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"Paddington" The Gentleman Bear and Wonderful London [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.36]

"Paddington" The Gentleman Bear and Wonderful London [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.36]

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A bear from a faraway land



``Paddington'' is a movie based on the children's book ``Paddington Bear'' by Michael Bond.The story is about a gentleman named Bear, who wears a red hat and duffel coat and loves marmalade, and Brown, who welcomes him into his family and faces trouble every day. A wonderful work that completely brings the story of the people in the house into the real world. When I first saw Paddington drawn in photorealistic CG, I thought it was a little creepy, but after watching the movie, I realized that it was an unnecessary worry, and at the same time, in this work, there is a lot of CG that looks like the real thing. I thought it had to be.


The bear stows away to England from the "dark land of Peru" and meets the Brown family at London's Paddington Station. Around the bear's neck is a sign that reads, "Please take care of this bear." He was sent to England by his Aunt Lucy, with whom he lived in Peru. The family takes in the bear and names him Paddington, after the station where they met. Paddington is polite and unfamiliar with the way things are in England, but he makes various misunderstandings and causes trouble, and yet he lives with the Brown family and other people.


According to the original author Michael Bond, the inspiration for the book came from a teddy bear he gave to his wife as a Christmas present, Paddington Station, which was in his neighborhood The Day After the time, and a wartime newsreel in which he saw children with name tags around their necks waiting to be picked up at the station where they had been evacuated. This perfectly matches the image of Paddington, sitting alone and lonely on his suitcase in a new world, and gives the story a sense of depth that cannot be dismissed as simple cuteness. It is good that the author's own experiences are also reflected in the creative idea of ​​the travelling bear sitting on a suitcase.



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  3. "Paddington" The Gentleman Bear and Wonderful London [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.36]