Feng Xiaoning's debut novel "The Atmosphere Disappears": Human beings should have a reverence for the earth's environment

In 1990, the famous director Feng Xiaoning's debut film "The Atmosphere Disappears" was released, and the film became the pioneer work of the year with its environmental theme concept. Recently, director Feng Xiaoning appeared in the environmental protection theme film special session of the "Cloud Exhibition" of the First Art Association, sharing with netizens the original intention of shooting this film that year, and he reminded the audience that human beings should save a sense of awe for the global environment.

"The Atmosphere Disappears" tells the story of a train hijacking case that caused a large number of severe drug leaks and burned through the atmospheric ozone layer over a certain area, as the only human being who learned of this situation, a Chinese boy with the help of animal friends to find the source of the leak and save the lives of people around the world. Feng Xiaoning proudly said that in that era, there was such a shooting perspective, "the intention is indeed relatively profound", but because the film technology at that time was still relatively simple, the film was not satisfactory in terms of special effects.

The beginning of "Atmosphere Disappears" is a cross-edit of a set of children's shots and shots of nuclear explosions and environmental pollution, and the contrast is strong. Feng Xiaoning explained, "In the vast universe, the earth is just a grain of dust, and we humans are very small. I think we should look at our lives from such a vision, look at the meaning of human life and the responsibilities and missions that we should assume on the earth. ”

The film was shot in 1989, when many domestic art films began to emerge internationally, and there were not many films like "The Atmosphere Disappears" that focused on environmental protection and social responsibility, but the film won the Silver Pine Award at the 1994 Yugoslav International Environmental, Sports and Tourism Film Festival. Feng Xiaoning revealed that he did not send it abroad to participate in the competition at the beginning, because the Chinese embassy took a copy and put it there, and the foreign judges saw it and were very shocked, so they gave the award. Feng Xiaoning did not go to the award ceremony site, "I think there can be too many distractions in filmmaking, I just wanted to make this movie well, to make the film well, and it is natural to win the award." ”

He also recalled that in 1990, the film was screened in some primary and secondary schools, and he found that the children were very excited after watching it, "This film does not have a very difficult philosophy, that is, it is about loving the environment, so it is the most effective for children's education." He also said that when 'The Atmosphere Disappeared' was first filmed, China was still in the early stage of reform and opening up, and some people's eyes were only focused on money, ignoring the strategic pattern of the protection of the natural environment and long-term development." 30 years later, we now attach great importance to environmental protection, which makes me very happy, but some people's mentality has not eliminated impetuosity, excessive demand for benefits and enjoyment, which is very unhealthy. ”

Although there are new works almost every year, Feng Xiaoning also admitted that his films have not done enough in commercial marketing, and it is difficult for works to enter theaters, "There are many film directors in China, and what everyone sees in their eyes are films that have been packaged through a large number of commercial marketing, but that does not represent China's film culture, in addition to commercial attributes and artistic functions, films also include social functions." Now the commercial attributes of the film have been brought into full play, and the artistic and social functions have been seriously ignored, which has led to many excellent and socially responsible works, publicity and marketing can not keep up, which is urgently needed to change. ”

Beijing Daily reporter Wang Jinyue