Kunming Information Harbor News Reporter Yang Yan On December 27, in the red land of Dongchuan, Zhang Mu's documentary "Bronze Soul" and the feature film "The Loyal Martyrs of Nanzhao" held their premiere and trial meetings respectively, and the two films used two different narrative methods to show the audience two pieces of history about Yunnan.
The documentary "Copper Soul" takes the real copper history of Dongchuan as the creative material, presents it in the form of a documentary, and at the same time enters the film narrative technique, which enhances the viewing and storytelling of the film under the premise of recording the truth and respecting history. The protagonist of the film, Zhao Ying, is a dancer and also the "third generation of mines" in Dongchuan, because he has been studying outside since childhood, and his impression of the mining area is mostly known through the narration of his grandfather, grandmother and parents. The film is based on Zhao Ying's need to create a large-scale dance and return to Dongchuan to find inspiration as the main line. Through the method of film documentary, it records the story of Zhao Ying's journey to Dongchuan to collect style, meet different people, and learn about Dongchuan from their stories, and understand the historical changes of prosperity, decline and development experienced by Dongchuan, a mining city with a long history of copper industry. The story mainly revolves around Tang Dan, which is the core area of the Dongchuan Mining Bureau, and all the related Dongchuan copper mines and derivative events can be found here.
"The Loyal Martyrs of Nanzhao" restores the disaster experienced by the Surrender to the Tang Dynasty during the Nanzhao period through the film, showing the strategic significance played by the sacred mountain of the Yi people, the Palanquin Mountain, in the Nanzhao period, and at the same time, through the filming of the film, it also shows the natural scenery of the red land of Yunnan photography paradise. The film, which was written by Zhang Mu many years ago, has not been released and will now be released online. If dali Duanshi represents the peak state of Yunnan during the Song Dynasty, it is more of a historical interpretation or legend. The history of Nanzhao during the Tang Dynasty is definitely a magnificent poem and a history of the endless struggle of the Chinese nation.
Director Zhang Mu is a young artist born and raised in Dongchuan, who has directed the films "Youth Without Regret", "The Diary of a Female Journalist", "Warm As Old Days", "The Taste of Saba", "My Dad", "Under the Wishing Tree", etc., and has been nominated for the Best Cinematography Award at the 4th China International Micro Film Festival and the Best Cinematography Award at the 2014 San Francisco International Micro Film Festival. After the film was screened, the participating experts and leaders put forward pertinent opinions and suggestions on the two new films directed by Zhang Mu, and said that this kind of work that shows local works in Yunnan and is completed by local directors can better grasp the core and highlights, and also put forward higher requirements for director Zhang Mu.
Since engaging in the film industry, Zhang Mu has gone through hardships, but he is also growing. The films he creates are based on stories that happen around him and that happen to everyone. He hopes that through the expression of the film, more people, more ordinary people, can see the stories that happen around him, which is why Zhang Mu has always chosen to take root in local creation. (Courtesy of Wu Yuehong)