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In the hot summer, the hunt takes you into the world of exotic animation.
Today recommends an animated film sauce that is the famous French animated film director Sylvia. Jomai's The Old Woman and the Dove.
【Director Profile】
Sylvia. Joe Mai
Born in the small town of Paris (now Yvelines), he graduated from high school in 1982. Jomai moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at Richard Purdum Studios.
In 1997 Joe Mai published Ugly, Hateful and Disgusting with Nicolas for the second time and won the Alph-Art Award for Best Comic at the Angleme Comics Festival. He first started his first animated film, The Old Woman and the Dove, in 1991 and completed all the work between 1995 and 1996. In the same year, he won the BAFTA at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. So this French director is still very impressive to the world.
【Works】
The Old Woman and the Dove
The poster in the anime (the pigeon that is thrown round and rolls around and can't move) - the introducer
The image of the old woman in the short film (carrying out the food prepared early in the box - roast suckling pig) - lays the groundwork
The old woman watched with "kindness" and "loving affection" as the pigeons enjoyed the "lunch" she brought—casting a web of conspiracy
Starving national police officers are waiting for an opportunity to find the "right time" (to start being caught) – the motivation
Pondering in his own confined space how to "eat" (the emaciated old policeman stands in stark contrast to the fat, unable to walk, flight-unable pigeons outside the window. ）
Successfully getting into a pigeon hood and cleverly disguising him "got a good taste of food (slowly falling into the net) – the story begins to climax."
A day passed, and the old policeman received various feasts through his "proud work", the pigeon head covering
The round and rolling ball of solid meat became a sharp contrast with the old policeman's previous skinny body, and all these earth-shaking changes seemed to have quietly foreshadowed something, but the old policeman who was overwhelmed by "food" and did not know the direction was still dutifully using a "pretender" identity to report to the old woman's luxurious residence every day, enjoying the old woman's flattery and satisfaction with him, whirling dance steps, brisk music, delicious red wine, delicious food, making him forget about it- The story of the change of the body of the old police officer is pushed to a climax
The old woman's plot is tightening step by step, and the danger is slowly approaching the old police officer (preparing to close the net)—ending in the climax, still unfinished
<h1>[Narration of catching comics].</h1>
"The Old Woman and the Dove" is a two-dimensional animation, the style is beautiful, mainly using a blue and yellow tone with a relatively high gray level and a corresponding red as a supplement, slowly unfolding a slightly gray scene in a corner of the French city, and the dim lighting outlines the absurdity and reality of the film. The whole film is very concentrated around the protagonist, there is no magnificent shot and gorgeous scenes, just like the origin of the old policeman, this film is very concerned about the individual, and the group is inseparable from the individual.
The film uses a lot of montage techniques, thus promoting the beauty of the animation, there is such a shot, when the lens is advanced to the window of the giant bird's head that has just been completed, a slight rise is the memory distortion bird's eye in the eyes of the old woman's apartment cat, we find that whether it is the space or time transferred, it reveals such a strange meaning in it, and the beauty comes out again.
Compared with the complex minor keys of "Crazy Dating Mirador", the music of "The Old Woman and the Dove" is more cheerful and simple, the protagonist wanders the streets and thinks, coveting the pace of the roast suckling pig under the park bench, the swirling dance steps, the delicious food, the falling calendar, the fattened body, and the cheerful music drives the emotions to advance the plot of repeated reincarnations until the climax. In this film, we will find that words are very rare, but they are very outstanding, mainly because its lens language is very obvious and the music adds a lot of color to the whole film
Each director has his own specific style when designing the roles in the film, such as the famous Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai. And Jomai is the same – exaggerated. Close to the distorted character form, the sharp contrast between fat and thin can always directly and sharply show the character of the character. The old policeman's skinny bones were driven by desire, and the fish bones, which were only the length of a little thumb, had to be "enjoyed" separately for dinner. The Americans who are compared to the flowing oil of the symbol of fertilizer are simply a witch, the old policeman who is a social official lives in a situation that is not as good as a pigeon, and the life of a person is not enough to eat, so miserable and withered, whose problem is this? I think the director should not only want to express the theme of filling his own desires for this film, but really want to face up to the fast food culture and inflated desires under the symbolization of life
Many elements in the film can withstand scrutiny, the old policeman feels that after his conspiracy succeeds, he has a brutal and unreasonable attitude towards the old woman, but the old woman is willing to be as good as a glutton, racking her brains to cater to him, please him, satisfy him, and by the way take out the photo album and begin to study him. The absurdity of the film is that we all think that the ugly-looking fat woman that the old police officer meets in the corridor is just a maid, and where does it know that she is the fat cat who swallows the water. Many elements seem to be changing but in fact have unchanging marks, implying that the mantis catching cicadas behind the yellow finches is in the food chain relationship behind, so that when they are almost slaughtered, they try to prove that they are not pigeons. Didn't she know that the old police officer was human? It's just that he has become one with the desire of the pigeons – to eat.
Desire blinded the old policeman's heart, and the climax of the climax was undoubtedly the most blunt and sharp mockery of his pale and feeble justification and hiding. What awaited him in the end was to be placed on the table like a pigeon, becoming the fat and tender meat of other people.