Are there any modernist film masters in the Chinese film world? If so, please give an example. Answer: Yes, Wang Jiawei.
Are there any postmodernist film masters in the Chinese film world? If so, please give an example. Answer: Yes, Wang Jiawei.
As above, academic film critics always like to add these high-sounding titles to Wong Kar-wai. Indeed, distinctive personal style, consistent artistic pursuits, genius self-editing and directing, the title of "film author" deserves the title; pasted stories, fragmented time and space, symbolic characters, and "postmodernism" characteristics It is complete; the loneliness of life, the alienation and difficulty of communication between people, the motif of search and rejection, the theme of "modernism" is clear. In this way, Wang Jiawei unbelievably integrated modernism and postmodernism, two very different or even diametrically opposed artistic concepts. The postmodernist form wraps the modernist theme.
However, fans who really love Wong Kar-wai generally don’t bother to pay attention to these annoying concepts of "ism". For us, loving Wong Kar-wai’s movies is to love the "sunglass manufacturing" kind of "only one, no other stores" in the world film industry. The tune: the magnificence is mixed with a bit of blurred images, the melancholy is a bit of sorrowful actors, the true feelings are revealed occasionally or a bit of hypocritical inner monologues and the background music just right to the fire... all these elements are combined, It's the kind of breathtaking feeling.
As the first English-language film directed by Wong Kar-wai, "Blueberry Night" has the first feature of "Sunglasses Manufacturing"-Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn, Tim. The luxurious plastic surgery composed of Roth is a luxury for any director, but it is only a habit for sunglasses. Only three years ago, he had completed three generations of girls in "2046" (Gong Li , Zhang Ziyi, Dong Jie) feat of competing on the same stage. But the problem ensues. When the familiar Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Maggie Cheung, Faye Wong, and Carina Lau are replaced by a group of blue-eyed and yellow-haired actors, "Blueberry Night" can still maintain the original "sunglasses". Features"?
Facts have proved that my worries are unnecessary. "Blueberry Night" maintains the consistent tone and feel of "sunglasses manufacturing" like a fake replacement. Many of the shots in the film are like deja vu: the psychedelic elevated city Iron, clean fast food restaurants, drunken bars, slow motions caused by grids, appropriate background music, delicate and soothing camera movements, extremely elegant and gorgeous images, and a group of obsessed men and women who are trapped by love... all of these are very familiar to us. "Sunglasses symbol". The original "sunglasses tone" of "Blueberry Night" proves two things: the truly outstanding acting skills are interlinked. The blue-eyed and yellow-haired actors of Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, and David Strathairn The expressions of talking, walking, drinking, and smoking in the film perfectly match the unique style of "sunglass manufacturing", and are almost the same as those of Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Faye Wong, and Maggie Cheung that we are familiar with. Second, the real film author is really the real "talker" of a film, and he has a way to adjust the actors' performance mode to obey his overall style. There has always been a saying: Although Wong Kar-wai’s films are full of stars, these superstars lose their own characteristics in the film. They are only pawns by Wong Kar-wai to complete their artistic pursuits. Although this statement has a tendency to devalue the role of an actor, it does not Not baseless gibberish.
However, as a hardcore fan of sunglasses, "Blueberry Night" maintains the original sunglasses features, but it is not very satisfactory to me. Three years ago, I also rushed to the theater for the first time to watch "2046" which took four years to polish the sunglasses. The film brought me a complete head-to-toe satisfaction. A masterpiece with the pinnacle of sunglasses aesthetics. Three years later, I rushed to the theater as soon as possible to watch the first English film "Blueberry Night" with sunglasses. After I walked out of the theater, I always felt that something was missing. There are no problems with the film’s technical and formal levels. Fujifilm’s outstanding color expression perfectly fulfills the aesthetic pursuit of sunglasses, creating a world of colorful images like a drunken fan. As mentioned above, the aesthetics of sunglasses are in form. Various tunes are readily available in the film. So, the problem lies at the story level. Simply put, the story told by the sunglasses this time is a bit vulgar.
Just as Zhou Muyun said when writing the novel 2046 in "2046": "I wrote a story about a group of obsessive men and women", this is actually the motif of all of his films that Wong Kar-wai said through Zhou Muyun's mouth. Indeed, we saw a group of obsessed men and women in the movie with sunglasses. Most of them yearn for love but are afraid of harm, so that they can protect themselves from the wind. Typical examples are Lin Qingxia in a raincoat in "Chongqing Forest" and "Chongqing Forest". Leslie Cheung’s classic line in "Evil East and West Poison": "If you don't want to be rejected, the best way is to reject others first." Therefore, they will adopt a playful attitude towards emotions, such as A Fei who describes himself as a footless bird and Zhou Muyun who wanders among many women, and like Faye Wong in "Chongqing Forest" and "Fallen Angel" There are very few people like Takeshi Kaneshiro in China who has a disposition like love and hate.
It should be noted that although the sunglasses films have been telling the love stories of a group of obsessive men and women, each story is absolutely different, and it is far different from those hypocritical love stories. Even "In the Mood for Love", which tells about extramarital affairs, has become a model that embodies the aesthetics of sunglasses because of its simple and white narrative, soothing and soft mirror movement, the perfect cooperation of images and music, and the outstanding performance of the two actors. For. Regrettably, the three emotional stories told by "Blueberry Night": the love story between Norah Jones and Jude Law as the main body, the emotional entanglement between Rachel Weisz and David Strathairn, and the family story between Natalie Portman and his father. In that respect, they are all very clichéd, without the extraordinary surprise of the love stories in "Chongqing Forest" and "Fallen Angels": Faye Wong breaks into Tony Leung's house and messes with Li Jiaxin at Dawn. Painful masturbation on the bed, Liming and Karen Mok’s lightning-like love affair, Jin Cheng Wu took Yang Caini to grieve his rival...not to mention the dizzying love entanglement of the N heroes in "Evil and West Tox". NS.
However, although the story is somewhat clichéd, for die-hard fans of sunglasses, "Blueberry Night" is definitely worth going to the theater. After all, since "2046", we have been waiting for three full years. One of the great pleasures of watching "Blueberry Night" is to take the Hollywood stars in the film and the former queen actors in sunglasses to match the seats. Indeed, there are so many familiar elements in "Blueberry Night" that we have to make us think about it: the psychedelic elevated city rail is to "Fallen Angel" and "2046", the fast food restaurant is to "Chongqing Forest", and in The two handsome girls Norah Jones and Jude Law working in the fast food restaurant correspond to Faye Wong in "Chongqing Forest" and Takeshi Kaneshiro in "Fallen Angels". The police officer 663 in "Forest" has many similarities. Natalie Portman, who spends his whole day in the casino and doesn't trust everyone in the game, can be called the male version of ALFY or Zhou Muyun. To some extent, "Blueberry Night" is the continuation of "Chongqing Forest" and "Fallen Angel", just as "2046" three years ago is the continuation of "A Fei's Story" and "In the Mood for Love", we might as well add the first three The Ministry called it the "Urban Trilogy", and the latter three as the "Nostalgic Trilogy".
Of course, the above-mentioned fun of sitting in seats can only be enjoyed by die-hard fans of sunglasses, but for viewers who have not always been interested in "sunglass manufacturing", "Blueberry Night" is also worth watching. On the one hand, Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn, Tim Roth so many Hollywood stars appearing on the big screens of Chinese theaters at the same time is not an annual event. On the other hand, the clichés of the film's story are the mainstream when it comes to the good side. Compared with the predecessor "2046", the story of "Blueberry Night" is much more normal. Although it is a bit cliché, the three exquisite emotional sketches are It is very warm, and it is more suitable for the atmosphere of the Lunar New Year stalls than the passionate "Voting Name" and "Assembly Number".
From this, it is foreseeable that "Blueberry Night" may enjoy the opposite treatment of "2046". Although the latter has reached the peak of sunglasses aesthetics in form, it greatly satisfies the appreciation desire of our die-hard movie fans. It made us thoroughly refreshed from head to toe, but due to the reasons of the story (the audience who don’t know well about "A Fei Zheng Chuan" and "The Mood for Love" cannot really enter the plot), but we can't get the approval of ordinary audiences. . In contrast, "Blueberry Night" is likely to be recognized by many audiences due to the popularization of the story, but it is difficult to get a lot of recognition for die-hard fans of sunglasses. However, we shouldn’t be disappointed in sunglasses because of this. After all, this star-studded emotional sketch is just a small piece of sunglasses for the first time in Hollywood. Maybe, in the future, "Women from Shanghai" with Nicole Kidman or and "The Biography of Ye Wen" co-authored by Tony Leung is the real work. Although there is no definite news about the two films, we are used to waiting, because the sunglasses are worth waiting for.
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