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Animated movie, good look is "emotion"

Strange Journey tells the story of "after death"

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Disney/Pixar's annual animated film "Soul" is a Christmas present for audiences around the world. Due to the impact of the epidemic in North America, the film was cancelled in theaters in the US and released for free on Disney+ streaming platform. Although the box office suffered a loss, it received excellent reviews. In The Chinese market, "Journey of The Soul" also earned more than 20 million yuan in the weekend due to its high score, despite a poor opening day. The soul's journey from ever building "" up" and "the mind's" top team, Hollywood animation director Peter doug, from "toy story" series began to participate in projects for pixar senior pitchman, the soul's journey "lineage pixar" top-notch technology + emotional first "good genes. "Journey of the Soul" tells the story of a jazz love black music teacher accident "death", the soul came to the "other side of life", where he met other souls, in the reality and soul world shuttle to understand the true meaning of life. The soul appears as a Q version of a human, glowing all over. Unborn souls are constantly trying and learning about all kinds of earthly things and qualities: music, shooting, irony, narcissism... People who lose themselves or lose themselves for their hobbies enter the "spirit world". With its beautiful images full of imagination and sincere emotions that go straight to the hearts of the characters, Soul Journey has won a near-perfect reputation: The fresh score of Rotten Tomatoes is 97%, the average score of media on Metacritic is 85, and the score of Douban is 9.2. Some netizens exclaims that Pixar not only has the best animation technology in the industry, but also has unconventional imagination and keen capture of the most real and most delicate emotions in human heart. Us magazine Variety praised Pixar for beautifully turning emotions into a "real world" and, like Inside Out, for "anthropomorphizing" ideas, asking viewers of all ages to imagine their souls as "glowing cartoon characters". The BBC described the film as "exhilarating in its carefully crafted environment and characters". A continuous survey of the history of animation films in the world will find that those enduring classic animation films are about the most sincere emotions, compared with the investment and update of production technology, but the most difficult is the "description of original emotions". Hollywood animation films, one of the most successful in the past is a delegate with Disney "fairy tale", although "Snow White" beauty and the beast is a household name, but after years of audience for "last prince princess live a happy life together forever" routine with fatigue, 1986 the birth of pixar animation studios changed the pattern of American animation. Pixar may be good at 3D digital technology, but what really makes them stand firm in the industry and move audiences is their "emotional core". It is the friendship, attachment and trust of woody, Buzz Lightyear and other toys in Toy Story, rather than 3d modeling and rendering technology, that makes the film resonate with audiences. In Coco, which raked in $800 million at the global box office, Pixar is also based on the Mexican Day of the Dead tradition, with a clever idea that "once the dead are forgotten by the living, they really disappear," and the ending is set in the daughter's emotional trace of her father, which moves the audience. In addition, the love between Wall-E, a ragpicker, and Eva, a white fumei robot, is almost human. "Ten minutes back to the Carl couple's love story" from Up; In Inside Out, five of riley's inner emotions take human form to save her precious memories. These are the masterstrokes of Pixar, Hollywood's most cherished emotional dream factory. Not only In Hollywood, but also in other countries, there are many excellent animated films. In animation, the birthplace of France in one hundred years has produced many touching hand-drawn animation, such as famous pitchman hill, wan XiaoMo, made in 2010, "the magician" adapted from the comic master Jacques tatiana last, through an old magician to support the orphan girl quietly, excavated a father deep love and caring for her daughter, The traditional retro way of animation condenses deep personal feelings, and the selfless efforts of the previous generation make people feel deeply. The Australian clay cartoon Mary and Max tells the story of an Australian girl's "pen friendship" with a middle-aged American man. The rough and ugly clay shape accurately reveals the character's inner loneliness. The black and white pictures show the cruelty of the real world, and friendship becomes a beam of light to illuminate the lonely people. As a big country in animation, Japan has always been emotionally oriented towards love, friendship and young people's inspirational spirit. Works such as Spirited Away, Red Pig and Ponyo by Miyazaki Hayao all have abundant emotions. Stand By Me, A theatrical version of The Japanese anime Doraemon, also moves audiences who have grown up with the friendship between Nobita and Doraemon and the love between Nobita and Shizuka. Excellent Chinese animation films also have a unique interpretation of emotion: from the ink-and-wash animation "Landscape Love" to "Tales from Heaven", the Eastern style of mentoring is touching; In Lotus Lantern and Ne Zha, the power of a mother's love works wonders.

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