Friends who do not know the history of film development may not know that the kissing scenes in movies are strictly limited for a period of time. For example, 88 years ago, there was a movie called "One Night Wind" that won five awards at the Academy Awards, such as Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, but this movie called "Wind Flow" did not have a kissing scene. The reason for this is that between 1930 and 1966, Hollywood film creators were restricted by a film called the Hayes Code. This code is designed to prevent films from spreading unhealthy messages.
In the past 36 years, countless film masters have even bent over this "code". So even the top production called "One Night", there is not a single kissing scene in the whole film. Every era has social laws that conform to the values of its time, and the emergence of the Hayes Code was certainly supported by most people at that time, but such rules also clearly limited Hollywood filmmaking. Therefore, for a long time, kissing and other shots have been subject to strict censorship, and the so-called "One Night Wind" movie has naturally lacked a lot of "wind flow" shots.
For this reason, filmmakers can be regarded as racking their brains, in order to be able to create a more attractive film to the audience, in order to be able to more fully express the emotions and emotions in the film. The film masters also thought of a lot of "bad ideas", among which the suspense master Hitchcock behaved very well. At that time, the censorship system required that the kissing scene should not exceed 3 seconds, so in the movie "Beauty Plan", Hitchcock let the male protagonist space every three seconds. In addition, the system also restricts men and women who are not married to the same room, so like in "One Night", a virtual bed wall is created.
In fact, there is still a lot of controversy about the discussion of kissing shots, and the more famous one is that Lin Xinru, the star of "Huan Zhu Gege", accused another protagonist of the couple with her, Zhou Jie, and Lin Xinru accused Zhou Jie of sticking out his tongue when filming the kissing scene. Should I stick my tongue out when filming a kiss scene? In the end, do intimate actions in movies or TV series have to be faked and really done? Do I need a stand-in to complete these movements? From the perspective of creating the film, I don't really care about the way the action actors in the film are done, but the premise is to present the feeling to the audience, and it must be full of emotions.
That is to say, the need to kiss and stick out the tongue should not be the focus of the discussion of film creation, but should be based on the merits of the film to demonstrate the quality of film creation skills. If the actor himself minds that the kiss scene cannot stick out his tongue, then in fact, he can also make it clear to the actor who plays the scene before participating in the creation, or simply set the rules for everyone, so that it will not cause misunderstandings between the actors and will not affect the intentions of the film creators.
However, film creation itself is a process of "life is like a drama, drama is like life", so when the film is created, many times there are also improvisation components. After the actor's improvisation, the director and editor have to re-adjust the details of the film to achieve the effect that the director wants. As far as kissing is concerned, in fact, the same kissing is not necessarily to express the same meaning, and when it is transmitted to the audience, there are also great differences in values and emotions.
For example, some kisses we will feel pure love, some kiss, but the audience feels an emotional betrayal. Presumably, this is also the reason why Ang Lee will create a large section of exposed shots when creating "Color Ring", what he needs to impact the audience is a bottom line of human nature, under the entanglement of two intertwined values, what kind of goal people will choose, as an endorsement of their own life value, as the embodiment of their spiritual world.
On the screen, the reason why the kissing scene will cause controversy is like Ang Lee's movie "Color Ring", which has a true self that we need to face deep inside, and this self is clear to each of us? In fact, it may not be clear, just like our body has a certain disease, but under the action of drugs, this disease will be hidden in a short period of time, then the disease does not exist at this time? There must still be, and at this time, there is another external environment that induces diseases, such as cloudy days will cause rheumatoid arthritis, in fact, cloudy days are only triggers, and rheumatoid arthritis is a disease that has always existed.
So many people are afraid of kissing scenes, whether it is the audience of false Taoism before the screen, or the holy heroine behind the screen. In fact, do they really dare not face the kiss scene? Is the kiss scene really the source of sin? This is a kind of inverted thinking, we mistakenly take cloudy days as the root cause of rheumatoid arthritis, so many people have arthritis, since they can't cure the disease, then try to hide from the cloudy day. And the controversy of the kiss scene is actually this.
If analyzed more systematically, the kissing scene will also have a kissing scene between man and woman, man and man, woman and woman. Kisses are divided into ceremonial kisses, love kisses, and even kisses that prelude to some of the more intense scenes, and these scenes are different. Expressing this emotion is the mission of the film as a work of art, but different audiences have lost their hearts in some environments, and different actors have different feelings in a kissing scene, between career and life.
It's hard to define what's right and wrong, it's a matter of self-cultivation, which is why before 1966, there was a Hayes Code in Hollywood. But later, because this code severely limited the development of the film industry, and the audience began to gradually have a higher understanding of movies, the meaning of this code no longer existed.
Before the film industry, many works of art also had the debate that certain scenes were elegant art and vulgar tastes, and when arguing these issues, it can only be said that the benevolent see the wise. Because art itself represents the forefront of the development of human undertakings, they are themselves a collision of ideological sparks, and in this process, there must be a good fault tolerance mechanism to further stimulate the artist's creative enthusiasm and creative ideas. If we put too many shackles on the art box, then art becomes technology, technology can only stand still, and art loses its meaning.
Every creative, daring kissing shot in the film represents humanity's yearning and introspection for its own spiritual world. It was a creation, it was an attempt, it was a brave self-facing, a confident and honest expression of emotion. Over the past hundred years, all kinds of movies have been the manifestation of our own self-examination, self-discovery, and self-expectation, and it is precisely because of these great attempts that movies are so brilliant today.