"Born as a centurion, and die as a hero. Some people are born with a fixed hit, and fighting on the battlefield may be Mulan's destiny."
introduction-
not long ago, on the news about the Mulan audition video Hot search.
director Nikki Caro shared with us the audition video for the corner of Hua Mulan. Among them, Dou Jingtong, Yang Caiyu, Lan Yingying, Zhang Yishang, Shang Yuxian and many other female stars participated in the audition. In the end, Liu Yifei succeeded in gaining favor through her own strength and continuous efforts, and won the role of Mulan.
While the American Disney's Mulan was frequently searched for various reasons, my country's Mulan has been released quietly. The
movie "Wu Shuang Mulan" is a feature film filmed by director Chen Cheng, starring Wu Jianfei, Wei Wei, Hu Xueer, Shang Tielong, Liang Hao, Zhu Yaying and others. It will premiere worldwide on May 7, 2020.
The film tells the story of the Rouran army invading the border during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the country convened soldiers to join the army, and Hua Mulan dressed as a man to enlist in the border to serve as a soldier, and gradually grow up after a series of events. The box office of the
movie has only been 3.54 million in 4 days since its release. Both the title and the plot of the movie have been complained by viewers. Some people are even exaggerated to say that they can't stand it for 5 minutes, but the movie is really so "unbearable." ?
once saw a sentence: The world of is not black and white, right or wrong, and there is no dualism in everything. correspondingly, although "Wu Shuang Hua Mulan" is full of slots, it is in my mind In my mind, this film still has many amazing advantages. Next, I will analyze the unique charm of "Wushuang Mulan" in my mind from three aspects.
1. Taking my country's Northern Wei Dynasty as a fixed time background, through the incident of serving as the father of the army, it tells the tortuous but long-destined fate of the female representative Hua Mulan.
- ①The background of the time when the image of Hua Mulan appeared
Hua Mulan was an "ordinary" girl in the North and South Period. Due to the invasion of the Rouran Army, every household needs to send a strong man to the battlefield. There is only one elderly father and young in Hua Mulan's family. My younger brother, because he couldn't bear his father going to the battlefield, so the woman disguised himself as a man to replace his father on the battlefield. From then on, he started a twelve-year military career, and eventually made great achievements and returned home.
As one of the four heroines in ancient Chinese legends, Mulan was dubbed the "General Filial Piety" by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He is a representative figure in the Southern and Northern Dynasties of China.
"Chirps and chirps, Mulan is the household weaving. I don't hear the machine scream, but the woman sighs. Ask the woman what she thinks, and ask her what she remembers. Women also have nothing to think, and women have no memories. I saw military posts last night, Khan is a big soldier, with twelve volumes of military books, scrolls with a master. Grandpa has no elders, and Mulan has no elder brother. I am willing to be a pommel horse for the city and conquer the master from now on...." When
mentioned Hua Mulan, everyone would naturally think of junior high The "Mulan Ci" learned in the textbook first appeared in "Gujin Yuelu", and was later compiled in "Yuefu Poetry Collection", and was also called "Yuefu Double Wall" with the "Peacock" in Chinese literature history.
As the original character image of Mulan, it can be said that it has identified the background of the era in which Mulan appeared, and then we have seen that the whole structure of Mulan’s movies, cartoons and other works as the main story It is based on Mulan's Ci, boldly use imagination and creativity, continuous innovation, and continuous change, so as to show the multi-faceted character of the protagonist, explore more possibilities, and express the different themes interpreted by the director.
- ②The reason why the role of Mulan appeared is .
We only know that Hua Mulan was born in the Northern Wei and Southern and Northern Dynasties, but some people say that he was born in the Taiwu reign of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and some people say that during the Yining reign of Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty, there are different opinions and there are different opinions in history.
but the comprehensive movie "WushuangLooking at "Mulan", I think Hua Mulan is more inclined to the period of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because she participated in the war between Northern Wei Dynasty and Rouran with her comrades many times after her expedition.
No matter where Mulan is from, the disguise of women as men in the earliest feudal system was not accepted by the world, not to mention that women who entered the military camp would be decapitated, but the author who wrote the role of Mulan was the first author. Going the other way, not only showed his resistance and ridicule to the obvious phenomenon of male superiority in feudal society, but also exaggerated the image of women with writing techniques, with distinctive individualistic characteristics, and fighting hard under special conditions. Traveling thousands of miles to the battlefield, affirmed the achievements and spread them in the barracks, praising her passionately, letting the female image of Hua Mulan as a spiritual force support all the soldiers in the barracks, inspiring them to continue to struggle and make breakthroughs , Kill the enemy heroically on the battlefield and achieve victory.
Hua Mulan may have no one in history, but she pretends to be a man and entered the military camp, but she has her own on the battlefield. It is not only a manifestation of personal color, but also a spiritual symbol that encourages countless wars. people.
2. Character shaping: Through the shaping of four characters, the character of the protagonist Hua Mulan is described in a detailed and comprehensive manner to the audience. Through family affection, friendship and love, the personal image is more multi-faceted and three-dimensional.
As the saying goes, the success of a film, in addition to good creativity and complete narrative, the quality of character creation is the core of the overall film's success. In "Wushuang Mulan", the director uses a zero-degree narrative to make the director and the audience an equal relationship. The neutral narrative attitude allows the audience to better understand history and see the beautiful and cruel battles in the war, which arouses deep thought.
Through family, friendship, and love, from the director’s desire to create Mulan, to the individual’s view of Mulan, to the other’s view of Mulan, the director has created at least three-dimensional or even four-dimensional character images to bring Mulan’s emotions, The psychological changes are shown in detail in front of the audience, pulling the distance between the two, substituting the audience into the protagonist, and experiencing the difficulty and difficulty of a generation of heroines on the battlefield.
- ①Father's flower arc represents family affection.
Beauvoir believes that the image of women in the film: is "not born congenital but nurtured" . Family affection is the primary reason for the rise of women, and this film is no exception.
In the movie, Hua Arc appeared, dressed in coarse linen, bent over and hunched over, and walked slowly to seek marriage for his daughter Mulan, but the fortune-telling man said that Mulan has no marriage relationship, and this life is destined to solve this problem. The method, the goddess said: "When the sun and the moon shine together, the sky glows red, we have our own soldiers to help." This sentence of
shows that Hua Mulan is different from other women who are married to each other. She is destined to be different from others, just like The beginning of the film said: heroes are difficult to determine the troubled times, the troubled times must be heroes.
Having said that, Huahu, like all his fathers, is still worried about the disaster of Hua Mulan's hit, and wants to find a solution for her and keep her safe.
Rouran invaded, Huahu, as a military household, despite his advanced age, but the country is in trouble, he must be bound to go out on the battlefield. There are only two roads before him, one is to return in triumph, and the other is to die on the battlefield. The only worry was his daughter Hua Mulan and his son Mu Di. He carefully advised his wife that if he never returned, she must find a good family for Mulan, and don't let her dance with swords and guns, and take care of her.
How can the filial Mulan let him go to the battlefield? At night, Mulan heard her father coughing while sharpening her sword, taking off her earrings, putting on men's clothing, and leaving overnight to go to the barracks. With the help of her father's Huahu, the director showed that Hua Mulan is a filial person. Since ancient times, my country has admired "Hundred good filial piety first" . Mulan's motives are not only reasonable.Explaining and getting another step of sublimation, she enlisted because of filial piety, gave up a comfortable life, went to battle to kill the enemy, is the beginning of a tortuous fate.
- ②Friend Li Liang and Yuan Hong represent friendship.
Hua Mulan entered the camp with his "friends" in the same village. Li Liang and Yuan Hong are ruffians in the village. They are glib and always do something "stealous". They also serve in the army for their father. They are the only people who know Mulan’s true identity. It is precisely because of this that the three of them are also from the same country. Keeping the same secret, they are dependent on each other and help each other in the barracks.
Mulan fought against Rouran for the first time. With her great skill, she defeated Rouran's general history and cut off the spear without hurting them in the slightest. When asked why, she came to answer , "I am my father" , It’s not here to take human lives, if I don’t hurt people, people don’t hurt me" , from this point of view Mulan’s thoughts are purely "female benevolence".
The other party sighed and told her earnestly: "On the battlefield, you will fight for life, if you are righteous, you may lose your life." The words of
became true. Mulan and his party went to rescue the prince Tuobashuo and Yuan. Hong was captured by the Rouran army, and then taken to the gate of the city wall and beheaded. Watching her friends who grew up with her being killed, Hua Mulan realized for the first time that the battlefield was different from the usual "small fights", was in In troubled times, no one can stay out of things. Only you die and die on the battlefield without letting it go. Only by getting stronger can you protect yourself and those around you.
Li Liang and Yuan Hong, as important supporting actors throughout the film, promote the development of the story, has an irreversible key turning point in a certain period of time, so that Hua Mulan understands a truth and makes a psychological transformation on the battlefield. Appears mainly plays a specific role and completes a certain narrative function.
- ③The representative of Prince Tuoba Shuo is ignorant of love. The goddess
said that Mulan did not have no marriage, but needed an opportunity. Tuoba Shuo was the only opportunity for Mulan, and he was a destined genius who could help her survive the catastrophe.
Tuoba Shuo Khan’s youngest son was captured by the Rouran Army. The commander told him that as long as he exits Lishui City, he will let him go with the others after riding over Mount Juxie. He "Bah" on his face Nothing changed, but after the soldier was killed, he shouted: "No, no!". It can be seen from that Tuoba Shuo is a full of flesh and blood, and he will not abandon Dawei's land for his own life, even if it is a mile.
Mulan was ordered to save him. When the two met for the first time, Mulan was brave and fought, and she escorted him all the way out of Rouran's realm. Because of her life-saving grace and Mulan's own excellence, the two had a lot of contact. In the middle of the film, Mulan danced for Tuoba Shuo. The thoughts of her daughter's family can be seen. Later, Rouran attacked again. They had no food and grass. Ba Shuo wanted to take Mulan away, but Mulan chose to refuse to guard this empty city, so that the people could have more time to escape.
Although the relationship between the two is tacit, they both know that they are in troubled times, and their love is not worth mentioning. There is no so-called love for children. Only the country is at home and the people living well are the most important.
- ④The representative of the people led by girls is responsible. In addition to the protagonist, the supporting role led by the masses of people is also very important in the movie. When they return to the city after winning the war, the people will take out the only food at home to celebrate them and welcome them.
is such a kind-hearted crowd. Because of the fault of the "little man", the Rouran Army was brought into the city. After a while, everyone died, ranging from the elderly to the children, and the audience saw the cruelty of the war. Hua Mulan's sense of mission has caused a strong change in her psychology. Blood stained the city overnight, giving Mulan a huge blow, laying the groundwork for the selection of the ending film and the soldiers staying behind the city gate. In order to enrich Hua Mulan’s personal image, director
used a lot of supporting roles from the daughter of the filial father’s army to the general who killed the Quartet. The side set off to make his personality distinct, promote development, exaggerate the atmosphere, and lay a certain tone. A sense of intimacy, pull into the distance.
3. Visual narrative: Through the language of the lens, the cruelty of war is presented to the audience, and the transformation of Hua Mulan's inner thoughts and identity is revealed with light and color. If
says, "Women are not the moon, do not illuminate themselves by reflecting the light of men". So, when Hua Mulan charged and attacked her zenith in the film, she had never shining a round of male sun. She was a luminous body and did not need the brilliance of others to set off.
- ①Use more perspective and panoramic lenses to show the cruelty of war.
In a movie, the visual narrative is presented through the language of the video lens, and the auditory narrative is presented through the sound. The lens language is one of the important elements in the film, it can clearly restore historical events, so that the audience has a certain understanding.
In the film, the director used the long-range lens, the panoramic lens , etc. to show every magnificent, magnificent war scene with a broad vision. The long-range lens is the farthest away from the subject, the picture is wide, the depth of field is long, the people are small and the scene is big, among which the relationship between the people and the scene is more extreme, the big vision. This kind of lens is generally longer and gives the audience enough time to react to the picture. .
Because Mulan is at the frontier, a large number of shots in the film show us the yellow sand flying all over the sky and the vastness of the sky. I realize the difficulty of the soldiers' marching. In the time of the heroic army and the gentleman, the heroes and gentlemen of Using close-up shots, the facial expressions and subtle movements of Mulan and the soldiers' psychological activities are used to make the audience feel as if they are in the event, experience the pain of the soldiers, communicate easily, and achieve emotional experience.
- ②The natural light conforms to specific historical events and expresses the difficult environment of the soldiers.
Film and television are inseparable from photography, and photography is the "art of light and shadow". Light is the material basis for the film to complete the exposure of the photographic picture and realize the image. The role of the film and television narrative cannot be ignored. Different light gives the audience different psychological feelings. For the design of light in the
film, there were no artificial lights such as electric bulbs or flashlights in Wei at that time. In order to restore history, most of the director's shots are the light created by soldiers using candles and torches, and the light outside the tent at night. Entering the house from the outside, this light atmosphere has a strong sense of realism.
At the end of the film, Mulan stayed in the empty city and stayed in the camp for 15 days without water and food. The sun rose and Mulan made an important decision, she wanted to take the initiative to attack.
Sunlight is a strong natural light, and the lens is shot from bottom to top, shining on Mulan and Li Liang with their own strength, using bloody hands to beat A Weng’s body, making the image of the only protagonist and supporting actor instantly taller and mighty. The image of Mulan was set off to a certain extent, allowing the audience to feel the hero of Mulan.
- ②Use different tones to produce different visual effects.
The so-called hue is the color organization and configuration that always appears in the film. It is often dominated by one color, which makes the picture show a certain color tendency. Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth" and Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" reached the extreme in the use of color, which made the audience feel a strong visual stimulation.
There are two main colors in the movie. is the yellow of the frontier fortress and the yellow of the sun, which symbolizes the unlimited hope of the warriors of no hundreds of people for victory in the battle, free from the suffering of war, peace and joy. One is the red dyed with the blood of soldiers and common people, which symbolizes life. The soldiers are full of vigor, the glorious image of fighting bravely and violence under war.
Conclusion-
Hua Mulan’s character image is well known. If directors and screenwriters want to innovate in a fixed frame, they must have unreliable whims and bold ideas, so as to preserve the original appearance of history and inject fresh blood into history. .
When the director challenged the classic character style in the film, he chose new actors to make people shine, but at the same time it was also a huge challenge. Because of funding, there was no excessive publicity and no "star effect". It means that the movie will not get the attention of most people.
Although the film comment was "poor", it still moved me after watching it. At the end of the film, there is a line that pokes my heart:
warriors don’t want to starve to death in an empty city, so they said: “I have wives and children in my house, I can’t die here, I have to go...”
Mulan persuaded: “Today I missed a Lishui. City, I don’t know how many people will die because of this." The
soldier replied: "I am an ordinary citizen after disarming."
Mulan said again: "We, as the generals of Wei, guard the safety of the people, and the soldiers are afraid of war. How safe is the common people? How safe is the world?" The words of
coincide with the ending song "This film is dedicated to the Chinese People's Liberation Army". Some people say this is a hot spot, but I think the spirit of the film is worthy of everyone's praise. . There is no such thing as quiet time in the world of , only countless heroes behind them move forward.
I don’t think that a moving movie will be too bad. I believe you will find its charm after taking the time to watch it.
Written by: Bai Zhi
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