Is the movie Purple Day introduced?

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Purple sun (purple sun)

Language: Mandarin/Chinese subtitles

Director: Feng

Screenwriter: Feng

Starring: Fu Dalong and Chie Maeda

, Wang

Producer: Yang and Zhou Puxiong

Producer: Feng Xiaoning

Type: War film/drama film

Length: 120 minutes

Release date: 200 1 year

Purple Day won the Best Film Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

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The story took place in 1945 at the end of World War II. The Red Army of the Soviet Union accidentally rescued a China citizen, Yang Yufu, in the Japanese massacre. On the way to transfer Yang Yufu and the wounded to the rear, the military vehicle mistakenly entered the Japanese military camp and there was a fierce battle. Yang Yufu and a Soviet female military doctor named Najia fled into the forest area. Halfway through, they met Qiu Zi, a Japanese girl who left the brigade in the melee. They let Akiko lead the way, but Akiko, who was deeply poisoned by Japanese militarism, wanted to kill them and brought them into danger. ...

Najia hated Qiu Zi's behavior and asked Yang Yufu to kill her. Although honest Yang Yufu had a grudge against her mother, she didn't have the heart to kill this young and ignorant girl. So, in order to get out of the vast forest alive, the three of them embarked on the road of survival together. In the beautiful forest area where no war can be seen, the three experienced a series of hardships such as forest fires, swamps and wild animals along the way, and gradually developed friendship through hardships. Akiko is also infected by the kindness of Najia and Yang Yufu, and has doubts about their long-term "teaching". Although they didn't understand the language, the three young people almost forgot the existence of the war and smiled at each other in a friendly way.

However, just as they were about to be born again, Qiu Zi was killed by crazy fascists. Angry Yang Yufu and Najia angrily rushed to the remnants of Japanese fascism to avenge the innocent girl Qiu Zi. ...

Film analysis

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The story of Purple Day is about 1945, when War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was coming to an end, the Soviet Red Army rescued Yang Yufu, a native of China. On the way out, the Soviet army and the Japanese army met, and Yang and the Soviet female military doctor Najia fled into the forest. On the way, they met Qiu Zi, a Japanese female student, and the three of them embarked on the road of escape. ...

It is an "adventure" for three people from different social backgrounds to come together. The most striking thing is the relationship between three people. People who are strangers or even completely opposite to each other will eventually support each other and form friendship-there will be too many readable human conflicts and beautiful people in this process. In the eyes of Hollywood writers, this theme has unlimited potential, and it is no problem to detonate a "tear gas bomb" every 20 minutes. However, it is obvious that Feng's greatest ambition is to mix a domestic film award in order to better survive within the system. He didn't leave the inertia of domestic film directors, but "carried forward" the morbid side of domestic films, disguised as "red river valley" visual effect. Purple Day quickly gained official recognition and won the praise of "main melody blockbuster"—in fact, this film is as good as a political textbook for primary school students, and the tear gas "Japanese soldiers assassinate the old lady" has become a "joke bomb" in the eyes of primary and secondary school students.

In fact, Purple Day is likely to be made into a master work. The three protagonists have different social, linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and it is the living environment that urges them to communicate with each other. Therefore, even if the dialogue is simplified to the point of "silent film", it is not too much, because relying on the picture to "speak" can give the director a broader performance space and bring the magical function of film narration to the extreme. Feng didn't show the spirit of an international director. Purple Day, like the main melody blockbuster Lost in Love in the Yellow River, which can only be sold in the mainland, simply does not have the strength to enter the Oscar, and it can't be compared with such masterpieces as Saving Private Ryan and Flying Taiji Flag.

The ridicule and contempt for Feng's works has even become an indispensable step in criticizing "domestic theme blockbusters".

Maybe it's because I've accumulated so many disappointments that I'm overjoyed to see those who raise their hands. The film made audio-visual products for the first time and gained a good reputation. In the "Feng Film Week" specially held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China and the 60th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war, the film also appeared as an "opening drama", which shows the important position of Raise Your Hand in Feng's war-themed works.

However, Hands Up is touted as "China's version of Escape", which is a bit of a misnomer. The film looks very much like Feng's negative work after the "tears" in Purple Day turned into "laughter": since the anti-Japanese theme has produced a comedy effect, let's just go downhill and follow the comedy route to the end! The film tells the story of a farmer who fought bravely with Japanese soldiers to protect his national treasure, but the Japanese devils made a fool of themselves. In Feng's works, the cruel and bloody war is like a game of "cat and mouse". Laughter and bullets are frequently detonated, and the audience gains a sense of victory and aesthetic pleasure in appreciating the enemy's stupidity. It can be seen that the director has learned a lot from the experience of Hollywood commercial films, and his performance skills are no longer suppressed by heavy themes, and he has begun to restore the free and easy times of the Meridian Liuzhu. Comic-oriented anti-Japanese movies like this are rare. Sanmao joined the army and Desperate Saburo paid attention to comedy effect, but the cost of these two films on bridge design and scene scheduling was obviously less than that of "Raise your hand and cast your feet".

This shows that Feng, an old ginger, can still make a good movie that the audience likes as long as he loses his hypocrisy.

A brief review of movies

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1990 The Meridian Flow directed by Feng is full of aura, free and easy editing techniques in time and space, and even a touch of genius. The film won the special director award of 1 1 China Golden Rooster Award, the Japanese film critic award of the 4th Tokyo International Children's Film Festival and the gold medal of the 2nd Kyoto International Children's Film Festival. The story tells that during the war years, a revolutionary team marched westward along the Great Wall, and the young soldiers experienced the baptism of blood and fire, the test of life and death, and came to modern times through time and space ... The undisguised sense of form made the Meridian Liuzhu the most beautiful work ever written by Feng. From then on, Feng suddenly fell in love with Zhang Yimou-style landscapes, and began to exert "visual effects" in red river valley (1996) and The Yellow River Lost in Love (1999). However, the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers can't cover up the plot defects and rough special effects, and Feng's works that pay attention to appearances are more deceptive, often exposing the embarrassment caused by the serious unsynchronized development of stunt ambition and stunt level. Therefore, behind the "garlands" awarded by a series of domestic government awards, Feng, with infinite scenery, has reached the point where he is overwhelmed, unappreciated and surrounded by excessive praise like Zhang Yimou. Their works with numerous injuries and low-level mental retardation are often unacceptable, and every new film is bound to attract a scolding.

Purple Day caused a sensation, not because of the international cast of "Chinese, Japanese and Russian actors together", but because of the picture of "Japanese soldiers assassinating the old lady" in the play, which aroused the laughter of the students. It is said that this completely contrary to the author's original intention made Feng extremely angry. While applying to the film management department and the education department for red-headed documents as amulets, he accused these teenagers of psychological quality problems and expressed his grief over the current educational situation. In fact, children laugh at Feng and the idiosyncratic stupidity of the domestic film directors he represents. This paragraph is not to create a comedy atmosphere. On the contrary, the author's real intention is to highlight the anti-war theme with the cowardly performance of Japanese soldiers who dare not kill people. However, the director did not really shape the characters from the perspective of human nature, but deliberately vilified the image of Japanese soldiers in accordance with the practice of domestic films. It is not surprising that, coupled with the seriously exaggerated performance, the opposite effect has been produced.

The "large-scale war scene" at the beginning of the film reflects the innate spirit of "letting the donkey pull hard shit" that domestic film directors are eager to achieve. There are scattered shots everywhere, and there is no spatial beauty of scene scheduling and multi-camera shooting. Almost every shot makes people doubt that the production cost of the film is not as big as the legend, and the poor blasting and sound effects are even more ridiculous. At the end of the film, the special effects production of air-sea battle is as arrogant as the TV series "Beiyang Navy", thinking that it is easy for the audience to be deceived if they don't distinguish between true and false, and that repeated shooting with many flaws will be indecent to the audience's IQ-this "going through the motions" war scene is not only unappealing, but also difficult to bring spiritual shock. There are many technical failures, just like the push-and-pull lens of TV News Photography, which proves that Feng's directing technology has completely regressed. What is particularly intolerable is that the techniques of "flashback of time and space" and "interleaving of time and space", which once made people shine in Meridian of War, are extremely mechanical in Purple Day, and almost no paragraph can surpass the imagination of the audience.

Feng's "War and Peace" series has been filmed for the sixth time, and the flags of revolutionary romanticism, patriotism and humanitarianism are getting higher and higher. A work that attaches so much importance to ideology should be respected by the audience, but Purple Day is hard to excite the audience, because the expression of the film is really depressing.

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Purple Day won the Best Film Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

2 1 American Hawaiian International Film Festival165438+1October 9 came to an end, and the China film Purple Day directed by Feng won the "Best Film" award from the audience. This award was voted by American audiences in 170 films from various countries. Many films participated in this year's Cannes Film Festival, and Hou Xiaoxian's new film "A Thousand Happy Mambo" was among them. Mr. Chuck Bowler, the chairman of the film festival, once said at the opening ceremony: "Purple Days is my favorite film in this film festival. I'm surprised that director China made such a beautiful film with so little money. Please don't miss watching this movie. " Before the last day of the film festival was announced, Mr. Bowler still smiled and said, "I believe that Purple Day in China is the most competitive." As a result, Zi Ri got the highest score, and many tickets were "10".

The local newspaper made special reports on the topics of "China director Feng made a big production at a small cost" and "Purple Day reminds the world to be friendly and stop killing each other". When a local American journalist was taking a taxi, he heard the driver say that he would stop driving tonight and go to see the movie "Purple Days". At the premiere, there was a long queue in front of the cinema, and the cinema accommodating thousands of people was packed. Even some people who have seen Feng's red river valley and The Yellow River Lost in Love have heard the news. Jenny Helen, a famous American film critic, said: "This film has an impressive artistic charm, which makes people linger for a long time. There are very few film languages, most of which are told in film language, which reduces the language barriers for American audiences to watch. "

Feng Tan Zi Ri: War movies should show beauty and cruelty.

The film Purple Day is the last movement of "Symphonic Poetry of War and Peace" directed by Feng. The story in the film took place at the end of World War II in 1945. The Red Army of the Soviet Union accidentally rescued a China citizen: Yang Yufu in the Japanese massacre. On the way to transfer Yang and the wounded to the rear, the military vehicle mistakenly entered the Japanese military camp and there was a fierce battle. Yang and a Soviet female military doctor named Najia escaped into the forest area by luck. Halfway through, they met Qiu Zi, a Japanese girl who left the brigade in the melee. In order to get out of the vast forest alive, the three of them embarked on the road of survival together. However, just as they were about to be reborn, Qiu Zi was killed by crazy fascists ... Before the film was about to be released, the reporter interviewed Mr. Feng, the director of the film, about some problems in the film.

Expressing most people's feelings about history is the driving force of my creation.

Reporter: What do you think is the breakthrough of Purple Day compared with your previous war works?

Feng: No breakthrough. People are usually used to making horizontal comparisons, but I think vertical comparisons are more meaningful. I believe that "going up the stairs" means comparing all the works of a director in different periods. Purple Day is my sixth work with the theme of war and peace. It can be said that it is a summary of my previous works-why is there a war? What did the war bring to people? What impact will fascism have on human nature? It is through the use of film language to express my understanding of the theme of war and peace.

Reporter: Your films are always thinking and discussing some important topics. Do you shoulder the responsibility as a director?

Feng: Over the years, war and peace, human beings and the environment, and the fate of civilization have been bothering me. I have been shouting loudly in my works with a sharp-edged and alarmist attitude, and my tone is harsh, which makes people feel that every tomorrow may be the end of the world. Now, looking back at some of my early works is really ... unbearable. After all these years, I thought it was useless to shout at first. In the whole process of creation and thinking, I feel more and more invincible in human nature and spirit. For example, "Beiyang Navy" was a failed experience in the process of China's reform and opening up to the west 1000 years ago. The so-called "people can be destroyed, but the spirit will not be defeated" expresses the feelings of most people for history.

Purple Day is a summary of my thoughts on War and Peace.

Reporter: At present, in China, you are probably the only director who always discusses war and human nature through movies. Will you stick to it?

Feng: If I have to say it, I'm afraid I have to admit it. As I said before, Purple Day will be my summary of thinking about war and peace, and the stage of thinking about this theme will end here. Different works created under the same theme are actually a process of constantly demanding oneself and seeking satisfaction. This always reminds me of the experience of climbing the snow-capped mountain when I filmed Gadamer a few years ago-looking up at the snow-capped mountain at the foot of the mountain and seeing the top of it, I didn't know until I climbed a small slope that the top I saw was still far above. Climb and climb until I really climbed to the top of the mountain I saw, only to find that it was just the saddle of a high mountain. The real top of the mountain was hidden in the clouds and could not be seen at all.

Reporter: From the lovelorn relationship between red river valley and the Yellow River to the purple day, we all chose the desolate and spectacular natural scenery, from the snowy areas in Tibet to the Loess Plateau, and then to the endless Inner Mongolia prairie. What is the consideration of putting the story in such a natural environment?

Feng: I am an art student. I always think that movies should give people beautiful enjoyment. Therefore, in addition to the historical background and the needs of the story itself, my first consideration is to make it look good. Actually, I am an aesthete.

Reporter: The first two parts of your "War Trilogy" have very tragic and cruel war descriptions every time. Will this purple day be the same?

Feng: Yes. War is cruel, people struggle to survive in it, and their personal fate is almost completely dominated by it. At the same time, everyone's heart is fighting, full of contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and the struggle of humanity. Beauty and cruelty form a strong contrast in the hearts of the audience, which has aesthetic significance.

Reporter: What is the image of the Soviet army in this film? What is the significance of the role of Najia?

Feng: The image of the Soviet army is first and foremost an ally. Of course, the entry of Soviet troops, including the background of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, is only the background needed to tell the story, not the main line of the story. The true story is about how the three of them became friends from enemies and eventually became anti-fascist fighters. The significance of that family represents the participation of many nationalities. In fact, it is to promote the theme that anti-fascism has no borders and that all ethnic groups in the world should unite as one, be friends and be brothers and sisters.

I don't care about the game, but I care more about world peace.

Reporter: Why is China native Yang Yufu a farmer, not a soldier? What are your creative considerations? Is the role of Yang Yufu saved or liberated, or something else?

Feng: Considering most of the people in China at that time. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, most people in China were farmers, and Yang Yufu was their representative. He was a direct victim of the war of aggression. He was inexplicably killed by his whole family and abducted from his own land. He instinctively struggled to survive, and his heart was full of blood and hatred. At the same time, it is also tortured because human instinct can't kill innocent people indiscriminately.

Reporter: Love in the Yellow River competed for the Oscar last year. We can definitely say that as a film opposing war and calling for peace, its practical significance is no less than the contribution of the film in art appreciation and commercial entertainment. So, does Purple Day have any plans to be exhibited at the international film festival this time?

Feng: Many people think that I like to give prizes abroad. In fact, this is not the case. I have never asked for or given an award in person. The complexity of international film festival awards is far beyond our imagination. I don't think a mature director needs to care too much about international awards. Participating in the exhibition is another matter. Extensive exhibitions can let more people and more nationalities in the world know about our films and our ideas, so I certainly hope that this film can be exhibited as much as possible, so that more people can pay attention to world peace issues.