Have you all watched The Incredibles 2?
As an old Pixar fan, Uncle Meat went to brush it for the first time.
Although the degree of heart-wandering did not exceed the previous two years of "Mind Agent Team" and "Dream Quest", it was not disappointed.
They are all superheroes, and unlike the main visual spectacle of Marvel movies, Pixar is as human as ever.
You can see it from the character setting.
The superpowers of a family of five are based on the role each person plays in the family.
Men crave to be strong, so Dad "Mr. Super" has super strength;
The mother is always pulled to a million different places, so the mother's limbs and body are elastic and can be stretched at will;
Teenage girls are always insecure and defensive, so the daughter can be invisible and release the energy field;
A 10-year-old boy has endless energy, so his son's superpower is speed;
The baby representative is unknown, so everyone is not sure whether little Jack has or has several superpowers.
The theme of "The Incredibles 2" continues from the previous one, about family.
A pair of superhuman parents, living in a world that constantly forces them to choose their identity, how do they balance "extraordinary" and "ordinary" in front of their children.
The one who struggles with this problem in the first part is Dad, Mr. Super.
In a midlife crisis, he secretly hid from his wife and secretly found the sense of achievement of his youth from being a superhero, until he was in danger and involved his family, and finally understood the importance of family.
The one who needs to balance this problem in the second part is Mom, the stretch superwoman.
In order for her family not to live on the streets, she had to return to her old business, and her husband stayed at home with the children and became a "housewife".
From this point of view, "Superman 2" is very "feminist".
Women are no longer subordinate to men, go out to work hard, and can still be successful and respected. (There is more than one successful woman in the film)
On the other side, men at home with children are exhausted and messed up into a pot of porridge.
So it borrowed the character's mouth to say: Housewives do a good job, but also a superpower.
This "feminine power" is also expressed by the director on the big screen with a pink color symbolizing women, throughout the series.
You watch the first part at the end, the daughter finds self-confidence and looks new.
Before she loved to wear a purple, she changed her pink hair accessories and wore a pink top, which attracted the male classmates she had wanted for a long time to take the initiative to talk.
In the second part, the family moves into the mansion, and her mother's pants are also pink, symbolizing that she is about to return to the top.
In the final final battle, the daughter once again put on the fan hair ornament, and at this time she has grown into a big sister who can stand alone.
It is not difficult to see from here that the "The Incredibles" series continues Pixar's consistent "key" of details.
Animators always work hard where we "can't see."
From young to middle-aged, Mr. Super Energy has less and less hair, and his hairline is getting higher and higher...
In the first part, Mr. Super has a glass jar full of bullets on his desk, which reads: Bullets that bounced off my chest
The glass jar also appears in the second part. When Mr. Super ran to find the car remote control, the jar lay in the middle of a pile of boxes.
When the first trailer of the sequel was released, it could be found that Mr. Super's clothes were enlarged, and there was a furry "pill" on the sleeve.
In the sequel, all the costumes and textures of the characters have gone to a new level, different materials have different lusters, and the details of the creases are more.
We all know that every time Pixar makes a new film, it has to "find its own troubles" and find a new technical challenge.
The challenge of Cars 3 is mud that is neither solid nor liquid, and Dream Quest is the hairless dog Dante's wrinkled and scratched skin.
The challenge in The Incredibles 2 is to get bigger, finer hairs.
We all know that for animation, furry things are the most difficult to do, and they need to be drawn one by one.
The last time Pixar systematically developed hair rendering technology was for the fur monster Sullivan in 2001's Monsters Inc.
In the previous "The Incredibles", although the hair of the characters is clearly rooted, it is slightly stiff when viewed closely, and it rarely moves with the limbs.
But in the sequel, the hair is naturally more.
There are many shots of hair fluttering with the wind in the film, so Pixty has developed a completely new set of techniques to ensure that each hair (yes, each one) is subject to gravity and will make a corresponding trajectory according to the external environment.
There is a scene of a daughter blowing her hair with a hair dryer, and you can even see that her hair is a little longer.
These details may seem inconspicuous, but it is they that create a believable world for the viewer.
All this aside, The Incredibles 2 is another clever action blockbuster.
Why is it smart?
At a time when the audience is already familiar with Marvel DC's superheroes, wearing all kinds of armor, with high-tech weapons everywhere biu biu biu ...
It goes back and sets the story in the 60s of the last century, paying homage to retro.
The image of Dad is referenced by Paul Newman.
The image of mom combines Mary Taylor Moore (below), Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, all independent women of that era.
Another strong woman in the film, Evelyn Deavor, is a fashionable woman with a bit of bohemian style.
She's a mix of Diane Keaton, Anne Lennyx, Yoko Ono, and Patti Smith, so it's no wonder it's so cool.
If you're familiar with the superheroes and secret agents of the last century, you'll get a lot of extra fun while watching the movies.
The film mentions a "red phone line" for superheroes, from the Batman episode starring Adam West in the 60s.
When my mother said that using superpowers was illegal, the younger son Dash came up with a sentence: We are going to fight villains, which defines my personality!
He said it was seen on TELEVISION — also from Batman.
Stretch Supergirl's two rescue operations shortly after the opening scene also have sources -
Stopping trains is almost the same as in 2004's Spider-Man 2.
Helicopter rescue ambassadors were also available in 1978 in Christopher Reeve's Superman.
There are also two TV shows in the film.
One is the animated film "Johnny Quest" watched by the younger son, a popular American adventure animation in the 60s.
The other is The Outer Limits, a black-and-white film that Jack gets up in the middle of the night to watch, which is a brain-hole classic similar to "Twighlight Zone" (Twighlight Zone).
Not only do they pay tribute to superhero movies, but they also have horror suspense movies.
One of Baby Jack's 17 superpowers is the ability to travel to another dimension.
Spielberg's classic horror film Ghost Drive has a similar plot.
Coincidentally, the father characters in both films are portrayed by the same actor, Greg Lee. Voiced/starred by T. Nelson.
There is also a large new mansion that the family has moved into, with an exterior and interior design referenced to Hitchcock's classic North by Northwest.
Same stone wall:
Of course, Uncle Meat feels that "The Incredibles 2" is not perfect.
Perhaps it's the retro homage that limits creativity and imagination, and the action scenes are fluid but not surprising enough to guess what's going to happen next.
Even with impeccable cool scene blessings, it is inevitable that people will feel tired in the continuous hi-dots in the later stages.
Finally, in addition to the previous ones, There are several Pixar fixed Easter eggs in The Incredibles 2, have you all found them?
A113
One of Pixar fixed Easter eggs.
The A113 that every Pixar animation must have is the house number of a classroom in the animation department of the California Animation Academy (CalArts) where Pixar's bigwigs graduated.
In "The Incredibles 2", it appears at the end of the movie theater door where the daughter and the male classmate are dating.
A sign above the theater shows that the movie being released is called Dementia A113
Probably Coppola's sister episode of Dementia 13, released in 1963.
Pizza Planet takeaway truck
Pixar fixed Easter egg two.
In the first "The Incredibles" in 2004, director Brad Bird was a novice at the time and forgot to put the easter egg in the film.
This led to the film becoming the only film in Pixar history that did not feature a pizza cart.
Brad Bird certainly won't "make mistakes" this time.
When Stretch Supergirl tracks down the (fake) "Screen Bully" lair and jumps down from the upper floor and punches it to the ground, the pizza truck stops behind Supergirl.
"Ten Thousand Years of Soy Sauce" John Ratzenberg
Pixar fixed Easter Egg No. 3.
This uncle is a Pixar mascot, and in every Pixar animation, he will voice a simple but not simple soy sauce character -
Ham Pig in Toy Story, Himalayan Snowman in Monsters inc., circus leader in Bugs...
In the "The Incredibles" series, he is the "mole spirit" that appeared at the end of the previous film and at the beginning of this one.
And at the end of the film, in the art illustration that appears when the subtitles are rolled, we can also see the mole spirit that is at large, and it seems to be back.
Uncle Meat bets on 10 chicken legs, and uncle Ratzenberg will be a mole spirit in the next "The Incredibles 3".
Toy Story 4 Easter egg
We all know that in every Pixar animation, Mimi will quietly hide the Easter eggs of the next movie to be released.
For example, in last year's "Dream Quest", there was a poster of "The Incredibles 2".
So "Superman 2" also has an Easter egg for next year's "Toy Story 4".
However, the director said that this Easter egg can't see the drop now, and it will be suddenly realized when you see "Toy 4".
Lunch box
At the beginning of the movie, the Superman family lives in a motel called Safari.
(The inn is real, not far from Disney's headquarters, and has appeared in movies like True Romance.) ）
The family eats Chinese takeaway around the table in the hotel.
Is this takeaway box with "Mountain Treasures and SeaFood" written on it very familiar?
It is a famous Chinese restaurant in the Pixar universe, and the protagonists of "Mind Agent Team", "Ratatouille King" and "Bug Agent Team" are all eating.
I also want to eat aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The pictures in this article are from the Internet and the movie trailer