What did you understand after watching Red Sorghum?

Red Sorghum depicts the primitive and wild life of a group of farmers in China in the 1920s and 1930s, and their bloody battles with the invaders. The plot of the film is very dramatic, praising the freedom of life through characterization. Love is true love, hate is true hate; Great love and great hate, great life and great death. The plot is tortuous and unexpected, but its film language is inherent in the "exploration film", bright and compact, and the rhythm, pictures, colors, lights and their visual images measured by Zhang Chi are vivid and intense.

After the end of 1980s, the dramatic changes in China's film market made the "exploration film" unsustainable. Young and middle-aged directors in China are divided in their artistic pursuit. Some directors have made films that combine exploration and appreciation. Among them, black cannon incident directed by Huang Jianxin and Red Sorghum directed by Zhang Yimou are the most representative works. Red Sorghum depicts the primitive and wild life of a group of farmers in China in the 1920s and 1930s, and their bloody battles with the invaders. The plot of the film is very dramatic, praising the freedom of life through characterization. Love is true love, hate is true hate; Great love and great hate, great life and great death.

Second, audio-visual language reading.

The suppression of oriental culture has a great negative impact on China people. The humiliation and pain of nearly a hundred years have made the government and the people tend to be overly defensive and easy to resist all foreign values. Resistance and confrontation are the leading ideas of foreign relations thinking. Closing the country to the outside world is just a negative choice when there is nothing to do. Red Sorghum, with its strong color and bold style, calls on the Chinese nation to arouse the national spirit and launch a powerful attack and challenge to traditional concepts and stereotypes with the help of movies. It integrates narrative and lyric, realism and freehand brushwork, and exerts the unique charm of film language. All kinds of awards come in droves at home and abroad, and China's films have gained international fame. Zhang Yimou is a photographer, actor and director because of his natural sensitivity and understanding of audio-visual language, creating a rare miracle.

1。 Analysis of important paragraphs:

(1) dispensing:

A group of young and muscular men, exaggerated action modeling, and vast, traceless, extremely simple orange fields, smoke and dust, warm and full red hijab, sedan chair, unruly and earth-shattering singing, perfectly blended, forming an exciting audio-visual effect. The yellow land and background are very bright, light and comfortable. The main characteristics of yellow are bright, reflective, brilliant and non-essential happiness and clarity.

Song of Sedan Chair and Sister, Go Forward Boldly both seem to gush out from life, and the northwest human feelings, northwest style, northwest style, northwest roughness and toughness are vividly diffused in the time and space of the film. Free and unrestrained, sacred and game, life and entertainment, young and heroic perfect combination. People are full of enthusiasm and interest by nature, and the content and form are saturated with free poetry and praise. The film language and the capture and tailoring of life are novel and charming.

Overturning the sedan chair and offering sacrifices to Dionysus was a custom in Shandong's early years. What exactly is it? The original author has never seen it, but the old man has heard of it. Mo Yan can exert his imagination in his novels and form a wonderful folk world with words, which has aroused strong repercussions among readers. In his films, Zhang Yimou created a pleasing screen world with audio-visual language, which fascinated international fans and won warm praise.

(2) sexual intercourse:

Grandpa walked down the sorghum and formed a round altar. The combination of the two sexes is endowed with sacred significance, and the process and purpose of life are highly unified. The fiery red sorghum was painted golden by the sun and danced wildly. The sound of suona rising from the ground is earth-shattering, like cheering and praising. Praise the free extension of life and yearn for the great glory of life.

"The purpose of learning is ultimately to be implemented in life or to make people live more and more spiritually. ..... Your life state must first heat up, live and flourish, dare to love and hate, dare to live and dare to die, and the offspring born are also fat boys of nine and a half pounds. They can't be full of culture, but the more they live, the weaker they become. " "China people have a big problem. They discuss why people live every day, but they just don't pay attention to how people should live. " ①

"Red Sorghum" expresses a simple idea with an extreme scene-people are first people and first their own creatures. The awakening of human subjectivity is very important to the democracy and progress of a society. The elimination of the individual and the self means to me that everything does not exist and is meaningless. As human beings, people have normal desires and needs, and the process of satisfaction is like a kaleidoscope of life, which embodies rich and colorful human nature. When unreasonable things are popular, reasonable things are often doubted or even belittled. It is not normal to sell your body and soul for money and power, but it is taken for granted and commonplace in some places. If we put aside the realistic material conditions and snobbish pursuit, we will be laughed at, ridiculed and questioned. Correct ideas and thinking make people live with enthusiasm and strength.

(3) Anti-Japanese:

The continuation of life is a process full of contradictions, confrontation, compromise and unity.

Jiu-Er, who is young and beautiful and stands at the starting point of his life, must obey his father's arrangement and marry Li Datou, a leper, because Li Datou is rich in economy. Jiu-Er's youthful vitality and his father's inhuman treatment, the people's step-by-step and wanton attacks by bandits, the people's homes in China and the violent trampling by the Japanese invaders ... War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is a painful experience experienced by the Chinese nation in the process of seeking survival. The people of China have paid a heavy price. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is an inexhaustible history of China's films, literature and other art forms. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression accounts for the last three books of Red Sorghum, describing the tragic and violent side of life when it is abused and destroyed.

Red Sorghum is not written for the sake of writing, nor is it simply limited to the anti-Japanese itself. Li Datou, a leper with money and power, and the Japanese aggressor army with force are both symbols, opposites of healthy development, freedom and happiness, and hostile factors of fresh life and youthful vitality. It is a symbol of predicament, development and confrontation with obstacles. This is the special feature of the director, which is different from the conventional treatment of similar themes, and it is also his uniqueness and unusual.

(1) Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" in detail.

It is necessary to make people feel like it and make a breakthrough. The use of film language, whether visual or auditory, has found a balance fulcrum between legend and realism, and is not limited to one method. The true restoration of sound and painting is not the ultimate goal, what is important is to form a considerable impact on the audio-visual experience and make the audience tempted, emotional and brainy. Shocking the audience, mobilizing the audience, guiding the audience and respecting the audience are the leading ideas clearly reflected in the film language practice. The praise and discussion caused by the box office at home and abroad have narrowed the distance between the film and the audience, and fundamentally ensured the realization of the commercial value, cultural communication and social benefits of the film.

⑴ Image modeling: strong, vivid and unconventional.

Pictures are the materialized form of thinking mode. Zhang Yimou said: "The reason why I made Red Sorghum vigorous and proud is to show a hearty attitude towards life and express the simple truth that' a man lives a breath and a tree lives a skin'. Only in this way will the people's character be stimulated and the country's strength will be strong. " ① The picture and sound of Red Sorghum create a unique feeling. The characters are full of energy, strong in action and brave in propaganda. Romance of Mo Yan's novelists and love of Zhang Yimou's film writers. With the combination of characters and structure, the two protagonists are in dire straits, and their anti-traditional personalities are quite different. Bold and cheerful, broad-minded, suddenly enlightened, life and death into the whole body's fiery energy, freely revealing the freedom and happiness of being a man. "I just want to use movies to influence people. People don't stay at one level, and neither do movies. I hope that all kinds of movies will drive all kinds of thinking. " (Zhang Yimou)

Mature sorghum is two or three meters high, vigorous and powerful, and it is blown like waves by the wind. The screen is full of flying vitality. Red Sorghum has a strong image, vivid and unconventional, profound truth and concise expression. It expresses ideas in a relaxed and natural way and pursues a cinematic and artistic narrative mode. The scenery is not close to the sorghum dancing wildly in the wind, trying to bring sunshine into the picture. The bright sunshine flickered among the sorghum trees, and the dark green sorghum was dyed golden yellow. Sorghum glows in all kinds of light and angle changes, and the crystal clear sorghum in the backlight stretches fresh in the wind, conveying the director's outstanding vitality and charm, making sorghum become the nature of adults. The condensed and freehand lens language of Red Sorghum is an outstanding example of the profound influence of China's classical aesthetic spirit on contemporary films.

"I like condensed art and expressive art best." "I come from Xi 'an and I like Chang 'an School very much. Zhao Wangyun and Shilu painted the Loess Plateau, using thick chunks and many dry pens. With ink as the color, they draw a big outline, which fully shows the sense of history, heaviness and dryness of the mountains and valleys in northern Shaanxi, unlike the small scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. I went to see the stone carvings of Maoling and Huo Qubing's tombs, and a flying stone told you whether it was a tiger or a horse, much like it! How big is the tile of Qin brick? The blackheads of Shaanxi Opera can be called vigorous and rough, and even the snacks in Shanxi are more magnificent than those in other places! These have had a great impact on my aesthetics. " ①

Actors are the target of public criticism and the most attractive viewing objects on the screen. Appearance is the internal material expression, and the difference between farmers and city people is not limited to clothing. Consider the overall style and feel before shooting. For the sake of appearance, in order to wash away the fat and powder of urbanites, let everyone get darker and thinner first, plus a sense of wind and frost. As a result, Red Sorghum's strong character impact and strong picture creation have left a wide and deep impression on audiences at home and abroad.

Zhao Jiping said: "You can't see Zhang Yimou's artistic sense, but when it comes to the screen, he is a master of modeling. Each of his films is different, but he can make a complicated thing simple, simple enough to grasp the most critical thing and explain a profound problem in the most concise language. This is his greatest advantage, his greatest feature and his genius. "

Color means: red is the main tone.

Fierce and powerful red is the main tone of the whole picture color. Gu Changwei is a first-class photographer, giving full play to his sense of color and paying attention to his unique visual instinct. The protagonist wears red clothes, and the final picture is all red. Not only sorghum is red, but the world is also red, as red as blood. Red represents revolution and symbolizes enthusiasm. Warm attitude towards life, stretching vitality. In the face of the trampling of evil forces, individuals and groups of life resist in the most primitive and essential way, even if the power contrast is incredible. Red Sorghum celebrates life through the special use of color. The internal connection of colors and the intensive use of tension give the audience a concentrated and profound visual impression.

Red appears in the first place: adventure, intense experience and excessive sexual behavior to solve disappointment and loneliness. I hope to gain rich experience through my own actions and pursue a full life. Red indicates vitality, nerve and secretory gland activity, and means tangible desire. The impulse to reach the goal and succeed, I hope my life will be colorful and I can get rich and colorful experiences from all aspects. Red is stimulating and competitive, ranging from sexual ability to the ability to transform nature. Positive action, sports competition, fighting, competition, pornography, enterprise, production and other behavioral impulses. It symbolizes the blood of conquest, igniting the fire of the soul, blood and masculinity. Sensually, it means appetite; Emotionally, it means hope; Physically, it means voluntary muscle or sympathetic nerve regeneration organ. In time, red represents the present.

The natural scenery of red flowers and green leaves shows that life itself is rich and colorful, and non-single elements and colors can cover everything. Red Sorghum is dominated by red, but there are also organic arrangements of other colors, forming a rich color ideographic system. Wide warm yellow area, yellow land, yellow smoke, yellow skin, various modeling entities and space paragraphs naturally express various colors at will. Yellow is a typical human color, which contains the centrifugal original tension full of wildness and manic stimulation intensity. The color is full, vigorous, solid and powerful. Some paragraphs are mainly yellow, and the red hijab, sedan chair and red bride become the center of beauty. Poor land and backward people are pregnant with great enthusiasm, desire and vitality for life. Unless it is hindered, yellow is infinitely expanding, which means easing. Psychologically, it means getting rid of the bondage of burden, predicament, problem, distress and bondage. Yellow symbolizes warm sunshine and makes people feel happy. Sensually, it is comfortable and exciting, emotionally, it is full of hope and joy. Physically, it is the interaction between sympathetic nerve and parasympathetic nerve.

In the sedan chair paragraph, the first position is yellow, indicating that you are eager to get rid of it and hope to get more happiness. It also means that you will be entangled when you seek liberation. In order to get some satisfaction, we must have a sense of stability and connection. Yellow means going to the future. Obviously emphasize yellow, and have the desire to get rid of the predicament of the status quo. Yellow means that you want to be valued and respected by others, cherish time, pursue your own ideals, and want to develop instability outward. Yellow represents the ever-changing director's concept of life and death, which is presented in color in the film. The wild passage is thrilling and intense, and the blood at the end of the film is sprinkled in the sorghum field and in the past of the United States. Birth, old age, illness and death are sacred, and the scene shooting is full of ritual. The sorghum fields in the hot sun and sunset are bright and warm. At the end of the film, the solar eclipse, my grandfather and father, the whole space is bathed in blood and the color of the sun, and there is a solidified eternal silence, and the visual modeling is magnificent.

3. Pursuit of ornamental value: the development of drama space and the constant change of audio-visual effect.

At the beginning of the film's birth, it conquered curious human beings with its entertaining side. Louis Lumiere's photography technique restored the exquisiteness and vividness of reality, and Georges Méliès's dramatic elements injected into images, giving the film stronger expressive force. Griffith, Eisenstein, Spielberg and Zhang Yimou, generations of directors and technical masters at home and abroad, all tried their best to make movies look better. Movies are first for people to watch, and the pursuit of ornamental value is the first. No matter how good the idea is, no one appreciates it or appreciates it, it is equal to zero. Since the new era, directors and filmmakers in China have paid more and more attention to this point.

In the film history of China for nearly a hundred years, it is also a valuable process to attach importance to appreciation value. However, after liberation, the left route interfered, and the pursuit of ornamental value was impacted and restricted, and its development was relatively slow or even stagnant. In the new era, the importance and research of ornamental has occupied an increasing proportion, and good-looking as a basic condition is no longer doubted.

The color blocks of Red Sorghum rotate and jump, and the music is full of excitement, which has a radioactive impact on the audience, even far away from the kiln site of the drama plot, and directly enters a specific modeling space for pure emotional experience. The story that has supported the film for many years is no longer important, and the crutches of the play are put aside unconsciously. Stories are just your way into the film. After entering, it is an appreciation space where the story can't be framed, and the unique audio-visual effect itself is very charming. Extremely laissez-faire, uncontrolled modeling style and audio-visual effects have realized the desire for free natural life forms and the complete solution to infinite repression. After Zhang Yimou's film creation, he has always maintained a persistent pursuit of beauty. Because of his excellent quality and artistic accomplishment, his films have an intriguing meaning behind their beautiful appearance, and become a beautiful scenery that cannot be ignored in the world film industry.

There is no doubt about the special significance of appreciation and spectacle to the film. Nowadays, the application of high-tech means endows the film with evergreen artistic life, satisfies the audio-visual charm that people can't get through TV and other media at home, and also makes the cinema develop and improve constantly in the ups and downs of the audience. Zhang Yimou's works tell us that the good-looking and ornamental value of movies is not only a miracle of audio-visual technology, but also a miracle of human thinking and vision. Since the birth of film 100 years ago, the pursuit of film appreciation value has created a large number of fine works of art, leaving a magnificent and splendid cultural heritage for human society.

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