Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang

A few months ago, Zhang Yimou was introduced by a friend to read it published in a journal called "Harvest", and then he felt that the writing was very good and very in-depth. Since then, Zhang Yimou has been able to photograph this Movie ideas.

Calling wives and concubines in groups is a novelette created by the writer Su Tong. It is about Songlian, a female student "educated in the new era," who voluntarily married into the well-ordered feudal family Chen Mansion in the high wall and deep courtyard. The story of the tragic fate of "wives and concubines in groups", which led to a nervous breakdown in the fight.

The background of the story is in the early 1920s of the 20th century, when the country was still in turmoil and warlords were fighting, which was an era when feudalism and modernism collided violently.

Su Tong depicts an extremely sad world of women's survival with a calm and almost line drawing.

They are a group of humble and poor people. Their fate is like a candle in the wind and a lake in the water. They are always in danger of being swallowed and submerged.

The oppression of feudal ethics and patriarchy is an extremely important and inescapable factor that caused the tragic fate of women.

However, the problems of women themselves cannot be ignored either.

In some cases, the harm to women is not just a social problem or a traditional problem, but a problem of people and women themselves.

He grasped a very profound theme: the reality that women hurt each other after identifying with male culture, so the more miserable and tragic the ending of women, the more intensely it strikes the readers' hearts.

These women, whether they are wives, concubines, prostitutes or mistresses, all have a strong sense of personal attachment. It is this "inborn" sense of attachment that makes women in a situation where they have no choice.

The dependent subject, the temporary likes and dislikes of men, often makes women face the crisis of losing their attachment.

And this kind of direct attack on human nature and the extremely strong literary and artistic theme of human nature is exactly what the fifth generation of domestic directors represented by Zhang Yimou like most.

This can be seen in every film they have shot since they directed the tube.

They are particularly keen on new ideas and new artistic techniques, and strive to find new perspectives in each film.

Their films are very subjective, symbolic, and allegorical. They are eager to explore the history of national culture and the structure of national psychology through the film.

Zhang Yimou saw what he had been pursuing for exploring the national culture, national psychology and human nature from the movie "The Crowd of Wife and Concubines", so he quickly contacted the author Su Tong and bought the film rights of the group of wives and concubines.

And Gong Li is undoubtedly the best and most suitable heroine of this story in Zhang Yimou's mind.

Because Gong Li has the stubborn and rebellious spirit of the heroine he wants.

What Zhang Yimou never expected was that after listening to his brief introduction to the content and some of his own ideas about the movie, Gong Li's first thought was that he was familiar with the plot of lighting a lantern.

It seems that I heard it from Qiao Feng a few years ago.

Why is Zhang Yimou lighting a lantern in his movie now?

Is it plagiarism, plagiarism?

When Gong Li said that Zhang Yimou's story was very similar to the story of hanging lanterns that Qiao Feng once told in the Qiao family compound, Qiao Feng almost gave himself a big mouth.

This is the end of nonsense.

It is obvious that the setting of lighting the lantern was invented by Zhang Yimou himself, but now Gong Li is beginning to suspect that the original is plagiarized.

How do you say this.

The key point, the ceremony of hanging the lantern can even be said to be the core element of the story of this movie.

The movie Zhang Yimou wants to make must be the red lantern.

From the name of the movie, you can see the importance of lighting a lantern for the movie.

In Su Tong's Zhong, the story takes place in the misty Jiangnan, while in Zhang Yimou's movie, it is changed to the poignant and majestic Xishan courtyard.

In order to comply with the visual presentation, Zhang Yimou created a series of ceremonies about lights, such as lighting and sealing lights in the film. This scene is not in the movie.

The lantern is the core image in the movie.

Lanterns are lighted on the wedding night, the master lights the lanterns "fortunately", and the wife likes to hang the ever-bright lanterns.The gray courtyard wall, the big red lantern, the dim room, the red light.

Master Chen in the film never showed his face, maybe the director didn't want to embody him as a recognizable person.

He is a symbol of a class of people in the feudal family.

Similarly, in the specific environment of the Chen Mansion, the master is supreme. He is a scrutinizing attitude towards everyone, from the "God's perspective". For others, what he looks like is not important, but what matters is his position.

According to Qiao Feng, the lantern in the movie symbolizes the desire of the deep house woman in the movie.

Status, preferential treatment, honors, and people's primitive desires.

The rule of the house is that the house where the master goes to spend the night lights the lamp, and the master leaves the lamp.

The lantern is closely connected with the master.

The four women in the mansion had to stand at the gate "waiting" every day, and then the sturdy servant carried a big lantern and walked to the wife who was "turned over", and then the butler made a long walk at the gate of the mansion. Shout "a courtyard light up!"

Just like the concubines in the deep palace, the grace of the emperor is the foundation of their safety. Whose sign is turned over by the emperor means who the emperor is benevolent with. Here, the lantern symbolizes the honor and favor.

Honoring pets means right. "Which house lights up the lamp, which house orders food", and which house master wants "prosperity", and the wife of that house can enjoy the preferential treatment of "beating the foot". The lantern symbolizes the right.

With honors, rights, and status naturally.

If there are no lights in the yard for a few days, the faces of people hang up, and the lanterns symbolize status.

To put it bluntly, to the women in the deep house, the lantern is the master’s favor.

The girls have lost their independence. The sense of existence in the mansion is given by the lantern, and the value of their existence is determined by the master.

The master likes you to love as a treasure, but does not like you to abandon it as a shoe.

The beautiful illusion of the lantern in the courtyard of the Rong Chong can not hide the essence behind it, and the woman is alienated.

What is alienation?It can be understood as marginalization and instrumentalization.

Women in the Chen family are not treated as human beings.The master regards women as a tool for venting and passing on from generation to generation; servants don't care about the wife's own qualities, but pay attention to which room to light up tonight.

Because the meaning of the lantern being artificially attached makes the lantern and the value together.

The servant's eyes followed the lantern, and the master's preference dictated the direction of the lantern.They are the place where the lanterns stay, and they are the master's new pets.They are worthless and not worth cherishing, because they will be noticed because of the master's preference.

I can only feel sorry for the mirror in the phantom of the lantern.

It can be said that the existence of the lantern lighting ceremony is one of the most basic reasons why the movie is so classic.

Such an important ceremony was obviously created by Zhang Yimou, but it turned out that he yearned for the superficial symbol of lighting a lantern and flipping the sign, and then when he visited Qiao's compound, he said it as his own original, and then his original became plagiarism. Of it.

Thinking about it, I panicked for Zhang Yimou.

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