Jia Zhangke may be the director who likes to "pay tribute" to himself the most, not one of them.
In the early years, Jia Zhangke was enthusiastic about selling pirated discs under the name of "Section Chief Jia", so in "Ren Xiaoyao", the section chief asked Xiao Wu, played by Wang Hongwei, to buy pirated discs from the protagonist Bin Bin: "Is there any "Xiao Wu" "" "No" "Is there in "Platform"?" "No"...
Han Sanming, the cousin of the section chief, first appeared in "Platform" as a frustrated miner who seemed to be looking for a woman; he was also in "World". When it came to "The Good Man in Three Gorges", Sanming was promoted to the number one male. The story is about his experience of going to Fengjie to find his wife.
Today, Jia Zhangke’s new film "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" was released. The actor is also named Binbin, and the heroine is also named Qiaoqiao. Qiaoqiao’s father is a miner, and Qiaoqiao is going to Fengjie to find Binbin... Lao Jia’s world is round.
The same roles, repeated actors, repeated use of scenes and costumes, everlasting hometown complex and changing themes... Jia Zhangke has been shooting movies for 20 years, but the original works have always been the same.
Wait, this routine seems familiar-hey, isn't this the unique job of Marvel and Pixar? All the works are hidden and connected together. Every corner detail may be an easter egg. Marvel has a Marvel universe, and Jia Zhangke's works also have a Jiashi universe.
The story of "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" was told from 2001 to 2018, which perfectly covers most of the background time of the previous work. Therefore, "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" is like a Jia Zhangke's "Avengers". After watching the movie, have you found these easter eggs?
Qiaoqiao & Binbin
Qiaoqiao and Binbin, a pair of greasy middle-aged names, come from Zhao Tao and Zhao Weiwei in "Ren Xiaoyao". Your eldest sister is still your eldest sister, but your elder brother is no longer the same as your elder brother back then-Bin Bin in "Ren Xiaoyao" has a girlfriend who is going to Beijing to study international business. Bin Bin knows he can't keep up with others, and is increasingly decadent and depressed; After the accident, Brother Bin in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" not only let the women back their shoulders, but also found a sister of a college student.
Both Qiaoqiao kept popular boobs when they were young. It turns out that women with such hairstyles are not easy to provoke.
In "Ren Xiaoyao", the cleverness of the bob head dances in the disco
The Young Cleverness in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes"
The source of this hairstyle is stated in "Ren Xiaoyao": "I watched a VCD, an American blockbuster that day. It was about a man and a woman eating in a restaurant. That woman was very beautiful and her hair was very similar to you. At this time, I don’t know why they Suddenly I wanted to rob, grab a gun and rob!"
Well, what he was talking about was "Pulp Fiction." At the beginning, I mentioned that Xiao Wu wanted to buy "Xiao Wu" and "Platform" but didn't buy it, but only this one.
"Pulp Fiction" Uma Thurman’s BOB head leads the world and probably also hit Jia Zhangke
"The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" cleverly put on this classic outfit of dazzling black, embroidery, ethnic style bellyband + brilliant red, thin and transparent blouse. I heard that the clothes were re-made according to "Ren Xiaoyao"-a long time ago, it turns out that I don't know where to throw it away.
This is Qiao Qiao when he was young, but Qiao Qiao in the middle age has traveled to the era of "The Good Man in Three Gorges"-a hair-like shirt, backpack, and a look of confusion and vicissitudes of life. So far, this aunt looks a little out of fashion, but it fits the plot in which she has just been released after five years of jail.
Zhang Yibai, the coincidental "touch porcelain" stock god in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes"
The same look is in "The Good Man in Three Gorges", and the costume group is really very economical.
Reform & demolition
Jia Zhangke has always been very concerned about the changes in the planned economic transition period.
Perhaps for a province with a single industrial structure like Shanxi, the rise, decline, transformation, and privatization of the coal industry are topics that many families cannot avoid.
To what extent does Jia Zhangke love life in the mining area? The same scene of the miner’s dormitory area, Zhao Tao walked twice in "Ren Xiaoyao" and "Jianghu Children", from the dormitory to the intercity bus station across the bridge, the route movements are the same.
The coincidence in "Ren Xiaoyao", many years later in "Jianghu Children" walked this road again with his father
Qiaoqiao's father worked in the mine, and after a few glasses of Fenjiu, he had the courage to turn on the loudspeaker and denounce the corruption of the mine manager. Father’s workers told Qiaoqiao that the gossip said that the miners and their family members might be sent to Xinjiang. Later, Qiaoqiao really got on the train to Xinjiang, but it was not a move, it was just an unreliable affair.
The angry miner is not just a Qiaoqiao father. The sea played by Jiang Wu in "Heaven Is Destined" is even more ruthless-because he is dissatisfied that the coal mines in the village have been invaded by the rich and changed from public to private ownership, the sea wrote a letter and wanted to send it to Zhongnanhai. I made a big shotgun and crashed a bunch of people's heads.
The contradiction between the two male protagonists who are jealous for Zhao Tao in "Old People in Mountains and Rivers" is also attached to the changes in coal mines. Zhang Yiyan’s Zhang Jinsheng contracted the coal mine, and avenged the miner Liangzi away, because they were rivals in love.
Similar to the situation in coal mines, major factories are also undergoing restructuring and relocation. "Twenty-Four Cities" is about the changes brought about by the relocation of old state-owned factories.
In addition to coal mines and factories, Director Jia is also very interested in the Three Gorges migrants, and he took photos and shots.
At the beginning of "The Good Man in Three Gorges", the broadcast on the ship told everyone that this is the Taibai Yangtze River passenger ferry from Fengjie Island to Chongming Island, and most of the boats are immigrants going to Chongming, Shanghai. Looking towards the banks on both sides, the residential buildings in the old city of Fengjie were all submerged by the water level in the reservoir area.
The address Sanming is looking for is already underwater
There was also such a broadcast on the cruise ship that "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" cleverly sat on, and there were also residential buildings on the shore that were about to be submerged. When coincidentally found the female thief who believed in Christ on the shore, many immigrants were taking their families and leaving their homeland by boat.
Qiaoqiao and Sanming both traveled from Shanxi to Fengjie, Chongqing to find the whereabouts of the object, but the search process was not smooth, and the other party didn't want to see them. They are really two hardworking people in a parallel world.
Money & emotion
Regarding the English title of "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes", Jia Zhangke initially thought of "Money and Love". Money is the first and love is the second. It is very vulgar, but also very appropriate. The core of the movie is indeed these two things. Jia said that he used to listen to the radio hotline, and the two things people consulted most were money and affection. Yeah, who doesn't care about these two things?
In "Children of the Rivers and Lakes", Qiaoqiao and Binbin also discussed this issue intensely when they met again in the small hotel. Qiaoqiao said that you should come back with me, Binbin said that you can't do that if you want to. Qiaoqiao understands: You have to go back only if someone has money, right? Binbin said, I want them to know what is thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Brother Bin has been struggling for money all his life. He gave up his relationship with Qiaoqiao, and when he wanted to find it back, he found that he could not go back.
Qiaoqiao and Binbin parted ways because of their disagreement about money
In the film, the relationship between money, affection, and righteousness is used as a clue, interspersed loomingly in the film. The opening credit Qiaoqiao gave the driver money, and the driver politely pushed off until I helped Bin Bin without giving me money. Qiao Qiao said that it was a delay for you to make money. Take it. This is Qiaoqiao pay attention to it. Finally, Brother Bin left, leaving Qiaoqiao with one. The money that "has delayed you" is so clever but so angry, I think you actually use the money to measure my righteousness? This is Qiaoqiao's domineering.
There is also a small detail episode. Bin's Ma Tsai took a counterfeit banknote and repeatedly stuffed it into the currency detector to listen to the "Please note, this is a counterfeit currency" to play. The reason why counterfeit money appears in society is also because people's money bags can't keep up with their desires.
Liangzi in "The Old Man in Mountains and Rivers" has no money but a statue of Guan Gong is displayed at home, which symbolizes that he still has a righteousness in his heart; while brother Bin in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" respects the statue of Guan Gong, but in the end he lost the reputation of an unrighteous person
Xiao Afei in "Ren Xiaoyao" laughed: "US dollars, that's the B of the American people!" She also showed off to the people around him: "One can exchange a lot of money!"
"The Good Man in the Three Gorges" Han Sanming watched a show on the boat, the euro changed to RMB, and the TV shows the classic scenes of Xiao Ma lighting up a cigarette with dollar bills. He heard people say, "If you float on the water, you have to rely on dollar bills!"
It’s not just the county elder brother like Binbin who admires Brother Xiao Ma, but even honest people like Sanming will be affected.
The fascination with the US dollar bills in "Old People in Mountains and Rivers" goes even further. Zhang Yi directly named the son played by Dong Zijian Zhang Daole, Zhang Dollar! The mission of being born is to earn! Big! money!
Dong Zijian's rebellious son Zhang Dollar
Er Yong, who has made a fortune in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes", told Brother Bin: I only have two major hobbies: one is watching "Animal World" and the other is watching the national standard dance.
This reminds me of a small supporting actor named Er Yong in "Platform". After the art troupe was disbanded, this guy left the army to do a small business. Could it be that Er Yong, who loves the patriotism dancer in the coffin, was also in the past. Hunwen Gongtuan? It seems that there is still money to go to the sea to do business, and there is no hope for literature and art...
Art Troupe & Song and Dance Hall
The section chief is always passionate about singing and dancing. Xiaowu didn't know how to sing K at first, and was disgusted by Mei Mei's face. Later, under Mei Mei's guidance, he turned into Maiba.
Xiaowu can't sing anything, the two can only sit awkwardly
In the first scene of "Ren Xiaoyao", Xiao Jia (or Xiao Jia at the time) personally went into battle, wearing an old man's hurdle vest, standing in a large factory building and singing Italian opera proudly.
The actor who played the last policeman in "Ren Xiaoyao" seems to be Brother Eryong from "Jiang Hu Children" (high-quality image quality). The way to punish the prisoner is: go, stand in the corner and sing! Don’t you love to sing? Bin Bin honestly sang Ren Xianqi's "Ren Xiaoyao".
End of "Ren Xiaoyao"
Jia Zhangke paid more attention to the works of the 1990s and the turn of the century. Only the second film "Platform" was positioned in the 1980s, which specifically traced the life of the cultural troupe.
The most important song of "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" is Ye Qianwen's "A Life of Light Drunk", which was the theme song of "The Bloody Two Heroes" at the time, which also fits the context of "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes". This is not the first time that the section chief has used Ye Qianwen's song. In 2024, the song "Treasure" by Ye Qianwen can still be heard in Australia in 2024.
There are countless popular songs in Jia Zhangke's films, and they are the collection of the golden songs of the time. Remember that "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" Qiaoqiao went to the Fengjie Small Song and Dance Troupe to sing "How much love can come again" after being depressed? There is also a shirtless man in Fengjie County of "The Good Man in the Three Gorges", holding a microphone in the dim light and singing "If you want to sell dry wine".
Awkward dance is also an indispensable entertainment for the county people in Jia Zhangke's movies. The eternal heroine Zhao Tao basically knows how to dance in human settings, dancing in the art troupe, in the old-fashioned club, in the trendy disco, on the stage in the World Park, and in her own yard when she gets old... …
Is this disco dance familiar? Zhao Tao danced with Zhang Yi in "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers", and again with Liao Fan in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes". "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" also inserted a short documentary scene that has nothing to do with the plot. A group of grandpas and aunts are dancing happily in the square dance. Everyone's eyes are shining. It's so beautiful.
Car, train, ship, UFO
Jia Zhangke also likes to express the passage of time by means of transportation.
The logo of Zhang Jinsheng as a coal boss in "Old Friends" is a newly bought red Santana. In "Children of the Rivers and Lakes", Bin Ge opened the crown, and was almost killed by the crown. Later, he still envied him. The man in the trencher car.
The winning secret of the coal boss picking up girls-owning a Santana
The first scene of "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" is a bumpy vintage bus, some ordinary people look blank and exhausted, and finally the camera pans to the cleverness of a nap by the window. The picture quality and the scenes are very rough, the group portraits of non-professional actors, and the seemingly random set of shots are sharp and sharp, which almost restored the amazing feeling I had when I first watched "Xiao Wu".
The first scene of "Xiao Wu" was also a bus. Xiao Wu claimed to be a policeman who refused to buy a ticket. After a few seconds, it was revealed that he was a thief. In the first scene, this little character was filmed alive.
The first scene of "Platform" was also after the art troupe finished its performance, and left by night by bus.
In "Ren Xiaoyao", Qiaoqiao also sits by the window
From the green train to the high-speed rail, "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" reflects the earth-shaking changes in China over the past ten years. Xu Zheng's big flicker told the people around on the train that he should take the slow train to see the great rivers and mountains, watch slowly, and taste slowly.
Last time, Zhao Tao said something similar to her son in "Old People of Mountains and Rivers". Before she sent her son to go abroad, the mother and son took a green leather train. She said that she hoped that the train would be slower so that the mother could spend more time with you.
Several times I went to the Three Gorges by boat.
Finally, there is the ultimate fashionable means of transportation-UFO, which constitutes one of the few surreal parts of Jia Zhangke's movies.
Xu Zhengtian talked about his Xinjiang expedition tourism project in a frantic manner, saying that he would take tourists to find UFOs, but the opposite Qiaoqiao said with a serious face, "I have seen it, I have seen it once." Xu Zheng didn't believe it, thinking that he had picked up a free childcare. Later, he knew that he had hooked up with a female criminal who had been released after serving his sentence.
Where did you see the UFO? In "The Good Man in Three Gorges".
Sanming also saw a magical scene, a person walking a tightrope over the ruins. At this time, the background music is Lin Chong Ye Ben.
The so-called "prisoner of the universe" is actually the same thing as Lin Chong who runs at night.
"Xiao Wu" was written in the 1990s, "Station" was written in the 1980s, "Ren Xiaoyao", "The World", "The Good Man in the Three Gorges", and "Twenty-Four Cities" were written around the millennium, and "The Destiny of Heaven" was written now. Both "Old People in Mountains and Rivers" and "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" have a long time span, looking at the changes in society and people's hearts from a more holistic perspective.
Regardless of his namelessness or international fame, Jia Zhangke is obsessed with using the same group of characters to interpret different life destinies in the same frame. Maybe there is an audience under a stage who is a thief, his name is Xiaowu; maybe a cultural troupe is passing a road, and they come from a platform; maybe there is a woman called Qiaoqiao standing on the road, Qiaoqiao is waiting for a miner; maybe a miner has something in his heart He wanted to go to the Three Gorges because he couldn't untie the knot... Whether it was the Jia Zhangke universe or the parallel world, they were all beings in contemporary China.
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