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On a dark night, two boys urgently bury a box in the ground. Then, some time passes, and in 1969, twelve-year-old Alan Parrish (Adam Hahn-Byrd) discovers a box making strange noises at the new construction site of his father’s factory. When I opened it, it was an old Blue Marble game box. While Alan, a lonely boy, opens the box and looks at the game board, Sarah (Laura Bell Bundy), a girl next door, visits Allen’s house and Sarah inadvertently throws the dice and starts the game. As a result, Alan disappears into the game board, and Sarah, shocked by Alan’s disappearance, receives psychiatric treatment for a long time. A long time passes again and the year is 1995. Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce), siblings who lost their parents in a car accident, move into the abandoned Parrish mansion after the factory closed due to the disappearance of their son. The curious siblings explore the attic of their great-aunt Nora (Bebe Neuwirth) while she is out of town, and discover a box that makes strange noises. This is the box that made Alan disappear a long time ago. The siblings open the box and start the game, and whenever the game pieces move, monsters pop out of the game board. And Alan (Robin Williams), now an adult, returns home again. Judy, Peter, Alan, and the adult Sarah (Bonnie Hunt), who discover that the monsters that pop out of the game are not illusions but actually affect reality, throw the dice again to end the game once and for all. Fighting against all sorts of things that threaten their lives, the four successfully complete the game and put everything back to its original place.
◆ subject:
Due to being bullied and harassed by the village children, the boy Alan escapes into the world of games. Inevitably, the game board pulls him into the game, and Alan becomes an adult, experiencing scary things (unknown to the audience). No one knows what he went through while growing up. Alan manages to return to reality with the help of siblings Judy and Peter, but he realizes that he will never be able to escape from the game unless he completely ends it. Sarah, who was traumatized after witnessing Alan’s disappearance, has been shutting herself away from reality and staying in her house, but when Alan calls her, she sits down in front of the game board again. The brave children Judy and Peter encourage Alan and Sarah to play the game, and the game finally ends with Alan shouting “Jumanji!” <쥬만지>may be a fairy tale intended to comfort and support adults who are experiencing stagnation in their lives due to painful memories of childhood. In that sense, Judy, a mature and courageous girl who always finishes what she starts with her own hands and protects her younger siblings and adults in danger until the end, is a character who can serve as an example for many adults and children.
◆ Impression points:
An adventure film tailored to children’s level. <쥬만지>is an even sadder fairy tale now that the main character, Robin Williams, has passed away. Alan, a boy who lived a miserable life while being treated as a “coward” by his father who ran a factory, is like a character that reflects Robin Williams’ childhood. In fact, Robin Williams’ father was a Ford executive and had a very stubborn personality. It is said that as a child, Robin Williams, a short and fat boy, had to grow up alone in a huge mansion and suffered from extreme loneliness. Robin Williams, who unexpectedly became a master of ‘playing alone’, took advantage of his talent and became an actor, and although he achieved great success as a leading Hollywood actor, it is known that he always suffered from depression and loneliness. In the Jumanji game, Alan, who grew up alone and suffered pain that no one knows about, is also a self-portrait of Robin Williams. Robin Williams’s lonely face of an immature adult-child <쥬만지>It’s even more heartbreaking. movie <쥬만지>is based on the 1981 children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg.
◆ director:
It could be said that he is an expert in Disney-style kidult movies. Joe Johnstone <스타워즈 에피소드 5-제국의 역습>(1980) <레이더스>(1981) <스타워즈 에피소드 6-제다이의 귀환>He worked as a visual effects expert on works such as (1983) before transitioning to becoming a director. He majored in design at California State University. <스타워즈> He began his film career as a storyboard writer for the series. <인디아나 존스> The first part of the series <레이더스>Law won the Visual Effects Award at the 54th American Academy Awards. Joe Johnstone, who wanted to become a director, returned to study film production at the University of Southern California. <애들이 줄었어요>He made his directorial debut with (1989). Disney family movie <애들이 줄었어요>In fact, at Chubarasco Studio in Mexico, it used the world’s largest movie set and props at the time, including a 10m tall oatmeal cookie, a 25m large pond, 16,000 liters of milk in a 10.5m milk bowl, and cereals with a diameter of 2.7m. It was filmed for 5 months and became a hot topic. It also achieved decent box office results. Afterwards, Joe Johnstone <인간 로켓티어>(1991) <영 인디아나 존스>(1992) <페이지마스터>(1994) <쥬만지>(1995) <옥토버 스카이>(1999) <쥬라기 공원3>(2001), he directed a number of family adventure films with outstanding special effects and a positive worldview. Recently, Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe <퍼스트 어벤져>(2011).
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2024-05-05 02:18:20