Photography - Scene / Perspective / Composition
Scene switching - Panoramic advance shows wheat harvest, refugee migration, locust plague, burning fires and thick smoke in the sky, close-up shows detailed life scenes such as cutting wheat, farm tools, wasteland fissures, and locusts gnawing.
Starvation, corpses, dead bones, crows, dead trees, a quick set of empty shots is strong and accurate.
The close-up is very Hollywood, eg the close-up of the gold coin/the expression after getting the diamond is similar to "Greed".
The moving shots give the film a sense of fluidity that escapes the stagnation.
In the scene of wind and rain in the paddy field, Mai Lang's intention is excellent, which effectively creates an atmosphere of hardship and wandering.
A passage from the market lugging - muddy chaos, the force to the right (poor peasants) and the force to the left (the army) create a sense of shock
In the scene of Yuelan's death, the depth of field in the final panorama is well handled. The depth of field is the jubilant people at the banquet. The door is separated from life and death. The foreground is a blurred window, which exists as a picture frame.
music-
Variation of Jasmine's song, which has the dual effect of expressing the joy of work and the sorrow of life
Many Chinese folklore shows, including musical instruments, candied haws, lion dances, festivals and temple fairs, etc.
plot-
Returning to the landlord's house with her son presents a wonderful relationship of power struggle. The old lady of the landlord's family expresses her admiration for the servant's son, and the servant is also proud of it. Male/power/wealth are mixed together. Shows a special entanglement relationship.
Male identity is above everything else, women are described as only female/second wife
Understanding of revolution
The Farmer and Land Connection - "he's on the land again"
Twice looting: hungry muddy water/land grabbing - crazy destruction and scramble, shoving crowding and destruction (this paragraph shows strong scheduling and rhythm control ability)
Drama - Emotional Presentation
The Western-style love story rules have entered the Chinese rural background, and compared with the Chinese people's own understanding and shooting, they have a more external emotional expression
Infidelity / Ethics / Fornication - Prostrate and Powerful
Plot mode: Men achieve a kind of class jump and identity replacement after accumulating wealth through plunder, and then go back and forth on the old road of employment and destruction; women become direct tragic carriers (you disgrace me!) - The ending uses two pearls ( Or a gem) directly achieve HE (some kind of commonality in the construction of Chinese and foreign melodrama)
The most attractive women are all played by foreign actresses - the hard-working wife, the alluring and glamorous concubines
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