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Chapter 285 The real reason for being superior

"Hahahahaha..."

The two couldn't stop laughing, is it appropriate for the tiger father without dog son to be used here?
"I know that many people now question the so-called fifth-generation directors!"

"You mean we occupy the latrine and don't shit?"

"Have you made any contribution to Chinese-language films?"

Lao Mouzi said helplessly: "Actually, it's very subtle. The fifth generation won gold and silver in the 90s. Back then, I was called an award-winning professional. It seems that every award must win the feeling. You must understand?"

"Because it was an era of reform and opening up, a lot of waste was waiting to be done, and we were catching up with the big wave of development. Foreigners have great curiosity about our new film generation."

"There are also more and more complex interpretations of the general environment, which invisibly improves the connotation of your works, and finally seems to become the fifth generation of all-powerful."

"Until now, I don't think there is anything great about these people in the fifth generation. The times make heroes, and the international film festival is the same. Now that this era and this force have passed, it must be different from the past."

Ding Cheng was in awe, he didn't expect that as the leader of the fifth generation, he would be so self-aware?
Zhang Yimou waved his hand, felt the shadow of himself in Ding Cheng, and continued to share: "It has been open for so many years, and it is the Internet age. Foreigners know us well, so they no longer have novelty and mystery, and will be more objective. Come and see your work."

"The film market has been very good in the past ten years. The media has promoted tens of billions of box office every day. There are too many fakes. Connotation."

"In addition to all kinds of so-called celebrities rubbing the red carpet in the past few years, hey, there is no way!"

After taking a sip of tea, I thought of something, and explained: "The Great Wall is different. The Hollywood system is too industrialized. If nothing else, the insurance company will kill you!"

"The script of that movie cannot be changed because it is insured. If you want to change something, you must first ask the insurance company if it agrees?"

"People say that what I guarantee is this script, if you change it, it is not within the scope of my guarantee!"

"It's just that system, and it cannot be changed. You can't ask for instructions, ask questions, and change a sentence. Even after hard work to the end, you don't even have the right to final cut."

Ding Cheng nodded, picked up the script, and saw two familiar names:

Wu Lei,

Guan Xiaohua?
"Since making a commercial film, the attention of traffic is indispensable." Who is Lao Mouzi, he candidly said: "In fact, the two children have acting skills, but they just haven't shown them."

I don't know if the box office is good or not, but the director's ability to train actors is still awesome, such as Gong Li... Zhang Ziyi... and Zhou Chunyu...

Back to the script, Zhang Yimou said to himself: "It looks like a black-and-white costume film, and the scene is not too grand, but I want to use a more literary tone to tell about the bloody palace of doubles in the fictional history." fight."

With a flash of inspiration, Ding Cheng blurted out: "Akira Kurosawa's shadow warrior?"

Zhang Yimou's eyes lit up, and he praised: "Not bad!"

"The script actually originated from Zhu Sujin's novel "Three Kingdoms Jingzhou", which tells the story of Guan Yu's careless loss of Jingzhou. In the hands of our screenwriter, it becomes a fictional legend of an overhead historical dynasty."

“On the one hand, it can avoid censorship of major historical themes, and on the other hand, it makes it easier for me to infuse a lot of symbols and codes of traditional culture into it without being tied down by history…”

"It has nothing to do with Jingzhou, but the ulterior motives are not drinking!"

After speaking, he looked at Ding Cheng and asked seriously: "Do you understand the I Ching?"

Ding Cheng was taken aback for a moment and shook his head.

"Jingzhou, two countries with opposing forces: Peiguo and Yanguo. Jing is the character of Tu and Bian, which represents the border and land, and the five elements belong to the land."

"Yan belongs to fire, and Pei belongs to water. Among the five elements, water and fire are incompatible, and they are opposite each other, especially water can overcome fire."

"But from the perspective of mutual generation, fire can produce earth, and earth can in turn restrain water, so earth forms a layer of protection against fire and becomes a kind of balance!"

Ding Cheng was a little surprised. He didn't expect that there were so many skills in a seemingly simple name?
Zhang Yimou smiled slightly, enjoying the shocked expression of the other party, and continued to pretend: "So in the background of the film's story, the Pei Kingdom is powerful, but it has never dared to make troubles against the Yan Kingdom because the latter occupies a disputed land-Jing state."

"It's a dangerous place. In such a pattern, water and fire are incompatible. Water should restrain fire, and fire will produce soil to restrain water, which forms a stalemate..."

"Then let's talk about the overall tone. This is a work that is closely related to water. Most of the scenes I designed are shrouded in a solemn misty rain."

"The main color is black, not just as a tribute to Akira Kurosawa, but because the color of water among the five elements happens to be black."

"Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth correspond to white, blue, black, red, and yellow respectively. Water dominates black, which is where Xuanwu resides. Water also governs wisdom and strategy, so it is also a black-themed Gongdou drama."

Ding Cheng suddenly realized, looking at the director's previous blockbuster costume films: "Hero" is red and satin, which belongs to fire.

"Ambush from Flying Daggers" is full of green bamboos, belonging to the wood species.

"Curse of Gold" is of course gold.

"The Great Wall" is about the imperial capital and the city wall, which belongs to the earth.

And the latest "Shadow" belongs to water.

Good guy,
Damn this is the password!

"Look at the beginning, I designed the witch played by Sun Li to do a divination for King Pei. Put three copper coins in the turtle shell, shake them constantly, and then throw them out to get a Qian divination."

"This hexagram is extremely masculine and masculine, there is no place for a woman!"

"This is a bloody palace struggle, a fight for the emperor and the king. So letting her reveal the Qian divination at the beginning is a direct hint to the direction of the subsequent plot."

Ding Cheng picked up the scripts again and compared them one by one, but he didn't know what was going on.

Look at the second sentence Sun Li said: It only takes seven days of continuous rain, and the flood will win.

Is it...

"The greatness of our ancestors is that they do not regard light and darkness, order and chaos as complete opposites like Western civilization."

"Instead, it is believed that there is not a complete separation between yang and yin, but there is a mutual transformation. The anode generates yin, and the cathode generates yang, which is what is mentioned in the Tao Te Ching."

"I just used this subject to express the deep-rooted concept of yin and yang in the character of Chinese people. Everyone has both a yang side and a yin side."

"The stand-in you play, when you meet King Pei, wears black clothes as a general, while King Pei wears white clothes. In this scene, you belong to Yin, and King Pei belongs to Yang."

"The latter, as a king, is high above the sky, of course, in the supreme yang position of the emperor. And you, as the assistant general, are in a submissive position, naturally belonging to yin."

"But in the later scene, when the avatar returned home and saw the real general, the color of his clothes changed immediately. The avatar changed into white clothes, while the general who lived deep in the cave wore black."

Ding Cheng blurted out: "At this moment, the substitute is taking on the work of the outside world in the open, and he belongs to Yang. The general is controlling everything in the dark, so naturally he belongs to Yin!"

Zhang Yimou said with a smile: "I just want this transition between yin and yang to be directly reflected in the clothing colors of the characters in each scene, expressing a strong sense of careful design."

Ding Cheng nodded secretly, he is worthy of being a national teacher, he is really pretending.

This may be the key reason why he can be officially recognized!
Not only himself, but Pei Wang, played by Little Cheetah, also changes black and white back and forth on various occasions.He looks foolish, but in fact he has ulterior motives and murderous intentions.

Due to the needs of work, different performances and arrangements are made depending on the occasion. Even in some scenes with strong dramatic tension, the clothes on the body will appear in black and white two colors interpenetrating and entangled. It seems indistinguishable...

It is because of this kind of mixed yin and yang, and even the weirdness of yin and yang, that it symbolizes a kind of complicated imperial psychology, which makes people feel unclear.

As a director, you must use various methods to let the actors fully understand their intentions.

Most of them are on the set. Experts have a few words, and newcomers need to be taught a little bit by hand.

Ding Cheng is different. His talent is so high that he is well-known, especially when he handles characters with complicated hearts, he can be called perfect.

The so-called complexity is not something that can be solved by shouting a few lines.Various details are required, many micro-expressions are accumulated, and a little bit of quantitative change leads to qualitative change, unconsciously...

Looking back,

Only then did the audience realize that the character had changed into another person!

(End of this chapter)