Last winter, Jia Zhangke gave an open class on script writing in a packed hall in the city.
For two and a half hours, he didn't drink water or give a speech, so he sat there and talked.
The language is fluent, the expression is clear, the content is all practical "dry goods", not hidden, not mysterious, no flower fist embroidery legs, one move and one style of fine speaking, golden sentences are repeated.
What impressed me more was the sentence at the end: "Whether it is a classic or not is not a question for writers to consider at the moment." What is not noticed today may be called a classic a hundred years from now; a hundred years after today's classic may not be mentioned. Therefore, for creators, the realization of their current wishes and demands is the most important. ”
He mentioned that he planned to make a costume film, which had been stopped for a whole year in order to find a feeling in the Qing Dynasty.
He deliberately adjusted his schedule to be consistent with the ancients, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, deliberately avoiding the hustle and bustle of modern urban life.
He said that he was immersed in this kind of life, and for the scriptwriting, "it does not constitute a plot, but it constitutes a smell."
Someone in the audience snickered: "This method is stupid enough." ”
Just rush this "stupid", after his new film comes out, I will definitely go to the theater to buy tickets to watch.
When he finished speaking and got up to thank him, thunderous applause rang out.
The host warmly thanked him for coming to teach in his busy schedule and said that Jia Dao would soon take the high-speed train back to Beijing.
"Wait a minute!" He abruptly interrupted the host, "I have one more point to add, about the judgment of beauty." ”
He sat down again and spoke for ten minutes before hurrying away.
Stills from the movie "Useless"
Jia Zhangke once made a documentary for the costume designer Marco, called "Useless", that is, Marco's clothing brand name.
The next thing I want to say is the story of Marco designing clothes for a group of people.
She once had a group of clients, it was a group of dancers from Taiwan's famous Cloud Gate dance collection.
From the moment he received the invitation, Marco went deep into the dance troupe, weighing the dancers, talking to each person, and photographing each person's dance posture.
When she came to the company for the second time, the company's founder, Lin Huaimin, was surprised to find that Marco could call each dancer by name.
In order to fit the dance theme, all the fabrics available for horses are hand-woven and hand-printed.
The printed and dyed cloth would harden, so she would rub them soft and sew them by hand.
What surprised Lin Huaimin even more was the moment when the costume was put on by the actor.
In the face of so many groups of dancers, the horse is not made into a uniform costume, but uses the same color and material of cloth, according to each person's temperament, to make a unique dance costume for them.
The last piece of clothing she made, each one perfectly matched the shape of the dancer himself.
It's not too much trouble. She also likes to work stupidly.
Author: Lily. Source: Reader Magazine, No. 9, 2018, original titled "Ken Stupid Kung Fu".