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<b>Time Network feature "</b>If the movie obsession is dead, then the movie is dead." (If cinephilia is dead, then movies are dead too.) "The man who said this was one of America's foremost art critics, Susan Sontag. The cinephilia she uses in this sentence is derived from Drucker's Cinephilie, and the fascination here is not just a liking, but also represents this kind of cinematic taste, which is based on a large number of movies and reliving the history of cinema.
This mysterious and beautiful form of expression of film has fascinated more and more people, she expands the life of the audience, and it is also a gift of the heart. Orson Wells once said, "Cinema is the best toy invented for adults." ”
It seems natural for film directors to love movies, but the directors we mention today, the films they are obsessed with are more like their beliefs — movies give their lives another meaning; movies enjoy their eternal loyalty; they love movies, they have no remorse.
It should be noted that in addition to the most representative fan directors written below, there are many well-known directors whose love for the film exceeds "dedication", and will not be listed one by one for the sake of prevention.
<b>George mélières</b> (8 December 1861 - 21 January 1938)
A silent version of a clip from Journey to the Moon
In Georges Mérieux's view, cinema can bring him a unique joy. With this passion, he broke through the limitations of the times and technology, became the forerunner of film art, and interpreted his obsession with movies with a lifelong unaltered heart.
Méliès was the son of a wealthy shoemaker who inherited the family's wealth and business acumen. Fascinated by magic, Méliès was immersed in designing and directing magic in his quite successful magic theater, and launched many magic dramas with scripts, props and dialogue, which were very popular. At the end of December 1895, the Lumière brothers invited many Parisian celebrities to watch the film they had just invented. Méliès was among them, and he was immediately hooked on this "magic that is more advanced than magic.".
Merrie's obsession made him a success and a tragedy of his life.
Méliès approached lumiere's father and son in the hope of buying a movie set, and they advised him that "movies, unlike magic, are too expensive to control." But such a reason is hard to stop him, knowing that he will buy a theater because of magic. Méliès overcame many difficulties, bought a projector, studied shooting techniques... In April 1896, Mérières' Magic Theater began screening films of his own making. Later, he pioneered the construction of the studio and concentrated on film, and he and his partner constantly improved their technology, even hand-coloring the film day and night.
He was the legendary "movie maniac" of Paris at that time, and his love of movies made him diligent, and his brilliant talent aroused his constant enthusiasm.
In the 2011 film Hugo, Mérières' speech was re-screened
He makes films, not only to cater to the audience's preferences, but also to achieve his own pursuits, so he will not hesitate to shoot films that he thinks are excellent. At that time, the people who were plagued by the clouds of the First World War lost interest in the merry movie world of Méliès, and coupled with the failure of cooperation with business partners, Méliès lost his family. He had to sell theaters, properties, film copies, props, and open a candy shop in a remote paris train station.
The few passages above are really difficult to carry Méliès's complicated feelings about the film. When he heard that the creditor was going to sell his film to a shoe factory for shoe sole pads, he burned the stock film and all the props with a fire. Brutal, perhaps the fire contains Méliès's deepest confession to the film.
<b>Jean Renoir</b> (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979)
Renoir Sr.'s The Ball at the Pancake Mill is an important masterpiece of Impressionist painting.
In the story of Jean Renoir and the film, two people play important roles – his father, Auguste Renoir, and his wife, Catherine Hessling.
Renoir Sr. was a great French painter on par with Monet, and his paintings were bright and vivid and popular. The atmosphere of the House of Art allowed Renoir to have a strong sense of life and a foundation of aesthetic education, and the huge wealth and unique paintings left by his father after his death also provided a strong guarantee for Jean Renoir's early film creation.
After the end of World War I, Jean Renoir was exposed to Chaplin's films in Paris, and he became obsessed with movies, going to the cinema every day, from the afternoon to the evening, watching almost everything. It wasn't long before he traveled to Nice to accompany his father and learn sculpture and pottery, and met Dade, his last model, and the two shared their love of cinema.
A clip of the heroine bathing and changing clothes in "Nana"
Later, Jean Renoir married the "unusually beautiful" Dedee, who would later be Catelyn Heceline. After getting married, the two became more and more enthusiastic about the love of movies, and they went to the movies almost every day. From 1924 onwards, the couple began to create their own films. But things didn't go as smoothly as they thought.
Jean Renoir's first few films were unsuccessful. In 1926, they invested a lot of energy and money to produce the film "Nana", but because of the use of German actors, the film was rejected by the audience. This ambition failed, and Renoir had to bear the consequences.
Selling his father's legacy was the first option to make up for the loss, but he kept the frames when he sold the paintings, and he told Catelyn Hecelyn that looking at the empty frames, he began to feel his betrayal of his father.
Later, in order to recover his losses, he took over a commercial film "Margita", and the producers assigned Renoir the heroine, but Katrin Hecelyn also had to play the heroine. In this way, a rift arose between Renoir and Catelyn Hecelyn, and the two eventually broke up regretfully.
Jean Renoir loves movies, because movies he loses a lot but also gets a lot. He betrayed his biological father's artistic ideals to make films, but he received spiritual guidance from light and shadow; in order to preserve his place in the film industry, he gave up his like-minded partner, but who can say that film is not another loyal lover?
<b>Jean-Pierre Melville</b> (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973)
Melville interview
Jean-Pierre Melville, whose original name was Jean-Pierre Grünbach, changed his name to Melville in the army during World War II. Melville was actually the surname of Hermann Melville, the author of Moby Dick, and out of admiration, Jean Pierre Grünbach changed his surname to Melville and continued it for a lifetime.
Melville once said, "Being a moviegoer is the best profession in the world." Since he was a child, he began to shoot family documentaries with the camera given by his father, and later spent all his scattered silver in the cinema when he went to school in Paris, when he indulged in the silent documentaries of the father of documentaries Flahadi and W.S. Van, and gradually built up his own video values.
After the end of World War II, Melville retired from the army, he wanted to find a stable job, so he lived the day to work and night to watch movies, but he did not go against people's wishes, he returned to his old business, founded Melville Independent Production Company, and became a pioneer of independent production.
He was motivated by a passion for movies in his bones, saying, "You have to love movies like crazy to make movies." "For a while he lived upstairs in his studio, and at three o'clock in the morning he got up and went to the studio to prepare for the next day's shooting. For him, film is not only a career, but also a dream.
Melville's focus on film made him a maverick in the French literary world, borrowing from American police films and then abandoning them to form his own style. His precision, directness, moderation, and silence have influenced a number of outstanding directors in later generations, and between them, they have conveyed each other's love for film.
<b>Martin Scorsese </b>was born in 1942
A few years ago, Time.com conducted an exclusive interview with Martin Scorsese
In 2010, Martin Scorsese won the Golden Globe Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Robert De Niro quipped in giving it: "I heard that Martin would sleep with the film (if possible). The jokes of the old partner are perhaps the best illustration of Martin Scorsese's love of cinema.
In 1995, Martin hosted a documentary called Martin Scorsese's Journey to American Cinema, which introduced American cinema before the 1960s, and he knew the American film industry so well that he definitely deserved the title of "scholar director". He once revealed in interviews that he often looks back at classic films before shooting his own films, such as "The Death of the Dragon Head", "Splash of Water" and "Redress of Grievances" before making "Taxi Driver". He is honest that he often looks back at the emotions he first watched these films, then dissects where those emotions come from, and then applies the results of his thinking to his own creations.
Martin's father, Scorsese Sr., was a big movie fan, and even during his family's years of poverty, he never stopped taking his son to the theater. Martin's love for movies grew deeper and deeper, and when he was five or six years old, he watched a duel in the sun, felt the magic of movies, and later began to like John Ford's Westerns, and when he was a teenager, he came into contact with "Citizen Kane" and "The Third Man" and began to try to understand the mysteries of movies. His film enlightenment was very early, and today he has watched countless films, and his collection of film copies is comparable to that of the national film archive.
Martin Scorsese suffered personal bankruptcy, death threats and was "unfairly treated by the Oscars" for 30 years, but he never gave up. Once the "movie kid" generation, hollywood's new movie four masters, Coppola has retired to the countryside to occasionally make some small films, Lucas has not directed for many years, Spielberg is becoming more and more like a producer, Scorsese is still continuing his pursuit of making movies, he said: "One day, I will die behind the camera." ”
A few years ago, Martin Scorsese's Hugo was seen as yet another sincere confession to the film. By telling the story of the film's predecessor Mérière, he pays tribute to the hot heart that has sincerely loved movies for more than a hundred years from the perspective of a nostalgic person and a movie fan.
<b>Wim Wenders </b>was born in 1945
Some people say that Wim Wenders has done the "fan" to the extreme, he admires some of the best directors in the world, and he pays his respect in the way of a director.
In "In Search of Ozu", WimWendes goes to Ozu's tomb to pay homage
Wim Wenders said: "After watching Ozu's Tokyo Story 10 times, I am sure that the paradise of cinema once existed. In 1983, he went to Japan and made the documentary "In Search of Ozu", and later published the photo collection "Once: Pictures and Stories". "In Search of Ozu" is full of "Ozu Yasujiro-style" way of moving mirrors, and even scenes from "Tokyo Story" appear. He also wrote a special article in Ozu's memory— he wrote in his article "One Hundred Years of Ozu: The Most Holy and Pious Treasure": "My love for Ozu's works can be said to be very subjective. I admire him, the most holy and pious treasure in the history of cinema. If I were to define why cinema was invented, I would answer it this way: to produce a work like Ozu's. ”
In 1985, the famous Italian director Antonioni suffered a stroke, and the illness seriously affected his creation, and Wim Wenders did not say anything to assist him in shooting. With Wenders' help, Antonioni finally completed the film Days on the Clouds, in which wenders was responsible for stringing together four separate stories. Wenders later wrote in Time with Antonioni: "I am willing to embark on this extraordinary adventure, and apart from my personal sympathy for Michelangelo and my admiration for his work, there is a particularly powerful reason: I am thoroughly convinced that a director like Antonioni, despite his advanced age and disability, deserves the opportunity to make a film that is clearly visible in his mind." Wenders later subtitled the film "Palermo Shooting" with a subtitle: "Dedicated to Bergman and Antonioni – July 30, 2007"; on that night in 2007, the two film giants died one after another.
This is Wenders, whose life, like his road movies, has been pursued, from his youth to his artistic dreams in Paris, to devout tributes to idols, to "tired of making movies in a safe way" and finding a breakthrough in self-expression. He also directed his life into a film called Wenders— affectionate, alienated, lonely, compassionate.
<b>Olivier Assayas </b>was born in 1955
Asayas and Maggie Cheung on set
Olivier Assayas' father was also a director, writing screenplays for his father as a young man, then as a film critic in the Film Handbook, and later as a filmmaker.
Assayas's growth and career have almost always been centered on movies, and love is no exception - in 1994, Asayas met Maggie Cheung, who was promoting "East Evil and West Poison", at the Venice Film Festival, and fell in love at first sight. At the end of the film festival, he returned to France, and in order to relieve his thoughts about Maggie Cheung, he planned to make a tailor-made film for her, but this conflicted with a project he was working on at the time, so he combined the two projects - the script of "Lost".
After Maggie Cheung read the script he specially sent to Hong Kong, she liked it very much, so the two of them hit it off and jointly completed this rather fan-colored movie. Because Assayas is a fan of the film, there are many precious images of old movies in "Lost robbery", even including the martial arts films that Maggie Cheung has previously starred in. For this film, Assayas won the "Film Critics' Choice Award" at the 1996 Rotterdam Film Festival, and also won Maggie Cheung's love.
But soon Maggie Cheung returned to Hong Kong to shoot "Fancy Years", and the separation of more than a year made a subtle change in the feelings between the newlyweds.
In 2001, the two decided to separate. But the two still decided to finish the "Cleaning" that had already written the script. This movie made Maggie Cheung sealed in Cannes. Therefore, some people say that "Cleaning" is the most emotional love letter written by Asayas to Maggie Cheung.
Assayas later recalled: "The film was my true lover with Maggie Cheung. His later wife was also related to the film – his second wife, Mia Hansen-Love, starred in two films he directed.
Some people may say that the combination of directors and actresses is not rare, but for Assayas, who grew up in a family of films, he pays far more attention to film than women (Maggie Cheung). It can be said that he has the blood of movies flowing on him, born for movies, loved for movies, fanaticism for movies, and parted for movies. Despite the regrets, it is ultimately complete.
<b>Wang Jing </b>was born in 1955
"Fat Crystal" is definitely the leader of "shadow"
As a director, Wang Jing is often scolded for "circle money" and the film is a "bad film", and he also confessed: "I don't talk about any connotation, my goal is to make a good professional entertainment film, so that my audience likes it." "But in fact, the beginning of Wang Jing's film road is more beautiful than many people."
Wang Jing came from a film family, and her father Wang Tianlin and Du Qifeng directed the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Condor Hero", which won the Best Director Award at the Asian Film Festival. When she was young, Wang Jing was a movie fanatic who did not want to come out when she entered the theater.
Later, a change in the family made Wang Jing change his view of movies, and life forced him to be pragmatic. Slowly, he formed his own way, and his routine was summarized by netizens as blatant plagiarism + enough and fart jokes + extremely exaggerated and crazy performances + absurd and overheated stories, but even so, he exhausted every business element, grasped the market accurately, made the audience happy, and also made investors make money. Most importantly, he earned a good life for his family.
Wang Jing, who shoots "shit and piss" movies, still loves to watch movies, he has a very mixed taste, loves to watch genre films and loves to watch art films, "Once I saw the shop put Kurosawa Akira and the Soviets' co-production of "Delsu Uzara" in the martial arts film column, and also teased the clerk a few words", collecting old DVDs is his hobby, Italian Italian denim films, crime fantasy films, "Seven King Kong" series, Quentin remade "Shameless Bastards" Original old version are his treasures.
Wang Jing, who has seen countless good films, does not make art films, but he is more like an art film promoter. Although He was once criticized by Xu Anhua for his "improper attitude towards filmmaking", he said: "I accept everything that Xu Anhua criticizes me, because she and Wu Yusen are the directors I admire the most." Later, Wang Jing shot Xu Anhua's "Day and Night in Tin Shui Wai", "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai", and "Idle Fried Rice". Guan Jinpeng's famous work "The More Depraved the Happier" also received his support. He laughed and said: "The world's literary and artistic films are not profitable, and they still have money in their pockets. If you can't make money, you should cultivate new people. ”
Wang Jing is really an unusual "fan director", Wang Jing is very complicated, but his heart of fans has never changed.
<b>Stephen Chow </b>was born in 1962
Today's Stephen Chow is not the same as before
Back to the era of video tapes and VCD, "Stephen Chow movies" must be good to rent and sell, and in the Internet era, a "big talk" culture has been formed around Stephen Chow. In the Chinese-speaking world, "Stephen Chow" represents a carnival of fan culture.
This kind of carnival not only belongs to Chow Sing Chi's film fans, but also Zhou Xingchi himself as a film fan's integration and "hand in hand". His "Domestic Lingling Paint" is the most well-known "fan" work; not to mention the obvious use of the title, many shots in the film have also been fans "human flesh" to the end, according to incomplete statistics, this movie alone, you can see "007 Love from Russia", "007 Golden Gun Man", "007 Octopus Woman", "007 Space City", "007 Gaiden: Royal Nightclub", "007 Top Secret", "Wilderness Dart", "Chongqing Forest", "Ah Fei Zheng Biography", "Ah Fei Zheng Biography", " Traces of films such as Pink Panther, Confused Detective, Terminator 2, Robocop, Ace Spy, Once Upon a Time in America, etc.
Off-screen, Stephen Chow is not a high-profile person, and he rarely talks about himself. But peer evaluations of him have never stopped, and many former partners have criticized his bad temper, perhaps Du Qifeng has seen it more thoroughly: "He is a very persistent, talented, creative actor and director, he is too insistent on himself and often provokes controversy; but it is precisely because of this that every film is a good movie with high box office." ”
Some people always say that Zhou Xingchi is so lonely, has talked about so many loves and has not been accompanied so far, and is talented but has few friends, but who can say that this must be a bad thing. Guo Zijian once commented on Zhou Xingchi: "He is a big child, he will not pay attention to the feelings of others." "He's lonely, he's giving up his mundane life, but there's at least one thing he's not given up yet—movies.
<b>Quentin Tarantino </b>was born in 1963
Quentin's "borrowing"
Quentin Tarantino, the ghost, said something so blunt that it was impossible to condemn him: "In fact, I copy the dots here, copy the dots, and mix them together in every play." If you don't like it, the audience can't watch it, I just copied the bridge everywhere. Great artists always have to steal, steal, not some fucking tribute. ”
After dropping out of school at the age of 15, he began to study acting, and at the age of 22, he began to work in a videotape rental shop, where his daily life was to watch movies, discuss movies with fans who were similar to him, write some film reviews, and run dragon sets. In the process, he learned about film; as he himself said, "People ask me if I've ever been to film school, and I say no, I went straight into film." ”
In 1991, he became a hit with his debut film "Falling Water Dog"; in 1994, "Pulp Fiction" beat a number of good films to stay in the history of film. So people began to "pull" his films and discovered his habit of "plagiarism". He also does not deny or argue, after all, for a director like him who bases himself on the vast amount of reading, it is perfectly normal to carry bootlegs and take-it-ism.
Maybe his confidence lies in the fact that even if he copied, he copied out his own style. He copied it "meticulously", no matter what the film made, as long as he felt good, he copied it without hesitation. Some people say that people can see that his "borrowing" is only a small part, because few people can have the same amount of viewing as him.
Some film critics said quentin was more like a "good bastard." Someone has also done a "genetic comparison" of Quentin films, and his viewing ranges from the German silent science fiction films of the 1920s (Fritz Lang) to the Italian classic Westerns (Sergio Leone, Sergio Caubsi); from the New Wave of French cinema (Jean-Luc Godard) to Shaw martial arts films (Zheng Changhua); from John Ford to Orson Wells; from suspense master Hitchcock to film noir master Robert Aldridge; from Japanese samurai films to American family animation comedies, Everything.
Movie-obsessed, halfway out of the house, out of the ordinary, to the top of Cannes – no wonder some people say quentin is a fan of the film is difficult to surpass.
<b>Edgar Wright </b>was born in 1974
Edgar Wright is a super fan, and earlier revealed in an interview with Time.com that he has watched more than 10,000 films. He calls himself a fan and movie Geek in his personal blog. This self-styled "Geek" alone shows Edgar's attitude towards film and his personal style.
Edgar Wright directed many short films as a teenager, then entered university and earned a degree in audiovisual design, directing his first feature film in 1994. Later, together with Simon Peggy and Jessica Hines, "The House is Wrong" was hailed as the best British sitcom ever, and quentin appreciated it. Later, films such as the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy were also launched. Edgar Wright's personal style of video became more prominent in the process, until this year's official debut of "Extreme Car Thief", which grossed $190 million worldwide at a cost of $35 million (data as of press time).
Like Quentin, Edgar Wright does not shy away from borrowing from the work of his predecessors. In an interview with foreign media earlier, he also counted the film and television works he referred to when shooting "Extreme Car Thief": "Police Network Iron King Kong", "Italian Mission", "French Drug Trafficking Network", "Crushed Bones", "Sprinting Great Dawn", "Freibe and Bean", "Rampage Fighting Speed", "Tiger's Mouth Pulling Teeth", "Fluke Double Overlord", "Mighty Soldier"; if you pay attention, you will also see the footage of "Fight Club" in the film.
Quentin and Martin Scorsese have both launched their own top ten film lists, and Edgar Wright has a personal TOP1000 list, which has been produced from 1922 to 2016, and after watching this list, no one will be surprised by Edgar Wright's deep understanding of film history and the breadth of movie viewing tastes. This may also be why his works can always be permeated with regularity in the weird, and great wisdom is oozing from the exquisite.
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