Qiao Feng and Gong Li looked at each other and no longer talked about the little mermaid's interest.

Steve Martin on the stage opened the envelope slowly, then looked at Qiao Feng apologetically, and then opened his mouth and said: Little Mermaid-Alan Manken, congratulations."

Wow, there were applause from the audience, either sincere or politely, and the winner Alan Manken stood up excitedly with fists.

Some people are proud and others are frustrated.

Everyone at DreamWorks Studio at the conference looked disappointed, so did Qiao Feng.

But although it was very unhappy, the result was not beyond Qiao Feng's expectations.

Compared to the daughter of the world-famous sea, Mulan, a heroine who is only widely known in Southeast Asia, is naturally out of weakness.

Not to mention that the duality of the aesthetic forms of the East and the West is involved, not to mention that the Mulan produced by Qiao Feng in the original time and space has undergone great changes in both the image and the story of Mulan.

In this case, it is naturally less likely to win the award.

Aesthetic forms have duality, that is, the unity of nationality and globality.

The production of Mulan in the movie by DreamWorks Animation Studio is a recreation of the original image of Mulan.

Even with Qiao Feng's drastic modifications, in order to adapt to European and American movie audiences, both the character creation and the expression of the spiritual core still present the characteristics of a vague Americanized Chinese story.

But even if it has an American flavor, Mulan is still a heroine under Chinese culture.

Mulan, as an aesthetic form, has a strong Chinese flavor, both in the background and spiritual connotation.

The earliest literary work that recorded the story of Mulan was the Northern Dynasty folk song "Mulan Ci", which tells the story of Mulan disguising herself as a man and joining the army on behalf of her father.

She has always been a typical image in traditional Chinese stories, and his stories have been spread to rulers and the people of all generations; her image is glorious in everyone's hearts.

The story of her woman disguising herself as a man in the army as a substitute for her father is exactly in line with the idea of ​​loyalty and filial piety in traditional Chinese culture.

In China, Mulan's image is more inclined to be a filial daughter and a loyal minister. Her daughter body better deepens the concept of "every woman is responsible for the rise and fall of the world". Her spiritual qualities are in line with the requirements of the mainstream thought at that time.

In "Mulan's Word", the reason why Mulan joined the army on behalf of her father was: the grandfather had no eldest son, and Mulan had no elder brother. Mulan joined the army because of "filial piety". She was not only brave, but also witty. "I have been with her for twelve years, but I don't know that Mulan is a girl."

The first sentence of "Mulan's Word" is "Jiji and Jiji, Mulan is the same as a member of the family." It can be seen that Mulan is not only smart, brave, filial and loyal, but also has the basic abilities that an ordinary girl should possess: hardworking and virtuous.

The image of Mulan in the hearts of the Chinese fully reflects the Chinese aesthetic ideals for women. Mulan basically has all the advantages of women that everyone can think of.

Mulan is a global aesthetic form.

In Mulan's basic story structure, many elements are globally characterized. Interpreting them from different angles will make you taste different connotations.

It is also a woman dressed as a man, which also meets the Western aesthetic needs for women for independence. It is also a "twelve years of peering" that is exactly in line with the Western sense of responsibility and equality.

But when we reexamine this story with modern thinking, we will also have some questions: How does Mulan ensure that her identity will not be discovered when she is with a group of big men every day?

What to do if you take a bath?

What to do when going to the toilet?

What should I do during special times?

This has to be considered when adapting the movie.

In the movie, these doubts must be discussed.

And it was also a matter of discussion that the orientals who were familiar with the story in the end were photographed, whether in the content or the way of expression, felt strange and familiar.

To ensure a certain degree of loyalty to the story, it is necessary to allow European and American audiences to understand and like to read it. What Qiao Feng can do is to borrow the basic structure of the traditional Mulan story and to do a lot of Western orientalization based on actual conditions.

Of course, Qiao Feng retained as much of the oriental imagination as possible about Mulan.

For example, Mulan's appearance.

In terms of character design in the original time and space movies, Mulan's image is more in line with the Western aesthetic of Chinese women. The Mulan in the film is not the image of a beautiful woman in our traditional sense: her skin is fair and beautiful, her long legs are long. She has a phoenix eyes, wheat-colored skin, and some of the characteristics of Chinese models that are more famous internationally.

But Qiao Feng completely overturned the image of Mulan in the original time and space. What he wanted to present to European and American audiences was an oriental beauty in the eyes of Chinese people in the true sense, rather than the so-called oriental beauty that Westerners are used to seeing.

In ancient times, women in the East could have phoenix eyes, but they should never have wheat-colored eyes.

A white covers a hundred ugliness, this is something that has been said from ancient times to the present.

When did Chinese people recommend wheat-colored skin color?

In the traditional sense, Chinese beauties have long legs that are not standard, but their skin is as creamy as porcelain.

Therefore, when DreamWorks was produced, Mulan's image was a completely Oriental beauty.

She has slightly angular facial lines, which makes her look handsome, a rare sword-eyed star-like appearance among women.

But she is not wheat-colored, with apricot kernel-like star-like skin better than snow, and her beautiful eyes are a little agile.

Although she seems delicate, she has agile skills and a tough will. She works hard to do what men can do, and she also uses the tenacity of oriental women to do it.

The appearance with a stern eyebrows and starry eyes in men's clothing is the best cover-up, and she becomes him, a handsome and handsome young man.

Only such Mulan can achieve the minimum of the male rabbit's feet that will not make people recognize at first glance, and the female rabbit's eyes are blurred; if two rabbits walk by the ground, how can I tell whether I am a male or female?

This is the image of Mulan made in the hands of those animators in Qiao Feng’s mind and DreamWorks.

There has been a great change in image, and Qiao Feng did not follow the original version in the plot.

Instead, the plot of choosing a concubine was removed, adding many warm or bumpy family plots.

For Mulan, who can join the army on behalf of her father, the marriage problem naturally cannot be escaped, and the sorrow of her parents caused by this is also indispensable.

But this is definitely not the reason why Mulan is careless and unwilling to dress up and cannot get married as she imagined in the original version.

Because such things would never happen in ancient China. No family could raise such a daughter, even people from wealthy families and powerful families would not do it.

Moreover, it can be seen from Mulan's words that Mulan is very young.

The twelve turns of the Ce Xun, and rewarded hundreds of thousands of powerful people. Khan asked what he wanted, but Mulan did not need a Shangshu Lang, but was willing to travel thousands of miles to send her son back to her hometown.

After making achievements, Mulan did not want to be a minister, but only wanted to return to her hometown.

What to do when I go back to my hometown? Open the door of my east pavilion, sit on my west pavilion bed, take off my war robe, wear my old clothes. I put my cloudy temples in the window, and put yellow flowers in front of the mirror.

After twelve years of war, what Mulan wanted to do most was to change back to her old daughter's clothes, make her black hair, and stick to her beautiful yellow flowers.

What she wanted was not the emperor's reward, but the saying that the neighbors often praised in the old days: Look, Mulan, the Hua family, is Duojun.

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