The audience mentioned that albanian films were "inexplicable", and the first thing that must be mentioned was "The Eighth is a Bronze Statue", which the author once made a little analysis.
Almost at the same time, the audience of that year also mentioned another Albanian film that could not be understood, which was "Footprints".
What kind of movie is this, and how can it get a lot of words from the audience?
The film "Footprints" was released in China in 1971 and is considered to be an early Albanian film.
According to the appendix of the Shanghai Cultural Yearbook 1992, "Timeline of Shanghai Cultural History (1966-1976)", on November 28, 1971, in order to celebrate the 27th anniversary of Albania's liberation, Shanghai immediately released the Albanian feature films "Footprints" and "Brave People".
In a cultural journal in Zhejiang, it is also mentioned that on December 17, 1971, in order to commemorate the 27th anniversary of albanian liberation, Hangzhou released Albanian feature films "Brave People" and "Footprints". Zhejiang Daily published a commentary article entitled "The Vast World Weathers the Wind and Rain, and the Healthy Mountain Eagle Soars -- < Brave People > After" and "A Battle Between the Proletariat and the Bourgeoisie -- < Footprints>I's Enlightenment to Us".
Earlier comments appeared in major newspapers across the country, and we looked at the headlines of the reviews at the time.
December 2, 1971 "People's Liberation Army Daily": Advancing on the road of revolutionization.
Beijing Daily, December 5, 1971: The Glorious Road.
Wen Wei Po, December 7, 1971: The Pace of Progress.
Guangming Daily, December 8, 1971: Never Stop.
Guangming Daily, December 8, 1971: The Glorious Path of Intellectuals.
Judging from the titles of these articles, the film should be a positive theme, black and white, simple and crisp, how can it give birth to the "can't understand" theory?
In fact, the call for "not understanding" this movie can be said to be endless in our ears, and we hear it from time to time.
The film was widely welcomed by Chinese audiences, and in the article "Talking about Zhou Xiaowen" (by Mao Guo), the film enlightenment process of Chinese director Zhou Xiaowen was introduced, quoting Zhou Xiaowen's memories: "'The Wave of the Danube' is the most watched, no less than a dozen times! "Footprints" was read seven or eight times. ”
After reading it many times, there should be factors that you can't understand.
Looking at the article "The Cultural Revolution" (Author: Zhong Lijie), the author pointed out: "Arnia has a film of "Footprints", and after screening, most people don't know what to do. ”
In the book Scratch years: Expressing Our Unforgettable Memories (Gao Feng), a letter from playwright Kim Sok-jin is quoted as saying: "'Albanian cinema – inexplicable', this is the conclusion that the audience came to after watching 'Footprints'. The film adopts a structure method of large flashbacks and interlacing of time and space, which is difficult for Chinese audiences who are accustomed to causal linear structure films to adapt, of course, the rapid switching of shots in other Albanian films, and the conciseness of characters and details are also an important factor. ”
In the "Ye Shengtao Family Book" co-authored by Ye Shengtao and Ye Zhishan, there is also a large space that records the evaluation of this film.
Qian Zhongshu satirized in "The Siege" that year: Celebrities write letters, and there is a kind of performance desire, all of which are considered for future publication.
It cannot be said that the correspondence written by the Ye father and son in those years was not expected to be published in the future. Today, in the letters of two people, we are seeing father and son performing a lively double reed performance in the loneliness of history.
Because it is a performance, the letters written between them are not necessarily what they think in their hearts, but they can also see a little mark of the times.
In Ye Zhishan's letter, the Albanian film is mentioned.
Ye father and son
In a letter dated May 10, 1972, Ye Zhishan wrote: "A similar story, there is an Albanian feature film 'Footprints' about a change in the thinking of a doctor. This doctor is well-born and has very good surgery. He believes that he has saved many people, and it is right to be grateful and respected. Later he healed a worker. The worker blew up two legs in an accident to save his colleagues. After the operation, the doctor went to check the ward, and just as the rescued colleagues came to visit the worker. As soon as they met, they talked about technological innovation, and the doctor was very strange: Didn't this worker save them regardless of his own life and death? How come there isn't even a word of thanks? It was his surprise. He told a friend about it, and the friend replied nicely, saying that because they would do it the same way he did under the same circumstances. The doctor realized that he had been far away from the working people, so he took the initiative to ask to go to the border to receive reform. Ideologically speaking, this film is quite high. However, they are accustomed to using flashbacks, and there are some unnecessary interludes, making it difficult for people to sort out their minds. ”
Ye Shengtao replied that if there was a ticket, he would go to see it. It can be seen that he is still interested in his son's recommendation and does not discriminate against this is an Albanian film. It can be seen from this that albanian films are much more complicated than the ostrich state that we later avoid talking about and pretend not to know.
An Albanian film "Footprints" can also attract the attention of Chinese literary everyone, which is very illustrative, and then ask: Can Chinese literature create such works as "Footprints"? In fact, there is none. Therefore, for films from a small country like Albania like "Footprints", we should not take it too lightly and think that it is not worth mentioning. This is also the reason why we go to great lengths today to understand and understand the secrets of this movie.
The son, seeing his father's interest in the Albanian films mentioned in his previous letter, further elaborated on the content of the film in a reply letter on May 16, which is a psychological tendency that all viewers who have seen the film beforehand, and he wrote: "The movie 'Footprints' requires a little brainstorming. He started with an assassination case in which the doctor was assassinated, and some people suspected that he had committed suicide, and the police officers who handled the case thought that it had to be investigated before the verdict could be decided. So he interviewed the doctor's father, wife, colleagues, friends, all of whom recounted fragments of the doctor's life, and inserted themselves into the lives of the people, so they seemed confused. Before Daddy went to see it, it was best to ask Sanwu to tell the story roughly. This theme is expressed in the form of a detective film, which is really unnecessary. ”
The "Three Noons" mentioned here are Ye Shengtao's eldest grandsons. In fact, according to Ye Shengtao's writing skills, watching such an Albanian movie, you can completely digest the mysteries in the movie by yourself, and you don't need others to point fingers and feet, but from this letter, we can see that "Footprints" does have a little "brain-burning".
Master Ye Shengtao was suspected of not being able to understand, but many people read the understanding they needed in this movie.
According to the "Role of Teacher Morality in the Moral Education of Students" (authors: Lin Jinghui and Wei Xuefen) compiled by the Traffic Technician Education Research Association, "The Role of Teacher Morality in the Moral Education of Students" (authors: Lin Jinghui and Wei Xuefen) took "Footprints" as the argument for the article: "There is such a sentence in the Albanian film "Footprints": With simple people, you can purify the soul. ”
The protagonist of "Footprints", playing the enemy officer in "Rather Die Than Yield"
It can be seen that this collection of essays cites "Footprints" as a classic statement that has stood the test of time. In the era of reform and opening up, it is indeed a little inconceivable to still use the arguments in Albanian films as a source of information to support their ideas.
In an article in Bi Xidong's book "Football Lao Na: From Germany to China", "Football is not a roulette - my opinion of the 14th FIFA World Cup", the author also mentions the memory brought by "Footprints" with interest: "Who made who at the bottom?" During the decade of unrest, only Albanian feature films were eligible for import. But I remembered a famous quote in the film "Footprints": It is the doctor who makes the operating room, and the operating room does not necessarily make the doctor. The chaotic phenomenon presented in this world championship really touched people's souls. ”
It's just that the author has a memory misalignment here, in fact, this sentence in the text is not a line in "Footprints", but a dialogue in another Albanian movie "Trauma". These two films show how doctors leave big cities and come to remote areas where there is little medical treatment, and the contradictions and conflicts mainly come from husbands and wives, both husbands are active, wives are dragging their feet, and the theme concept is very close, so it has caused the author's false memory of Zhang Guanli Dai.
And "Footprints" had a strong ideological impact on the young people of that era.
In the book "Lei Feng-style Good Warrior Huang Guanshun" (published in 1973), we saw a diary of the master, which recorded and recorded the educational impact that "Footprints" gave to me: "After watching the Albanian story film "Footprints" on March 6, 1972, I felt that my education was extremely profound. It is a good film to educate our young people. It tells us that a person's life cannot be covetous and comfortable, let alone arrogant. It is necessary to know that one's progress should be attributed to the Party and the people, and that the results of the help of comrades must not be regarded as the capital to which one is proud. ”
More accounts appear in the pen of authors who lived through that era. Shanghai writer Yin Huifen integrated the movie "Footprints" into the protagonist's life experience in "Dream Jinfan", in which she wrote: "Li Xiaorong said that she also admired the surgeon in "Footprints", he was dashing and talented, but unfortunately he died, he was killed. Jinfan said that the foot impression in the film traces the footprints of life. Li Xiaorong said oh how I didn't expect it, I still think this piece of famous text is not right I am really stupid. ”
In Mao Jiping's book "Can't Stop It" (2007 edition), she also wrote about the effect of the Albanian film on the characters: "She remembered a movie called "Footprints" that she had seen in Albania when she was a child, and the heroine confided in others about her feelings for her husband: It has been five years since we were married, but we are still like just in love. She was completely immersed in a feeling of happiness, and the initial trepidation caused by the secret affair, the fear of being discovered by others, and the vague guilt caused by the deviance of the behavior disappeared. ”
The comic strip also did not spare "Footprints", this comic strip is marked according to the Albanian film, adapted by Wang Peijia, xiangqun and other paintings, Heilongjiang People's Publishing House published the first edition in January 1974, with a staggering number of 280,000 copies.
This comic strip deletes all the memories in the movie that are incomprehensible, clarifies the clues, and omits the memories of irrelevant characters, but it is a better popular reading book for understanding the movie.
And it is such an Albanian film "Footprints", which is not in the eyes of today's film industry celebrities, that has become a successful example of early film textbooks, and most of these examples today are only hollywood movies.
Introducing the technique of "dialogue montage" in the Compendium of Film Studies (1992 edition), edited by Bu Zhaolin, he wrote:
Conversational montages are also a more economical and concise approach. This combination of pictures not only advances the storyline of the movie, but also makes sense. This is also a technique that has been widely used in the history of Chinese and foreign films. Here's the plot from Footprints.
Nurse: "Dr. Aldan wishes you success." ”
Aldan: "Thank you".
"Success and failure are often the difference of a millimeter," said a professor in another context.
So, why does the praiseworthy "Footprints" make people unable to understand it?
This point, which has been made very clear in Ye Zhishan's letter to his father, is that the film introduces the life and deeds of Dr. Aldan, who died at the muzzle of the enemy's gun through memories.
This kind of expression is the same as "The Eighth is a Bronze Statue", and even in "Rather Die Unyielding", it is also through the protagonist Mira's constant flashback memories after her arrest to show past experiences.
It seems that Albanian films like this large-scale memory method, and it is this kind of film that uses more methods, which is the "hardest hit area" that Chinese audiences cannot understand.
In "Footprints", the beginning is a suspenseful ending, Dr. Aldan died suddenly when he was practicing medicine in the border area, and he found a gun in his hand, and the easiest judgment to make was that he committed suicide. So the police launched an investigation, through the interview with his father, wife, colleagues and patients, to fully understand his ideological movements, and unlike "The Eighth Is a Bronze Statue", Dr. Aldan in "Footprints" has the color of "perspective determines perception" in Rashomon.
"The Eighth is a Bronze Statue" is a parallel platter-type group of character deeds that does not interfere with each other, while "Footprints" is a causal platter-type group of character deeds, and there will inevitably be conflicts in each group of memories due to different angles of recall, which forms a state in which the character image in "Footprints" is in a state of removing clouds and mist, moving and changing shadows.
In the multi-angle memories of others, Dr. Aldan's personality and thoughts are progressive, and the final foothold is to prove that he is a good doctor, not a suicidal person who may be treasonous.
As Ye Zhishan said in his letter, Footprints adopts a suspenseful structure and is not necessarily successful. Because in the whole movie, there is no part of the sword and light sword shadow, and finally there is a mysterious death event, and the movie with a conflict of ideas must be pulled to the murder event, which seems to be a little different between the two.
In fact, the memories of the whole movie illustrate how the protagonist has changed from a vain, selfish, and satisfied doctor with personal happiness to a change of values and devote himself to a more meaningful life of serving society.
This obviously proved to be a very difficult path to achieve in the later transformation and transformation of Albanian state, and the current Albanian people chose Italy and Greece, which were enemies of Albania in World War II, that is, the countries where the defectors in the film urgently wanted to go.
That is to say, the change in the doctor's thinking in "Footprints" is precisely the retrograde trend of the people's thinking in reality.
Therefore, films such as "Footprints" can be seen in turn, that the domestic people at that time wanted to go abroad, rather than like the doctors praised in the movie, bent on taking root in the grassroots.
Therefore, the deeds and whereabouts of heroes always retrograde the trend and trend of thought of society.
The film also summarizes that era through the mouth of a girl: "Our descendants will envy our difficult times, which is equal to one century in a year." ”
In fact, on the contrary, today's Albania has forgotten that era.
In the film, the heroes are set as role models, telling the public about the possibility of another opposite of worldly choices. This is the existence value of the heroic law, and Hollywood movies are no exception.
The factors that affect the change in the doctor's thinking in "Footprints" are the areas that the film focuses on. We can roughly see that Aldan's ideological transformation from the beginning of his indulgence in individualism and family circles came from the following factors:
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > one is revolutionary traditional education. </h1>
The doctor and his colleagues went out to play, met the mother of the childhood friend, when they were in the township, they were taken care of by the rural lady, and later the little friend died in the fight against fascism, which gave Aldan a traditional education, and felt that he should not forget Ben. This was an important factor that contributed to his return to his hometown to practice medicine.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > second is an advanced person infection. </h1>
In the process of treating patients, a worker was injured and broke his leg because he protected his colleagues, and the doctor was originally treating patients, but in turn he was also treated by patients, which made him change his concept of superiority and reverse the god-like existence of doctors in the doctor-patient relationship.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third is the influence of the people around you. </h1>
In the film, Aldan's father, an officer who was later demobilized and returned to the field, has a deep understanding of the deterioration of his son, pointing out: "You take the honor given by the people for granted, detach from the people, and forget who trained you." And colleagues also pointed out that Aldan is detached from reality, engages in pure theoretical research, and is enthusiastic about maintaining his prestige, rather than serving the people. These concepts, after the protagonist touches the touching behavior of the patient, quickly transforms from theory to action practice, thus realizing the transformation of thinking.
Although "Footprints" is limited to the life of a doctor, the breadth of society is still extraordinary. The film also mentions the interruption of Soviet aid, and the difficulty of the factory coping with the raid by relying on itself. Including the harsh social environment at that time and the complex situation in the border areas, they can reflect the current situation facing the country. In such a situation, the doctor gave up the life of the big city to serve the villagers in the border area, which made his choice have the depth of the support of the entire social background.
The murderer in the film is the so-called friend who once sent the chandelier to the doctor, and in the final end of the film, the reasoning and reconnaissance are omitted, and the murderer is directly pushed out, which is also one of the reasons why albanian films disdain logical analysis and cause the film to be inexplicable.
"Footprints" adds so many elements to a simple theme movie, which dilutes its theme to a certain extent, and also makes the movie forked and complicated, and finally makes people get the impression of "not understanding". In fact, the theme of the film is still very distinct, at that time the newspaper's summary of it is very decisive, there is no disagreement, which shows that it is not difficult to be understood, at least the audience who has seen the movie, may not necessarily sort out the context of the film narrative, but the content conveyed by the film is still clear at a glance.
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