The Life of the Characters in Jean Vigo's Works

Among many outstanding directors in film history, few are more legendary and romantic than the life experience of Frenchman jean vigo. 1934, Vigo died of tuberculosis in Paris at the age of 29, leaving only four works (a feature film, a short story film and two short documentaries) lasting only 200 minutes. However, this is enough to amaze future generations. His films pursue freedom, with diverse photography techniques and romantic and poetic themes, which have influenced a whole generation of French new wave directors. This week, Disc Market released two complete works of jean vigo in one breath, and we also hope that more audiences can get to know him again with this topic.

His first novel is full of inspiration.

In fact, Vigo did not get the recognition and status he deserved before his death. On the contrary, it is controversial in the film industry in Paris, which is full of splendor and luxury. This precocious teenager, with a little melancholy and sly eyes, is considered an eccentric figure. His debut and documentary A Proposed en ice (1930) cooperated with Mikhail Kaufman, the younger brother of Widoff who put forward and practiced the theory of "Kenoye" in the Soviet Union at that time and the director of The Man with the Camera. This short film, which only lasted for more than 20 minutes, completely violated the tradition of faithful and rigid documentary at that time. But it is different from "what you see is what you get" in Holding. It satirizes the luxury and depravity of the upper class with a lot of montage techniques, such as connecting the fragments of vacationers with the predators on the shoal. The last scene is carnival, and the next scene is connected with the empty mirror of the cemetery ... This lens is flexible, the thinking jumps, and the clever pen is used, which shows Vigo's urchin heart.

His silent films made people hear music.

Vigo's next film is still a documentary, but this time it's a paper. He is going to shoot a documentary about Jean tallis, a French swimmer at that time, to show tallis's posture and explain the essentials of swimming. The most common physical education film, in the hands of Vigo, has made some innovations. From water to underwater, from posture to action, fast mirror and slow motion, as well as the clever use of the pen of "reverse lens", people swam around with the camera. The film has no soundtrack, but it can make people hear the melody of music in the natural posture of athletes. Among them, the creative use of underwater lens laid the groundwork for Vigo's later works.

He filmed the originator of truant.

1933, Vigo met the producer Nune by chance, and he gave him the opportunity to shoot his first feature film Zerode Conduite. Maybe he didn't even realize that this film influenced the future development direction of French films. A score of zero is like a play "Truancy"-do you remember that "Truancy" portrayed the school as a prison and compared the students to prisoners? Fuck is more thorough. It turned a group of pupils into soldiers fighting for freedom. In order to get rid of the day-to-day rigid school curriculum, unpalatable potatoes, and lewd, arrogant and greedy teachers, they conspired to rebel like underground workers, and finally met the day of leadership inspection at school, occupying the highland of the school-the roof at one fell swoop. There are many classic passages in the film, such as children fighting with pillows in the dormitory, Vigo deliberately using slow mirrors, and children marching in procession with lanterns like religious parades under feathers, like crusaders on a journey in the snow. The scene is absurd and funny, and it also shows Vigo's ridicule of religious ceremonies. The rebellious consciousness and anarchist tendency throughout the film provoked the French electronic censorship authorities to ban "zero behavior" for ten years.

His legacy was chosen as one of the top ten films in film history.

After Zero Character was banned, Nun did not doubt Vigo's genius, but asked him to direct a feature film. However, Vigo had no choice but to shoot an ancient love story "L 'Atalante" according to the script, which tells the story of a barge captain and his new wife getting back together. The seemingly dull theme has been brought to the extreme by Vigo. The rhythm of light comedy is like a relaxed jazz piano, which brings out the chance and coincidence between men and women. In this final order, Vigo showed his extraordinary observation and vision and hope for love. Unfortunately, after the film was finished, I didn't get the appreciation of my bosom friend. The publisher thought the film was not commercialized enough and asked to delete the plot. The film was greatly changed, the original rhythm was destroyed, the title of the film was changed, and even the soundtrack was changed. It was not until the forties and fifties of last century that this film was gradually recognized and respected by many directors and film critics. The British film magazine Watching and Listening even selected it as one of the top ten films in film history.

He is compared to Rambo in the film industry.

At the time of filming Atlantis, the tuberculosis that afflicted Vigo had worsened, and he died quietly when the film was released. Because of the same style of works that died young and pursued freedom, critics often compare Vigo with the talented poet Rambo; In fact, both of them were poor in childhood and the young people were very turbulent. Vigo's father is a radical anarchist. He was regarded as a supporter of Germany during World War I and was executed by the French government for rebellion. After that, Vigo spent many years in exile. Although his growth is full of cruelty, there is little tragic tone in the film. Instead, he pinned his hopes on every corner of the world, as if we could still touch him, a warm dream of a genius.

Two sets of jean vigo, which one should I buy?

This week, the disc market released two complete works by Jean Vigo, one from the famous British art film brand "Eye" and the other from the French company Gomon itself. How should disc lovers choose?

Suggest buying the English version. The reasons are as follows: Although the quality of DVD feature films in France is clearer, it is a pity that the local French version does not include Vigo's most important documentary "Nice Scene", and there are no Chinese and English subtitles for important tidbits, which is equivalent to chicken ribs. The British "artificial eye" DVD is named The Complete Works of Jean Vigo. In addition to capturing all four of Viggo's works, it is particularly worth mentioning that the original length of "Scenes of Nice" is 265,438+0 minutes, but the DVD contains 27 minutes of deleted scenes, which is particularly precious. The second is a tidbit disc, which is included in the French documentary "The Filmmaker of Our Time-Vigo". This 1.5-hour documentary interviewed relatives and friends who had worked with Vigo and outlined the real Vigo inside and outside the film. There is also an interview with director Autard Josseliani, whose analysis of Atlantis is incisive and reasonable, which is worth seeing.

Fran? ois Strauffer

The leader of the new wave of French movies. Truffaut once said, "I was lucky to find the movie of Vigo ... I didn't know Jean Vigo's name when I walked into the cinema, but I immediately had a crazy respect for his work." Many film critics pointed out that the inspiration for Truffaut's Four Hundred Strikes came directly from Zero Behavior. Although the angles and depths of the two films are different, the themes and techniques of expressing juvenile rebellion are still in the same strain.

Lindsay Anderson.

Free cinema movement leader in Britain. "If", which won the Palme d 'Or in 1969, was filmed in 1968 when the student movement broke out in Paris. It is one of the pioneering works in the era of student rebellion. Through the connection of a sympathetic face of a distressed teenager and the sober observation of the reality of British public schools, this paper puts forward the theme of the relationship between personal freedom and social order, which shows that "zero conduct" has a far-reaching influence on it. Anderson's work BritanniaHospital (1982) has been released on DVD.

Autard Yoseliani (OtarIoseliani)

Georgian film director, living between eastern and western cultures, has a rich historical tradition and keen observation, and is very active in the world film industry. I Auselli Ani studied directing at the Moscow Film Academy during the Soviet period, and was deeply shocked when he came across jean vigo's works in college. He made no secret of Vigo's influence on him. The CD market has produced a set of DVDs of his works, including 12 movie works.

JeanVigo (French)

French directors rarely make movies, but when they land, they fly across the sky like a comet. The son of a famous anarchist often needed to move when he was a child and adopted an alias.

The works of Jean Vigo

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1929: the scene of Nice (documentary, photography: B. Kaufman).

1932: Zero conduct (screenwriter Veri, photographer B. Kaufman, L. Berger, composer J. Jaubert, starring J. Daste, Telfen). Zero Behavior combines the absurdity of the first work with the straightforwardness of the second work, which is regarded as a challenge to authority, and its spirit is inherited by Godard, Truffaut and Lindsay Anderson.

1932: tallis (documentary). 1934: Barge Atlanta (adapted by Shawnee, Vigo and Riera, composed by Jobert and photographed by B. Kaufman, with Dast, D. Perot, M. Simon and G. magali as the main actors).

The barge Atlanta was filmed at 1934, but it was officially deleted.