This title is not what I thought, it was a sentence in one of the video reviews of this movie, and it was this sentence that led me to open the door to the movie "Birds and Phoenix".
In recent years, literary works can be said to have emerged in an endless stream of film and television works related to the inheritance of traditional craftsmanship. There are those who sincerely publicize the traditional crafts that are about to disappear, and want many people to understand these hidden treasures; naturally there are also those who use this limelight to make a false show.
The biggest difference between sincere publicity and false showmanship is in the content of presenting things, and sincere publicity often uses the simplest and most simple and unspeakable content, focusing on the traditional craft itself. The fake works that advertise number ten like to be described in exaggerated terms, and do not focus on the traditional craft itself.
When I saw the words "That's a drop of blood that only a craftsman can understand," I felt dismissive and dismissive, thinking that this was another work of false propaganda, just to rub the heat. Or for verification, or maybe it was curiosity, and after I finished watching a video, I felt guilty about what I had thought before.
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"Hundred Birds and Phoenix" is one of the top ten famous songs of Chinese national instrumental music, its rhythm is cheerful, simulating the sound of birds with a whistle, a song of birds in the phoenix you can hear the birds in nature, just through the sense of hearing to create a lively and cheerful scene. "Birds and Phoenixes" has the most comprehensive skills in the repertoire, so it also has a certain height for the skill requirements of the players.
In fact, I have heard a long time ago that it is not easy for folk craftsmen to cultivate craftsmen, he is not like we are educated in school, but really eat and drink with the master, until he leaves the teacher. The phrase "one day as a teacher, one life as a father" probably refers to such a teacher.
More famous than the movie "Birds and Phoenix" is the lace news of this movie. Words like "the producer kneels to the cinema to schedule the film" can't help but make people feel sad to see it, arousing people's curiosity about this movie.
In fact, behind the producer's kneeling to beg the film schedule, it is not without reason. This movie is like a glass of boiling water, dull and tasteless, if you don't watch it with emotion, it's really ugly. Compared with many movies with ups and downs in the plot, the story has an impact, and the male and female protagonists are online, "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix" can be said to be the same.
The film uses the countryside as the background of the story, and compared with those glamorous urban stories, such stories, although simple and unpretentious, are also less tempting. I suddenly thought of the "Little Times" series of works directed by Guo Jingming, which can be said to have no connotation, but is just a story of drunken fans.
However, the box office of the "Little Times" series of movies is as high as more than one billion. Such a contrast is obvious, and movies like "Little Times" cater to the tastes of the public.
People always like to look for things they don't have in their lives in film and television works, and they are full of fantasies about these illusory things that are far from life.
In contrast, "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix" is bleak. Not to mention those commercial films with wonderful storylines and conflicts, that is, compared with ordinary literary and art films, the birds and phoenixes can not really let people really integrate into the movie, and it is no wonder that the producers will kneel down and beg the cinema to arrange the film for "Birds and Phoenix".
In fact, the phenomenon of a movie like the Hundred Birds and The Phoenix in the market is a sad and helpless fact, and everyone lacks the recognition of localized things, and naturally cannot appreciate the spiritual connotation to be expressed in the films of the Hundred Birds and the Phoenix.
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There is always an indescribable stubbornness in the older generation of craftsmen, and this stubbornness is fused with their temper, just like their adherence to traditional craftsmanship, which is indelible. The smith is just some vocal decoration on the red and white things, and it is just a pomp and circumstance invited by people. On the surface, everyone politely turned to the smith, and when they saw it, they all called a master.
But in fact, the status of the smith can be imagined. Everyone's attitude towards the craftsman is clearly seen in the eyes of the older generation of craftsmen. But they themselves never changed anything because of these views, just as they were faced with the dilemma of fewer and fewer people coming to learn the craft.
Third Master Jiao in the movie is such a typical traditional artist of the older generation. Third Master Jiao was cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and he was an old-fashioned old man's son. Third Master Jiao had accepted two apprentices, one was the gifted sapphire and the other was Tianming, who had no talent. Talented children are willing to receive it, and it is natural for Third Master Jiao to receive sapphire. But what about Tianming?
Sapphire and Tianming are two very different contrasts. The former was extremely talented, and with his extraordinary talent, he quickly mastered a series of nao skills. However, Tianming is not a talented player, and it is necessary to rely on continuous diligent practice to catch up with the pace of blue jade.
The apprentices who can meet these two kinds of people only represent two different choices. Although Tianming did not have the extraordinary talent of Blue Jade, he was willing to endure hardships and work hard.
For Tianming, studying with Sapphire was painful, because it seemed that no matter how hard he tried, he could not get the favor of his master like Sapphire. Halfway through, Tianming also gambled and secretly returned home.
However, at the door of the house, Tianming saw his father's proud appearance of him, and saw the hope and pride in his father's eyes. Tianming flinched again, just as he had been forced by his father to learn from him. Tianming's heart was kind, and he couldn't see his father sad. This was also the reason why Third Master Jiao was willing to leave Tianming in the first place.
There has always been a certain controversy between "having talent and no morality" and "having moral integrity and no talent", and the real ability and integrity are still a minority. Some people think that virtue should be above talent, and others think that a craft should be talent first. Such a debate has always existed, and we will leave it alone, just from the perspective of the movie "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix", the view supported by the film should be that virtue should precede talent. Just like when Third Master Jiao chose to choose, he chose to teach Tianming to play the birds and phoenix.
The older generation of craftsmen attached great importance to virtue, just like Third Master Jiao, who refused to play the bird and phoenix to the village chief. In the eyes of Third Master Jiao, the birds and phoenixes are not only a piece of music that adds pomp to the funeral, but also the greatest respect and recognition of the craftsmen for the deceased. And the village chief did not deserve the respect of the birds and phoenixes.
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The truth presented in the film is somewhat direct, there are no fancy lines, and there are no plausible scenes. This film, as if father and mother felt an example of educating us, tried to tell us a deep truth in such a simple, direct way. Therefore, the movie will seem a little boring.
Regarding the so-called connotation of the movie, I just want to talk about it here, because the truth in the movie is not profound and difficult to understand. On the contrary, as long as you have the patience to finish watching the movie, you can find the theme hidden in the film by the director. In fact, the deeper feeling is outside the movie, just like the lace news of this movie is more famous than the movie itself.
"Birds and Phoenix" is actually a movie from seven years ago, but I only slowly heard this movie three years ago. The interval of several years is a fatal blow to a movie.
Indeed, after everyone saw the movie "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix", they spoke highly of him. But does such a high rating really do anything for the development of this movie? It doesn't seem to have any real effect. "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix" is Wu Tianming's last work, and even if it is a compliment, it is difficult for filmmakers to see it.
There is nothing but praise, and for the movie, perhaps this is the greatest sadness. Not only movies, but also the traditional culture promoted in movies. Those things that have always been said to be Chinese treasures and national wisdom need more than just a word of praise.
Everyone always talks about inheriting traditional Chinese culture, and over the years, film and television works about traditional Chinese cultural craftsmanship have also emerged in an endless stream. But the more I look at it, the more sad I feel, and the overwhelming shouting of slogans can't really withstand a person who is willing to learn and understand.
Isn't that all of us? After watching one excellent work after another, I was moved and even wept, but after watching the movie? How many people will really understand the traditional arts promoted in the film? How many people will actually support the traditional arts promoted in the film? Not to mention that he will let go of his life and truly integrate with traditional art.
I'm not saying this to criticize people, nor am I deliberately trying to emphasize what distorts anything. I just feel sad to see such film and television works emerge in an endless stream, or even more and more. These filmmakers are like traditional craftsmen, and they are also relentlessly contributing their strength to our traditional culture, which is the same as the people they photograph.
Going around, it will still go around the chinese cultural self-confidence, although I am reluctant to say this, because when I say these things, it always seems a bit grandiose. However, seeing our things disappear the same way, facing the same risk of inheritance loss, can not do anything about it except sadness.
Skills need to be passed on, and things naturally need to be supported. Those beautiful things do not need vain and fluttering praise, but more need the support and inheritance of practical actions. If in the end there is nothing but praise, then praise also becomes a kind of irony.