It's not unreasonable for Gong Ziyu
to go back to Shanghai in 1930, Ang Lee wanted to go back to Shanghai in 1930, and the production cost was 16 million US dollars. Kevin Coster wanted to go to 2500 AD and spent 200 million US dollars. The era slowly faded, and then slowly replaced with new colors. It is said that Ang Lee's greatest effort was used to reproduce the old society in Shanghai, "All the dimensions are real, including the license plate of the tricycle and the number on the license plate. "The building materials are also real." Even the desk in Mr. Yi's office was born in the Republic of China era. There is also a large statue of Zhong Kui behind the desk. Ang Lee said: "Anyone who is a spy will put a Zhong Kui in the office." The atmosphere of old Shanghai really makes people look more real than many genuine old movies. There is a saying in the West: the details are with the devil. Most good directors have a memory like a devil, and Yang Dechang also has such a database in his head... The leather bag styles that were popular in the 1960s, and when did a certain slang become popular rapidly. Yan Hongya, the screenwriter of "Guling Street Teenage Murder Incident", said that when these principles were implemented, the staff of costumes and props would be miserable. Sophisticated films always try to restore the location of a memory, at least in the details. Inexperienced details are like fakes, and there is always the helplessness of not being able to match the tempo. I don't like Wang Xiaoshuai's films the most. The symbolic orientation of the film makes me always have a voice-over lingering in my ears when I watch a movie, "It looks fake, it looks fake!" What's even more outrageous is that the details of many domestic war movies are also unbearable to watch. In "Assault", the light weapons used by the soldiers actually shoot tracer bullets that can only be fired by weapons with a caliber of 12.7MM or more. There is even a phrase "using oil barrels as bunkers" during the battle, which not only loses military common sense, but also the basic principle of life protection. can give up. Fortunately, there are still good enough old domestic films to be reviewed repeatedly. Films such as "South and Northern War", "Little Soldier Zhang Kar", and "Blood Battle at Taierzhuang" make people understand that it is not the more lively the war scene, the better, nor the higher technology. more addicting.
Why do you want to restore an old era? I think there are a lot of memories there, but also because we were too close to that era at that time, and we didn’t dare to look carefully at many things. Only by pulling the lens far enough away can we do it. Unscathed. But the more realistic the film is, the more terrifying it is. Imagine if it weren't for "Lust, Caution", whether Ding Mocun or Zheng Pingru, I don't know which historical archives would be trapped in a place without light for a long time. Ang Lee said, "Our generation still knows a little bit. If our generation doesn't make this movie, it will never be possible in the future." A nation's memories can only be evoked by watching movies, how sad it is.
I still have a faint lament in my heart. We are living in a new century that is becoming too fast and the pace is too fast. Without the baptism of war, economic development alone has changed everything around us and changed our memories. Westerners seem to be more calm. Shakespeare's former residence has not changed much after 160 years, and there are more old things and old things that still retain their original appearance. But we are different. After demolishing and building, building and demolishing, always trying to continue the incense of history by building an antique street, which is almost impossible. I still remember the Changde apartment I went to. The taxi drivers in Shanghai don’t know who this is the former residence, and the sound of the tram banging on the pillow is no longer, and the outside of the balcony is gloomy. The secluded artistic conception is no longer there. There are two rows of phoenix trees on the street. You can still plant them one by one. It is no longer something that Zhang Ailing has touched. Many things are lost when they are lost, just like a movie no matter how grand it is. It is impossible to truly restore memories that have been erased by history.
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