Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" is the only Chinese film to win the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes International Film Festival and the American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2005, it was selected as one of the "100 Best Movies in Global History".
"The most suitable place for Kaye to stay is the ivory tower. Kaye listened to my persuasion that if the ivory tower is not available, they have to make them want to see and not see it. Not only can they not close the light, they also have to open the aperture, the more dazzling the better. "
67-year-old Chen Kaige sat down in front of the monitor and started to talk to the young actors through the walkie-talkie at 0.5 times the speed of high decibels.
At this time, "The Actor, Please Be Here" is really like a filming scene, rather than a TV show full of variety effects.
Chen Kaige is like a pin on the stage of the recently aired "Actors Please Get In". The fifth-generation directors have practiced the skills for a long time, and they have gained countless fans.
Mingdao stared at him with his "eyes full of curiosity" all the time. / "Actors please take their place"
all the actors all said, "When the director of Triumph talks about the play, there is a sense of sudden enlightenment." Even across the screen, many viewers listened to his poetic comment, "brushing away the tears". In the latest episode of
, Chen Kaige canvassed votes for the "Four Blind" short film adapted from "Tuina". He said: "When the flower blooms, no one may see it, but it opens."
Telling the mood of several blind protagonists can also be said to be Chen Kaige's understanding of a good play.
Chen Kaige, who rarely appears on social platforms, posted such a Weibo in 2010, which is similar to the above sentence:
Time is fast, life is falling and flowing, everyone is in a hurry, and there is no time to take care of the blooming flowers by the road. Like the flowers on the roadside, silently free, silently fragrant. Before and after the broadcast of the variety show
, Chen Kaige was also a guest on Maoyan’s interview show "Creation In Progress", and said that there are roughly two types of directors. One is to fix a certain style and continue to the end; the other is. He is the director of "Naughty Boy". He has a good style and is willing to try new things.
He believes that he is a naughty boy, "everything he does is a risk, there is no way to keep the results recognized by everyone, may have to start all over again."
Chen Kaige's "Sadness Goes Against the River", lost to Guo Jingming's "The Legend of the Demon Cat". / "Actors please take their place"
Whether it is 41-year-old filming "Farewell My Concubine" or 67-year-old director of "Sadness Against the River" in a variety show, this is Chen Kaige's adventure for himself.
Although the former helped him win the Palme d’Or and the Golden Globe Awards, the latter caused him to lose to Guo Jingming, who directed "The Legend of the Demon Cat" on a program.
But as long as the actor reveals itself naturally and the lens gives him the desired effect, the "naughty boy" will stare in front of the monitor. At this time, the audience knows that this one is over, and "Sadness Goes Against the River" is finished.
"Secondary Two Boy" Chen Kaige
According to Chen Kaige's own words, he was "born in a family of film workers" and is a "second generation".
's father, Chen Huai'ai, has won the Hundred Flower Award many times, and he has directed the name card "Song of Youth" with Cui Wei, and his mother has also been a screenplay editor.
Not long before he was born, Beijing held the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference. The monogram design was taken from the pigeon painted by Picasso. So his parents named him "White Pigeon".
Chen Kaige has a deep family learning. / "Song of Youth"
In such a family, the classmates of "Ai Ge" at the time were able to get in touch with a lot of Chinese traditional culture and Western classical art at the same time.
He recalled that his mother often wore a pale fruit green silk pajamas and leaned on a wicker chair in the courtyard.
When the sun comes out, just say: Enter the ancient temple early in the morning, and the first sun shines on Gaolin. The winding path leads to a secluded place, and the Zen room has deep flowers and trees.
At night, I read: I don’t want to come and spend half the night. The father of a friend of
was in charge of film art, and he also had the opportunity to get to know Rembrandt, Rubens and Goya. When
was 13 years old, the boy suddenly reached a height of 1.8 meters. He realized that "the same white pigeon has very little in common", so he renamed himself "Veuve" and reported to Beijing No. 4 Middle School.
Chen Kaige described his fourth middle school in this way in his autobiographyClassmates:
Most of them are proud of the achievements of their parents. They call themselves a natural revolutionary, they think they have noble blood, pure thinking...
Their characters are mostly arrogant, paranoid, straightforward to aggressive, and sometimes extremely naive. Because he knows little about society, he makes his life extremely ideal. He is indulging in the dream of revolution and does not know what revolution is. Instead, he advocates ignorance with the enthusiasm for the pursuit of truth...
Chen Kaige is also one of the "them".
Chen Kaige's photos of rehearsal in college.
The young triumphant song is well written. In 1977, he resumed the college entrance examination. His first choice was the Chinese Department of Peking University, but unfortunately he failed the list. After many setbacks, he was admitted to the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy.
is a teenager, Chen Kaige is the tall and handsome one. And the “fifth generation”, who was in their youth, began to systematically use movies as a channel to reflect on deep history, explore cultural heritage, and examine and speculate on reality. The
lens replaced the pen barrel and became a tool for his expression.
"This is a group of urchins who have been infiltrated by Zhu Xinzhuang's Chunhuaqiuyue, a group of infatuated lovers who are fascinated by art, and a pair of phoenixes migrating with 40 years of reform and opening up." A few days ago, the 40th anniversary of Beiying At the party, Chen Kaige sighed with emotion.
is amazing and critical, and this movie caused a lot of controversy. / "Yellow Earth"
"Yellow Earth" was born in such an era. The film is directed by Chen Kaige, photographed by Zhang Yimou, starring Wang Xueqi and others. In the story, it is a tragedy that Gu Qing, a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, did not rescue the rural girl Cuiqiao who longed for freedom, but people saw hope in it.
China's vast land became the subject of the movie for the first time. Hong Huang still remembers the first time she watched "Yellow Earth" in Beijing Tianqiao Cinema:
was shocked! The first sentence is that the Chinese have also begun to make such movies, and it feels like seeing a disabled person painting with his feet!
China Daily commented on the film that photography with large color blocks and strong color vision, folk customs of the northwestern yellow land, and a reflective narrative of Chinese culture have given Chinese movies a different look.
The fifth generation of Chinese directors took advantage of this film to rise, and Chen Kaige's magnificent uphill journey also started from this. Nine years later, "Farewell My Concubine" was released, which was the highest point of his directorial career.
"Farewell My Concubine" shooting scene.
Chen Kaige's later works, we have seen some in the cinema, but most of them can't understand it.
For example, the protagonist is called "Singing while walking", such as "Jing Ke Stabbing the King of Qin" which subverts the traditional image of Qin Shihuang, and "Wuji" with Douban score of 5.3 and "Taoist Down the Mountain" with 5.4 points. After watching "The Promise", a reporter came to the conclusion: Compared with Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige's greatest advantage is that he can be unwavering and completely absurd.
The young Huang Lei plays the blind man in "Walking and Singing". The classmates of
parted ways, and everyone began to direct independently and pondered their own way. Many of them compromised and some sought change, but Chen Kaige was still immersed in the big and heavy motifs he had been thinking about since he was a teenager. If
insists on explaining, "Walking and Singing" is a Marquez fable? The essence of "Promise" is freedom? The "Supreme Secret" in "The Legend of the Demon Cat" actually refers to "the ability to find beautiful B-sides in a barren life"?
So, does anyone understand, and who knows the correct answer?
"The Promise" dresses Liu Ye like this, what central idea does it express?
Even Feng Xiaogang, who wanders around the fifth generation, knows that the most suitable place for Kaiye is the ivory tower.
Kaye listened to my advice. If the ivory tower cannot be seen, they have to make them want to see it. Not only can they not close the light, but also open the aperture. The more dazzling the better. Get out of the ivory tower, let them see clearly, the mystery is gone, let’s not say that you are not theirs than their ability to take care of themselves. Your ability is not here, just like the Prime Minister may not be able to manage a restaurant.
Some scholars have pointed out that the so-called juvenile psychological symptoms are thoughts that are light but pretending to be deep. To put it bluntly, the temperament of Secondary Two is bursting, and there is always a lot of poetry in my heart.
Who can think of such a one-meter-eight, tableA serious director, with his own dignified voice, can't help himself out of being addicted to S2?
But looking at it conversely, Chen Kaige, who is carrying an "not old heart", has indeed left a lot of classic youth images for the Chinese film scene-"Kid King", Liu Xiaochun, and Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiao The first half of his life.
"Day Meteor" in "Me and My Motherland" is the most controversial, and that is also the story of a teenager.
But what impressed the audience the most was the white crane boy who opened the door of the "ivory tower". Sure enough, "opened the aperture", it was "dazzling enough."
It's also a coincidence that Guo Jingming, who is now on the same stage as the PK in "Actors, please seat", is the only one who understands "Promise".
22-year-old Guo Jingming defeated Zhang Yueran and other writers in a literary competition and got the opportunity to "write fan fiction" for the movie. It is said that the editors who received the manuscript are full of praise for his adaptation.
This is also a writer who focuses on the youth pain of teenagers and girls. Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou in front of the
camera.
"True heroes who do not scrutinize any means, true heroes who do not change their original intentions"
Legend has it that when "The Last Emperor" celebrated the celebration, the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci once took advantage of the time when the dragon went to the bathroom and quietly talked to Chen Kaige. Said: "You are the real last emperor."
Chen Kaige played the captain of the guard in the film.
filmed "Wind Moon," and Wong Kar-wai also commented on him: "I watch Chen Kaige's movie, just to appreciate his domineering!"
even circulates a story about the authenticity of the story, saying that Director Chen heard about Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" in the United States After winning the grand prize in Berlin, he sat on the toilet and said, "I used to be my photographer!"
Anyone who has heard of this joke and is familiar with Chen Kaige said: "This story is like him! "
Chen Kaige played the captain of the royal guard in "The Last Emperor". When
was filming "Farewell My Concubine", Zhang Jinzhan, the nearest deputy director, recalled: "In Chen Kai's opera crew, we always communicate with each other and cannot do without'rules'. What are rules? Professional."
Standing, never dared to sit in Chen Kaige's chair.
"Chen Kaige is joking, saying that when I stretch out my hand, the teapot must be handed to me. This is the'rule'. But then everyone said that as soon as Chen Kaige reached out, others would pass the teapot over."
Seeing that Chen Kaige is quite rational, he also patiently talked about it when he talked about the drama. But these few words tell us that as long as others sit on the set, it is overflowing domineering and powerful field control ability, which is the core of shooting good shots.
Director Chen is speaking to Leslie Cheung.
But the king of the set is not necessarily the king of the market. In many cases, no matter how excellent the lens expression ability is, it can't be worth the right time and place.
Even in Chen Kaige's opinion, "Farewell My Concubine" is nothing more than "the time and the power". Xu Feng, the producer of
, took the initiative to open the door with the script. The script was guarded by Reed, and Leslie Cheung turned into Cheng Dieyi "not a madman, no life". In the end, the entire film, the staff up and down, all "made it all by themselves". In
"Taoist Going Down the Mountain", the master said to He Anxia: "A person who does not scrutinize a means is a hero, and a person who does not change his original intention is a hero." A reporter from
asked, how do you understand this sentence?
The insensitivity of "Taoist Down the Mountain" is learned from "Kung Fu".
Chen Kaige replied with another movie of his own:
"Jing Ke Stabbing the King of Qin" in one sentence sums up that despicable means can never achieve lofty ideals. Yingzheng attempted to use killings to complete reunification. This kind of cause cannot be noble.
Why should I mention it? Because movies are noble to me, and you let me do whatever it takes, I can't do it. So I am not an unscrupulous person.
People need wisdom when facing changes. I refer to strategies collectively as techniques, and fundamental things collectively as poetry. A balance must be found between the two. In a business society, it is easy for people to regard technique as the foundation. I can't take the technique as the foundation. We must learn the precision of the technique when there is chaos. It can't be said that you have poetic feelings, and you have to invest in the surgery. That would be irresponsible.
The first episode of "The Actors Please Take Place" opens,Old classmate Li Shaohong asked him, would you choose to be loyal to the market or to yourself?
Chen Kaige replied: “In fact, the two can be integrated. I create according to my ideas and also conform to the market.”
But the market has its own rules. The premise of commercial films to please the market is to tell a story.
Beijing Film Academy professor Hao Jian pointed out:
on this most fundamental principle, several Chinese blockbusters have violated the rules. Our directors are not too willing to narrate common sense. They do not take good care of the story first in commercial films, but try to explain their own opinions and become pseudo-thinkers. This is a foul against commercial film grammar.
therefore will inevitably lead to a second foul, which does not conform to the basic common sense, does not affirm and explore human relations and ethics, and leaves the human nature to explore new ideas, not to mention whether a film is within its ability, which at least loses the audience Emotional basis.
Chen Kaige and screenwriter Lu Wei.
is the movie too difficult,
or is this audience destined to be unable to please?
Speaking of making movies, Chen Kaige can't be "playing" in nature.
Although he claims to be a naughty boy, he has worked harder than anyone else in filming. The 78th class of
film school met for the first time in ten years. Everyone joked and awarded each other some awards. Chen Kaige was awarded the "Best Trauma Award." When
was forty years old, his hair was almost completely white, "life seems to be consumed in movies."
In order to restore the scene of the prosperous Tang, he spent 6 years building a Tang City in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, so that the original author of "The Legend of the Demon Cat", Mengzhen Tapir, shed tears.
This may be the closest we can imagine Datang. / "The Legend of the Demon Cat"
Back to the original question, why is the beautiful text and the first-rate director of Chen Kaige, so everyone can't understand the movie?
Perhaps we can see some clues in these details-
"Kid King", a close-up shot of a machete placed on the table, Chen Kaige noted a whole page of connotation in the director's sub-camera book. At the end of the filming, he also said that he would write "an article with a hundred thousand words to clarify the film." When
was filming "Yellow Land", Chen Kaige told the actor who played Cui Qiao that what you carried on your shoulders was not water, but that what you carried on your shoulders was the five thousand years of Chinese culture!
made "Promise", he "this is a movie about freedom, love, and destiny", "no one will understand in 10 years." In
's 2015 "Taoist Going Down the Mountain", there is a set of character cards in the film announcement, and each person corresponds to a word.
Wang Baoqiang is "Dao", Guo Fucheng is "hold", Zhang Zhen is "righteousness", Lin Chiling is "temptation", Fan Wei is "dust", Yuanhua is "resentment", Wang Xueqi is "zen", and Wu Jianhao is "fan" , Chen Guokun is "sigh", Li Xuejian is "xuan", the combination of all the protagonists of
is: holding the way, luring dust and resentment, and sighing Xuanyi Chan. The stem is buried deep enough. Compared with
, "falling to the ground", "With You" and "Search", which tell the story well, are much easier to read and understand.
Lin Chiling with the word "induction". / "Taoist Goes Down the Mountain"
Just by looking at these slogan-style text and too cumbersome details, we already have a face of "Metro grandpa looking at the phone.jpg", let alone watching movies.
can't capture the details in the fast-scan shots. Without a mature plot to support the context, the director's interesting soul has become empty preaching. When an actor reads a line, it is like recite a great principle.
Chen Kaige has a nickname called "Half Master". Because he always lays the groundwork in the foreplay and sets up a lot of suspense. As a result, the audience hasn't started to buy it, and the film touches himself first.
"Mei Lanfang" is also a "half masterpiece", and it's not good to shoot when it comes to middle age.
can film, in the final analysis, is still an art that pays attention to white space, the director deliberately does not say full, the film critics and the audience will naturally empathize with them and use imagination to supplement.
It's a pity that Dao Chen has worked so hard to fill a frame with too much stuff. After all, he couldn't explain clearly to the national audience in person for the lines and the things that couldn't fit next to him.
In contrast to this year’s hit movies, the director of "Parasite" deliberately explained every motive; Nolan and Heath Ledger have become masters of crime and clowns, and they are remakes again this year.The legend also adds an introduction to abuse and trauma.
If "straightforwardness" is the most popular way of expression by the public and film critics, then Chen Kaige seems to be farther away from the next "Applause and Popularity".
"Farewell My Concubine" was created in Cannes, which was one of the most glorious nights of Chinese movies.
Juvenile triumph, Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige: I have nothing to do with "Farewell My Concubine" now, Phoenix Entertainment
Chen Kaige and his 80s, Sanlian Life Weekly
Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and the road to blockbuster movies, Triple Life Weekly
"Promise" It is my demon, New Weekly
Chen Kaige: If a girl smiles back and touches you, it is worth doing something for her. Du Shaofei
writes about the world and understands life-the destiny theme of Chen Kaige’s movies, Jia Leilei
Asking the World——An Interpretation of the Movie "Taoist Going Down the Mountain", Li Zhen's
Juvenile Poems——An Interpretation of Chen Kaige's Movies, Chen Mo
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