A film about empathy, and the struggle and distance someone may have to travel--against all odds--to find a better life.
短片是来自迪士尼40位艺术家合作的动画:《杂草的梦想》。
这支简单却深刻的动画短片由参与了《超能陆战队》《疯狂动物城》等作品的迪士尼艺术家执导。
在导演凯文·哈德森(Kevin Hudson)和制片人布拉德·西蒙森(Brad Simonsen)的带领下,近40名迪士尼艺术家共同合作完成了这一部动画短片《Weeds》。
据导演凯文·哈德森说,这部动画的灵感来源于他在自家房前拔出草坪上的杂草。当越过车道看到邻居的院子,发现那里从来没有浇过水,草坪已经枯萎了,只有零星的几支濒死的蒲公英紧贴在人行道的边缘。
当时他就想:
难怪我的院子里总是出现蒲公英呢,因为如果我是她院子里的蒲公英,也想要长在我的院子里啊!”
因而他对这些小植物有了一种移情的感觉,意识到自己可以用这个比喻来描述陷入糟糕生活环境中(战争、贫穷、饥饿、缺乏机会和希望)的人们的困境,并说出一些同情的话。所以才有了这部短片。
SINATRA: All or Nothing at All is an up-close and personal examination of the life, music and career of the legendary entertainer. Told in his own words from hours of archived interviews, along with commentary from those closest to him, the documentary weaves the music and images from Sinatra's life together with rarely seen footage of Sinatra's famous 1971 "Retirement Concert" in Los Angeles. The film's narrative is shaped by Sinatra's song choices for that concert, which Gibney interprets as the singer's personal guide through his own life.
Set in an unspecified French village, the locals are shocked when a group of girls skinny dipping in the nearby lake (all very tastefully done I hasten to add) are killed by a group of zombiefied Nazi soldiers, that spring up out of the waters and drag them down to their demise.
A couple of detectives are brought in to try and solve the mysterious murders, only to end up as the zombies next victims. It turns out that during the war, the French resistance ambushed and killed a squad of German soldiers and dumped the bodies into the nearby lake, but failed to take notice of any of the local superstitions (never a wise move). Although, seeing as this film appears to be set in the early 80's, why it's taken so long for them to emerge and start killing people is a bit of a mystery, but there you go.
Not-with-standing, the villagers quickly organise a lynch mob to take down the zombie menace, only to end up being decimated by the undead soldiers, who's 'convincing' zombie make-up basically consists of green paint, which doesn't even cover the whole of the actors faces and keeps washing off in the lake.
There's also a bizarre sub plot about one of the zombies visiting his former daughter, who strangely still looks all of 12 despite the fact she should be in her 40's if she was born near the end of the war, but then since when did logic ever come into these films? Such as why do their uniforms still look almost new despite being underwater for 40 years, or how come the skinny dipping girls are only knee deep in the water when viewed from the lakeside, yet appear to be swimming in 12 feet of it from the underwater shots?
Bad acting, naff zombie make-up (the aforementioned green face paint), painfully obvious underwater shots filmed in a swimming pool, not to mention the plot inconsistencies bigger than the aforementioned lake itself. Low budget doesn't even begin to describe this film, which quite unbelievably was directed by respected Eurohorror director Jean Rollin, albeit under the pseudo name J A Laser.
That's not to say the film isn't without merit. I bust a gut laughing at the thoroughly ridiculous scenes of the zombies attacking the naked young girls, and the equally ridiculous slapstick battle with the angry villagers. Utterly hilarious, grab the six pack and the popcorn and have a blast!
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