Author: Looking for deer elves
"Song of the Sea", as a rare hand-drawn animation work in today's world, has touched countless audiences with its strong fairy tale mood and back-to-basics painting techniques.
Father, an ordinary lighthouse keeper, has a pair of children with seal elves, Ben and Silsa. Silsa could not speak until she was six years old, until she found the lost white feather coat, transformed into a seal elf, and finally saved all the mythological characters and fairy tale worlds, including the sea god, with her song.
Although many people think that the story of the SEAL spirit is very similar to the Story of Hui Ye Ji, it is not the memory of our generation. Watching the elves in white robes coming from the mountain road, the rounded shape and dancing posture are clearly "Snow Child"; the undulating sea surface and the ukiyo-like colors are as if they saw the "Nine Colored Deer" split the layers of waves and leap forward; the yellow-haired Ben, the mechanism is naughty and not responsible, is not it Caspar in "The Great Thief"; how the ferryman with a funny tongue is like the kind "Avanti"; when the fox spirit of "Tianshu Qitan" sneaks out to transform into a magical owl witch Isn't the black-haired and big-eyed Silsa the exact Lucisi of Pipilu? Ben and his sister's rescue journey is like "Shuk and Beta"... The dusty childhood was like a magic flute driving out of the fish, bling, bling, through the desert of memory, through the noisy years, reunited with me in the moonlight of the blue sea, eyes flashing tears.
As if taking a time machine to penetrate the fog, back to a childhood afternoon, the simple living room is sprinkled with long sunlight, the TV screen is only black and white gray color, the sound is not clear enough, "Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio" gold engraved text, in the flickering light and darkness, mixed with snowflakes on the screen gradually in... Gradually out..., Zhong Zhen Silk Bamboo, Yu Yin Yuanyuan, playing "Big Trouble Heavenly Palace"? Or "Jia Er Sells Apricots"? It doesn't matter anymore, the name of the studio is the appraisal of integrity, it is not the quality of the film, it is the only golden sign that can reflect the "childhood".
As the years passed, something would always be driven away by the monsoon like a grain of sand, or grow like Jack's magic beans, and when I looked back, I found that I could not suppress it, could not hold back, and changed my appearance.
When did it start, the golden file of the daily children's program became the world of "Saint Seiya" and "Ciri", and when did "Little Dragon Man" and "Scarab" become the main themes of literature and art. Up to now, "Bear Haunting", "Pleasant Sheep", "Pig Boy", "Armor Warrior", gradually drifting away, domestic animation has neither followed the old system nor made a breakthrough. It must be understood that innovation is not subversion of tradition, but the in-depth exploration of national culture and the inheritance of multiple channels.
When I first saw the shape of a pile of on the top of each sheep's head in Pleasant Goat, I couldn't believe my eyes. Which one is this play? Our country is the country where the "nine-colored deer" was born! Dunhuang, Mogao, Yungang, how many magnificent statues and moving stories are waiting to be used. Traditional culture is not placed in a museum, behind glass, for people to see, she needs to be played, held in the hand, worn on the body, put on the desk, through television, movies, implanted in our hearts, implanted in the hearts of children. National culture and folk art should have the same temperature as our bodies and be unable to give up like our genes.
Not to mention the witch with a thousand faces in the domestic animation model, the nine-headed banshee with a deep V chest line, the snake spirit that makes adults afraid, and the iron fan princess like an iron man. Imagine that when Goku made a big fuss about the peach feast, the seven fairies were still all bone beauty, thirty years later, the current animation heroine obviously has too much hormones and excess nutrition, maybe it is the scourge caused by plasticizers? The mascot of the 2015 Spring Festival Gala, the sheep and sheep, the third-degree brain disability plus the first-degree facial paralysis, how can this honorable appearance be worthy of the Chinese and overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots around the world, as well as the officers and men of the sons and daughters stationed in the frontier outposts?
When Spielberg walked into The Weta Studios, far away in New Zealand, the film world succumbed to facial capture technology and live-action animation technology, peter the great used his films to stomp the world under his feet, representing his highest achievement of "The Lord of the Rings" is the author J. Tolkien's lifelong dedication to the collection of ancient mythological epics, drawing nourishment from the collective fantasies of Europeans and creating Middle-earth. "The Lord of the Rings" is not only the embodiment of Tolkien's extraordinary imagination, but also the resurrection of ancient European myths.
Coincidentally, "Song of the Sea" also tells the story of the resurrection of fairy tales, that is, using ethereal songs to save fairy tale immortals who are about to turn into stones, who become sophisticated, suspicious, manic, and excited in the noisy real world, and need to be healed, saved, and restored to innocence, just like us off the screen.
"Song of the Sea" is like the piccolo of a shepherd boy, beautiful and lovely, like a trumpet declaring war, showing another possibility of animation. And its profound meaning reminds us that childhood, or go back, do not easily give up the coat of fairy tales, drive away distractions, unity of mind, only in a "believe". Believing is a kind of confidence and an expectation for the future. "Lin Hai Snow Field" has been remade into the 007 version of "Wise Tiger Mountain", will the glory of "Snow Child" and "Nine Colored Deer" return far away? You, believe it, it will come true...