Animation "Lange" film review

"Rango", this film review comes from Douban, you can go to Douban to see it

Watched the movie at Amsterdam Pathé De Munt, March 11, 2011.

Many excellent animated works were released in 2010. Works such as "Play 3", "How to Train Your Dragon", "Rapunzel" and "Despicable Me" all achieved box office and word-of-mouth wins, especially "Play 3" " was even nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, which shows the excellent quality of last year's animation works. Under such pressure, it would be a bit weak for this Rango to be released at the beginning of the new year. So how did the film respond?

Rango's director Gore Verbinski, who directed the highly successful "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, has invited starring Johnny Depp to dub the main character, the chameleon Rango. A specially built studio was set up for the scene, and the use of props was almost the same as in the film; the delicate painting style of Industrial Light and Magic, which provided visual effects for "Star Wars", made everyone see the clouds reflected by Rango on the sliding glass. The script creation even invited John Logan, the original author of "Avatar", to write the script. With such a strong lineup, Rango can be said to have attracted the attention of a wide audience.

The opening scene of the movie is very beautiful. Rango, wearing a Hawaiian T-shirt, starts an imaginary drama with a small plastic yellow croaker and a half-length model in a pet tank. Rango can be said to be a born performer with rich inner activities. He lost himself and was unable to define his own identity. And when the fish tank drew a graceful arc in mid-air, Rango's intoxicated dream was finally shattered. The reality of comfort and embarrassment was splashed and scattered on the highway with pieces of glass flying, while his skin and dreams were also being destroyed by the scorching sun. It shrank for two weeks under the intense heat and turned into shriveled, flying flakes of skin.

It can be said that this movie has some funny bad taste, which is why some people think it is a movie for adults. The film adopts the pure animation mode of the "Tom and Jerry" era, incorporates the texture and image of real characters, and introduces a rich western style. In terms of graphics, there has never been an animation as dry, monotonous, and dirty as Rango. The main characters all look like roe-headed rats (which are animals in nature) and are difficult to identify. It can be said that this movie is similar to the style of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas", but it is better: Rango is not good-looking and has pitifully small eyes, the heroine Miss Beans is just a lizard with a strong accent, Priscilla The little friend is just a little cactus rat in the town of Dirt, the mayor is an old turtle, Roadkill, as the enlightener, is actually an armadillo that survived being run over by a car, and the villain Jake is a terrifying Rattlesnakes, as for those cute little owl mariachis, they sang "This lizard...he's going to die" at the beginning, which simply established the personality tone of the character Rango. This imperfect presentation makes it easier to believe: the protagonists are no longer big-eyed puppies and kittens, they really exist here, whether you accept it or not. It is these weird animals that help Rango become a hero in the end. This method makes Rango's image more vivid and the story more natural and vivid.

In addition, the film also intersperses jokes for different age groups throughout the film. However, Rango still avoids the commonly used vulgar jokes of the "poop and piss" type, but instead uses some metaphorical words such as "fecal matter" and "prostates", such as the classic NO.2 toilet joke, It makes people laugh.

Of course, if this movie had only the above elements, it would be just a mediocre animation work. The brilliance of the movie is that it is full of shadows of western movies, and it seems to have the influence of Quentin Tarantino. Allusive style---quotes a lot of famous movies without losing its own self.

We see the shadow of many classic western films such as "Wolf City", "High Noon", "Chinatown", "Once Upon a Time in America" ??and so on. "Chinatown": the similarities between water conservancy facilities and conspiracy theories; "High Noon": the loneliness and inner struggle of the small town police chief; "Wolf City Powder Man": the black western humor of a man who accidentally becomes a hero; "Once Upon a Time in America": "Noodles" is similar to the classic image of "Rango"; and "Fear in Las Vegas" is similar to Johnny Depp's constant pursuit of self-definition and dreams. Through the movie Rango, the director pays explicit or covert tribute to many great movies. This is a continuation and improvement of western feelings.

In fact, when I saw Rango lowering his head and slowly crossing the highway lit by car lights at night, I realized the charm of this movie: the high-speed traffic is like a In the river of halo, Rango stepped towards the other side of the road step by step after setbacks and defeats, trying to interpret the questions of others and find his own value, staggering but firm. Some people say that the main plot of the movie is very vague, but I disagree. Rango appears on the highway from the beginning of the movie, and his heart is full of questions: Who am I? What can I do? When he was kicked out after causing trouble in Dirt Town, Priscilla the mouse asked him again: Who are you? Rango returned to the symbolic highway with his own frustration and doubts. After crossing it, he passed out. However, he received new guidance and enlightenment in the dream, and finally understood his true heart and mission: the so-called hero. , not because of extraordinary talents, but because of what others see as what one should be.

Lost on the highway, find yourself on the side of the highway, over and over again, a perfect circle.

Therefore, compared to the mixed reviews on Douban, I personally still relatively agree with the value of this movie. This is an animated film that combines strong western style, thick accent, a lot of authentic jokes, exquisite soundtrack, wonderful pictures and profound thinking. Depp's sexy and varied voice acting is really perfect and makes the whole movie even more interesting. Today, when 3D movies are so popular, this movie is still released in 2D. Paramount is very brave. However, if you can carefully appreciate the uniqueness of the movie, you will find that this is also reasonable. It is true that this year's many animated works such as "Car 2", "Rio Adventures", "The Smurfs", "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "The Adventures of Tintin" are very exciting, but this Rango can definitely be counted as one of the most anticipated ones this year. The animated movie has made a good start, let us wait and see.