has great special significance for Chinese films. In 1988, this film won the 38th Berlin Film Festival Jin Xiong Award. This is the first time that a Chinese film has won the highest award in the International Category A Film Festival. To use an analogy, it's like the women's volleyball team won the world championship in the early 1980s. It lifted the spirits of Chinese filmmakers. Before this, Chinese films were either outdated in concepts and methods, or had too strong ideology. Color, the film has always been used as a tool, but did not gain independence in the arts.
"Red Sorghum" completely broke through the inherent creative boundaries and became a masterpiece that can stand the test of time. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Mo Yan I have read the novel before. I don’t quite understand why Zhang Yimou adapted this work. First, the narrative of the novel is very continuous, more like fragments of memory, and many of them are descriptions of stream of consciousness. It is extremely difficult to adapt Mo Yan’s work into a movie. Mo Yan did not express much about the adaptation of the script. Instead, he let the two screenwriters free themselves and opened up the script. After the script was written, even Mo Yan himself was a little dumbfounded. After a substantial reduction, only a few scenes are left:
, but the content of the book has been greatly rendered. It turns out that Zhang Yimou’s talent is the most suitable for making this movie. He was not special. He is good at storytelling and stylization is his advantage. This very simple story has become vivid and unique after his polishing. This is the first time that Zhang Yimou and Gong Li have cooperated. At that time, Gong Li was only a Central Academy of Drama. Zhang Yimou's second-year student caught her at a glance, and Jiu'er's role fell to Gong Li. This is fate! The
movie begins with a narrative. It starts from an invisible "I" and tells the story of "My Grandpa" and "My Grandma". Judging from the voice line, the voice of this "I" should be Jiang Wen. Zhang Yimou drastically adapted the original novel. , Re-organize a plot that jumps back and forth into a linear line. At the beginning, it was "My Grandma" Jiu'er getting married, but the strange thing is that it happened in Shandong, but the sedan chair song is the folk song of northern Shaanxi, and Zhang Yimou is People from Shaanxi, adding this song must be his idea. There was no plot advancement in this 5-minute sedan drama, just singing this tune
over and over again. This unconventional technique can show Zhang Yimou’s thinking. Not to express anything, but to express the energy. The high-pitched Suona Qiming represents a wild and pure vitality. This movie is a tribute to this primitive power. Sorghum is a very tenacious vitality. Plants can live in drought and flood, and they have a habit of special draught. As long as you pour water in the sorghum field, they will grow like crazy. Sorghum is a symbol of people living on this land. They are rude, arrogant, and advocating force, but at the same time they are also straightforward, full of passion. The director
also designed a wonderful bridge. After the wild joint in the sorghum field, J Jiuer rode on the mule and continued forward. The husband walked parallel to him, but hid himself in the sorghum field, singing with his voice, not using lines, but using emotions to narrate. Under the backlight of the lens, Jiu’er’s face appeared with a smile, as if to find In the same way as the main body, a branch plot was inserted. The bandit and the three guns kidnapped Jiu'er, corrupted the money of the winery, and solved the woman's problem in a man's way. This is also a foreshadowing of the later plot
. In the narrative, you can’t see the historical background. If you want to say that this is the story of the Qing Dynasty, I also believe it, but the following narrative has the shadow of history. The Japanese are here, they intercepted the villagers to build their own roads, the bandits Both Tusanpao and Luohan from the winery participated in the resistance, but were captured by the Japanese. At this time, the villagers stepped out a circle in the sorghum field, just like the "my grandfather" before. The difference is that the first The second is to praise life, and this time to destroy life
. This is a movie that is completely supported by hormones and passion. Every shot seems to make you feel the pulse of life, such a very simple and lack of narrative details. Zhang Yimou made a bloody lyrical poem by Zhang Yimou. He was a newcomer at the time. He had no burdens, he didn’t deliberately learn from others, and of course he didn’t have box office pressure. That’s why he was able to release himself and shoot such a high level of art.
