鹰与鲨鱼

freaky but real. nothing wrong with keep up and insist on things you believe in, even it fails in the end. it doesn't matter! it could happen on any of us, yes, life is too complicated, why dun we just ignore what people thinks, it's all about what do i want, and what i feel happy and comfortable about,isn't it? this is the movie shows the true kiwi (new zealander calls themselves kiwi as "kiwi birds"/"kiwi fruit) spirits of "fuck that who cares", and "we will see how we goes". if you think what's right, go for it!!

Lily和Jarrod在别人眼中也许都有些奇怪，Lily的眼神，Jarrod的发型，同样的异想天开。

尤其是Jarrod，成人世界的他却在筹划一次“复仇计划”，来了结他孩提时代的“恩怨”。

在快餐店打工的Lily第一眼就爱上了怪僻的Jarrod，巧合的是他们的嘴唇上方都有一颗痣。

看着动物Party上打扮成鲨鱼的Lily和老鹰的Jarrod，人人都会觉得像两个白痴，傻气十足。

但Lily不觉得，她觉得Jarrod是那么与众不同，打对抗游戏时她一直微笑着注视着这只傻鹰。

可相处一段时间后，Jarrod却要跟Lily分手，他实在太古怪了，身处异乡的Lily非常伤心。

Jarrod的家人也比较奇怪，Jarrod一直渴望得到父亲的肯定，但父亲心里只有死去的大儿子。

Lily用自己的乐观和爱感染着Jarrod全家，他们从她身上感受到了快乐、包容和无私的爱。

终于复仇的那一天到来了，Jarrod的仇人居然坐在轮椅上，他成了一个瘸子，他向Jarrod道歉。

然后，Jarrod仍然不能原谅他，他冲上去猛揍这个“毁了他一生”的人，讽刺的是他还是打不过。

Jarrod认为自己是个彻底的失败者，羞愧地逃走了，Lily跟着追了去。

一个红色的睡袋在草地上始终追随着另一个蓝色的睡袋……终于，Lily要回家了，走的前一天，她对Jarrod说：“我要告诉你两件事，第一件事是明天我要离开了，第二件事是，第一件事可以改变。

”第二天，Jarrod的家人将Lily送到车站，Jarrod已经在那里等着了，他手里拿着一束百合，小女孩将手指蜡烛交到Lily手中。

Lily抿着斜斜的嘴笑了，我喜欢她的笑容，开心而克制，花痴还含蓄，怀揣许多美好的心事。

最后，Jarrod和Lily一起坐在空空的汽车里回家去了。

最后，那个撑着人字拖鞋船流浪的瘦苹果核终于在夕阳下找到了那个等待她的胖苹果核。

如果你是一个怪物，那么世界上一定还有另一个怪物用欣赏的目光在注视你。

那些在别人眼中的古怪也许正是她眼中的可爱，所以自信一点，快去寻找她吧。

总有那些时候，别人看你的眼光是轻视，自己知道自己的糟糕，却不改变。

也许是无从改变。

但也总有那些时候，会觉得自己很好，一切都很好。

何需在意别人的注视与眼光。

微斜的嘴。

老土的眼镜。

做爱后打电话骂仇人。

鲨鱼装真的很可爱。

两颗流浪的苹果。

传说是最厉害的黑客实际上只是看些黄色网站。

呼拉圈舞。

谁是放屁王的笑话。

一击即中的海鸥。

瘫痪的老爸说不想上山坡站起来调头。

仇人坐轮椅了还是冲上去打却依然打不赢。

站在山坡上的时候那样的身影仿佛是在说如果我也跳下去了，你会爱我吗？。。。。。。

是的，这里面全是些freak，横看竖看上看下看都是，但又怎样呢？

有时候会因为某种原因对某人产生敌意，那人就会被称做freak，但其实谁知道那人的生活究竟是怎样的呢？

那么我们为什么要因为是别人眼中的freak而惧怕做自己呢？

活在自己的小幸福中，很好。

不是吗？

冒着傻气的一厢情愿，在后来看起来似乎是有点那么小手段.有几个疑点没有想明白，为什么jarrod的爸爸可以在轮椅上坐着，又能站起来随意走？

jarrod的哥哥死因是什么呢？

看完后，我绝对的肯定这也是属于我的电影，大爱！

断尾的狗 钓肉的猫 打伞的伞 脑子里叮出现灯泡的灯泡失恋 喝点酒 成为派对之王 深夜在矮树林裸奔推着坐在轮椅上不瘸的岳父 和眼镜萝莉 看风景打发时光画满海豚插画的公告厕所有大跳床和大滚轮三天一次通往外界班车的小镇穿着睡袋追逐穿着睡袋爬行哦，我的生活太复杂我要忙着复仇我们分手吧甩掉蚂蚁 挣脱蜜蜂毅然决然乘上人字拖小舟去找烂苹果那个loser之王哦，我是窈窕的苹果核我是dangerous person战斗人游戏女王一块数马吧还有别忘了害羞黑客，舞姿缭绕的萝莉，猪头人，蛇男，画猫的Damon...

爱一个人本来就是很简单的事喜欢偷看他，跟他说一句话先练习一百遍，对他的时间表比他自己还熟悉能够认识他，吻他，跟他做爱，跟他回家不就是最快乐的事吗？

即使爱上的这个他脾气很臭不那么好接近，貌似不喜欢自己，心里有别的人……又有什么关系呢？

爱他就去爱啊，想那么多干嘛！

lily多可爱啊，人家就直接去爱了，而且很执着终于在一起了，这才是happy ending！

而你呢，就这么沉默的看完了，就算了，还是继续你的自闭路线……真无语了

爱一个人，又不知道该怎么去爱时，真是一种最凄凉的慌张。

看了新西兰的《老鹰斗鲨鱼》，回想起来时，突然想到上面那句话。

两个孤独的人，活在世界的边上。

相遇，却不知道怎么融入对方。

满怀的希望和期待，却在一次次折磨和失望里消磨。

没有自信的女主角，和偏执的男主角。

幸好，电影给出一个光明的尾巴。

幸好，电影穿插了许多幽默的片断。

可是，真实的生活中，真有那么多幸好吗？

每个走进牛角尖的人，都能等来一个救赎者，或百般忍让，或全情倾注地拯救另一个人，把他带出自己的迷阵吗？

电影是美好的，我们笑了。

现实是什么样的？

我们不知道。

Along with the development of society and technology, the New Zealand cinema has its specific style and the way of telling the story. The New Zealand film industry provided a propelling by the founding of the New Zealand Film Commission in 1978, which encourages the local filmmakers to contribute their creations to the local or worldwide easily. There are many of the successful New Zealand directors influenced by this unique cultural and social background, for example, Peter Jackson, Scott Reynolds, Jane Campion, and Maori director Taika Waititi. This blog-like journal article will provide some information to introduce the film ‘Eagle vs Shark’ (2007) by Taika Waititi; introduce this feature film director; illustrate the film presentation; and comparing with other countries’ film industry, the similarities and differences will be discussed. Firstly, some of the information about the film Eagle vs Shark (2007) will be illustrated. The film Eagle vs Shark (2007) is a New Zealand comedy and romantic film released in 2007. The film director is Taika Waititi. He is the screenplay writer as well. This film is the tale about the eccentric young boy and girl trying to find love. Lily, a shy Meaty Boy fast-food cashier who oddly attracted to the Jarrod, the person who has the social-awkward and neurotic-like personalities. In a coincidence, Lily attends to Jarrod’s costume party, which they are fall in love after the party. Then, they start a journey that travels to Jarrod’s hometown. Lily has to deal with the weird family and her romance. This film was not only produced by the New Zealand Film Commission but also contributed by Unison Films and Whenua Films (IMDb, n.d.). They are all the New Zealand local film production companies, which we can regard this film as pure local funded. However, this film received disappointment at the box office. The budge of this film was around 1.8 million New Zealand Dollars (estimates 1.35 million American dollars) (Cubis, 2019), and received only nearly 1.3 million dollars worldwide (Box Office Mojo, n.d.), leaving the film producers with poor returns. I think the reason why it was filmed is because of the money. The director Taika Waititi’s short film Two Cars, One Night (2004) was earned the Best Short Film nomination of Academy Award in 2004, which makes him famous among the film critics. This caused him easier to collect money from individual film production companies and funded by the government (Dawson, 2007). Therefore, he was made the film Eagle vs Shark (2007) quickly. Another reason the film could be released is culture transmission. I am going to discuss this factor in the later section.Secondly, the producers and actors will be introduced in this section. Taika Waititi, I have to say, he is one of the directors I like the most from my film study. He was the feature director who can expertly tell the story in an extraordinary way. He is skillful for makes comedy, romantics, and horror-comedy. He always inserts uncorrelated elements or combines different kinds of things in the film. For example, he uses comic and humorous ways to demonstrates the epic Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which provides audiences a fresh view of this tragic and heroic story as a funny and light-hearted fantasy film. He made a film Hunt for Wilder People (2016), he turned this family film into a comic, crazy road adventure film, and received huge positive comments. In addition, he often makes himself the cameo appearance in his own film. For example, he plays the role of Adolf Hitler in his film Jojo Rabbit (2019); he did motion capture and made dub for the character Korg in film Thor: Ragnarok (2017); he also was the protagonist in his television drama What We Do in the Shadows (2014). It is obvious that recently he contributed to the American film industry deeply. According to Mast and Kawin (2011), “The most important filmmakers from New Zealand were from New Zealand and did their major work in England or the United States” (p.552). This way, Taika Waititi as a foreign film director who conveys the New Zealander’s aspects to the western film industry, which brought Hollywood cinema more diverse film contents. When I was watching the film Eagle vs Shark (2007), there is a familiar face appears in the second half part of the film. That is Rachel House, she played Nancy in this film. She also participated in most of Taika Waititi’s films but only played the supporting actor’s roles. For example, the boy’s Aunty in the film Boy (2010), the child welfare service officer in Hunt for Wilder People (2016), and the Grandmaster’s bodyguard in Thor: Ragnarok (2017). Although she was playing a lot of the insignificant roles, she acted perfectly in each minor role. Further, “[Jemaine] Clement has had an equally longstanding partnership with” Taika Waititi (Robinson, 2015, para. 1). He was playing the role of Jarrod in the film Eagle vs Shark (2007). They were worked together for the television drama Wellington Paranormal (2018), and both the television version and the movie What We Do in the Shadows (2014; 2019). Thirdly, the presentation of the film Eagle vs Shark (2007) will be illustrated. Taika Waititi employs the stop motion animation technic to strengthen the main storyline. The two leftover apples are reflecting on their relationship during the film proceed, which is representing well. The rotten apple and the leftover apple are the signifiers, which imply the unsound behaviors and mental defects in their relationship. The stop motion animation has also improved the film in an ornamental and artistic way. In addition, the film contains the indigenous culture in the content which conveying it through audience point of view. Bartlett (2007) in his article argues that Eagle vs Shark (2007) is a film that takes a general view at people’s misfortune through the lens of human ridiculousness with the firm foundation of human emotion. The director Taika Waititi stated the reason he made this film, he says that he created this film is “about giving those who go unnoticed in life a chance to shine on the big screen” (Waititi, 2007). Therefore, we see the New Zealand indigenous film director has the social responsibility to let the audience focus on the vulnerable normal people within the society, which is the way to delivers the local culture to the audience. The New Zealand filmmaker, especially Maori people sees “certain entities as more important and intrinsic to their cultures than others, they occupy different social and economic realities” (Thornley, 2011, p. 116). As the Maori people, Taika Waititi was trying to introduce his Maori culture to the audience through the film implicitly. We can find many Maori signs and Maori Whare as the background in the film. He even created the Maori- European family and showed the Maori family’s daily behaviors and rituals in the film. Further, I found that the use of language or dialogue of Eagle vs Shark is quite interesting. I can see the Taika Waititi inserted many of the classic dialogues from different Western films. For example, Damon talks to Lily through the phone says: ‘Hello, this is Bond, James Bond. Please leave a message, shaken not stirred.’ It is obvious that this dialogue comes from James Bond films around the 1950s to recent years. Jarrod says to Lily, ‘I’ be back’. This is a tagline from the film The Terminator (1984). I was found that the little girl from Eagle vs Shark does Travolta’s dance move from the film Pulp Fiction (1994), which is the famous and symbolic element in Quentin Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction (1994). Also, I was found the not obvious sitting for this film, which is the A Clockwork Orange (1971) poster hangs on the scene Jarrod welcome Lily to the party at the doorway (I made the screenshot below). I assume all these plots were the Taika Waititi’s greeting to all the senior film directors. It is also the sign of cultural fusion between New Zealand and Western countries. Yet, compared with western films especially American Hollywood cinema, the film Eagle vs Shark (2007), the differences have appeared. First, according to Maltby (2013), “we shall look not only at how movies work formally and aesthetically but also at their culture function as consumable goods in a capitalist economy” (p.7). although Eagle vs Shark (2007) presents vivid New Zealand original and local love story features, as Taika Waititi states ‘indigenous people should be telling their own story’ and ‘making themselves part of the culture and really learning about it, instead of someone else from another culture coming in and telling our stories…’ (Erbland, 2018, para.6), it is lacking the tremendous plot changes. Lily and Jarrod, don’t have outstanding love, they have no proper date or dinner, and they don’t wear beautiful clothes. They even feel luxurious when they are going to the movies. these just remind me that Taika Waititi’s statement of the purpose of making this film, which is just reflecting the normal couple’s life in the audience’s mind. However, this is the opposite theme in Hollywood romantic comedy films. In conclusion, this blog-like journal article analyzed the New Zealand film industry, using the film Eagle vs Shark as an example, illustrates the unique presentation of the film, and comparing it with other countries’ film industry, the similarities, and differences of the romantic comedy films. Overall, the New Zealand film industry is ongoing developing. Their feature film especially film made by Maori-dominant filmmakers are contained their own social and cultural background, which deliver the national identity worldwide. Although the film Eagle vs Shark (2007) made a failure in box office internationally, it was praised by film critics, which earned the reputation for Maori filmmaker Taika Waititi globally. Hence, New Zealand’s lifestyle and cultural background being known by more and more audience from then on. FilmographyA Clockwork Orange. (1971). Stanley Kubrick. (Dir.). 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这部新西兰的爱情小片子真的很可爱。

没有俊男靓女做主角，没有浪漫感人的故事，甚至里面的主要人物都给人呆呆傻傻的感觉，但你很明显能看出那份炙热的感情。

男女主人公可以说是这个社会的边缘人，他们不被人在乎，孤独的生活在这个世界，也许就因如此他们走在了一起，淡淡的，傻傻的彼此相爱。

两个苹果走在了一起，幸福着，幸福着

风格近似《大人物拿破仑》。

更爱尔兰一些。

闷骚，带点幽默，带点温情。

挺喜欢里面男主角的家乡小镇，有山，有海，适合隐居。