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There is a poisonous atmosphere in "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers". The “after” of those who were “consumed” *Note! Contains spoilers.
A world where animation and live-action films coexist as unique characters
When it comes to a world where 2D characters are inserted into live-action scenes, examples that come to mind include " Space Jam " (1996) and, more recently, " Tom and Jerry " (2021), but "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers" can be seen as an evolution of that.
The film begins with a scene of students going to school in 1982, and the students are a mixture of 2D animation and live-action. A common setting here is that the 2D animation "characters" live in the human world = live-action, but among the 2D animation students, in addition to animals like Chip and Dale, there are also humans. In other words, what this means is that in the world of "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers," they are depicted as different "types."
For example, for humans, there are racial patterns such as "2D animation," "CG animation," and "Muppets." Among the media that appear in the film are "3D media" and "black and white media." It is interesting to see how the various expressions in film history are treated as the "personalities" of each individual/subject. What's more, it is possible to "transform" into another type, and Dale undergoes CG surgery "to adapt to the times" in an attempt to do something about his stagnant situation. As a result, the mismatched pairing with Chip, who remains a 2D animation, is visually well-constructed.
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In the drama " Upload: Welcome to the Digital Afterlife, " in which humans upload their consciousness to a digital space after death and live out a second life as an Avatar, a woman appears whose avatar is a photo of herself from her younger days, resulting in a Avatar-and-white appearance. This film also has a setting in which, even if you are born 2D, you can "choose" your appearance by undergoing surgery.
In " Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse " (2018) and " Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ," each character exists in a style that matches their world (universe), and differences in touch are used to express this, but in "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers," they coexist in a single universe. Rather than treating differences in appearance as "foreign," this is a world where "everyone is normal" and "it's possible to switch" (in fact, people with different appearances coexist in schools and workplaces without being distinguished), so this film could be said to be very open.
However, this does not mean that people who depend on "appearance" have disappeared; rather, the opposite is true. Just as Dale thought that "if I make my whole body CG, I can become popular," the cruel theme of "how others see me/being bored" is depicted along with the harshness of the show business world. The keyword here is "pirated copies," which I mentioned briefly earlier.
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