France's "Film Handbook" and Britain's "Sight and Sound" are the world's most authoritative film magazines. Although each has its own characteristics and different readerships, its influence in the industry is undoubtedly huge. For example, Hitchcock, at first American critics did not want to see him, but it was the critics of the "Film Handbook" school who discovered his value and sent him to the altar. Jia Zhangke was able to stand out from the sixth generation, relying on the affirmation of him by "Film Manual".

The film brochure's review of "The Aviator" came out relatively late, a day after the film's premiere. Out of a score of five out of five, "Film Manual" gave a five-point evaluation, which is the only five points given by "Film Manual" since the opening of this year's Venice Film Festival.

The Cinémathèque gave birth to the French New Wave, with a special emphasis on authorship and the recommendation of films with a strong personal style. Movies that are peaceful and lack of personal style are scum in their eyes, so Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou's movies have always been ignored by the "Film Manual", while Hou Xiaoxian and Jia Zhangke are highly regarded.

It's no surprise that "The Aviator", a film with a strong personal style, has been praised by the Cinema Handbook. It's just that the evaluation they gave was too high, and the title was "Zhang Ran Shows New Possibilities for Film", and the article wrote: "Martin Scorsese was very excited after watching "Xiao Wu", and when he met in New York, he told Jia Zhangke that every ten or twenty years, someone will reinvent film. I believe that Scorsese will say the same thing after watching "The Aviator", because "The Aviator" goes further than "Xiao Wu". "The Aviator" not only tells us a new situation in the world, but also shows us new possibilities in cinema.

"The Aviator" is undoubtedly the best Chinese film in recent years, although it is not without flaws, it is quite unique, mature and in place in terms of artistic expression, extremely full in emotional expression, and full of creativity in audiovisual language. The most prominent thing is its linguistic element, which is his use of cinematic language, which is very prominently manifested in its highly stylized setting of cinematic scene scheduling.

The whole film takes a big risk from the start, starting with a violation of the basic rules of film language grammar. Anyone who studies film knows that film art is flat and two-dimensional, and as a director, you have to use light and shadow modeling to create the illusion of a third dimension. As a director, you must use more in-depth scheduling and less horizontal scheduling. Because when the camera glides horizontally over the frame, it exposes and reinforces the flattening of the film. On the other hand, when the character enters the painting from the depths of the frame, when they walk towards the camera, or when the character enters the painting from the lower edge of the frame, the sense of depth is very strong. However, "The Aviator" is in danger, and the whole film is almost entirely a horizontal movement of the camera, and the lateral movement has become the most conventional film language element of the whole film, so the whole film has become a highly stylized expression.

This stylized scene scheduling and the setting of scenes and spaces make the picture tend to be flattened, which conveys the dilemma of Qiao Zhengfei in reality, the very narrow, deep, and ungraspable social space in which he lives, and also conveys the character's psychological experience of life encounters and social position.

The depth scheduling and vertical scheduling corresponding to this traverse movement are also available in the movie. When Qiao Zhengfei piloted the plane three test flights, it was three in-depth dispatches. A powerful in-depth dispatch not only allows the audience to release the emotions that have been suppressed to the greatest extent, but also allows us to grasp our fate, and this sense of grasp is through the synchronous movement of the characters and the camera in the film, through which the characters become a motive that can influence and dominate the movement of the camera, and through the characters in the scheduling, the occupation of space and the development of space for them are presented.

It can be said that the stylized audio-visual language of "The Aviator" subverts the tradition, skillfully presents the theme meaning and value factors of the film, and makes the story expression of the film swaying. ”

"Seeing and Hearing" also gave a very high rating to "The Aviator", believing that it is a film that can go down in history, and they believe that "The Aviator" can compare its use of light to "Day in Heaven". The article reads: "Backlighting is a kind of lighting with great artistic charm and strong expressiveness, which can make the picture produce an artistic effect completely different from the actual light we see with the naked eye on the scene."

In "The Aviator", the backlit lens mainly focuses on Qiao Zhengfei's body, and many times there is only one outline and a silhouette in the vision, which can have a stronger impact on the brain and objectively improve the sensitivity to things. The sun symbolizes authority and mainstream thought, and giving Qiao Zhengfei a backlight lens is a metaphor for his deviation from reality and his dedication to dreams. On the other hand, Liu Jiao, when she was a girl, she used soft light, gorgeous colors, and a sense of dreaminess, which is the externalization of her heart, indicating that she is full of hope for the future and the world. However, as an adult, her light tends to be close to natural, and the light level is also normal. This shows that what she longs for is a normal life and pursues the life of ordinary people. This is also the fundamental reason why she and Qiao Zhengfei parted ways.

The director has made a more in-depth portrayal of the characters through the technique of backlighting, so that the connotation of the work is deeper, the artistic conception is higher, and the charm is stronger. ”

Although the film reviews of "The Movie Handbook" and "Sight and Sound" came out relatively late, the high rating of "The Aviator" by the two magazines is simply astounding. Needless to say, wait until November for "The Aviator" to surely take its place in both magazines' top 10 films of the year.

Fueled by "The Movie Handbook" and "Sight and Sound", "The Aviator" surpassed "Deep Sea Sleep" and became the number one favorite for the Golden Lion Award in the eyes of the media.

On the afternoon of the 10th, a well-informed reporter inquired about the inside news, and there was a fierce debate among the judges, and the judges had great disagreements on the ownership of the Golden Lion Award, and no one could convince anyone. The focus of the debate is on the two films "The Aviator" and "Deep Sea Sleep", and it is not surprising that the Golden Lion Award was produced in these two films.

Zhang Ran didn't think too much about winning the award. It is difficult to say that the film festival will win the award, it is not that the media can win the award if the media reflects well, nor can the film win the award if the quality of the film is high. The key is whether the judges of the jury like it, if the judges like it, the quality is relatively mediocre and they may win the award, if the judges don't like it, no matter how high the score is, no matter how good the quality is, it is useless.

While the Chinese reporters were cheering at the gossip, Zhang Ran was visiting Venice with Zhang Jingchu with great interest. In China, there are many people who know the two of them, and every time they go to the street, they have to dress up carefully, and the time can't be too long, otherwise it is easy to attract a large number of onlookers, and it is difficult to enjoy the fun of shopping. In Venice, not many people know them and can hang out very relaxed.

There is a saying that when you arrive in Venice, if you don't go to a gondola, you don't come to Venice. Gondola is a traditional rowing boat ride unique to Venice, Italy. Because Venice is the only city in the world that does not have access to cars, the boat is the only means of transportation. The gondola is a black flat-bottomed boat about 12 meters long and 1.7 meters wide, richly decorated, with two high ends in the shape of a crescent moon and a hooked beak that makes it easy to explore the height of the bridge. This lightweight, slender, and very chic boat has been around for more than a thousand years.

In the gondola, Zhang Jingchu snuggled in Zhang Ran's arms, feeling the temperature and heartbeat on his body, and tilted his head slightly to let his cheek touch his arm. Although she felt a little hot, she enjoyed the feeling very much, and she liked to lie in Zhang Ran's arms, which was very reassuring.

"The Bridge of Sighs has arrived!" the boatman reminded as he stopped.

Zhang Jingchu hurriedly opened her eyes, sat up, and looked up at the legendary Bridge of Sighs. When she came to Venice, the most anticipated attraction was the Bridge of Sighs.

The Bridge of Sighs is in the early Baroque style, with a house-like bridge covered by a dome on the upper part, tightly closed, and two small windows on the canal side. Legend has it that when a death row prisoner took one last glimpse on the Bridge of Sighs, he saw a man and a woman kissing on a phoenix boat going down the river. So then there was a legend that when couples kiss under the bridge, love will be eternal!

Starting from Beiping, Zhang Ran listened to Zhang Jing's first recitation of the sigh bridge, and thought it was a particularly magnificent bridge, but now he was really disappointed when he saw it, and pouted: "This is the sigh bridge?

Zhang Jingchu bit her lip lightly and said with a smile: "The bridge itself is not important, what matters is the meaning it carries." I've heard people say that people in Venice must take a dinghy, and couples who take a dinghy must kiss at the Bridge of Sighs, so that the love will last forever!"

Zhang Ran turned his head to look, there were two couples kissing on the bridge, and a young couple was kissing on the gondola parked next to him. The pair of lovers found that Zhang Ran was looking at them, so they smiled at Zhang Ran generously, and Zhang Ran also smiled at them and nodded.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Zhang Jingchu pulled Zhang Ran's arm, she hoped that she and Zhang Ran could last forever.

Zhang Ran looked at Zhang Jingchu's expectant eyes, smiled and stretched out his hand, held her delicate face, and kissed her lips vigorously, and then his tongue probed into her mouth, wrapped her tongue, and sucked hard.

Zhang Jingchu's hands hugged Zhang Ran's body, her eyes closed slightly, and she responded enthusiastically.

It must last forever!

The two kissed for a long time, and when they separated, they were a little hypoxic. Zhang Ran's breathing was a little short, and Zhang Jingchu gasped for breath. The eyes of the two fell on each other's eyes, and it was particularly moving under the light of the water.

Zhang Ran smiled and joked: "Why don't we kiss Sansheng III?"

Zhang Jingchu gasped and said, "Okay, but you wait for me to rest!"

Zhang Ran was just about to open his mouth with a smile, when his mobile phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and looked at it, it was the official phone number of the film festival, and quickly connected: "Hey, hello!"

The other end of the phone said: "Mr. Zhang Ran, I am a staff member of the Organizing Committee of the Film Festival, and the Organizing Committee invites the crew of "The Aviator" to attend the award ceremony tomorrow night, and I hope you can attend on time." ”

Zhang Ran was stunned, and then laughed.

The festival has a tradition that the organizing committee will notify the winning crews to attend the award ceremony the day before the festival closes. The crew that has not been notified means that there is no award, and they can pack up their baggage and leave.

Now the organizing committee invites the crew of "Aviator" to attend the award ceremony, indicating that "Aviator" has a prize!

Seeing that Zhang Ran didn't speak, the people from the organizing committee asked, "Excuse me, do you need to send a car to pick you up?"

"Of course!" Zhang Ran came back to his senses and hurriedly said. The luxury limousine for the film festival is very expensive, and it costs $10,000 to rent it himself, and Zhang Ran doesn't want to talk about this kind of unjust money.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ran saw Zhang Jingchu looking at him in surprise, and said with a smile: "I just received a call from the organizing committee, let's attend the award ceremony tomorrow!"

Zhang Jingchu was stunned for a moment, then jumped up directly and cheered loudly: "Great, great, ah!" Zhang Jingchu was so excited that she completely forgot that she was on the boat, and as a result, her feet slipped and fell directly into the water.

Zhang Ran was startled and hurriedly reached out to pull, but he was still a step slower, and saw Zhang Jingchu fall into the water. (To be continued.) )