Windermere Lakeside丨The fairy tale pastoral time witnessed by Peter Rabbit in those years
I don’t know if you have watched the recent release,
It is both hilarious and heartwarming The live-action animated film "Peter Rabbit".
The film tells the story of the rebellious little Peter Rabbit in adolescence, who leads a group of brothers and sisters to compete with McGregor in a battle of wits and courage, and show off their magical powers in order to fight for the sovereignty of the vegetable garden. Of course, after a series of ridiculous human-rabbit battles full of classic British humor, Peter also grew up in it, and the story ended with a heartwarming ending that made his aunt laugh.
This film is adapted from a century-old British animation classic. Like most fairy tales, the story starts from "once upon a time". "Once upon a time, there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy and Mo. There will be more friends appearing one after another in the development of the story after "Pushy, Cottontail and Peter".
For example, in the film, cousin Benjamin failed to lose weight because he put too much salad dressing on his salad; Mr. Pig, who is always a helper and screams; and Tommy Badger, who loves to "cover his ears and steal his bell". The hometown of this cute little rabbit wearing a blue coat, brown fur and white belly and his friends also exist and are infinitely fascinating~
Quiet farmland, huge oak trees, clear lakes, various species A variety of wild animals and a peaceful British pastoral scenery refer to the British Lake District, which is like a fairy tale world, and the prestigious Lake Windermere is the hometown of the protagonist of our story!
The Lake District is not only The hometown of Peter Rabbit is also a fertile ground for the British soul. Many poets and writers love this land. The British romantic poet Keats once said: "Lake Windermere can make people forget the differences in life: age, wealth."
Beatrix Potter, author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" Inspired by the beautiful scenery of the Lake District, pastoral scenery and various lively animals have become the scenes and distinctive characters in her fresh watercolor picture books.
Miss Potter spent most of her life guarding this beautiful land, and handed over all the royalties from "Peter Rabbit" to the National Trust for management, and hired a dedicated person to be responsible for the maintenance of the natural landscape of the lake area. To this day, the lake area still maintains its most original style and is not damaged by human factors, and Miss Porter is indispensable.
The best way to visit Lake Windermere is by boat. There are several small islands in the lake, with green hills and rural-style buildings on both sides. Between the green spaces, valleys and the lake are farms, pastures, Medieval villages and castles, weathered stone fences and bridges, the lake and the scenery on both sides complement each other. Coming here is not only a visual aesthetic, but also a kind of spiritual cleansing.
The town of Bowness is adjacent to Lake Windermere and is a prosperous area in the Lake District. Most of the houses in the town retain the architectural style of the Victorian era. The B&B hotels converted from English villas are equipped with English gardens, which are elegant, quiet and exotic. There are many hiking routes near the town. You can explore the forest at will. Step on the bluestone road, listen to the rustling of fallen leaves on the ground, and occasionally a few birds fly through the forest.
The most attractive thing in the town of Bowness is the Peter Rabbit Museum. To be precise, it is the world of Beatrix Potter, which is named after the author of Peter Rabbit. The museum has restored 23 scenes from Miss Potter's stories. Accompanied by the brisk music, scenes of pastoral worlds from picture books are presented in front of you: the naughty little rabbit Peter, the frog Jeremy who cannot catch fish, the careless mother duck Jemima, etc.
The backyard of the museum is specially built to look like the small garden in the Peter Rabbit story scene, which is what Farmer McGregor's vegetable garden looks like in the movie. In addition to Peter's favorite water radish, there are also vegetables common in the Lake District, such as cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, etc., as well as a scarecrow made of a blue coat, which Peter disobeyed and went to the vegetable garden to eat and throw away. It’s inside!
The basement floor of the museum is a tea room specially designed for visitors to rest. The decoration continues the fairy tale style of Peter Rabbit. The walls are hand-painted illustrations, and the menu is also full of people and things that appear in the story. Name it, for example, the most popular Peter Rabbit's Picnic Basket. Enjoy the fairy tale-themed British afternoon tea here, and you will definitely be full of girly hearts.
The town of Grasmere, the hometown of the lakeside poet, is so small that it has no sense of existence but is more peaceful. Go to the dovecote, the former residence of the famous pastoral poet William Wordsworth, and feel the meaning in the sentence "Iwanderedlonelyasacloud" The graceful artistic conception, or going to the most famous gingerbread house in town and tasting handmade gingerbread with English black tea will be a unique experience.
The oldest steam train still remains in the small town of Highfordthwaite from Rexed to Rexed, moving slowly with rhythmic clanging and bursts of white smoke. If you are not in a hurry, you can stroll around the town and then take the next train back. You can also see workers adding coal to the train at the station. It really feels like you have traveled back to the era of the Industrial Revolution.
Train
◆International departure: Arrive at Manchester International Airport, the airport train station goes directly to Windermere (Windermere)
◆Local departure in the UK: There are major cities in the UK Trains to the Lake District, such as London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, etc., transfer at Oxenholme Railway Station in Kendal and take the train to Windermere.
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Ticket booking inquiry APP: Trainline
Self-driving
Take the M6 ??highway to enter the Lake District, get off the highway and drive along the A590 and A591 to Windermere and you will arrive quickly. The drive from London to the Lake District takes 5-6 hours.
Internal transportation
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Lake tour route:
Enter the fairy tale world of Peter Rabbit from the lake area,
Because Peter Rabbit walked into the author’s beloved lake area.
Lake Windermere, with her broad mind,
makes everyone feel peaceful.
As one of the "50 Most Worthy Places to Visit in a Lifetime" selected by National Geographic Magazine
this place is enough to become a must-see for traveling to the UK. Reason,
The graceful British town is waiting for you to understand, taste and remember. Simple hand-drawing tutorial: Draw a beautiful and cute big tent ~ (including step-by-step pictures)
My fondness for tents comes from a tent at home when I was a child. In those days, a tent was a very rare item, so my dad especially liked to take me camping. A kerosene stove and a tent can attract all the attention of passers-by. So, I have been able to set up tents since I was a child. You can get started with connecting umbrella ribs and fixing tents. Although the skills are indeed a bit niche and can only be used during picnics and local meals, it has developed my good hands-on ability.
People all over the world basically have the skills to set up tents. I guess tents predate houses. It is more private and easier to relocate than a cave. It is inseparable from marching and fighting, grazing by border tribes, and hunting in paddocks. Even now, when fishing for night fish, you should try to bring a small tent with you so that you can have a good rest. Later, tents developed into various forms. Secluded places such as greenhouses for growing flowers and plants, mosquito nets to protect against mosquitoes, rice covers to cover meals, etc.
So it’s still the same truth, if you want to live a good life, you need to use both your hands and your brain. This is not just as simple as "getting up in the morning and practicing".
Today’s Cat Quote: When camping in the mountains, a small tent is not necessarily worse than a larger one. When going to a market in town, a big tent may not necessarily be better than a small one. Don't be greedy for expensive things, don't be greedy for big things, find a tent that suits you, it's better than anything else. Director Bi Gan's uncle (Golden Horse Award for Best New Generation Director)
The 30-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan has completed two films that are both strange and familiar in his young and legendary career
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. Among them, the 2015 Locarno Award winner "Roadside Picnic" and the Cannes Film Festival shortlisted "Last Night on Earth" may be something you have never seen before. The work involves the fickleness of time and the vagaries of memory in both form and content. This contradiction is the core of Bi Gan's works. The Chinese title of "Roadside Picnic" was originally named after Fernando Pessoa's "The Record of Panic", while "The Last Night on Earth" comes from the short story collection of the same name by Chilean novelist Bola?o.
Similar to the UFO in the film festival scene that focuses on realism, his film seems even more incongruous in the social reality context of Chinese independent films.
This is not to say that Bi's films are divorced from reality; on the contrary, they are rooted in specific places and cultures and, I think, the sensibilities of a generation. What sets him apart is his unusually bold and expansive pursuit to refine cinematic dreams and memories.
In these two films, Bi built a world entirely his own, centered on his hometown of Kaili, Guizhou. At first glance, his narratives seem overly fleshed out and complex, even though their basic actions are simple and usually involve return, travel, and pursuit.
But his work is about "loss". In this film, the story unfolds about disappearing people and lost time
Traveling through time and space is the core of Bi's film, which relies on montage and continuous movement techniques to imply the collapse and transcendence of physical space, as well as the mysterious interweaving of multiple time and space.
"Roadside Picnic" features a 41-minute tracking long shot
In different modes of transportation, along mountain roads and narrow alleys, across a river by boat, in Track the target person near the riverside village. The second half of "Last Night on Earth" consists of an hour-long, gravity-defying sequence that hurls the protagonist from a mountaintop into a labyrinth of semi-abandoned buildings via zip lines and drones. Building complex.
The male protagonist of "Roadside Picnic", Chen Sheng, is a middle-aged poet who was once a criminal and worked in a shabby clinic in Kaili. (Actor Chen Yongzhong is Bi's uncle and starred as a poet and singer in the short film "Diamond Sutra.") Chen is also the caretaker of his nephew Wei Wei, the son of Chen's younger brother "Lao Wai" who is "eating to die". Bi vividly and piecemeal introduces his characters and the dirty, garbage-filled environment around them in the first 30 minutes of the film. A man and a woman kick a ball back and forth, and a pair of blue embroidered slippers float on the riverbed, mysterious insertions that have retroactive significance.
Then, through a batik printed umbrella, the ubiquitous mirror image evokes one mysterious poetic narration after another.
The film often takes on a surreal tone, when Chen is searching for bananas in underground tunnels, or when the news reports news of an elusive "savage." "Space is limited and unstable: a crumbling amusement park is cut through a field of lush vegetation; Chen's house sits directly beneath a waterfall; and without any warning or explanation, images of a moving train Appearing on the wall.
Roadside Picnic gives us a glimpse into the subtropical region of Guizhou that is rarely shown on the screen, with its lush greenery, humid climate, and abundant wildlife. Many rivers, caves and steep limestone. Guizhou is also home to several ethnic minorities, which account for more than one-third of Guizhou's population. Bi himself is from the Miao ethnic group, whose traditional Miao culture is famous for its reed pipes and bamboo wind instruments. /p>
Bi, who majored in literature, adapted some of his poems into the film. They work like so many other things in the film, constantly inducing a trance, even at key plot points, including Chen's. The basic background information is embedded in dreamy passages, including his dead wife.
Later, "Roadside Picnic" almost turned into a road movie. Chen left Kaili to find the "Laowai". "Sold Weiwei
. Chen was also entrusted by his old colleague Zhao Daqing to give several souvenirs, including a box of tapes and a printed shirt, to an old lover whom he had not seen for many years. This This journey takes him to Dangmai Village, where the film gradually reveals a time-warped and intertwined form. Chen strolls through Dangmai Village, and the camera occasionally leaves his side to accompany other characters, and he once participated in a road trip. side concert. Is this impossibly subtle time short circuit a memory, a premonition, or a combination of the two? The young man who picked him up on a motorcycle was Weiwei, and the hairdresser who washed his hair looked like his dead wife.
This long take, like Birdman and its ilk, is often a showcase of directorial talent
The important thing is the illusion of continuity. But Bi is more concerned with pushing Tarkovsky's concept of "time pressure" to the limit until it breaks through the embankment of reality. This technique can be achieved through the simplest film editing techniques, but editing often means the loss of time. transformation, and Bi refused to do so.
There is a sentence in the Buddhist scripture "Diamond Sutra", which says: "
The past mind cannot be obtained, the present mind cannot be obtained, and the future mind cannot be obtained
" , and the ultimate goal of this movie is a single stable but erratic reality. But what is certain is that there are other non-spiritual backgrounds that influenced Bi Gan’s lens language. In interviews, Bi has wryly attributed his longstanding talent to his background as a wedding videographer, as he traces footage of hair salons and travels in the film to his mother being a hairdresser and his father Is a driver.
In short, Bee is interested in the potential of film to create mental space and convey physical sensations (his top 10 recent favorites include Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity") .
His ambitions are further reflected in "The Last Night on Earth"
"The Last Night on Earth" consists of two parts. The first half is an anachronistic mosaic illustration, and the second half is a nighttime dream. The film expanded the scope of Roadside Picnic into a genre, essentially remixing genres with a bigger budget and adding movie stars like Tang Wei and Sylvia Chang to the cast. Bi said he wanted to express Wong's cadence in the film with his wistful voiceover: "Every time I see her, I know I'm in a dream again."
The male protagonist of this film, Luo Wu (played by Huang Jue), is another wandering lonely man, troubled by loss and regret
. He travels to Carey, where there are various talismans, a photo with a phone number on the back stuffed inside a broken clock; a green book containing a spell that can make the house spin and evoke a flood of memories. "It's scary to live in the past!" one character says. At Kaili's funeral for his father, Luo recalled his old friend Baimao and his old love Wan Qiwen. Wan Qiwen's gangster boyfriend killed the white cat.
This film stages a tug-of-war between past and present, or reality and imagination. As Law recalls his affair with the femme fatale, who wore only green, he questions the authenticity of his memory. Today, he goes to find Bai Mao's mother who was a hairdresser and Wan Qiwen who may now have a different name.
What follows is a long, exciting and seamless journey, a feat even more daring and complex than Roadside Picnic's tracking shot.
The first time Luo met in this 3D movie was a smart child, who may be a younger white cat. The little boy rode a motorcycle and sent him to a lookout, where he descended via a cable to a billiards hall halfway up the mountain. The manager here seems to be none other than Wan Qiwen, but she insists that she is Kai Zhen. Later, the two of them float to the village square, where a karaoke competition is in progress, and a red-haired woman is in trouble... The tracking shots are lengthy and intricate, so they must be carefully designed to be meticulous. But there are also contingencies: Luo's experience of this long night depends partly on the outcome of an impromptu table tennis match and partly on someone's ability to play billiards under pressure.
The characters who exerted influence on Luo in the first part of "The Last Night on Earth" appear in different forms in the second part. Almost every detail, including the craving for grapefruit in the off-season, the white cat that eats an apple without spitting out the core, the music, the spells, the grille pattern of the prison window, is repeated or altered in the dreamscape activated by the film. While Vertigo is the most obvious touchstone of this tale of obsession and duality, its structure owes something to the similarly structured Mulholland Drive.
Some people say that Hou Hsiao-hsien's "The Assassin" is a painting, while Bi's "Roadside Picnic" is a poem. Bi also publicly expressed his admiration for Hou Hsiao-hsien and David Lynch
Bi Gan's films have a vague distant memory, a kind of familiar dream
If the first half of "Last Night on Earth" seems to describe a dream state defined by constant sliding and shifting of the ground beneath your feet, the second half simulates a different kind of dream, a lucid dream. , the embodiment of a free-floating consciousness. Bi clearly knows to avoid the cliché pitfall of so many trance stories: the "it was all a dream" twist ending.
He had to use different techniques to make his technique acrobatic with great poignancy: he kept the camera rolling, characters in motion, rotating rooms, incombustible pyrotechnics, all in order to avoid "waking up from a dream" into a Kind of "death".
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