Experts analyze the innovative ideas of the Cantonese documentary "Chasing Light": Shorten the distance between history and contemporary people

Text/Qi Hai

The main body of the current movie audience is young people. Talking about the history and history documentaries of the long -term period, if you only simply stitch the diagram of some attractive old things and become a data compilation of the running account, you can only watch the elderly or historian workers. Most young people will not be interested in interested Essence

Surprisingly, a movie documentary "Chasing Light", which looks back at the 20th century cultural history, also shouted after watching the 20th century cultural history.

What is mysterious? It is because of the bold and new documentary of the literary and historical documentary, which can make the long history connected to today's earth, which detonates the excitement of contemporary audiences.

The "light" chased by "Chasing Light" is the world of light and shadow and glorious merit. The film must recall the history of a group of outstanding Chinese filmmakers in the last century. "Wanli" is also a dual -style language, and will analyze its meaning in detail below.

There are many celebrities in the history of Chinese film. How can this movie with less than 90 minutes be included? The director of "Chasing the Light" is very smart. It only tells the story of the celebrities of a province -the old -fashioned Cantonese film artist, but it is not a big star Ruan Lingyu, Hu Die, Chen Boer, and five protagonists who are familiar with the big star, and five protagonists. They are Li Minwei, Cai Chusheng, Huang Liushuang, Bruce Lee, and Lu Yan.

Modern sense of literary and historical documentary ideas

"Chasing the Light" is not a resume of the five Cantonese filmmakers in the whole life, but to concentrate on the combination of their common highlights -openness and new, dare to be the first place, this is exactly the unique regional culture of Cantonese people. Personality is an important part of the spirit of the Chinese nation. The theme of the film is very distinctive, depth, and rigorous in the whole film.

"Chasing the Light" shows the "first" created by the Guangdong filmmakers: the "first":

The first Chinese documentary producer was Li Minwei, a new fellow. The dynamic image lens of Sun Yat -sen himself that later generations could see was taken by Li Minwei. In the international metropolis Hong Kong, Li Minwei was named "screen street" in the streets of Hong Kong's film company in Hong Kong.

Li Minwei

The first Chinese film director to defeat the Hollywood blockbuster in the market was Chaoyang people Cai Chusheng. His black and white domestic film "One River Spring Water to the East" was shown in Shanghai for 3 months, with a lot of full of box office income, and the box office income exceeded the popular American colorful commercial blockbuster.

The first Chinese actor, who successfully entered the global market in the global market, was Bruce Lee of Shunde. He starred in "Jingwu Gate" and other kung fu films, which made great contributions to the exchange of cultural exchanges between China and the West.

Bruce Lee

The first Chinese who stayed at the Star Avenue in Los Angeles was the Taishan people Huang Liushuang. One of the four female stars in the "Hollywood Goddess Pavilion", one of which is Huang Liushuang.

The first Chinese to become the Oscar Golden Award Lifetime Judge is Lu Yan, Zhuhai.

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What is even more shocking is that these filmmakers are "ugly duckling into swans" when they are young. Cai Chusheng only went to private school for four years. When he was young, he was a grocery in Shantou, but he was determined to be a film director. To this end, he was far away from his hometown to Shanghai film production companies to study arts and studied art. Those who are aspirations are achieved. Actress Huang Liushuang was a little girl who fought in the laundry before the film. She rushed into Hollywood in the United States and faced extremely serious racial discrimination. Lu Yan was married before the film. He was married and gave birth to three children. At the age of thirty, he applied for a performance of the Academy of Performing Arts. After twists and turns, he became a Chinese star in the United States.

Lu Yan when he was young

To win the audience, entertainment is not the only magic weapon. The masses watching literary works not only have the needs of pastime, but also know the society through the work, and obtain a sense of struggle and inspiration from it. "Wen Yi Tao" is one of the traditional appreciation habits of the Chinese people. The sociality and people of movies are one of the important factors that attract the audience. Therefore, the film should pay attention to the social psychology of the audience.

Today's young audiences live in an era of fierce competition. Most people do not have innate advantages. How to develop is their most concerned social hotspot. Therefore, the youth inspirational story film "Winning the Champion", "Miracle · Stupid Child", "Go Home", etc., young audiences are particularly welcome.

The documentary "Chasing Light Miles" is also a youth inspirational film. It tells how a group of aspiring young people in the history of the film change their destiny in the difficult adversity, which contains the philosophy of life. Their stubborn courage and strategy of becoming talented have a very practical inspirational and inspirational significance for today's younger generation, which can cause their resonance. This shortens the psychological distance between history and contemporary people and completely break the boundaries of the industry and regions. The connotation is depth and the audience has breadth.

Modern sense of literary and historical documentary art concept

The artistic appreciation of contemporary audiences has continued to improve. If the documentary is straightforward and boring, even if the theme is positive and healthy, the audience is difficult to accept.

Zhang Tongdao, the editor -in -chief of "Chasing Light Miles", said in an interview: "My most disgusted movie shouting slogan." This documentary also has new pursuit of artistic and ornamental. The material of the expansion film is cleverly integrated with the expressions of the story film and the cartoon, which makes the artistic expression of literary and historical documentary films colorful, the rationality and sensitivity achieves harmony and unity, and the attractiveness is greatly enhanced.

The overall idea of ​​this film is very fresh and clever. It draws on the lyrical prose style of literature and the staggered narrative technique of the story film. Through the process of returning to the country with a ninety -year -old American film artist Lu Yan, many Cantonese movie scenes have been led The story of a celebrity is connected in series. Firstly, Lu Yan re -traveled to the Chinese Grand Theater in Los Angeles and he was in the same age. I remembered that Huang Liushuang had attended the foundation of the theater and germinated the plan of "chasing the glorious miles". Or entrepreneurship, visiting future generations and film historians, go to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and other places. There are domestic and overseas, south and northern countries. The interview process and film history screen are connected to be rich and flexible. The film takes the viewpoint of Lu Yan's "Wanli Search" as the whole line of the film, which is a pen. Lu Yan is a historical witness, which enhances the credibility of the film. She is also a film performance artist. Not only is it first -class, but more importantly, she is full of sincere passion for the history of Chinese film. Suitable, the rigorous and emotional expression of history can be perfectly integrated. Lu Yan tells the story of Huang Liushuang to his grandchildren

The documentary is about history. If there is no dynamic image, only a large number of static pictures will be stacked, which will appear dull and boring. At that time, the work and life of many Cantonese film celebrities on the screen did not leave dynamic image information. Therefore, the proper use of the "scene reproduction" played by actors and the anime lens to tell historical stories is conducive to attracting contemporary audiences. What is the result of the exploration of "Chasing Light"? Won!

The film showed the "scene reproduction" of the five ancestors such as Li Minwei, which was full of youthful atmosphere and real. The first is that the reproducible content comes from the memoirs written by the ancestors or their relatives of their loved ones. Second, actors' performances, scenes, makeup, clothing, and props are very particular about the sense of real and historical. The actors of Li Minwei, Cai Chusheng, Huang Liushuang, Bruce Lee, and Lu Yan are all similar to prototypes, especially playing Li Minwei’s. The actor is really like a real life. "Scenario reproduction" not only is more lively, but also has a certain story. Such an unknown new director Cai Chusheng wanted to invite the famous star Ruan Lingyu as the heroine and touched the nail. Later, why was Ruan Lingyu willing to star in the movie directed by Cai Chusheng? How did Cai Chusheng get it? This is very dramatic. "Scenario reproduction" can also make the documentary more lyrical, such as: Lu Yan, who has been a wife and mother, wants to go to college. Although her husband is difficult to love his wife, he is reasonable and supports Lu Yan's dream of the actor, which moves the audience.

Huang Liushuang's own (top) and the scene reproduced Huang Liushuang (below)

"Chasing Light Miles" tells the history of several protagonists, using some exaggerated animation shots, but also has a real sense of history. If the comic style of the old pictorial in the Republic of China, it is different from modern animation; sketch comics showing Bruce Lee's past comics with a narration, and the voice actor reads the memoirs of Bruce Lee's tone, just like Bruce Lee himself.

In any era, there will always be a explorer who is unwilling to be mediocre and facing difficulties!

At that time, the pioneers of Chinese film were such people, and the creators of "Chasing Light" were also such people. The difficulty of attracting the audience by the documentary is greater than the story film. "Chasing the Light" attempts to summarize the authenticity, philosophical, artistic, and ornamental. It has a sense of history and close to today's audiences. It is very rare!

(The author is the vice president of the Guangdong Film Industry Association in the Association)

Source | Yangcheng Evening News · Yangcheng School

Picture | Film provided

Editor -in -law | Li Li

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