Why is film the art of directors?

"directing movies-the art of film directors" [America] Eric? 6? 1 Sherman Ding Xin, etc. Translated by Guangxi Normal University Press, February 2005, 65438.

This book is very interesting, the author gives one question after another, and different directors give even completely different answers according to their own shooting practice, which is a reference for people who want to make movies and a very good perspective for ordinary readers to pay attention to movies. Both positive and negative thinking are reasonable and necessary, which is very important for us to think about movies. For a director, his film is his kingdom, and no one can dominate it except himself. So movies often fully express the director's ideas, and directors often have unique ideas. The film reaches the level of his thought and the level of his artistic realization.

Film is a comprehensive art, emphasizing the sense of wholeness. The specific use of sound, photography, script, performance and editing should all revolve around this sense of wholeness. No matter how beautiful photography is, it also loses its unique significance in the film. Sometimes too prominent individual artistic expression will destroy the whole. Just as Rodin ruthlessly cut off Balzac's hands (beautifully carved), far-sighted directors often need this wisdom.

The task of a film director is to convey his own ideas and artistic ideas in any form that can be used, so that the overall feeling of the film presents a distinct personality brand.

A director is an animal that uses images to express feelings and ideas. No matter how profound your humanistic background is and how broad your ultimate concern is, you should first express it through images and skillfully use the lens language. A good movie also needs to make this transition smooth. The audience should be able to feel your clear style and know what you are expressing. This gives you two tasks. On the one hand, your thoughts and feelings should be unique and give the audience a very strong impression. On the other hand, the means of expression should have its own style, that is, the lens language, that is, the image transformation of your ideas. This involves all aspects of film form, and all film skills and film theories constitute its main activity space.

Movies are a feeling, another feeling different from life. Our life may be dull, but our movies can't. It must give us something new, especially excellent works. It always gives us different shocks in some ways.

"Keep the audience's appetite forever" is a common strategy in movies. Every audience will have some questions when watching movies, looking for answers with the development of the plot. It allows the audience to take the initiative to enter the film and let the audience interact with the film. Maybe many times, the audience didn't find the answer they wanted until the end of the movie, or the movie didn't give us any answers at all. Sometimes the audience will be confused when they walk out of the cinema. This is a aftertaste.

There are many internal relations between film and drama, and the one-off performance of drama greatly limits the exertion of its directing ability. On the other hand, this one-off performance puts higher demands on the director. But the actors still play a central role in the play, and the director can only watch quietly during the performance. Guidance before the performance may not bring effect in the drama performance, but there is nothing you can do during the performance. Can only be presented in this state. But the film director is different. He can repeat an action and an expression. Until the best condition. He can instruct in time during the performance. Therefore, a film director is more about the director's ideas and art, and a director can do a lot of work. It is in these numerous choices that the director's artistic pursuit and style are unconsciously formed during the filming process.

There is a distance between novels and scripts, and there is also a distance between scripts and movies. There is no doubt about it. Maybe it's the same thing, but it's absolutely different. Novel is an art type, and film is a completely different art type. Many people are very dissatisfied and annoyed that the film is not completely consistent with the original novel. I don't think it's necessary. You don't know what the director is pursuing in making this film. He has no obligation to copy the original completely. The director's ideas can't be exactly the same as those of the screenwriter. The ending of Zhang Yimou's movie Alive is quite different from that of Yu Hua's novel Alive. Perhaps the ending of the novel is even more shocking, but you can't say that Zhang Yimou's movies shouldn't have such an ending. The film is a popular culture that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, and moderate and desperate endings are not welcome in the film. Maybe someone wants to talk about the new wave in France, which is another matter. But novels are different. Most people who read novels are educated people, so-called educated people. One of the writer's wishes is to make readers feel lonely without any dependence and hope. It is unreasonable for different arts to be measured by the same standard, and sometimes this requirement is excessive or even redundant.

Writing is a work of imagination, while film is a work that concretizes imagination. The director has the final say on what state this imaginative realization process will present. Not a writer. Can only say that it is close to the original. Besides, I don't think this is the standard to evaluate a movie. You can't say that a good movie is not excellent unless it is close to the original. In the final analysis, film is the director's art, and anything imposed on the director is unacceptable. But this does not mean that movies do not need a sense of responsibility and mission. They also pursue profound and essential things, but in different forms.

Personally, I think that if a director always follows the screenwriter or the original novel and develops without reservation according to the plot of the script or novel, it is a director's failure.

Perhaps, if you want to understand what a movie is, directing a movie can give you an idea. It's very special, it makes you think a lot about movies, and even makes you have your own ideas about movies.