Above the main hall of the Qin Palace, green curtains were hung all over the main hall, and the King of Qin and the remnant sword shuttled through it.

The use of color seems to have a unique style for each director.

Zhang Chu filmed "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" before, and Li An was a master of color grading, but although the characteristics were distinct, there were not many changes.

Zhang Yimou, on the other hand, uses color to the extreme.

Different colors have different meanings, and Zhang Yimou uses five colors: black, red, blue, green, and white to set the tone of the whole movie.

Among them, black is the representative color of the Qin Dynasty, symbolizing the authority and loneliness of the Qin king, as well as the solemnity and majesty of the Qin soldiers.

Red is the color of blood, symbolizing the soldiers and civilians who died in war, and it also symbolizes desire, suspicion, and jealousy.

Blue is the color of the sea, representing sanity and calmness, as well as the meticulous mind of King Qin, as well as the chivalrous mind of the remnant sword and flying snow.

Green is the color of life, symbolizing dreams and hopes, and the love and home that Remnant Sword and Flying Snow yearn for.

White is the cleanest color and symbolizes purity, sacredness, but also emptiness and death.

If strong colors are not used properly, it is easy to give a disorganized feeling.

In Zhang Yimou's hands, the use of color and expression are just right, which does not affect the storyline at all, but makes the artistic effect and the progress of the plot complement each other.

In addition, in addition to color, the film also incorporates a large number of traditional cultural elements.

At the beginning of the story, King Qin summoned the nameless scene, and used the famous chime of the Qin and Han dynasties.

In addition, in the later plot, the scene also takes place in the chess hall and bookstore, which represent the essence of traditional Chinese culture, and at the same time inserts elements such as Go, guqin, and calligraphy.

In the scene between Zhang Chu and Li Lianjie in the chess hall, the crew also specially invited Mr. Xu Kuanghua, the successor of the Zhejiang Guqin and the president of the West Lake Qin Society.

The combination of piano rhyme and swordsmanship, calligraphy and swordsmanship refer to each other's mysteries.

Originally unrelated things, they are cleverly combined.

Incorporating so many different kinds of elements at the same time is rare in previous films.

Because everything has to be shown in the camera in the end, too much and too much miscellaneous will inevitably affect the audience's attention.

But Zhang Yimou perfectly combined them and presented them.

Zhang Yimou said that film is a kind of cultural export, and what he wants to do is to let Chinese culture go to the world through film.

The integration of these traditional elements, combined with the use of color, the composition of the picture, and the processing of virtual and real, makes each shot constitute a long scroll with the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture.

In addition, in terms of narrative structure, Zhang Yimou also used a very unique technique.

The whole story itself is actually very simple, it is to assassinate Qin.

But the story is drawn from different perspectives and evolved into three stories.

The first is the story that Nameless told to King Qin.

The head of the Qin Pavilion was nameless, and because he had eliminated the three assassins of the Zhao State, he was summoned by the King of Qin, and he told the King of Qin how to get rid of the three assassins.

Take advantage of the misunderstanding between the remnant sword, the flying snow, and the sky, and break them one by one.

First of all, Nameless finds a showdown in the sky.

This duel took place in a chess hall, and in the rhythm of the piano, the two stood for a long time and started a wonderful duel of ideas.

Until the moment the strings were broken, the mind returned to reality, and a nameless sword stabbed into the sky, cutting off the silver spear.

This duel also shows the philosophical thoughts of the ancients, although martial arts and qin rhyme are different, but the principle is the same, and they all emphasize the realm of big sound and sound.

Therefore, this is actually no longer a simple sense of fighting, but has been sublimated to a person's spiritual realm.

Later, Nameless arrives at the library with the silver spear, and he uses a discordant trick against the remnant sword and the flying snow.

The scene of the library is full of bright red, full of suspicion and jealousy, as well as red-hot blood.

Surrounded by the arrows and crossbows of the Qin army, the red old gentleman and his students in red clothes and soaked in cinnabar ink in the library, as well as the red love-hate entanglement of the three people, Remnant Sword, Feixue, and Ruyue.

The anonymous story is full of lust, suspicion, jealousy, and hatred.

What follows is the story of King Qin's speculation.

Ordinary people may believe the story told by the nameless, but King Qin is not an ordinary person after all.

He is a person who can see through the other person's state of mind from the flame of an oil lamp.

The story told by the unknown was fake, and King Qin soon found out.

and pointed out to his face that he was not afraid that Nameless would suddenly draw his sword and stab.

In the eyes of King Qin, Remnant Jian and Feixue are bright and upright, and they are by no means villains, and such a bloody love will never happen to them.

The story guessed by King Qin is blue, and the three of Changkong, Remnant Sword, and Feixue sacrificed their lives for righteousness, deliberately seeking defeat, and giving their lives to Nameless, just so that Nameless could successfully assassinate Qin.

The blue tone also shows the bearing and wisdom of King Qin as a generation of heroes, and he is worthy of the demeanor that a king should have.

He did not look at the assassins who assassinated him with hatred, but admired them with admiration and sincerely sighed at their chivalrous hearts.

King Qin finally realized the highest state that the remnant sword wanted to convey to him through calligraphy: there was no sword in his hand, and there was no sword in his heart, which was called peace.

Finally, there is the true story told by Nameless.

King Qin's feeling was right, but he only guessed part of it right, not all of it.

The part that I didn't guess correctly is the sublimation of the story, from the narrow family and country hatred to the well-being of the common people in the world.

The person who changed the direction of the plot was the remnant sword, and in the process of studying the true meaning of calligraphy and swordsmanship, he reached the realm of returning to the basics, and gradually realized.

A person's suffering, compared with the suffering of the people of the world, is no longer pain, and the hatred between Zhao and Qin is no longer hatred when put into the world.

In order to compete for hegemony, the Seven Kingdoms fought for many years, and the people were already suffering, and the only one who could quickly end the war was the strongest Qin State.

If the King of Qin is killed, the war will continue for a longer time, and the world will never be at peace.

However, there are very few people who have such thoughts as the broken sword.

Blizzard doesn't understand him, so she doesn't talk to him for three years.

At the beginning, Nameless was the same as Changkong and Feixue, and he vowed not to give up if he did not succeed.

Before he met the King of Qin, the remnant sword gave him the words "Tianxia", which made him change his thinking in his later conversation with the King of Qin.

They gave up the assassination of Qin and lost their lives, after which the king of Qin unified the six kingdoms and ended the war.

Zhang Chu used to think that storytelling should be flat and straightforward, and the same is true for filmmaking, through coherent shots, the story is presented in the form of pictures.

However, after watching Zhang Yimou's filming techniques, he realized that the world of a great director, a mortal like him really can't understand it.

But I couldn't help but be affected by the pictures he depicted, and I was deeply shocked.

The blade of the broken sword slashed through the neck of the King of Qin, and the king and the knight stood opposite each other.

Remnant Jian didn't look at King Qin, and through the camera, he could feel that Remnant Jian's heart was struggling at this moment.

Kill the King of Qin, avenge Feixue's father, and remove a major enemy for the Zhao State, but the world will continue to be in endless war from now on.

If he doesn't kill the King of Qin, Feixue won't forgive him, and Zhao will always be under the threat of Qin, and he will perish at any time, but the world will be unified, and the people will no longer have to suffer from war.

King Qin's reaction was also shocked and surprised, probably he couldn't understand why the remnant sword would give up when fame was close at hand.

It's just that the remnant sword didn't give him an answer, to solve the doubts in his heart, and the mystery of all this has to wait for the arrival of Nameless.

"Okay, stop!"

Zhang Chu walked out from behind the green curtains, and the fight just now was still unfinished.

walked behind Zhang Yimou, and without waiting for him to speak, Zhang Yimou asked people to take Fang Cai's camera.

"How?"

Zhang Yimou was very satisfied, but when Zhang Chu saw it, he always felt that it was a little bit worse.

"It's okay!"

Zhang Yimou smiled when he heard this: "Your standards are too high, if you want to be completely satisfied, unless you find another master like Li Lianjie." ”

In the last shot, the green curtains in the main hall fell to the ground.

"Director Zhang, what symbolism does this have?"

Zhang Chu feels that these big directors like to play tricks, and they always have to mix some private goods in the lens, as if they don't show their cleverness.

However, I have to admit that these pictures do look very beautiful.

"Green represents dreams and hopes, crashing to the ground, naturally representing the hope of the remnant sword and the flying snow to meet and return to the rivers and lakes is shattered, in troubled times, as long as the war does not end for a day, there will be no real peace."

Cow break!

Although Zhang Chu felt like he was chattering when he listened, he felt that it sounded very reasonable.

"Do you think the average viewer can understand it?"

Zhang Yimou was stunned for a moment, this sentence really asked him in his heart, and then shook his head with a wry smile, it is obviously unrealistic to expect every audience to have such a high level of art appreciation ability as him.

The artistic conception he wants to express, and the deep meaning contained in each color change, are destined to be high and low.

Basically, it is foreseeable that after the release of this "Hero", it should be similar to the ending of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

After watching it, the audience felt that the fight was not enjoyable.

However, Zhang Yimou is also trying his best to make up for it in other aspects, with an all-star lineup, a grander world view, and many big scenes.

probably hopes that these added commercial elements can win back the hearts of the audience as they wish.

Zhang Chu didn't say anything more, his mission in the crew had been basically completed.

Chen Zhiming also told him yesterday that there is nothing to teach him anymore.

In the future, it is up to him to comprehend, and the most important thing is the accumulation of experience.

The next day, Zhang Chu left Hengdian with the pony, and it was the beginning of September, and there was still a month before the start of "Infernal Hell".

Zhang Chu wanted to go back to the capital to live for a few days.

settled in the capital, but it has been floating outside for most of the year, and the house has not had a chance to be used.