Qilu Network Lightning News January 6, 2021, 2021 China Jinan Wu Tianming Youth Film Summit Theme Forum "Cross-generation Filmmaker Dialogue: The Power of the Moment" was held in Jinan International Fashion Creative Center.
Wu Tianming Youth Film Summit will use the young creative ecology and enthusiastic citizens of Jinan to jointly establish a tacit understanding on this winter day. As Mr. Jiang Tao, vice chairman of the China Foundation, said: "Winter water cooling cannot affect our hot heart of loving movies", and the enthusiastic Jinan makes the distance between movies and the city, with young creators and with life closer.
Ms. Yu Haifeng, Chairman of Shandong Filmmakers Association, pointed out in her speech: "Since the summit was held in Jinan in 2019, a large number of outstanding young filmmakers and original works have emerged." This year's forum has once again landed in Jinan, where movies have never been a carnival for specific groups of people, and we look forward to building a more intimate and free dialogue with more viewers, and jointly explaining the integration of images and urban cultural textures.
Movies are notches of the times, and each era has a unique radio wave. When the era of change like the wind comes, it is of great significance to have a deep understanding of the "present", and this forum invited "fourth-generation" director Lu Xiaoya, "fifth-generation" director Xia Gang, and new generation of young directors Yin Ruoxin and Cao Jinling. Their film creation is not limited to the year as the basis for creation, but chooses a deep understanding of the era in which they live, from reality to creation. They shared the theme and choice, the power of individuals and the times at the theme forum of the summit.
Fourth generation: "Now" stems from persistence and self-confidence
The 80-year-old director Lu Xiaoya is still active in the front line of film creation and maintains her original enthusiasm for film. She believes that the eighties of the last century is a magical era, five films were made, all of which reflect that era, and her Chinese adaptation of the film "Hot Love" successfully shaped the migrating generation in the 80s, a group of people who wanted to change their living environment from all over the world to the south, no matter what kind of occupation they engaged in, they should maintain a free mind and independent thoughts.
The theme of the film "Inside and Outside the Courtroom" has a keen insight in the 80s, which is a reflection on the rule of law at that time by director Lu Xiaoya after experiencing many ups and downs, although the film encountered some obstacles in the filming process, Lu Xiaoya chose to stick to it, she believes that the creator's understanding of the present and the understanding of reality need to be adhered to and confident.
Fifth generation: "Now" comes from hands-on experience
When asked by guest host Fujii what is the source of his creation, director Xia Gang is more from personal experience, which sometimes expands to friends around him and some kind of observation of society. The vision and yearning for the outside world is a product of the times in the 90s of the last century, and his masterpiece "The Great Satan" chooses to tell the emotional flow of young people in the face of the "tide of going abroad" after the reform and opening up.
In the movie "The Great Satan", actors Ge You and Xu Fan play two people who are forced to stay because their spouses go abroad. The period of film creation coincided with the emergence of the first wave of going abroad after China's reform and opening up.
Director Xia Gang observed that his relatives and the family members of his friends around him have gone abroad, or are preparing to go abroad, and the series of problems brought about by choosing to go abroad have allowed him to see a complex reason for the visa relationship before going abroad, which has led to the separation of many spouses and lovers, compared with the new millennium, the generation that grew up before the epidemic, their travel is more convenient, and "The Great Sacha" has a certain uniqueness of the times. The lines in the film are full of the wisdom of ordinary people's lives, the language of the Beijing school, including the ambiguous and restrained relationship between two lonely people who urgently need to communicate and collide, this way of expression, both has the penetrating power of the times.
The New Generation: "The Present" is the same destination
In a conversation with the host Fujii Shu, we learned that the creative trajectories of the two new generations of young directors are diametrically opposite and identical. Yin Ruoxin, who was born from the Drama Major of the Central Academy of Drama, was directly educated by the theory of the systematic theater school before entering the film industry, and accumulated in the early stage of sinking his heart, which in a sense avoided some impetuous atmosphere in the industry. From the personal experiential self-expression of the self-written and self-directed film "Goodbye, Teenager", to the film "My Sister" triggering a phenomenal discussion of women's survival dilemma in 2021.
Fujii observes that the images of sisters and aunts in the film, two generations of women, in their egos and responsibilities, are constantly being asked to make choices in the face of worldly forces. Yin Ruoxin accurately identified a certain dilemma in the relationship between sister and brother from the Chinese family. Fujii believes that as a realistic theme, the fate of the characters in the film is seamlessly grafted with the general emotions of people at present, and the emotions of more people are refracted with an emotional condensation, which is where the movie "My Sister" is in place.
The young director Cao Jinling is a non-science "wild" creator, before filming "Mordauga", worked as a police officer for ten years, undergraduate major is economics. Nevertheless, these experiences have accumulated a certain degree of enriching her life experience. When she realized that she had the desire to write and talk, Cao Jinling entered the Chinese opera system to learn the theory, and then went abroad to study film practice creation. The movie "Wuhan Day and Night" uses the documentary genre to record the current epidemic that has changed the way everyone lives.
The Power of the Moment: Realism is a creative attitude
Just like Director Lu Xiaoya's adaptation of "The Girl in Red" adapted from Tie Ning's novel "Red Shirt Without Buttons", a good movie, an excellent film character, can accommodate the branding of several generations, the heroine Enron integrates the ideals of many people, the idealism of doing things, some moral cleanliness insistence, especially Lu Xiaoya's adaptation of the end of the original novel, but also allows the audience to follow Enron's heart, from the inside to the outside to produce doubts about a certain life custom. The inner growth path of young people in each era is depicted in three points.
Host Fujii Shu commented that Director Xia Gang's "Half Seawater, Half Flame" is a precedent for opening the ultimate thinking about gender relations, and the film has the pioneering nature of its era. When Xia Gang recalled the original intention of creation, he said that he felt the sense of chaos hidden in the hearts of young people after the reform and opening up, the impact of past values, a kind of nihilistic siblings, which was the emotional resonance he felt when reading Wang Shuo's original novel, and then used the film to tell a paradoxical ideal love.
When asked how to write the realist story of the times, director Lu Xiaoya believes that we should care about the people around us, director Xia Gang replied that we should pay attention to people's inner pain, Yin Ruoxin believes that creators need to open their five senses to feel the world and people at any time, Cao Jinling is to use Bichner's lines, everyone is an abyss, and creators need to use their own emotions to deeply experience and express.
Lightning News reporter Zhang Cong Runqi reported