Sweet Tea recently placed an ad for the new Cadillac. The creative ad pays homage to Edward Scissorhands, with Sweet Tea playing Edward Scissorhands, the son of Edgar.
Sweet Tea's performance in the film is remarkable, natural and comedic performance, which interprets the robot's face paralysis and the troubles and joys of adolescent boys vividly and lovingly.
"Edward Scissorhands" is also a movie that Shu likes very much. Released in 1990, the film created the super IP of Edward Scissorhands, and the personalized shape and the sad ending that made people feel uncomfortable have become memory symbols in the hearts of a generation.
The male and female protagonists of that year, 26-year-old Johnny Depp and winona Ryder, who was 17 years old at the time, also fell in love with each other passionately because of this film, and composed a love legend of a golden boy.
The two eventually regrettably broke up. Since then, they have also been obsessed with each other for a while, and their lives have their own twists and turns, which has made fans sigh.
Reality is far less beautiful than fairy tales, but the tragic ending and the sincerity of love are the same as in the play.
Cadillac cleverly used the memory kill this time, directly invited Winona to play Edgar's mother "Kim", and rewrote the tragedy of the original film with a warm story, and the audience's regrets were made up for at the same time, and naturally got the humanistic tone of the brand.
Returning to the role of Edward, today Uncle Oxy will talk about some of the designs that have made this artistic image a great success.
First of all, the character is extremely original and recognizable in terms of external styling design. Director Tim Burton brings gorgeous and intense visual effects with his special specialty of gothic dark aesthetic + steampunk style.
However, all the styling designs strive to be concise and self-explanatory, in line with logical needs, highlighting the temperament of the characters, without any superfluous elements pieced together, so that the audience can digest the information in this overhead world and novelty at once. The plot also firmly grasps the characteristics of "scissor hand" and derives a series of comic comedies.
In terms of inner personality shaping, Uncle Oxygen feels that both Edward Depp and Edgar of Sweet Tea use the pleasing personality type of "Fool".
"Fool" Personality
Jung, the founder of personality analysis psychology, believes that the Marseille tarot card contains various symbols of the prototype of the human mind, and each type contains a set of subconscious motivations, a personality and a fortune.
And each tarot card has multiple meanings, even implying different meanings on both the positive and negative sides. Every personality and style must have both advantages and disadvantages, both advantages and disadvantages.
"The FOOL" is the Number 0 card in the Marseille Tarot card. 0, representing nothing, knowing nothing, contains infinite possibilities.
As can be seen from the card graphic, the "fool" symbolizes disregard for risk (towards the cliff), optimistic idealism (the sun), romantic and innocent (white rose), the pursuit of freedom and acceptance of new things (bags), full of vitality and strength (tokens of bags).
A positive interpretation of the "fool" is often said to be "wise as foolish.". They do not understand the rules of the world, behave strangely and defying conventions, and live in their own dreams.
Dominating them is the spirit of Dionysus, the god of dionysus: eclectic, adventurous, yearning for freedom, emotional, full of the curiosity and creativity of the artist.
The negative interpretation is that they are impulsive, ignorant, lack of responsibility, autistic and conceited, stubborn and do not know how to respond, emotional instability and fickleness...
This kind of personality with a romantic and unworldly temperament is easy to be implanted into the character design by screenwriters and directors, thus giving birth to a number of classic roles.
The most classic and pleasing image of the fool should be Forrest Gump:
Mr. Bean, who is always unlucky:
Fools don't have to be funny, they can also be cute and elegant. For example, Emily in Jean-Pierre Genet's "Angel Amelie":
He Zhiwu, played by Jin Chengwu in "Fallen Angel":
There is no concept of the sinister nature of human nature, for anyone to trust and help with all their might, and for the beloved ones to devote themselves to it one by one, and to pay everything for it.
They can easily be used as funny tools, or used by evil people to cause tragedy.
Or because they are not understood by ordinary people, they run into walls everywhere.
Because of the excessive exertion of creativity, it has caused damage to the normal order of life, or has been rejected by the standardized production of modern industrial society.
But it is also easy to use a steady stream of creativity to solve problems that ordinary people cannot solve, and to bring unforgettable surprises to their own and others' lives.
When good luck comes, get the appreciation of Bole and the favor of well-wishers, and harvest a happy and incomparably wonderful life.
But more importantly, no matter what the circumstances, they will not lose their innocence and stubborn belief, and their eternal romanticism and optimism will allow them to immerse themselves in their own simple world and enjoy themselves.
It can be said that the "fool" is actually a figuration of the artistic spirit. Fools don't care much about personal gains and losses, but only want to exert passion and create memories in a limited life.
Artists love them because the fool is himself. It's also easy to find self-projection in them, because we know that everyone was once a clumsy, naïve, fantasizing, courageous child.
Depp vs Sweet Tea: Literary male gods, each wonderful
The scissor hand that belongs to the "fool" should contain a sense of childishness or youth, an artistic temperament or a sense of literature and art, introverted, withdrawn, or world-weary.
Depp and Sweet Tea, as super literary gods of their respective eras, are able to interpret these qualities very well.
But Shu found that when transforming into a scissor hand, Depp's makeup was significantly heavier, and the final temperament was far from his original growth.
I didn't even recognize depp at the end. On the contrary, the shape of sweet tea is almost just a few scars on the body.
Leaving aside the different requirements of the two media of film and advertising for the degree of exaggeration of the characters, the appearance and style of Depp and Sweet Tea are very different.
The biggest difference comes from the feeling of the eyebrows.
Depp is a Germanic eyebrow arch + steep upper edge of the eyebrow arch, giving people a sense of oppression, while sweet tea is a Latin eyebrow arch + a gentle upper edge of the eyebrow arch, giving people a feeling of stretch and lyrical temperament. (The classification of the eyebrow arch can be seen in the past Fan Bingbing is really smart, only do here to get rid of the temperament of the beard, salted fish turned over!) ）
Depp's eyebrows were all pointed and narrow. The eyebrows are pressed down, the eyebrow distance and double eyelids are cramped, and the small pupils bring a more cunning and eccentric temperament. His eyes seem to be always tense, his eyes are obviously squinting and unfocused, and his eyes are always demanding and attacking, and he needs to seek spiritual and emotional comfort and catharsis outward.
To match Edward's sense of innocence and harmlessness, his eyebrows were shaved (or covered) and made into an inverted figure-eight-down eyebrow shape. The contour draws the feeling of the eyelids down, and together with the dark circles makeup, it increases the visual sensation of the eyes and makes the eyes look more innocent. Makeup has largely changed Depp's native temperament.
The double eyelids of sweet tea are extremely wide parallel pairs pressed out by deep eye sockets, and the corners of the eyes are large and rounded. And it is obvious that the eyelids are down to and drooping, and it is not aggressive in itself. The lack of a strabismus problem made his eyes more focused and calm.
Therefore, it is also the next three whites, showing laziness and thinness in the eyes of sweet tea, and more nervous in the eyes of Depp, fragile and sensitive and cold and strange.
This is followed by a sense of emotion that comes from the lips. Depp's eyes, nose and mouth are all pointed, and the thinner lips are matched with a touch of pointed corners of the mouth, bringing a sense of charm. The corners of the mouth are down, plus the muscles around the lips are a little tense, always tightening the corners of the mouth, as if gambling. It also reveals a sense of gloom, stinginess, and paranoia.
Depp's more traditional tough guy image in bone. The heaviness comes mainly from the strong cheekbones: the frontal view is low, the protrusion is heavy, and the zygomatic arch is extended outwards while thick.
This also allowed him to play the mature and responsible eldest son of the family in "A Different Sky" and Captain Jack in "Pirates of the Caribbean", who emitted strong hormones.
But there is always an evil atmosphere.
The bone phase is thick and heavy, but the curved lower eyelids, the plump reclining silkworms, and the delicate shape of the lips bring a hint of feminine femininity and bring contradictions.
You can hold the shape of the wild evil charm. But once the soft light + skin grinding makes the picture soft, there is a kind of weirdness that is not yin and yang.
Although the cheekbones of sweet tea are also full, they do not expand outward and are not thick. Wide and square jaw, full high forehead, so that the cheekbones are not protruding from the front and oblique sides, and the facial contours are smooth.
The jaw to the chin is tight and light, but the square chin and square jaw neutralize these delicate and feminine features, so that he also has a strong male tension.
It can be understood by the composite facial contour of Japanese plastic surgeon Takuya Onizuka, the small and feminine front contour + the back contour of the broad male phase.
The lines of his facial features are noticeably more rounded, his lips are fuller, and the corners of his mouth are slightly raised, like a gentle smile, so that he has a kind of compassion in his natural state, like a kind angel with strong empathy.
Objectively speaking, sweet tea drama has a wider range of paths, and the types that can be interpreted are more diverse. It has both a manly taste (three-dimensionality, hair volume), and a milky and sweet coco base (skin color and texture), holding up a beautiful teenager.
The male gods each have their own unique temperament, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior. Depp and Sweet Tea have both formed a strong personal style, and it can even be said that their names themselves represent a style.
In the internal entertainment, Shu has not yet seen the existence of such a male star with super high recognition.
To put it bluntly, it is still seriously homogenized. Everyone seems to be able to switch smoothly between various styles, but none of them have the intention of going the other way. Yi Qianxi has this potential, but it is difficult to become a flower into spring.
The so-called sense of literature and art actually requires a strong personality. It has little to do with whether this person is moving or static, whether the sun is gloomy, and its roots come from the individual's independent thinking and attitude towards the world, from a kind of estrangement and relaxation that is pursued but fearless gains and losses, and is finally expressed through a set of irreproducible expressions and action systems.
Of course, personality means risk, it means it may be niche, and this is a gain or loss that needs to be measured.