Don Bluth is an interesting figure in world animation. It was from this cartoon that he began his solo voyage, separating from the Disney studio, as he dreamed of making more serious, higher-quality, non-conveyor cartoons. He's been able to do that for a long time.
Yes, the drawing and animation in "Secret" is powerful, there can
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Don Bluth is an interesting figure in world animation. It was from this cartoon that he began his solo voyage, separating from the Disney studio, as he dreamed of making more serious, higher-quality, non-conveyor cartoons. He's been able to do that for a long time. Yes, the drawing and animation in "Secret" is powerful, there can be no doubt. Everything is done very qualitatively, moderately gloomy, in detail. The problem is that the visual pros end. The script is just one misunderstanding. Some might argue that the cartoon is from the book, but Bluth twisted the book, so it's not an argument. - At the beginning of the cartoon, the characters talk a lot about death and women. Who wrote the dialogue? - The heroine goes to a sage to find out what she needs to another sage, so that he eventually sent her to the third sage. Would you lose anything if you started with the third? - Justin, the second protagonist, only appears in the middle of the cartoon. - The villain later. - The underwater elevator scene makes no sense. The elevator goes down on the cable to the bottom of the structure. After that, it is drained, and the characters come out dry. Why not just put the elevator down in the air? Jonathan Brisby is idolized by everyone we meet, although I never understood what created such a cult around him. Well, yeah, he saved the rats by opening the door, but he did it because he was smaller, it had nothing to do with personality. The scale of the feat is not that even the owl bows before his memory. - And since everyone loves him so much, why does his wife and children live in the village? - If rats are intelligent because of the experiments of scientists, then what is the justification of all other talking animals? What with the serum, what without - they are all talking there. - Why even move the house? Yes, the child is harmful fresh air (sounds doubtful), but it was possible to transfer it in a closed cradle. What's the whole house for? - Did Nicodemus see the future? Why didn't you foresee your own death? The magic stone was the director’s main cut, it’s not in the book. The origin of the stone is not explained at all. And Nicodemus himself is also just his Merlin out of his pocket, he was not among the fugitive laboratory rats. - A raven in this cartoon is not needed at all. It serves as a completely empty discharge from the gloomy content, but the authors forgot that in this case it can still be given some, you know, role. And so almost every scene of the cartoon is meaningless. That is, not slightly, not something there did not last, and there is absolutely no common sense of what is happening. The whole plot could look like this: a mouse goes to the first sage, he says that it is necessary to move, she drags the child in a closed box to a new place. The end. It is clear that adventure work should not allow itself to such a compression, and therefore the task of writers is to give a good reason why a large chain of events occurs. They couldn't do that. Porridge, not history.
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