film industry. Although filmmakers who are accustomed to thinking in the language of images will not deny the irreplaceability of words. Reading and writing are actually more quiet and private than watching movies and shooting. After the crowd disperses, people always have to face the reality that they are alone. Picking up a pen to write or a book to read at this time is a process for filmmakers to find their own hearts. A good filmmaker must have his own unique insights and feelings about books.
April 23 this year is the 29th World Book Day. Nandu reporters invited 10 people in the film and television industry. Some of them are directors, some are screenwriters, and some are in the media. They will personally recommend books to readers. For all movie fans who want to become more "hard-core", please accept this rare book list.
Recommended by: Gao Zhisen, director of " A Happy Event in the Family " and "Thirteen Langs of the South China Sea"
Recommendation reason: I would like to recommend Zhang Ailing's novella "The Story of the Golden Lock". The most important thing is that it is a reflection on Cao Qiqiao more than a hundred years ago. The character is written very delicately. This character takes revenge on his own children for the misfortune of the entire feudal society, which is very extreme. But when I was rehearsing the play, many viewers were moved by the dramatic power of this character. In fact, in real life, there are still characters like Cao Qiqiao, not only in that special era, she is a symbol of human nature. Zhang Ailing created such a profound character at a very young age, which is worthy of everyone's careful appreciation. After "The Story of the Golden Lock" was adapted by Wang Anyi, I felt that it could be made into a movie. This is also one of my life plans.
Recommended books: Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite Storyboard"
Recommended by: Jia Shengfeng, director of "Falling Water"
Reason for recommendation: This may be the book I have reread the most in recent years.
Everyone should know about the movie "Parasite" directed by Bong Joon-ho (translated as "Parasite " in Mainland China) (even if you haven't seen it). Congratulations to him for making a good movie, and congratulations to all the film practitioners (especially the director). It is almost a martial arts secret book, and it is at the level of "Nine Yang Manual". You can watch it over and over and practice it, and then you can Slowly becoming a qualified director.
Because this movie is almost exactly the same as the storyboard, I can compare each frame with each other, so as to scrutinize and learn the director’s intentions and reasons for designing each composition and scheduling, so every once in a while, I will compare the movie scenes. I stopped and looked, looked and stopped, and even followed the drawings. I felt like I made progress every time I did it. After
directors have finished shooting a movie, they are usually reluctant to share the storyboards, because basically there are major changes, and most of them will definitely not match up. For example, director Bong Joon-ho can share the original storyboards, and they all match up. Even if there are very few wrongly drawn storyboards, they are faithfully preserved in the book. Only then do we have the opportunity to take a peek at the creations of world-class directors. The process was really touching for filmmakers, and of course, it was also a bit of a shock.
Recommended books: Jin Yong's "Jin Yong's Works"
Recommended by: Li Lichi " Tang Bo Hu Spots Autumn Fragrance " " The King of Comedy " Director
Reasons for recommendation: Shooting White Deer in the Snow, Laughing Book God Yibi mandarin duck. Thanks to Mr. Jin Yong for leaving classic martial arts novels to the world.
In those years, I was still a warehouse manager. I only had a preparatory degree and was confused about my future. Like many movie enthusiasts at that time, I also had a dream. In addition to enrolling in film and television interest classes after work, I would go to the library to borrow Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels and read them. One was to relieve boredom, and the other was to improve my writing skills. Because I want to be a director, I have also read many biographies written by directors. They all mentioned that a director must have good writing skills in order to present what he wants to express to the audience through actor performance, camera, and music. Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels combine history with imaginative design, making readers enjoy reading both fantasy and reality.Especially the description of martial arts moves is precise and precise, making people convinced that Mr. Jin Yong is a master of martial arts. From the perspective of film and television, it has a sense of lens and a sense of storyboarding. When readers watch it, it is easy to get involved in the plot. Now Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels have been included in textbooks, but at that time, the traditional education circles had not yet accepted them. In school, they could only secretly read martial arts novels, but once they started reading, they could not stop reading day and night. When I was working as a warehouse worker, I systematically re-read a series of martial arts novels by Mr. Jin Yong, starting from "The Book of Swords and Enmities" and following the timeline to "The Deer and the Cauldron". The most impressive one was of course Classic characters, such as Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Yang Guo, Xiao Longnu, Linghu Chong, Feng Qingyang, Zhang Wuji, Ren Woxing, etc., all have distinctive personalities and are household names. These characters were of great help to me in later shaping my characters in the film. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Jin Yong. I highly recommend Mr. Jin Yong’s martial arts novels to everyone.
Recommended book: "The Disappearance of Others" by Han Bingzhe
Recommended by: Sun Hong, director of "Fireworks World"
Reason for recommendation: The book I want to recommend to you today is "The Disappearance of Others" by Han Bingzhe, a new generation Korean philosopher in Germany. . This book answers a confusion I encountered while making the short video documentary "Fireworks in the World", which is why in today's era when the Internet, short videos, and social media are so rich and diverse, there are "dimensional walls" between people. "But not broken?" On the contrary, it is like an invisible wall, causing people with different professions and identities to "encounter" every day but still "turn a blind eye". In "The Disappearance of the Other", Han Bingzhe critically discusses the "narcissistic" tendency of people in the new media era, that is, people invest their enthusiasm for the other into their enthusiasm for themselves, and thus can no longer hear the heterogeneity. The voice of the “other” is actively rather than passively immersed in the information cocoon recommended by the algorithm. This kind of replacement of heterogeneity by homogeneity requires vigilance, because being immersed in a world of "sameness" means that people will no longer be able to complete self-renewal, so emptiness, hesitation and even self-destruction will take advantage of it. . This book is short, concise, easy to read and sharp. It is a sobering medicine for people born in the "spectacle society".
Recommended books: Doudou "The Distant Savior"
Recommended by: Ye Qing " Hot Search " first screenwriter
Reason for recommendation: What I want to recommend is Doudou's "The Distant Savior". Doudou has written three novels (the other two are "The Red Dust" and "Betrayal"), and I think "The Distant Savior" is the easiest to understand. Although this novel is not top-notch from a literary perspective, the author provided another way of thinking to ordinary people through the novel, which had a great impact on me. It made me understand that the most powerful thing in this world is not tricks, strategies, money and power, but a way of thinking. The biggest difference between people is actually the difference in cognition. Ordinary people are magic-method-dao, and "Distant Savior" conveys Tao-dharma-magic, that is, it follows all objective operating laws. The reverse thinking and strong culture of this novel had a great influence on my subsequent writing. When I was writing my debut novel "Hot Search", the thinking of the character Wang Shiming in it was largely based on "The Distant Savior". In fact, the education we received was relatively formal and modified by traditional culture. But when I read this book in my twenties, I realized that people must follow the objective laws of development of all things and view the world the way they should. More so. It was precisely because of this novel that I later paid attention to Wang Yangming's psychology, which was of great help to my life and the way I think about problems.
Recommended book: Richard Boleslavsky's "Six Lectures on Acting"
Recommended by: Qin Wan, a well-known media person
Reason for recommendation: This book is known as "an important milestone from the Stany system to the American Method" ", which has been reprinted many times since 1933 and translated into many languages. The author is Richard Boleslavsky, an American director, actor, and acting teacher.
especially recommends the first part "Six Lectures on Acting". The author starts from six perspectives: concentration, emotional memory, dramatic action, characterization, observation and rhythm. In the form of dialogue, the author explains the basic concepts of acting in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. It is especially suitable for Beginner viewing.
Although as readers, we don’t need to be professional actors, reading books on acting theory can help us better understand what “acting skills” are. We often understand performances from the perspective of critics, but rarely truly understand the working methods of an excellent actor. In this book, it guides beginners how to select all the necessary tools and then shows them how to apply these tools. Actors' artistic talents cannot be taught, but what they must learn is how to show off their talents. This is "acting skills".
Recommended by: Liancheng Yiju Film Industry Observer self-media person
Reason for recommendation: movie reviews seem to be written by people who have watched the movie. In fact, what most people write is more about their impressions after watching the movie and is not really professional. movie review. If you are keen on writing truly good movie reviews, then this "How to Write a Movie Review" is definitely an indispensable tool for you. The book
provides a step-by-step guide, telling you how to take practical notes on watching movies, collecting information, etc. It will also teach you how to write the beginning and conclusion of a movie review, and even start directly from the introduction. It provides critical methods in terms of genre, author theory, ideology, etc. Especially the research materials, website index, and extended reading provided at the back of the book are pure secrets for further study.
In short, for just the money of a takeaway meal, you will know how to write a movie review!
Recommended books: Blake Snyder's "Save the Cat"
Recommended by: Ge Jing, associate professor at Beijing Film Academy and director of animation planning
Reason for recommendation: This is a practical and interesting screenwriting manual. I remember a screenwriting training I attended more than ten years ago, and the author of this book, Mr. Blake Snyder, was the lead teacher. He spent two days sorting out the thirty-six sections of the script with us, allowing me to clear away the fog and see the internal skeleton of the movie for the first time. It's like a magical story-making machine that can turn a simple idea into a big movie with flesh and blood, vivid twists and turns. To this day, I still remember Teacher Blake’s radiant expression and detailed and vivid narration. Teachers who can teach must not only master sufficient knowledge and skills, but also know the secret of communicating with students. This book itself is a master playwright with rich skills and good at telling stories, allowing you to enter the world of movie scripts easily and happily.
Recommended book: Uta Hagen's "The Actor's Challenge"
Recommended by: Kenroman Fujii, independent film journalist, host host, film critic
Reason for recommendation: I have not read Uta Hagen's "Respect for the Performing Arts" ", but I have admired her name for a long time. This time because I am an actor, I read carefully another Uta performance book "Actor's Challenge" published by Houlang.
is amazing. After entering a acting role, I have a different perspective on movies. I also began to have a different understanding and perspective on actors and performances. Born in a wild state, after stumbling upon the door of acting, I always want to hold myself to a better standard. This book by Uta is a performance guidance textbook that opens up your heart and body, allowing you to begin to use the consciousness of a professional actor to re-understand the secrets of performance beyond instinct.
dismantles the multiple perspectives of an actor’s identity from four parts: actor to self, practice to role.Let you start to understand from the professional identity, and then slowly enter into an in-depth analysis and interpretation. Through Uta's own rich stage performance experience, you can project yourself into the stage and role, melt your instincts and sneak into your heart, and carve out the process of perception of any role through the mobilization of body and heart.
Observation and experience, substitution and integration, under Uta's step-by-step guidance, you will begin to have a particularly profound understanding of the performance. In fact, this is not limited to actors, but also gives more people who like movies a way and window that transcends the objective perspective of viewing and integrates film and television stage art from a subjective perspective. Let you know the conditions of a good actor and the key to a successful character creation.
The wonderful identity of an actor, with his multiple combinations of skills and instincts, creates a brand new "person" through image and imagination in one changing identity after another. Performances in different situations have different methods and techniques. Uta's "The Actor's Challenge" is an interesting performance textbook. Even though the examples it gives are mainly stage performances, it can be extended to infinite performances. creative thinking.
is really a great acting textbook!
Recommended book: Gerald Peary's "Interviews with Quentin Tarantino"
Recommended by: segelas, a well-known film critic
Reason for recommendation: Interviews with filmmakers are a major category in film books, but Quentin Tarantino’s book stands out among them all. Quentin showed his true nature without any self-packaging. He does not regard himself as a master, refuses to add "additional" meaning to his works, and even actively denies some over-interpretations from the outside world. He simply introduces the mood and ideas in creation. We all say, "The director refuses to explain his own work," but Quentin not only did this, but also explained it with the most practical and non-utilitarian goals, which is really commendable.
Coordinator: Nandu reporter Liu Yifan
