The soft and cute cartoon shape adds warmth to the film.
After the release of the last "Winnie the Pooh" animated film version in 2011, it was a great success at the box office and word of mouth, and seven years later, the live-action sequel to "Winnie the Pooh", "Christopher Robin", will be released in North America on August 3. In the latest trailer released at present, it can be seen that the "Christopher Robin" in the title of the film is actually the best human friend of Winnie the Pooh in the "Winnie the Pooh" series, in this film he leaves the fairytale-like forest of 100 acres, Robin, who has grown up, is tired of running, and Winnie and his friends are ready to go to the human world to help their friends get out of trouble. It can be seen that Disney's "Christopher Robin" takes a warm and healing wind, and the main purpose is to help "Robin" and thousands of adults like him find their original selves.
The film is the longest in the Winnie the Pooh series, with a total of 104 minutes, and the previous animated version was only 70 minutes long. In addition, this film is also the first parent-teacher film in the series, and the previous cartoons were all G-rated (all-age).
【Creator】
Director, who has directed "In Search of Neverland"
Directing the Winnie the Pooh live-action film Christopher Robin for Disney is British director Mark Foster, a German-born director who has made a variety of styles and acclaimed works such as Monster Ball, In Search of Neverland, Kite Chaser, Quantum of 007, and Zombie World Wars. One of the closest to Christopher Robin's fairy tale style is 2004's In Search of Neverland.
In that literary film starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet, Mark Foster tells the audience the sad story behind the classic children's drama "Peter Pan", and "Christopher Robin" is easy to remind people of that movie. Even Mark Foster himself thinks that these two films can be regarded as "sister articles".
The main actor lives a little boy inside
Playing the adult "Christopher Robin" is the famous British actor Ivan McGregor, and director Mark Foster said that he chose McGregor because he still has a playful boy living in him. This isn't McGregor's first time starring in a live-action Disney movie, as last year's Beauty and the Beast played the prince's maid "Lumia," a character turned into a candlestick by a witch's spell.
The character "Christopher Robin" is based on the original author of "Winnie the Pooh". A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne. At that time, the child often went to London Zoo to see a bear named "Winnie", and even named his own teddy bear "Winnie". This inspired his father, who created the story of Winnie the Pooh.
【Plot】
Who is "Christopher Robin"?
In the film version, christopher Robin, a young boy who has grown up, went to boarding school, participated in World War II, and now works for a luggage company. After the Second World War, the whole of London was devastated, the economy had not yet recovered, no one had spare money to go on vacation, naturally would not buy bags, so the company's business was not smooth, Robin was busy with repetitive work all day, earning money to support the family, invisibly neglected to accompany his family, but also lost his childhood imagination, exhausted, and since then cut off all contact with Winnie the Pooh. Similar to Robin's trajectory in the movie, Christopher Robin Milne went to boarding school, grew up and joined the army...
Pooh and its friends
Work, family... "Christopher Robin" had no solution to all the troubles he had encountered in the adult world, and it was at this time that his old friend in the Hundred Acres Forest found him. For viewers who grew up watching Winnie the Pooh, their names are familiar: Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piggy, Ruby the Rabbit, Il the Donkey, Owl...
This group of Robin's childhood friends re-entered his life, activating his long-dormant curiosity, imagination and optimism, and helping him get his life back on track.
Most of the voices voiced for them have been replaced by well-known actors. But there are exceptions, and it's Jim Cummings who voices "Winnie the Pooh" and "Tigger," who has been speaking for Winnie the Pooh since 1988. Just as Chinese audiences identified Li Yang's voiced "Sun Wukong", foreign audiences recognized him as "Winnie the Pooh".
【Styling】
teddy bear? Winnie the Pooh!
The first time I saw the live-action version of the "Winnie the Pooh" trailer, many fans were most surprised by the shape of "Winnie the Pooh": How is this different from what I imagined?!
In the film, Winnie the Pooh is a furry toy doll, and the color is much darker than the cartoon. If you don't say it, some people will even confuse it with the "Paddington Bear".
But in the eyes of director Mark Foster, such a winnie the pooh is closer to A. A. Milne's imagination, because the latter when he first wrote this story, was based on a group of toy dolls. In terms of specific styling, the animals in the film are closer to the illustrator E.H. Shepard's images, CG staff also refer to a lot of toys from the 1920s to see how they were designed and made.
It is worth mentioning that the design of "Winnie the Pooh" has been fine-tuned after the release of the first trailer, and the corners of Winnie's mouth have risen a little, the eyes have become a little bigger, the coat color has become brighter, and the overall is less sad, and it is more like the image in Disney cartoons.
Winnie the Pooh's transformation into a teddy bear is also very helpful for the plot of the film, and in the trailer Robin takes Winnie and his friends on a trip, which seems to others to be just a bunch of stuffed toys and will not be surprised. But this also has a premise, that is, it is best not to talk to the dolls on the street, or let them occupy the train seat, so that others will think that the person is not normal.
Written by NEMO