Author | Zhang Yiyi
Produced by | One Piece Movie
Paddington Bear returns, standing alone in a lush New Year's stall, subtly intertextually intertextual with the first part's topic: "How Immigrants (Bears) Are Ostracized by Local Communities." Of course, director Paul King perfectly erased these exclusions through a series of hilarious, British-inspired stories. The love letter to London eventually recovered $270 million at the global box office at a cost of $55 million, making it the most appealing non-Hollywood-produced family movie.
However, Paddington Bear fans did not start to accumulate in 2014. As one of the most popular cartoon characters in the world, the story of paddington bear has a history of nearly 60 years, from the princes and nobles to the common people, paddington bear can be said to carry the childhood memories of generations in Britain.
Strange to say, it is not our childhood memories, but the geg who does not understand romance and the one who has the heart of a little girl love it:
The Paddington bear, always wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a navy-blue tweed coat, comes from the father of the late writer Michael Bond: a post office manager, an English gentleman who always wears a top hat. If "Ace Agent" is a launch of the modified British elegance style to amway to the world, then "Paddington Bear" is the self-insistence of British fashion.
Through the data, we can see that "Paddington Bear 2", which has been released overseas, has a good reputation that is a little scary.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness 100%;
IMDb score 8.3;
Even the harsh MTC scored a high score of 90 points;
The overseas media rating of "Paddington Bear 2" surpassed that of "Dream Quest", with almost zero bad reviews! Of course, "Dream Quest" and "Paddington Bear 2" are good films, but the road number is different. "Dream Quest" starts from warmth and makes people cry, and "Paddington Bear 2" is also based on warmth, but it is more about joy, warmth and healing.
In the latest 20 films of the year selected by the authoritative media "Empire" magazine, "Paddington Bear 2" ranked 13th, the only live-action animated film to enter the list. In the United Kingdom, it is even more pressing "Justice League" and sitting firmly in the first position at the box office. Therefore, I think this kind of persistence is not meaningless.
Paddington Bear 2 continues the content of the previous game, telling the story of Paddington Bear, who has successfully settled in London, hoping to work on the eve of Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday to earn money, and send her aunt a three-dimensional picture book composed of various attractions in London, so as to fulfill her aunt's wish not to visit London in person. And bizarre things happen one after another because of this book, the marriage of the star Phoenix Buchanan, the imprisonment of Paddington Bear on charges of theft, and the strange mysterious people in London's major attractions...
"Paddington Bear 2", which inherited the responsibility of the previous city tourism scenery promotional film, this time in addition to adding the story to London's landmark buildings, also fiercely spoofed "The Grand Budapest Hotel".
Cleverly inserted in the thick British humor, Wes Anderson's cold jokes are cleverly inserted, and the prison, which everyone tacitly believes to be a dark and cold place, is decorated as a lively and warm "paradise of loss", and the nervous visual effect is even more unbearable.
As a native of British comedy, Paddington Bear's human (bear) personality naturally allows us to see the inheritance of classic British comedy: "good intentions do bad things", "blind cat meets dead rats". For example, in the first part, the thief dropped his wallet and was kind enough to catch up with him, but he mistakenly helped the police catch this habitual criminal and became a hero of the city.
Unlike the modern high-cold British humor, the humor of "crooked and straight" is a frequent guest in the films produced by Ealing in the 1940s and 1950s. For example, Ealing's last outstanding comedy, "Dr. Thief", tells the story of a group of thieves who are still planted in the hands of an old woman who has no power to tie the chicken in the face of a disparity in strength and careful planning.
This kind of "crooked" grafting between the person and the bear seems to be more unimpeded. Because in family movies, we all know that universal values such as "kindness" are immutable. But in the busy and tightly tense modern society, "fool" and "white lotus" are synonymous with "good people".
The Good George Bailey-esque in "How Nice Life" is hard to find, so the appearance of paddington bears perfectly fills the gap of "kindness". Through the bear nature goodness to remind us, "how good life is" and "always be kind and gentle", is probably the original intention of paddington bears to be moved to the big screen.
As a family comedy, Paddington Bear 2 is undoubtedly excellent. It is colorful and beautiful, and the dream-making generally creates the whole story into a Harry Potter-style mysterious temperament, but at the same time, the friendly jokes that "do not amuse for the purpose of injury" closely associate the whole story with warmth, joy, and ease.
I think all of this is due to the superb acting skills of the actors.
Ben Whishaw, who voiced Paddington Bear, need not emphasize that the reason why Paddington Bear is so cute and so Sue is mostly due to his sexy and magnetic voice. Ben Whishaw, who has recited many poems, graduated from the Royal Academy of Drama and was the youngest "Hamlet" at the age of 24, being identified as the "next Lawrence Oliver". But his sensitive and fragile temperament has made Chinese film fans pity him and name him "Ben Meow", like Paddington Bear, which always makes people can't help but want to protect.
Ben Whishaw
Maybe there is a fate in the dark, whether it is Paddington Bear or Ben, in fact, it is not a fragile and sensitive person. (Interestingly, people who seem to be vulnerable tend to be strong.) They don't like to be attracted by telling anecdotes or reflecting on the true meaning of life in pursuit of identity. They have no complex thoughts that make their actions come from the heart rather than the mind. Therefore, the innocent Ben is loved by theater and film directors, and the innocent Paddington Bear is also loved by us.
Life is a big bend after a big bend, the last Paddington Bear family had a hard time getting the scorpion beauty Nicole Kidman out of the game, and the former star Hugh Grant took the baton and continued the pure "British evil": a little stupid, and a little two.
Hugh Grant
In the past, Hugh Grant's way of opening was a film emperor-level deduction, always a mysterious British lover. Interestingly, Uncle Colin, who was born a day later than Hugh Grant, was asked by reporters: "Have you ever been jealous of Hugh's appearance and talent?" ”
"I do envy his talent, but I don't want him to live like that." Typical and straight British spit.
Such complaints also abound in Paddington Bear 2. His self-deprecation of the superstar played in the play is like a lyrical borrowing, even as a villain, it is difficult to dislike, but he feels pity. It has to be said that Hugh Grant is a very dazzling plus in Paddington Bear 2.
In the old British family comedy, there is always a father who wrestles with the midlife crisis and a thoughtful and cute mother.
"Paddington Bear 2" continues to use the loving couple of the first part to shine for this comedy, and Sally Hawkins, the mother who just won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, is still sweet and warm-hearted, like Paddington Bear, from time to time kindly doing bad things, which is the sweetest trouble for the whole family.
But Dad didn't seem to be going well, a wave came over, and Dad was forced into the yoga studio by the midlife crisis.
As an actor, I was blown away by Hugh Bonneville's versatility. After all, the last time I met him, he was still the elegant and understanding old man in "Downton Abbey", and as a result, he contributed his first fork (split fork) in "Paddington Bear 2" in the blink of an eye, contributing the most middle and second laugh point to this episode! Ah, Dad, want to be your daughter!
The last time I had this idea of living in someone else's house was when I watched "Little Brother Mouse" in kindergarten. The mood of overcoming all difficulties, finding a home, and becoming a family is simple and healing. Only cinema has such magic, healing all the sentimentality in life and providing eternal and beautiful expectations.
Why do we like this bear that is always in trouble? Maybe we see in it ourselves who still long for a better world.
The world is full of variables, but it seems that Paddington Bears have never changed. He was kind and polite, and would never call people by their first names, but he would also, as Aunt Lucy had taught him, glare harshly at people he thought had done something wrong, making them blush and be embarrassed. The furry he is synonymous with fairy tales and perfection, providing us with infinite peace of mind. That's why Mr. Brown says:
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Paddington looked for kindness in everyone and found it, so he could make friends everywhere he went.
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I think we long to meet that kind of person, and we want to be that kind of person.