Recently, the Shenzhen Youth Film Exhibition was held in Haiya Art Center, and through the early publicity and film collection, nearly 100 films were registered to participate in the exhibition. Film and television practitioners responded positively, and the scope of films registered for the exhibition was extensive, the themes of the participating films were rich, and the new works were produced one after another. There are films about the reality of family and society, as well as themes that pay attention to nature and climate change.
Shenzhen Youth Film Festival aims to create a platform for young filmmakers to display and communicate, give full play to the policy support, cultural guidance, financial support of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and linkage of the introduction, incubation, registration, service and trading of film and television copyrights. Through activities, we will enhance understanding and increase people-to-people exchanges, so as to promote the creation of outstanding literary and artistic works.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, this year's Shenzhen Youth Film Festival will hold awards online. After the judges' consideration and consideration, the film "The Old Man and the Scriptures" won the Best Film Award at this year's Shenzhen Youth Film Festival.
The movie "The Old Man and the Scriptures" tells the story of the eighty-year-old Yi old Bimo who lost his son, seeing that the ancestral scriptures were about to be lost, helplessly released a small video of recruiting apprentices on the Internet, promising to pass on the precious scriptures to those who sincerely studied, the video caused the majority of netizens to discuss, and the old man unexpectedly became popular. Therefore, the idea of attracting people with all their hearts came to fight the scriptures, and after going through a series of twists and turns, the old man finally found the story of the destined heir.
Dialogue with Hu Guihai, director of "The Old Man and the Scriptures"
Q: The title of the film, "The Old Man and the Scriptures", tells the audience very clearly about the characters and events, and we are curious about what kind of old man, what kind of scripture, and what kind of story will happen? Can the director share the origin of this story?
Director: "The Old Man and the Scriptures" tells the story of a Yi old Bimo who realized after the unfortunate death of his son that his Bimo scriptures were about to be lost, because these scriptures were handed down from generation to generation by ancestors, and the old man did not want to see the Bimo scriptures lost in his hands, so he tried to find an heir, tried various ways and encountered various difficulties, and finally the old man chose the traditional way of inheritance, passed the scriptures to his little grandson, and ended up with endless worries.
The Inspiration for The Old Man and the Scriptures was born during the preparation of another film. At that time, the film prepared was also about the Yi Bimo culture, and it was necessary to find a young Bimo as the main actor, because this role needed to chant, and there were requirements for the mastery of Bimo culture, and the average actor could not meet the requirements.
We went deep into the countryside to look for such a young Bimo, but we did not expect that in the process of searching, we found that young people were unwilling to learn Bimo culture, and we could not find young Bimo who met the conditions. This is a very heart-wrenching fact, the traditional culture of the Yi people has a long history and has a unique cultural charm, and the Yi Bimo Scriptures are the masters of the traditional culture of the Yi people. It contains all aspects of the life of the Yi people, including religion, philosophy, medicine, social life and other rich connotations.
The loss of the Bimo Sutra means the loss of the traditional culture of the Yi people, which is a sad but helpless fact. In order to be able to make our own contribution to the inheritance of traditional culture, we intend to use film and television communication to attract people's attention to traditional culture. So the original film was shelved, and "The Old Man and the Scriptures" was produced.
Q: The actors in the film perform very simply, these non-professional actors in the selection process and the filming process of the film, what experience does the director have to share with you?
Director: The actors in the film are basically the same as their true colors, and using non-professional actors is a helpless choice. Because the plot requires actors to understand Yi and can speak Yi, but the development of Yi film and television culture is very lagging behind, professional Yi actors are extremely scarce, and there are not several professional actors in the whole country, let alone actors who meet the role.
So in desperation, we decided to find characters similar to the characters and let them play in their true colors. In the process of finding actors, we found that there are many characters who match the role. But these people are very awkward when they face the camera, as if they have changed people. This is how I found that playing myself is not such a simple thing.
Especially for the candidates who played the old Bimo, we couldn't make any professional demands on an old man in his seventies who had never even seen a camera. Many people audition is the same effect. About half a month before the start-up, we have not found a suitable candidate to play the old Bimo, and when we are all in despair, we are introduced to meet the old man who is now - Yi Huowu. This old man himself is a Bimo, the age, the image temperament is very in line with the role of the old Bimo, the most important point is that this old man is very lively, facing the camera will not be afraid of the stage. So decisively set this old man and start shooting.
During the filming process, the biggest problem encountered in the performance was that the back line and the performance could not be integrated, and the back line forgot the performance, and the grasp of the performance forgot the line. Other actors are fine, more practice and more walking can also pass the pass, the old Bimo is the most helpless for us, because of the age, memory is not good, can not remember the lines at all.
Later, there was really no way, so we told the old man what he was going to do in this scene, what he wanted to express, and he was free to shoot us. Therefore, the lines of each line of the old man's play are different. This brought a lot of trouble to the post-editing, but fortunately, the old Bimo was highly compatible with the role, and how to act did not leave the character characteristics. There are even some places where there are no small surprises, such as performances that do not require lines, and the old man can be said to be in place, and even portrayed deeply.
Q: The continuous development of society, the continuous renewal of concepts, and some traditional cultures of intangible cultural heritage are now facing the situation of being lost, and the film takes the inheritance of the old Bimo of the Yi people as the theme, showing the far-reaching Culture of the Yi people. The contrast between young people and the elderly, traditional culture and popular culture in the film collides and dialogues, and this contrast makes a deep impression on us in the film.
Director: Speaking of cultural loss, in order to better explain the intention of "The Old Man and the Scriptures", I would like to say a few digressions first. I think the loss of a culture should be analyzed from two perspectives. On the one hand: the cultural form is lost, on the other hand: the cultural core is lost.
Formally speaking, in the process of human social development, the loss of one cultural form will inevitably be accompanied by the rise of another cultural form. Because human needs for spiritual culture and material culture have not changed much in essence. For example, the writing of characters has developed from oracle bones to bamboo jane, from bamboo jane to paper, from paper to electronic text. The nature of the recording and dissemination of this process Chinese words has not changed, only the medium has changed.
The disappearance of such old forms and the emergence of new forms should actually be regarded as positive changes, because they have changed because of the development of human needs, and this change has brought convenience to people, which I think is a good development; from the core point of view, no matter whether the development of society is fast or slow, the cultural forms change more or less.
As long as it is a human society, it should continue to inherit the good tradition from generation to generation, also taking oracle bone to electronic text as an example, no matter how the form and change, what remains unchanged is people's admiration of a certain spirit, or the denigration of a certain behavior, and the inheritance of many cultural cores has not disappeared because of changes in cultural forms. However, today's social development is unprecedentedly prosperous, and in the process, many fine traditions and excellent cultural accumulations have disappeared along with the disappearance of cultural forms. The loss of the cultural core should arouse our attention and reflection.
Speaking of The Old Man and the Scriptures, the film shows several possibilities for the inheritance of the scriptures that are about to be lost. After the merchant collects the scriptures, the scriptures may appear in the museum as an antique for people to exhibit, which may be the preservation of the cultural form, but it is not recognized by the old man and rejected; the old man forced the eldest grandson Ah He to learn bimo culture is the inheritance of the core of the bimo culture, which is hindered, and is not recognized by the ahhe who learns modern knowledge; the old Bimo agrees that the internet celebrity learns the bimo culture for live broadcasting, which is a change to the traditional inheritance form, indicating that the old Bimo tries to connect with the idea of the times. But because the purpose of the Internet celebrity is not simple enough, it ends; the old Bimo finally chooses his little grandson Adi, who has no sense of autonomy, to inherit the scriptures, in fact, the future fate of this child and the future fate of the scriptures are also unknown, because there are not a few people like the drunkard wood who sell their ancestral culture for financial benefits. The above several inheritance methods, from the inheritance of cultural forms and the inheritance of cultural cores, have made possible explorations, and the outcomes of these possibilities are open.
Although the people in the play made their own choices. But under our sidelines, entering the museum, or spreading it on the self-media, or passing it on in the traditional way is possible to succeed or fail. The clash of ideas between the old and the young, the dialogue between the spread of tradition and the spread of popular culture, are just the collision of various possibilities, and we cannot define it right and wrong now.
Although the scriptures themselves shown in this film are simple and vicissitudes, giving people the feeling of not being willing to discard, but if you think about it carefully, in fact, what we are not willing to discard should not be those yellowed scriptures themselves, but the spiritual core contained in the Chinese words of the scriptures. These spiritual cores were summarized and sublimated by the ancestors of the ancient Yi people and passed down from generation to generation. It contains the reverence for faith, the philosophical pointing of the concept of life, old age, illness and death, and the exposition of the meaning and values of life.
The vast scriptures of the Yi people contain too many spiritual cultures that have guiding significance for today's society. And what does such a cultural loss mean to us? I hope that after watching the movie, it can arouse people's attention and reflection. From this, we will understand that the broad and profound culture of our motherland contains such a Kind of Yi Bimo culture that is facing loss.
[Reporter] Guo Yue
【Author】 Guo Yue
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client
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