Time Writer | Gummy Bears
Don’t go gentle into that good night.
"Fly to the universe, the vastness is endless."
For animation movie lovers, this line will be familiar.
" Toy Story " was born in 1995. As the first fully computer-produced animated feature film, it soon broke the box office record with 192 million US dollars, and also made Pixar an instant hit.
has since launched three sequels, all of which have received good reviews. This year, Pixar will bring a new series of spin-off movies. As a fan representative, it is hard to say that Mr. Time is not looking forward to it.
However, judging from the situation after its release, all aspects are unsatisfactory.
IMDb has only 5.3 points, which is currently the lowest among Pixar works, and the Rotten Tomatoes freshness score is 75%. In its first week of release in North America, the box office of 51 million was also far lower than expected.
Compared with the series' always impressive ratings and record-breaking box office results, these numbers are indeed a bit embarrassing.
Why did Pixar, which has always produced high-quality products, fail on its most famous IP?
Let’s take a look -
" The True Story of Light Year "
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Is "The True Story of Light Year" a bad movie?
The answer is of course no. Judging from the overseas reputation of
, it just has a common problem that many new Pixar films have in recent years - lacks new ideas and highlights .
The film first answers a question to the audience: Why is the little boy Andy so obsessed with Buzz Lightyear toys, even making Woody jealous?
The reason is that he watched the movie "The Story of Lightyear" and became a fan of the protagonist Bass.
In the year 3900 of interstellar time, Buzz Lightyear, who was affiliated with the interstellar headquarters, accidentally landed on a planet other than his destination while performing a mission with his comrades. After
realized that the animals and plants here were ferocious and posed a fatal threat to humans, everyone decided to retreat. However, under Bass's pride, the spacecraft suffered a serious malfunction and everyone was forced to stay.
One year after settling on a strange planet, people created new fighters and fuel. All it takes is Bass piloting a fighter plane and conducting four minutes of super-light acquisition to lead everyone away.
Unfortunately, Bass’s flight was not successful due to a fuel mismatch. And due to the high-speed flight, the four minutes he spent in the fighter plane were equivalent to four years for people on the planet.
In the following years, Bass, who was unwilling to give up, tried again and again. Until sixty-two years later, the new commander stopped his mission.
It turns out that during the long period of coexistence, human beings have mastered the method of coexisting with native animals and plants, and decided to make mistakes and make this planet their future home.
Buzz, who still wanted to make up for his mistakes, synthesized the correct fuel with the help of his pet robot cat and successfully completed the last flight.
did not expect that when he returned to the planet, more than twenty years had passed. A new crisis is approaching mankind...
It can be seen from the plot summary that the correlation between "The Legend of Lightyear" and the "Toys" series is extremely weak , and even the movie has a very weak relationship between Buzz and his arch-rival Zog. The revelation of the relationship between the two also subverted the settings in " Toy Story 2".
For fans who want to reminisce about their childhood and try to find more Easter eggs in the film, they will obviously have to endure the taste of disappointed expectations.
But from a production perspective, "The Legend of Lightyear" remains as good as ever, reflecting the industry's top standards. The
crew invited John Duncan, the concept model maker of the "Star Wars" prequel series, to design and produce many physical ship models to make the final CG effect more realistic.
The precision of the spacecraft taking off and landing, as well as many battle scenes, is almost the same as in live-action movies.
At the same time, as early as the "Toys" series, Pixar has been fond of paying tribute to classic movies. "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park", " exorcist ", "Man Plays Ghost", "Dead Silence"... From theatrical blockbusters to B-level movies, we have it all.
In "The True Story of Light Years", this tradition is also preserved.
The clip of Bass and others being awakened from hibernation by a strange signal is very similar to the opening of "Alien". Having experienced too many time dilations, Bass watched his comrades grow old and lamented the years that passed in a blink of an eye, which reminded him of a similar plot in "Interstellar".
However, For a movie, what can shake people's hearts is always its core, not the outside.
You may not remember how realistic the clothing materials in those animations are, and how smooth and silky the big scenes are.
But you will never forget that in " Coco ", when Miguel played the song Remember Me for his great-grandmother, the emotion surged out of his heart. You must be able to recall that when the fallen leaves in " Soul Journey " floated into Joey's hands, the healing and enlightenment also rose in his body.
Whenever I see "Flying to the Universe, the Vastness", I will recall that two toys once really flew briefly in the air, flying to their best friend and owner.
Perhaps what "The Story of Light Years" lacks is precisely such highlight moments.
is well-made, but it tells the most clichéd American hero adventure story. The eye-catching spectacle conceals the absence of delicate emotions in the body.
Therefore, it is certainly a passable job.
But that's all.
Weak Pixar
It should be mentioned that in order to attract audiences, Disney and Pixar have also made many new efforts.
replaces the dubbing with .
In the True Story tetralogy, Tim Allen, who voiced Buzz, was changed to the more famous "American Team "Chris Evans in "The Story of Lightyear". In order to expand the audience of the film, after watching the film, you will also find that there are actually many similarities between Buzz Lightyear's character and Captain America.
Another example is the addition of LGBTQ elements, which have become more and more common in recent years, into the video.
During Bass's continuous flight attempts, his female comrade Iqi married a homosexual and had children.
However, because the film contained the couple’s 40th anniversary kiss, Penguin Disney refused to delete it, and the film was eventually banned in 14 countries, causing a further blow to its global box office performance.
Mr. Shiguang once mentioned that in recent years, major animation studios around the world have entered a bottleneck period, and the quality of their output is far inferior to before. Perhaps it is based on this that Disney decided to hire Pixar's leading actress to create a "toy universe" like Star Wars and Marvel.
But obviously, this attempt of failed.
The success of "Toy Story" comes from its unique and childlike perspective, which explores the bond between people and toys, toys and toys, and even makes each story a reflection of various problems in real life.
The first part talks about friendship, the second part talks about the meaning of existence, the third part talks about growth and separation, and the fourth part talks about self and independence. No matter your age, you can always relate to it.
The new film "The Story of Lightyear" gives people the feeling of a traditional space adventure movie, but it is presented in the form of animation.
For established animation studios like Pixar, technology and efficiency are no longer a problem. The depletion of inspiration and lack of innovation are the real fatal problems worthy of attention.
After many studio veterans have resigned one after another, whether Pixar can still regain its former glory is the most pressing question in the hearts of all animated film lovers.
Buzz Lightyear Forever
In fact, "The Story of Lightyear" is not the first work to feature Buzz Lightyear as the protagonist.
As early as 1995, after "Toy Story" was released, Disney launched a number of online games such as "Interstellar Adventures" and "Buzz Lightyear Galaxy Strikes Back". In 2000, 63 episodes of the derivative animated short film "Buzz Lightyear's Interstellar Mission" were produced.
All of this is inseparable from Bass's popularity.
Why does everyone love Buzz Lightyear?
is of course related to his secondary disease .
Who has not yearned for the vast universe in childhood, and imagined that one day he could wear a space suit and travel in space? As a space ranger, Buzz was popular with children at the time in terms of toy type.
What's more, when he appeared in the first film, he really thought he was a future astronaut. It can emit lasers from its arms. It will make it difficult to breathe when the oxygen mask is turned on. It is accustomed to using the communicator on its arm to talk to the commander-in-chief... The contrast between the exquisite quality and the silly personality is really unforgettable.
followed by laugh point . The first part of
is about a hot-blooded middle school boy. In the second part, there is a big game of "real and fake Buzz". The new Buzz Lightyear toy sneaks into Woody's rescue team and continues to be silly. After the real Bass met his old enemy Zog, he even staged the famous scene in the "Star Wars" series "I am your daddy".
In the third part, he was restored to factory settings by Strawberry Bear and became a dumb jailer. After Woody and other toys misoperated, they switched to Spanish mode, and performed an affectionate confession and awkward dance, which can be called the most exciting part of the whole film. In the fourth part of
, because he did not understand Woody's metaphor, he used the built-in voice as an "inner voice" to instruct himself to act. Unexpectedly, he accidentally hit and solved many crises.
It can be said that most of the laughs in the "toy" series were contributed by Bass.
Finally, accompanies .
html Four movies in 124 years, not only the audience has grown up little by little, but Bass on the screen has also become more mature and reliable.We witnessed with our own eyes how he emerged from the decadence after discovering his true identity and became a partner fighting alongside Woody. After Woody was stolen, Buzz took the initiative to lead other toys to rescue his friends. When Woody was no longer needed by his new master and reunited with his beloved Shepherdess, it was Buzz who gave his old friend the courage to leave his master and travel freely.
From a new toy with no clear understanding of his own identity to being able to stand alone and encourage his friends to pursue themselves, Buzz Lightyear's character arc is full and dazzling.
When you walk out of the cinema, you will sigh at the passage of time. I will also sigh that I have finally grown up, from a boy who loves to dream, to an adult who can face the ups and downs of life calmly.
So, how could we not love Buzz Lightyear?
Although he is only a mass-produced toy, he is far less precious than Woody. It's not like Chacha, which contains the owner's heart when making it. But in the hearts of fans, he will always be the unique Space Ranger .
This also explains well why Buzz has countless fans around the world, but the movie with his prototype as the protagonist has a mediocre response.
"Fly to the universe, the vastness is endless."
At least in the minds of moviegoers, this classic line is spoken by a toy, which is far more weighty than being shouted as a slogan by a human who looks exactly like him.
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