Film university freshmen

I just watched the simple and low-key Chinese translation of Freshman, and then I saw the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs in the introduction, and all my thoughts were tied up at once. Is this another "enchanted"? Obviously, however, this film is not so ambitious. What it pursues is to put on new clothes for college life, just like Cinderella's glass mobile phone a few years ago. The characteristics of this kind of "old songs and new songs" youth films can be summarized as "four modernizations": characterization, extreme behavior, stylized plot and dreamy ending. Under the premise that the big framework is doomed, only by sublimating ideas as much as possible and paying more attention to details can the film not become vulgar and ignorant. From this perspective, this film has stood at a different height from Cinderella's glass phone. After all, it combines the meaning of reality, and gray still lingers in the fantasy of girls.

Let's talk about characterization first. The protagonist, a freshman, is undoubtedly a direct descendant of Snow White. No matter from the lower class or masculine temperament, she has enough charm to capture the top of the MM popularity list in a short time. To put it simply, she can easily become a beauty queen. In addition, she also has excellent psychological quality, positive spirit to overcome difficulties, optimistic and cheerful attitude towards life, and excellent organizational ability to infect and mobilize others, and even makes all the students follow her to declare themselves as eccentric like hypnosis, almost more comprehensive than Snow White, and is actually an idealized female incarnation wrapped in household clothes. Amanda bynes, the leading actor, experienced the baptism of the role of "disorderly horse" in "Football Stunt". Interpreting such a facebook character is no longer a test. Although people look "plump" a lot, but fortunately, the high Kawaii index still makes them invincible. Rachel, who is portrayed as a villain, is a real witch. She is vicious, insidious, jealous, narcissistic and power-hungry. She almost controls the schools one by one in her own hands. There are few practical reasons for this role, and its significance is to become the opposite of the protagonist and then be overthrown. The film also constantly strengthens its evil from beginning to end, showing her ruthless repression when she feels threatened, and her dying struggle when she gradually loses power, which makes the audience's anger more and more intense, and finally enjoys her sudden collapse and betrayal at that moment. It is worth mentioning that the year before last, her actor sara paxton played the leading role in the new version of The Mermaid. Through comparison, it is found that her interpretation of such a femme fatale is much more charming and vivid than the innocent miss mermaid. I wonder if she realizes it? The identity of Taylor, the first hero, is naturally the school grass, and she is the boyfriend of two school flowers. He strictly abides by the iron law that a prince must match a princess in fairy tales. Moreover, after he fell in love with the new school flower, he broke with the old school flower completely, and did not violate the commandment that a prince must be single-minded about his feelings. As "dwarfs", the seven boys are the most vivid and authentic characters in the film. They are kind, funny and have ideals, but they have been living in a small circle of seven people because of their inferiority complex. They are also passionate about women, but only dare to stay in the fantasy stage. They are a marginal group who are on campus, but they are not integrated into it. Our princess untied the knot for them with her love and affinity, and let the seven people return to the mainstream smoothly, or to be precise, lead the mainstream. However, although these seven boys all have distinct personalities and outstanding characteristics, the film only shows them and does not use them to serve their struggle. Perhaps this is the limitation of fairy tales, which is a great pity. Generally speaking, although the protagonist of this film tends to be facebook with a clear distinction between good and evil, it has nothing to do with mechanical affectation, and the film has not let us down in characterization.

The facial makeup of characters will inevitably lead to the extremes of their behavior. The characters in the film all live in a virtual modern living environment, and their behavior naturally does not need to conform to the reason of real college students. Among them, Rachel is the most important. As the president of the student union, she has regarded the school as her own kingdom. Although she can't call the shots, she can do whatever she wants. However, all the students in the school can silently endure the dictator's rule. If Sydney had not been born, she would have become a lifelong leader, which is completely contrary to the atmosphere in which Americans attach great importance to human rights and universities are free and open. The sisterhood in the film is portrayed as a group of upper-class people who need to go through layers of tests, and the election of the president of the student union is comparable to the presidential election. This may be a reflection and irony on the realistic problems of universities or society. For us sleepwalkers who can only travel in paradise in the western hemisphere, we dare not speculate.

Talk about the stylization of plot again. As long as the audience who watch it carefully can clearly feel that the plot of the film can be roughly divided into three paragraphs: First, Sydney went through various tests to join the sorority after entering the university, and was finally excluded on the night of joining; Second, after she met seven "dwarfs", she helped them run for the president of the student union, but was framed by Rachel and was displaced when her popularity increased greatly; Third, they rallied, won the support of the whole school and ousted Rachel. It can be said that the development of contradiction is reasonably divided into three stages, which is completely in line with the "twists and turns" and the golden ratio of Amanda in the poster. The dramatic conflict of the film is also promoted layer by layer, and there is no silence, which proves that this film is indeed a successful commercial film.

As a popular comedy, especially a modern fairy tale, the dreaminess of the ending is also indispensable. After keeping our appetite alive, the film finally made Rachel leave in a panic, but it didn't tell us what happened to her afterwards. It is conceivable that she may have a nervous breakdown and become crazy, or she may live in a broken house and accept people's contemptuous eyes and spit every day. In reality, this kind of person has great hope of making a comeback, and the princesses are unhappy from then on. Shorty moved into a brand-new dormitory, experienced the taste of love, made a fortune, and got a fairy tale ending that can only be harvested in the real world. The movie also ends with a kiss between the princess and the prince. We also walked out of the dream with satisfaction and looked around, as if everything was shining with sparkling snowflakes.

Fairy tales are beautiful, but after reading them, don't stay in your dream of a prince and princess for a long time. Let them bloom, maybe you will be the prince or princess of everyone.