Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them doesn't try to describe the success of the pre-Harry Potter film mode, but hopes to bring the audience into the magical world of the past with a new way of thinking, but this new way of thinking doesn't mean that the film is excellent, and the loose plot and weak characters make it look like a slightly boring adventure story.
When the narrative control is not good, it will inevitably lead to the weakness of the characters for a film with many characters. Almost all the characters portrayed in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them have no faces, and the actors only "play" their own roles according to the designed roles, without letting people see the changes in personality or emotional essence, which makes the characters that impressed me the most in this film not the hero or heroine or the villain, but the gag.
Looking back at the magical world built by JK Rowling in the real world, we look back at this new work, which is only a novel animal image that can make people shine. Although better special effects production can make people shine, it has not brought about the development that can make people immerse themselves like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. If the earliest Harry Potter is an excellent key that opens the door to the magical world for children, then Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is just a game.
Harry Potter has waved goodbye. Although Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has various criticisms, it still reminds people of the magical world of the past. An emotional card can actually whitewash the defects of many fans that the new is not as good as the old.
Reflection on Harry's film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is definitely not just a fan movie. Even the popular fans who are not so familiar with the background story of Harry Potter can easily approach this fascinating "magical world" through this film. However, under the painstaking shaping of author Luo Lin in the past 20 years, this "magic world" has already become a whole of flesh and blood. To some extent, only by putting the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them into the whole "magical world" can we feel the pleasure of watching Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the maximum extent.
1. Find the "legacy beads" in the seven true stories of Harry Potter.
The biggest feature of Rowling's previous storytelling is that she likes to leave a foreshadowing in obscure details, which are inadvertently connected by readers and finally woven into a dense net. Interestingly, because when writing Seven True Stories of Harry Potter, she didn't plan to write a series of stories about magical animals, and she didn't plan to look for them, so this time, Rowling can no longer be the author who once had a "God's perspective". It seems that she began to play her own "reader" and had a reverse thinking: Rowling, like a humanist author, collected interesting details from seven true stories of Harry Potter and reinterpreted, diverged and extended these details, thus creating a new "setting".
For example, although Queenie, the supporting actress, has been criticized for copying Professor X in the Marvel comics next door, in fact, "mind reading" has already existed in the true story of Harry Potter. As soon as Newt saw Queenie, he called her a "mind reader". This strange, seemingly new word actually comes from the mantra "take the gods to recite the mantra". The spell of "taking away the gods and thinking" once played a vital role in the fifth "Order of the Phoenix". It is precisely because Harry did not learn from Snape's "brain occlusion" to resist the magic of the "mind capture" spell that Voldemort took the opportunity to provide him with false information and led him into the trap of the Department of Mysteries, which eventually led to Sirius's death. In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the spell of "reading with mind" is further extended, and the "mind reader" who is good at this spell has become a type of wizard.
Interestingly, Dumbledore himself once said in Chapter 37 of the fifth book that he is an excellent "successful mind reader", although there are not many stories about Dumbledore's "mind reading". Since Dumbledore will appear in the later stage of the magical animal series sooner or later, the setting of "mind reading mantra" may also become an important foreshadowing.
Sniff, a lovely pet who loves "gold" like a life, was also recovered by Rowling from the Seven True Stories of Harry Potter. In the fourth "Goblet of Fire", "Sniff" first appeared in the "Magic Animal Protection Class", which is another "magic animal" that Harry and his fourth-grade classmates need to learn after frying snails. Hagrid, the teacher of the "Fantastic Animal Protection Class", has just been exposed by the unscrupulous journalist Rita skeat as a mixed-race giant, so he was bombarded by various media and his parents sued. Deeply hit, Hagrid finally gave up his favorite fierce magic animals (such as fried snails) and made a lovely thing for the students to play with. This lovely thing is "smell". At that time, he buried 100 Irish goblin gold coins in the ground and asked each student to claim a sniffer to dig gold coins.
The "smell" at this time is very different from the "smell" in the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. This book describes:
"This is the most interesting lesson they have ever learned to protect magical creatures. Sniffing around in that field, just like in the water, one by one rushed to the classmates who let them go and spit gold coins into their hands. Ron gained a lot, and his thighs were soon full of gold coins. " Goblet of Fire Chapter 28 Mr Crouch is crazy.
But in the movie "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", the "Sniff" we saw was extremely naughty, running around, and didn't listen to Newt's orders at all. We couldn't catch it at all, let alone find a good gold coin and rush back to pour it for our master. However, the "smell" in the official story is so different from that in the movie Fantastic Animals. It seems to be a plot loophole, but it is actually clever and reasonable to think about it: because the story of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is more than half a century earlier than the official story of Harry Potter. In this more than half a century, sniffing may be domesticated from "naughty troublemaker" to "master's little helper for gold panning". This change can even reflect from the side that Newt, a "magic biologist", has made outstanding contributions to understanding and domesticating magical animals.
However, in the story of the goblet of fire, sniffing this creature has no obvious personality. Its appearance is functional and serves the plot: by sniffing the plot of digging gold coins, Rowling naturally and secretly let readers know from Hagrid that the Irish goblin's gold coins will disappear for the first time. "The disappearance of gold coins" was once a key clue in the Goblet of Fire.
In the fifth "Order of the Phoenix", Sniff also appeared, and this time it has its own personality in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them": Li Qiaodan, a senior student, threw Sniff into the office of Umbridge, an official and teacher of the Ministry of Magic, destroying the golden and luxurious office of the old witch. The scene of "sniffing" the bank at the beginning of Fantastic Animals actually cleverly takes care of the scene of making a scene in Umbridge's office. In these two plots, the image of "smell" is not only a joke and satire on greed and wealth, but also a happy destruction and smashing of the authority of "capitalists".
However, the most wonderful re-creation of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them based on the seven true stories of Harry Potter is undoubtedly the setting of ignorance. This sad scene extends from Dumbledore's sister arianna. In chapter 7, section 28, Dumbledore's younger brother Aberforth tells the story of his mother and sister Arianna:
Arianna was playing alone in the backyard when she was a child, and she couldn't control her magic. The neighbor's muggle boy saw it and forced her to perform again. Arianna couldn't do it, so Muggle boys tortured her cruelly. Arianna is very afraid of magic, and she will always suppress her magic. However, the repressed magic did not leave her, but became a painful nightmare. She often loses control and even kills her mother by mistake. It was because of his mother's death that Dumbledore was forced to stay in his hometown Godric Valley in the summer of graduation, and he met Grindelwald who later became dark wizard. Finally, in an argument between him, Grindelwald and Aberforth, I don't know who killed arianna again because of the stimulus. In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Grindelwald began to search for ignorance crazily, perhaps because he saw arianna's magical power in Outbreak.
Although the concept of "suppressing the essence of magic will cause a stronger explosion" obviously came from arianna, arianna's story is only a prototype. The setting of obscural/obscuraus in Fantastic Animals is more complicated and meaningful;
First of all, in the ignorant setting in Fantastic Animals, all the boys and girls who become the strangers of this dark magic force can't live for ten years under normal circumstances. Arianna lived to be 14 years old when he died. We can reasonably speculate that the dark forces in her body have not developed into a truly powerful "black box", but only a prototype. After all, she was only persecuted once when she was a child. Of course, there is another exception in Fantastic Animals, and that is Credence Barebone, a black boy who has obviously lived for more than ten years. The explanation given by the film is that he was saved from death because of his extraordinary divine power, and why his real life experience has such a powerful divine power is still an appetizing mystery. The answer to this mystery may be the highlight of subsequent works. )
Secondly, if arianna's tragedy seems to be accidental and mainly confined to arianna and her family, then the setting of ignorance in Fantastic Animals raises this tragedy to a wider level: this is a dark historical era and a human tragedy in a dark society. Newt explained to fat Muggle Jacob, "Muggles are still chasing wizards before they go underground. Many young wizards have begun to suppress their magical nature in order to avoid persecution." Undoubtedly, the core connotation behind the setting of ignorance is actually the long-standing contradiction and hatred between the two ethnic groups of "wizards" and "Muggles". In other words, ignorance reflects the relentless persecution and rejection of "dissidents" by human beings, and the rebound of "hatred" that this persecution will inevitably bring.
Then, from the setting of Unknown, we can already see Rowling's ambition to further explore the historical and social problems in the "magic world".
2. Appendix to Harry Potter?
In fact, in addition to the seven true stories of Harry Potter, Rowling began to publish short articles on the official fan website pottermore.com several years ago to repair the magical world. These essays are very interesting. In addition to completing some supporting background stories (the most wonderful ones are the reason why Lubang was bitten by a werewolf, Draco's childhood, Professor McGonagall and Muggle's failed marriage history), Rowling has been completing the history of the magical world and the geography of the magical world in short stories. In addition to Britain, magic schools and magic societies in other countries have been introduced one by one.
To some extent, these short articles published on the Internet are not "official" publications, but these "patched articles" are like the appendix written by Tolkien at the back of the "Lord of the Rings" series, which is the author's perfection of a fictional world in historical depth and geographical scope. Such a "patch" enables this fictional world to extend in both time and space dimensions.
Of course, Rowling's "magical world" is essentially different from Tolkien's "Middle-earth". If Middle-Earth is a fable world with medieval charm, then the most fascinating thing about The Wizarding World is that it is close to us and rooted in our known history and society. The wizarding world has never been a paradise. The "magic world" is in our real world, as trivial and filthy as the real world, full of ambiguity of human nature and even like a mirror, comparing the good and evil in the real world.
In any case, Tolkien's appendix to The Lord of the Rings has become the most precious treasure in our study of Middle-earth. Unfortunately, apart from fanatical fans, few people pay attention to Rowling's article about pottermore. There are few excellent Chinese versions of these articles on the market now.
Since the news of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" came out, Rowling has uploaded a series of short articles about the wizarding society in North America, introducing the history and government structure of wizards in North America. Among them, the most relevant information about the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is undoubtedly that in the magical society of North America, there has always been a deeper gap and hatred between "wizards" and "Muggles" than in most other countries.
According to the article MAC USA, the United States is the only country in the world where the wizard government does not cooperate with the Muggle government (Chapter 1 "Another Minister" of the sixth half-blood prince revealed that the British wizard government cooperated with the Muggle government).
From this article, we also know that in the historical background of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, that is, new york in the 1920s, there is still an "apartheid act" in the wizard society in North America, that is, wizards are forbidden to make friends with Muggles (non-magic people), and even daily communication must be kept to a minimum, and offenders will be regarded as violating the wizard law. Rowling also stressed that witch governments in North America severely punish those who violate wizard laws. Witchcraft criminals in Britain are usually sent to jail in Azkaban, while witches who commit crimes are directly sentenced to death in North American law.
Why is there such a big gap between wizards and muggles in North America? In The History of North American Wizardry, Rowling traced the history of the wizarding world in North America back to a real historical event: 1692, the witch trial in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, which was still under the colonial Puritan rule. Perhaps most people are not familiar with this historical event, but they will certainly have heard of many literary works adapted from it, such as arthur miller's famous play The Furnace. In a word, this is a notorious religious persecution case in American history. Twenty-five people were killed, of which 19 was hanged and two babies died in prison.
Rowling weaves this real historical event into her (fictional) North American magic history and regards it as an important historical node. In her article, she said that wizards all over the world were proposing to go underground and sign the International Wizarding Confidentiality Agreement (which can be regarded as the most important setting in the true story of Harry Potter), among which the United States was the most active country in proposing to sign the International Wizarding Confidentiality Agreement, precisely because American wizards had just suffered a serious impact from the Salem witch trial.
According to Rowling's account in the History of North American Magic, another wizard's hatred of Muggles stems from a man named "Scrubber" (translated as Scrubber? ) organization. Because of the colonial background of North America, the wizard society in North America was very chaotic at first, with no government and no laws, so many European dark wizard were running around, where dark magic was rampant. At this time, American folk Christianity persecuted wizards, and some opportunistic dark wizard formed a rogue organization, called the "Scoundrel", to hunt down innocent wizards and give them to Muggle churches in exchange for money. Later, they even arrested innocent Muggles, posing as wizards and handing them over to the church for profiteering. However, after the establishment of the wizard government in North dark wizard, many members of natural disaster organizations were not brought to justice, but integrated into Muggle society, thriving and difficult to catch. Dark wizard's descendants in the muggle society organized by the Natural Disaster have thus become the biggest hidden danger of the wizard society in North America. This also makes the wounds of hatred between North American wizards and Muggles last for a long time.
In Rowling's design, it is the "offspring" of this dark wizard organization that gave birth to the witch/muggle segregation act in North America. Rowling named the bill rappaport's Law. The story goes like this: 1790 (that is, 1789, one year after the establishment of the federal constitution of the United States), under the universal rule of a wizard government, there was a trustworthy finance minister named rappaport. The finance minister was proud of his political career, but neglected to take care of his daughter. His daughter's magic talent is not high, she prefers dressing up and dreams of becoming a social butterfly. Once, Rappaport's daughter went to a party in a small town and met a handsome mysterious man, lost in her head. She told the handsome mystery man all the social secrets of international wizards held by her father, including the location of wizard government in each country, how to enter, and the settlement of ordinary wizards in each country.
However, the true identity of this mysterious man is a descendant left by members of the dark wizard organization scourer in Muggle society. Men have always been full of hatred for the whole wizard society. After getting these secrets, they all reported to the then American government. After this almost exposed the great crisis of the whole international wizarding society, American wizarding society began to strictly enforce the rappaport Law, especially began to strictly prohibit the love and marriage between wizards and Muggles.
The background of this law is extremely important for the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. First of all, it makes a very important love line in this movie more touching. Without understanding this background, we may easily feel that there are some inexplicable feelings between Queenie and Fat Muggle Jacob. Why do their feelings look so cautious? Why did they split up? Why didn't the movie end when Newt and Tina said goodbye, but the last scene was their eye contact?
In fact, it is only because in the North American society of that era, the love between wizards and muggles was taboo from the beginning. They passed through the eyes of the crowd and just hinted at the hope of breaking the taboo.
Secondly, there is an extremely interesting foreshadowing in the scene of rappaport: the descendant of dark wizard who overthrew the whole international wizarding world by almost one person. His name is bartholomew Barreben. Barebone's surname happens to be Mary Lou Barebone's surname. She is the organizer of the "New Salem Charity" that promoted the execution of wizards in Fantastic Animals (it is obvious from the name of this charity that its enthusiasm for the "Salem Witch Trial"). As a descendant of natural disasters, especially bartholomew Barreben, she hates the wizarding society so much that it is not surprising that witches need to be eliminated. But interestingly, her "hatred" for the wizard society was packaged as hypocritical "charity" this time: on the surface, she adopted orphans and distributed food to poor children; But in fact, under the guise of "charity", she imposed her "hatred" for wizards on her adopted son, together with the name of the sight bearing the bloody history.
Rowling has always been concerned about this institutionalized hypocrisy. For most of the time after the story of Harry Potter, Rowling has been painstakingly running her charity "lumos" (in the magical world, Lumos is actually a spell to summon light, which is translated as "fluorescent flashing" in Chinese). The main goal of this charity is to oppose the persecution of children by corrupt institutionalized orphanages on a global scale.
As the adopted son of philanthropist's mother, Claydens, who grew up to be an obstacle because of abuse, was also named quasi-system. This is obviously ironic: just as children abused by orphanages are still asked to thank them for their upbringing, when the "hatred" accumulated between Muggles and wizards for centuries has pushed Credence to desperation and helplessness, he still has to bear the name Barebone, which symbolizes hatred and contradiction.
However, Rowling's good intention may be that only by imposing such historical hatred on teenagers can we finally see the other side of this hatred that makes people feel infinite pity. The tragedy of trust makes us not want to distinguish who is right and who is wrong between wizards and muggles, let alone further strengthen the insurmountable gap. We are forced to face a bloody fact: how unfair it is that such a devastating hatred will eventually be borne by an innocent teenager?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review: Fan Wensan
At the end of Harry Potter, I never thought that this novel could be a derivative work. Anyone who has read the original novel must be deeply impressed by the name "magical animal". Since the fifth novel, whenever strange magical creatures appear in the book, there will be a note: "See the author's" Where are the magical animals "for details. Unfortunately, this is a derivative work made by the original author (of course, the original magical animal book only explains animals, which is not much different from the plot of this movie.
Back to this work, I was very excited at that time. I booked three tickets for the premiere day, one for real 3D and two for IMAX 3D, and revisited the original work in various ways.
Today, I finally saw it. The first time I saw D-box, it was really 3 d. For the first time, the countryman didn't know that the chair would shake with the plot. ......
The background of working in the United States in the last century, whether it is the industrial atmosphere at the beginning or some similar but different backgrounds with Britain, makes me feel different. In addition, both the soundtrack, the actors and the plot arrangement make me feel very different from Harry Potter. Compared with the true story of youth adventure, this book tells a magical animal adventure that combines the magical world with reality from the perspective of a learned protagonist.
Unlike this biography, it is no longer full of youthful passion or straightforward love and hate, and because the man is a single-minded animal freak, even the budding feelings are so subtle.
In addition, although the burden of the work is not too heavy, it is still a surprise when the mystery is solved because of misleading narrative lines and works.
In short, it is a derivative work that is not as heavy as Harry Potter. Although it can be associated with the original work (there should be many eggs after careful study, but there are also some people who don't understand), the overall atmosphere and style are still very different. It's really nice to see this work.
Comment on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Fan Siwen
This film is set in new york, USA, 70 years before Harry Potter. Unlike Harry Potter, which focuses on the protagonist's growth, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is multi-line-driven, with adventures in finding magical animals, love stories between protagonists and, of course, villains of dark forces, hoping to form a rich plot, but ignoring the requirements of multi-line narrative for logic and rhythm control.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them did not follow the success of the previous Harry Potter film mode, but hoped to bring the audience into the magical world of the past with a new way of thinking, but this new way of thinking does not mean that the film's excellent, loose plot and weak characters make the film look just a slightly boring adventure story.
When the narrative control is not good, it will inevitably lead to the weakness of the characters for a film with many characters. Almost all the characters portrayed in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them have no faces, and the actors only "play" their own roles according to the designed roles, without letting people see the changes in personality or emotional essence, which makes the characters that impressed me the most in this film not the hero or heroine or the villain, but the gag.
Looking back at the magical world that JK Rowling built in the real world in the past, we can see that this new work is just a novel animal image, which can make people shine. Although better special effects production can make people shine, it has not brought about the development that can make people immerse themselves like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. If the earliest Harry Potter is an excellent key that opens the door to the magical world for children, then Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is just a business.
Harry Potter has waved goodbye. Although Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has various criticisms, it still reminds people of the magical world of the past. An emotional card can actually whitewash the defects of many fans that the new is not as good as the old.
Comments on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Fan Wuwen
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which the fans were waiting for, was finally released after being postponed. After six years, a brand-new magical journey officially set off.
A short 77-page book contains countless magical lives. When these lovely creatures came to new york, a magical trip to the United States officially began with joy and exclamation.
The time point of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is before Harry Potter, and the place is also from England to the United States on the other side of the ocean. This teaching book about exotic animal breeding, which once appeared in Harry Potter, implies an adventure story.
The magic wind has long been familiar to everyone, but movies can be equally attractive, but it is not the magic wind that eats old money, but the magical animals that germinate.
Whether it is a trailer or a feature film, the most amazing beast in the whole film is the rich fans who like blingbling. This naughty boy with a duckbill in his mouth started his "money collection plan" as soon as he arrived in new york, and almost robbed the bank. Like a bottomless belly. It's ridiculous to stuff as many treasures as you can. Then he robbed a jewelry store at night. No one really robbed this kung fu!
In addition to the lovely sniffing, there are beautiful and domineering Thunderbirds, timid and clingy tree protectors, large and small birds and snakes, considerate invisible beasts and so on. In this era when everyone loves cute pets, a group of magical cute pets with their own personalities make a scene in new york, which can be said to attract the audience to laugh again and again.
From Europe to North America, from London to new york, the roots of the magic wind remain unchanged, and the familiar melody at the beginning seems to open the memories of the past. However, with the advance of the camera, a strong American flavor began to spread. Cars shuttling through the streets, trajectories in the air, and the "magic conference" with American characteristics have all opened a new journey for Harry Potter fans and fans.
Therefore, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has a strong American style instead of blindly eating old Harry Potter books. The magical officials who talk about "Fa" can best reflect the American style, not just the difference between "subway" and "underground". No wonder rotten tomatoes and IMDb scored 77% and 7.9 respectively. It seems that this really hit the hearts of North Americans.
From the perspective of "sequel", it is very rare for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to innovate on the original framework. You know, when Peter the Great filmed The Hobbit with a few pages, he did not exceed the height of The Lord of the Rings. In addition, in order not to be just a fan's carnival like the big movie of Warcraft, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has obviously reduced a lot of magical terms, and the time for wizards to cast spells has been obviously reduced, making it easier for more people who have never seen Harry Potter.
Farewell to Harry Potter means that "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" will tell the story in a brand-new role.
The newt zoologist played by the movie star Eddie Redmayne "Little Freckle" is really a bit strange. Walking posture, often bending his neck and carrying a strange box, is very suitable for the image of a "high-tech geek". Although it looks a little different from the handsome images of other leading actors, the part of dancing unicorn courtship in the park is simply a must.
Muggle "Jacob" is definitely the joke of this film, and various expression packs emerge one after another. With chubby simple modeling, it is absolutely as cute as sniffing. No wonder it won the heart of the beautiful witch Queenie. Let people shout: it turns out that fat paper also has spring.
There is also a heavyweight who said in the previous news that he would join the film. There are not many scenes here, just telling everyone at the end of the film that they must finish watching the eggs!
I also recommend you to watch the IMAX version. The screen skipping effect is really fun.
JK Rowling, the "Hama", and david yates, the director of the four Harry Potter films, not only brought a long-lost feast to the fans, but also brought a magical journey of joy and laughter to the audience who were not fans.
The search for magical beasts and where to find them have just begun, but this has long been expected.