Where is the birthplace of movies?

Europe is the birthplace of movies and has written a brilliant chapter in the history of world movies. Generations of European filmmakers have dedicated countless masterpieces to the world with their persistent pursuit of film art. Looking back at the history of European films, it is not difficult to draw these conclusions: 1 First, sound and color are applied to movies; 2. Take the lead in using widescreen; 3. An important part of every concept film: surrealist film movement. (As we all know, in 1928, Spanish luis Bunuel's 24-minute short film "An Andalusian Dog", the blade cut people's eyes and hair grew out of their mouths, which was the first surreal film); 4. The base of New Wave movies. These film revolutions in technology and style fundamentally changed the original appearance of film and made it an art. Today, European filmmakers are still making indelible contributions to the seventh art-film. Although it is difficult to see the works of European movie master-level figures in the disc market at present, many movie friends can't help but be very happy as long as they mention these famous names: ingmar bergman, Allen Rey, federico fellini, antonioni, Fran? ois Truffaut and Lena Werner fassbinder. Unfortunately, I can't see these films as conveniently as those netizens who are away from home all the year round, so I have to talk about these masters and their films to console myself. When it comes to the new wave, the first thing that comes to mind is French works in the fifties and sixties. This new wave of movies, initiated by claude Chabrol, Fran? ois Truffaut, Jean Luc Golda and Eli Kromayer, the editors of The Movie Handbook, lasted from 1958 to 1962. Although it didn't last long, it had a great influence on the whole world movies. The representative works of this period are: Truffaut's Run amok (that is, Four Hundred Times) and Godard's Exhausted. Immediately, more than 65,438+000 European directors responded to this surging wave, such as Allan Ray Nye (Love in Hiroshima), Agnes Varda, a representative of the Left Bank School, fassbinder, a German film genius (Sailor Quirrell), louis malle who was trained in class (Goodbye to Children and Serious Love), and some mixed people. As a movement, the new wave was just a flash in the pan and soon disappeared, but its influence changed the next two generations of filmmakers. Now this wave, once regarded as anarchism, has swept the French and even European film circles again, and the new generation of filmmakers have challenged the tendency of avoiding reality and returning to "quality movies" in the 1970s and 1980s. Different from the aestheticism and impersonal images of Yuluk Besson (blue love in the sea reflects the lonely life in the depths of the sea), Jean-Jacques Arnold (the name of rose is the claustrophobic church life that imprisons human nature) and Calaque (the lover of Xinqiao, a wandering love story that has never landed under an unmanned stone bridge), the new wave films created by Eli Cronshan and Cory kolar have returned to the past Renoir era. 1989' s cold sacrifice is like a breeze blowing into the movie world. This film, which won the Best Actress in Venice and Caesar and the Toronto Film Critics Award, describes two women with strong personalities who are forced to kill each other and become good friends. However, the reality did not develop as they hoped, until the nanny's owner generate expressed all her passions. Another masterpiece is Crazy Night by 1992. This film, which was written, directed and acted by myself and died of AIDS, reflects the true witness of the AIDS era. From the perspective of film history and sociology, it is a milestone, because it faces the real life of AIDS patients for the first time and changes the social attitude towards AIDS and its patients with its unique charm. 1995' s Hatred and Bait (Fresh Temptation) belong to this kind of films which are based on the society and closer to the audience. However, excluding the factors of art itself, it is still difficult to draw a conclusion whether this new film wave is beneficial to the overall development of the film industry and the current social situation. Now let's look back at Godard's masterpiece "Tired". The film describes a robber who runs wild everywhere. With the help of an American girl, he dodged the police. Finally, she turned him in and died at the gunpoint of the police. The film is a sensation because: "It observes life from a brand-new perspective, showing the arbitrariness, aimlessness and indifference of human relations, and also showing contempt and deviation from traditional film norms and outdated technical rules, and adopting flexible narrative methods, picture formats and jumping and other bold techniques." Truffaut ran amok earlier than the same year. The child is a self-taught director by watching a lot of movies. The director who has a very similar experience with him is American genius quentin tarantino. It is said that Quentin watched five or six movies every day before directing black novels. This film 1959 describes a boy 13 years old, Duval, who fled many times in the absence of warmth in school, family and society, and finally embarked on the road of crime. It is said that this film is Truffaut's autobiography, just as the black novel is Quentin's self-portrayal of this punk, and the sunny days are the childhood of Jiang Wen and Wang Shuo. It is better than the simple documentary style, strong life breath, delicate psychological disclosure and real-life shooting, continuous lens movement, proper use of long lenses and other artistic innovations. It also made Truffaut win the Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival for the first time, and made a long film. Really. Let's take a look at the new wave in Germany. There are many excellent works in German films in history. 1979, Schlondorf's Tin Drum won a lifetime achievement award, which made German films recognized by the world. The new wave of German films began in the late 1960s, and the representative figure was rainer werner Fassbinder. The film genius who died young is the main figure of the "anti-drama theater" school. 1969, fassbinder, who was only 24 years old, became an instant hit with his debut novel "Love is colder than death". He is not qualified to be a screenwriter or director, but also plays the leading role himself. Judging from his 14 short film career, he made 4 1 films, which is extremely rare in the world film history. He directed fassbinder's two most important works in the "New Germany": The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) and Creole Sailor (1982). The former makes German films enter the American and even the world markets, while the latter is only an erotic classic, so eroticism is because it is full of incest of gay, bisexual and possessive middle-aged women. This is an expressionist work, without a complete narrative structure, and there is no necessary causal relationship between events. The behavior of the characters has neither motivation nor logic, and the whole movie is like a fable composed of images. "It is a portrayal of fassbinder's personal experience and a model for him to build an extreme world: a loveless world full of struggle, fraud, murder and sex." In order to express the world, fassbinder used the same color-orange, which is a kind of eroticism in the whole film, making the audience feel depressed, "like going to hell, people can't breathe". Wim Wenders's works are not uncommon in the mainland disc market in the past two years, from Paris, Texas (1984) to Until the End of the World (1990) (3 discs), from Wings of an Angel (1987) to Revelation of Violence (66. At the same time, he is also the most award-winning German director. Paris, Texas won the Palme d 'Or in Cannes, and 1986-87 semi-documentary Over Berlin won the Cannes Film Critics' Special Award and the Best Film Award in the European Film Festival. In addition, Wings of an Angel was remake as city of angels (X Lover) by shameless Hollywood in 1996.

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