On the other side, Jiang Wen, who had just sat down, put one leg on the other and half supported his head, looking very relaxed.
Jiang Wen's acting career started when he failed to get into Peking University. He was a eldest boy in the capital. He came from a high-achieving family at that time, and his turbulent life made him think about society and life at a young age. This kind of thinking often
He went against the mainstream, so he was beaten many times by his father.
The reason for beating him was "Jiang Wen, you are pretending to be stupid because you don't understand."
Under the guidance of many factors, Jiang Wen, who has become an actor and director, naturally despises ordinary movies.
He has a prejudice that cultural works should not only have a purely entertainment function, but must make people think for a moment after reading them. And because of this kind of thinking, ten or twenty years later, the audience who comes today still remembers Qixi Festival.
In the early morning of the festival, how did the movie I watched affect my subsequent life?
The beginning of "Love Is Afterlife" is unremarkable, like a cliche fantasy romance movie:
Xiaoyu, a single woman, moved into an old house in the mountains. She had never been attracted to men before and had no enthusiasm for life. A man's back often appeared in her dreams, but the camera deliberately did not show the man's face.
Xiaoyu felt very close to this ancient house. She began to dream more and more realistically. Several times, she even seemed to see the man in reality while half asleep and half awake. She reached out to grab him, but he had already disappeared.
At this point, the first ten minutes of the movie have passed. Jiang Wen took advantage of the black screen to turn on and looked back at the audience. The audience was worried, worried that they had watched a ghost movie during the Chinese Valentine's Day. The girls were nestled in the arms of the boys.
Don't dare to widen your eyes.
The art of directing lies in breaking or exceeding the audience's original expectations.
Jiang Wen is an expert in this field, and his films can often surprise the audience. As an industry insider, Jiang Wen is very clear that this is a technique of suppressing before promoting, but his threshold is much higher than that of ordinary audiences, and he needs to "enhance"
” will be interesting if there are a lot of them.
——Xiaoyu’s friends are afraid that she is suffering from depression, so they go up the mountain to see her every week. On this day, Xiaoyu will prepare a hot tea and wait on the stone table. The movie continuously shows several different two girls chatting
The camera, and then suddenly one day, the tea was prepared and left there, but no one came to pick it up.
Xiaoyu shouted several times, and there seemed to be movement under the ginkgo tree. She fearfully picked up the knife to defend herself, and slowly approached to ask.
Obviously, the next step is to "raise".
Because the emotions are well-established, the audience is waiting for the plot on tenterhooks. Jiang Wen is very familiar with the subsequent processing methods. This is also the reason why the director often feels boring when watching movies. He doesn't know what kind of shots are needed to scare him.
His emotions jumped because he had already anticipated the answer.
However, when the monk actually appeared on the stage, he still let out a "hiss" sound because of this too exciting answer. He stretched forward and looked carefully. He couldn't hear his own voice because the reaction of the entire movie theater was much better than that of the monk.
He was much more violent, and everyone shouted "Wow~~~" in unison:
Ginkgo leaves are flying, and the monk in cassock gradually reveals his true appearance from the dark night. The eyes move from his legs to his face, and finally a pair of complex and affectionate eyes.
Jiang Wen was excited. He knew that he had to invite Fang Yi to cooperate. This was not a matter of the director's superb skills, but the actor's own innate skills. If it were another person, there would be no such effect.
There are many aspects of the film that are in line with commercial elements, so that the film does not appear too dull.
For example, Xiaoyu first stood up with a knife, and after seeing clearly the face of the person coming, the knife clattered to the ground, making the audience smile knowingly.
For example, the monk came to sit down at the stone table and told Xiaoyu why he became a monk. Along with his story, the whole play entered a new timeline. At the beginning, Fang Yi was given a close-up of Fang Yi reading a book. This kind of
Just like the muscle-showing part that Hollywood spy movies must have, it is an effective and simple eye-catching technique.
For example, the appearance of Jiao Enjun and Xiu Qing. Jiang Wen couldn't recognize them completely, but he guessed from the audience's laughter that Fang Yi had taken some kind of trick.
So is this movie just that?
no.
What surprises Jiang Wen is that the relationship between a man and a woman is just an appetizer, an introduction. The confrontation behind the protagonist is not a personal grudge or hatred, but a real fight between natives and foreigners in history. Once you know this, you will understand it.
The relationship between the two must be a tragedy, because they could not go against the will of the ethnic group in the agricultural era and build a modern atomized individual family, which elevated the concept of the entire film.
In the process of these two people as individuals, from hostility to acquaintance and love, the ethnic hatred between the two parties has not melted away, but has deepened step by step. Most of the audience thought that the movie was making love, playing the role of an ancient overbearing CEO.
That's not the case in My Story. In fact, those scenes of giving out sweets have already started to be cruel, but the audience can't expect it yet.
Xiaoyu likes azaleas, but there were no azaleas growing during their wedding season, so the monk asked everyone to cut red silk cloth into the shape of azaleas and dress the entire wedding room in a joyous manner.
When this scene was played, the entire cinema was filled with a charming atmosphere.
However, this kind of flower will never wither, and there is no need to take into account the season. Even if it fades and becomes dirty, it can be dyed and used as a new one. It just has no floral fragrance, no bees to stay, and does not need the nourishment of water. In other words,
After all, it is not a rhododendron, and using it instead is just self-deception for young people.
The newlyweds are not completely unaware.
On the wedding night, the monks discussed whether to leave the village. From then on, the two of them traveled far away and became a couple of gods and immortals.
However, the hot tea, silk cloth, and even dyes they relied on were all provided by the tribe, and they could not survive without the tribe. They could only seize the time, live a good life as two people, and ignore what was going on outside the window.
Xiaoyu also made efforts. She couldn't let go of the monk, and she couldn't betray the clan that raised her, so she could only fake her own death and live peacefully with the monk.
Unfortunately, it prompted the other side to find traces of this side.
Under this kind of contradiction, it was not surprising that the day it finally broke out. A large number of Monk's tribesmen were killed. Xiaoyu could not face all this, so she just wanted to let Monk kill herself. However, she failed and actually fell in a pool of blood.
And the monk really became a monk from then on, offering salvation to the dead on both sides, until he turned into a ghost. He was not willing to reincarnate, but was waiting for the reincarnation of Xiaoyu, hoping to see the last side of Xiaoyu.
In addition to the story, Xiaoyu now also gradually discovered that the person in the monk's story was herself in the previous life. She knew something was wrong with the monk, because the monk always appeared after dusk, and specifically told Xiaoyu not to try to find him during the day.
Sometimes you can hear the sound of monks knocking wooden fish and chanting sutras, but if you get closer, there is no sound anymore.
On the last night, Xiaoyu kept adding water to the monk and said, "The tea is cold, I will refill it for you." She remained calm at first, but then her voice gradually trembled, and the monk just looked at her and smiled.
Xiaoyu returned to her room and saw herself in the mirror in her previous life. She chose to rush out to find the monk desperately. It was also at this moment that the director used a romantic expression technique. She suddenly became what she was in her previous life, desperately trying to
Grab the monk's hand.
But the sky gradually grew brighter, and the day when the monk finished telling the story was also the last day he could stay in the world. When the sky dawned, the natural person also disappeared.