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I consider this to be the pinnacle work of my subtitle group.
The video uses the color-corrected high-definition version that was chemically and digitally restored between January 2001 and July 2003.
French and Chinese dual AC3 audio tracks, with the French audio track restored and synchronization issues fixed in the Chinese audio track.
French and Chinese external subtitles, with both French and Chinese subtitles re-proofread.
Runtime: 01:21:58
File size: 959 MB
Video encoded with DivX 5.0, average bitrate 734 kb/s, frame size 720x576;
French and Chinese audio tracks in AC3 448 kbp/s
Directors: Paul Grimault, Jacques Prévert
French voice actors:
Mockingbird — Jean Martin
King — Pascal Mazzotti
Stone Scholar — Hubert Deschamps
Chimney Sweep Youth — Renaud Marx
Shepherdess — Agnès Viala
Blind Musician — Roger Blin
Announcer — Philippe Derrez
Police Chief — Raymond Bussières
Main Chinese voice actors:
Mockingbird — Bi Ke
King — Shang Hua
Stone Scholar — Yu Ding
Chimney Sweep Youth — Tong Zi Rong
Shepherdess — Ding Jian Hua
Blind Musician — Shi Rong
Announcer — Weng Zhen Xin
Police — Yang Wen Yuan, Yan Chong De
Plot Summary:
The king in the film is supreme, extravagant, and capricious. He readily throws people into dungeons (using buttons and trapdoors to make them fall into dungeons), even his trusted police chief cannot escape this fate. He is lame and cross-eyed. The painters who portrait him either fall into dungeons for painting too realistically (including his legs and eyes) or for painting too idealistically (perfect portrait). Ironically, the real king is also thrown into the dungeon by the painted king (very much like Louis XIV). The fake king has exactly the same temper and personality as the real king. He forces a shepherdess in a painting to marry him, but the girl loves a chimney sweep boy in another painting. With the help of the mockingbird, the girl and the boy temporarily escape from their pursuers, but eventually, they are captured when the bird is caught, and both the boy and the bird are imprisoned. They unite with the common people there and break out of the dungeon, overthrowing the king during his wedding with the shepherdess.
It is said that French animation master Paul Grimault started in 1953 and spent five years of his heart and soul making this animated feature film. Eventually, he had to painfully abandon it due to financial reasons. It wasn't until more than twenty years later that this animation, which perfectly combines romantic fairy tales with the cruel French Revolution, was completed with the help of other directors and released in 1979. The film immediately became a classic of modern animated movies after its release. It moved not only the world's most famous animation master Hayao Miyazaki today, but also a whole generation of teenagers who watched it. With the dubbing by Shanghai Translation Studio's voice artists, it becomes even more unforgettable. Bi Ke voiced the mockingbird, the soul of the film. Sometimes passionate and eloquent, sometimes kind and magnanimous, his deep and magnetic voice is as dramatic as the bird's courageous wit. Shang Hua voiced the king with "Hard labor, hard labor is the best freedom." Arrogant, greedy, and selfish, such a character has no real emotions; he pursues nothing but the vanity of "the book says the king should be with the shepherdess." Yu Ding voiced the stone old man; with just a few lines "My experience is absolutely reliable..." he seems to have seen through thousands of layers of marriages in the world, but he never thought that in this world, there is always a happiness that can become possible if you persist. Tong Zi Rong and Ding Jian Hua voiced the poor chimney sweep boy and the shepherdess, truly a perfect match.