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Spiegel, the childlike director of ET Alien, and Melissa Matheson, the screenwriter, reunited 24 years later. What kind of film was born? When 50-year-old spiegel joined Disney movies for the first time in his life, what kind of wonderful sparks would he have? In June+10, 5438, The Dream of the Dream was released in North America, which gave us a perfect answer.
The Giant Who Realized His Dreams was adapted from roald dahl's fairy tale BFG, which was written in memory of his youngest daughter. This book plays an indispensable role in roald dahl's personal works and even in the fairy tale world of European and American literature. In my opinion, it is roald dahl's most outstanding fairy tale novel after Charlie's Chocolate Factory and The Witch.
In fact, the whole story is extremely simple. Several sub-lines around the main line tell the story of Sophie, an orphan whose parents died young, who met the giant BFG who came to blow her dream by surprise on a sleepless night. Sophie returned to Giant Island with the giant, and found that there lived giants who ate, slaughtered and drank blood. They not only bullied BFG, but also threatened Sophie's safety. In an aggrieved mood, Sophie turned to the story of the Queen saving BFG with a powerful royal army.
After the film was shown, it was criticized by some of the smartest people in the world, claiming that the story was old, boring, monotonous, uninspired and without a sense of story. It's like "Big Fish Begonia" stepping on the cabbage that no one wants on the street from the watercress.
But in fact, "Dream of the Dream" brought the most authentic Disney, and also brought my initial feelings about the film. Fragile, beautiful, and even fairy tale movies are not available in the film market now.
As we all know, director spiegel was born in a divorced family. Perhaps it is this necessary condition that brought him Sophie's lonely touch and presentation in the film. Little Sophie is like a projection of our childhood, sometimes lonely, sometimes unrestrained, sometimes loudly denying the fairy tale in her heart, and sometimes shouting to her peers, I am brave.
And the kind and even wooden giant in the film, like our timidity and anger when we were young, always believes that there is a hope that we can conquer the world.
But these thoughts and ideas are not enough to mention. The giggles of the children in the cinema reached the original purpose and core of the film.
Sometimes it hurts self-righteous adults. After all, they can't watch fairy tales or movies.
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Speaking of roald dahl, I have to mention that in the fairy tale world, besides Dream of Dreams, she also has two other works, The Witch and Charlie's Chocolate Factory.
The Witch and its simple but fascinating single line interweave ordinary life with stories that can make children enjoy it. It tells the story of a child who was turned into a mouse by a witch and killed the witch with the poison she used to kill the child. Thousands of words are permeated with the author's childlike innocence and good intentions for children.
Unlike JK Rowling's colorful magical world, roald dahl's The Witch seems to be an ancient book that has been immersed in the soil for many years. It's old and charming. He wrote in the book that they wear ordinary clothes and do ordinary jobs in ordinary houses like ordinary women, and they will never be caught by the police. It can be seen that roald dahl absorbed the traditional background of European and American fairy tales and injected new world thoughts and stories into The Witch with a traditional but changeable style, which was enough for children to fondle it.
Witches are different from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was later adapted into a movie. The former simply tells a story that a child likes to hear, while the latter stands on the edge of morality and makes a very ironic presentation. With humorous writing, the story of five children from all over the world is told. They have different personalities and different family backgrounds, but they also received a request from the owner of a chocolate factory. The boss with a distorted world view promised five children that they would get the inheritance right of the chocolate factory as long as they were willing to give up their family and family. Five children with different personalities made different choices and naturally got different results.
No matter how complicated fairy tales are, they just tell children a view of positive energy and negative energy. And "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" also injects the view that "it is most important to put aside greedy families" for children, which I personally think is very suitable for children to read.
But in fact, the two books mentioned above, even the fairy tales written by roald dahl, all carry a simple but not easy purpose, that is to be a plaything that children can't put down.
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Personally, I think roald dahl's fairy tales are in an extremely embarrassing environment and a very noisy market when they are released and even gradually embark on the road of classic fairy tales in the later period. Like a boat in the vast sea, it stands upright but unstable.
You know, at that time, Jk Rowling's Harry Potter was in an emotional period, with movies and books everywhere and hot sales around. At the same time, "The Lord of the Rings" was burned by the flame brought by magic. Then Fire and Ice and Game of Thrones. People in the craze gradually forget that the world of books needs brave innovation again and again, as well as traditional accumulation, in order to make people's enthusiasm for books last forever.
The charm of roald dahl's fairy tales is that when he is in a lifeless family, he will have unexpected good luck and adventure, which is what every child dreams of. This traditional background and routine are combined with brand-new stories and ideas, and vivid characters are intertwined. It is an unparalleled adventure to bring us a new feeling of conflict easily and skillfully. We don't know the ending, or even the next second, because we are the supporters of this conspiracy or the experiencers of this adventure.
That's not the only thing that fascinates people. Roald dahl's humorous and satirical style can not only turn Gan Kun around, but also tell stories, draw pictures and judge things. He can plant a shocking imagination for children in any small matter in the book, stimulate their interest in reading, and even establish positive energy and new three views for children in thinking.
The above two points are also the wisdom of roald dahl when writing a book.
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From loneliness to warmth, I'm afraid it's an eternal proposition in fairy tales, just like a lonely but proud flower meets her lovely little prince, a garbage cleaning robot meets his Eva, a lonely little red meets Dabai who bullies him, and a powerful and unconstrained Sophie meets a dreaming giant.
They are like us locking our lonely worries that we couldn't express when we were young in our diaries, waiting for them to be unforgettable and gradually becoming an unspeakable self-esteem.
Their meeting is like our meeting with a fairy tale.
An open heart is gradually healed by warmth.
So I said, I hope you and I can understand roald dahl's fairy tales. Not only for the wisdom in the book, but also to protect the open flame wrapped in loneliness.