performance program "Actors, Please Be Here", every speech of Chen Kaige is impressive, and of course this time is no exception.
On the October 26 program, Director Chen Kaige once again aroused heated discussions among netizens.
If it was said that Ming Dao was eliminated last time, then this time it was because both actors wanted it.
These two actors are Niu Junfeng and Lang Yueting, respectively, who starred in the show as the siblings in "Ocean Paradise".
Chen Kaige has made some changes to the original script, and the roles of the two are more evenly matched. The final effect of
on the stage is undoubtedly good. Even Li Chengru, an old drama player who looks so harsh, nodded frequently and gave them great affirmation.
Finally, after the two actors also gave their testimonials, Director Chen Kaige wrote down the names of the people to be left on the clipboard. After
finished writing, Chen Kaige added another sentence: In front of a wonderful performance, the rules are a fart.
showed the word board, and Chen Kaige wrote two names.
Director Chen Kaige felt that these two actors performed very well and he wanted both. The
program rules do not allow it. As the host, Sha Yi told the director of Triumph that he could only choose one.
Director Chen Kaige stunned and went back. Anyway, he wrote two names. Sha Yi figured out which name he read.
finally said that it was too difficult. In order to break the embarrassment of the situation, he could only read out the names of the two people after thinking about it.
However, at this time the director of the show quit, the rules are the rules, and no one can challenge the rules.
Chen Kaige, who had no choice but to choose one person, could not help but said that he would not choose anyone in the semi-finals and only choose Lang Yueting. As soon as he said this, the audience was almost a carnival.
immediately showed Chen Kaige with a smirk, which made people even more fascinated. Then why is this 67-year-old man so headstrong?
The haughty teenager Kaige
On August 12, 1952, Chen Kaige was born in a movie family. Chen Kaige's father, Chen Huaiai, was a famous director in the 1940s in Mainland China.
graduated from Sichuan Jiang’an National Drama Academy (the predecessor of the Central Academy of Drama), and was taught by Cao Yu, Hong Shen and other art masters.
often speaks of being a father and a mother, but for Chen Kaige, all the frames on his body come from his mother.
If the father is a strict father, then the mother is a strict mother. She lived a strict life since childhood and planned Chen Kaige's life path. However, such an impersonal education has made Chen Kaige's idea from an early age: "good and evil are rewarded." "
Fortunately, Chen Kaige had a very smooth childhood.
But this kind of thinking was deeply ingrained in his mind and became more prominent.
When he was 14 years old, he was admitted to Beijing No. 4 Middle School, the best high school in Beijing at that time, with an unmatched score.
Chen Kaige, who has a profound cultural background, is also a very good student at the school and loves to learn. Such a good habit made him a top student in the school.
was originally the most promising candidate to be admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University.
Not long after entering high school, the ten-year turbulence in the country has completely changed Chen Kaige's life and school trajectory.
In "Juvenile Triumph", he described the whole book as a bloody person, turning a page casually, it is a heartbreaking past.
The most influential one is this paragraph:
"After a composition class, the head teacher told me that your father is not a Communist. You study hard and have good grades, but you must overcome the volatility of the petty bourgeoisie. Undoubtedly, there was a dagger hanging above the head of the arrogant Triumph. Triumph, both afraid and resentful, was pulled up to the stage after his father's parade, and when he was insulted, Triumph also shouted slogans in order to show his position. When he was punished to face the wall, he insisted that "Wrong is wrong, right is right Veuve. I didn't push out the chair beside my hand, that chair..." The story in the book
is exactly what Chen Kaige will never forget. The memory of
. Chen Kaige, who has understood that good and evil are rewarded since childhood, believes that his parents made mistakes, did not try to understand them, nor did they know them, but just barely maintained his humble and cheap self-esteem in the face of catastrophe.
FatherWhen the kiss knelt before him, Chen Kaige's world collapsed.
He was proud of the ideas his mother taught him, but he felt unprecedented pain. After the pain, he began to realize that this was a wrong way.
I want to be willful once
In the summer of 1969, Chen Kaige left home and went to the countryside from Beijing to work as a worker in the Jinghong Agricultural Reclamation Bureau in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.
In Xishuangbanna, Chen Kaige and hundreds of thousands of educated youths cut wood to open up wasteland, set fire to mountains, and turned virgin forests into terraced fields in Dazhai.
Chen Kaige, who was only 16 years old, was a child from the north. He was unaccustomed to the water and soil. He was bitten by various poisonous insects in a mess and had a hard life.
Until 3 years later, a soldier found him and asked him seriously, do you want to be a soldier, Chen Kaige replied without thinking, "Yes."
said, "Then you follow me."
sneaked into sports like this Chen Kaige, a soldier, entered the army.
is 1.85 meters tall and loves to play basketball. Chen Kaige has become the envy of everyone.
In August 1971, Chen Kaige was given a leave to visit relatives. When he returned home, he could not find the spirited spirit of his father, who was just 50 years old at the time.
Chen Kaige saw his father's ragged clothes and a lot of teeth lost. He was cleaning the toilet with a broom all day long, and from time to time he bent over to show goodwill to others.
This is a great shame for Chen Kaige, who has become proud again.
humiliated his incompetence and cruelty to his father, at this time he finally had to fight back.
has always rejected Chen Kaige in the director industry in his heart. It is no longer the connection between an audience and a director, but the resonance of a child and a father.
At this time, Chen Kaige only had one thing in his mind, which is to prove that the director industry is not petty capitalism. After
experienced the bitter and joyful life in the military camp, Chen Kaige, who returned from the army in 1975, became more rigid. With the goal of being a director, he decided to start from scratch and became a worker in the Beijing Film Processing Factory. After three years, the Beijing Film Academy resumed the college entrance examination in May 1978, and Chen Kaige, who decided to apply for the Beijing Film Academy, worked hard, but the father who opposed it at first understood the hardship too much.
But his father still respected Chen Kaige's ideas, and he only said one thing to Chen Kaige:
"You must not give up. I only ask you this. No matter how hard you do, you can't give up."
Chen Kaige answered his father: "I will remember."
In 1982, Chen Kaige graduated from University and was assigned to the Beijing Children's Film Studio, which had just been established at the time, as a director. During the two years of
in Beijing, what Chen Kaige thought about the most was how to make an amazing film. In 1984, Chen Kaige was seconded to Guangxi Film Studio.
In late July of the same year, Chen Kaige, who had settled for two years, finally couldn't restrain his talents.
pushed a "Yellow Earth" to complete the double film, and immediately sent it to the Ministry of Culture for review.
Chen Kaige, who is obsessed with his own movie, has to go to socialize and accompany the wine again. Chen Kaige, who was not taken seriously at the dinner table, was just an object of teased by the leaders when they drank, and he, who originally hated this kind of dirty entertainment, threw his cup away on the spot.
For a whole year, "Yellow Earth" was not accepted by the leaders and could not be released for a long time.
But gold will always stand the polishing of time. Once "Yellow Earth" was released, word of mouth showed a one-sided advantage.
Chen Kaige, who thought he had found the right direction, would let go of the obsession of his youth. Unexpectedly, his obsession was deepened by three points because of the darkness of the movie market. The film
is the art of the director.
is Chen Kaige's first work "Yellow Earth", which is perhaps Chen Kaige's most sincere film. During the whole year of reviewing
, Chen Kaige was asked the most:
"Why did you make such a movie?"
Chen Kaige replied: "I want to shoot!" The middle is full of Chen Kaige’s beliefs and the waywardness that outsiders don’t understand.
His movie is allowed to be questioned, but his conviction is not allowed because even the "Yellow Earth"After the trial, "black land" and "red land" will appear, because Chen Kaige's ideas need to be carried and passed on.
Chen Kaige in "The Yellow Earth" has also set his sights on this land and the Chinese people living in this land. The
film is permeated with care for the fate of tragic individuals, and it is also full of tortures about the way out of the nation under the great changes of the times.
"Yellow Earth" is profound, heavy, full of sincere and vigorous power. He grasped this feeling and did not treat it as a simple story background, but made it a symbol of the personification of the entire nation . The waywardness of
that is not understood is more like Chen Kaige's unchanging persistence.
In the subsequent film, "Walking and Singing", Chen Kaige used a fable to highlight two tenacious lives through his unique visual world and profound natural landscape.
uses a simple life longing and folk tales to explain the truth about the world.
In "Farewell My Concubine", he even completed a speculation on the theme of his personal creation, and he merged the macroscopic history and the microcosmic fate almost perfectly.
"Life, Death, Love" has also become the eternal three elements in Chen Kaige's movies.
From "Yellow Earth" to "Farewell My Concubine", he chooses heavy themes of repression, eruption or death in silence.
In the creation of this kind of theme, Chen Kaige has always been exposed to worry and anger. His philosophical expression and film text have become the synonym for cultural travel in this field.
Chen's movies are just a kind of implicit interpretation of the world.
If "there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people", then everyone who has watched Chen Kaige's films will have different opinions.
Zhang Yimou once said: "Among China's fifth-generation directors, Chen Kaige is the most powerful one."
But from "Jing Ke Stabbing the King of Qin", there is a little bit of Chen Kaige that people can't understand.
in 2005's "Promise", the audience was unpredictable because of the deep connotation, and they finally gave Chen Kaige the title of "Jiang Lang Talent".
When Chen Kaige responded, he just laughed and said: "The movie is reserved for a few people to enjoy!"
Many people commented that Chen Kaige was trying to find face for himself, but there was also a large number of people who were influenced by Chen Kaige's personality. Attracted, he compared him to the contemporary "Du Fu".
Yes, he and Du Fu are both people who have their eyes on the society and on the society. The director
Kaige is more like "Li Yishan", because everyone can perceive different things from his movies.
Chen Kaige was able to shoot the movie so deeply, for many people, he couldn't understand his original intention.
This is precisely because everyone only regards the Cultural Revolution as a noun, but for Chen Kaige it is an indelible and unforgettable nightmare.
is exactly this kind of influence that made Director Chen Kaige see people, people's hearts, and humanity thoroughly, so that in his later life he talked about "people".
If you are not crazy, you can't survive. This is a classic line in "Farewell My Concubine" directed by Chen Kaige.
But is this not a portrayal of Director Chen Kaige himself?
A more obscure movie has ushered in failure after failure.
He is always looking for a difference, sometimes he finds this difference, such as "Yellow Earth".
More often, he always ends up in failure, like "Sing while walking".
He is like a character he has created, and he bears the gap between ideal and reality.
He was giving an explanation to his heart that his thoughts were kidnapped, and only after breaking free from such a shackle, did he understand the meaning of life.
So he filmed "The Promise". Many people who don't like thinking are frozen in the 16-year thinking cage that Chen Kaige has.
They don't want to see things through the surface, but they don't know that "Promise" is like "Farewell My Concubine" that Duan Xiaolou sang after liberation. Although it seems that the overlord is still the overlord, the soul of the overlord is no longer there. The connotation of
Wuji is: "People are still human, but their minds are numb." After all,
is "Wuji"Director Chen Kaige made a compromise with the film market.
He began to believe that "filming does not need to be so extreme", and forgot the eternal truth of "not breaking or standing".
Reality and ideal started a contest in his heart.
We can see from the "Promise" that Director Chen Kaige's thoughts seem to be about trust and deception between people and the importance of promises and lies to a person's heart.
However, in the face of the swearing by the whole people, Chen Kaige in "Teenage Triumph", imaged his own injury, but the incomprehension of outsiders caused Chen Kaige to be injured twice.
This seemingly willful waywardness is actually the last reason for Chen Kaige to persist in this wasteland.
Why didn't he be accepted?
Chen Kaige has always lived up to it. He is known as the leader of the fifth generation of directors in China. What he tells in the film is his knowledge and feelings about this era, history, and humanities.
is like a writer writing about his experiences and feelings, and a singer singing his emotions.
He brings the classical cultural accomplishments he has cultivated since childhood, and uses his unique perspective to create a more profound standpoint and meaningful expression that he understands.
And the reason why people don't like to hear, see, or accept this form of expression, is that they expect him in the wrong direction.
Chen Kaige does something that only people who can match him in spirit can resonate with him.
He has his own unique and clear way of explaining the world, and he has enough strength to uphold and defend his worldview.
In today's movie market, people who are paralyzed by commercial films are looking forward to more exciting commercial films.
But Chen Kaige is not a commercial film director from the bottom of his heart. He likes to bring his own private goods too much. The sympathy for Concubine Yang in "The Legend of the Demon Cat" is the irony of Tang Xuanzong.
In "Search", the accusation of online violence, the analysis of the evil of human nature. These things like
are not what the public would like to see in movie theaters. It is the habit of Chinese people to go to the movie theater to laugh, be refreshed by special effects, and be moved by themselves. How can
stand in the perspective of God, examine human nature, and recollect history!
So Chen Kaige has never been a qualified commercial film director.
viewers do not have to look at his work from a commercial perspective, and sigh "inexplicable" and "incomprehensible", because this is a movie intended for a few people.
Chen Kaige has too many things to say, even if he is given another fifty years, he may not be able to finish the shot.
But he has devoted his life half his life to quietly reclaiming this incomprehensible wasteland.
After "Day Meteor", facing the whole people in an interview, the reporter asked: "Young directors are self-willed in making movies, because they can afford to lose. When you come to your position, "Will be self-willed, does it cost a lot?" "
Chen Kaige replied: "I like it, I will shoot it!" "
's answer, as always, shows Chen Kaige's willfulness, and this also shows that the 67-year-old Chen Kaige has always been young in his heart.
regret can no longer happen to the next generation of people
from young to old, always hurt It was Chen Kaige, who was helpless and very unwilling, and finally saw hope in his son.
Once, at the dinner table, the guest was drunk and was a little rude to his wife Chen Hong. The eldest son Chen Yuang was twelve years old and stood up. Shout to that person: "What are you doing! "
Chen Kaige said at the time: "That's OK, this is enough, it's not afraid of things." "
was ashamed. I remembered that I didn't get a chair for my mother. Chen Kaige, who blamed himself, didn't say a word at the next dinner.
said when Chen Kaige remembered. :
"I will dissect myself through this matter. I might not have thought of it at the time, but I might be afraid of things. I might just think that someone asked my mother to stand, so let’s stand. What can I do? "
is full of disappointment in myself and expectations of his son. Chen Kaige's lost character, hopes to grow into his sons, and to educate his son.
is also in "Taoist Down the Mountain", Master Li Xuejian To Wang Baoqiang's exhortation, "Don't be afraid of any difficulties. "The sentence
is Chen KaigeThe cry from the heart, no one knew how he felt, because Chen Kaige was deeply afraid of it, and he finally regretted it for life.
So in educating the next generation, Chen Kaige let his 14-year-old son leave his parents to study in California very early.
In school, every child is responsible for a horse, cleaning, washing, and walking the horse. The 14-year-old boy persevered well from start to finish. After
, Chen Yuang wrote an essay about the horse, recording his own experience and feelings truthfully.
said in the article that he didn't have any special feelings for the horse, but when he went to take care of the horse for the last time, the horse seemed to feel the difference and rubbed his nose against his cheek for a long time.
was at that moment when he suddenly felt that all his previous efforts had paid off.
In this regard, Chen Kaige summarized in his home book that "continuous dedication will exchange nostalgia."
Chen Kaige used his own experience to teach his son that talents do not belong to you. Talents are the product of exchange between you and God. Only when you hand over your sincerity can you exchange for talents. Once you lose your sincerity, talents disappear immediately.
So when Chen Kaige was his eldest son, he asked: "You are eighteen, you can do what you want!"
Chen Yuang replied: "Music!"
Chen Kaige: "Why?"
Chen Yuang "I feel that in your movie, the opening and closing songs are very poor, I will get you later." Mother Chen Hong next to
was amused laughed, and Chen Kaige also smiled with satisfaction.
This is Gao Gao’s greeting, and it is what the world below the mountain should look like. Chen Kaige, who has been persistent and willful all his life, finally sees hope.
drifts between realism and freehand brushwork. The movie is his Chang'an city
"It is not enough for a person to own this life and this life, he should also have a poetic world. The world repeats Wang Xiaobo's words, but forgets it. The second half of ——For me, this world is in Chang'an."
Chen Kaige said. For the older generation of directors, the era of
seems more suitable to look back: Zhang Yimou has boarded the "Great Wall", Feng Xiaogang has "Fang Hua", and Chen Kaige has produced "The Legend of the Demon Cat". Regardless of the geometric reputation of
, the three most well-known directors in the Chinese film industry began to turn around without exception.
They all left their background and era first, leaving their footprints in their respective areas and expressions.
They didn't have enough time to settle and metamorphose, they just ran into the high wall of the drastic changes of the times, dizzy and a little fluttering. It took
six years to build a Chang'an city at a cost of 250 million yuan. Obviously, Chen Kaige went deeper and farther than the other two and fell deeply into a historical dream of China.
We can't guess whether this is his unabated enthusiasm for local fantasy, or just a whim. The only certainty of
is that Chen Kaige will not be mixed with too much speculation, but will cater to the expectations of the general public more.
After ten years of catastrophe, I have seen social turmoil, golden bears, golden lions and golden palms.
These directors who are worthy of a single chapter in Chinese film history have all carried and realized the ultimate dream of Chinese filmmakers, and they have also shouldered too many expectations and censures.
In his autobiography "Youth Triumph", he focused on describing the scene of the criticism that had crushed him:
, in full view, he pushed his father, he watched the Red Guards copy the house, watched his mother stand against the wall, watch His collection of books and clothing were arbitrarily destroyed, he did not choose to resist. The autobiography of
is more like a comfort to the scars of the past, "When a child tears his father to pieces in public, only laughter is heard. What kind of people is this?"
The fear of not being accepted by the crowd is deeply implanted in Chen Kaige's consciousness and creation.
Consciously or unconsciously, he found the armor of the movie to protect his sensitive and fragile tentacles.
It is difficult for us to ignore whether the formalized scenes he pursues in the film and his special liking for big scenes and group dramas is a kind of subconscious "exposure therapy".
is eager to be accepted by the group but is also afraid of being overwhelmed by it, full of contradictory consciousness.
The traumatic experience that cannot be erased is at the strongest physical strength.The most abundant age in Ermeng is the benign supply of creation.
But the time has passed, but the toxins in it have re-growth, and the feeling of loneliness has gradually filled.
"Loneliness keeps art rational and independent, but also like chronic poison, making some scars hard to heal forever. But perhaps loneliness is also a possible way of healing, showing that not all injuries need to be cured, and not all wounds are. It's ugly." Chen Kaige said. The meaning of
is more than sorrow. He began to return to his ideal era. The ivory tower where he lived in the past has now become the city of Chang'an.
In Chen Kaige's works, Oriental aesthetics is a kind of cultivation and heritage that he was born with, but he is more like an Oriental literati, lonely and brilliant!
He is not as popular as Feng Xiaogang, nor as official as Zhang Yimou, nor as rebellious as Tian Zhuangzhuang.
He was judged to be "very self-willed", but what can be seen through self-willedness is the "30 years of perseverance". This persistent attitude of
may be a little hypocritical, but also a little cute.
