Song Zheng doesn't care about how the outside world comments on the golden autumn trip of "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds", it's just because he knows too much about the urine of the media, and if he starts to refute it, it will undoubtedly be in the hands of some people.

In fact, as long as you have a brain, you should know that a low-budget feature film like "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds" can win three awards at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, which is already a success worth boasting about.

And the reason why those people say Song Zheng and his movie so sadly is just for hype.

If you blindly tout, it won't take a few days for this news point to be fried, how many people will be willing to pay attention to it at that time?

But if you say the opposite, it will be different, once Song Zheng starts to refute, they will have a chance to continue, and it is best to provoke Song Zheng to say two hard words, then the effect will be better.

It was precisely because Song Zheng knew what those people were thinking that he simply ignored everything, and after sending out the brief announcement, he ignored the matter, and refused all the interview requests made by some media, and devoted himself to his work.

During the time he left, the filming of "Mourning the Heavenly King" did not stop at all, but the progress was inevitably delayed a little because of the lack of him as the leading actor, and now that Song Zheng is back, he naturally has to make up for all the delays before.

"Okay!

Hearing Ning Hao shouting "pass", several staff members immediately rushed to Song Zheng and helped him off the horse.

Riding on horseback for hours on horseback to film, and constantly doing those difficult fighting moves, even when resting, he can only lie on horseback, even if he is an iron man, he can't bear it.

"Zhengzi!Okay!?"

After Ning Hao finished arranging the work, he also went to Song Zheng for the first time and asked.

Song Zheng waved his hand weakly and said, "It's okay, you continue, I'll rest for five minutes first!"

After Song Zheng finished speaking, he directly lay down on the ground, he was really tired.

Ning Hao also knew that Song Zheng was tired, but there was no way, doing this work, looking at the scenery on the surface, but how many people could see the bitterness behind it.

"Okay, you rest for a while, I'll sweep the panorama a few more times over there!"

Song Zheng nodded, he didn't even have the strength to speak, and after a while, he felt that his body was no longer as soft as it was just now, so he struggled to sit up and beckoned to Ren Tong, who was standing aside and looking worried.

"Brother, I'll help you up!"

Ren Tong hurriedly ran over, and as he spoke, he was about to start supporting Song Zheng.

Song Zheng smiled and waved his hand, "Pull it down! I'm here now, you can't move!"

Although the armor Song Zheng wore during filming was not really supported by steel, it was not light at all, wearing such a suit, if he was someone else, not to mention that he had to fight on horseback during filming, even if he stood still, it was estimated that he would not last for an hour.

"Go get my computer!"

Song Zheng said, stood up strongly, walked to the side, found a chair to sit down, and Ren Tong ran back with his notebook.

"Brother!"

Song Zheng took it: "Okay, you can go and rest too!"

Ren Tong hesitated, but she knew that when Song Zheng was writing, what she hated the most was that there were people around her, so she still left obediently.

Song Zheng turned on the computer, moved his fingers, and began to type on the keyboard.

What he's writing right now is a new script.

Although he won a lot of money at the Golden Globe Awards this time, Song Zheng obviously will not stop there, not only will he not stop, on the contrary, this Golden Globe trip has fueled his ambitions.

Next time, he's going to completely conquer those white judges!

The Revenant

In his previous life, when this movie was released in China, Song Zheng didn't go to the cinema to watch it, and at first, he didn't know much about this movie, until Leonardo DiCaprio won the 88th Oscar for this film, and Song Zheng was interested in finding a pirated version of this movie for the first time.

Based on Michael Penck's story, the film tells the story of a 19th-century fur hunter who is injured by a bear and abandoned into the wilderness by other hunters.

The English name of the film "The Revenant" literally translates to understand the person who came back from the dead, but when you watch the whole film, you will find that the pain that the protagonist endures to survive is obviously much greater than hatred, and this story is not about revenge, but about a story of physical rebirth led by the soul.

The original director Alejandro had already made a name for himself with "Birdman" before this film, and just when people were full of expectations for him and thought that he would use the honor brought by "Birdman" to enter the mainstream circle, he chose an anti-Hollywood minimalist narrative method: minimalist lines, minimalist character relationships, and minimalist story associations.

And this minimalist temperament has also made Ricardinho's performance, so that it is completely integrated into the cruel wilderness, extremely bloody, cold north, harsh nature, but its cruelty is far less than the mutual killing brought about by human desire, in the chaos, but there is always a spark of hope flashing and not extinguishing, divinity or spirituality, giving people the power to achieve extraordinary things, but also making people have a sense of awe, let go of obsession, and turn to relief, showing a collection of people and nature, people and people, Even the whole high-energy epic story of race and race.

One of the most amazing things for Song Zheng is the cinematography of the film, perhaps Lubezki's beautiful and supernatural cinematography, which has achieved the realization of this minimalist narrative.

The top-notch scene light and shadow and a large number of panoramic ultra-wide-angle rotating lenses make people immersive, the cold wilderness of the northern United States, the scenery is dizzying, and it is breathtaking to see the magnificent beauty of nature in its own game, and director Alejandro himself admitted that in this film, in fact, the biggest protagonist is nature.

Of course, director Alejandro's incredible mastery and ambition don't stop there, compared to the last "Birdman" in the end, "The Revenant" can be said to be more than that.

Shooting entirely in natural light, and shooting all scenes in the field at minus 30 degrees Celsius in icebergs and wild forests, and continuing to follow a large number of one-shot to large-scale long shots, it can be said that the difficulty of "The Revenant" is beyond a considerable level compared to the previous one-shot technology of the whole film.

On the other hand, "The Revenant" can even be regarded as the ultimate version of wilderness survival, with various natural landscapes and the main line of Xiao Li's survival intertwined to occupy most of the scenes, among which all kinds of cruel killings, munching raw meat is disgusting, and Alejandro's filming technique makes everything seem real and believable, so that many shots are so real that people are disgusted, thus presenting a jaw-dropping sense of cruelty.

Similarly, the performance of the actors in the original work is also amazing, due to an accident in the storyline, the protagonist Glass lost the ability to speak, so for a long time in the whole film, only the wheezing voice of the leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio, all the plots are driven by the actions of the protagonist, and all the plot on the main line can only rely on DiCaprio's body language to act, as well as Xiao Li's deep eyes and nasolabial folds.

Of course, there are also many extreme and violent scenes, rolling on the mud, climbing snowy mountains, being hit by bears, being slammed by bears, eating fish and animal offal raw, sleeping in the ice wilderness at minus 30 degrees, repeatedly entering and exiting sub-zero glaciers, and the whole film is full of his wheezing and bloody body.

When watching this movie at that time, Song Zheng's strongest thought was that the director really wanted to kill Xiao Lizi, because throughout the film, the director tried all kinds of methods to torture Xiao Lizi.

First, he asked the bear to lie on the body of the little plum and bite it, then Tom Hardy took the baton from the bear, dragged the badly injured little plum around on the ground, and dug a dead man's pit to bury him alive.

This failed to torture Xiao Lizi to death, so the director sent the Ricks, one of the most ferocious tribes among the Indians, who were proud of their scalping, and chased and killed Xiao Lizi, causing Xiao Lizi to drag his seriously ill body into the icy water, drifting with the tide, and almost not freezing to death.

Seeing that this failed to kill Xiao Lizi, the director announced that the wounds on Xiao Lizi's body were maggots and rotten, and set up a big storm on his escape route, but with the selfless help of the minority brothers, Xiao Lizi still survived strongly, and the director killed the minority brothers in a fit of anger, and then sent the French to hunt down and kill Xiao Lizi.

In order to avoid the storm, he opened the horse's belly and drilled into it naked, which reminded Song Zheng of "No One Survives", good guy, the actor tracked down the villain's lair in the corpse of a fat man.

In the process of watching this film, Song Zheng's mental activity has always been: Oh God, give him some hot water to drink! As a result, the director only gave him the cold water of the Missouri River; oh God, give him warm clothes! As a result, the director only gave him soaked fur; oh God, let him eat some hot food! As a result, Xiao Lizi could only eat grass roots, raw fish, and a bison that had just been bitten to death by a wolf, and he was about to become a handsome version of Gollum.

You must know that in reality, Xiao Li is a vegetarian, and the scene of eating meat is really raw! I believe that he will definitely be more determined to be a vegetarian in the future.

The whole film is like this, the director keeps putting Xiao Lizi to death, without mercy and no appeasement, Xiao Lizi is pursuing the height of acting skills, and the director is pursuing the limit of abuse.

But this abuse is conditional, reasonable, and cannot be thought of as one out of the other. Even though the story takes place in vast primeval forests, deserts and ice fields, the film naturally connects several different groups through interests and hatred.

It can be said that in this movie, DiCaprio really fights, but from the director's point of view, objectively speaking, aside from the difficult shooting environment of the whole movie, and the story structure that tests the perseverance and expressiveness of the actors, as well as the challenges of the transformation of the souls of the characters in the profound theme.

The character played by DiCaprio has never been fully brought to life, and there are not many other impressive things to impress in general, except for the appearance, and the dialogue between the protagonist and the ghosts.

Of course, DiCaprio's professional excellence and emphasis on performing arts achievements is still one of the amazing model workers, and finally won the Oscar, and there is no lack of sympathy for him this time to give him a little gold man to comfort him for years of hard work.

But it would be a big mistake to think that the gorgeous scenes, the beautiful camera angles, and the masochistic male protagonist are the attractions of this movie.

If this film is a gimmick of coldness, ruthlessness, violence, cruelty, blood, nudity, sexual assault, and inhuman Xiao Li, this work is second-rate at best, and the reason why this movie can win a lot of praise in its previous life lies in its inner depth.

The plot design of "Huang Ye Lianren" is no better than other films released at the same time, but according to media reports at the time, at the end of the movie, the American audience in front of the screen was all shocked to sit on their chairs and could not move, and the charm of a movie lies in such an appeal.

Even for those who are not familiar with the history of the American continent, this "The Revenant" has successfully attracted the attention of people who have nothing to do with this history, and for this reason, it can already leave a glorious mark in film history.

This is a very simple story, but when this story takes place in a complex historical background and harsh natural environment, it has a bit more historical heaviness and blood.

The background of the story is in the United States in the 19th century, the central and western parts of North America, which are still wild lands, were invaded by a large number of pioneers, and the local natives were slaughtered by Western invaders armed with modern weapons.

Despite their superb archery skills and familiarity with the terrain, the natives have had some victories, but they have been defeated by the cannons of modern civilization.

In the end, the natives had to sign a detention agreement with the white people at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, and began to live a wandering life, and the horseback culture and mysterious western virgin lands of the American plains soon disappeared into history, and the story of "The Revenant" is an episode in this history.

If you really want to interpret it, there are too many things to say about the contradictions between races, when people look back at this period of history, who represents "civilization" and who represents "barbarism" between the Western invaders who invaded with guns and guns and the natives who defended themselves with arrows and spears?

The Western invaders, with their most advanced ideas and the noblest belief in God, slaughtered natives, raped women, and even left their partners and mutilated their friends, while the blood-drinking natives carried backward weapons and scalped people, but saved the lonely white people in the wilderness and took care of them.

The line between civilization and barbarism seems to blur in the wilderness, and in the end only the primordial nature of humanity remains.

Fitzgrad, who abandoned his faith and was selfish, and Glass, who was in a bad situation but still remained good, was ultimately nothing more than a contest between human nature and human nature.

Therefore, in Song Zheng's view, this movie that feels a little "simple" is fully worthy of the title of epic, epic movies do not need to be confined to heroic biographies in the era of cold weapons, or magnificent war scenes, the core of the epic is to present a magnificent history or heroic legend through the story of individual characters, from this point of view, "The Revenant" is a standard epic.

The American pioneer period in the early 19th century was an era of opposition between bow and arrow, gunpowder, barbarism and civilization, and the confrontation between whites and natives, pioneers and killings, which constituted the epic tone of the film.

Under the influence of this tone, the film endows the protagonist Glass with a strong physique, tenacious spirit, and legendary experience, making the characters conform to the spirit of the pioneering times and the image of the protagonist that the epic needs to create.

Revenge and survival together constitute the theme of this wilderness epic, Glass's revenge is the driving force for the development of the plot, hatred drives him to burst out a strong desire to survive when he is dying, in the extremely bitter cold wasteland, he drinks blood, eats raw and fishy, bids farewell to civilization, returns to the savage human survival nature to complete the "soul" from death to life.

The macro epic background of westward expansion makes the themes of "survival" and "revenge" no longer limited to the protagonist Glass, but sublimated to the entire era.

The animal skin trade in the plot line is the demand of civilization from barbarism, and the pursuit and revenge of the Indians is the barbarism's response to civilization. Glass's survival is like the pioneering spirit of the westward "civilization" against natural obstacles, and Glass's revenge is like the Indians fighting for their lost homeland and relatives.

Therefore, in this era where "survival" and "revenge" are juxtaposed in the film, "survival" is the survival of civilization in barbarism, and "revenge" is the revenge of barbarism on civilization.

This reciprocal theme constitutes the core of the plot, and the family formed by the protagonist Glass to combine "civilization" and "native" makes him the intersection of the reciprocal theme, which also dooms him to irreversible tragic fate.

At the end of the story, Glass, who succeeded in revenge, watched his wife's figure gradually disappear in his imagination, and the last shot was fixed on a close-up of his expression, not relieved, but confused.

The temporal speed of revenge cannot recover the lost relatives, let alone reverse the lonely fate of Glass. It's like the Indians who lost their homeland under the fire of civilization, and no amount of revenge and killing can restore their proud barbarism. Tragedy belongs not only to a Grasse, but also to a nation and an era.