Great Wall Color Master Zhang Yimou

Zhang Yimou was born a photographer. In his movies, the picture is always better than the story, so he likes to pick up ready-made good stories and remake famous writers' novels, which can often achieve good results. At the same time, the pictures in the film have become classics. Here, try to count the following masterpieces:

1, "Chrysanthemum Bean": tells the story of the owner of a dye house with physical defects who abused her beautiful daughter-in-law Chrysanthemum Bean because she had no sexual ability; At that time, I was a middle school student, and my young mind was shocked.

In the film, four-color dyed cloth is used many times to convey the cheating scene of Ju Dou and her brother-in-law. Implicit and beautiful.

2. Red lanterns are hung high: this film should be the originator of China's martial arts films for women's houses and Kung Fu films. Four wives and a maid live in the same house, each showing her magical powers and winning the favor of her master.

The scene was chosen in the Wangjia Courtyard in Shanxi. The dead gray house turned out to be its true color, not deliberately turned black and white, with red lanterns dotted inside, like lust and blood. Like the underworld.

In the evening, the deep house compound actually presents a gray-blue, colder and more depressed. The contrast with red lanterns is more obvious.

3. "Hero": The story is very simple, and the family has a sense of justice. At that time, it was criticized by countless film critics for its thin plot, but the color of this film is really worth seeing.

The collocation of red and yellow also appeared in Ju Dou, which was twice as hot, and also indicated the tension between Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung.

The ancient costumes in Hero are all very positive traditional Chinese colors, and the texture is very close to nature. Pass on China people's idea of harmony between man and nature. This kind of clothes for two people is close to emerald green and water green. Delicious.

4. "Golden Flower in the City": I have to mention this movie. I don't know whether it brought the local gold atmosphere or whether Zhang Yimou deliberately catered to the local gold atmosphere. Since this movie, all kinds of ancient costume blockbusters in China have started to use gold, such as "The Palace of Journey to the West", "The Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon of Journey to the West", and even the story of the Bronze Age "Legend of the Gods". The headdress is extremely complicated and gorgeous, lest others don't know that you are a rich blockbuster, which makes people dizzy. To sum up, three words are "nouveau riche"

5. The Great Wall: Although it is very different from Zhang Yimou's previous stories, there is no home country, no men and women, no love and no sex. Some are Hollywood-style monsters, which shows that Zhang Yimou is not a storyteller, but more a figure party; An excellent director, his film style is always the same, but in The Story of the Great Wall, I don't see any similarities with Ju Dou, Hung the Red Lantern and even The Golden Flower in the City, only the picture is still bright and persistent:

The generals' five-color armor is really beautiful. Maybe Zhang Dao wants to build an oriental The Avengers? Maybe it's because the movie is too short, the plot is too fast, and the characters have too few lines-let Jing Tian finish. Director Zhang tried to express the personalities of different characters with different colors? Maybe we didn't appreciate the painstaking efforts of Zhang Yimou, the color master.

Zhang Dao still likes gold and complex and gorgeous carvings. Karry's little brother's face is more delicate and clean.

A gray-green army of millions of gluttons attacked the golden imperial city. In fact, it's really ugly ... the tone of the whole Great Wall is a little thicker than before, as if it were a gray hero. Perhaps Zhang Dao thinks that the Great Wall carries more grand national feelings.

There is also the tower that Jing Tian and Matt Damon climbed up layer by layer in the last scene, surrounded by stained glass similar to the Christian church, so we couldn't find the stills, so we had to take a picture of flowers of war instead. Sunlight shines through stained glass and then switches with the gray-green gluttony. The whole picture is like an overturned palette, dirty.

Maybe Zhang Yimou doesn't care about the story, or maybe he doesn't understand the female tragedy in Hanging the Red Lantern. Why else would he cheat and have seven babies? He's just a color master. He can play with his pictures. He thinks he is still Zhang Yimou. As for the Great Wall or life, it doesn't matter at all. I was scolded badly enough for filming house of flying daggers a few years ago. He said yes, I would like to ride a thousand miles alone. He had no feelings for the story, but chose a literary theme to gag everyone. Imagine Hou Xiaoxian, Ang Lee and Wong Kar-wai making monster movies. Is it possible? A director who really has an attitude towards the story would never make such a choice. So Zhang Yimou is still Zhang Yimou, but we don't know him well enough.