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The "Toy Story" series is Pixar's signature.
Released in 1995, Toy Story 1 is still one of the best animated films of all time.
Pixar has produced a total of 21 feature-length animations to date, which is not much for an animation company, but these animations have won 9 Oscars for best animated feature films, a ratio that no animation company can match.
Who would have thought that the original "Toy Story 1" was to portray cowboy Woody as a selfish villain, and during the filming process, the film once faced a production interruption.
But it is also such a good and polished "Toy Story 1" that has made Pixar.
And this year's Pixar's latest "Toy Story 4", I can make a flag here, "Toy Story 4" 99% can win next year's Oscar for best animated feature film.
Frankly speaking, when I first learned that "Toy Story 4" was going to be restarted, I couldn't help but shake my head, thinking that such a good word-of-mouth IP would eventually fall into the direction of money to restart the production of the so-called sequel.
After all, the previous "Toy Story" trilogy, which has been tempered and precipitated by time, has given the audience enough growth thinking and emotional release, especially "Toy Story 3", the film won the best animation award in almost all animation categories that year, including the Oscar, and was also the box office champion that year.
At the end of "Toy 3", it is not an exaggeration to say that watching a cry once, Woody and their master's farewell ceremony, while reflecting our unconscious childhood.
But after the release of "Toy 4", the result is of course real incense.
Your uncle is still your uncle after all.
"Toy 4" does not repeat itself in terms of the weaving of the story plot or the discussion of the character values, and even expands the edge of the entire toy universe, allowing us to see the inner world of more diversified toys.
"Toy 4" is also the most densely laughed and the most wonderful visual effect in the "Toy" series, and the film is so exquisite that the material of each toy is vivid.
The new characters Little Fork, Gaby Doll, Duke of Locomotive, Brother Rabbit and Da Duck, although they are all supporting characters, are all given a powerful life in the film, so that the audience can quickly connect and resonate with these supporting characters in just a few clips.
Of course, the "Toys" series spans up to 24 years, and the image of the protagonist toy is shaped through three works in the front, and the connection in "Toy 4" is still very strong. So if you don't remember the first trilogy, you may lack a sense of substitution for the relationship and heart of some of the characters in "Toy 4".
To this end, I used "Toy 4" as the coordinate to reconstruct the previous trilogy for everyone, and then we will analyze "Toy 4" in depth.
The most important reason for the success of the Toy Story series is to capture the imagination that animation is born with.
The support point of this imagination is to give life to toys, and to use them as the protagonist, to create a new toy living world, in which the core of the film is about the theme of "growth" of all people.
Childhood is a necessary path for everyone, and toys are our childhood when we are alone, we are open to toys, intimate with toys, at a certain time, toys become our best friends to tell our hearts.
Woody, a denim toy, came into his world when Andy was 8 years old, and Andy wrote his name on the sole of Woody's shoe, witnessing the beginning of the two's vows.
On the day Buzz Lightyear arrives, Andy quickly falls in love with the Space Mounted Police, which also becomes the beginning of Woody's jealousy, Buzz Lightyear has a cool look, sexy voice, expandable flying wings, no matter in terms of styling and fashion trends, it is better than cowboy Woody.
If the film were just jealous and spoiled, it would have fallen into the cliché, but unexpectedly, Buzz Lightyear does not consider himself a toy, he feels that he is an emissary from a distant planet, with his own lofty space mission.
His sentence: "Fly to the universe, vast and infinite", has also become a classic line in the entire "Toy" series.
Woody was also tortured in the environment of competing for favors and chickens and ducks, and finally on a certain day, Woody arranged an "accident" for Buzz Lightyear, wanting to let Buzz Lightyear fall into the corner of the table, and never see the day, but the accident in the accident made Buzz Lightyear fall out of the window, and Woody was also charged with "murdering Buzz Lightyear".
Just when Woody can't explain, Woody is taken out of the house by his master and re-encounters Buzz Lightyear, who, in order to prove his "innocence", tricks Buzz Lightyear into going home with him.
It was during this journey that Buzz Lightyear realized that he was not unique and re-realized that he was just an ordinary toy.
Just when Buzz Lightyear's mentality is disillusioned, Woody stands up to let Buzz Lightyear regain his confidence, and takes Buzz Lightyear to escape the hands of the evil boy and return to Andy's arms.
Woody and Buzz's experience of not playing and not knowing each other has also made them the most ironclad CP on the screen.
The high-level aspect of "Toy 1" is that although it seems to be a toy competing for the owner's favor, it can actually reverse the identity of people and toys, and we can see the shadow of our childhood from Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
Woody more or less reflected our childhood, unwilling to share the beauty around us, and afraid to bear mistakes.
Buzz Lightyear represents the world of our childhood fantasies, which will one day be shattered by reality and we will have to bravely merge into the real society.
Coming to "Toy 2", the character's choice values are upgraded, and Woody is accidentally damaged when he is played by Andy, and he looks like he is about to fall out of favor in the bookshelf.
Woody left home unexpectedly, and had the opportunity to be with his own cowgirls in the same series, etc., and permanently treasured in the museum for generations of children to see.
At such a story level, the relationship between the toy and the owner, the relationship between the value and meaning of the toy, what is the toy, what is the meaning of the existence of the toy, and where is the ultimate destination of the toy.
"Toy 3" is the ultimate discussion of growth, if growth is the inevitable result, then the farewell to childhood, each of us should cherish and miss.
In "Toy 3", 10 years later, 8-year-old Andy has grown up and is ready to go to college and start a new college life.
Andy finally chose to seal all the toys and put them in the attic, leaving Only Woody to take them, but everyone also understood that Andy took Woody away as a decoration, not a toy that accompanied him all the time, and it was impossible for Andy to return to the childhood of laughing and playing with Woody.
It was also at this time that the accident happened again, the toys were treated as garbage to be thrown away, and they fled to a kindergarten through their own way, ready to become toys in the hands of young children, without a master, just a toy community.
Such a toy community is controlled by a woolly bear and turned into a prison, and Woody saves his friends through his wit.
Finally, when they return to Andy,andy, who cherishes and loves toys, finds a new good owner for these toys, Bonnie.
Toy 3 has a lot of moving and touching moments, because it's not just a farewell to Andy and toy, but also a farewell to our audience and our own childhood.
We can also realize from the film that growing up is a process of transformation, in the process of transformation, we meet the excitement and unknown future, but also have to abandon the past and objects worth remembering, many things are just passengers in our lives, nothing can end from one end, even if we force to stay.
So at the end, Andy found that the carton had Woody, and he knew in his heart that even if Woody was taken to the college campus, it would only be a kind of forced commemoration, and one day Woody would accumulate dust in the corner of the dormitory on campus.
——"Toy 4" spoiler analysis——
Coming to "Toy 4", the film opens a new journey, allowing us to see a toy world that we can hardly imagine, and we can also rediscover ourselves from these toys.
After Woody enters Bonnie's house in Toy 4, Woody loses the aura of the protagonist, even less than a cowboy girl, and although he wants to prove his ability many times, he is still placed in the closet by Bonnie.
At this time, Woody has an unprecedented confusion in the gap between his former identity and his life goals, and in this confusion, Woody has set up a so-called "inner voice" for himself to pursue, that is, the master Bonnie is happy.
Ironically, in a certain clip of the film, Woody also teaches Buzz Lightyear to pursue his inner voice, which also causes Buzz Lightyear to constantly click his voice button in a moment of urgency to find answers.
There are two places in the film that illustrate Woody's inner transformation, 9 years ago, when Woody sent the shepherd girl Ah Bao, he chose to stay, when Woody's inner voice accompanied Andy to grow up.
And the same is separated from Ah Bao, at the end of the film, at this time, Woody's inner voice, after experiencing the excitement and adventure of the outside world, after discovering that Bonnie has enough good toys to take care of, Woody's inner voice has unconsciously reversed the scale.
If "Toy 3" is about the farewell between the toy and the owner, the farewell and nostalgia of childhood rituals. Then "Toy 4" has a new theme consciousness to make an article from the friendship of the toy.
In "Toy 4", Woody's final farewell to Buzz Lightyear sublimated to the farewell of friendship between people, which also implies that there is no unbroken feast in our lives, although the friendship is precious, but for the sake of freedom and a new beginning, we have to choose to say goodbye.
More importantly, we must re-understand ourselves, understand ourselves at this stage, listen to our inner voice, and move forward bravely.
Ah Bao logged into "Toy 4" as the heroine this time, and in the process of story development, he subtly infected Woody, thus allowing Woody to re-recognize himself and understand the current world.
The intention of "Toy 4" is actually obvious, that is, to follow the proposition of the rise of women's feminist consciousness and deepen the value system of this film.
In the first three "Toys", Ah Bao exists as a supporting role in lighting, which also symbolizes that women are often objectified and become socially defined ornaments.
And the gorgeous reversal of "Toy 4" Ah Bao is no longer controlled by others, but free, with a high degree of self-awareness and independence, her transformation is no different from the life goals that we people have been pursuing.
Especially the material of Ah Bao toys, is ceramic, which also represents the fragility and fragility of women, in the film Ah Bao's right hand is broken, although we do not know the reason for her hand break, but from her calm face to the facts, and with the action of tying with tape, we see the resilience and forbearance of women in modern society.
However, the film handles the feminist aspect quite naturally, if Ah Bao is replaced by a man, or a toy that cannot see the gender, the experience and cognition that Ah Bao is in can also touch Woody, and it can also convince our audience.
The small fork is definitely the surprise of "Toy 4", and the small fork raises the meaning of the toy life in the "Toy" series.
The fork was the "garbage" that Woody inadvertently threw from the trash can to Bonnie to make toys, so the moment the fork was born, it carried the self-definition of "I am garbage".
This self-perception of The Fork also seems to be a tribute to the Buzz Lightyear of Toy 1. At that time, when Buzz Lightyear woke up, he also thought that he was not a toy, but a space mounted policeman who saved the universe.
The lightyear of Buzz in "Toy 1" made us realize that we were not great, but one of the ordinary people, but we still don't want to abandon our dreams and motivation to struggle.
The small fork of "Toy 4" is discussing the positioning meaning of birth identity, and we find the shadow of our usual self-abandonment in the small fork.
Just imagine, have we ever had a moment to realize the ordinary of our social identity, the vast majority of us, born in ordinary families, parents are social passers-by, we do not have luxury cars and watches, we live a very ordinary life and work, but these are not enough to be the reason for us to give up on ourselves.
Just like the small fork, once born, it thinks that it is garbage and a superfluous elimination of society, but the film tells people through the story of the small fork that people are born as human beings, and the meaning of life is not that the moment of birth is defined, but only the beginning of all life goals.
There are many vivid characters like the above, in "Toy 4", such as the Gaby doll who is born with flaws but needs to be cared for. Abandoned by his master, the Duke of Locomotive who regained his confidence.
"Toy 4" in the interesting storyline plot of the advancement, let us feel more of these cute toy characters, Pixar from beginning to end not to superficial storytelling, but let us fall in love with the characters in the story.
At the end of "Toy 4", the toy series also began to play a little clever, Woody and Ah Bao looked into the distance, it seems to be about to launch a new wild toy journey, this journey and adventure, can jump out of the relationship between the previous trilogy and toys, such a structure, you can make the "Toy" series go all the way.
Of course, I also hope that the "Toy" series can continue to shoot and give us more surprises, but at the same time, I am worried that after this IP becomes a fixed long series, it will deviate from the initial touch.
Overall, "Toy 4" maintains the high reputation of the series, although inferior to "Toy 3", but it is still worth everyone going to the cinema to support the film.