How many ways do pigeons do?
The top is roasted pigeon, golden in color, perfect in shape, crispy outside and tender inside, crispy skin and fragrant meat;
The brine pigeon is not bad, the color is light yellow, the meat is smooth and tender, the taste is fresh and fragrant, and the shape is beautiful;
Pigeon soup must also be tried. The soup is golden in color, the meat is soft, delicious, and the taste is rich...
And after watching Roy Anderson's film "The Dove Reflects on the Meaning of Existence in the Tree", I realized that there is another wonderful method: the pigeon drills the tofu .
Similar to "loach drill tofu", the pigeons are first raised in a cage, and the cage is placed in water and a small amount of salt. After feeding overnight, open the cage door, wait for the pigeons to fly out, put tofu in the cage, and heat the cage. Soon, the pigeons will fly back to the cage, and after running around in the cage, they will plunge into the tofu. When it is fully cooked, remove the hair and internal organs, and apply condiments such as chopped green onion, monosodium glutamate, and minced ginger. This dish of tofu is white, delicious and sweet, and the meat is greasy and fragrant.
Of course, this dish is simple in principle, but not easy to operate. Here are some tips from Roy Anderson's film "The Dove in the Tree Reflects on the Meaning of Being."
Tip 1: Slow down the heat
Cooking, three points of technology, seven points of heat.
Pigeon drilling tofu, the most important thing is the heat.
To master the heat, the first and foremost is patience.
Therefore, Roy Anderson has only made four feature films in 30 years. His "slow work and meticulous work", when filming "The Dove Reflects on the Meaning of Existence in the Tree", made an inch. So, the director spent 4 years on the film.
In the past 4 years, he has built a lot of cages for the pigeons. There are always some people who are obsessed with fixed long shots, like those one-minute videos in the public account 108 City (id: citymakesbetterlife).
In the past 4 years, he has added a lot of water and salt to the pigeons. Not to eat in, but to spit out. The pigeons ate happily and vomited happily, eating cleanly and spitting out dirty.
So, every shot is a story. Shots are the way stories are presented, and stories are the stuff that fills shots. In the cage constructed by the camera, there is space for joy, anger, sorrow and joy, and bounds for grievances and hatreds.
So, every story is a life. Stories give life a stage for centralized presentation, and life gives stories a reason to liven up. In the limited space given by the story, life can be a compressed biscuit, which is tasteless but can be full; it can also be a spring, which may be compressed more, the rebound will be greater, or it may be gradually crushed.
So, every life is a game. In order for life not to wither like a flower, be pricked like a bullfight, and go out like a candle, all that can only be done in a human way, including countless boring games. In the game, there can be winners, and if he wins enough, he can win more shots, more stories, and more lives; of course, for the loser, his shots, his stories, and his life, Like no less than that winner.
Because the game is so boring, it has to be recorded with the same boring fixed long shot: the farther the camera is away from a person, the more information is obtained about him/her , so as not to make the game too boring.
Because the life behind the story is too lengthy, each scene takes one to two months to prepare: the preparation is not to turn the lengthy life into clarity, but to turn the lengthy into the clear density of the film and the clear thinking of the audience .
Because there is no winning or losing game in life, the scheduling of shots needs to be carefully planned to match the meaningless but meaningful expressions of winners and losers: one can convey an attitude toward life in a film .
Therefore, it took four years for the whole film to be completed under the boring efforts of the entire team. Maybe because the filming took too long, the flesh was a little whitish, just like the pale characters in the movie, the gray-white environment, and the taste is a bit weird, just like the movie is grotesque and exaggerated, but it is not noisy or publicized.
Tip 2: Good Attitude
Cook with a good attitude and produce good dishes.
Pigeon drilling tofu, the process is cumbersome, the procedures are numerous, and the chef needs to maintain a good attitude. Of course, according to some theories, animals dying in agony release a lot of toxins in their bodies, and it seems that they too need a good state of mind.
Good attitude, the first thing is to keep smiling.
According to Baidu Encyclopedia, the bizarre name "En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron" (a pigeon reflecting on the meaning of existence in a tree) was inspired by Pieter Bruegel's masterpiece "The Hunter in the Snow".
In the painting, the bird is perched on a branch, watching a group of hunters returning from hunting.
Hunters should laugh, go out hunting hard, but come back empty-handed, and it is a cold winter.
Birds should also laugh, they can laugh at themselves, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, it seems that they are still enjoying spring in the snow; they can laugh at hunters, their livelihood, life and survival have become the scenery of birds, they look down, They think, they think about the meaning of their own existence, and by the way they think about the meaning of people's existence.
In Roy Anderson's films, birds become doves, and mountain villages in the snow are magnified into the real world.
Thus, observer pigeons have more reasons to laugh.
They can laugh because people's absurdities don't stand up to scrutiny. Because of the absurdity, people have an eternal world, where there is no concept of time, anyone can appear at any time, anywhere. Because of the absurdity, people have big white faces and dark circles under their eyes, very much like clowns in a circus or characters in Japanese Noh dramas, and people act expressionlessly with masks, repeating the same words for dialogue.
They can laugh because of people's tried and true truths. Because of the truth, people can believe that life is good, but in fact it does not all end well. Because of logic, acting can only play the good side, but in fact we will all get sick and die, which is terrible, but this is a fact, we can only choose to accept it.
They can laugh, but after watching too much, they can't laugh. They will rather go back to the cage and dive headfirst into the tofu for a wonderful dish.
Just like people do.
This article was originally published on the public account "108 City", welcome to pay attention.
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