Tab projection room episode 35: composition and color application in Zhang Yimou's films 04-

The composition and color application in "My Mom and Dad", the 35th episode of "The Tab Projection Room" —— Zhang Yimou Film 04.

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Storaro, a famous photographer, once felt that "color is a part of film language. We use colors to express different emotions and feelings, just like using light and shadow to symbolize the conflict between life and death. " In the film world directed by Zhang Yimou, color is always one of the most important ways for him to express the feelings of characters and set off the environment and atmosphere.

1999, Zhang Yimou filmed My Mom and Dad, originally to commemorate his dead father. Lao Mouzi probably didn't expect that this film won numerous awards at home and abroad, and it also has the reputation of "the swan song at the end of the century". ?

Among them, Zhang Ziyi, the leading actor, was famous for his natural and smooth performance when he first appeared on the screen, and then he took on Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and became famous all over the world. It can be said that this film opened the door to her acting world.

In My Father and Mother, Zhang Yimou applied color to the structural level of the film, reappearing the pure and beautiful love between father and mother at that time. In people's impression, the memory part of movies often uses black and white, and color represents reality. In this film, Zhang Yimou boldly subverts this kind of inertia thinking, takes black and white as the keynote of the real part of the film, and interprets the beautiful love in Memory with color, which makes this film a unique color art..

Zhang Yimou used black and white colors to represent the real part of the film, because the death of his father set the reality as a sad emotional tone, and the use of black and white colors in this plot was in sharp contrast with the colors of the beautiful memories behind it. When watching this film, the audience will unconsciously feel emotional in the tone changes of the two parts.

Zhang Yimou once said, "Because I think this is a three-day story, a story about a funeral. There is no smile, no happy mood, only painful nostalgia and attachment to the dead, plus it is snowing and winter. So I want to better convey such a feeling with the effect of black and white. The memory part is colored because it is a very beautiful memory and image sense. " ?

In the real time and space of mom and dad, dad died, and my mom and I prepared his funeral. The film uses black and white photos to symbolize death and heaviness. The reality part describes that before and after the father's funeral, the whole funeral process was filled with sad music. In addition, winter is the time background of the real part of the film, and the white snow sets off a chilling atmosphere of the departure of a loved one. In the black, white and gray picture, a group of people who saw their father off were heavy and sad, and their mother's love was single and stubborn. This picture is particularly bleak in the snow, and the people who saw him off are like a brown line that separates heaven and earth. Therefore, it is more appropriate to use black and white in such a link, and the color layering of the film is vividly reflected. The death of her father made her feel that the whole world was dark, and she could no longer enter a trace of color in her life. When the students came back together to bid farewell to their father, it was even bigger and darker. My father died because he couldn't raise money for flipping schools. Some of his students drive cars and settle in big cities. Most of them are rich and powerful, but none of them come back to support their hometown. Through the development of education, children in mountainous areas have gone out, but the mountainous areas are still the same, and poverty is still poor. In the line to see me off, my mother walked, but the students drove behind. How can this contrast not make people feel chilling? It has begun to show that Zhang Yimou, as a director, began to think about the color contrast in the film and its influence on the mood, environment and atmosphere of the characters. ...

Color reflects memory, and red is a symbol of enthusiasm and passionate hope in the cultural history of our country. So in the narrative of time and space in the past, red and yellow were widely used, but in those days when my father left, red was no longer bright and yellow was covered with heavy snow. The color scheme of red, the simplest color, is also the most memorable collocation. Red clothes, hairpins, headscarves, cloth strips and her mother's red face vividly depict the image of a bold and shy country girl, which not only embodies her youth and beauty, but also implies her infinite yearning for love and a better life. Yellow trees, yellow grass, yellow sunshine and yellow are of great use, and these yellows set off that little bit of red, making mother run on the grass like a dream.

The picture jumps from black and white to color, starting with "I" sitting at the table recalling my parents' love story. The whole color part is an interpretation of beautiful love. My parents met in their youth. With the meeting of their parents, a touch of red began to appear, depicting their love strongly and beautifully. Everything about my mother is red: red cotton-padded jacket, red scarf, red hairpin, red paper-cut, and red is woven by my mother on the beam of my father's school ... from the mother who wears red cotton-padded jacket for love to the mother who holds the red hairpin given to her by her father, love is interpreted vividly by red.

Mother's shyness, shyness and hidden enthusiasm are also revealed by her warm clothes, and it is this red color that makes my father see her at a glance in the crowd. After the villagers greeted their father, the scene of their mother running home happily left a deep impression on people. It was a golden picture of autumn, and her mother was running on an orange grass. The warm orange set off her mother's satisfied and shy smile in a red cotton-padded jacket. The whole warm color picture processing makes people feel her passionate love completely. In many scenes of the film, the mother appeared alone. For example, in the yellow grass, orange trees and white snow, you can see your mother wearing a red cotton-padded jacket, and red still flows in the film. Every time my mother runs, she is red. This kind of red gives people a strong visual impact in the picture, and red is also the image of mother in my father's eyes: whenever I see it, I think of the way my mother smiles at him in a cotton-padded jacket.

In the film, with the narration of the son telling his parents' love story, a series of color pictures are superimposed by black and white tones. Zhao Di stood in the crowd, and her big red coat reflected the expectation on her face. At this moment, her love with Teacher Luo became so red. The main color of this film is red. As Zhang Yimou's works, red has different meanings and expressions in the works mentioned in the previous three issues, such as Red Sorghum, Chrysanthemum Bean, Red Lantern Hanging High and Living. In this film, Mr. Luo's favorite is the smile in a red coat, and the most unforgettable thing is the red cloth woven on the classroom beam. Zhao Di's favorite is the red hairpin given to her by Teacher Luo, and the most unforgettable thing is to stick red tracery on the classroom window. Red perfectly explains their pursuit of love.

The main color of this film is yellow. The protagonists meet in autumn, and the trees all over the mountain are gently blown into this brilliant color by the autumn wind, which is bright and colorful and full of hope. Because of the use of light and color, the whole picture shows the mother's love in front of the audience and touches the audience's heart faintly. Golden wheat waves, brown land, and bright sunshine sprinkled through yellow enough paper skillfully combine simple customs with their love stories. When shooting, the director uses side light to purify the whole picture and make it three-dimensional. The color of orange lingers gently in the picture, and the memories are warmer in the warm color.

As a background, a large number of yellow tones highlight the mother's heartfelt satisfaction in the pursuit of true love, full of obsession and persistence in love. As a regional color of large-scale rendering, the yellow tone in the film provides the keynote for the audience to better feel the plot, and also achieves the purpose of sublimation. The broad forest with yellow leaves is illuminated by the sun through the gap, and my mother shuttles through it, chasing the happiness that needs to be grasped. So, on the muddy road, my feelings sprouted, carrying my mother away with joy and watching with my father affectionately. The film focuses on the countryside, so that this affectionate yellow with the long fragrance of earth will last for a long time. Unlike some "color psychology" today, Huang is only analyzed as "unfamiliar and unreasonable". Here, the yellow tone symbolizes a kind of eternity and conveys the tenacious, long and rippling love between father and mother.

The film uses narration, and the change of tone and narration complement each other. Black and white with color highlights the beauty and profundity of this memory in the mother's heart. Time has not annihilated its color, but it has become more and more vivid and beautiful in the mother's heart after the infiltration of time. At the end of the film, the black-and-white reality and colorful memories are constantly superimposed, so that the beautiful love story does not fade with the change of time. No matter how long the road ahead is, Zhao Di will stand there forever, quietly waiting for this eternal beauty. This film breaks away from conventional thinking in the use of color, showing reality in black and white and depicting memories in color. The contrasting colors form a strong contrast, highlighting the desolation of reality and the beauty of memories. At the end of the film, the black-and-white mother hobbles to school, overlapping with the flashback time and space of her colorful youth, as if secular and beautiful, reality and fairy tale, truth and image were perfectly superimposed, and at the same time pushing the artistic conception and atmosphere of the film to a climax, showing the director's thinking on love, beauty, reality and humanity.

Eisenstein said: "In the hands of artists, colors should not be as gaudy as colorful calico or Easter egg skins, but should have the rigor of picture modeling, because if there is a whole, there will be generalization and concentration, which will give the audience a subjective emotion." This film is a good response to Eisenstein's words. Zhang Yimou's color modeling of the role of "mother" in the film conveys Zhang Yimou's artistic skill as a "color master".

In the film, director Zhang Yimou fixed his mother in one picture after another in many places, which enhanced the aesthetic feeling of the film. At the beginning of Memories, the camera takes a panoramic view, a middle view and a close-up view, shooting the scene where the mother is waiting for her father at the intersection wearing a new red cotton-padded jacket, which shows the girl's love for her father at first sight, and it is this switching of the camera that leaves people with a beautiful imagination space. At this time, the plot slowly reached its climax. Mother's expectation to see her father's expression and love at first sight after seeing her father are just pictures of her composition, so that the audience can feel the inner world of the characters through such composition art; Mother's love for her father made her go thousands of miles to fetch water from the front well near her father, so that she could hear his reading. At this time, the mother was well framed in the picture by the golden background and winding road, which set off her pure and sweet smile and constituted a pure and beautiful picture. In this scene, the director uses beautiful freeze-frame pictures to show her mother's deep love for her father, instead of shaking the camera. When the mother and the women in the village go to deliver meals to the working men, they all put the blue-and-white porcelain bowls full of meals in the front, which is also the easiest position for father to get. In order to let my father eat his own cooking, the director specially shot a blue and white porcelain bowl from perspective, middle shot and close shot, so that the audience can experience the sincere and simple love of their mother and the waiting for their father through the visual effect of this film and television. Mother is waiting for her father to appear on the road. At this time, the picture is fixed in the golden warm style, and mom runs with dad. The golden lens vividly depicts her aesthetic feeling, which is the artistic effect of combining characters with scenery. The director arranged groups of close-up pictures of mothers making pies for their fathers, without inserting any language, but the groups of pictures vividly showed the image of mothers chopping wood and boiling water, perfectly reflecting the strong feelings of mothers eager to move; When mom was waiting for dad to come to dinner at the door, golden pumpkins surrounded the doorframe, and the sun shone on her shy face, just like a beautiful oil painting, as the movie said: Dad will never forget the scene where mom was waiting for him at the door, just like painting.

When Zhao Di lost his wife, his life was gloomy, but his memory was fresh, because these stories were unique and beautiful memories and nostalgia for Zhao Di. She has been running to Teacher Luo all her life. When Zhao Di first met Mr. Luo and made eye contact with him, she turned and ran shyly, looking back with a smile as she ran, which was the kind of shyness that loved little girls' seeds. As the lens of the old man slowly shakes with the back of Zhao Di running away, the red cotton-padded jacket dances in our visual nerve. A girl wearing a red cotton-padded jacket ran and jumped on the yellow soil, and ran into the heart of Teacher Luo and the audience.

I woke up from a serious illness and heard the sound of studying at school. My grandmother said, "Sir, this is for you." She ran again, to the school, to the voice she had been longing for. She fell down, but she got up at once. This is Zhao Di's tenacious strength. The door of the classroom opened, Miss Wang came out, and the camera stopped here. ? Forty years later, the old trick is still stubborn.

She still likes to listen to teacher Luo's reading. "After forty years of listening, I still haven't heard enough." In the last few minutes of the film, before leaving, the son walked into the classroom where his father had taught the course and gave the students the first lesson that his father gave to the students at that time when he was young. Mother heard the sound of reading, but she stumbled to the primary school at the head of the village and went out to listen to God. At this time, the pictures overlap. Now the records are all in black and white, but the first time a young mother went to see her father's class, it was a vivid color picture. The students' reading sounds seem to go back to the past. With the scheduling of the lens, the continuous transition still uses overlapping pictures, and the volume of the soundtrack is getting louder and louder. The emotion of the whole movie inevitably reached the final climax. The picture was finally fixed in that young past, and my mother was still wearing a red cotton-padded jacket, running and laughing all the way, still faint red.

This is the artistic conception of the old man. Needless to say, you can feel with your heart.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Ziyi was only 19 years old when he made this film, and he was still a junior, but he won the Hundred Flowers Award for the role of Zhao Di. According to the old man, Zhang Ziyi was put in the country for two months. She did all kinds of menial work and fed pigs to cook until she was fully integrated into the atmosphere. Only in this way can the 18-year-old girl named "Seeds of Love" be successfully shaped, and Zhao Di has entered the hearts of many people. As someone on Douban said, "The little girl overwhelmed the crowd when she debuted."