Not long ago, I saw an article with the headline "Jiang Wen has only directed 6 films, why can he be called the best director in China?" ”
Indeed, compared with the five or six generations of directors who have a lot of production, Jiang Wen's film works do look "very few".
But in fact, a closer look at his pictures and lens language can answer this question very well.
Jiang Wen has his own set of image styles, which makes me often feel that watching his films is not only feeling the story and touching the emotions, but also a unique visual experience.
"Sunny Days" is like this, borrowing a warm yellow halo to attract people to dreams, creating a "romantic filter" between reality and memory.
Starting with lighting and color, making the set full of art, these are the reasons why Jiang Wen is called a "film poet".
This is also vividly reflected in "Evil Does Not Pressure Righteousness".
The opening of the film -
Under the Zhengyang Gate, there is white snow, jade trees and flowers.
The old Beiping City, the mottled old city walls, the smoke-filled streets and alleys... The air is filled with the breath of the times, and all living beings are full of breathing.
There is also the classic northern school building in the fight scene, a distinct, life-like, happy and vengeful river and lake has been built.
In addition to the picture itself, the storytelling beauty of Jiang Wen's film is also worth pondering.
He is very good at seeing the big in the small, "Let the Bullets Fly" tells the story of a bandit and thief official in the Republic of China period who took office but met the local bully, and the two forces fought wits and courage, but talked about a lot:
Are people naturally profit-seeking?
Is evil a symbol?
Does the official have to "kneel and earn money"?
These topics with thinking value, coupled with tense pictures, make Jiang Wen's films have a strong personal color.
To use a sentence that Gao Xiaosong said before, Jiang Wen's movie, "full of screen hormone splashes, love and hate split head cover face." ”
Jiang Wen's expression in the language of the lens is enough to make him a film poet, and this romantic ideal has always continued. Even the short film that cooperates with the brand amplifier still has its own persistence and pursuit, and today I saw the video of his cooperation with OPPO, which is this experience.
Jiang Wen, who has not appeared in the public eye for nearly two years, this cooperation with OPPO is to transfer the previous exploration of film color art presentation to the mobile phone. Judging from today's short film, Jiang Wen seems to spoil three major features of this mobile phone:
Ultra-wide angle, microscope, filter. In particular, the black and white tones throughout the short film, coupled with Jiang Wen's emphasis on "black and white must also shoot a sense of color", people can't help but wonder, find X3 can and this "image explorer", what kind of spark can collide? I have to say that OPPO is too good at choosing people!
Under closer examination, these expectations may have to be answered from the OPPO Find X3 series of full-link color management systems.
In general, the better the color accuracy of the screen, the more accurately we can display the RGB value we enter for it. The display principle of modern devices is based on RGB, but the color gamut coverage of different screens is different, the same RGB value, and the color displayed on different devices is different. Sometimes when we watch a TV series, we will find that I watch the picture vs the official stills, just like the buyer show and the seller show; even between different mobile phones, there will be color difference.
Therefore, in the output process of pictures and videos, there are many factors that determine their presentation effect, and it is not enough to improve the display or color correction, it needs to rely on the full-link color management system to optimize the whole.
Therefore, OPPO's full-link color management is not only color map, it also includes shooting + operation + encoding + storage + display. Only in these processes are to ensure that the 10bit + wide color gamut information is not distorted or lost, in order to achieve the overall optimization effect.
The difficulty is, how to ensure 10bit all the time?
Because the Android underlying system only supports 8-bit image decoding, in the initial decoding stage, 10-bit data cannot be processed correctly, but OPPO took the lead in reconstructing the native Android decoding in order to achieve full-link 10bit, while transforming the native memory data, and also increased the rendering adaptation entrance.
Compared with other color management systems, it can be said that the Find X3 series has epoch-making significance, each step is 1 billion colors, is the real 1 billion colors.
It is no wonder that such a system that achieves visual presentation to the extreme and returns to the original charm can conquer Jiang Wen, who has a high pursuit of color.
The expression of beauty has always been the inspiration of art, and the high fidelity of mobile phones for videos and pictures restores not only the visual effects of their presentation as materials, but also the meaning of their bearing as information symbols.
In a way, cinema is a fluid combination of imagery. And Jiang Wen's films always like to pay tribute to many classics,
For example, the imitation of the bridge section of "The Godfather" in "One Step Away", and the bridge section stamped by Li Tiantian on Tang Fengyi's buttocks in "Evil Does Not Pressure justice" use the plot of the Czech New Wave masterpiece "The Train under Close Surveillance".
This "repetition" mixes real history into another era and narrative, so that the playfulness of this construction is a unique ginger humor.
Whether it is Jiang Wen or Jiang Wen's works, for Chinese films, they are indispensable and cannot be ignored. As Wang Shuo said, "China needs such a person." With him there, we can say that the movies in this country are not all jobs. "Chic and exquisite beauty deserves to bloom in the history of Chinese cinema."