at the Very end of the credits is already been running for a while – putting the Film to the outside. The camera glides down a green wall, and the room is to be recognized as a unit, in which a giant skeleton puppet in a more gigantic scissors, the movable structure is mounted. Two computer screens next to it; they show a mixture of fleeing Figures, 3D graphics, and toolbars. A technician stands between the puppet and the Computer, he plays with the model, operated on the device.
The image is not only so exciting, because here the initial laboratory situation reveals that nothing is the vitality of noticeably, the raging later in the Film in a threatening manner in the skeleton. The image is especially interesting, because it is the technical bridge performance makes it clear that it is necessary to get from the doorway of a model to the Illusion of his vitality – and is only then successful, if they covered up themselves.
The small Kubo is the son of a great Samurai and a sorceress. After he was blinded by the dark powers of his grandfather in one eye, and to the orphans was, he must defeat the embark on the search for a magical suit of armor, which enables him to be the Evil once and for all. He is accompanied by a caring Monkey, and a little litter beetles stupid.
Prior to the adventurous journey Kubo spends the day in order to tell the inhabitants of a small village stories. While he plays a Shamisen, a three-stringed lute instrument, fluttering papers through the air and fold to figures that illustrate his stories. The moments in which these Origami figures to fold, on the village square, whirling and fighting against each other, unfolding and refolding each other, dismember, and rip, are one of the best scenes in the film. Not only because of the precise Martial Arts fight choreographies that are suitable for children are staged, but because of the fineness of the Animation shows the best: The delicate structure of the paper, the way it casts shadows, how it folds, how it is cracked, as it is crumpled, as it rustles.
throw is Too fast for the eye
at the Same time, these scenes also shed light on the entire Film, to the operatic thundered spectacle that unfolds in the course of this, in many ways, a very classic hero’s journey. In these scenes happens in the Small what the Great: revive.
Faster than it can perceive the eye, folds the paper to a Samurai, hacking with his paper sword in the air, before charging the papierenes Monster. The spectators are amazed on the village square, emit Sounds of reassurance and fear; a father holds the daughter’s eyes, because the Situation is deteriorating dicey. Here, the Film reflects on the wonders of the Animation itself. As soon as the paper Hero swings the sword, is to forget the paper itself, we have the impression of the Living escapes us the “Ohh” and “Ahh”.
The producers have become in the run-up to tired, not to mention what a gigantic film project is “Kubo”. It is the latest Stop-Motion work of the American animation Studio LAIKA, the celebrated 2005 with Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride”, his first great success and in the Wake of classics such as “Coraline”.
For “Kubo” fraud of the production period is now 94 weeks, the approximate working time 1.149.015 hours. The above-mentioned skeleton is, according to the Studios, the largest ever built Monster of this type and for the Kubo-doll 11.007 mouth expressions as well as 4429 Brow expressions were available; in total, this makes about 48 million possible facial expressions. This includes the cost of materials: 111.195 rare Erdmagnete, and 40,000 pairs of nitrile gloves, 1050 sheets of sand paper and so on. And yet all this, in the emotion of the finished film, invisible and, Yes, in a way, irrelevant.
after the death
The beauty of “Kubo” is, in fact, and the strange setting from the end credits reminds us that the Foundation and design of vitality is more important than the attraction, the spectacle, or the slapstick. This is not least because of this elegant, because this Film, like many other children movies, in the Silent of the delicate, and children are unquestionably particularly difficult problem after the death.
But so laborious and industrious in the micro-layers of the Living, but it was penetrated millions of possibilities of a facial expression, a movement of the hand, a drop Shadow: in The end can be the expense. We don’t see technology, we see life and the admirable modesty of the Animation.
In the Video: The Trailer for “Kubo, the brave Samurai”
“Kubo, the brave Samurai”
USA 2016
Director: Travis Knight
scenario: Marc Haimes, Chris Butler
voices: type and Parkinson’s disease (Kubo), Charlize Theron (Monkey), Ralph Fiennes (Moon King), Matthew McConaughey (Beetle), Rooney Mara (The sisters), Brenda Vaccaro (Kameyo)
production: Laika Entertainment
rental: Universal Pictures Germany
length: 102 minutes
rated: 6
Start: 27. October 2016
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