《晝與夜》(Day & Night這支短片是今年迪士尼/皮克斯動(dòng)畫長片《玩具總動(dòng)員3》的加映片,只可惜并未隨著《玩具總動(dòng)員3》一起引進(jìn)中國。

講述的是個(gè)性非常陽光的“晝”遇到了情緒低沉的陌生人“夜”,一開始他們對對方都充滿了懷疑和恐懼,很快就把事情給搞糟了,但隨著對彼此了解的加深,他們也很快發(fā)現(xiàn)了對方身上獨(dú)特的品質(zhì),并意識(shí)到他們兩個(gè)其實(shí)只是同一個(gè)世界的兩個(gè)不同窗口,成為朋友的晝與夜開始對世界有了全新的認(rèn)識(shí)。

When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world-the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

這部動(dòng)畫短片和皮克斯以前的動(dòng)畫短片都不一樣,它不是純粹的電腦CG動(dòng)畫,也不是純粹的傳統(tǒng)手繪風(fēng)格,而是有機(jī)的把這兩種風(fēng)格結(jié)合在了一起:具體說來,“晝”和“夜”這兩個(gè)角色是二維平面的,而透過他們的身體看到的景物全都是電腦CG動(dòng)畫。

短片中出現(xiàn)一段僅有的電波對白,據(jù)導(dǎo)演泰迪·紐頓透露,這其實(shí)是著名美國作家韋恩·戴爾博士(Dr. Wayne Dyer)在1970年講座時(shí)的一段實(shí)錄,其要表達(dá)的主題和著名科學(xué)家愛因斯坦的一段演說很相似。原文如下:

Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just to stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.?

對未知的恐懼,令他們害怕新的想法。他們滿載著偏見,并非基于任何現(xiàn)實(shí),而是基于……只要是新事物,便立刻排斥,因?yàn)橛X著它可怕。他們所做的,就是只接觸熟悉的事物。而正如你們所知,對我而言,整個(gè)宇宙中最最美麗的事物,恰恰是最最神秘的。