"Zhang Yimou"? Who has seen the movie "Red Elephant"? This is related to the fifth generation of directors in the history of Chinese film and the rise of the fifth generation of directors after the reform and opening up. General comment: The film "One and Eight" and "Yellow Earth" are the iconic works of the fifth generation director. But in fact, the first work of the fifth generation of directors was the film "Red Elephant" filmed in 1982.
is watching this minority-themed film shot by China Children's Film Studio. The creative lineup is very luxurious: the directors are Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Jianya and Xie Xiaojing. The photography is by Zeng Nianping, the elder brother of "Class 78" of Beijing Film Academy. There are three assistant photographers: Zhang Yimou, Hou Yong, Lu Le, and Feng Xiaoning.
"Zhang Yimou" is talking about "78 class", "the first roar" is to describe the evaluation of the old director Guo Baochang at the time: "Red Elephant" "I was stupid as soon as a few pictures came out, how did China produce this thing? Who made this? With my instinct and sensitivity as a director, I know that a group of newcomers are up..." The film "Red Elephant" tells the story of three Dai children in Yunnan, simple and ordinary . Three children named Yanluo, Yan Shao and Yixiang once listened to the old grandfather in the stockade telling a story: in the dense forest, there are various magical animals and plants, which symbolizes the gods. "Red Elephant", he is not only bright red but also flying.
The curious children, taking advantage of the summer vacation at school, met together to find red elephants in the forest. A child, looking at the beautiful red deer, was naughty and shot and wounded him. There was a dispute between friends, and another trap was found while following the red elephant.
A little elephant was trapped inside. Three little partners were ready to save the little elephant. A fierce leopard jumped out. At the moment of crisis, the "red elephant" appeared, and the three little Dai partners finally uncovered the red elephant. The secret of...
From the perspective of photography concepts and film language, the creators of "Red Elephant" and the teachers and students of the Department of Photography of the School of Film at the time were all influenced by the "natural light effects" photographers Storaro and Amon Most of the lenses are completed with natural light effects.
Judging by modern technical standards, the picture has high contrast and coarse grains. Many lenses shot in low light are obviously out of focus. Due to the large number of photographers, "Red Elephant" is not uniform enough in photography style.
seldom used lights throughout the whole article. From composition to use of light, it can be said to be bold in filming at the time. They imitated Storaro, and later filmed "The Last Emperor" in China, and Armando was the photographer of "Children in Paradise".
can see the first roar in "Red Elephant", with exaggerated composition and strong colors, it has not only become a preview of the later "One and Eight" in the video style, but also reveals the unique characteristics of the fifth generation of directors in the future. Style and artistic pursuit.
can even say that this absolutely underestimated movie is the first systematic and bold new attempt by a Chinese film after the 10-year catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution".
conceives the theme, structure and shooting method of the film from the perspective of children, and eliminates any preaching. This is of great exploratory significance in the creation of children's films.
The direction of their exploration is to approach the film and remove their own shackles, just like the painter’s evaluation of painting: approaching means forgetting the law, reputation, rational level and self...” In the creation of children’s films, even In the creation of films in the new era, it is necessary to highlight imagery, action, education and beauty, so that the visually beautiful pictures remain in memory. At that time, the elite backbones of the 5th generation film, in this film The pursuit is somewhat extreme. In order to eliminate preaching, even the introduction to the elephant's habits in the script and the explanation of the cause of the "Red Elephant Pond" are all deleted, so that the plot of this aspect is not clear enough in the film. For children’s films, some explanations are necessary, especially the intellectual content is very useful. After the roar of "Red Elephant"
, Tian Zhuangzhuang successively filmed "Hunting Zhasa" and "Horse Thieves", also using The image is the aesthetic form of the ontology to the extreme, opening up a new face for national-themed movies.
attracted the famous documentary filmmaker Joris Evans who exclaimed: "Chinese movies are very promising! "Feng Xiaoning, as a fine art artist, has his "war and peace" thinking on the path of director creation afterwards, with "War Meridian", "Beiyang Navy", "Great Air Battle", "Yellow River Love" and "Purple Sun". But few people started from "Red Elephant"Concerned about several ethnic cultures, they launched "Red River Valley" and "Gada Meilin" to express the filmmakers' thinking on the meaning of life with a poetic structure.
In fact, many outstanding film directors, their "first roar" are all from ethnic minority films. For example, Ning Hao's "Green Grass", Lu Chuan's "Kekexili", and even Wen Muye started from the short film "Tattoo" (the original film is called battle). A scholar of
even said arbitrarily: China's film directors who can truly go far must start from the soil of ethnic themes.
