小美人鱼1989

I remember when we were lying in bed one morning, N told me about the plot from the Disney version. That he couldn't recall much except that Ursula was the villain, that they sang Kiss the Girl, and that it's a happy ending. In turn, I told him about the one I remember from my childhood, the "original" Andersen version, about having her tongue cut out and walking on the tips of blades, about seeing the prince fall for the wrong girl, about the sisters who gave their hair to the witch in exchange for the dagger to be plunged into the prince's heart, about sacrifice and eternal soul, about true love and kindness and turning into bubbles. I think he trembled in my arms when I got to the gruesome part about having to plunge the knife into the prince's heart by sunrise, so she could have her voice and body back. He chuckled when I expressed my indignance at her throwing the knife far away into the sea, and that her sisters wasted all that beautiful mermaid hair for nothing, for a man. As I told it, I realized how violently sharp it all sounds, and how wildly inappropriate this is as a fairy tale. Not least because of the part about death - I remember being confused when I read about the bubbles and the foam rising from the sea, and how the God embracing her from heaven looked like her father, and she felt home. It wasn't this glossy version laced with catchy songs and two-dimensional villains, of somewhat self-conscious snarky cynicism towards a patriarchal society preferring mute women over those who spoke; it was about how all magic came with a price, about heartache, anguish, and pain. I remember finding an English version the following day and reading it over lunch:

"I'll brew you a potion, but you must swim to land, sit down on the shore, and drink it off before sunrise, and then your tail will split and shrivel up into what men call nice legs; but it will hurt, it will be like a sharp sword piercing through you. All who see you will say you are the loveliest child of man they ever saw. You will keep your lightsome gait, no dancing girl will be able to float along like you; but every stride you take will be to you like treading on some sharp knife till the blood flows. If you like to suffer all this, I'll help you."

"She has given us a knife, here it is, look how sharp it is! Before the sunrises you must thrust it into the Prince's heart, and then, when his warm blood sprinkles your feet, they will grow together into a fish's tail, and you will become a mermaid again, and may sink down through the water to us, and live out your three hundred years before you become dead, salt sea-foam. But hasten! Either you or he must die before sunrise."

"And the knife quivered in the mermaid's hand -- but then she cast it out far into the billows, they shone red where it fell, it looked as if drops of blood were there bubbling up out of the water. Once again she looked with half-breaking eyes at the Prince, plunged from the ship into the sea, and felt her whole body dissolving into foam."

So much for love.

半夜补完了迪士尼的《小美人鱼》，小美人鱼的故事改编自安徒生的《海的女儿》，电影和原著的唯一区别是，前者的结局更加符合迪士尼传统的＂happy ending＂，而后者的结局是“小美人鱼最后化为了泡沫，没有和王子在一起”，相对而言，安徒生的这篇童话故事结局可能有点让人无法接受。 在这部电影中我依然看到了许多:我看到了小美人鱼爱丽儿为爱奋不顾身的勇气；看到他向往陆地自由的那种渴望；看到了他为了王子，宁愿舍弃自己美丽的歌声找巫婆乌苏拉换取双腿；我也看到了人鱼王最后看到女儿出嫁的那一份不舍；也看到了爱丽儿和王子最终在一起的那份甜蜜与幸福。 全电影中最让我感动的一幕是:王子向爱丽儿鞠躬的那份帅气，最后爱丽儿挽着王子向父亲道别...... 迪士尼的电影总是这样，充满浓浓的爱意:或家人，或爱人，或朋友...也充满了丰富的内涵与令人深思的内容。迪士尼一贯的完美结局，也让我们这些逐渐长大的人在心里留下了一部分田地，留给那些陪伴我们童年的美好幻想。这也印证了那句描述迪士尼的话:「无论多大 我都想继续热爱童话 英雄和魔法。 是他们告诉我就算长不大也没关系。」 写于2018.11.24 凌晨1点24分

以下都是个人理解哈

那首part of that world has been and will be making me cry 很多喜欢安徒生原版故事的人不喜欢这一个版本。诚然，它是有很多迪士尼cliche，包括最后的大团圆结局，但是我不喜欢那些因为这个故事讲了一个女孩为了男人放弃一切而不喜欢这个故事的想法，对于我来说，那个王子怎么样不重要，这个王子是在我的心里如同屈原的美人一样的美好追求，爱丽儿在洞中抚摸雕像正如我在心中畅想我的未来一般。爱丽儿想要的可不止是爱情，或者说我心目中那个向光游去的爱丽儿不是，就像主题曲唱的那样，她要在温暖的沙滩上漫步，她要的是向上的机会、求索的可能，她要告诉那些认为她弱小、连游泳都无法胜任的人，"Bright Young women, sick of swimming, ready to stand!!!!!!"；她不仅要跻身人类的行列，她还要"ask them questions and get some answers"

她做的就是我一直在做的事

《海的女儿》实在是我小时候很不忍心去看的童话，因为那时我还没有理解童话结尾“天空的女儿”的意义，因此觉得这个童话是一个非常悲哀的结局。电影的改编得很有新意，和童话相比，重点从追求灵魂自由和不朽转向了追求真爱。 先说电影和童话的共同点吧。关于“失去声音”这个情节，我觉得不应该解读为“女性话语权”，这种解读太强行了。这个声音指的就是关系中的展示和表达，通过对话去向爱的人展示魅力，表露心思，那是再美的皮囊也无法替代的。 不同之处，童话里的王子完全就是个幻象，实在是没有什么可取之处。有时我想，就算童话里海的女儿和王子在一起了，最后也不见得是好事，因为这个王子是没表现出什么配得上她的品质。因此童话最后在爱情的悲剧中揭示出海的女儿这种爱恋的虚幻，并将最终的追求指向灵魂的独立和不朽，是很合理的。 而电影里给王子更立体的呈现，尤其增加了紧要关头挺身而出战胜女巫的情节。有了这样的处理，才觉得爱丽儿和王子确实可以在一起了，这个大团圆结局也就站得住。

电影的封面海报设计得非常有美感。协调的比例和曲线下，爱丽儿向光游去，整个电影的意蕴都浓缩到这里了。

美术设计真的是经典，动画动作灵动，音乐也出色，迪士尼真是造梦的高手。可惜这个ip感觉开发的空间实在有限了。