"Shadow" is a rare movie named after one word. The name seems simple, but the content is very rich!
Zhang Yimou's works always make the audience shine. His unique way of thinking and constantly changing creative skills will always bring a different audiovisual experience to the audience. This work directed by Zhang Yimou can be said to have achieved a new breakthrough in the traditional Chinese film model. At the same time, the unique domestic period costume blockbusters have been promoted internationally, so that many foreign audiences can also see the "new aesthetics" we have explored. The
film adopts the "ink and wash style" of Chinese painting to give the audience a different viewing experience. Each shot is a beautiful ink painting!
"Shadow" is rendered in a unique ink painting style. At the beginning of watching this movie, I feel a little uncomfortable, because we are used to watching the colorful costumes and scenery on the big screen, but this movie is It is a sudden change in the style of painting, with "black and white" as the background color, without other colorful colors. We often call this style of painting: "ink and wash tone". The monotonous style of
looks gloomy, cold, and melancholy. In addition, every location in the film is rainy, and that feeling is rendered more profound.
In fact, this style of painting requires careful taste. From another perspective, regards it as an "ink painting", you will find that it is full of Chinese elements! These include the rolling mountains, the calligraphy and ink marks everywhere in the palace hall, and the best-looking ink and wash costumes. This surprised me a lot. It turned out that ancient costumes can be made into ink prints, which can be so beautiful! The unique "yin and yang aesthetics" of
takes the whole film to a new level!
After talking about the ink tones, let's look at the main yin and yang aesthetics in the film.
In the film, we saw many shots of Tai Chi diagrams, including, "Deng Chao beats Deng Chao" every time is performed in a large Tai Chi diagram, and when two generals are duel, it is another large Tai Chi diagram. Almost the director has used everything he can.
In addition, there are also many characters that are portrayed with yin and yang aesthetics. Here, I will mainly talk about Deng Chao playing two roles-the governor "Ziyu" and the shadow "Jingzhou". These are two people with completely different personalities. Ziyu was injured because he could only hide in a dark room for a long time, so he made him a dark, sinister, vicious and hateful person. Jingzhou was killed when he was 8 years old. I caught Ziyu's shadow, and said that he had the same experience as both of them. But Jingzhou is not as sinister and vicious as Ziyu, which is actually a representative of Yin and Yang. When
captured Jingzhou, the chief governor used 100 handsomely dressed and slender men in a soft and sturdy way. (I've seen those people are really amazing. It's really nothing to be a woman when a man is up). law! The number of 100 vs. 800 is also a battle power that wins more with less.
is originally a kind of Tai Chi. Zhang Yimou cleverly brought these yin and yang aesthetics into the movie, and showed them to the audience through careful design.
Zhang Yimou’s creative style is “minimalist”. It can be seen from this film that the simple narrative technique and the easy-to-understand plot are just the addition of some new elements. We can understand it as one Kind of innovation, and very successful!
