Chapter 4 Film Analysis

Most of the cinemas in this era were in poor condition, and many cinemas had even benches. However, the cinema they entered was in good condition, not only did there be chairs to sit on, but there were also fans hanging on the roof to provide a cool breeze to the audience. However, due to the high temperature and the large number of spectators, the heat wave in the cinema is still pressing.

If it's just heat, the smell of feet is still constantly harassing the nasal cavity like a biological weapon. In this era, many people wear rubber shoes, and rubber shoes are not breathable, creating a taste that is greater than that of Yang fans. However, there are still people who unconsciously take off their shoes after entering the cinema. It really can only be described as sour.

Xu Wangqiu was accustomed to this, and skillfully pulled up his collar and covered his mouth and nose to prevent the invasion of "poisonous gas".

The movie started soon, and when the subtitles came out, Xu Wangqiu found that it was "Heroes' Children".

"Children of Heroes" was not banned during the movement and was one of the few films that could be shown publicly. Of course, it's not right to say that there is no ban, it was originally a banned film. However, in 1970, on the 20th anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Prime Minister visited North Korea, and the ban on five films to resist US aggression and aid Korea was lifted, including "Surprise Attack", "Heroic Children", "Railway Guard", "Fighting the Invaders" and "Comrades-in-Arms" co-produced by China and North Korea.

Originally, it was planned to resume the release of "Crossing the River Reconnaissance" and "Outwitting Huashan", but Jiang Qing and others disagreed. After Wu De, who was also the head of the cultural group of the State Council/State Council/Yuan at that time, sent the report on the resumption of the screening, Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao asked him why he wanted to sing the opposite play? Do you know that there are problems with the screenwriters, directors, and actors of these films? Zhang Chunqiao also said: "If we have "Red Lantern," you will make a "Reconnaissance of Crossing the River"; and if we have "Outwitting Tiger Mountain," you will make a ...... of "Outwitting Huashan."

When the actor Wang Wenqing appeared on the screen, Xu Wangqiu suddenly remembered that this was the famous actor Tian Fang, and he was also the father of the famous director Tian Zhuangzhuang. Tian Zhizhuo graduated from the 78-level directing department, and he should be busy for the Nortel exam at this time.

In the previous life, when Xu Wangqiu was studying at Nortel, Tian Zhuangzhuang was the head of the directing department, mainly taking graduate students, but he also gave Xu Wangqiu and them classes. Thinking that the teacher in the previous life was about to become his classmate, Xu Wangqiu wanted to laugh a little.

Thinking about it again, Dean Zhang Huijun, Vice Dean Xie Xiaojing, Dean Mu Deyuan and others are all 78 and will become their classmates, and Xu Wangqiu wants to laugh even more.

"Heroic Children" is a story describing the Chinese People's Volunteer Army fighting the US army in North Korea, mainly telling the story of a division political commissar and his long-lost children reunited in the war, this pair of heroic children, one is called Wang Cheng and the other is called Wang Fang. Their stories have touched an entire generation of Chinese. Especially in the era of 6,70 Iron Maiden, Wang Fang, a young female warrior with a sweet appearance and cute manners, has left the most beautiful memory in the hearts of a generation.

Xu Wangqiu is very familiar with "Hero's Daughter", because this film was filmed by East Film Studio, Wang Cheng's actor Liu Shilong, and Wang Fang's actor Liu Shangxian are all actors from East Film Studio. In the previous life, Xu Wangqiu was in a community with them, and he saw that they were going to call him uncle and aunt. From childhood to adulthood, Xu Wangqiu has watched "Children of Heroes" no less than 100 times. It is no exaggeration to say that he memorized the scenes in the movie.

Coming out of the cinema, Xu Wangqiu gave Liu Lin and them an analysis of the movie: "To write a film analysis, you must first determine the angle of writing. There are many things that can be analyzed in a film, and many people will talk about the theme of the film, the structure of the play, and the characteristics of audiovisual language. A good film analysis will not be exhaustive, but must grasp one or two of the outstanding aspects and discuss them in depth. Take "Hero's Children", for example, this is a combination of realism and romanticism, based on Barkin's novel "Reunion", the novel is concise and focuses on family reunion, so the story lacks the dramatic plot of war. However, the film develops the novel into a story of family separation, and then interprets it as self-loss and recovery, and the story is arranged in the tense atmosphere of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea......"

Liu Lin and Gu Changwei listened to a few words, and their eyes widened, no less exciting than watching "Bai Jie" for the first time.

The film analysis course is a professional course of the film academy, and Liu Lin naturally has no opportunity to contact them. For ordinary movie lovers like them, they don't know what is good about the movie and how to analyze the movie.

Liu Lin, Gu Changwei and Wu Zhiliu listened to Xu Wangqiu's explanation hungrily, and in their eyes, Xu Wangqiu was not talking about how to write a film analysis, but leading them to the golden university. The three of them were like the earth that had been dry for more than 20 years, frantically absorbing the knowledge thrown out by Xu Wangqiu, and they couldn't wait to memorize every word Zhang Ran said.

After listening to it for a while, Liu Lin seemed to be enlightened, and said excitedly: "It turns out that the movie has to be analyzed like this!"

At one o'clock, Liu Lin took Xu Wangqiu and them to a nearby noodle restaurant for lunch. Liu Lin paid for the noodles, but the food stamps still had to be paid by himself, and a bowl of noodles cost three taels of food stamps. It's not that Liu Lin is stingy, it's like this in this era.

In this era, everyone's food stamps are fixed, and there are so many that you can't buy food without food stamps. Even if you go to the house of relatives and friends for dinner, you have to pay food stamps, no matter how close your relatives and friends are, they will do business in front of the food stamps, and they will be given as much as they eat.

After lunch, Xu Wangqiu and the others came to the cinema again under the leadership of Gu Changwei. At this time, the cinema was not showing domestic films, but the Yugoslav film "The Bridge".

In 1977, Yugoslav President Tito was invited to visit China, and the CPC and the Yugoslav Communist Party formally resumed relations between the two parties. In order to celebrate this event, Yugoslav films began to be screened in China, including films such as "Walter Defends Sarajevo" and "The Bridge", which set off a wave of Yugoslav film fever in China.

During the period of the movement, the only foreign films that were publicly released in China were films from Albania, Romania, Vietnam, and Korea, as well as old Soviet films "Lenin in October" and "Lenin in 1918". Although the film standards of these four countries are not very high, from 1966 to 1973, China did not make feature films at all, only showing all kinds of news and documentaries, and these low-standard foreign films largely met the entertainment needs of Chinese audiences.

Mira, the heroine of the Albanian movie "I'd rather die than give in", can be said to be the dream lover of countless Chinese teenagers. The flirtatious phrase "I'm going to throw you into the river" when the male protagonist of the Romanian movie "Waves of the Danube" hugged his wife has become a popular phrase for boys, and many bad boys love to use this sentence when teasing little girls. Writer Yu Hua once said in an article that every time I said this line when I was a teenager, sweet longing would quietly spring up in my heart. It is certain that Yu Hua did a lot of teasing little girls when he was a teenager.

There is a good summary of the characteristics of these national films: Vietnamese films with airplanes and cannons, North Korean films crying and laughing, Albanian films with inexplicability, Romanian films with hugging and hugging, and Chinese film news bulletins.

In terms of production level, Yugoslav films are much stronger than the films of Albania and other countries, and they have developed their own genre films, and many scenes and routines of Hollywood action movies are learning from Yugoslav films.

The standard of the movie "The Bridge" is quite good, and even after a few decades, it is still an excellent commercial film. In this era when domestic model dramas and feature films with conceptual, formulaic and only the theme of class struggle are prevalent, "The Bridge" is a whole step higher in terms of storyline, actors' performances, war scenes, and ideological realm.

After watching "The Bridge" and coming out of the cinema, Liu Lin said unsatisfactorily: "I have watched this movie more than ten times, and I still think it is good." If I were to be a director in the future, I would definitely make films like this. ”

Xu Wangqiu thought to himself that in the next 40 years, there will be no shortage of art film directors in China, even if there is a shortage of directors who can make excellent commercial films like "The Bridge", so he smiled and said: "If you can make a movie like "The Bridge", it will definitely be no problem to beat Feng Xiaogang. ”

Liu Lin asked, "Who is Feng Xiaogang?"

Xu Wangqiu thought to himself how I said the little steel cannon, this guy should still be in the art troupe, and immediately snorted: "Don't talk about anything else, let's continue to analyze the movie, this is the big thing." ”

Xu Wangqiu combined the movie "Bridge" to Liu Lin and the three of them to analyze the movie, and told them how to write a film analysis. Liu Lin and they all think "The Bridge" is good, but in addition to the wonderful story, they don't know what makes the movie so good. Now after listening to Xu Wangqiu's analysis, it is completely the first time that a little kid *** feels, I damn it, it turns out that there is such an operation!

After analyzing the movie, it was almost six o'clock, Xu Wangqiu proposed to go to dinner, and said that he was in for a treat. Of course, you still have to pay for the food stamps yourself. Liu Lin immediately said: "How can I let you have a treat, or I will come." Xu Wangqiu insisted: "You have been invited at noon, and I will come in the evening and listen to me." Liu Lin agreed when he saw Xu Wangqiu so insisting.

According to Xu Wangqiu's request, Liu Lin took Xu Wangqiu and them to a restaurant near East Street. Xu Wangqiu ordered a shredded pork with green peppers, a popping kidney flower, two vegetarian dishes, and a pork rib soup, five dishes, which add up to less than two yuan, which can be said to be the price of heaven.

Liu Lin saw that Xu Wangqiu ordered so many dishes without blinking, and couldn't help asking, "Wangqiu, are you a cadre at home?"

Xu Wangqiu shook his head: "Didn't I say that my father and mother are both workers in Factory 132. ”

Liu Lin felt that Xu Wangqiu was not telling the truth: "How can an ordinary family spend so much money like you?"

Xu Wangqiu dared to spend money because he had the confidence to make money, and chuckled: "You say this, do you know "People's Film"? I wrote a film review of "The River Flows", which was published in "People's Film", and I got dozens of yuan in manuscript fees. ”

As a movie lover, Liu Lin certainly knew about "People's Film", and when he heard that Xu Wangqiu actually published a film review on "People's Film", he couldn't help but exclaim: "You have published an article in "People's Film"? You are really amazing!"

Gu Changwei's eyes were also full of shock, and all domestic film magazines had been suspended since 1966. In late March 1976, People's Film, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, was launched in Beiping, which is now the only comprehensive film journal in China. Being able to publish an article in "People's Film", the only film magazine in the country, is naturally very high.

Liu Lin and Gu Changwei's hearts fluctuated, and they learned how to write the video analysis with Xu Wangqiu, and they really found the right person!

Wu Zhiliu knew very little about movie-related knowledge, and when he saw Liu Lin and Gu Changwei like groom officials who were about to enter the cave room, the joy on his face bubbled out, and he said puzzledly: "What, is that magazine very powerful?"

Liu Lin rolled his eyes: "Now there is only this film magazine in the whole country, and it is run by the Ministry of Culture; how many people have submitted articles to this magazine? Publishing an article in "People's Film" is equivalent to a writer publishing a novel in "People's Literature." ”