/Man Tuaner
Although China is not the only one in this world to make gift films, but if you can make gift films into a genre, and treat them with care and seriousness, I'm afraid that they are Chinese filmmakers. But speaking of it, most of the artistic achievements in China's gift films are actually not low, and there are even cases such as "Operation Red Sea" and "Chinese Captain" that have distinct typologies and box office explosions. Therefore, Chinese filmmakers are serious about offering gifts. Recently, CCTV-6 film channel launched a large-scale feature film "Footprints-New China Story on the Screen", which is expected to systematically take us to review the light and shadow footprints of the 70 years of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. From this we can see that Chinese filmmakers are not only serious, but also serious for decades.
From the perspective of overall planning, "Footprint" has four chapters: "Memory of the Times", "Protagonist of the Times", "Heroes", and "Light and Shadow Footprints". Each of these sections has several episodes. The first one is currently broadcast. This section "memory of the times". From a formal point of view, "Footprint" uses a "narrator" approach, cuts in from its personal perspective, and uses perceptual language to bring out the theme of the episode, revisiting the fragments, introducing and interviewing new and old filmmakers, and the film location story. Revisit and other means to reveal the untold hardships and behind-the-scenes stories of filmmakers. From the content point of view, the entire feature film covers nearly a hundred representative films that are familiar to the audience, spanning decades, and the subject matter, field, and type are also extremely rich.
In fact, for industry practitioners and observers like Tuan'er, many movies in "Footprint" have not only watched, but also read related research articles or heard the main creative on-site exchanges. The behind-the-scenes story of the film and the creative process can be considered somewhat understood, but when I watched this feature film, I still felt that I was rewarded. For example, "Tiananmen" in the first episode. When Tiao'er was watching "Tiananmen", the director Ye Daying was on the scene, and he was communicating with the audience for more than half an hour after the screening. Therefore, Tuaner knew that the film was taken seriously, the angle was unique, and the story behind the scenes was very moving. "Footprint" is not only more novel in form than the monotonous communication of the main creative, but also more in-depth digging behind the scenes. Many of the exchanges between Ye Daying and the audience are quite general, while "Footprint" is a targeted effort to quickly and accurately dig into the more representative things behind the film.
Through "Footprints", we will find that the gift films of Chinese filmmakers are not for giving gifts, but more for paying tribute to those great things and great people. 70 years since the founding of New China, there are so many things and people worth remembering, some are well-known to everyone, and some are not understood by everyone. These things and people all reflect the beauty of Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation. Therefore, filming these films must be serious-this is even a vocation of filmmakers. Especially those old films, which now seem "weird" in terms of film technique and visual aesthetics, especially the main creators, archetypes, insiders, etc., to tell the current audience. In this way, we can not only learn movies, but also history.
