition to being a secret agent genre film, "Becoming a Secret Agent" is also a brother comedy, and much of its humor comes from the differences between the two protagonists, Lance and Walter are typical eccentric partners, and the animation image, the character's styling design and the two actors look very similar. For the director, the appearance of Lance, the action hero who created the film, was very simple, and director Bruno recalled: "When we said we wanted to create the coolest action hero, we automatically thought of 'Men in Black' Will Smith. He joined, the fit was great and really helped us shape Lance. On screen, Smith's natural charm and talkative voice are indeed a good fit for Lance, and even if he is in pigeon form, he will only listen to the voice or only see the face of the flying eyebrows, and he will feel that Smith is standing alive in front of him.
As for Walter's character development being more challenging, Quinn explains: "We want the audience to laugh at what Walter has done or the situation he's in, he's a very smart guy, but he's clearly not adapted to the real-world laws of survival. He is academic and equally obsessed with his ideas, not as aggressive as Lance. Both directors thought it would be difficult to try to find that balance, "but when we met Holland, we knew we had found Walter, and the charm and enthusiasm of the little spider made Walter come alive." ”
Style Use pigeons instead of heroes to create humor
Director Quean said that "Becoming a Secret Agent" has the classic elements of a secret agent film: exotic scenes, large action scenes, futuristic high-tech equipment and an unforgettable theme soundtrack. They imagined what would happen if a pigeon were used in place of the hero in the movie. The more solid and cool the peripheral elements are, the more likely they are to create a humorous and witty effect, especially when a pigeon becomes the center of the story. Bruno said: "We didn't want it to be a spoof. We wanted it to be an authentic secret agent movie, just happened to be presented in the form of an animation. ”
Agents Has its own unique style, design, and tone of the picture that will help it stand out from its competitors. In homage to the classic secret agent movie, the art director created all the exotic locations in the film, from Washington, D.C., to Japan, to the Mayan coast of Mexico, to the North Sea of Europe, showing a modern world that makes the audience feel intimate.
■ Dialogue with Holland
We're arguing about "war and peace."
Beijing News: The role difference is so big, so how do you and Smith communicate in the film?
Tom Holland: Lance is clearly very fond of taking action and beating people to the ground. Walter also wanted to complete the mission, but in a way that did so without casualties. So, it's actually interesting to see Smith and I arguing about equipment with grenades, oil film, kitten sequins, or hugging airbags (a technological prop invented by Walter).
Beijing News: Is Smith himself far away from the image you imagined?
Tom Holland: He's amazing, he injects a lot of passion and energy into the character. The infectiousness makes you laugh at everything he says, especially when he turns into a pigeon. Because Smith's voice is so recognizable, if you play one of his short films, you'll say, "Oh, that's Will Smith," but it's hard to see him turn into a pigeon.