filming was once considered exclusive to men.
"Gender equality" has been politically correct in Hollywood for so many years, but in the 90-year history of Oscars, only 5 of the more than 400 nominated directors are women.
really won only one prize.
Looking back at the Chinese-speaking circle, everyone might not believe it.
40 years of Hong Kong Film Awards history, the best director award is actually a female director-
Xu Anhua.
13 mentions 6, this record is unmatched.
In addition, the only movies that have won the "Grand Slam" in the history of the Golden Image Awards-at the same time have won 5 heavyweight awards for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Female Lead- Two parts:
"Woman, Forty" and "Sister Tao".
are all made by Xu Anhua.
At the last Golden Image Awards ceremony, Xu Anhua said with a smile:
don't nominate again next time, my heart can't stand it.
said that she is the most talented female director in Chinese-language movies, and no one should be able to refute it.
Xu Anhua joined the Hong Kong TVB in 1975, under the tutelage of Hu Jinquan, a master of martial arts films, and he emerged at a young age.
In 1979, his directorial debut "Mad Tribulation" was considered a representative of Hong Kong's New Wave film, and its historical groundbreaking status was as famous as Tsui Hark's "Butterfly Change".
In the first Hong Kong Film Awards in 1981, she won the Best Screenplay Award for "Hu Yue's Story" directed by her;
won the Best Picture and Best Director at the second edition of
the following year. In the five awards,
and the actor in "To the Wrath Sea" is Andy Lau who has just graduated from the artist training class.
, as a newcomer who has not been filmed in a movie, Andy Lau was not optimistic before, but he did not expect to be nominated for the Best New Actor Award at the Academy Awards, and he became famous.
"To the Wrath Sea" was also acclaimed after its release. It was regarded as the pinnacle of Hong Kong's new wave, and the box office of 15 million broke the box office record of Hong Kong literary films.
Twenty years later, the two once again collaborated on the film "Peach Sister", achieving another great success. One won the best director and the other won the Golden Image Award winner. In particular, Ye Dexian, the actor of Sister Tao, won the Venice Film Festival in one fell swoop.
Hong Kong director Chen Jiashang once said: The reason why
Hong Kong films can support is because we still have Wong Kar Wai and Xu Anhua, not because of me and Wang Jing.
When Xu Anhua was filming "Autumn Hate on the Road," Wang Jing complained:
Who wants to read the autobiography of a fat woman and her mother?
But then Xu Anhua couldn't find the investment in "Day and Night of Tianshuiwei", it was Wang Jing who paid to assist.
is a really fragrant operation. Only then did
have the stalks in "Tucao Conference", and use the money from bad films to support good films.
And Xu Anhua later admitted in an issue of "Qiang Qiang Threesome" that the success of "Day and Night in Tian Shui Wai" gave her confidence again.
Before the two films of "Tian Shui Wai", "Jade Guanyin" was severely criticized, and the box office and reputation of "Aunt's Postmodern Life" were also mediocre. This made her wonder whether she was exhausted and she was about to retire.
However, facts have proved that to this day, Xu Anhua, who was born in 1947 and is 72 years old, still has a very strong desire to create, and the more he shoots, the more stable.
Liang Wendao commented that many directors filming low-level lives are holding the attitude of "looking down on the common people" and like to emphasize their suffering experience, as if they have completed their own moral salvation by shooting such a film.
But Xu Anhua is different.
"Tian Shui Wai" or "Sister Tao" almost makes people not realize that it is the bottom level, but only shows that there are so many people in society who live like this.
, even movies with grand context like "Golden Age" and "When Does the Moon Have" still have a strong market atmosphere, focusing on lively and concrete people.
Xu Anhua's delicate capture of life allows her to navigate between business and art and manage various types of films.
is just for her, there is no contradiction between "business" and "art" at all, As long as they are handled properly, the two can be fully balanced. What
did was just tell the story well-the short film of
is called "Qilidi". Although it is only 9 minutes, the lineup is quite strong. In addition to director Xu Anhua,
also starred in "Old Opera Bone" Jin Shijie and "Girl Pronoun" Spring and Summer;
"Golden Age" photographer Yang Tao is in charge of the shooting, and original independent musician Chen Li is in charge of the soundtrack.
and the national NO.1 movie poster designer Huang Hai.
Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises", "Let the Bullets Fly", Wong Kar-wai's "A Great Master", Jia Zhangke's "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers", and Xu Anhua's "Golden Era", all cover posters are from his hands.
, it can be said that this is entirely taking the cinematic film specifications to shoot short films.
This is an ordinary story about a family of three generations.
In 1947, the grandfather played by Jin Shijie broke through the Guandong and brought his family to Qilitun. The first thing after
settled down and took root is to post the word "Fu" on the door.
In 1983, his son studied abroad at public expense, but the time of admissions report conflicted with the Spring Festival.
On the way to send the child off, the father gave his son a blessing and told him to stick blessing on the door during the Chinese New Year, which represented the reunion of seeing the characters like people.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2019, the granddaughter played in the spring and summer returned to her hometown with her grandfather's handwritten blessing character and wish, and put the blessing character on the door.
spring and summer said:
Qilidi is a road connecting my home and the distance. On this road, three generations of us have walked back and forth for 70 years.
went from taking root, going abroad to fight, and returning to the homeland. Three generations of people completed the inheritance of a family's blood and culture through the same action.
and this is actually the epitome of thousands of Chinese three generations. In the past 70 years, China has undergone numerous changes, and social development is changing with each passing day. Traditional culture inevitably suffered a certain degree of impact.
Sometimes, young people can no longer understand the persistence of the older generation. For example, every household has to post blessing characters, such as New Year's Eve to have a reunion dinner, these are "old-fashioned" and "boring" to them.
That is because they only saw the actions themselves, but did not see the meaning behind these actions.
"Fu" is Chinese culture and tradition, and the common language of Chinese all over the world. It is not only an external form, but also an internal connection of emotions between people, precipitating the spiritual fetters of generations.
Chinese people's persistence and inheritance of Fu culture is based on the simplest reason: home.
is just like the line of King Shijie in the film:
is here when you are lucky. The character
symbolizes the attachment and belief of our Chinese to the family, the constant sense of certainty and security in our hearts, and the security that we are willing to guard.
That's why you will tell your foreign friends in spring and summer:
, you won't understand it.
because only thousands of Chinese people can understand.
Therefore, this short film may seem simple, but in fact it tells the story of a small family and a big country on a large scale. From a small family to a whole nation. At a micro level,
focuses on the reunion of a small family; at a macro level, it is thinking about the disappearance and inheritance of a nation’s traditional culture. With the courage and tension of family and country feelings.
No matter how the times and the environment change, the inheritance of the blessing culture remains unchanged. For the Chinese, no matter where they are, during the Chinese New Year, reunion is a blessing, and if you have me, I am blessed.
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