The two animated films "Snoopy" and "Doraemon", which were released in the United States and Japan, were warmly welcomed after they were introduced to China in the 80s and 90s. Now in the hot sale of various products, there are always cute Snoopy and lively Doraemon to be co-branded, they have become a big IP to get the love of generations of young people.
Two beloved cartoon characters are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but the protagonists of the two cartoons are out-and-out losers.
In the first episode of Snoopy's Tales in 1965, "Charlie Brown's Christmas," the protagonist, Charlie Brown, begins with the protagonist, "Something must be wrong with me, Reynas." Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy at all. I know that's not right. "Unfolded Charlie Brown's unfortunate life.
At the same time, in 1973, Fujiko F Fujio created the Doraemon series, in which the protagonist's life was even more bleak. Nobita is not good at studying sports, has a weak personality, and is unresponsive. On the contrary, he is still jealous of Xiaofu, afraid of fat tigers, and likes Shizuka. Each time, the little man takes out a good thing, and Nobita gets better from Doraemon to show off, and then gets carried away and is punished.
But conversely, they also carry very good qualities. Nobita needless to say, the most classic is the reason why he can win Shizuka's love. Although Nobita's test scores were poor, sports were not good. But there are good things to think about their parents and Shizuka, sometimes they can't reflect on their abilities, and try to become excellent, but this state does not last long. At the same time, he does not think about his own gains and losses, thinking about his friends, although it is very mediocre, but such a person is not annoying.
The same goes for Charlie Brown. Obey the rules, have a sense of collective honor, care for your pets, and give up the team's jersey so that you can play with your peers. The image of a good old man is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In such a double contradiction, how to change one's tragic fate and continue to maintain one's own conduct has become the most central issue. The growth of the two protagonists is the main plot that runs through the entire animation, and it is also the key to the two works to become classics.
Here Schultz and Fujiko F. Fujio invariably introduces two important characters, Snoopy and Doraemon.
Snoopy is a maverick dog, not at all like his owner's pet. When the owner, Charlie Brown, said, look at the dog, the owner threw the branch out, and the dog ran over and grabbed him back. So Snoopy grabbed a branch and threw it into the distance, looking at Charlie Brown with his eyes. Another time, Brown wanted Snoopy to warm his feet, so he told Snoopy a fairy tale saying that "puppies will sleep at the feet of their owners", and finally, Snoopy moved the bed to Brown's feet.
Snoopy didn't think of himself as a dog at all, he could cook, he could drive, he was good at sports, and his life was relaxed. He also fantasized that he was a brave pilot who had made great achievements in the flying battle of world war I. People have given Snoopy's omnipotence a praise, but it is regrettable that it is only a dog, and if it can become a human being, then he represents the ideal life of modern people, with a house, dignity, idealism, imagination, and does not fail because of his natural disadvantage. Such a dog is enviable and admirable.
But after all, the dog is a dog, it is never a person, and the dog has no secular requirements and constraints. Building a wooden house in the owner's yard can become your own residence. It will not be expected by the dog to win the first place for the school, let alone let the dog be a baseball coach.
Observing Charlie Brown's life, being a baseball coach requires coordinating everyone's requirements and being the core of the team to win games. In the midst of commercial Christmas, Charlie Brown reflects on the nature of Christmas and looks for the joy that belongs to Christmas. He knew he was out of place with life and prepared for the worst that could happen to everything. Snoopy's appearance only showed Charlie Brown a good life, but did not give him clear guidance on his life. Everything can only be in the midst of Charlie Brown's failures again and again, constantly groping, constantly reflecting, constantly compromising.
It is clear that in Penuts' depiction, Charlie Brown is helped by Snoopy instead choosing a more adult lifestyle. He interprets the final dignity of the modern loser, a toad stuck in a quagmire, still reflecting on the starry sky, even in vain, not giving up jumping upwards twice. - "Charlie Brown's Consolation"
On the contrary, Fujiko · F. Fujio is much gentler to Nobita. Even if Nobita does not have a talent that is different from ordinary people, but he can constantly maintain curiosity and realize that he still needs to work hard, there will be a Doraemon to solve his problems and use his own heterogeneous pockets to help Nobita. With any door, you can enjoy the wonderful scenery of the world, with the time machine you can shuttle through the long river of history, with the bamboo dragonfly can embrace the vast sky. In his ordinary and hard life, there is a wholehearted person who accompanies him to realize his unfinished dreams. In Fujio's animation, he uses Doraemon to show the most beautiful kindness to a childlike child.
That nobita, there's a particularly outstanding place... He is indeed a useless person, but he will always reflect on himself, which is a must. Even if it's just a little bit, I want to do better than I am now. ...... Anyone, for example, reads a good novel and finds that 'there is such a wonderful way of life'. But I couldn't think of it myself, so I couldn't continue, and I gradually became an ordinary person. Nobita, on the other hand, reflects at least three or four times a year, no matter how many setbacks he suffers, he still wants to make himself better. With that in mind, I think Nobita is a very good kid. --Fujiko · F. Fujio
Love and freedom are the propositions of every age, and every classic praises love and freedom. In the environment of rapid change of modern social life, those classics have come to us through time and space, and still touch everyone's heart. This is not because of how cute Snoopy and Doraemon are, but because we find ourselves in Charlie Brown and Nobita, and we are also touched by the original author's applause for life. When we are overwhelmed by the torrent of history, we may as well open an animation and regain the place reserved for the ideals of our childhood.