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First, the sixth generation of directors Guan Hu
Before introducing Guan Hu, I would like to talk about a part of the history of Chinese directors.
When it comes to the big directors of today's Chinese mainland, I believe that many people first think of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang, who have a solid position and have achieved achievements in the commercial market and artistic value.
They all have one thing in common: they have completed the pursuit of profit, are pursuing the artistic height of their works, and embarked on the road of "chasing fame".
Another thing they have in common is that they all belong to the fifth generation of Chinese directors.
This "first generation of directors" is Chinese characteristics, and their names do represent a part of the history of Chinese films.
The fifth generation of directors refers to the young directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the 1980s, and some of these directors went to the countryside in their youth, some served as soldiers, and endured hardships, so their works have the depth of the times.
With the passage of time, these young people have become the mainstay of Chinese directors. #影视杂谈 #
Today, Zhang Yimou, the representative of the fifth generation of directors, is 70 years old, Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang are also 68 years old, and even Feng Xiaogang, who was born in Yeluzi, is 62 years old.
Unfortunately, in terms of commercial and artistic achievements, there are very few young directors who can really take over the banner of the fifth generation of directors.
At that time, people had high hopes for this matter, and it was Guan Hu's sixth-generation Chinese director. The representative figures of the sixth generation of directors are: Guan Hu, Wang Quan'an, Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Jia Zhangke, Lu Chuan, Ning Hao and others.
Among the sixth generation of Chinese directors, the ones with the highest artistic achievements and the most awards are Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye and Wang Xiaoshuai, but if we really want to talk about the influence of the combination of art and commercial value, there are only two representative figures of the sixth generation of directors, Guan Hu and Ning Hao.
Guan Hu was born in Beijing in 1968, and in 1992, the 23-year-old Guan Hu raised money to shoot his first work, "Hair Messy", officially entered the film industry, and has been in an embarrassing situation since then.
Until 2009, Guan Hu and Huang Bo met in the movie, and the two collaborated on "Bullfighting", "Killing" and "Cook Drama Leper" in the following years, all three films later became the classic works of the two.
In the true sense of entering the public's field of vision, perhaps because "Old Cannon" has shaped the "film emperor Feng Xiaogang", the film will also become a classic work in the future. But it must be said that "Old Cannon" has never been Guan Hu's best work.
If you want to choose the best works of Guan Hu, I personally feel that you should choose from "Bullfighting", "Killing" and "Survival Migrant Worker".
2. Killing
On April 28, 2012, the black comedy film "Killing", directed by Guan Hu and starring Huang Bo, Yu Nan, Ren Dahua and Su Youpeng, was released and only earned 19.56 million at the box office, which is unbearable.
However, after several years of accumulation, with the later success of Huang Bo and Guan Hu, "Killing" was gradually discovered by the audience, and it was also used to make up for the dismal box office with word of mouth, and now Douban has 7.8 points.
8 years ago, I couldn't understand it, but now I look at it again, and I find that there are so many metaphors for the "blackness of human nature".
Killing tells a story of "to kill, first curse the heart".
The story takes place in southwest China, that is, Sichuan, because the dialogue in the whole film is Sichuanese, and there are many slang words, such as "melon goods", "Xiongqi", "Play together", Sichuan audiences may feel kind to this movie.
A small town hidden deep in the mountains, called "Longevity Town", as the name suggests, there are many elderly people in the town, and "longevity" has also become the aura of the people in the town.
They have lived in accordance with the rules for generations, and they dare not do anything special, which will affect the reputation of the town. Because of this, people's long-term repressed life has affected culture and suppressed human nature.
Until the cow played by Huang Bo appeared. Niu Jie's father passed through the town of Changshou many years ago and died of cancer in the town. The cattle were also adopted by the old town mayor.
Growing up, the cattle were sturdy and incompatible with the townspeople, and he did many evil deeds, often causing harm to the townspeople, stealing things, feeding the elderly mayor to drink, and putting medicine for donkeys in the mayor's water.
But the evil of the cow is not deliberately evil, if you give him the next label, "bear child" is the most appropriate, compared to the people in the town, the cow is strong is just a bear child who has not been erased in nature.
When Niu Jian was a child, he did a bad thing, stealing the bacon of Dr. Niu's house. Dr. Niu's grandparents blocked the gaps in the wall because they were wary of the cow's sturdy meat theft, and as a result, both of them were suffocated by the smoke of the burning grass that they forgot to extinguish.
The young dr. Niu holds a grudge and grows up to return to his hometown, bent on revenge on the cow.
It happened that niu Jianjian pulled out the old mayor's infusion tube, fed him drinking, resulting in the death of the old mayor, and also took away the Yu man who was buried with the old mayor.
The townspeople were harassed by the cattle, but there was no good way to deal with him, so Dr. Cow took the opportunity to plan a revenge that was more vicious than killing.
What is more ruthless than killing is the curse.
The people in the town first changed their normal behavior, were extremely polite to the cattle, cared about the body, and sent meat and wine.
At first, the cow was strong and happy, but when he went everywhere he went, he found that people were talking about him behind his back, and he began to realize that something was wrong.
Later, Niu Jiu heard that he seemed to be sick, and the people of the town treated him more and more like a dying man.
The cow was slowly affected, thinking that he was really sick, and the mayor used a trick to make the cow strong in the cold rain in the autumn, and the cow strength really gradually faded, thinking that he was going to die.
That's when a kid told him the truth. The cow was furious, and the children were locked up by the townspeople.
The cattle took revenge, putting medicine for the donkey in the water, and the town gasped for breath the next day. Niu Jian also had a child with Yu Nan, so people's revenge on Niu Jian also involved Yu Nan.
The turning point was that the widow later became pregnant with a sturdy child of the cow.
People no longer hid their intentions, and Niu Jian knew that they wanted to let themselves die, otherwise they would have to beat up the child in Yu Boy's belly. Dr. Niu led the people to find the cow and said, "Either you die or the child dies."
Yu Nan and Niu Jian have also developed love. Niu Jian prepared to swallow medicine for the child to commit suicide, and Yu Nan stood in the attic and threatened him that if he died, he would jump down and drop the child. But the cow still chose to die on its own.
He shouted to people, "Baby has no fault, baby has no fault", and he has become a man, a man who has compromised with the world.
Before leaving, the cow returned everything he had stolen. Dragging a blue coffin that was incompatible with the surrounding grays, he prepared to leave the town.
The whole town came out to see him, as if suddenly unbearable, but no one dissuaded him. The cow was strong enough to reach the top of the hill, lay down in the coffin, and closed its eyes.
This time the cow was solid and dead, dead.
Third, the story to see
There are many interpretations of "Killing", no less than other films with many metaphors, but deliberately interpreting it makes the film lose its original charm.
The "killing" I understand does not mean that the villagers want to kill the cattle and be strong, but to kill the "sheng" qi, just like the crew said when promoting the movie, "This is a story of Sun Wukong making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace and finally being suppressed by the rule society partnership." ”
The cow in the movie is not a positive character, to be honest, if there is such a person in reality, I believe that everyone will not like it.
But the cow is definitely not a bad person, he just hasn't been domesticated by society yet. Just like when we laugh, maybe not so naughty, but we still have "anger", and we are essentially clean, and have not yet been domesticated into adults.
It is difficult to say whether the cow is sober in its heart, in short, the last cow is firm and chooses death, and we in this society choose to live.
In addition to the story itself, there are also many intriguing points in the story.
The widow played by Yu Nan was supposed to accompany the old mayor to the funeral, but Niu Jian directly jumped into the water to pick up the widow's hippie smile and left, living a rogue look of "don't be white", although it can be seen that he wants to save the widow, but this clip has also been controversial.
It is said that when filming this scene, the outdoor river beach was cold and bone-chilling, and the crew was worried about Huang Bo, and as a result, Huang Bo had excellent water properties, and he dragged Yu Nan to swim in the water for more than five hundred meters.
Another interesting point of view is that people use potions to maintain the longevity of the old mayor, just to create a record of longevity, just like employees to complete an indicator.
The old mayor died laughing, because the cow was sure to know that the old mayor was good at drinking.
And later the death of the mayor. The cause of death of the mayor of the town was rain, and the rain was to lure the cattle to be strong and also come out to rain, and as a result, the cattle did not die, but the mayor died because of the rain. People implicate anger on the bull's head, which is a brainless act.
As a black comedy, "Killing" naturally has many exaggerated parts, but the logic in it also applies to real life. After all, reality is often more dramatic than movies. After all, everyone is a blank piece of paper, and it is the world that is coloring you.
If I could sum up my movie-watching experience in one sentence, it would be: When turbidity becomes the norm, innocence is sinful.
Fourth, back to reality
Back to reality. Assimilation by society is inevitable, but not forgetting the original intention is something that everyone can choose.
After the fifth generation of directors established their status, they began to pursue their own art. At that time, Huang Bo also became a director himself and made the movies he wanted. This is a kind of not forgetting the original intention.
As viewers, what we can expect is that these directors who can make good works will not be killed and "angry" because of certain factors.
Similarly, the audience cannot be killed by the mixed entertainment works of the fish and dragons.
Wang Xiaobo once said in the golden age: "Later, I learned that life is a slow process of being hammered, and people grow old day by day, and their extravagances fade away day by day, and finally they become like old cattle that have been hammered."
For me, this passage best represents the values that Killing conveys, and of course, there will be a thousand Hamlets out of a thousand people.
Whether you are still a blank piece of paper, whether you have been assimilated, whether you are still struggling in the relationship of this society, whether you have thought about the situation between people, this movie must be worth watching. (Author: Tang Chong)
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