What is purple, green, yellow and red added together? The answer is Teletubbies, a name that is familiar to some people and unfamiliar to others. It is a British special early childhood education drama that appeared around us in the first few years, but in fact, it is not only preschool children who watch it. In theory, you should not be interested in this kind of plot when you are in elementary school, but whenever Teletubbies are shown, they are still firmly attracted in front of the TV and watched very seriously.
Teletubbies actually still exist, but they have long since lost their popularity. It may be because of the continuous appearance of various film and television works of art that we have gradually forgotten this film. However, various topics about Teletubbies still exist. After all, this is a special drama for preschoolers, but it can successfully attract the attention of teenagers and even adults, which has explained its speciality. Today I will talk about the history of Teletubbies and look at this simple and connotative utopian world.
The birth history of Teletubbies
"Today has a big tree, it is useless to suffer from it, why not the tree in the land of nothing, the wild." This sentence comes from Zhuangzi's "Escape", our traditional culture is of course It has nothing to do with Teletubbies, but in this sentence "the land of nothing" is an apt description of the Teletubbies world. "The Land of Nothing" is a utopia in the Chinese world, a nihilistic but beautiful world, which is naturally unrealistic in the eyes of adults, but in the eyes of preschool children, this is the world they live in. At the same time, this is also the world of Teletubbies, so it is not so much an educational film as it is a documentary from the perspective of children.
In 1996, the British company Ragdoll Productions (ragdoll production?) signed an agreement with a British television station to start producing a children's program of approximately 30 minutes per episode. Executive manager Nick Kopatrick decided not to imitate some of the mainstream education programs at the time. He wanted to present a world in the eyes of young children. Under these conditions, the Teletubbies were born. It consists of two parts, one is the green grass, and the other is similar to the existence of a real-world documentary.
According to the production staff, the design of Teletubbies is inspired by the shape of astronauts, and their colors and overhead antennas are actually designed at will, but they have been given extraordinary meaning by the world. In order to make this children's film and television drama look more beautiful and borderless, the producer also deliberately adopted a multi-ethnic design. Among them, the purple Tintin and the yellow Lara are white, and the actors hiding inside are also white. The green Dixizhao looks darker than the others. It represents black people, and the actor is also of African descent. The red wavelet is actually Asian, and what it says in the original drama is also Cantonese.
It seems to many people that the scenes in Teletubbies were shot in a studio, but it is not. The scene in the play is a real scene and the lawn is real, but it has been refined. Its location is on a farm in Warwickshire, England, where weeds are already infested, and the house full of technology has become a big puddle after being demolished. In addition, in the special drama, these teletubbies seem to be miniature, but in fact, the largest Tintin has exceeded 3 meters in height when standing upright. This shows how difficult it is for the actors under the costumes. The original version of
was recorded from 1997 to 2001. In addition to the local fire in the UK, it has also successfully spread to the world. The content of Teletubbies is purely from the perspective of children, which is all the reason why it is popular, and there are even many special dramas imitating Teletubbies later. But this is what caused a lot of trouble to this drama. As mentioned above, Teletubbies has attracted the attention of many older people for some reasons, but this innocent plot is obvious to them. Unrealistic, in order to have a reasonable explanation, this drama has been given a lot of new meaning.
People’s misunderstanding of Teletubbies
The reason for watching Teletubbies for hours is very simple, it is curiosity. Although they have already gone to school at that time, they are basically restricted to the two points and one line between home and school, and they understand the outside world. It is very rare, not to mention foreign life and folklore. So what attracted me most was the documentary on the TV on the belly of the TeletubbiesAlthough I often don’t understand it, it feels very novel. In addition, the milkshake that appeared in the film was also a highlight. At that time, I always wanted to have the opportunity to taste it. With the magical line, this idea was even stronger. To sum up, this is the reason why I watch Teletubbies. Of course, I didn't feel any weird at that time, but simply decided that it was good-looking and served food.
believes that the thinking of the peers at that time should be like this. Although it is aimed at preschool children, the content is really new for us. But when it comes to some Westerners who are more nervous, things gradually change their taste. As mentioned above, the perspective adopted by the Teletubbies is a child around 3 years old, so everything that appears in the play is normal because it is not a world in itself. But in the eyes of some people who are keen on conspiracy theories, only the world they live in is real, and the world of Teletubbies is deliberately shown to people by the author for the purpose of disseminating some ideas in a subtle way. The above statement of
is of course perverted, but it still has a lot of influence in Western countries. I think everyone has understood a little bit more or less. One of the most famous is Ding Ding’s sexual orientation. The Teletubbies in the play have a new favorite object, and the purple Ding Ding itself is set as a man, but its favorite thing is a red handbag. Therefore, many people have raised doubts, but they seem to have forgotten the setting of 3 years old, and it was not for you. What's more, the settings that appear in the scene are extremely strange, such as what kind of creature does Teletubbies refer to? Who is controlling that talking sprinkler? What does the overhead antenna mean? These series of questions are combined, and even come to the conclusion that "human beings will be replaced by machines", and regardless of whether this sentence can be realized, what does this have to do with Teletubbies?
In addition, Teletubbies have also been involved in some kind of illegal lottery controversy. Although this argument has been spread again and again, it is actually not that evil. In the past few years, under the malicious spread of some lawless people, some ignorant people were very sensitive to the numbers that appeared around them. They naively believed that this was the so-called "password", which could make them use the 6 lottery to get rich overnight. There was such a bridge in some old Cantonese movies. The purposeless plot of the Teletubbies itself often shows some numerical performance (a few turns, a few jumps, etc.), so it has become the focus of these delusional patients.
Conclusion
Time is indeed a pig-killing knife. It makes people change and change, completely forgetting what it was like when they first came to this world. Even if I look back now not long ago, there will be more doubts and puzzles. But time is also important. After all, "history" is produced because of time.
References
"History of Ragdoll"
"Escape"
"Building a bridge between the real world and children's fantasy, Teletubbies can reach the youngest audience"
"Collecting Gadgets and Games from the 1950s-90s"
