Niu Jianrong, who does not wear a uniform, is a peasant, and when he wears a uniform, he looks like a peasant entrepreneur at best; he is not a screenwriter or director, he is a farmer, he is a screenwriter and director, he is a peasant writer and peasant director, and he can also be called "China's first peasant director." He was indeed an authentic peasant, dressed in ordinary clothes, with almost all-white hair, a dark face, a thick smile, a high voice, a serious manner, and stomped his feet in a hurry. Before the age of 18, he lived in rural Lüliang, Shanxi, and some relatives still live in rural areas. He knew the life of the peasants well, what they wanted and thought in their hearts. Although he enlisted in the army very early and left the countryside to study, he still retained the habits of the peasants, eating without potatoes and not being full, eating seven plates and eight plates was not good, and he still made a sound when eating, so he often had conflicts with his wife. However, in terms of creation, he always adhered to the creative style of the "yam egg pie" literature pioneered by Zhao Shuli and Ma Feng, and pursued the truth of life and the humor of language; in art, he excavated The Wanrong (County) Jokes, Zuo Quan (County) Folk Songs, and Hequ (County) Duotai in Shanxi...
He wrote peasant dramas and was familiar with the road, and guided peasant dramas with a bottom in mind.
Niu Jianrong graduated from the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 1993 and was awarded the title of "Top Ten Tv Arts" in Shanxi Province in 2002. He has "achieved fame" in the creation of TV series. The Umbrella Head and His Woman (hereinafter referred to as The Umbrella Head) is his film directorial debut. The "thick accumulation" of living and creating TV dramas has realized the "thick accumulation and thin hair" of movies.
"Umbrella Head" tells the story of the "Umbrella Head" (the leader in the YangGe performance, because he holds a flower umbrella, singing while turning, called "Umbrella Head") Nie Deren and the village (can be called "Village Flower") girl Lü Cuihua love and respect each other, but the "Umbrella Head" is poor, and has been criticized, cuihua niang wants Nie Deren to get five thousand yuan in two months. Nie Deren hired a female tractor driver Zhang Ailan to do transportation, did not work day and night, the money was earned, and he rushed back happily, and on the way he met the rich man Hongwei to marry Lü Cuihua's marriage team. Nie Deren collapsed. Zhang Ailan got the opportunity to sacrifice himself to Nie Deren while Nie Deren was drunk and drunk. In 1990, Cuihua only had a person in her heart, and Hongwei was not a road person, and she could not go on, although she gave birth to a son Ben Ben, she was divorced. It was learned that the old love was revived, and although he and Ai Lan gave birth to a daughter Qingqing, they also resolutely divorced. The Red Guard wanted to get the remarriage concert given to him, and the man refused to die. The Red Guard made people beat up. Jade broke Red Guard's head with a brick behind her. Cuihua was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and she wanted to remarry Ailan and entrusted her son Benben to Dehe and Ailan. Ai Lan carefully cared for Deren, Ben ben and Qingqing. In 2010, the children all grew up, and Deren, Ailan and Jade Flower all grew old. This story of "full love" between Deren and Cuihua and "half love" between Ailan and Deren should have an ending. In the face of the 168,000 yuan obtained from the demolition of the Deren Hotel, how to divide it between Qingqing and Benben? In the face of this kind of "super-family" family dispute, Qingqing complained to his father: If you hadn't picked flowers and weeds, wouldn't it have been like this? Ai Lan said to Qingqing with her heart, you must apologize to your father! Ai Lan is ill, her life will be over, for the first time in her life, she went to the seashore and asked people, have you ever loved me in this life? It is said that before I did not love, now I love, but it is too late. Ailan didn't want him to say the first half and the second half of the sentence, just the middle half. The man shouted at the sea: Now love! The sea and air echoed. Ailan is gone, and Cuihua is out of prison. She did not dare or willing to tear up Ailan and the lives of the people, even though Ailan had left. She was going to live in the city of Taiyuan, where her son was running. Soon, Ben Ben called his adoptive father Deren, who was not used to living in Taiyuan and wanted to return to Deren.
Love, like the Yellow River turning one bend after another, but love flows out of life and destiny like water flowing out of the Yellow River. "All love" is difficult to become "full" in life, and "half love" occupies a "half" in life. Therefore, love in life, only half a sentence. However, the life situation and the lifeblood of the characters are in it. Love, if you can say it all and do it all, will life still twist and turn forward?
It is such a story of "umbrella head" and two women's "full love" and "half love" that makes Niu Jianrong perform really and excitedly, really and worriedly in the high-pitched tunes and fiery scenes of Lü Liang's song. The film shows us the history of changes in rural China in the past 40 years, genre paintings, and emotional dramas. Niu Jianrong places the changes in the countryside in the flow of emotions, which is not first of all to make up "stories", but to discover the emotions of the countryside. Our villages are not only stories of land and people, but also stories of succession and self-sufficiency. Our countryside is full of emotional stories of love and affection. If the past is buried in the heart, the present is shouting: "Now love!" This kind of narrative with the emotions of the characters as the main line, to reproduce the changes in the countryside by leaps and bounds, is rare in films with rural themes, and it is even rarer to present such a rigorous, vivid, open and complete presentation.
Although Niu Jianrong has successfully directed the Ruo cadre TV series, as a film director's debut, he has successfully achieved the transformation from TV series to movie. In the use of film language, film structure, film narrative, and film mirroring, there are plates and eyes, "Umbrella Head" has a complete story and character explanation, unlike his TV series "The Story of Xi Gengtian", there is no complete story, it is all bits and pieces of small things, with the character of Xi Gengtian running through. Coupled with his ability to study in the directing department of the China Academy of Drama, on the basis of the dramatic structure of the film and the real and perceptible characters, he makes the actors' performances and the texture of the shots present "what happened to them, the feelings that happened in their hearts", without slackening off or wandering. The details of contact and dating between people and jade flowers to the poplar tree are used repeatedly, which is extremely personal, authentic and dramatic.
Because he insisted on taking the creative path of realism, he insisted on authenticity. The storyline is natural, vivid and interesting. In terms of character building, highlight personality. The characters have strong personalities, not only in their thinking, but also in their temperament and disposition in life. In tempering the language of characters, we adhere to the "saturation" of the life connotation of language, character personality, regional characteristics of the times, etc. In terms of art form, aesthetic sculpture and fabrication are abandoned.
The combination of the above elements has made "Umbrella Head" a success and has also given us many useful enlightenments.
Niu Jianrong has a life (foundation), emotions (long river), stories (composition), personality (excellent strengths), and mission (responsibility), and he will certainly be able to shoot good works that people look forward to, make a speech for the times, and establish a biography for the peasants.
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