【Wisecrack】《探险时光》是如何讲述故事的？
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With Finn and Jack now in their final season of adventures, we wanted to look at what makes the show so special. And while there are lots of reasons people love Adventure Time,I'm going to argue it has a lot to do with a storytelling style as old as written storytelling itself and an epic too epic for most to finish:"The Iliad."
So,let's see How Adventure Time Tells a Story
Of course,some if the similarities to the classics of old come down to the adventuring part.The classics have monsters.dramatic rescues,long journeys to distant kingdoms,and a beautiful princess that sends soldiers to battle."The Iliad" is also sometimes referred to as the "Song of Ilium" and is written in verse,giving it strong links to music.Likewise,Adventure Time features plenty of music and songs throughout its seasons--and characters even occasionally speak in rhyme.
"I'v got something for you
-a metal shoe!
Don't you know you might stub your toe?"
"The Iliad" and Adventure Time alse both start with a musical call to hear their story.But what really connects Adventure Time with epics like "The Iliad,""The Odyssey,"or"The Aeneid," is a surprising one: the structure of poetry.
Rebecca Sugar, formoer Adventure Time writer, once said of show creator Pendleton Ward:
He's expressing thoughts about very modern feelings that people have...Good poetry is like that.
Many of the things Adventure Time is known for have origins in poetry:its mix of modern and classical language, its music, its use of colorful and evocative imagery, the invention of new words, objects and creatures and just how plain surrealit all is.
But one of the most telling ways it relates to poetry, is in its length.
Adventure Time's episodes only last roughly ten minutes, half your average TV show, which means each episode relies on compression. When you hear any story it has been compressed- it jettisons the boring details for the exciting stuff. Classical poetry, and a lot of modern poetry too, has some pretty firm rules on how this compression is achieved. "The Iliad," for instance, compresses each line in a form of poetic rhythm, or 'meter', called'dactylic hexameter' which is a fancy way of saying each line must be exactly eighteen syllables. Almost all poetry, even if it doesn't use meter, is a mode of compression.And sure, movies compress stories to a few hours, TV compresses them to under an hour,but Adventure Time is even more hardcore, compressing a whole story into 10 minutes.
This type of 'stripping down' requires the essential elements to be focused on in imaginative ways. In the episode "Puhoy," Finn lives an rentire life in a pillow dimension where he gets married, has kids and grows old.All in ten minutes.This economy of exposition shows how compression feeds creativity and helps focus the story.
A Canto, on the other hand, is the accumulation of these scenes that tells the story of several characters or a whole world.In "Dante's Inferno"-another epic poem-the stanza will be a short interaction or description, but the Canto will be the story of a whole circle of Hell.Just like "The Iliad" and other epics, Adventure Time tells its stories on a micro and macro level.Not only are there the contained narratives of each episode, but an overall narrative that reflects the history of the Land of Ooo.Through dialogue, geography, and even just certain names we discover the different types of government and rulers Ooo has,--"King of Ooo!"--that the main deity is a Cosmic Owl and, especially from the episode'Simon & Marcy', it is hinted that Ooo was formed after a nuclear apocalypse.
One of the most interesting ways in which Adventure Time can be compared to poetry is with something called Bathos.Bathos is a sort of anti-climax, a sudden shift in tone or a thoroughly mediocre end to suspenseful moment.There are some great examples of this in the classics, like the defeat of Achilles, an invincible warrior brought down by the lamest of weakness...his heel.And in "Paradise Lost," We learn that divine angles defecate not through their poop chutes but by a kind of mist from their skin.That is Bathos.Something built up then brought crashing down to earth.
Adventure Time is full of this.Just when something gets too dangerous,--"Help me...hang these streamers!"--or scary--"I have come for you,Finn."--or romantic--"Kiss me,Finn.I mean...kiss me,Finn!"--it is either interrupted or undercut by another character undermining it or shrugging it off.
