Another sad piece of news.
Famous animator Keane Deich passed away on the evening of April 16, 2020, at the age of 95.
Unknown?
The works of the old masters have indiscriminately occupied the childhood of generations of people around the world.
Tom and Jerry & Popeye.
Keane Deich, an American animator, has lived in Prague, Czech Republic for many years.
Doing animation is a lifelong thing for him.
For the classic Series to Tom and Jerry, Mr. Deich is crucial.
In 1958, when the American animation industry declined, MGM gave up the golden sign of "Tom and Jerry", kicked out the original producer William Hanna, and declared that it would never be animated again.
It wasn't until the 1960s, when Keane Deache returned to the United States to lobby several times, that the classic series was revived.
Due to the production work was done in Czechoslovakia at that time.
Keane's version of Tom and Jerry is also known as the "Eastern European version."
Later, on the Internet, this was known as the darkest cat-and-mouse period.
Sir today revisited the episodes that Keane was responsible for.
It was too different from Sir's impression.
Crazy, violent, weird.
Importantly, the subject seems to have followed suit.
The two protagonist roles are reversed, Tom is conservative and abusive, and Jerry is like an evil demon.
This trick is to climb to the peak of Tom's masochism...
Especially this picture -
The cold chemical test tube, the exaggerated and distorted image, Sir now looks at the back of a cold.
Simply put, Dai qi's "Tom and Jerry" is no longer a hypocrisy work in which wisdom and goodness defeat evil, but a tragic show of bizarre absurdity.
Old man, obviously I want to shoot for adults.
In fact, 2020 is also the 80th anniversary of the birth of "Tom and Jerry".
So Sir reissued the old manuscript today.
In honor of the old man.
It is more to commemorate the two old guys who are getting farther and farther away from our childhood, but more and more like our real life.
Chaplin once said: "Life is tragic in close-ups, and comedy in long shots." ”
This sentence can summarize all the post-90s feelings for Tom and Jerry.
The aftermath of the comedy to the tragedy is also built on both sides of your growth.
As children, we would applaud Jerry's wit.
I found out when I was growing up.
It turns out that this unlucky stupid cat is the most true portrayal of you in the adult world.
When Sir revisits those animations again.
Re-feel the pain of this old cat's repeated "burning whiskers" across the screen.
Suffering came unexpectedly.
In the eyes of many people, cats are the cutest species in the world.
Sadly, Tom is probably the least cute cat in the world.
Because of treachery, because of cunning, so —
Masochism has become the norm for great pleasure.
Although, as we all know, cats are liquid.
However, The masochistic situation of Mr. Tom has already broken through the limits of mechanics that science cannot tolerate.
In the most ferocious way, it destroyed the dignity of Tom's birth as a cat.
Even, many merchants with sinister intentions collect these classic famous scenes without opening which pot, make them into sand sculptures, and eat cat blood steamed buns.
Tom and Jerry, born to be nemesis.
But years later, looking back, what decided to have a sword fight between Tom and Jerry never seemed to have anything to do with the food chain.
It's kPIs.
It can be said that Tom himself is an enlightened teaching material for you to contact the culture of social animals.
As a house cat, Tom not only did not enjoy a day of pet treatment, but also repeated a job day and night -
Catch Jerry.
High intensity, poor treatment; risky, no credit.
Deadline arrives, KPIs are not reached (no possibility of reaching...). ）。
You have to face the dismissal warning of the "bosses" with cold eyebrows.
Despite the horizontal comparison, the tragic color of Tom's teacher far exceeds that of the later clumsy imitators.
Gray wolves catch sheep to satisfy their appetites, and bald heads cut down forests for the sake of evil economic benefits...
And all of Tom's treachery and cunning is just 996.
Sir's most impressive one is called "Two Mouse Swordsmen.".
I didn't notice it at the time.
Now look at the hair erection.
At the end of the story, Jerry takes the little mouse, and after a big fight, he returns with food and drink.
And Tom, as a guard, was sent to the guillotine by his master because of his dereliction of duty...
Is this the first time you've witnessed death in a cartoon?
As a child, you feel guilty: who made him the villain.
When I grew up, I found out that Jerry always won the reason.
What Jerry needs to achieve is the childlike simplicity of truth, goodness and beauty.
And your old buddy Tom is carrying the cold law of the adult world of "if you can't do it".
Gee.
In addition to the boss who only blows his beard and stares at his eyes, Tom's career is even more brutal.
The bulldog named Spike is a small leader who crushes people at the first level of the official.
Obviously, they are all "colleagues in a company", but they always elbow out, becoming a big wall in front of Tom KPI.
Forced him to see people talking to people, and see dogs talking to dogs.
In addition to the internal contradictions of the company, it is also necessary to face cruel workplace competition.
When a new employee easily completes kPIs that you can't reach, how much psychological pressure do you have?
Moreover, this new colleague is likely to be just an artificial intelligence meow...
When he saw Tom being framed again and again, framed, and bruised.
Then, like a father, day by day, he pursued the ideal goal again and again, doing a useless but tired chase.
That's why we like Tom more when we grow up.
We finally found déjà vu sympathy and empathy in him.
"Did you see that cat?"
"He's like a 'dog.'"
Some people will ask, "A children's cartoon, as for being said to be like this?" ”
Hey.
Of course not.
Sir was blind for half a day, not to say how realistic and cruel "Tom and Jerry" was filmed, nor to prove how tragic the character of Tom was.
Just wanted to take this opportunity to sigh.
From the silly music of childhood, to the observation and empathy of hindsight and empathy.
We have indeed "matured" a lot...
We, like Jerry, were children, so he could laugh out loud.
You can also chase the cheese in your heart like a child.
What about Tom (now)?
In fact, adults, there are also a few places where they can tolerate childishness.
For example, love.
Don't say you're not impressed.
In his hundreds of episodes of love and killing with Jerry, you will surely remember those, or petite and cute, or charming "soup girls".
Don't look at the heroine to change diligently, but the result is often...
Tom's tragic aura destroyed his life completely.
One side is career, and the other side is love.
The most heartbreaking is the episode called "Cat Blues".
It's a dark ending rarely seen in Tom and Jerry.
The beginning of the story is "it is difficult to forget to see you for the first time".
However, the end of the story.
Tom and Jerry sit together on the tracks, waiting for the train to come, giving up on themselves through the heart of the earth.
Although it is an animation.
"Cat Blues" tells a story where love is defeated by reality.
In order to win the smile of his sweetheart, Tom transformed into a dog licking.
You can abandon the race, you can crush your bones, you can owe a huge amount of online loans—
112% annual interest, repayment agreement for 312 months.
Attach one arm and one leg of your own.
and a 20-year deed of sale.
Want to ask you dare to be as obsessed with love as he is? (Do not imitate)
Until the enemy appears.
Lick the dog Lick the dog and have nothing.
He prepared a flower, and his sweetheart was surrounded by flowers; he used his savings to buy a diamond ring to show love, but he was blinded by the "heart of the universe" given by his lover; he owed a huge amount of money to buy a classic car, but he was run smooth and flat by the lover's long-distance sports car...
Tom, who had no problem with anything but catching mice, was completely crushed this time.
A slump, borrow wine to dispel sorrows.
Jerry, who used to be incompatible with him, has become a confidant big brother, afraid that Tom will do something stupid and persuade him to open something.
Unexpectedly, the reversal was caught off guard.
△ "I'm still 'babbling' to teach people, why do you say I have such a thing?" by Zhao Dabao
This episode of "Cat Blues", Douban score 9.3.
Someone said, "This is Wong Kar Wai's cat." ”
Someone said: "The screenwriter was heartbroken by the gold worshipper." ”
It is also said: "It uses blackness and irony to criticize the concept of love raped by modern consumerism." ”
But the most touching thing is that sentence -
"When I was a child, I laughed, and now I see crying..."
It's hard not to empathize with Tom, as an adult, who has lost the only childishness he has.
So, when you see adults again, touched by Tom.
Don't laugh, don't ask.
You don't know how much understanding there is in that melancholy that crosses the hill.
Rewatch Tom and Jerry again.
It was because Sir learned that they would be remade in a live-action version.
Frankly, Sir was not at ease.
It is not afraid that the new version cannot restore the classic jokes and creativity, and it is not looking forward to any CP plot.
Rather, I am afraid that it will not really reproduce the meaning of Tom and Jerry in our hearts.
"Life is tragic in close-ups, and comedy in long shots."
To put it bluntly —
When these stories of different lengths are repeated and superimposed again and again, it is the fate of "Tom and Jerry" that we remember.
In Sir's impression, there is such an episode.
Tom finally "triumphs", and he successfully throws Jerry out of the house, intending to ask his master for credit.
The house hostess was also very happy and finally did not have to worry about rat infestation.
thereupon.
She also kicked Tom out of the house.
In order not to fall into the streets, he begged Jerry to return to the house again, and he naturally regained the lost land.
Everything is back to normal.
A cat that never catches a mouse, a mouse that never leaves the cat.
Plus a dog that follows close behind.
They owe each other and chase each other.
Such a "cat and mouse game" we have learned as early as in more realistic movies.
In "The Piano of Steel", Chen Guilin, who has been fooling people by his mouth, finally stopped suppressing and "moved", pushing the emotions of the whole movie to a climax.
In front of him, he is not an enemy.
Behind him, there is a lover who cannot talk about his lover.
The background is an era that has been abandoned.
Reasoning, indeed, can not be clear.
Can't tell, play with your life to chase.
In "Crazy Stone", Black Skin keeps bragging about how fiercely he runs, and it is not until the end that he runs "as he wishes".
In front of me, there is bread that I think about night.
Behind him, he was chasing after him.
The background is a highway that symbolizes the speed of the times.
Can't stop, can't go back.
Then desperately try and keep running.
In addition to police movies, action movies.
In the movie (or in reality) the running and chasing of adults always seems awkward.
And behind the wretchedness.
It is often a real dilemma that is difficult to balance and ashamed to explain.
In the real world, there are always more difficulties than problems.
Just prick up your ears and you'll always hear some voices of persuasion.
"You're not qualified", "You're not good enough", "You can't do it", "You don't deserve it", "Everything you do doesn't make sense"...
Want to run?
You know, running doesn't necessarily mean winning.
It's just that whenever I see that stupid cat, I chase it with all my might again and again.
Sir would secretly think:
Running up, it seems that it is not a loss.
Don't just publish the love bag, if you have time, you may wish to click on "Tom and Jerry" to see this old friend.
For 80 years, Old Tom has been running.
Just like Keane Deege the Old Man, painting animation, one painting is a lifetime.
Even before he died, his name would not have been known...
But as long as it can create happiness for you, the tip of his pen, he runs.
Now he's gone.
We're going to keep running."
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