This time we will demonstrate what the meaning of film as a cultural carrier means to people.
First, let's start with the oldest form of culture, painting. As early as prehistoric times, human beings began to use painting to express their understanding of nature. At present, humans have discovered that prehistoric humans painted cattle, humans and other animals on the walls of caves, showing the life scenes of prehistoric humans. It is easy to know that painting was born as a form of expression that can be preserved for a long time, similar to our present writing. In fact, language had already appeared at that time, but language could not be used as a cultural carrier that could be preserved. This had great limitations for human society, because if there were no other cultural carriers that could be preserved, human beings would not be able to survive. The development of science and culture will be severely restricted.
Later, in the era of slavery, with the development of productive forces, human beings gradually have the conditions to express the world and the self with a cultural carrier that is more complex and abstract than painting, but can carry more information, that is, words. The earliest known characters in China, oracle bone inscriptions, were born in the Shang Dynasty. From the structure of the characters, we can see that they have very obvious pictographic functions, so we also call this kind of characters pictographic characters. At the same time, the Egyptians in the Nile River Basin also created ancient Egyptian characters, which we can see from the remains of the pharaohs, and the ancient Egyptian characters are more pictographic than the oracle bone inscriptions, almost symbols such as eagles and priests. This is also because The ancient Egyptian script was born earlier than the oracle bone script. In other places, such as the plateaus of South America, the writings left by the former Incas or Aztecs can also be found, and they are all hieroglyphs without exception. At that time, writing was almost always used by priests and priests to express the results of divination. We can easily see that at the beginning, writing was only a tool used by nobles to express their thoughts; for the people at the bottom, they had no Those who had the opportunity to come into contact with these, this was the case even to the end of the feudal era.
It will become more complicated in the future, but the general rules are there. It is obvious that the progress of cultural carriers starts with the human senses, the two main senses of vision and hearing, and the more abstract it is, but the more content it can carry. of.
Since the end of the 19th century, movies have been born. At the beginning, movies were just "collections" of photographs. With the advancement of technology such as cameras, sound movies, and color movies, they gradually became what we see today. Of course, this is only a technical change. In terms of form, a movie can express the content of a script more realistically. Compared with all previous art types, it is more like the world we live in, because our most intuitive feelings about this world are also from sight and hearing.
But the problem is that although there have been great advances in technology and expression, human thinking has not enabled the film carrier to bear enough real content, so that in modern times, our most popular films are all plots Empty and stupid sci-fi movies like Transformers, these movies are undoubtedly very modern in technology, but we people living in the modern age know that these kinds of movies just give people a "cool" "Word, after I finished, I found that I wasted 2 hours watching a meaningless movie, because this movie is just a kind of fantasy in the human brain into a "reality" with visual and auditory effects. Are there various advances in thinking in reality? What we lack is not the shocking feeling of sight and hearing, but the emptiness of cultural carrier in content.
So how can the cultural carrier be able to express the content that is not empty? That's actually very simple. It's good to use this kind of carrier to express the reality that I want to express. For example, I use words to express the point of view I want to express. If I have the conditions to express my point of view in this film review with movies But it is really shocking, because I no longer need to use dry one-dimensional words to express my thoughts, and the content displayed is rich enough. However, the current level of productivity has not actually reached such an exaggerated level. For example, humans now use comics to express a simple novel, and the amount of engineering expended is very huge. It's just a two-dimensional cultural carrier, and a three-dimensional movie is more complicated.
Of course, I can't use movies as my personal cultural carrier, but that doesn't mean my group can't use movies as their cultural carrier! So the movie "Battleship Potemkin" was born. The Bolsheviks used the film to express what they wanted to say, and that was the "story of the revolution".
As for other film critics mocking the plot of the movie, it's not surprising that they don't even know what the movie does.
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