Hardcore Fighting Nation Shoots True Shot to the End - "Russian Ark"
Today, let's talk about the movie "Russian Ark".
Title Русский ковчег / Russian Ark / Russkiy kovcheg (2002), alias Genesis.
Recently, as the Oscars approached, "1917", which shined at the Golden Globe Awards, which is known as the Oscar vane, has become a big hit. "1917" earned enough eyeballs with its one-shot shooting style.
One-shot long shots have always been a task that many filmmakers want to challenge and are difficult to complete, even if excellent films such as "Birdman" and "1917" are also pseudo-one-shot to the end, spliced by N long shots, giving people the illusion of a shot to the end.
I recently came across a Russian film in which director Alexander Sokolov successfully completed the challenge of true one-shot with his fighting national pedigree, proving that Russians are not only very iron-headed, but also very artistic.
After watching Birdman, The Last Night on Earth and 1917, I came to see The Russian Ark. The film does not use the editing technique of montage, nor does it use the long-shot stitching method, and truly completes a standard-length film with one shot.
"Russian Ark" from the very beginning of the camera on, until the final shutdown, there is only one shot in total, the most hardcore real one shot to the end.
The difficulty of one shot to the end is beyond ordinary people's imagination, and the 60-minute long shot of "The Last Night of the Earth" makes the participants shout like a war, and any mistake will make the efforts of a group of people waste. The scheduling in "1917" is even more accurate to the second level of milliseconds, and a slip-off will cause injuries.
There are more than 1300 actors in "Russian Ark", playing the four eras of Russia. Each actor must be qualified, or you have to start all over again. "Russian Ark" is so straight to complete the true mirror to the end.
But to be honest, in terms of viewing experience, the scheduling difficulty of this film will be slightly lower than that of "1917".
Director Alexander Sokolov dedicates his voice in the film, using his own voiceover, to take the audience back to 18th-century St. Petersburg and through the Winter Palace.
After the film begins, the narrator says that he has just woken up from the accident and is unaware of everything that happened. When he regained consciousness, he found himself in St. Petersburg, Russia in the 18th century, and he also met Marquis, a self-proclaimed French diplomat, and the two traveled together through the 35 rooms of the Winter Palace until the 20th century, feeling different Russian histories.
Here they saw Peter the Great reprimanding his subordinates, Empress Catherine rushing to release water, observing many famous oil paintings and sculptures up close, watching Persian envoys visit the Tsar, seeing the Last Supper of the Tsar Nicholas family, the Romanov dynasty ending in a bloody rain, and participating in the grand waltz ball of the last royal family.
The more argumentative the argument, the clearer it becomes.
The French diplomat Marquis would mock Russian art for always plagiarizing, and the director would always defend Russian art.
The two argued as they moved forward. The film follows in their footsteps, taking the audience to see the many collections of the Russian Hermitage.
"Russian Ark" was filmed in the Hermitage, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, and the 35 rooms in the film are real scenes of the Hermitage. The rooms filled with various works of art, such as oil paintings and sculptures, are also authentic works of the museum.
Even if the audience does not have to visit the Hermitage, they can still experience the exquisite artworks up close through the director's camera. There is no shortage of close-up shots of the artworks in the film, and the audience can feel the charm of the artworks through the big screen.
The Russians highly condense more than three hundred years of Russian history in a 90-minute long shot. If the audience does not have a certain degree of understanding of Russian history, it is estimated that the historical events mentioned in it are not well understood, and can only be seen as a tourist film.
Peter the Great, also known as Peter I Alexievich, was the son of Tsar Alexei I, the fourth Tsar of the Romanov dynasty of Russia and the first emperor of the Russian Empire. Through reforms, he strengthened the centralization of power and laid the foundation for Russia's future politics, economy, culture, education, science and technology.
Empress Catherine, also known as Catherine II Alexeyevna, was the only tsarina in Russian history to be known as the Emperor. In the history of Russia, Empress Catherine was equally famous as Peter the Great, she fought against Turkey twice, participated in the partition of Poland three times, incorporated the Crimean Khanate into Russia, opened the Outlet of the Black Sea, and established the Russian Empire unprecedented in human history. The Winter Palace, where the film was filmed, was built during this period.
Watch as Persian envoys visit the Tsar in response to Russia's alliance with Persia to suppress the Ottoman Empire; the Russians followed the Tsarina's legacy and never stopped expanding their territory.
The Last Supper of the Tsar nicholas family is familiar to those of us who have studied modern history. With the sound of gunshots from the October Revolution, the Russian working class overthrew the Tsar's rule for more than three hundred years and established Soviet power. Tsar Nicholas II's family was also soon executed en masse.
It is not until the end of the film that the audience, like the director, suddenly realizes that they are not in a museum on land, but on a large ship. In the midst of the terrifying waves outside the window, the director began to reflect on history and the future.
The Ark was meant to be a great ship built according to God's will in the Biblical Book of Genesis to allow Noah's family and the creatures on land to escape the Flood. God was dissatisfied with the current world and was ready to wash away the entire continent with a great flood.
And does the Russian Ark mean that God is not satisfied with the current world, washed away with water, and then rebuilt another world in the same way as Russia?
The difficulty of shooting "Russian Ark" mainly lies in the technical level, unlike the pseudo-one-shot to the end, the crew is very tough to shoot a real one-shot film.
The film selects four scenes to represent the three hundred years of Russian history, they have been brilliant and brilliant, but if they really exist on the ark in their appearance, is it really appropriate?
Compared with Russia, which only rose in the past three hundred years, the Chinese civilization has been brilliant for five thousand years. Will there be a big coffee using the Forbidden City treasure to make a "Chinese Ark", the premonition will be a very good movie, of course, do not drive to shoot.
Hardcore fighting nations shoot really one shot to the end,
Show russian art to witness Russian history.