C sums of light | City needs "fiction"

Author: Cai Dong novelist, university teacher

In this life, he wants to come. Reading and watching movies, I really understand the most economical way in this world. Thinking back to the growth of the county seat, on the huge screen of the old -fashioned cinema, I saw the scene of the big city for the first time. Similarly, in those days that could not reach, they swim in Beijing in Lao She's prose, imagine Wuhan in Chi Li's novels, and see Hong Kong in TVB modern dramas.

Cities with multiple "versions"

Compared to Hemingway's novels, he prefers his essay collection "Flowing Feast". This memory collection is full of Paris's daily details, which also highlights the delicate and not so legendary side of Haimingwei's emotions. "Flowing Feast" is a book about the writing of novel writing, and it is also a book of memory of a city.

"This short story is developing automatically, and it is necessary to catch up with its pace." It is not an exaggeration of mystery. Those who have experienced novel writing, understand what he is talking about. "Very poor and very happy." In his later years, he described the days when he was young in Paris.

Many times, in front of the land of a city, we first met her in literature and movies. I first met Paris in the novel. "Notre Dame" was read to the third volume, and the church descriptions of dozens of pages of churches came from, which was amazing. Is this novel? As a result, the landmark building of the city can not be written as the "character" of a novel. Not only the building, the weather is also available. At the beginning of "Death Villa", there are several major sections of the London. How much Dickens is good at creating an atmosphere. Reading most of his heads is the most impressive thing that is often revealed from the paper pages that are often unpredictable. Similar feelings have only experienced it when reading Jin Yong's novels.

If you think about it, the novel is the most where I have taken me.

But cities that travel in literature are not cities in a physical sense. Pamuk and Istanbul are deeply bound, and his writing of the place of growth is highly personal and stylized. "Flowing Feast" is similar to memoirs. Hemingway is still emphasizing in the preface that if readers like it, this book can also be regarded as a fictional novel. It can be said that the Paris we read is a unique version of Hemingway. Similarly, Tan Fucheng, Liu Xihong, Deng Yiguang, Wu Jun, Houpu, Hou, Bi Liang, Wei Ru, generation of urban writers let readers see many versions of Shenzhen, their writing woven into Shenzhen " Cross trail.

The city that exists in the imagination of time and space is more vitality

Some readers who claim to be "old Shanghai" will blame the novelist to write like or not. Even photography and documentary are subjective. The moment and picture of excellent photography works often exudes a strong creator atmosphere. Rich, more uncertain, and more sensitive to activating people's emotions and imaginations. There is no need to use "Song of Everlasting" and "Love Myth". These works are first imagined, created, and artistic.

The city that exists in imagination is more vitality. The ancient city of Changan faded forever. After thousands of years, another Changan still grew in poetry and novels, and continued to appear in the image language of the poor imagination of a generation of directors. She lives longer than dirt, wood, and steel cities. Yes, who can let Changan let it go. For these two words, the imagination space inside is vast, and the text sometimes looks pale and weak. The film and television workers who are good at visual communication seem to have the confidence and passion of building Changan.

Chen Kaige's Chang'an, gorgeous, stacked, flashing beauty, bright colors, bustling markets, bright night night, rushing into the eyes of people, it is a straightforward and dazzling scene. Hou Xiaoxian's Changan was stained with ink, and the ink color was soaked in rice paper. The old, silent, quiet, even rich peony flowers sank into the mood of Changlin Forest. All Changan. Don't forget, in the art world, we have the opportunity to get more and more rich feelings.

From object to mood

Watching movies in rainy days, "One Rainy Day in New York". It is still Woody Allen's chattering, saying that it is constantly. I don't like his derogation and irony of women, but it does not accidentally fall in love with rain from beginning to end.

The style is strong and the skill is still there. Woody Allen is a spiritual and expressive creator. Rain is the tone, rain is expression, rain is form, and content. The screen reveals the unique color tone of rainy days, as if there is a fresh rain smell floating out of the screen, and the third -rate movie rises to the second stream. With artistic conception, with the nostalgia and love. In other words, if the story and the picture are gone, what else can this movie remain?

Artistic conception and atmosphere, exclusive to ancient poems, in first -class novels, they faintly breed, they differently open a novel and one -time novel with Yu Yun. The flavor and breath are not so strong, but in some works, you can confirm that they exist, such as the lingering background music. It is often these things that really reflect the quality of art and make readers so immersed and fascinated.

"One Rainy Day in New York" is careless, and the creators are not so hard to allow characters to roam in the rainy city. Through movies, New York and Rain completed the linked art. This is another kind of appearance in New York after the urban and women's cities of the apartment and the city of women. After all, if there is no rain, many stories will not happen. Many times, the description of the escape, the writing of the story, the sense of atmosphere and emotional flow between text, but in the roundabouts, it has penetrated into a wide range of situations. enjoy.

When showing a city, if only the eagerness and direct rush go, only the external reinforced forest and glass curtain wall, the fictional charm, what is the beauty of art? In the movie, the wonderful meaning and long Yu Yun are often released in the empty camera. Urban writers can also have a little more usefulness and erratic freeness. The narratives are scattered and loose, and the city's artistic conception can be written outside the material situation. Let's remember a city, often it is an inadvertent expression, temperament, and feeling. Real descriptions are conducive to creating a sense of life, but the writing of the restoration is squeezing the pores of self -stretching and breathable work. What Shenzhen needs is a series of literary and films that are dense and cleverly reflecting the charm of the city.

Source | Jingbao APP

Edit: Chen Jianguo

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