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in "was born: the birth of a movie" filming process that book, the "sunny day", the most impressive is the training of the actor Jiang Wen.
The film was adapted from Wang Shuo's novel "Ferocious Animals". In 1992, the 60,000-word novel was published on "Harvest". In 1993, Jiang Wen began to write the script and began to select actors. This is a story set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, but the film does not directly depict grand politics, but instead focuses on a youth full of hormonal rebelliousness and cowardice.
The teenagers were selected by Jiang Wen, traveled from all corners of the country to Beijing, and gathered in the crew. The room of the crew "is covered with photos of Chairman Mao and Red Guards, and there is a wall with photos of beautiful girls and half-sized boys who look like Jiang Wen" (Wang Shuo: "Reminiscence of a Sunny Day". After the actors were selected, He was sent to a good village near Beijing, where he was closed for training in the guest house of the Army Automobile Corps. ”, watching documentaries, and training swimming and cycling. Everything followed the army’s schedule, and the discipline was very strict. Han Dong, a nine-year-old actor who played the childhood Ma Xiaojun recalled: “Even wearing a watch, spending change, etc. It is not allowed.” All these things inspired a strong youthful atmosphere. After Wang Xueqi, who played Ma Xiaojun’s father, joined the crew, he “obviously felt an atmosphere that was very different from other crews: young and full of vigor.”
These details , forming a charming scene: young people together, making a movie of "youth together". The reason why "young people are together" is so important is because it is a recurring feature in Jiang Wen's films, implicit or explicit. The theme of sex.
Fresh life grows up in every corner, from Hebei or Henan, to the compound in Beijing, falling in love, walking, swimming, dancing, entertaining guests, playing guitar and singing under the moonlight, or walking alone in On the vast roof. The result of the encounter between young people is not the increase of life individuals, not as simple as 1+1, but the infinite annihilation of youthful breath and youthful light. When two beautiful teenagers are together, it is possible to form a youth reactor. , What's more, it was a group of teenagers, juicy and fragrant.
French filmmaker Jean-Louis. After seeing the rough cut of "Sunny Days", Jean Louis Pie made many suggestions, one of which was to "focus the storyline as much as possible, on the 'important people' and on the woman." 'Love' on". This is exactly the context of Wang Shuo's original novel. In "Sunny Days", even Milan is not an "important person", the kind of gorgeous and bright youth, that kind of youthful friendship, is the "important person". Milan is both real and fantasy, and youth is unquestionable.
The presence of adults makes it particularly unpleasant. Ma Xiaojun rode into the compound, a group of aunts in dark blue clothes sat in a circle, like a group of guards who could not be ignored, and Ma Xiaojun looked at each other, that look was so subtle; young people gathered in the garden , an elder sister-in-law passed through them and gave Yu Beibei a roll of eyes, and they fought back with coaxing; Ma Xiaojun caught up with Milan, who was wearing sunglasses, and confessed to her. The way she appeared, her laugh, how like it was from a Chinese movie in the 1950s and 1960s). Adults, made up of aunties, police officers, and uniformed fathers, always show up at inopportune times when young people can talk about entering Hong Kong.
The youth reactor needs purity, and needs to remove all impurities, so that youth can connect with youth as much as possible, catalyze reactions, and let youth enjoy all the treatment that youth should have as much as possible. Youth is a country, everyone is a king, people outside of youth are another country, everyone is just a subject.
This is also the youth philosophy of Jiang Wen's films. In his films, "other people" are placed elsewhere, and the background of the times related to "other people" has become the object of refusal to tell. The issue of "Youth Together" has since reappeared in "The Sun Also Rises" and "Let the Bullets Fly". In Jiang Wen's country, young people (not just young people of age) sing, knead dough, and secretly fall in love , cheating, hunting, going mad, living like a forest elf.
Jiang Wen's films always have the atmosphere of a different world. Several of his films above have set off a wave of interpretation, and there have been many strange comments, political metaphors, pseudo-textuals, science fiction, and fantasy.
This is the result of Jiang Wen's creative method. He once talked about his creative experience in an interview: "There is a world that seems to exist out of nothing and makes you feel more real than the real world. This is a creative process", "Sometimes I can't even distinguish between real life and movie life. That is to say, sometimes I may need more movie life”, “I repeatedly emphasize my infatuation, my desire to stop, and then it is possible to make people who will see it in the future unable to stop.” Speaking of “sunny days”, He also said: "The name is a feeling, a dream".
It is also the result of his pursuit of youthful purity. He has created a world mainly composed of young people, a world in which vitality is always in full bloom, and a world in which life is striving to get rid of impurities. Such a world itself is unreal. Although he strives for a sense of reality, pays great attention to details and props, and painstakingly finds sandals from the 1970s, and washes and wears the military uniforms, but everything presented in the end still has a huge distance from reality.
Austrian writer Robert Musil said of youth in his novel "The Bewilderment of Student Thorles": "There is a door leading to another world, where everything is repressed and everything is surging. Everything is burning with anger, everything is revealed, everything is destructive." Jiang Wen's film is such a door.
I once wrote an article entitled "Jiang Wen's "Other World", discussing this kind of temperament: "The atmosphere of 'other world' not only comes from the claustrophobic environment, but also comes from the thick and dense atmosphere of the people in the movie. Emotions. The people in Jiang Wen's films are always full of vigor, love and hate, as if they were staying in an eternal youth world. What motivated them to act was not any kind of worldly motive. 'Following General Cai Songpo' only provided a The direction of action, but it is not the motive after all, they are for 'throwing money in the window and listening to them laugh', like a wildfire, instinctively want to let the energy burn, wherever it burns, where it burns, with them Everything in comparison has secular motives."
This pursuit of youthful purity makes Jiang Wen's film reject political interpretations, and it just attracts countless political interpretations.
The age of Jiang Wen's growth, as well as the age of his films, was the period when the "cult of youth" burned most enthusiastically - the Cultural Revolution. At that time, social reconstruction was underway, and the reconstruction was completed with the help of youth power. "Only youth find a new path in the decayed past." This youth movement is not spontaneous or folk. Its content has been replaced and distorted from the very beginning, but young people are still agitated, and the value of youth has been raised to an unprecedented height.
People hope that this kind of grand scene will reappear - when the social turnover is not working, when the rationality is tired, when the politicians and various designers have no new ideas, people will turn to the witch nature of youth, "youth" like A pen fairy, waiting to be driven by self-proclaimed rational people. But people know that this kind of grand scene is out of reach, and it needs to be achieved by fate. They are even more afraid that this kind of grand scene will become out of control, so they always suppress this kind of youth reactor and use all possible methods.
Therefore, I am unconditionally obsessed with the slightest fragments of youthful prosperity revealed in this era. Many years ago, on a forum, I saw a very special notice for recruiting friends. The author has outstanding appearance and high requirements. He is very strict about the height and appearance of the other party. In the end, he concludes: "Let us two beautiful creatures walk together and make others feel ashamed." memorable.
Also last year, when the Han Han incident broke out, Han Han's companion posted a photo on Weibo: Han Han was with a group of young people, some were playing games and some were writing. They appear as a youthful whole. That photo is worth a thousand words, you can feel a voice echoing in the small environment there, it is youth calling for youth. What is attractive may be the ideas he provides, or the parallel youth.
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