The American film "Dove" was completed in 1974 and introduced to China as an internal reference film in 1975, and Jiang Qing attaches great importance to this film, specializing in analyzing the ideological connotation and technical techniques of this film. In particular, a series of advantages in shaping characters, portraying the environment, and refracting mentality in the film are affirmed.
This is the same as Jiang Qing's promotion of the novel "Gone with the Wind", which has a secret mind in her heart that plays a subtle role.
From the data, "Pigeon" has not been publicly screened in China.
Jiang Qing also admired the Yugoslav film "Walter Defends Sarajevo", but this film was later released nationwide in 1977, in contrast, "Dove" obviously did not find a reason for national screening, because after all, it is a pure scenery romance film, from the appearance, far from the ideological connotation.
In fact, we underestimated the influence of Dove on Chinese cinema.
There is a passionate passage in "The Dove", that is, the male protagonist Rabin is once considered to have drowned after he was in distress at sea. His girlfriend was devastated and refused to admit the harsh truth.
Until she got the news that a sailing ship driven by her boyfriend had appeared in the harbor, you can imagine how excited her reversal mood was.
She came to the docks, looked at her boyfriend who was approaching her, and the impatient mood made her jump into the water, swim to the sailboat, and hug her boyfriend.
Now it seems that whether this passionate scene is in line with the real scene is questionable, but for the movie, it is undoubtedly quite demagogic and infectious.
Because the film is to some extent a kind of "image-making" function, a kind of artistic conception in life, with the help of the illusion of the screen, and achieves the effect of directly attacking the heart of the audience.
This romantic design, which shows the boiling of love, soon learned to tongue in Chinese movies.
In the 1980 film "Lushan Love", a similar shot also appeared.
However, this shot changes the jump into the sea to jump into the lake.
In "Lushan Love", when the male and female protagonists meet again, the film shot appears in the film shot of two people running wildly and echoing each other, and then a couple jumps into the lake, swims to each other, and hugs each other tightly.
This shot of hugging in the water also appears in "Dove".
However, Chinese emotions have always been implicit and introverted, expressing feelings has its own habitual method of listening to thunder in the field, it is difficult to imagine that a couple with dreams in real life will be like American youth who are overflowing with words and actions. Therefore, the water hugging shot of this stacked bed frame house in "Lushan Love" has been criticized by the audience.
It can also be seen that the set that is popular in American movies is easily unsatisfactory when it is brought to the Chinese screen.
There is also a subtle theme hidden in "Dove", which is also a main spin that floated in the Chinese political arena in the 1970s.
This theme is the proposition of the times on how to carry out the spiritual shaping of the next generation.
According to historical records, in 1967, Mao Zedong recommended to senior party cadres to read "Touching the Dragon and Saying Empress Zhao" in the Warring States Policy. This article actually reflects a question of how to cultivate and shape the next generation.
And this theme, in "Pigeon", is actually interspersed in the film in the form of a hidden volt line.
"Dove" has caused some debate in China in the future, but the focus of the debate is whether "Dove" is a prose culture movie.
Zhang Nunxin, a Chinese director who has previously directed films such as Sand Gull, once judged that "Dove" is a prose film, the film has no plot, and it is completely a prose structure. This structure was later practiced and applied by Zhang Nunxin in the filming process.
Then, another group of scholars, however, do not agree with Zhang Nunxin's opinion, believing that there is a very obvious dramatic conflict lurking in "The Dove", that is, the conflict with nature, the conflict with love, and the conflict between father and son.
In fact, the father-son conflict in "Dove" reflects the problem of how young people take on their mission. And this plot chain, in the 1970s, can be said to be a well-known urgent theme of the times with special background reasons.
"Dove" is favored by Jiang Qing, although it has the technical maturity of the film itself, but the potential theme in the film, the hidden anxiety of the co-production into the era, is where this film makes people feel that they have touched the weak ribs of the heart.
In the movie, we can see that the male protagonist Rabin was encouraged by his father to drive a sailboat around the world, along the way, he also retreated, and at one time he almost gave up halfway, and the fundamental contradiction was glued to the point, which was a sharp conflict between him and his father's ideals.
What drives Rabin to emerge from the decadent rapids is precisely the love that looks beautiful in the movie.
Love is beautiful, but at the same time it weakens the will of man. At one point, Rabin wanted to give up the ideal of cruising the world, trying to live and work with his loved ones and enjoy the beautiful world of the two-person world. Rabin even returned to shore to work to earn money and maintain his romance. He said to his girlfriend, "You're more important than a trip around the world." ”
The girlfriend also supported Rabin's betrayal of the route arranged by his father, saying: "He (father) bought you this boat and prescribed your route".
It can be said that Rabin carries the ideals of his father's generation, but he wants to pursue a comfortable life and emotional satisfaction, and is not willing to follow the struggle route determined by his father and embark on a journey with the sky and the sea.
This forms the emotional fluctuation line of Rabin throughout the film.
At this time, Rabin's father appeared, in Chinese parlance, to carry out a "traditional education" to encourage his son to exercise in the wind and waves. The path arranged by the fathers is a life that a young person must experience. He confessed his motivation to his son this way: "When you come back, you will become an independent person, and if I don't love you, I won't let you go." ...... You can now prove that you can live alone. ”
Eventually Rabin overcame his decadence and completed his voyage plan, in his own words, "I must complete it for myself." ”
The meaning of sailing, for the young generation, the metaphor expressed in the film is that the younger generation can live independently and have their own ability and energy to cope with life.
Interestingly, in 1976, the Shanghai Film Studio remade the old version of "The Young Generation", which also explored how young people can realize their own value.
If we compare the main spirit of Mao Zedong's "Touching the Dragon and Saying Empress Zhao", we can understand that in the Chinese films of that period, it was always emphasized that young people should go their own way and have the ability to face the world alone.
It can be said that this is far in line with the hidden theme of "Dove".
In this sense, the appearance of "Pigeon" in the chinese reality context in the mid-1970s was not a kind of empty wind, but had its own special code response.
In our view today, the pioneering spirit of the hero in "Dove" who is brave enough to take risks, the open spirit of going to the world, the pragmatic spirit of striving for mannerism (such as hating the reporter's deliberate artificial arrangement and falsification of him), the spirit of self-reliance that inherits the tradition of the previous generation, and the self-discipline spirit of coexistence of career emotions are all releasing the basic qualities of a reform and opening up era, saying that "Dove" carries a kind of hidden message of "Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet", which inevitably elevates the film too much, but "Dove" Entering the chinese film and television field in the 1970s, we have to admit that there are more factors and reasons behind it.
"Dove" this movie, has been known for a long time, but never seen its real body, recently saw the resources of this movie on the Internet, dubbing is the original voice of the translation factory that year, however, the film image, is not the original domestic version of the release, because there are some shots in the movie, and there is no dubbing, it can be seen that when the domestic release was released, this part was deleted, so there was no dubbing soundtrack.
The hero of this movie is voiced by Qiao Hazel, and it is this movie dubbing translation in 1975, Qiao Hazel officially entered the translation factory, it can be seen that this movie is still very important to Qiao Hazel's dubbing acting career. The heroine in the film is voiced by Liu Guangning, and her dubbing style with a little bit of a voice makes the American girl's style and natural aura in the film quite wonderful and pure, and even the producers of the original film admit that the dubbing of this film is a masterpiece.
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