Zhao Jun
Have there ever been countless Tibetan films from the song on the northern Tibetan plateau to the Brahmaputra River in southern Tibet that span thousands of miles? Has there ever been a Tibetan film that condenses the best performances and film lineups of the Tibetan people in Tibet? Has there ever been an epic film depicting seventy years of time and showing the vicissitudes of human misery and joy under the Tibetan serfdom?
Never.
Under the guidance of the Tibetan party and government departments, Beijing Wutonghui Culture and Media Co., Ltd. and Tibet Lhasa Pure Land Digital Economy Industry Group Co., Ltd. jointly produced a large-scale biographical film "Bude Road". The social and historical changes in Tibet that people, especially young people, do not understand under the guidance of certain public opinions for a long time have finally opened up a real corner on the screen.
Many people think that there will be almost no secular life in Tibet except for religion. In fact, as in any other place in the world, as long as there are people, there will be problems with the political system and economic conditions of secular life, and naturally human rights issues cannot be avoided. The film "Bud Road" faces the blade of the topic, directly aiming at the social system and material development changes on the roof of the world, and at the west's incessant human rights issue in Tibet.
In order to restore the old Tibet, "Bud Road" uses all the Tibetan creative elements that can be used, and the first thing director Lu Jian set out to do was to search for a large number of Tibetan historical materials from seventy years ago, read through countless memoirs of Tibetan characters, and directly interview those who have experienced great changes in Tibet over the past thousand years, from senior leaders to ordinary Tibetan elderly people.
The film's owner reveals that De is a real character, and under the dark serfdom, the Bude family lives a very poor and miserable life. Before he was born, his father had been beaten to death by the serf master for rebelling against the grain grabs of the serf master. His mother took his young man to taste all the sufferings of the world. The film exposes the fact that serfdom in Tibet is the darkest secular system in the world.
However, even so, under the dark background, the film uses a counter-contrasting technique to praise the passion that Budd encountered in his life. What struck me when I first saw this film was that it depicted the feelings of two men sincerely and purely, and the other was his "class brother" Dhondup, Jinzhu Mami (Tibetan: People's Liberation Army). Dunzhu joined the revolution before Budd, and fate made them meet and know each other, and Dunzhu made Budd understand that when the Communist Party came, bitterness would also become sweet.
The film writes about Budd's parental love, especially with his mother, and writes about his wife's love, which is tortuous and emotional. Budd once said from the bottom of his heart that it was his wife Gaba who gave him the courage to live; Bude also said affectionately that it was the Golden Pearl Mami Liberation Army that gave me a second life. This is the film's rich and unique interpretation of the sublimation of humanity brought about by the great changes in Tibet.
The Tibetan performance of "Bud Road" is an important feature of the film, which helps the film express the tibetan artists' heartfelt love for Tibet, and makes the sincere and moving emotions shine on the screen. The actors did not have to explain the changes in Tibet, did not need to explain the use of the camera, and did not have to explain the reasons for the story and the fate of the characters when reading the script.
Dobje, an actor who plays the elderly Bude, graduated from the Acting Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, a Tibetan Repertory Theatre actor, a national first-class actor, and in 1996, he came to prominence in Feng Xiaoning's "Red River Valley", winning the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 17th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards, starring in Lu Chuan's "Coco Xili" in 2004, and was nominated for the Best Actor at the 41st Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
Playing the young and middle-aged Bude is Ngawang Renqing, also graduated from the Acting Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, is a young man who volunteered to apply for the Army Academy but became an outstanding Tibetan actor, after graduation, he performed in the drama "Tibet Secret" and the movie "Tibet Sky", and won the Outstanding Newcomer Actor Award at the 15th China Film Huabiao Awards in this film.
The two actresses who play Bude's mother and wife are also the most powerful members of the Tibetan cast, among which Solang Zhuoga, who plays his wife Gaba, participated in "Tibet Sky" in 2013, winning the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 11th Film Channel Media Awards at the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 12th China Changchun Film Festival.
The experience of playing Bud's mother Wang Zhuocuo is particularly legendary, she has been a national and Asian standard dance, modern dance hit, since 2007 has opened the road to winning awards, both "2007 China Green Baby", 2008 IDSA (China) Sport Dance Championship standard dance second place, and won the "ABDF International Standard Dance Asian Championship" under the age of 21 professional college Group A modern dance competition, known as the Tibetan plateau Gesang flower.
In The Road to Bude, Wangdracuo portrays the character and emotions of a female serf as a suffering and compassionate woman that Budd will miss all her life. In any case, one cannot associate such a miserable woman with a female contestant in a standard modern dance.
The filming of "Bud Road" spanned tens of thousands of kilometers from northern Tibet to southern Tibet, and the scenes were transferred six or seven times, and the crew really achieved the stars and the moon, and the wind and food were open. The film captures the most scenes in any Tibetan film, so the audience can enjoy the magnificence of Tibet and feel the epic legend of the film.
The film's cinematographer, Zhu Enli, went to the United States in 2009 to complete a master's degree in cinematography, and returned to Beijing in 2013 to set up his own studio and start shooting and producing one film after another. Some art critics who were concerned about Tibetan filmmaking in the early days watched some segments of "Bude Road" and praised them highly: "Ah! What a Rembrandt! (Rembrandt was a master of light and shadow in modern European painting.
In addition to the creative strength of the crew, it is also necessary to introduce the National Symphony Orchestra of China, which has made outstanding contributions to the musical presentation of the film. The whole music was performed and recorded by them. Among them, Liu Yunzhi, the country's most prestigious chief violinist, personally participated in the performance. In the excellent interpretation of sound and painting, a volume of Tibetan poems that have changed the world slowly and passionately unfolds.
At the end of the film, an ending song is needed, and everyone invariably thinks of the famous contemporary Tibetan female singer Solang Wangmu, who is known as "Tsetan Dolma Second". When Solang Wang heard the recommendation of the crew, he was happily invited to sing, drawing a very perfect end to "Bud Road".
Everyone must go to Tibet once in their lifetime, see the "Bude" and "Gaba" there today, see the golden pearl Mami who insists on the frontier, and feel the vicissitudes of the world under the blue sky. You will surely remember the legendary story of the Path of Bude, and you will certainly understand the mantra that resembles tantra: "When you gaze at Tibet, Tibet gazes at you!" ”