{"id":607041,"date":"2024-02-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-bewildering-cartoon-bedtime-story\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:00:00","slug":"watch-a-bewildering-cartoon-bedtime-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-bewildering-cartoon-bedtime-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Bewildering Cartoon Bedtime Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27806518a72\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27806518a72\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-bewildering-cartoon-bedtime-story\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Bewildering_Cartoon_Bedtime_Story%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Bewildering Cartoon Bedtime Story&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-bewildering-cartoon-bedtime-story\/#%E2%80%9CA_Bewildering_Cartoon_Bedtime_Story%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Bewildering Cartoon Bedtime Story&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Bewildering_Cartoon_Bedtime_Story%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Bewildering Cartoon Bedtime Story&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Bewildering_Cartoon_Bedtime_Story%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Bewildering Cartoon Bedtime Story&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    DreamWorks Animation\u2019s latest feature, \u201cOrion and the Dark,\u201d is all but guaranteed to surprise you. It\u2019s skipping theaters and going straight to Netflix, for starters. On a story level, it reveals the little-known fact that every time humans fall asleep, they\u2019re being bludgeoned or smothered into unconsciousness by a little blue gremlin. But the biggest shock may be the name that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears on the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    An adult-friendly kids movie about dealing with your anxieties \u2014 first and foremost, fear of the dark \u2014 the computer-animated feature was written by Charlie Kaufman, the intellect behind \u201cEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind\u201d and \u201cAdaptation.\u201d The project is itself a miles-outside-the-box adaptation of an inventive and fairly straightforward picture book by Emma Yarlett, which Kaufman complicates as only a galaxy brain like his can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Taking a page from Pete Docter over at Pixar, Kaufman has hatched a creative (if frequently cumbersome) solution for the legions of kids who\u2019ve gone to bed worrying about whatever monsters might be lurking in the scariest corner of their bedrooms. Instead of the Boogeyman or the Babadook, out steps Dark himself, a slightly insecure but all-around benevolent element with googly eyes and a disarmingly bright Cheshire Cat smile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cI just wish people would give me a chance,\u201d Dark confides in Orion, sounding like the friendliest possible version of a bulldozer backing over gravel (courtesy of Paul Walter Hauser\u2019s voice work). Dressed in an oversized plague cloak that can stretch the width of the planet as needed, this anthropomorphic fellow seems willing to risk his very existence to explain how the whole dark\/light, night\/day thing works (with the help of a short films<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> guest narrated by Werner Herzog). Taking it a step further, Dark figures that by inviting the kid to tag along for 24 hours, maybe Orion will be able to fall sleep without so much screaming in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In practice, that high-concept strategy plays like a cross between Docter\u2019s \u201cInside Out\u201d and Charles Dickens\u2019 \u201cA Christmas Carol,\u201d but with Kaufman\u2019s signature neuroses woven throughout. The thing is, Orion doesn\u2019t sound like a fifth grader at all. Sure, he introduces himself as \u201ca kid, just like you,\u201d but from the opening voiceover, it\u2019s obvious that Orion is saddled with so many fears \u2014 from killer bees to carcinogenic cellphone waves to \u201cgutter clowns\u201d \u2014 that he\u2019s the creation of a screenwriter with decades of therapy under his belt. (Name another 10-year-old who\u2019d say, \u201cSounds like a traffic accident waiting to happen. I should know. I\u2019ve studied the actuarial charts.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Most of Orion\u2019s anxieties trace back to a fear of humiliation. He\u2019s afraid to risk anything \u2014 especially talking to a friendly female classmate \u2014 for fear of being laughed at or rejected. Kaufman\u2019s smart to start from such a relatable place, one that kids recognize and parents can easily remember. But he pushes it to such a degree that Orion\u2019s inability to engage with the world seems crippling enough to require professional help, rather than just a cute caricature of our own childhood concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Orion tells us that the school counselor suggested he catalog his fears in a sketchbook, and those colored pencil drawings allow for playfully crude line boil animation vignettes amid the more conventional bobble-headed CG aesthetic director Sean Charmatz chooses for most of the movie (a less interesting look reminiscent of \u201cJimmy Neutron: Boy Genius\u201d). When he wants to take us inside Orion\u2019s subconscious, colored-pencil doodles do the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    You know what would have been amazing? Something more in line with the watercolor illustrations in Yarlett\u2019s book. Charmatz should have pushed for a more expressionistic style, of the sort that \u201cTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem\u201d and \u201cInto the Spider-Verse\u201d have made possible. Alas, this DreamWorks production seems more enamored of Pixar, right down to the funny but entirely unnecessary \u201cNight Entities,\u201d color-coded whatsits clearly modeled after the emotions in \u201cInside Out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If the goal was to make nighttime less scary for kids, Kaufman could\u2019ve supplied a more intuitive way of explaining how it works than the five phosphorescent friends that accompany Dark as he circles the earth. There\u2019s the blue, Muppet-looking Sleep (Natasia Demetriou), whose tactics for inducing slumber border on criminal, while glowing green Insomnia (Nat Faxon) terrorizes others into staying awake. Yellow tin-man type Unexplained Noises (Golda Rosheuvel) makes a racket, whereas tiny mouse-lemur-like Quiet (Aparna Nancherla) absorbs car alarms and other distractions. Once they\u2019ve all done their jobs, Sweet Dreams (Angela Bassett) stops by to trigger the shows that unspool in everyone\u2019s heads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    While all five embody things we associate with the dark, it feels derivative to treat them as characters \u2014 employees, really, who up and decide to quit after Orion tells them why things are so much better in the Light (another entity personified, this one as a bright yellow surfer dude in sunglasses, voiced by Ike Barinholtz). As if Kaufman hadn\u2019t convoluted the binary concepts of light and dark, day and night enough, he interrupts this comedic fable at the 17-minute mark to reveal that everything we\u2019ve seen until this point has been a bedtime story told by adult Orion to his daughter, Hypatia (Mia Akemi Brown), who will later join him in trying to figure out how it ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Kaufman\u2019s innovations all make \u201cOrion and the Dark\u201d less predictable, potentially engaging young viewers in the storytelling process. But they also make for a more stressful experience overall, as if Orion wasn\u2019t high-strung enough already. What probably would have worked better was a mellower main character and a more dynamic actor to play Dark (say, a co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n, \u00e0 la Robin Williams in \u201cAladdin\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That\u2019s not to say the Kaufman sensibility is unwelcome. It just feels more suffocating here than it did in \u201cAnomalisa.\u201d A lot of people think that overtly adult stop-motion project was Kaufman\u2019s first foray into animation, when in fact, his connection to DreamWorks goes back farther. Kaufman did an uncredited rewrite on \u201cKung Fu Panda 2.\u201d Years later, Yarlett\u2019s nyctophobic picture book gave his imagination room to run wild. Too much room. The medium\u2019s flexible enough to follow, but a simpler model would\u2019ve made a big difference \u2014\u00a0like night and day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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