Movie highlights of the adventures of flying giant peaches

The Adventure of Flying Peach (1995) is another model animation of tim burton Studio after Silent Night (1993), which tells the story of the orphan James who wants to escape from the abuse in menstruation and go to metropolis new york. During this period, he met six big insects, and together they drove the flying giant peaches across the ocean to realize their dreams. The original novel "James and Big Xiantao" has the childhood color of the author roald dahl. What is even more amazing is that the Gothic animated film produced by tim burton has also become his childhood autobiography to some extent. Most of the literary and artistic works of adventure have the characteristics of "tramp novels". Everyone is eager for an adventure in childhood, and even more eager for gentle companionship around him.

First, Gothic autobiography.

The Adventure of Flying Giant Peach is adapted from the novel James and Big Xiantao by roald dahl, an outstanding British children's literature writer. Since the publication of 196 1, this novel has been translated into 34 Chinese versions, with a global sales volume of120,000 copies. It is also a well-known children's story in the United States. When roald dahl was eight years old, he and four friends put a dead mouse in a candy jar in Mrs. plesent's "stingy and annoying" shop, and the headmaster gave them a good beating. So Roald was transferred to a boarding school, but he was unhappy there. Yu Dafu once said: "Literary works are autobiographies of writers". In the story, James's parents were swallowed up by rhinoceros and stayed with his aunts Shi and Spike. They are not only unhappy, but also abused.

Coincidentally, tim burton had a closed and lonely childhood because he didn't have a good family environment. He has always been addicted to his personal world and likes to express his feelings and life with painting. After a hard night's work, James tore up his travel guide to new york, picked up the brush under his bed, and drew a new map with bright colors, just like his singing. When tim burton was 9 years old, a poster he drew against littering was taken by a local cleaning company and put on their garbage truck for a year.

1982, tim burton, who works for Disney Company, was appreciated and had the opportunity to create an animated short film, Vincent, which tells the world of a 7-year-old boy. The film was well received by critics, but it was not presented to the audience because its content was too dark for children to watch. This little boy named Vincent is very lonely. His mind is full of strange and novel ideas, but it is suppressed by adult society. He fell into deep loneliness and lived in a world full of ghosts in meditation.

This short film can be said to set the tone for tim burton's later animated films, including all his iconic elements and Gothic style. To some extent, James in The Adventures of Flying Peach is an optimistic but equally lonely Vincent. James's fantasy is not as dark and scary as Vincent's, but it is also different from ordinary people. In particular, Vincent's modeling is strikingly similar to the later Edward Scissorhands (1990 Edward Scissorhands).

In 1990, tim burton completely opened the curtain of the revival of Hollywood Gothic films. Gothic or Gothic style is an artistic style characterized by towering, gloomy, weird, mysterious and scary. Widely used in architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, music, clothing, fonts and other artistic fields. Gothic art is exaggerated, asymmetrical, peculiar, light, complex and decorated, characterized by frequent use of longitudinally extending lines, and its main representative elements include bats. Of course, as a "Hollywood genius", he did not absorb the juice left by the ancient Gothic culture, but injected its essence into the current social life, which fundamentally expanded the scope of Gothic films.

The Adventure of Flying Peach was not directed by tim burton, but except for the contents of the childhood autobiography mentioned above, the gothic castles, the strange shapes of aunts and insects, and the overall dark tone are all gothic styles, all of which bear its deep imprint.

Second, the adventures of tramps.

In Hollywood, there are many animated films, such as Pinocchio, Miss and the Tramp, Alice in Wonderland, The Adventures of Cats, Winnie the Pooh, The Adventures of Tigger, The Adventures of Teacher Yi and Little Toad, The Adventures of Fairy and so on. This model animation "Adventure of Flying Peach", which consists of some real people and most animation structures, has obvious Gothic style and novel characters, and occupies a place because of its uniqueness.

The inheritance of literary and artistic works with the theme of adventure echoes the wandering novels from a distance. Before discussing his research and inheritance of "picaresque novels", the author roald dahl's experience is also worth pondering. After finishing his studies, he spent three months hiking in Newfoundland with a team called "Public School Adventure Organization". /kloc-0 joined the shell company in July, 934. After two years of training in Britain, he was transferred to Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). In order to work, he had to cross Tanganyika to provide oil to customers. He was attacked by tree cobras, lions and other wild animals on his way. Interested writers or directors may create an Adventure of roald dahl to pay tribute to this outstanding children's writer.

/kloc-In the middle of the 0/6th century, a unique novel-"picaresque novel" became popular in Spanish literature. The appearance of this novel is related to the civic literature in the Middle Ages. It mainly describes the life of the urban underclass, observes and analyzes all kinds of ugly phenomena in society from the perspective of the urban underclass, and widely reflects the social life at that time in the form of logistics history, humorous style and concise and fluent language. Vagrant novels have a great influence on later modern novels, especially adventure novels, and "Road Movie" is the one that is most influenced by it. After hundreds of years of development, change and innovation, the number of the first person and the third person has changed, and comedy and tragic endings have been chosen. However, the structural characteristics of wandering, traveling or exploring, focusing on shaping characters and interweaving with the description of the broad social environment are still inherited and carried forward.

Most of the protagonists in vagrants' novels are born in poverty, some are orphans and illegitimate children, and their childhood and teenage life are often unfortunate. They generally maintained a naive, lovely and compassionate character in their early years. James in The Peach Blossom is such a typical example. His parents were swallowed up by the evil rhinoceros, and his life as a stranger in menstruation's house was extremely unfortunate, but he was still full of sympathy, which was vividly shown in a plot in which he tried his best to take care of menstruation the spider. It reflects the life of the lower class, and observes and satirizes some social phenomena with the eyes of the lower class. The ugly images of the two aunts and the onlookers at the exhibition all hint at the film's attitude towards some realities.

Homeless people can't enjoy family ties, so they find themselves in a chaotic and turbulent life state when they are born. It is precisely because of the vagrant's chaotic origin, ever-changing form and alienation from society that he naturally leads to his inner turmoil. He can't carry out his own decision. James hesitated, his heart was full of fear, and he wanted to escape. He didn't even dare to say "no" to his aunts. When James picked up a bag with only a few chips from the trash can, or took sanitary tools to clean up the garbage at the "Giant Peach Exhibition", the image of "Little Tramp" was sketched vividly and stung people's hearts.

The Adventures of Flying Peach is a full-length film based on James' wandering adventure. In the movie, James and his friends drove 65,438+000 seagulls across the Pacific Ocean to new york. In the accident, 50 1 seagull dragged a huge peach from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to new york. More interestingly, according to a report in Special Topics in Physics, four students recently calculated the force required to carry peaches with a radius of 6 meters and a weight of 1.025 tons. They believe that peaches of this size are not easy to fly only with the help of a few birds. "Heroes have to ride over 2,425,907 seagulls to reach America."

Third, gentle companionship.

Love each other, love each other, share weal and woe, * * * life and death, is also a person's way, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. People with company don't need to wander, wandering is to find a kind of missing company. James was originally accompanied by his parents, and his family lived happily by the warm sea, enjoying the holiday and life in metropolis new york together. However, a storm destroyed the family, and James lost his company and was lonely and helpless.

The little boy could not accept the fact that he was an orphan, so he invented the monster rhinoceros and took his parents away. In the story, we can infer that the storm triggered the tsunami, and it was difficult for his parents to die. But it still left a shadow in his young mind. When he and six friends were caught in the storm again, James slowly overcame his fear. The motivation to overcome fear comes from the gentle companionship of friends.

James's friends are spiders, grasshoppers, fireflies, ladybugs, centipedes and earthworms. What a gothic combination these insects are. They sing together, make cakes together, catch seagulls together, hunt sharks together, fight pirates together, and resist the wind and waves together. Each of them has become a part of each other. James has a family again. Aunt spider is like mom, uncle centipede is like dad, and mother-in-law firefly is like grandma. Grasshoppers, earthworms and ladybugs are their relatives and friends. They are in the same boat, and they are both persecuted by Shi and Shi Pike, so they conspired to abscond in Jutao.

Where did the giant peach come from? It was the old man who gave James a bag of crocodile tongues, and later we learned that the old man was also the narrator of this story. We have every reason to believe that this old man may be roald dahl, the author of James and the Great Xiantao. We are also very lucky, and we have another company since then.