According to the general principles of Marxism and my own fabrications: the director must have a cultural foundation and a soil for life. Without all of this, the director's film is basically a bad movie. However, what I didn't expect was that too much connotation was given to the film, and it was also a bad film.
"5,000 years of Chinese culture on your shoulders," Chen Kaige said to the actress who played the Yellow Earth. Yellow Earth is very successful, because he understands the hearts of the people living on this land, what they think, how they think, because he lived in that era, came from another era, experienced pain, experienced joy . When it came to Farewell My Concubine, he was more familiar with the subject matter. Beijing people were born and cried with the same voice. As for the steps to take when Bawang came out, there was no need to think about it, so a film he didn't want to make made him. Such a huge success is enough to make anyone arrogant, obsessed with their own stories, and forget the fundamentals of directing. A good director will never make a good screenwriter. Farewell My Concubine carries not only his thoughts, but also culture. This culture is not spoken by the director, nor can it be explained by a few pages of shots, it is reflected in the background, reflected in Chen Kaige In his life, he is integrated into his blood and becomes a part of his soul. He does not need to talk or think, he is the person in the play. The failure of assassinating Qin lies in this. I don't deny Chen Kaige's erudition, his literary talent, or his historical and cultural accumulation, but when he wants to use the camera to reveal his inner heart, it is still too shallow. History and inner heart are different. When history and the heart meet, the narrowness of the heart and the consciousness of the heart cannot be expressed through a film like this.
After watching Wuji, I thought of the name of this comment. It has too many connotations, and I was very afraid that others would not understand it. I felt the same way when I watched Heroes. Two fifth-generation directors walked into the same movie. Why are these two movies so similar, I even wonder if a thousand miles of walking alone is not with you.
The two people are separated from the era at the same time, separated from the 90's era, so that they are confused at the same time in the 21st century, pinning their hopes on warmth for a while, and pinning their hopes on history for a while. They hope to shoot a story in an overhead manner to show their understanding of this era, their desires for people, and their understanding of human nature. They did it, and all they did was let us know that they lost themselves and lost their way.
Times have changed, to paraphrase old Chen's words: The real speed is invisible, just like the wind and the clouds, the moon setting and the sun rising.
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