"Cloud Feather" plays "Wind" with Wei Jin aesthetics? When did Director Guo not engage in "stealing concepts"?
Recently, there has been a shortage of dramas, and I watched "Cloud Feather" because of Jin Jing. It's really pretty! The plot is novel and unroutine, martial arts is unambiguous, and suspense and comedy are relaxed. However, when I looked at it, I felt a little wrong.
The hairstyle of the important character "Yuki Shigeko" imitates the hairstyle of children in the Edo period in Japan, and it also brushes the edges of the classic Japanese anime "Snow Boy".
The "Miyaji family crest" on the architecture and clothing of the Miyaya family is very similar to the design of the "Japanese Ten Great Tattoos";
The names of the father and son of the Gong family are only one word different (the father is called Gong Hongyu, the son is called Gong Ziyu, and the names of Chinese father and son will not be so named);
The bride is to deliberately imitate the hairstyle of a Japanese geisha;
There are also "ukiyo-e" style curtains, screens...
It is understandable that Guo Jingming may be a fan of Japanese aesthetics, but what cannot be understood is that since you adopted Wei Jin's aesthetics and played the banner of traditional culture, why can't you be confident in your own culture and let the audience always appreciate the style of Wei Jin from beginning to end, but must be privately belted?
Is this a cultural lack of confidence, or is it a deliberate attempt to marginalize the audience?
If you don't really love traditional culture, why bother?
On aesthetics alone, Director Guo's aesthetic is really excellent:
As soon as he appeared, he concave the cloud shirt with four senses of handsomeness and beauty, softness and strength;
The sunlight sprinkled in front of the Hua Kui window to see the sick Gong Ziyu;
The first time I met Gong Ziyu, I saw pity, and the "Charm of No Edge" Shangguan Shao, who seized the opportunity of "one glance for ten thousand years";
A snow boy with a neutral voice and an inexplicably handsome age ... Everything is so just right, it always looks beautiful to people's hearts.
If such an aesthetic can be used realistically, it is better to engage in "no three and no four", "nondescript" and "tiger head and snake".
Chinese myths and legends, Wei and Jin aesthetic elements were used to name the set, but it was grafted on Japanese culture.
For example, Gongshang Jiao Zhengyu, these five tones are the basic scale of ancient Chinese music. According to the encyclopedia, the "palace" sound is the lord of the five tones, the king of the five tones, and the commander of the people.
And in the "Li Ji Leji", it is said: "The palace is the king, the merchant is the minister, and the horn is the people...", then naming a family's surname with "palace", and using "shang" to metaphorically mean that the palace purple merchant can become the "minister of the palace family", and using "horn" to metaphorically mean that the palace shang jiao is destined to only be for the people, not for the king, all very good.
However, does the Miyaya family have to adopt the "Japanese family crest" system?
The family emblem is a product of Japan's late Heian period, in order to distinguish identity and strengthen class consciousness, because in order to show identity, the family emblem will be frequently used in buildings, clothing, and weapons.
But China does not have this thing, because after the Qin Dynasty unified the world, the hereditary nobles and families were long gone.
In addition, do you have to choose the background of ukiyo-e style to decorate the room, and draw "Rising Sun Golden Mountain" and "Nara Deer"?
Since it is a Wei Jin aesthetic, why does the hairpin have to choose the "marigold" pattern that Chinese will not use?
Mandarin duck hairpins, golden dragon hairpins, crane hairpins, ginkgo biloba leaves, these hairpins from the Wei and Jin and Sui and Tang dynasties themselves are also very beautiful.
Why should the character of the snow boy be close to Japanese folk fairy tales? A fairy tale that can't be beaten by eight poles, do you have KPIs to promote him?
There is also the format of the tea room, which is also suspicious.
Most of China's tea rooms are spacious and bright, like to be built next to mountains and rivers (especially in the Wei and Jin dynasties, tea rooms were mostly built next to real mountains and mountains), and they like to use long tables.
However, Japanese tea rooms are all narrow and closed, only four stacks of tatami mats, and even in the tea room, you cannot enter without kneeling.
In this drama, almost all tea rooms and sits in the same place follow the model of Japanese tea culture: the space is narrow, dark and closed, and the small collapse is small.
Is this to photograph well, or do you want to spread that Japanese tea culture is superior to traditional Chinese tea culture?
Why did the "Gong" clan use a sword instead of a sword? The posture of the old blade dying after being killed, why imitate the Japanese samurai, sit there!
There is also the use of white cloth at weddings, which is only used frequently by Japanese people! Our Chinese family only uses white cloth for funerals. From a distance, it really looks like that "god toilet".
We don't really want to think of people badly, but netizens are right:
"The biggest problem with Little Four is... There is not the slightest embodiment of the spiritual core of traditional culture... If you don't really love it, why bother? ”
Not the first time to steal the concept
Pulling the tiger skin of "traditional culture" and promoting Japanese culture is a stealing concept and a sophistry.
It is not the first time that Director Guo has spoken and acted in this way.
In "When the actor is in place", Director Guo suddenly optimistic about a little fresh meat with poor acting skills and issued him an S card (representing clearance and "the best"), which caused an uproar in the audience.
You know, there were also old actors Ma Su and Ni Hongjie in that game, and they only won B and A grades.
When Li Chengru questioned that Little Four issued cards like this, did not conform to the rules of the competition, and did not respect other powerful actors enough, Little Four said this:
"If he is not excellent now, it does not mean that he will not be excellent in the future, since I am a mentor, then good students must be taught, and poor students must also be taught."
"You can dislike something you don't like, but please allow it to exist anyway."
These two sentences are obvious concepts of stealth. The concept of stealing in the first sentence is "excellent now and excellent in the future", and it also confuses the concepts of "program mentor" and "teacher" (the program mentor is to select excellent actors, but the teacher's responsibility is to educate without discrimination).
The concept of stealing in the second sentence is to steal "existence value" with "whether to exist or not".
This trick was also used by Little Four when promoting "Jing Ya Collection" that year, he said: "Don't dislike Deng Lun because you don't like me."
This is a way of trying to "fire" at those who don't like his work, defining it as a kind of "person-to-person" and prejudice. Although Mr. Deng's reputation was not as good as him later!
After 15 years of plagiarism of "How Much Flowers Fall in Dreams", Director Guo chose to apologize.
The expression between the lines is: the court ordered me to compensate you, no problem, but if you don't want this money, I will donate it to him to a public welfare organization and do charity.
The little four students are really logical geniuses, even plagiarism can be related to public welfare, and can put gold on their faces.
It's just that Zhuang Yu is also very smart, neither asked for this money, nor let him donate it casually, but suggested that the two set up an anti-plagiarism fund.
Zhuang Yu means that doing wrong things can not be made up for with public welfare, the most important thing is that you sincerely repent, and when you see this anti-plagiarism fund, you will repent once.
In the same year, "Qingya Collection" was released, but it was removed a few days later, and it is said that the reason is still plagiarism...
How many lessons does this director Guo have to take to learn to film honestly?
Why can't ideology be relaxed?
It is said that in order to make his new drama no longer controversial, "Cloud Feather" deliberately used "Gu Xiaosheng" as a pseudonym.
Some people also say why everyone always sprays Little Four. Film and television dramas, is it bad to have more fashionable aesthetics?
But is that really the case? Don't forget that all film and television works have ideological output, because the essence of literary and artistic works is what spiritual food you want to convey to the audience.
We can look at the movies of the United States, which one is not exporting "American values"?
Marvel is the standard of individual heroism, defending the world, environmental protection and human rights.
In "Pacific Rim", when it comes to the world uniting, the American flag is pasted in the camera.
The captain of the United States is a three-point righteous, strong-willed, and focused on the overall situation, always making the right decision higher than that of ordinary "mortals".
If you watch this kind of movie too much, it will inevitably make people feel: Wow, the American guys are so great, free, equal, heroic, fearless, these are all invented by the Americans.
In the last decade or two, when our films have not been as prosperous as they are now, have we been indoctrinated with this less?
It's the same with Japanese manga, and in Attack on Titan, manga artist Isayama speaks his heart through a manga character:
"It is not right for you to bear your sins just because you are the same people, and we have a responsibility to faithfully pass on this bloody and ignorant history to future generations."
What does he mean by bearing guilt? What the history of blood triumph and ignorance means, it is self-evident.
If you think this is a coincidence, then in the animation "One Piece", there is also an almost identical expression, Hody Jones said:
"Man has not hurt him personally, he should not hate mankind so much, his hatred is false, the product of resentment, a monster that hinders peace."
Who can associate this human being, hatred and resentment is, can be imagined at once - these Japanese literary and artistic workers have been exporting, they are the values of "ZZ victims".
Japanese aesthetics have been very popular in China over the years, especially some "Guo Dao's self-identified target audience" should be very liked.
Director Guo may be about to say again: "You can not like it, but please allow it to exist." ”
Yes! But the problem is, when you enter value for us, let the audience know his correct name and use it in the right scene.
How many people may like Japanese family emblems and marigolds in today's "Cloud Feather"?
The story of the "People's Teaching Version Textbook" is played out among children, and it has to be performed among young people? In a few years, these viewers become mothers, will their children also see these as national essences?
The encyclopedia explains cultural invasion as follows: In short, it is to bring in rotten things such as external values and individualism, let our young people turn their backs on mainstream culture and traditional culture, and advocate the outside way of life, gradually let people be conquered and assimilated by foreign cultures, and thoroughly "brainwash" people from the spirit.
From this point of view, shouldn't the "wajing" of "Cloud Feather" be vigilant?
Moreover, September 3 is precisely the anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japan, which ... Director Little Four, haven't you taken enough of a lesson on "character"?