"Mulan" has finally settled, and the telling of Chinese stories in Hollywood will probably become a hot topic again.
From the original animated version of "Mulan" to the "Kung Fu Panda" series, from " Picking the Golden Romance " to "Don't Tell Her", Chinese elements have become more abundant and diverse in the vision of mainstream European and American audiences.
Hearty blockbuster visual effects experience , better than analysis to portray the protagonist’s inner , all constitute the Hollywood narrative method, making it easy and easy to recognize.
However, due to the age and lack of knowledge of English , many people have a little understanding of the history of Hollywood and are even less familiar with the behind-the-scenes production of the film industry.
The miniature
used in the filming of " Blade Runner 2049" may be surprised that now almost dominates the mecca of the film industry, Hollywood, initially was just a small area of Los Angeles.
1900's Hollywood
Sunny Southern California was discovered as a blessing by some film crews at the beginning of the last century. The veteran Paramount company also built the first studio, which marked the birth of Hollywood.
followed by the birth of studios, , and Warner Bros., Paramount, MGM and other companies have sole control over a series of processes that basically monopolize the production, distribution and screening of films.
is supplemented by star system to highlight the status of individual "superstar actors", so as to ensure the box office and even "pave the way" for series of movies or similar movies.
Catherine Hepburn
After nearly a hundred years of development, the small area of originally located in Los Angeles, Southern California has become a film mecca in North America and the world, witnessing the changes in the entire film industry.
However, under these two systems, the birth of an excellent work of is often inseparable from many behind-the-scenes staff.
It is not difficult to see the huge lineup of cast and crew from each ending subtitle, which is actually a window to help us understand the Hollywood production system.
For example, at the beginning of the film's development, the soundtrack of a movie was relatively crude and simple, with a simple function. With the development of
to this day, the soundtrack is not only indispensable, on the contrary, it is an important part of to highlight emotions, , and to add texture to the picture.
"Brokeback Mountain" Director Ang Lee
Therefore, in the creation process, the soundtrack needs to have a certain appreciation and control of the content of the screen, and know how to use music of different durations and styles to show various characters.
" Now You See Me 2" is a good example. Since
was filmed at Macau , the soundtrack created a trinity of music combining Chinese music , jazz and classical romanticism through a combination of piano, drums, orchestras, etc., and matched the unconstrained music The magic scene is quite pleasing to the eye. In this way, the story language of the
movie "Now You See Me 2" has evolved into a brand new look over the course of a hundred years.
In fact, a good movie is inseparable from the discussion of the times. systematically study film history and is a compulsory course for enjoying good movies.
Someone once said, "I have never understood what long lens is, even if I hear a lot of one shot every day."
"April Three Weeks and Two Days" uses a large number of exquisite long shots
, which is also the " blind zone " of many fans. Now few people do not watch movies, but they can really tell the classic representatives behind the movies. , Development history, and even keenly aware of shooting techniques, is still a very small number of . What is the charm of the lens of
; why can this movie be judged as excellent and classic; why are we involuntarily affected by emotions when watching movies? These problems, if does not look back at the history of movies, the fact is that most people would not even notice it.
"The Last Emperor" is about to be re-screened in Hong Kong
Therefore, we invited eleven well-known film scholars to jointly produce a high-quality audio course "Film Story-Focusing on the Top Ten Highlights of a Century of Film History"Engraved ". They will follow the time line and tell the ten most influential and most famous film movements in the history of world film. starts from the silent film period, the establishment of the Hollywood industrial system, the decline and re-emergence, to the European avant-garde, Italian new realism, French New Wave, and German new films, and takes the classic films and film masters of each period as clues, Taking the history of film as the axis, establish a systematic film coordinate system.
When you have a systematic study, next time you watch a movie, you can accurately grasp the rhythm of the movie, understand the director’s shooting techniques and express intentions, and immediately reflect which segments are paying tribute to classic movies and which are really good movies .
