WeChat emoticons are used by everyone, and even emoticons alone can express various emotions and answer various questions.
Expressions not only become part of our daily communication, but also quickly bring people closer together. Everyone used more, and slowly formed a trend.
But do you understand the provenance of these expressions?
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
The image comes from john Travolta's disco steps in the movie Weekend Night Fever. Many of today's young people remember only the dance he did with Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction. Borrowing the traumatic structure of Lodge (1976), Weekend Night Fever is interspersed with several novel disco dances, fresh and energetic, making Travolta the new icon of the time.
Time Magazine made John Travolta a cover character and a featured article, becoming a new icon and topical figure. The film also allowed disco culture to continue to shine in the following 80s.
"Weekend Night Fever"
Paired with dancing girls, it matches the picture above
Music album Aladdin Sane (1973)
The image is from David Bowie's album cover Aladdin Sane, shot by renowned cinematographer Brian Duffy.
In this cover, Bowie paints his face with lightning makeup, still featuring ziggy stardust from outer space created on the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which became a classic image of the 1970s. After Bowie's death, people also posted this photo in memory.
《aladdin sane》
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1968)
The gesture was first coined by the Vulcan salute from the Star Trek: Primal series, which means "endless life and prosperity." ”(live long and prosper.)
Vulcan in the Original series raises his hand
The Vulcan hand-raising ceremony was invented by Spock's actor Leonard Nimoy, who was taken by his grandfather at the age of eight to a Jewish blessing ceremony called "kohane blessing."
During the ceremony, the priest stretches out his arms and palms downwards, his middle finger and index finger together, the ring finger and the little finger together, and finally opens as far as possible in a V-shaped gesture. This gesture represents the Hebrew letter "ש", and the Hebrew word "shaddai" has the meaning of "God", and this blessing gesture impressed him greatly. During the filming of Star Trek, when the staff designed the Vulcan greeting gesture, Nimoy immediately thought of the gesture.
Popeye the Popeye
This expression, which is often used to "refuel" is from Popeye, should not need me to introduce it? In 1927, the comic strip artist E. C. Seeger succeeded in shaping the image of Popeye Bupai. After he ate the spinach, he would be infinitely powerful, and the first thing that came out was his strong arm muscles.
Popeye 1960 DVD cover
Pinocchio (1940)
The expression of the long nose will not be unfamiliar to everyone, it comes from the classic fairy tale "Pinocchio", the puppet boy made by the carpenter's grandfather, the nose will become longer as soon as he lies. Disney made the movie "Pinocchio" in 1940, an expression that can be used to represent "lying" and "bragging" in chat, and most people don't seem to use it much.
Pinocchio
A Journey to the Moon le voyage dans la lune (1902)
The earliest provenance of the moon face is no longer known, but it appeared in some hand-drawn posters at least in the 19th century.
But Georges Mérière's film "Journey to the Moon" did make the moon's face flow for a lifetime. The 14-minute silent film, considered the first work of science fiction films, was inspired by Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon and H.G. Wells' novel The First Man who Landed on the Moon.
Movie clips
The film takes on the traditional style of mythological drama and tells the story of a group of astronomers who went on an expedition to the moon by shell. When the moon, which was full of smiles, was suddenly hit by a shell, it suddenly cried out, very cute. If you haven't seen "Journey to the Moon" and seen the old horse movie "Hugo", then you should remember this shot.
Mérieux's hand-drawn manuscript
With the rocket, it is even more perfect:
Because there is also a gray version of the emoticon, many people think that this is "Thomas and His Friends", which is in the "natural classification" called new moon face. However, you can also use it as "Thomas", which is quite similar.
In addition, there is the expression of half a moon, which is also a classic image. Its birth can also be traced back to posters in the late 19th century, and later became a classic prop in American photo studios in the 1910s and 1940s.
It is also an important element in films such as Paper Moon (1973) and Return to 20 (2015). Photo studios in the United States still take such photos.
Moon set in photo studios from ancient times to the present day
"Return to 20" & "Paper Moon"
Ukiyo Hakuto, Kanagawa Chunamiri
The giant wave expression is from the ukiyo-e "Thirty-Six Views of Fugaku", "Kanagawa Surfing", Katsushika Hokusai's most well-known work.
With unexpected compositions and fleeting forms, it outlines the posture of the waves and sets off the indomitable spirit of the people on board to fight against nature. In many animated works, there are tributes. For example, the two most recent stop-motion animations "Legend of the Magic String" and "Isle of Dogs" have appeared.
《Kanagawa Chunami- 2010》
The Legend of the Magic String
Isle of Dogs
Paired with Mt. Fuji, it is even more Katsushika Hokusai:
Japanese oni shogun Banjo and Tengu
This emoticon is one of Japan's most widely known yokai, Prajna.
There is a saying that the mask made by a monk named Prajna was named after it. Another theory is that Lady Aoi in the Tale of Genji is troubled by the jealousy of Rokujō Gosho. Ban Ruo lived in the mountains for a long time, and every midnight he would rob the children to eat, and he would emit a creepy and terrible laugh.
In Noh, Aoi, Michisei-ji, and Kurosuka all use Prajnaparamita masks.
Ban ruo's face has white and red versions, and the cursed mask in Shinto Kanjin's film Ghost Woman (1964) is the white version.
"Ghost Mother"
It's also a long nose, but it's not Pinocchio. It is also one of Japan's most widely known yokai, the Tengu. It is said that tengu abducts people who are lost in the forest, so the ancients called abducted children "Shen Yin".
There are also some expressions that need to be arranged and combined, such as "Three Monkeys" from the Analects of "incivility do not see, incivility do not listen, indecent do not speak." "It represents strict discipline from the eyes, ears and mouth, and shows a cautious and kind personality that is indisputable with the world."
The totemic images of the three monkeys have had a profound impact in both China and the West:
Photo of Buster Keaton's "Parody Show"
A spoof from the movie Planet of the Apes (1968).
Next, I will show you the importance of permutations, such as the following sets of permutations, needless to say you can guess what kind of movie it is, right?
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