Where do the children come from?
For parents all over the world, this is clearly a metaphysical issue.
It can be picked up in the trash can, it can be sent with a charge, it can be a Fairy Christmas gift, it can be cut out of the oven of roasted sweet potato, or it can be... Fell directly from the sky.
After all, not everyone can have the same IQ as Sheldon and the same receptivity as his parents.
Romance like Disney, 80 years ago, gave you a standard answer to the "curious baby" - the child was sent by a large white bird, which is nicknamed "sending a crane".
In 1941's Dumbo, Sending Crane made his debut.
Dressed in a blue suit, slender and slender, well-dressed, elegant in speech, the attire alone is full of authority.
As a messenger of heaven, I never forget to show the strict signing process, the consignee signs, opens the box in person, and adds a birthday song as a customer benefit, which is very official.
Not only elephants, but also the film shows the mechanism of biological reproduction around the world, and children of all breeds are sent directly from the sky with white cloths.
Children will suddenly realize at a glance, Oh everyone is the same, and this whole process is the same, there is no reason not to believe.
If Disney's answer is full of classicism and naturalism, compared to the dreamworks that have made a splash with the subversion of the fairy tale concept of "Shrek the Monster", it pays more attention to the temperament of postmodernism and hippie ridicule.
In the story of DreamWorks, although all the children are also from heaven, they take a completely different brain circuit than Disney. All the babies in the world are produced and distributed by a production and marketing integration enterprise called Baby Crop.
The movie is The Baby Boss.
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At the beginning of the film, in 2 minutes, it shows a complete set of commercial operation mode, and there is only one kind of commodity, that is, all kinds of babies.
Rigorous weighing, gender division, evaluation links, while mass production, but also can achieve personalized customization,
Specialized production line, standard sterile environment, it is estimated that it can also be 24 hours of constant temperature, the whole process of strict protection, to ensure that the product zero damage, zero scratching, but also to maintain a happy mood.
All babies adopt a uniform "diaper + baby socks" outfit, plus a pacifier, which is convenient and fast and can maximize cost savings.
The classification of babies is concise, there are only two types – the Ministry of Family and Administration.
Of course, this category is not classified according to skin color, appearance, and race, and politics must be correct.
The criteria for classification are also much simpler and cruder than you might think — just tickling.
If you laugh, you send it to the family; if you don't laugh, you send it directly to the management department.
Yes, the company responsible for the production and distribution of newborns all over the world, all the employees are directly selected from the factory,
With Kubao's "super-secret baby formula", in appearance, they will always be baby, full suits, polished leather shoes, square briefcases, plus a bottle; and at the moment of leaving the factory, their hearts have automatically grown into workplace elites.
If you have the spirit of exploration of children to trace history, you will find that in the Western legend, there is a bird that specializes in transporting children called "white stork".
Legend has it that it landed on the roof of whoever built a nest, who would be happy to be a noble child, so in the European countryside, it is often seen that there is a platform on the roof chimney of the house, which is said to be the foothold for the bird to send the child.
Although the fact is that people with pregnant women generally burn fires longer, so the chimney mouth is warmer, so the white stork prefers such a family.
However, one is well-documented and has deep historical roots, the second is self-justifying, the operation mechanism is complete, and the third dumbo is too cute, the audience's attention is naturally shifted, and Disney's answer can be described as almost seamless.
In 2009, Disney's Pixar Studios produced an experimental short film "Violent Clouds and the Sending Crane", which further explained how the children made it before putting the package in the mouth of the sending crane.
The answer is also very dreamy – it is made by clouds.
Just need to pinch the cotton-like clouds into the desired shape, and then use lightning to "hiss" a sound, a baby is made, immediately bagged and packed, and then sorted and sent by the sending crane, a cloud and a crane, efficient cooperation, clear division of labor.
At DreamWorks, the finished product and the factory operation mechanism are directly demonstrated.
Similar to the chocolate assembly line in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", the baby industry has its own independent system, the company's headquarters is above the clouds, and the baby management model is adopted.
Coolbo can not only get home by free shipping, but also be responsible for the after-sales of babies around the world for a long time.
Of course, this after-sales service is not a general sense of after-sales, whether it can be returned for seven days without reason is really difficult to say.
This after-sales service is to ensure that the baby can get the most love and attention from parents, competitors including but not limited to dogs, cats, fish and many other family pets.
One of the biggest rivals is a pet dog that has the same cute function as a baby.
As for the way to send children, it also completely subverts the mythical bird delivery, using a way that is very commensurate with the company's tall name - taking a taxi.
Delivered to the door at 7 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by a doorbell, dear, your package has arrived to pay attention to check oh.
At the same time as the domineering debut, let's spit on Disney's unreliable ancient concepts.
However, the arrival of the baby boss is not to experience life, but to secretly investigate the company that produces pet dogs and look for flaws in competitors.
His temporary parents work for puppy co., the biggest competitor.
The purpose of the baby boss is also very clear, to beat the competitors, and then to get a promotion and a raise, and from then on hang on the company's wall of honor.
If Disney and DreamWorks stand at the end of ancient tradition and modernity, the story in the middle is perfectly completed by Warner Bros.
In a modern society, what should I do when there is a problem with the delivery business of the crane?
A year before DreamWorks, "Funny Birds: Cute Treasures Flying in the Sky" (another film delayed by the translation of The Mystery) gave its own answer.
On the one hand, the bird has always been firm in its creed: "We set out from the top of the Stork Mountain to engage in this incomparably glorious mission." This is our responsibility, our core values, the genes in our bones, and this is our sacred duty. ”
But on the other hand, in the face of the "sending children" such a promising and unprofitable and hurtful business, although the bird of sending children maintains the sacred work of transportation, the content of transportation has become the express logistics of the family portrait online shopping supermarket.
Without the business contractor, parents can only restore the previous embarrassing laughter when faced with the problem of "where can I get a younger brother by myself".
So the question arises again, where are the children here?
The idea of the bird is very similar to that of Kubao, before the establishment of family portrait online shopping, children were also produced by a magical machine in the factory above the clouds, distributed and screened by assembly lines, and then distributed to all over the world.
At the same time, the production process of this machine has a hint of Disney's shadow, also with lightning, but the lightning here is more like the same time machine of "Alice in Wonderland 2", plus a 360° rotating precision instrument, which has a little more science fiction flavor.
One thing that's special is that it's pre-customized.
How to order? Write.
As long as you write out your own specific requirements, attach the legal guardian, home address, family composition and final signature, and send it to the headquarters of the bird, the headquarters will customize the ideal baby according to the literal requirements, such as... Can ninja skills.
The baby will then be packed into a Star Wars-like iron box, which is not only very sturdy, but also comes with navigation and shielding devices.
In the end, the bird overcame all odds to reach the predetermined person.
The brilliance of the bird is that it first used the modern concept of the production line to explain where the baby came from, but at the same time combined with the legend of the bird that sent the child, retaining the classicist color, which not only inherited the essence of the former, but also provided a new idea for the latter.
In the same way as building a virtual but reasonably interesting baby production mechanism out of thin air, animation also pays attention to a "from scratch" process, the key is how to make animation not completely detached from life but full of imagination?
Disney's first introduction of myths and legends to the animated screen was innovation, DreamWorks' infinite subversion of traditional fairy tales was also innovation, and Warner Bros.'s eclecticism of tradition and modernity was also innovation.
Each of the three worldviews is unique.
As one of the creative principles that Pixar's CEO has mentioned many times, ask "What if you do this or that. ”
"What if all the toys could talk and have thoughts", so there was "Toy Story";
"What would happen if everyone formed society in the form of animals", hence Zootopia;
If, if, if...
Just as when we discuss the origin of man, human beings can be called by God, can be born of heaven and earth, can be transformed by plants, can be evolved or illusory by animals, or can be made of clay.
There is also a more magical saying in the Huainanzi Spirit Chapter, "There are two gods (yin and yang) mixed, and the heavenly camp ... Qi-like is insects, and essence is human.'" It means that the turbid gas between heaven and earth becomes a worm, fish, bird and beast, and the pure gas becomes a human being.
In the midst of the divergence of opinions, we can see both the commonalities and the characteristics of each, plus some imagination, and the creative space between the two can be extended to infinity.
And when a work makes the audience laugh and at the same time can also be a bright eye, and then think about it, its biggest purpose is achieved.
If I had to say this question, it could probably have been knocked down from a ginseng fruit tree haha.