In 2007, two blockbuster films " Mars hit the earth " – Chen Kexin's "Submission of Names" and Feng Xiaogang's "Assemblage". At that time, most fans were inclined to win "Cast Name", and the result was unexpected, "Gathering Number" won with a "big score" of 60 million, and countless people were stunned.
The box office of "The Gathering" was controversial at the time. It was also from that year that the phrase "buy box office" arose in major forums. Later " Do Not Disturb " 1 and 2 were also questioned as "unclean" at the box office.
On the quality, "Gathering Number" is different from "Submission Form"; on the complexity of the role, Pang Qingyun is far better than Guzidi; on the picture, the two blockbusters are half a pound and eight two - "Submission Of Fame" is dark and black, and "Gathering Number" is filmed like a TV series.
However, in terms of topicality, "The Gathering Number" is far better than the "Submission form", which is probably the key reason for the box office explosion of "The Gathering Number".
The biggest controversy in "The Gathering" is whether guzidi really exists. What is Feng Xiaogang's intention in making such a movie? These two debates continued until the movie went offline, and the entire network was chaotic.
14 years ago, the audience was more realistic and liked to deliberate on the historical details in the movie, and "See the Dragon Unloading" a year later was because the details were not in place at the box office. Entangled in the existence of characters and stories, the image of "Guzidi" has always been very vague.
After 14 years of re-watching "The Gathering Number", the historical details have taken a back seat, and the image of "Guzidi" has become clearer and clearer.
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The person "Guzidi" may or may not exist. This is also the cleverness of Feng Xiaogang - it is difficult for you to go through all the literature and use the exclusion method to prove the "nothingness" of the valley land.
As far as the core expression is concerned, it does not matter whether the "guzidi" is real or not, his existence has a threefold meaning.
1, a different sound
This "voice" comes from the folk, or from history, or from some part of the elite group. What "The Gathering" really wants to express is nothing more than that in this collective voice drowns out the individual", allowing a little different and alien voice to appear.
In the era of the birth of "The Gathering", the society's care for some veteran soldiers who had shed blood and fought battles was not in place, and the tragic reports of the difficulties of the veterans' lives in their later years continued to appear. Feng Xiaogang's inspiration for making this film came from a report.
While celebrating the glory of the world, we cannot ignore the individual, and collective expression cannot drown the individual. In this regard, "The Gathering" is positive.
2. Fairness
Gu Zidi struggled with the question of whether there was a rally number in the end, the purpose was to ask for an explanation for the dead comrades- and in the final analysis it was to seek fairness.
At that time, film and television dramas and social opinion always had a problem, like to render successful acura victories, under the collective carnival, personal fairness and encounters seemed insignificant, and it seemed that no one cared at all. The significance of "Millet Land" is to trigger the audience to reflect that success is very important and fairness is also very important.
3, Feng Xiaogang's "temperament"
Those who are familiar with the fifth generation of directors know that the three major directors in the mainland, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang. Feng Xiaogang's attitude towards Zhang and Chen is worth playing, envious and at the same time somewhat dismissive.
Feng Xiaogang has always been quite critical of art films, thinking that he has taken something that the people can't understand, "pretending to be a big tail wolf". From this, it can be seen that Feng Xiaogang should not be very convinced of Chen Kaige Zhang Yimou, who has ascended to the throne by virtue of his traumatic literature and national scars.
Feng Xiaogang filmed "The Gathering Number" to a certain extent to prove that Chen Kaige Zhang Yimou's set is just like this, and he is not bad at playing.
In fact, Feng Xiaogang's attitude is still quite obvious, fighting for a big scene to shoot "Night Feast", exposing scars to engage in "Assembly Number", playing deep shooting "1942" and "Tangshan Earthquake". But frankly speaking, Feng Xiaogang really does not have this strength.
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The image of Guzidi became clearer and clearer, but Feng Xiaogang became more and more blurred.
Starting from "Tangshan Earthquake", Feng Xiaogang's personal image has become more and more fragmented. In the past, Feng Xiaogang took the civilian route, firmly believing that the gold cup and silver cup were not as good as the reputation of the common people, dismissing literary and artistic youth, and angrily denouncing some groups of Douban as "big tail wolves".
After "The Great Tangshan Earthquake", Feng Xiaogang "shifted his position" again, and the pancake roll balls set up cannons to hit inside. He began to disdain his former "comrades-in-arms" and even published the theology that "bad movies are more because there are more bad audiences". Coming from the masses and then going against the masses, this change is inevitably too great.
Feng Xiaogang's performance in the big aspect sometimes does make people suspicious. In the past, people thought that Feng Xiaogang's filming of "1942" and "The Gathering Number" was out of "conscience", but since 2017, this statement has been greatly shaken.
According to media reports in 2017, Feng Xiaogang bought a house in Vancouver as early as 2012 and also has two luxury homes in the United States. He himself did not know whether he was a Canadian citizen.
China's "conscience" in Canada? How awkward it sounds to say this.
The strange thing is that Feng Xiaogang himself doesn't seem to care at all, has never responded to these controversies, and doesn't know what he really thinks.