is directed by the five-generation director Tian Zhuangzhuang. When it comes to Tian Zhuangzhuang, he can be said to be a special existence among the five-generation directors. He was fined for ten years because he made a movie about the special period from 1953 to 1967. This film is the first film he shot after lifting the ban. It is starring Zhang Zhen and tells the life story of the Go master Wu Qingyuan. This work is adapted from Wu Qingyuan's memoirs. In 2007, he won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Director at the Shanghai International Film Festival for his biographical film.
Wu Qingyuan, who was born in the Republic of China, is a Go prodigy. At the age of 11, he has become a chess player under the Beiyang warlord Duan Qiruimen. At a young age, he has supported a family with his genius chess skills. When he was 14 years old, he went east to Japan and won the championship of Nippon Kiin. Since then, Wu Qingyuan defeated Japan's top chess players with his own strength, and was known as the "Sho of Showa Go" and created the "Wu Qingyuan era" in the Japanese Go world.
Go is a traditional Chinese strategy board game. It was introduced to Japan via North Korea in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Go contains the rich connotations of Chinese culture and is considered the most complicated board game in the world. As an ancient intellectual game, the game changes are very subtle. A young child can defeat all chess players on the chessboard. This is indeed a legend.
The protagonist of the movie "Wu Qingyuan" is Zhang Zhen of "Guling Street Juvenile Murder". This movie once again brought him into people's vision. Zhang Zhen lost weight crazy for this play, and went to learn Go and Japanese. He asked the translator to read out the Japanese lines in the play, and then marked the pronunciation and tone of each word. It can be seen that he has an attitude, but Wu Qingyuan has been living in a Japanese environment since he was fourteen. This is not a quick question, it is better to use dubbing.
How does Tian Zhuangzhuang use Zhang Zhen to tell this story about genius? Tian Zhuangzhuang is a director with his own sense of rhythm. He chose to skip the 14 years before Wu Qingyuan's visit. Perhaps this choice was also to avoid sensitive figures in this historical period because of this. For a while, he had an intersection with Duan Qirui. And in this movie, he also selectively skipped the story of playing chess with Fu Yi in 1934; and the story of seeing Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan. When filming this work, director Tian Zhuangzhuang can clearly feel his respect for Wu Qingyuan. He carefully intercepted several insignificant fragments of Wu Qingyuan’s life, and tried to use cool colors to express the characters on the screen. Cool temperament, when watching the whole film, you can also feel the quiet atmosphere created by the director. Many fragments are developed in parallel in the structure of the film. They have not succeeded in constructing a complete spiritual world, and neither can feel Wu Qingyuan’s this The splendor of a person cannot reflect the spiritual realm of Wu Qingyuan’s character. Just like last year’s Chinese captain, the protagonist did not capture the real admiration of the protagonist, nor can he feel how he played a game of chess in this movie. The change in the spiritual world over time, this is one of Tian Zhuangzhuang's failures.
Because of this shortcoming, the film has become a pure and quiet scene. The accumulation of cold-toned fragments can only allow the audience to enter this atmosphere when watching the movie, and nothing can be left after the movie. Before the viewer can feel and touch Wu Qingyuan's inner world, the film has hurried to the next stage of life.
When shooting this film, the director gave up his skills. This film is more like a one-sided documentary. This reproduction may not be as clear as the documentary. After all, the documentary will show a complete person instead of being elaborate. Screened and shaped characters. The director has taken his implicit style to the extreme. Under this implicit appearance, the turbulence of Wu Qingyuan's life is hidden. Perhaps he can understand Wu Qingyuan in the eyes of the director, but his life, the historical period he was in, was not so ordinary. And plain is not Wu Qingyuan's life. This person shook the Japanese chess scene and made the media crazy. His spirit and wisdom won the admiration of countless upper-class people. But Wu Qingyuan's soul pursuit in troubled times is not plain and simple. It can be expressed. The
movie "Wu Qingyuan" tried to be quiet. After watching it, the audience also felt that the four are empty. For his life, it is not because of being transparent, but a process of gradual understanding. Another point is that this film presents a passing in order to be noble and clean.Yu Kongling’s existence is rarely mentioned or explained in the history of Go. This will make audiences who don’t know about Go feel confused. After reading it, they won’t have any three-dimensional understanding of Wu Qingyuan. Perhaps it can be said that they even read this story. Don't understand. Zhang Zhen’s interpretation of Wu Qingyuan is the one he understands. The Wu Qingyuan he represents is the same as the Wu Qingyuan imagined by Tian Zhuangzhuang, which is similar to the existence of "not very smart". It does not mean that this person is not smart, but that he is too smart. Chasing the spiritual world, he doesn't care about the real world, and feels a bit straightforward and cold, but Wu Qingyuan is not such a person.
Wu Qingyuan is a very smart and realistic person. The difference between the game of Go and other games is that in addition to understanding the rules, it requires a lot of design, which requires a lot of brainpower and effort. What is good for him and what is not good, all aspects of these lives are as calculated and understood as playing chess, and he will not beautify his image and make himself holy in order to build his glorious image. He got married because his mother and younger sister were preparing to return to China, fearing the inconvenience of their lives, so please ask someone to introduce them. The film is full of stories about Wu Qingyuan’s psychological changes before his naturalization. Wu Qingyuan has been associated with Go all his life. He became Japanese naturalized in 1936. He himself had a realistic attitude towards this matter, and Wu Qingyuan also wrote in his autobiography. I said that in 1946, overseas Chinese forced him to give up his Japanese nationality, but after he lost chess, he took away his temporary Chinese passport because he felt he was embarrassed. This story is also very ironic.
Wu Qingyuan has devoted his entire life to the chessboard, but there are few wonderful game fragments in this movie. Perhaps the director wants to weaken the symbol of Go, and express that Go is not the whole life of Wu Qingyuan. But this is a symbol in his life that can never be circumvented. In the film, the connection between Wu Qingyuan and Go is not close enough, and there is no fateful taste of Go sinking due to the rise of Go. This makes the audience who love Wu Qingyuan feel deeply unhappy, but the audience who knows little about Go should think of this movie. Even more irritable, because the movie has weakened Go, and what Go means to Wu Qingyuan, but only a few words are not convincing enough.
What kind of genius is Wu Qingyuan? How did such a man become a "Showa Gosei"? Why did he become a symbol of the era in Japan? For this person, Tian Zhuangzhuang still doesn't understand enough. What is the focus of the director? It is the cherry blossoms in April in Tokyo, Japan. It is the first-class Japanese architecture and traditional costumes. It is a mixture of religious forces. As a biographical documentary, the quality of the picture taken in this film is absolutely top-level. It is not only documentary needs. All the atmosphere, tell a continuous story with a simple lens.
The movie is the art of reproduction. Since Tian Zhuangzhuang gave up the complicated shooting method, how did he shoot the wall linking each era between the films, and jump to the next life story after one life has passed. This special session is not Smart, sometimes gives the audience a feeling of haste. The director often treated Wu Qingyuan’s hesitation and struggles in his inner world artistically, amplifying this helpless emotion, creating a kind of dilemma and a sense of alienation; many times he was acting on the external force. Next, it affects this person's xinxing, and magnifies the impact of this person's behavior and psychological world. His tears, his daze in the hospital bed, and the knot on the beams of the room.
Sometimes when watching a movie, he also thinks, how would Tian Zhuangzhuang invite Wu Qingyuan to come to his movie after watching the movie? Wu Qingyuan has been a member of a religion all his life. Although many people think that this religion always seems to have a trace of evil, although this is our view of it, we really don’t know what its specific beliefs are, but this art It is not known whether the treatment of transformation is the director's wishful adaptation or for the sake of passing the trial. Director
pulled the protagonist in his work from the abyss and gave this character a new life. In the final analysis, this chess master is still the pride of the nation. After all, he represents the image of China in many cases and has won many Honor, so this kind of treatment opened the people's heart, and the distance from the unknown, small beliefs, for this character, it is a dramatic change. Let the identity of the chess saint and the image that should be expressed are handled in harmony, not only avoiding sensitive parts, but making this character more positive, perhapsIt is the reflection over the past ten years that has made his artistic handling a lot more careful.
After watching the movie, I can also express my approval and understanding of the director's treatment. He has created a perfect image, which is more like an idol in the hearts of the people. He not only represents the glory of an era, but also a sacred existence in many people's hearts. In the film, Zhang Zhen is quiet most of the time, but he is emotional, more human, and not smart enough. As an image created by film and television, such a character is useless. For Wu Qingyuan, it might be a little funny. After all, he has been wandering among various forces since he was fourteen. If he wants to survive in the cracks, he has to feed his family. How could such a character live? After growing up, so vulnerable.
Wu Qingyuan was born in a famous family, his father Wu Yi was a consort, and his mother Zhang Shuwen is the eldest daughter of Zhang Yuanqi, the governor of Fengtian in the Republic of China. His father came into contact with Go and started learning when he was studying in Japan. When he returned home, he brought back a large number of Japanese chess books, which had a great influence on Wu Qingyuan. He was frail and sick from a young age, but he was talented in Go, and then he began to concentrate on the study of chess. When he was a few years old, he could play against top chess players, and he entered Duan Mansion at the age of 11 and received a monthly subsidy of 100 yuan from Dayang.
In order to support his family, he started to play chess in a Japanese club. Yamazaki Yumin noticed him and recommended it to Kensaku Segotsu. He was an important figure in the Japanese chess school. Yamazaki was very helpful to the Wu family and recommended Wu Qingyuan. East to Japan. Later Wu Qingyuan always recalled this person, calling him one of the unforgettable benefactors. How could such a person have emotional changes due to the trivial things in the movie. In the film of
, Wu Qingyuan, perhaps the director only achieved pure two characters. This character always lives in the performance. He still has very little guessing about the character’s psychological world, although the actor has done a lot of psychological construction in order to get close to the character. , And also dedicated meditation to briefly understand Wu Qingyuan's heart.
Whether it is Zhang Zhen or Tian Zhuangzhuang, there is still a big gap in his understanding. It is correct to make this character human. It is also necessary to write his firework, but in the symbol of Go, what is said Too little, and understanding of Wu Qingyuan is limited to fur. His country is turbulent. An 11-year-old child has to take care of the whole family. This immature heart has to go through when facing two ethnic groups. How much thinking and temptation. Since
put the camera on him in his youth, why not build a more mature and comprehensive spiritual world, and he can still become famous in the troubled times, and met countless nobles along the way, helping him reach the peak of Go. In his youth, he was also known as Japan, the age when he pioneered the era. Why not tell this proud glory, Wu Qingyuan that Tian Zhuangzhuang brought to the audience is just a vague shadow.
