Original title: Digital technology helps Chinese opera films to maintain integrity
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 16, Recently, the Chinese opera film "Wind and Rain Tongrentang" as a representative film appeared in the "First Art League 2020 Xi opera film exhibition industry and the industry". Discussion on the innovative development path of Chinese opera films. At the Xiqu Film Forum held in Beijing on the 15th, participating experts discussed the role of digital technology in the integrity and innovation of Xiqu movies.
Opera movies play an important role in the history of Chinese film development. Many "firsts" in the history of Chinese movies are all related to opera movies. Xie Bailiang, director of the Department of Opera and Literature of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera, introduced that China’s first film "Dingjun Mountain" filmed the famous Peking opera artist Tan Xinpei performing "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"; several operas interspersed in the film, the film "Red Peony" Promoted to the throne of "China's first sound film"; and China's first color film "Life and Death Hate" starring Peking Opera performance artist Mei Lanfang, is also a drama film.
The Peking Opera film "Tong Ren Tang", which participated in this screening event, uses the artistic form of the national quintessence of Peking Opera to bring the story of Beijing "Tong Ren Tang", a time-honored brand in the traditional Chinese medicine industry, on the screen. Different from the previous opera movies, the film used digital virtual technology for the first time in shooting, making the film better present the appearance of Dashilan, Beijing’s Qianmen more than 100 years ago, restoring the authenticity of history, not only retaining the charm of Peking opera, but also Added the visual impact of audio-visual technology.
"To present the beauty of opera on the screen is of great benefit to both the inheritance of Chinese culture and the popularization of opera art. The use of digital technology to innovate in the audiovisual language of movies can achieve breakthroughs that traditional opera stage performances cannot achieve. "Director Ma Chongjie said.
Peking Opera Performing Artist Zhao Baoxiu said: "In history, the very beautiful singing voices of some famous Peking Opera performing artists have been passed down through the form of opera films. Today, the art of opera and the culture of opera can be carried forward through the mass media form of film. Fortunately. Of course, for the Peking opera performers participating in the film, they also face different challenges from stage performances.” Rao Shuguang, president of the Chinese Film Critics Society, believes that the use of digital technology should be more effective in the benign interaction with the audience. Great effect. "Technology is ultimately to serve content expression and cannot subvert the aesthetic essence of movies. How to use technology to establish a'community aesthetics' with the audience, so that more and more young audiences can understand the classics of the past, is worthy of Chinese opera film creators Questions to ponder." (Reporter: Zhang Manzi)
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