In the Spring Festival file that focuses on family carnivals, "Bear Infested: Stay with Me "Bear Core"" is very close to the theme of the Spring Festival file. The relaxed, healing and exciting plot is suitable for all ages, and the sci-fi brain hole plot and the expression of humanistic feelings bring the audience. A little surprise.

The ninth part of the "Bear Infested" series has been filmed. After imitating Hollywood animation blockbusters, adults piling up super-burning scenes, and keen to focus on various common themes, they can still find the delicate relationship between mother and child from new angles and cutting-edge expressions. Presentation, we can see the creative potential and ambition of the series of films.

Series films often face creative bottlenecks, but this long-lived animation film always seems to be able to meet the expectations of the audience and become a regular box office winner worth studying.

　　The theme of "Bear Infested: Stay with Me "Bear Core"" is the relationship between mother and child.

Xiong Da, Xiong Er, and Bald Qiang went to an island to visit the robotics research institute, and were accidentally involved in the kidnapping of robot expert Su Luo by the "Iron Armored Monster" robbery group. Like the white bear, in the constant chase and fight between "Xiong Qiang" and the behind-the-scenes agents of the white bear and the "iron armor monster", the identity of the white bear was revealed, and the evil and conspiracy of the two villain brothers were also exposed.

The narration of this story is still a binary mode of opposition between good and evil, and the expression of family affection has increased significantly. The sincere affection between mother and child is in contrast to the evil villain brother, which brings positive guidance to the children.

However, in this traditional narrative mode, the film incorporates elements such as adventure, science fiction, action, comedy, family affection, growth, etc., which makes the film rich in highlights, especially the novel way of thinking about family relationship through artificial intelligence, which is eye-catching. Once bright, it transcends the clichés and aesthetic fatigue of traditional stories about the confrontation between good and evil.

　　The biggest highlight of the movie is the final reversal. Ice Bear is really the mother who abandoned him day and night, and Ice Bear is also an artificial intelligence robot created by human robot engineers.

Although Mama Bear is a robot, she can learn the emotions of animals and humans and become the guardian of Xiong Da and Xiong Er. The film also emphasizes that it is "love" that makes Mama Bear a super intelligent robot. This part of the plot emphasizes the power of family and emotions .

Mama Bear's AI smart identity brings more thinking on human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence ethics, which makes the film's theme expression have a novel expansion.

The "key technology" of artificial intelligence that the villains are looking for is not actually technology, but human emotion and emotional power, which no high-tech artificial intelligence can possess.

The film conveys the thinking about artificial intelligence very well.

At the same time, in this sci-fi world full of robots, cute and cute universal robots, hideous mechanical dogs, and mecha monsters falling from the sky are all endowed with certain human attributes. The film actually uses sci-fi imagination to appeal for realistic emotional expression. .

Love can transcend everything. Themes such as mother's love and the importance of family are fully expressed in beautiful adventures and super-burning action scenes.

　　"Bears: Bear Soldier" presents the warm and caring theme of "justice must win", "Bears: The Metamorphosis" explores the bald-headed father-son relationship, and "Bears: Primitive Era" presents the theme of "courage". "Bears Infested: Wild Continent" explores the theme of "happiness", and "Bears Infested: Return to Earth" excavates Xiong Er's "superhero" growth moment... The series of "Bears Infested" goes to the sky, returns to the primitive society, Going to the moon and other sci-fi imaginations, expressing various family carnival themes, always expressing with positive themes, not outdated special effects and fighting scenes, meeting the audience during the Spring Festival, after many years, it can be said that the needs of parent-child viewing are clear in the chest, And the more you shoot, the more you have cutting-edge thinking, and the more you can innovate.

　　Whether it is a tribute or a study, the "Bear Infested" series has integrated some elements of Hollywood science fiction blockbusters with ease.

The action scenes of last year's "Bear Infested: Return to Earth" were enjoyed by children and adults as well. There are a lot of shadows of Marvel movies, DC movies, "The Matrix" and "Pacific Rim" in the film , all kinds of "tributes" are both familiar and cool and eye-catching.

Like "Bear Infested: Return to Earth", the most lethal weapon of the mechanical monster made by the villain in "Bear Infested: Stay with Me "Bear Core" is still the fire-breathing dragon. There is no creativity, but the fight is still lively and beautiful.

Some scenes in "Bear Infested: Stay with Me "Bear Core"" also have shadows of "Artificial Intelligence", "Godzilla", "Terminator", "Batman" and Marvel heroes, but the overall creativity, theme expression and excellent The special effects of the film have been integrated. The characters in the film have grown up, there are confrontations between good and evil, conflicts, sublimation of multi-theme expressions, and increasingly powerful 3D special effects, thrilling, humorous, and exciting. It has become a very qualified domestic animation. Commercial Film.

It's as if Hollywood movies provided some nutrients for "The Bears", and these "nutrients" have long been melted away, helping to grow the full body of this movie.

If I have to say that it is insufficient, it is that the "Bear Infested" series still needs to work hard on the shaping and expansion of the characters.

This series of movies has been filmed for nearly ten films, but it has not yet developed more fresh and series of new characters. Even the protagonist Bald Qiang has started to play soy sauce, while the villains are obviously routine and stereotyped, and there is less emphasis on group portraits. The layout may affect the expansion and excavation of subsequent stories.

　　On the whole, the "Bear Infested" series of family carnival-themed works has no competitors in the film market, especially in the Spring Festival market.

As a unique evergreen tree in the animation series, this series has found the omnipotent creative routine of "sci-fi + adventure + family carnival theme". Within this framework, the long-term creation of multi-element superimposition and multi-theme mining can be done year after year. to shoot such commercial films.

In the film market, there are too few domestically produced cartoons for children. The "Bear Infested" series of films have caught up with the rapid development of animation film special effects, and also caught up with the creation boom of science fiction themes. collapse, the potential for sustainable development is huge.

(Shi Wenjing)

　　(Source: Qilu Evening News, Edition A08, January 31, 2023)