CCTV News: In recent years, China’s excellent traditional culture has become the source of film creation, nourishing the long-term development of Chinese films. Based on last year's works such as "Chang'an Thirty Thousand Miles " and "Fengshen", this summer's film once again bursts out the new charm of traditional Chinese culture. Today's (July 22) series of reports "The Hot Summer of Chinese Movies" focuses on this summer's traditional cultural feast.
With dancing velvet flowers, exquisite Taiwanese embroidery, simple celadon, and ingenious craftsmanship balls, the summer movie "The Umbrella Girl " allows Chinese intangible cultural heritage skills to interweave in light and shadow, creating a world that echoes reality. A cultural feast. Producer Liu Min said that the skills presented on the screen all come from the restoration of reality.
Innovative animations make traditional and ancient intangible cultural heritage skills "alive" and bring culture one step closer to young people. Liu Min said that in order to use 2D animation to achieve the fluffy texture of the velvet flower, the workload was very huge, but judging from audience feedback, the final effect was very ideal.
From the beginning of the project, the main creative staff visited the cultural relic restoration team of the Forbidden City to experience the ingenuity behind the intangible cultural heritage skills. Liu Min said that for national treasure masters, a painting may be completed in a few days, but it takes three to four years to restore a painting.
In "A Dream of Red Mansions: A Good Marriage", which will be released on August 16, it also shows the diverse charm of Chinese classic literature and traditional aesthetics. "Duo Dao is a good match, and I only think about the alliance between wood and stone." The exquisite costumes and magnificent scenes in the trailer vividly reproduce the atmosphere of the original work. Director Hu Mei said that the film had previously been screened in primary and secondary schools and universities. The students' discussions on "A Dream of Red Mansions" involved history, literature, and values, and their understanding was profound and diverse. I also hope that after the film is released, more fans will return to the original work and become "Red Fans" who love the culture of Red Mansions.
In this summer season, there are also Chinese-style animated films " Falling into the Mortal World ", " White Snake: Floating Life ", and the opera film "The Lady of Qiao", etc., which make traditional culture shine with the charm of the times in various forms.
The movie is not only a work of art, but also a powerful carrier of cultural inheritance and promotion. This year, Chinese summer movies use a variety of themes to pay tribute to the excellent traditional culture, use light and shadow to inherit the Chinese context that has lasted for thousands of years, and also demonstrate the strong appeal of Chinese culture.
Source: CCTV.com
