1994 is the most important year in the history of world cinema, and some people say that because God wants to see movies, so the good movies all over the world have come out and become an unsurpassable year in the history of cinema. But in fact, because this year is of great significance to the film industry, 1994 is the centenary of world cinema, and almost all film directors are riveted to the hope of giving a gift to the centenary of the film industry.
1. "Forrest Gump" bravely runs to reach the other shore
Adapted from the novel of the same name published in 1986 by American writer Winston Grumm, the film depicts the inspirational story of a congenitally mentally retarded small-town boy, Forrest Gan, who persevered and eventually "foolishly blessed" to be favored by Heaven and create miracles in many fields. The film won 6 awards such as the 67th Academy Award for Best Picture, the Best Actor Award, and the Best Director Award.
The plot is not much introduced, just by watching the movie lines, you know how inspirational it is.
1. "What kind of person do you want to be in the future?" ”
"What do you mean, can't I be myself in the future?"
2. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next piece will taste like
3. Mom said that if you want to go forward, you must forget the past. I think that's what running is all about.
4. Miracles happen every day.
5. A person really needs a little bit of wealth, and the rest is used to show off.
6. I don't think that the maturity of the human mind is more and more tolerant to cover, and anything can be accepted. Instead, I think it should be a gradual process of elimination, knowing what is most important to you, knowing what is not important. Then, be a simple person.
7. If you are in trouble, don't be reckless, you run, far away.
8. You are to do your best by what God has given you.
9. If you believe me, I will always be with you when you need it.
10. You can only move on if you forget what was in the past.
11. Bad things inevitably happen
12. Death is a part of life, a thing we are destined to do.
13. A person's life will spend a lot of time on boring things.
14. Maybe we smart people have too many goals in our heads, so we forget to cling.
15. Vacation is to go somewhere else, never to go back.
16. No one gets into trouble because they don't open their mouths
17. Through people's shoes, you can learn a lot of things about others
18. You are no different from others
19. "He who does something stupid is a fool"
20. I can always look back and tell myself that at least my life is not boring.
Douban score 9.3.
2. The Shawshank Redemption, Freedom, Friendship, Hope
Adapted from Stephen King's novel of the same name in Four Seasons of Wonder, the film covers the theme of the film as "hope", and the whole film shows the fear of "the passage of time and the transformation of the environment" as an individual through the special background of the forced deprivation of liberty and high emphasis on discipline in prison. The film ends with the revenge catharsis of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Among IMDB, it was selected as the first of the 250 best films by more than 1.6 million members. It was included in the List of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century by the American Film Institute.
Since Frank Dratter brought it to the screen in 1994, the film has been competing with The Godfather for the number one position on IMDB, and in recent years, the film has been ranked first in film history. Sometimes, many people will ask, why can this film be recognized by so many people? What exactly does it convey to us? In my opinion, it conveys one of the most important elements of human existence: freedom.
After the defeat of "Forrest Gump" for the 67th Academy Award for Best Picture, it did not hinder the greatness of "Shawshank Redemption", and the continuous fermentation of word of mouth made this film a huge success in the audio-visual market. With the passage of time, it is called the first in film history by film fans.
Douban score 9.5
3, "This killer is not too cold" is in the dark, the heart is bright; people face adversity and do not improve the good
The film "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" was released in 1994, directed by the famous French director Luc Besson, starring film stars Jean Renault and Natalie Portman, the film has become a classic work with excellent camera control and deep digging into people's hearts and evils, the film has been nominated for the Japan Academy Award for Best Picture, and the French César Awards including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and other heavyweight nominations.
The film tells the story of Leon, a professional killer living in New York, and Matilda, a girl next door, who have been involved in dangerous darkness since a chance encounter, during which killer Leon shows a kind and sincere side, the girl Matilda and Leon gradually feel sorry for each other, face the suffering together, and then take revenge on The drug policeman Stan who killed Matilda's family. In the construction of the characters in the film, the little girl Matilda is a mirror of Leon, and the director fully projects Lyon's humanity on the little girl Matilda, making Leon a rich and three-dimensional person, not only making people have the impulse to care, but also creating a classic killer image that is free from stereotypes in the emotional explosion that breaks the convention.
And as Matilda has in the film's conversation with killer Leon:
Life is full of hardships, is it only childhood?
It's always been that way.
Even if you are in the dark like the killer Leon, but the fundamental pure goodness of the human heart is the cornerstone that supports our spiritual world, the whole film is not only extremely valuable in the art of the camera, but also the human care and inspiration emanating from the film also reminds each of us to be kind to ourselves and be kind to life, and I have to say that this is undoubtedly a classic work that can be recorded in the annals of history forever.
Douban score 9.4
4. The Quentin-style black aesthetic of the anti-traditional narrative of "Pulp Fiction" stirs the eyes of the restless audience.
For Quentin fans, "Pulp Fiction" is an insurmountable classic, and the film has become an iconic film in Quentin's filming career, with its pioneering pattern and narrative technique, which skillfully integrates violent aesthetics, human nature and social consciousness, and restructures the habitual thinking, making it receive unprecedented praise and praise. The film won seven nominations at the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, sweeping the Western film industry that year and forming a huge impact, "Pulp Fiction" has important significance for innovation and breakthrough in film language.
"Pulp Fiction" unusually does not use the narrative structure of the narrative, but breaks the story and stitches it up end to end, forming a delicate narrative of circular multiple lines. Coupled with the unique personal tastes of Quentin in the film, such as lengthy but not boring dialogue, and black humor plot, Quentin has become a ghost director loved by fans around the world.
The entire Pulp Fiction can be said to be a postmodernist attempt by Quentin's anti-traditional shooting methods and ideologies, and its bold and challenging lens language and arrogant shooting style make the film full of all kinds of strangeness and unexpected surprises. It has to be said that as an outlier in many traditional films, "Pulp Fiction" not only realizes the re-cutting of traditional stories, but also recombines and segments the fragments very well, which not only reflects Quentin's talent in text control, but also a new challenge to the audience's vision and senses.
5. Is "Burning Love Years" a matter of obedience to the heart? Or do you follow the rules?
The film tells the story of a father and his three sons living in the vast western steppes— the father is a retired cavalry colonel, and the three sons have distinct personalities: the eldest son, Alfred, who is loyal and honest, the second son, Tristan, who is wild and uninhibited, and the youngest son, Samuel, is gentle and elegant. Father-son life in the prairie changed with the arrival of Samuel's fiancée, Suzanne.
Every shot of "Burning Love Years" is filled with the warmth of love and the grandeur of the American West, and the classic soundtrack can resonate with the depths of the soul, and the film also has the excellent acting skills of many actors and the free thought that cannot be rejected, the integration of family and the times, a period of burning love, infected with this tragic epic legend.
"There is no horror in the dangers of life, no sorrow in the loneliness of life, no regrets in the indulgences in life, no pain in life that has nothing to do with burial, the point is: even in the dark night that has never been noticed, have you ever burned passionately, like a soul that refuses to rest, in order to thank this short period of time?" 」
The 67th Academy Awards were so good that even "The Shawshank Redemption" was not a grain, and "Burning Love Years" won the Best Cinematography Award for this film.
Chinese films also shined in 1994
1. "Alive" People live for the sake of being alive itself, not for anything other than being alive.
Alive is a 1994 drama film produced by Age International Limited. The film is adapted from Yu Hua's novel of the same name, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Ge You and Gong Li. Set against the backdrop of the Chinese Civil War and the political movements since the founding of New China, the film reflects the fate of a generation of Chinese through the bumpy experience of the hero Fugui's life.
The pain of this film always occupies the main theme, and it is full of bitter water. What is the most painful thing in life? Is this what the rich have experienced? It seems to be, and it seems not. Some people say: The greatest pain in life is to think that you should not suffer pain! But reality often gives people a loud slap! No one can escape the pain!
Mr. Yu Hua said: "The person I have seen who respects life the most in the world, he has many more reasons to die than others, but he is alive. This sentence points out a fact and makes a judgment.
In 1994, the film won the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Award at the 47th Cannes International Film Festival. It also became one of Zhang Yimou's best films, not one.
Douban score 9.2
2. "East Evil and West Poison" Peach Blossom has not been returned
Directed by Wong Kar-wai and adapted from Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Archery Hero, "East Evil and West Poison" tells the story of Ouyang Feng's life experience and his life with Huang Yaoshi, sister-in-law, Hong Qi, and others.
In 1995, the film won best cinematography at the 51st Venice International Film Festival and best film at the 1st Hong Kong Film Critics Circle Awards. Actor Cheung Kwok Wing won the Best Actor Award at the 1st Hong Kong Film Critics Association Awards for this film. On March 27, 2009, the re-edited and restored "East Evil West Poison: Ultimate Edition" was released in Chinese mainland.
"East Evil and West Poison" is known as the alternative peak of Chinese martial arts films, and it is also the pinnacle of Asian films. The film's ingenious and rather dark humor subverts the traditional martial arts movie, making the film a classic. The film's staggered characters and stories alternate with each other, and the beautiful photography shows a fictional imaginary world. In this movie, Wong Kar-wai subverts the traditional martial arts film, strips the characters in the movie from the plot, tells the different processes of the story from different angles, and expresses the most delicate emotion in human life - love. The film still follows Wong Kar-wai's usual style, and the whole story tells the feeling of rejection and rejection. Wang's film language is fully displayed here, beautiful music, incredible photographic angles, constantly changing wide-angle lenses, oblique composition, creating an atmosphere of alienation, coldness and loneliness in the desert, giving people a feeling of emptiness and dazedness. It shows desolation in the beauty, and exerts a classical realism to the extreme. This is wong kar-wai's vision of the city: something that cannot be rejected and is trying to escape, and this emotion pervades every detail of his film.
Douban score 8.5
3. What else in this world will not expire chongqing forest?
"Chongqing Forest" is an urban fashion film produced by Zedong Film Company, directed by Wong Kar-wai and starring Lin Qingxia, Liang Chaowei, Wang Fei, Jin Chengwu and so on. On July 14, 1994, the film was released in Hong Kong. The film tells two love stories: an urban encounter between a lovelorn policeman and a mysterious female killer, and a love story between Patrol 663 and a girl in a fast food restaurant. In 1995, the film won the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. In the first sentence of the film, the whole story is explained: "Every day you have the opportunity to rub shoulders with others, you may not know anything about him, but maybe one day you will become his friend or confidant."
Among Wong Kar-wai's films, "Chongqing Forest" may be the most popular work. Probably in addition to a lot of classic lines and a few happy endings, I think the main reason is that its sense of substitution is stronger than Wong Kar-wai's other works, and it is easy to resonate with young people who are wandering alone in the modern city, and Hong Kong more than twenty years ago is now in the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Deep insecurity, loneliness and displacement are common features of our group, and even the names of the characters in the film are vague, or even only code names, which reflects the smallness of urbanites in the reinforced concrete world.
4, "Diet Men and Women" Diet men and women, people's great desires.
"Eating Men and Women", a seemingly food-related title, tells a story about the relationship between men and women. "Men and women who eat and drink, the great desire of man." Although this sentence is what Confucius said, it is clear at the beginning: this film is going to discuss the relationship between men and women, is lust (sex), just like diet (food), is part of daily life. Obviously, the film's writers and directors want to use the diet of daily life to present the relationship between men and women to the audience.
As a hotel chef, he has a successful career but a family misfortune, his wife died early, he took his three daughters with hard work, and used a "luxurious dinner" once a week to maintain the feelings between father and daughter, but because of the usual seriousness and depression, he opened thousands of rivers and mountains with his daughter, and spent a lot of time each time to make a table of grand banquets, and the director used more than a dozen shots to form montage paragraphs, showing the Zhu family's kitchen facilities and scenes of Lao Zhu cooking in the kitchen: killing, cutting, washing, frying, cooking, steaming, boiling and other processes were filmed one by one. But what Lao Zhu gained was sorrow and inner loneliness. In the beginning, Lao Zhu's loss of taste was perhaps the best escape, he loved his daughter, thought of her, wanted to party, wanted to communicate. But the result is that the daughters are picky and hasty to declare, just as the so-called "out of sight, not bothered, this "food" for him is the dish on the table, but there is no appetite at all, it is better to "lose" the sense of taste. Finally, the return of Old Zhu's sense of taste also implied the taste of life, and he regained the dignity of a man.
5, "Journey to the West" is difficult for people to see clearly, often their own hearts.
1994 was a sad year for Hong Kong films, and production began to decline off a cliff from the peak of the previous year. The golden age of Hong Kong films has passed. But that year' Stephen Chow was very popular, from the Hong Kong fire to the mainland, from "Star Boy" mixed into "Star Master", Chow Xingchi also under the suggestion of Liu Zhenwei from comedy to tragicomedy. Zhou Xingchi invested all his money to shoot "Journey to the West" composed of "Moonlight Treasure Box" and "The Great Saint Marries Relatives", telling a tragic and joyful love story that spans time and space. The film was released in Hong Kong, China, before the Spring Festival in 1995, but the box office was dismal, and it was not until after 1997 that it began to circulate in mainland universities and networks, and quickly became popular and became a classic.
The Supreme Treasure seems to have many choices: choose who to love, Bai Jingjing or Zixia? Who is the choice, supreme treasure or Qi Tian Dasheng? What do you choose to do, kill Tang Sanzang or continue to learn the scriptures?
But the result? He didn't have a choice.
Everything is predestined.
Saving Bai Jingjing only gave him a reason to travel back 500 years and meet Zixia.
Saving Zixia is just to let him take the initiative to wear a golden hoop and accept the bondage and fate.
"Heaven has arranged it, the biggest."
Young people do not understand the Supreme Treasure, and they are no longer young.
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