"No name, no title, only this one volume, green for thousands of years, boundless mountains and rivers." It comes from one of China's top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation, a famous painting from the Song Dynasty that has only been exhibited four times in a century, and is a "treasure of the museum" collected in the Palace Museum. "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is adapted from the dance poetry drama of the same name. The film " Only This Green " is co-written, directed and performed by the original stage team and top filmmakers. It was officially announced today (2) that it will be released nationwide during this year's National Day. Released. This film is co-directed by the dance world's "twin stars" Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, starring Zhang Han, Meng Qingyang, and Xie Suhao.
The scheduled preview released today is accompanied by "No name, no title, only this one volume, green for thousands of years, boundless mountains and rivers". It gradually unfolds from the young painter Ximeng who is sitting at his desk late at night in the studio, taking the audience back across time and space to a thousand years ago, and witnessing The story of the birth of a famous painting handed down from generation to generation. When the exhibitor carefully unfolded "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains", the protagonist of the story, the painter Ximeng, danced in the air in the water, and the young man burst out of the screen with great energy; the image character "Green" led the dancers to dance coolly and gracefully. Hong, elegance and tranquility are revealed in every stillness and movement, condensing the realm of "hills and valleys in the heart, mountains and rivers in the eyes". The scene where all the greenery blends into the painting is even more breathtaking. When all the "mountains" rise and fall around Ximeng, the "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" slowly unfolds. At that moment, it seems that the audience is really "entering the painting" together and seeing Green for thousands of years, mountains and rivers boundless.
The text "You can watch it from a distance, or you can wander around it" not only highly summarizes the charm of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", but also points out that the movie "Only Green" is different from what is seen on the stage. The camera breaks the The fourth wall of the stage will allow the audience to fly into "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" with a freer perspective, more brilliant light and shadow, and richer imagination and travel around it. The final poster also enters the world of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" from a novel perspective. Ximeng's brushwork transforms the complex beauty of green, and also demonstrates the charm of Chinese culture that "this is only green, this is very Chinese" with his unique landscape painting style. .
The movie "Only Green" was born out of the dance poetry drama "Only Green" of the same name - the dance painting "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", using the original cast of the stage version of the play to create a visual feast of light and shadow. Consistent with the essence of dance poetry drama, the story revolves around a modern cultural relics researcher who is studying "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" before it is about to be exhibited. He travels across nearly a thousand years of time and space into the heart of the young painter Ximeng of the Northern Song Dynasty, and witnesses Ximeng's painstaking and selfless creation. , worked hand in hand with countless workers, and went through untold hardships to create the scroll that has been handed down from generation to generation; using the main color "green" in the painting as a visual clue, we explored the seal, silk, paint, pen, ink and other materials and tools needed to form the painting. The production process deeply refines and displays a number of traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage skills, vividly demonstrating the thousand-year-old color of "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", the ingenuity of countless workers, and the continuous protection of generations of cultural relics protection workers. Together they performed a picture full of Chinese aesthetic concepts and Chinese spirit.
Since its first exhibition at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing in 2021, the dance-poetry drama "Only Green" has traveled to more than 70 cities in more than 1,000 days and performed more than 550 times. Each performance is "a hard-to-get ticket" , and after its excerpts appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, it triggered a "green wave" across the country. The movie "Only Green" will use the charm of light and shadow art to make thousands of miles of mountains and rivers "alive" on the big screen. On the basis of fully restoring the dance poetry drama, it will complete the upgrade of light and shadow art and create audio-visual scenes with cutting-edge sound and light technology. The feast allows stage art to take on a new look and new vitality on the big screen.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
editor/Gong Lifang
