The beginning of the movie is destined to be the birth of great art. In that era before the prosperous shopping malls and theaters, the most impressive memory of the movie is under the stars.
Just like the traditional form of drama, in the small square of the village, with small benches, watching the troupe stage dramas on religious festivals such as Guanyin Festival. In the distance, there are frogs and crickets and other summer insects chirping, and the bright fluorescent lamps are lit up. The stage, the eyes staring at the stage and the ignorant children around the stage, like people listening to stories around a bonfire in ancient times.
Then one day a few young men dressed as workers propped up a white curtain and set up a huge black machine in front of the curtain. The sound box was also pitch-black like a box that hides the sound, and a thick film roll inside. There are too many mysteries of human action.
If the temperature is too high, the film will be blown, and some pictures need to be deleted temporarily, such as the kiss scene that did not appear in the movie before. Find the required picture and cut it with the sound. Through the film, you can see the reverse turn image.
The sound of the projector running is like the chirping of an insect you don't know. If you block it in front of the projector, your shadow will form on the screen, making the viewers impatiently turn their heads and stare at you, while the shadow swaying in front of the screen , noisy children, or the changing faces of people standing or sitting, illuminated by colorful projections, actually become part of the open-air cinema viewing experience.
If you are curious enough, you can run to the back of the screen, and although the picture is reversed, it still faithfully reflects the performance of the actors and reveals the two-dimensional truth of the film. And the sound of the movie will travel far in the village, you will not confuse it with the TV sound of the neighbor next door, the etherealness and imagination it brings will float over the village, just like the one that once flourished on this land. Play and bonfire.
Human nature will not change too much with the development of the times and the advancement of technology. For those inventions that can satisfy the imagination, the common experience brought to human beings and the hunters who listened to the hunters in front of the bonfire millions of years ago about how to catch the stag, How to get rid of wolves is filled with exciting emotions, and after the meaning of the movie is covered by the sensuality brought by technology, many people forget what Bazin said.
Cinema is an asymptote to reality.
When everything reflected on the screen becomes a performance, utilitarianism follows. The filmmakers do not consider how to tell the story, but care about the needs of the audience in front of the screen, where everything can become In the era of products, movies are more like customized products on industrial production lines, the role of producers is more like product managers, and open-air cinemas have moved into luxurious theater lines, which can experience the pleasure of the senses, but do not let people Awe in the distance, there is no invisible dark horizon and bright starry sky.
The copies of the open-air cinema are just a few over and over again, and the most popular ones are nothing more than martial arts and comedy. The stories are simple, happy and grudge, a group of people cry and laugh together, and those who have seen it several times will also appreciate those who have not seen it. People sell a pass and spoil some key plots.
At that time, I didn't know Hu Jinquan, I didn't know Tsui Hark, but I knew the drunk man, the one-armed sword, and the chivalrous woman. Of course, I remembered Huang Feihong's Foshan Shadowless Foot in particular, so I kicked the small bench when I got home. Search the broken boats in the Minjiang River to see if there are any martial arts secrets, or if you can save an old man with stunts. The heroic dream of a teenager is probably like this.
Some people say that today's movies need guidance, just like when there were not so many cars in the past, children were not worried about running around the village. Now that there are more cars and the society is complicated, children are still as prone to accidents as before. The era of simplicity is gone, and the proposition we face is not how to own, but how to choose.
But I really don't know how to choose. Guiding can sometimes become an excuse for authoritarianism. When the grading system has not been introduced, you say to your child, I think "The Great Fox Dad" is better than "Armored Warrior", maybe he will ask: "Fox Will Dad transform?"
"No."
"What's so good about that."
It's hard to say 'what's so good about that' to someone who doesn't understand the depth of the story. This is an interesting paradox. The evaluation criteria for things like aesthetics and life perception are not unified, unlike mathematics or physics.
When you show Zhang Che's "One-Armed Swordsman" to your child now, most of the children will just yawn impatiently, saying the last sentence is so boring. Because that era, that memory, that starry sky, belonged only to those who were once, and belonged to the insignificant memories related to the past.
Faced with the present where a four-inch mobile phone can bring the entire Internet, it is not the children who are at a loss, but what we will become in the future.
Wu Tianming is already dead, but his "A Hundred Birds and the Phoenix" is very similar to the movie of that era. In the inevitable process of the transition between the old and the new, the things that have passed often only leave a back, and people always move forward with oblivion. , and find your own life.
Movies from my childhood, stay with my childhood.
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