Some movies are made into poems, and some poems are written into movies.
I once saw a movie with the general title of "Ten Minutes, Old Age", which consisted of a ten-minute short film produced by fifteen world film masters. Fifteen short films are fifteen poems that explore the mystery of time in which we exist.
The Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos said that cinema is a poetic version of the world, and in a sense, the only thing a film can do is to sweeten the passage of time.
Written by | Three books
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A blank etude
Bodhisattva Man
Wen Tingjun
The hills overlap the golden ming extinction, and the sideburns want to burn the snow. Lazy to draw moth eyebrows, make up and wash late.
Look at the front and back mirrors of the flowers, and the flower surfaces are mirrored. New post embroidered grosgrain, double golden partridge.
The lyrics can be made as a song, a group of melancholy moods, or as a short film to listen, to see, to taste.
If it is a short film, it should not exceed ten minutes. There is no plot, just a few shots that show the psychology of the characters, but each shot is very emotional and beautiful.
Shot 1: In the early morning, the young woman's fragrant boudoir focuses on the screen in front of the bed.
Overlapping landscapes are painted on the screens. The poet Wen Tingjun is a big director, and what he really wants us to see is not the screen, but the dream of this woman. At the beginning of the movie, the woman is awake, but she does not move, she is still delayed by the dream. Just as we sometimes wake up, eager to return to the dream we just had, helplessly, it seems that as soon as some button is pressed, we are sent back and sent here.
It was a moment of confusion, half in bed, half in a dream. How vivid a woman's dream is, how clear the landscape on the screen is, that is the real distance between her and her lover. Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, "The drizzle dream returns to the chicken plug away, and the small building blows through the jade sheng cold", which is also the same moment, the same confusion.
The mountains overlap, the sun shines like gold, and the light disappears. You can say that it symbolizes some kind of hope, or the illusion of life and death, or the looming lust, or the creeping dream eater, whatever depends on you. The world is a system of symbols, and symbols come from mystery. Wen Tingjun did not say how the woman felt, he used "the hill overlapping Jin Mingxing" to symbolize, which is his sensitivity and meticulousness. He knew that a person who dreamed back at dawn and saw the sunlight leaking through the cracks in the windows, dappled and flowing on the floor or wall, could perceive the mystery.
Shot 2: Woman on the bed.
"Sideburns want to perfume the snow", there is a wind blowing here. The wind is beautiful, and as soon as the wind blows, the grass is green. The wind lifted the woman's black hair and floated over her snow-white face. This shot is sexy, it's smart, it's silent. Just when I wanted to talk about the loneliness of a woman, I said that I was writing about her beauty. Loneliness is written into poetry, and it rises to beauty.
The word "desire" is very expressive, "degree" is over, "desire" is going to be, and hair will not be degree. Sentient and ruthless, ruthless and sentient, Chinese aesthetics, and the taste is mostly between existence and absence. Here writing wind, writing hair, writing people, writing dreams, the four are inseparable. To write hair is to write about people, and to write style is to write dreams.
Shot 3: Woman grooming.
"Lazy to draw moth eyebrows, make up and wash late", a sensitive reader should not see the woman's melancholy until now, but should feel when he first reads "the mountain overlaps", "overlapping" is depressed. When we watch movies, listen to music, and read poetry, we all perceive an atmosphere from the beginning. Even if the film opens with a joyful scene, you can have a hunch that some disaster is looming. The first sentence of the poem must convey the tone of the whole poem, just as the song uses C major or A minor, which can be heard as soon as it comes up. This is true of both classical and modern poetry.
Haizi has been misread for many years, "Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms", and the tone of its elegy is conveyed from the first sentence: "From tomorrow, be a happy person". When we say, "From tomorrow onwards, I'm going to get up early," it's precisely because it's so hard for us to do it. "Zhuangzi" said, "Listen to the heart without hearing with the ear, and listen to the breath without hearing with the heart", which can be used as a way to read poetry. What one reads poetry is not what is said, but how words are spoken or omitted. For Haizi, happiness is like lightning, strong and unattainable, and this poem is not about the happiness of simple happiness, but the possibility of human beings to achieve happiness. This is the sincerity and profundity of the poet, but also the meaning and truth of life, so that we can hear ourselves resonate with it in it.
Back to the film shot of this song, and then look at "lazy" and "makeup", the woman's emotionlessness and sense of alienation convey the woman's psychology, but also add to the woman's beauty. Most of the ancient poets liked lazy beauties, so the laziness and delay of these two sentences were actually for beauty.
If you play with these two actions, you can also taste a lot of meanings, such as a woman's narcissism and self-pity, if you listen carefully, you can also hear her and herself, she and him, she and the years, she and fate of the dialogue and even quarrel.
Lens 4: Mirror front and rear of the flower.
This is a close-up. After the woman finishes grooming and makeup, she holds a mirror in her hand, and the flowers inserted in the bun are reflected by the mirror in front of her, and the face and the flowers are in the front mirror. "Mirroring the front and back of the flower" is not only in line with the facts, but the sentence itself also has a dizzy feeling of "the flowers and faces are reflected". This close-up magnifies the woman's loneliness and almost transforms her beauty into a deep dream.
Shot 5: Embroidered crochet.
The woman looked at her luo skirt, which was newly embroidered with "double golden partridge". The partridge symbolizes return, in pairs, and of course her warm wish. But this morning, the newly posted embroidered skirt made her particularly cold, and the pair of partridges made her look particularly lonely.
Five silent short shots, composed of this "Bodhisattva Man", are like a blank etude. Early in the morning was ruled by a huge absence, which almost made everything speechless. There is no half a line, but we hear the ups and downs of emotion, the real sounds in the air. The poet Wen Tingjun knows this well, and his art of writing words is to show you a few pictures, with almost static subtle movements, without a word.
Zhao Tuo's "Peach Dove Diagram".
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Wait, single-shot poem
Let's take a look at a shorter short film, Wen Tingjun's "Wangjiangnan":
Freshen up and look at the river tower alone. After a thousand sails, the veins of the oblique veins are leisurely. Intestinal severance of the white apple island.
There are only five sentences in this poem, and perhaps the first four sentences are enough.
To make a short film, it only takes a long shot of no more than five minutes, but it tells her a whole day, an incomparably long wait.
When we see her "freshen up and look at the river tower alone", we must know that the story has begun for a while. The subtext of grooming is that today is a special day. Women are pleasing to themselves, and women have no intention of grooming, such as the "Book of Poetry , Boxi" said, "If there is no anointing, who is suitable for tolerance." After freshening up and climbing the Wangjiang Tower, it is not difficult to guess that she is waiting for him to return. The return date has arrived, and he will come back at any time in the next few days.
"A thousand sails are not", please pay attention to her expression. Hope, tension, loss, the cycle repeats. Every sail on the river came, from far and near, from near and far, and her mood rose and fell until the end of a thousand sails.
It can be imagined that on the screen, the ships coming and going are slow and fast, and then in the stacking, the sky over the river is left, leaving only the "oblique vein vein water leisurely". It was boundless loss and sorrow that permeated her heart. From morning till dusk, she waited not for a whole day, it seemed centuries. The Wangfu Stone is not a legend. Who said that people grow old when they are waiting for others?
Mr. Zhu Guangqian talked about Wen Tingjun's words in the article "On the "Hidden" and "Manifest" of Poetry", "In the romance poem, it is a wonderful product, but the closing words are slightly closer to 'xian', if the five words of 'intestinal broken white apple island' are deleted, the meaning is even more infinite." ”
Chinese poetry has always appreciated that "words are endless but meaning is infinite". According to this standard, the first four sentences of "Wangjiangnan" are extremely "hidden", minimalist, and the mood implied is quite rich. If the picture stops at the oblique veins of the water, or the camera gradually pushes away, pushing the woman on the wangjiang tower into the vast depths of the universe, and finally stopping at a large panorama, it is indeed more meaningful.
But why is there a "intestinal broken white apple island", Wen Tingjun in order to fill in the words and make up enough sentences? It depends on how to understand "White Apple Island". Since the Chu Ci, Bai Apple Zhou has symbolized acacia in classical literature. If only this symbolic meaning is taken, only the intestines are broken and acacia is expressed, this sentence is reversed into a snake's foot. If The White Apple Continent is where they once loved or parted, then it has a different effect, and it will deepen the pain of the whole word.
Chen Hongshou flower and bird painting.
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Ten minutes of old age
"Huan Xi Sha"
Zhang Bi
The east gate of the small city wants to snow, and the crowd meets the gods according to the appointment, and rui huangxiang paints and sticks golden cicadas.
Drinking and scattering the dusk people's grass, drunken and speechless in front of the door, the horse hissed and baked a street of smoke.
The picture and narrative of this song is like a movie script. There is a shot in each of the upper and lower films, and between the two shots, there is a blank period of daily time that is skipped.
The film is on the bustling street of the east gate of the small city of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. It was cold, it was windy, and it looked like it was about to snow. The market was bustling with traffic, and he suddenly saw a woman, who was like a god in the crowd. Her makeup "Rui Huang Xiang Painting Sticker Golden Cicada", radiant, but also highlights her origin, should be a big show.
This nicknamed picture is somewhat similar to the romantic encounter of the Lantern Festival in Xin Zhiyi's "Qingyu Case". The difference is that the woman is hidden in the shadows of the night lights, laughing and smiling, and then he looks for her all over the world, until "suddenly looking back, the man is in the middle of the lights."
The story in Zhang Bi's words is like the snow that is about to arrive, with a desolate chill. In the last shot, the woman flashes by in the bustling street market and does not notice him at all. For him, from the picture, it feels like she is out of reach.
The next piece shifts to after his feast. Drinking dusk, it can be seen that he has a social presence and does not look for the woman. "People are sloppy", he can't help himself, and he can also see that his heart is not drinking, and he is eager to get rid of this socializing. However, after drinking at this moment, when he stood silently in front of the door, where was the figure of the woman?
The only thing in front of me was "horse dust baking a street of smoke", a world that was mixed with emotions due to her disappearance, and empty and illusory. Like a drop of water disappearing into the sea, nowhere to be found. The short film fades out of this picture, very rich and human and divine compassion.
It is entirely conceivable that a modern version of a story actually happens every day. Suppose the location is still at the east gate of the small city, which is about today's East Street in Xi'an, if it is not more prosperous, it is more bustling. You are on your way to a banquet when you stumble upon someone and you feel as if time has stopped. But reason tells you to keep walking, to a banquet you may not want to go to at all, and you have been absent-minded, and finally waited until the wine was gone. Back at the scene of the incident, the traffic is crowded, the streets are strange, you feel that you have never been empty, it almost spreads your life.
The author | three books
Editor| Zhang Jin; Zhang Ting
Proofreader | Li Xiangling