Poster for the movie "Chosin Lake"
The film "Changjin Lake" directed by Chen Kaige has been released so far, setting many records in the history of Chinese film and receiving quite high praise. The film box office has also risen steadily, and has already exceeded the 5.3 billion mark, which can be said to be another masterpiece of Chen Kaige.
For the audience, Chen Kaige is no stranger.
His "Farewell to the Overlord" is considered by film critics to be one of the most artistically valuable films in China, interpreting the changes and characters of China in the past half century. Films directed by him such as "Wuji", "The Orphan of Zhao", "The Legend of the Demon Cat", and "My Motherland and Me" have also been widely acclaimed. He is also the only Chinese director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
20 years ago, Chen Kaige was invited by a British company to shoot a 10-minute short film with a Douban score of 9.2 high scores - "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers", and today Xiaobian will take you to understand and analyze this work.
"The Depths of a Hundred Flowers" is a fable, a story of separation, and the main theme is to commemorate the courtyard and hutong culture. With the "madman" (Feng Yuanzheng) as the spokesman, the mover (Geng Le) witnessed the results of this persecuting civilizational invasion, and finally the madman found the big bell, and the workers also saw the former hutong. Old Beijing struggled to find its roots in the lost, and it could only be reproduced in the director's computer stunt screen.
Beijing's "Deep in a Hundred Flowers" Hutong
The script of "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers" adopts a one-line narrative structure, and as "Crazy" Mr. Feng asks the moving company to move, the story goes straight to the theme. Before entering the heavy scene of "Hundred Flowers Deep Hutong", the plot arranged a section of paving on the road, mr. Feng, who is very familiar with his home address, got lost on the ring road in Beijing, Geng Le's sentence "Now only this old Beijing is lost in Beijing", an understatement similar to a joke line, but it brought out some of the information of the times at that time, and also laid the groundwork for the embarrassing tasks encountered by the moving company later.
"Feng Crazy" played by Feng Yuanzheng
This play uses "powerful" actors to complete the shaping of the role, Feng Yuanzheng, Geng Le and several other actors are actors with profound skills in the drama stage, which also ensures the credibility of the role to a certain extent, so as to achieve the basic purpose of making the audience "believe" in the plot and characters. Especially for Mr. Feng's mentally stimulated character, Feng Yuanzheng has made great efforts in many aspects such as lines, shape, action, eyes and expressions.
Geng Le plays a mover
Corresponding to Mr. Feng's state of obsession is the role of the movers. In order to make the other party check out, the personnel of the moving company made some farcical behaviors, whether it was lifting the wardrobe, holding the fish tank, moving the vase, etc., which not only frightened the passers-by, but also made them feel funny. This "no physical performance" method on the stage of this drama is rarely used in the realistic art form of film and television dramas, but the director's arrangement in this drama plays an irreplaceable role in the audience's understanding of the characters and feeling the plot.
There is no physical performance in the film
In the handling of sound, the director attaches great importance to the arrangement of simultaneous sound and sound, music and dubbing, and when the moving company's car passes by the door of a restaurant, the sound contains songs from the outside loudspeaker, setting the tone for the conflict between traditional culture and modern civilization.
When Geng Le and his colleagues made a careful action to pick up the fish tank downhill in order to cooperate with Mr. Feng's statement, the sound used the crisp sound effect of the goldfish jumping in the water, this simple and flashy sound processing, but brought the audience a warm and specific feeling, so that the artistic conception extended from the picture to the audience's imagination.
The old Beijing courtyard in the cg special effects
The instrumental dubbing that is most used in this short film is the traditional drum sound, which appears several times in the film. At the end, when the image of the courtyard made by cg means appears in the picture, the sound effects add wind chimes and the shouting of the old Beijing "moqian zi zi kitchen knife" From this arrangement, it can be seen that the director continues to work hard for the sublimation of the artistic conception.
Editor| Long I
Responsible for editing| Circle