"Party Albert" Why is China moving
Bursts of cultural significance: moved to China
See "Party Albert" it? This has become a daily greeting. Videos from Choupai, casting to release, has repeatedly caused hot discussion. Around the film itself, it is immediately launched a full great debate.
According to the type of film theory or film history standards, the film is definitely a political film or a film publicist, and no turning back for the edifice of the audience at the box office, just to prove their actual actions of many foreign critics of the induction: the Chinese people politicians.
China may allow politics to move is the biggest move is the vanguard of moving; film may also be combined with epic, literature, documentary, avant-garde of the prefix; and occurs because every 80 seconds a star, continue to wait for star there's the audience, has become the most fashionable audience. The film thus became the most fashionable political films, the most powerful theme of the film box office. The political and fashion, films and youth films political commentary, political themes and historical themes, box office, and the theme is perfect, the spectacular, the highly organic blend of film, it really is unique in the world. Height of its revolutionary ideology is insurmountable: hold high the banner of communism and ideal agitation, passion.
The biggest bright spot: the ideal of passion
We see clues to the development of the whole film is ideal to stimulate saving and even the founding ideals of revolutionary ideals was completed. It is a precarious carries a variety of salvation on the national elite and a variety of "isms", each temper, thought the era of collision: Chen speech at Beijing University of passion burst is republican pride, uphold justice, denouncing the restoration, while the young students is Burning with rage, vowed to save the country the revolution; Chen, Li Da-zhao, Hu and Gu Hongming represent different camps, through the passion to debate the fate of the old culture and ideals of life and death battle commence. The climax of the film is actually the biggest climax of the ideal passion, that is, the May Fourth Movement of students and workers took to the street demonstrations and burned Zhaojialou arrest traitors Cao Rulin, Zhang Zongxiang, which consists of a series of magnificent panoramic camera lens close-range and high dynamic composition, actor groups with remarkable passion for performing, showing the overwhelming momentum of the line of conflict and death struggle.
Recalling the "Founding of the Republic", the revolutionary leader groups in the founding of New China on the eve of strategizing the gap, self-confident pride, happily, a little out of tune to burst into singing "The Internationale", which "Party Albert" on a boat in South Lake in Jiaxing, a major on behalf of 12 firm and beginning to sing low in total translated version of "The Internationale", the ideal age to form a different passion contrast. At the same time, thus starting the film in the extremely successful in highlighting the revolutionary passion and revolutionary ideals and the biggest highlight of this feature, the gorgeous beyond the "Founding of the Republic."
Of course, this film landscape, not the case every year, but once every few years, it is entirely possible. In time, we will see a tribute film to wear dress, complete with Chinese characteristics, the new type of political film classic or contemporary interpretation of the red track.
For a "development from 50 members to more than 80 million members," the world's largest party and the population of 1.3 billion world's most populous country, the production as a "Party Albert" so full of revolutionary ideals and revolutionary passion political blockbuster epic, of course, is commensurate with its name, the culture of a miracle.
Director Han Sanping has a very proud formulaic summary: great star-studded gathering + + red = box office miracle broadcast season. Today's China Film, the biggest invention is the history of world significance and meaning of the film, which is red and the box office, theme plus box office, it can produce the miracle of film, cultural miracle has been confirmed again and again. Of course, this is a commercial element to the main theme of the new movie and new tribute film, can not completely equivalent to the kind of performance does not seek commercial tribute film. Making it the main display, it has a certain degree of monopoly and not replicable. Anyone who thought that more than 100 stars come solely for the purpose of participating business, and that his view was too simplistic. Another angle, that the mobilization mechanism is not entirely commercial.
It is the unexpected extension of the culture: while the massive audience and even the National Party swept into the history and founding of the revolutionary history of the review, discussion and reflection among the excited up at the materialistic, commercial tide facing faith National Youth Crisis of patriotism, revolutionary ideals of communism and red passion. The forces of history that history itself is the ability to sound, the Chinese revolution, the civilian victory is the victory of the proletariat. The historical record of the red Dianying to continuously push forward the form of popular culture expansion, the formation of a huge cultural forces, which is generated in, or rooted in the most widespread and popular culture of the intangible value of the red really is the biggest, The most valuable, the most important. In fact, this is the Chinese model and the global significance of China's contemporary culture and core value.
"Number the Stars" and look at history
Many viewers did not expect is the "Number the Stars" is easy, not easy to look at history. And the star-studded solo, is an important feature of the film. Director who bluntly asked the reporter to read back home make history. Words for the History of the audience, including reporters, is absolutely necessary. Finished up look at the history of film, the effect must be very different. However, history does not necessarily make absolute. Because such a request is the ideal, the ideal is the ideal, the reality can only be a reality. Now to give a wide range of audiences to watch, with a high box office sales pitch, then we all go to make history is clearly impossible. To be honest, even experts may not be able to film history in every historical figures and events very clearly. In other words, make up history can only be relative. Therefore, the "Number the Stars" and look at the history of this conflict, in large part of producer director side. Even to make history, I am afraid the director is also difficult to remove. Modern history and history have been some new discoveries and research director and borrowing needs. Regarding the requirements to join the party such as Zhu De, Chen in the end is how to respond? Attitude? Chapter Zongxiang is escape or be injured students to grasp? To prepare for Mao in the end why not go to France, work-study? Mao Zedong and the relationship between the May Fourth Movement, the relationship between Mao Zedong and Chen, the CCP and the Third International and the "Soviet" relationship, is not something you can write a more transparent? Some of the cultural and historical knowledge not handled properly, will leave short-comings, such as how he claimed Chiang Kai-shek called Chiang or Chiang Kai-shek claimed to be? Overall, the scenes of Mao and Chen describe the intensity ratio and quite properly arranged, which is to restore the historical, close to history. Should be said that this shift could have been the easiest place. Fiction as fiction, documentary go documentary, historical data is historical. Overall, including Yuan Shikai description of historical figures, including more objective, Mao Zedong, Chen and Li Dazhao the image portrayed, but also more profound and three-dimensional.
Actor is the star ultra-luxury lineup, the audience do not care about the big man seems to have the shape of the problem. The core concept of tolerance is the audience: a little bit closer to. That there may be many reasons: After decades of film shows shift in attitudes, dilute the concept of special type of actor, the audience does not speak in tongues do not do plastic surgery on the type of actor identity Sofitel is also very high; historical figures as time erosion, Overall appearance of contemporary young audience in mind is less clear; the film's historical figures are mostly youth, its appearance was as a portrait and the familiar old standards such as exist in the gap. There is absolutely similar, such as Lenin's image; there are quite a few quite similar to the one at the same time the shape of facial features, such as Yang Kaihui, zhao and Mao Zedong. But the vast majority, including Chen, Yuan, Soong Ching Ling, Deng Xiaoping, Zhu De, the arrangement does not take into account the similarity of shape. Gross profit of the plays were, at best, quite similar to the back of head plus chin mole, the audience seems to agree with it. The ingenious design is similar to the image, such as hair ornaments Yun Liu Ye's, generally agree that praise, which seems not only intent is directed to consider shape, as well as youth-oriented romantic and civilian heritage sustenance. Because not only have a history of epic poetry should have.
Such as location shooting is a documentary of the South Lake boat, but of the Great Lakes is beautiful, misty blue, misty rain vast; relationship between the characters and plot details, such as the gross profit and Kaihui love is touching, even Futuresoft to Yang Kaihui situation, and look gorgeous with Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui fireworks night, it is idol drama plot transplant. But these are nothing to do, the audience can identify. As innocuous: although not necessarily history, but must be "art." When we learned as a history enthusiast and writer only 32 years old good "through", they will be more understandable.
Less than the film, in a word: crowded. 10 years of trials, the passage of time. 1911-1921, from the Revolution to the Chinese Communists created. During the Yuan emperor, Zhang Xun Restoration, Cai protect the country, Sun Yat-sen law enforcement, signed twenty-one the May Fourth Movement, fire Zhaojialou and so on. Time span, more people played. Described in the modern history of building history and the history of the revolution, which established a number of narrative clues: There are clues to the modern history of memorabilia, which has been influential implied the life of Mao Zedong's youth, mainly by Toubicongrong to as "big" on behalf of create a CPC, there is a clue to the CPC to create the first 10 years of political and cultural trends of the interaction of various representative on stage, the game fight. Do not say no completely familiar with, even if completely familiar, the audience should go over these events and characters and not easy to impress. Moreover, a number of clues interspersed throughout the narrative, most people really not easy to figure out. In addition, even the "entertainment reporter", it would not be able to identify all the stars and played characters. See the comedian who plays the warlord laughed, but the audience may not be able to remember his laugh is what the warlords.
Star crowded, crowded events, was jammed, the audience a bit too much. In other words: narrative tedious and the information explosion has brought a little oppressive boring. And Mao Zedong met with the families of the wonder that can have meaning, there is the color of the plot details, there are very few. In such circumstances, we can not expect the main characters and the director in-depth characterization of the major events of the complexity of the background, while the audience no time to get the story character analysis and analysis of the fun. This is probably the film's biggest shortcoming left for us. In the Paris Peace Conference, Wellington Koo's statement on behalf of China has won the international representative of common word recognition: the hometown of Confucius in Shandong, Shandong, China can not lose, like Jerusalem, the West can not lose. Film using flash in the pan to restore this wonderful diplomatic scene. However, this scene in a weak diplomatic historical context, but ironically, it also has a "Down with Confucianism" in the background. It is extremely worthy of pondering. In the film, it is the history of the real scene, is today flourishing traditional reversion and the history of Sinology back light, but the film and the audience had to have been swept away. We can not help but ask: Is not about the Party Albert can not squeeze it?
(MA Xiang Wu Zhongguo Renmin University College Professor)
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