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Nominated for the 88th Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
"We can't survive without the universe"
The story is burning, sweet, rotten, and sad. The two brothers became qualified astronauts through hard work, but one of them lost contact in outer space, and the other as a substitute was grief-stricken, and finally "feathered and ascended to immortality" and drifted to outer space to reunite with his best friend. The sky is full of stars turning into snowflakes flying in the sky, and the photos are forever frozen in the moment before boarding the spaceship, as if one second they are still making grimaces at each other, and the next second is yongjiao.
Rather than Konstantin Bronzit's anime about Kiyou's "We Can't Survive Without the Universe," it's about "We Can't Survive Without a Friend" that enters the universe. Pillows, bed tremors, keepsakes, martyrdom... You played so hard, does Putin know?
《What evening this evening》
Don Hertzfeldt's work was nominated for the Oscar again after 15 years, and the style of painting is still the same as that of the niece of Whale Dream Fungus, who has just entered kindergarten, but such a simple picture successfully carries a huge theme. Using the dialogue between the two clones spanning more than two hundred years and nesting multiple stories, the ethical issues brought about by the development of science and technology are seriously and lively discussed.
A young and vigorous person cannot appreciate his own aging, a middle-aged man who is busy with his career has no time to think about his own death, and people can only continue to experience the silent passage of time from others, and the David clone is such a existence. "Emily III" as a self-seeking clone, she uses her own experience and story to convey a message to us: technology has worn down human emotions, but no matter how indifferent these emotions become on the surface, the emotions hidden in human nature still exist, loneliness, the desire for love, the sadness of the death of a lover, the longing for hometown...
Sanjay's Super Team
As an honor student in the animation industry, Pixar has already won an Oscar and has already received hand cramps. Last year's Oscar absence, this year's Pixar is clearly going to make a comeback, "Mind Agents" won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in one fell swoop, and "Sanjay's Super Team", based on a true story, also received a nomination for Best Animated Short Film.
The short film tells the wonderful story of an Indian boy, Sanjay, who is forced to turn off the TV and meditate with his father. Sanjay accidentally extinguishes the candle and falls into a fantasy world, where he finally defeats the wick-changing demon with the help of a super team of three Indian gods. Pixar's works have always been large and small, and this time is no exception, and the seemingly simple plot package actually explores the issue of cultural reconciliation, including the reconciliation of mainstream culture and traditional culture, the cultural reconciliation of different countries and regions, and the cultural reconciliation of different ages and classes.
Prologue
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88th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film
The Bear's Tale
Here comes the blockbuster! Directed by Gabriel Osorio Vargas, "The Bear's Tale" won five levels and six generals, and finally won the 88th Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Some people have to ask, this year's Oscar for best animated short film has so many excellent works nominated, why let this one win the award? What's so good about it?
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Lens language
Papa Bear is a street artist who has made a magical little wooden box that can show children a small scene and story, and the short film we see adopts the mode of play-in-play. Due to the particularity of the play within a play, the transition and advancement of the story are heavily used in the method of motion, which can greatly shorten the narrative time and make people feel reasonable.
The protagonist of the play-within-a-play appears in the third shot of the short film, dancing in the morning sun, but he is stuck in a burst of alarm clocks, which seems to indicate something bad.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, Papa Bear stayed up all night adjusting and repairing his machine, and it could be seen that this thing was important to him.
The placement of objects seems to hint at the separation of the family.
The overhead camera explains the environment of the whole room, but also shows some details, and the prints on the bed indicate that there were two bears sleeping on this bed before.
When the bear father came to his son's room, the content was more clear. The neat bed means that no one has been active for a long time, and the bear doll on the bed represents Dad's thoughts.
Some close-up footage suggests that this was once a complete and warm family, but now only the dolls are left to accompany Daddy Bear.
No matter what he does, he brings the doll mother bear and the baby bear with him, which shows the importance of his family to him.
Before going out, I also have to look at the dinner table of a family of three, which is empty. It's not hard to guess daddy bear's inner activity.
Next, the director used three shots of close-up, panorama and close-up to explain the entire external environment and the destination of Papa Bear.
The scheduling of the lens is very exquisite, the first two are to follow the lens, the first close-up shot because it moves with the subject, so the feeling is still fixed, so this lens and the previous fixed lens will be very natural.
In general, in order to have a good visual experience, we all use a fixed lens to connect a fixed lens, a sports lens to a moving lens, and it is uncomfortable to arbitrarily use a fixed lens to connect a moving lens.
The three shots used by the director here are very clever, and the close-up breaks the contradiction between the previous fixed shot and the latter moving shot, and the second motion shot and the third motion shot are naturally connected.
The third motion shot moves from top to bottom, from motion to stillness, clearly indicating that Papa Bear has arrived at his destination.
The passing bear drives the development of the plot, and the content shown in the small wooden box is the most wonderful and ingenious part of the whole film.
Using Motion's transition technique, the director not only shows the wonder of the small wooden box, but also greatly compresses the timeline of the entire story. From the joy and harmony of the family, to the appearance of the circus to break the happy reunion of the family, in one go.
After bringing the audience into the world of small wooden boxes, the director began to use film footage to narrate for two reasons:
First, the audience has been able to recognize the operation principle of the play within a play after a period of preparation, and the second is that although the motion-style transition is fast and good-looking, after all, the lens language is limited, and the function of expressing emotions and focus will be worse.
The following shot is very different from the previous balanced composition, but the director deliberately uses the narrow space, large depth of field and unbalanced composition to portray the heart of the characters well, while ensuring that the protagonist is in the position of golden composition both horizontally and ultimately upwards.
After the mood is laid, the transition method of motion is used again to quickly advance the narrative rhythm.
Entering the climax of the play-in-play, he began to use the cinematic lens language to narrate, highlighting the inner emotions of the characters.
Papa Bear rides his bicycle down the accelerated track, and the director stretches it exaggeratedly to lay the suspense.
The chase passage still uses a motion-like transition method, telling the story of Father Bear's day and night escape life in a very short period of time.
Back home, the house is surrounded by walls, and in despair the wife and children are still there, happyending. But outside the story, we know from the beginning that this is just a beautiful ideal of Father Bear.
The film ends with an empty scene, where Papa Bear continues to shake his ringer waiting to show his story to the next child, and The empty street is alone with Papa Bear, highlighting the sense of loneliness.
Similarly, in this shot, Papa Bear also stands in the position of the golden section of the picture, which is convenient for the audience to focus.
The film does not have a superfluous shot, the director's gentle feelings have a strong audiovisual language behind the foundation, the things that can be solved with one lens are never narrated by two shots, and each shot carries both the narrative function and the emotional preparation function.
background music
The opening chapter begins with a close-up of Papa Bear clockwork, followed by music that sounds, as if opening a music box. Here the music is subtly given a dual function, not only the ambient sound of the narrative, but also the rendering of the atmosphere and the laying of the tone.
Throughout the film, music has always taken into account the narrative and emotional preparation, or melodious, or nervous, or sad, with the development of the plot, bringing the audience into the setting of the story little by little.
In the climax, the music has a turn, and the audience also follows the rhythm of the music to pinch a handful of sweat for Daddy Bear, and the tense atmosphere is transmitted from the inside of the screen to the off-screen through the music.
The play-within-a-play ends, the music is soothed again, and Papa Bear looks at the back of the distant father and son and smiles. Fortunately, the ending of the story is not too sad.
Like the language of the shot, the background music is not handled in a way that never drags the mud and water, and while promoting the narrative, it is also necessary to take into account the expression of emotions, and the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film is well deserved!
Short story connotations
Of course, we all know that the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is not a matter of taking it, and an excellent animation work has requirements in addition to the picture, lens, narrative technique, background music, and the connotation of story expression cannot be ambiguous.
The story of Papa Bear is sad because we can empathize. It can be understood as the story of a bear, or it can be understood as the story of a person, and the "revenge of taking a wife, the pain of losing a son" is the same for both humans and animals.
The "city managers" who broke into the animals' homes late at night were the direct cause of the tragedy, forcing the animals to sell their art in the circus and using violence if they did not behave well.
Maybe we're one of them!
When we saw the animals in the circus, we cheered and applauded, but we never wept for them. The director uses anthropomorphism to make us feel that animals have a family and emotions like humans, and we begin to reflect on whether it is too cruel to sacrifice their natural pleasure for their own pleasure for a moment?
Hopefully, this award-winning short film will give people more thought.
I hope that all the bear fathers, giraffe fathers, lion fathers, and crocodile fathers in the world can not only be reunited with their wives and children in the small wooden box.
Hopefully, there will never be any selfish killings and injuries in this world.
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Short film | "The Bear's Tale"
The director | Gabriel Osorio Vargas
Pulling the film | Qian Zheng, Mo Mo, Liu Yang, wang Yu
Photo | nominated for the 88th Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
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There are several other nominations for this year's Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
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