On April 20, foreign media released a heart-wrenching news that 95-year-old Jean Deeche, the director who directed "Tom and Jerry", died unexpectedly in his apartment
This also means that all four of the main directors have left us
There are people whose name you can't say, but when you think of his work you're sure to think about it because it's a legend that accompanies us from childhood to adulthood
"Tom and Jerry", a god-level cartoon, swept the world as soon as it was broadcast that year, and even won the Academy Award for Best Animated Film several times
When I was a child, I liked to watch the hilarity and just watch the cat and mouse wars and laughs
When I grew up, I learned that there are so many unknown secrets behind the legend of animation history
<h2 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the secret behind the legend</h2>
<h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">1、Tom and Jerry</h3>
You might not imagine that this decades-old cartoon was abandoned four times in the early days of creation, and the copyright was sold several times by the main creators and almost unemployed
The original version of Tom and Jerry wasn't called Tom and Jerry but Sweet Home.
At that time, the name of the cat was not Tom, but the name of the Jasper mouse was Jinx
At that time, themes such as cats and mice were rampant, so this animation was not optimistic
It was under such circumstances that "Sweet Home" still came out and even received a nomination for the Oscar for Best Short Film that year before it was renamed "Tom and Jerry"
Despite the success of Tom and Jerry, there are too many non-dialogue animation modes behind it that are a huge test for creation
<h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, no dialogue animation mode</h3>
Tom and Jerry's dialogue-free animation mode makes the development and advancement of the plot completely dependent on background music and body movements, and every move is crucial to the delivery of content
In order to draw the most vivid emoji, Irv Spence constantly makes various expressions in the mirror according to different emotional expressions and draws it
In order to show the character's personality characteristics, the director stands on a chair and imitates the action in a script meeting without regard to the image
The original Tom and Jerry was first drawn on paper and then transferred to film, and the price of film was very high at that time, so it could only be produced at most one episode per year
From 1939 to the present, "Tom and Jerry" has done more than 160 episodes, on average, it takes half a year for each episode to be done well
Every detail in the animation is worth scrutinizing Even the layout of Jerry's residence has been carefully designed, even if the shadow area of the sun shining on the windows is based on the specific weather
In addition to Tom and Jerry, the supporting characters in the animation are also vivid
There are a total of 116 animated characters in the entire anime, and each episode selects 2-3 characters to cooperate with Tom and Jerry to tell a funny story
In addition to the expressions and actions rendering the atmosphere, the background music that promotes the development of the plot is also particularly important in the situation without dialogue
As a result, the episodes of Tom and Jerry hide many world-class classics
<h3 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, classical music feast</h3>
The sound engineer picks the background music
Soundtrack by sound engineer
According to statistics, there are more than 50 classical music pieces in "Tom and Jerry" that contain works by many famous musicians
There are Johann Strauss's "Blue Danube", Chopin's "Great Round Dance", Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and so on
Tom's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is accurately fingered, the keys correspond to even most of the high notes, and Jerry's "troublemaking" is dealt with while playing It took a full 18 months to produce the episode's 150-person team
Some music professionals say, "The meticulousness of the piano keys and sheet music in Tom and Jerry is really terrible."
Many people even say, "Tom and Jerry is my classical music initiation teacher."
The famous musician Lang Lang also said that his fate with the piano and the rich body movements when playing are largely derived from "Tom and Jerry"
Tom's commanding actions in "The Universal Conductor" are also consistent with the real conductors, and both the expressions and actions are depicted in great detail
In 1946, there was no advanced technology, and the animation of 24 frames per second was drawn by the animators one by one, and the average animation required 15,000 intermediate paintings, and the animation production process at that time was far more complicated than it is now, but even then the entire production team never cut corners
Animation detail table
The movements, sound effects, and music in the animation are strictly marked on the outline to ensure that the animation of each frame can be synchronized
Exaggerated action creativity, high-level classical music with a wild plot, and delicate production methods make "Tom and Jerry" 80 years ago still look no less than the improvement of technology today
Obviously, it looks like a "children's animation" but it captured Tom and Jerry of all ages and became the first pair of CPs locked by many people
<h2 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, "CP" who loves and kills each other
</h2>
In the cartoon, Tom often chases and teases Jerry in various ways
But in hundreds of contests, Tom won a handful of times and most of the time he was lifting a rock and dropping it on his own feet
Jerry is not only cute and elf, but also seems to have a natural good luck always being inexplicably smashed by Easter eggs to obtain all kinds of strange "artifacts"
There are always some weak-looking little friends who come together to play Tom around
Although Tom and Jerry usually "hurt each other", they will save each other in life-threatening moments
They are natural enemies, but also friends, although they seem to fight all day long, they are not at peace, but they also accompany each other, and they may not be able to catch Jerry but they are reluctant to "let go" every time they catch Jerry.
In addition to Tom and Jerry's love and killing, the film also writes about thousands of worlds and grows up to know that when I was a child, I really underestimated this cartoon, which is more cruel, more realistic, more rational and warm than you think
Although Gene Deech left us
But he left Tom and Jerry behind
We remember the tribute, but we don't have to be too sad
Maybe God needs him
Go write some interesting stories for Heaven
Author's public account: Yibaituansheji