Director Han elaborated.

Director Han.

In the context of globalization, talking about cultural diversity seems to be ignorant of the times and makes people feel melodramatic. The film named "The Taste of Green Betel Nut" we are facing is just a film to explain our worries and thoughts about the disappearance of minority culture (Li culture) from the perspective of cultural diversity.

As a film, its own energy cannot stop the pace of cultural globalization. Even we filmmakers will inevitably question the influence of today's movies. However, when we abandon the film and look for another medium to make our own voice, we suddenly find that our voice is not loud, but it looks so pale and powerless. Although it is not the perfect expression in the movie, it still makes us feel very comfortable and comfortable. Thanks to the film, it gave us the right to speak. Thanks to the movie, let's continue the dialogue with life.

There are naturally many answers to why we choose a film with the theme of ethnic minorities (Li nationality), and our film is to express our thoughts on the cultural status and survival of ethnic minorities (Li nationality) under the background of globalization. When a nation that has lived with us for thousands of years, after experiencing various natural and man-made disasters in the history of human development, is welcoming the grand ceremony of human civilization today, they are disappearing from our sight. For an artist, it is familiar to watch or keep watching! This requires us to make a choice. Although we may be powerless in the face of the powerful process of human civilization, at least we can sing an elegy for them! Even if this elegy is sad.

In view of this, the film "The Taste of Green Betel" was born.

The film "The Taste of Green Betel Nut" tells the story of how an ordinary Li family faces the collision between foreign civilization and its own civilization and how to pursue a happy life under the tide of market economy. Although the story is not exciting, the Li family's dreams and hopes for life are still sprouting under the green betel nut tree.

For the elaboration of this film, I want to start with the characters, styles and performances.

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Beginning of spring: Girl beginning of spring is undoubtedly the heroine of this movie. From the beginning, she appeared in front of us as an innocent girl of 17 years old. Let's move for it. Beginning of spring, like all girls, fell in love with her brother-in-law when love was budding and her inner desires began to stir. Although beginning of spring kept her secret love for her brother-in-law Wang Qinglin in her heart, she was like a green betel nut, which stung her life. In the film, beginning of spring keeps a girl's unique ignorance from beginning to end. Whether it is the initial secret love or yearning for the outside world, beginning of spring has shown the word "astringent". The film's title "The Taste of Green Betel Nuts" is also a metaphor for a Li girl's longing for pure love with the astringency of green betel nuts.

At the same time, beginning of spring also has cultural symbolic significance. Beginning of spring's role not only bears the beautiful and kind image of Li nationality, but also is a loyal supporter of spreading Li culture. She consciously resisted the invasion of western culture (English) into Wenhua Li. She learns English passively and challenges the English teacher directly. "beginning of spring" seems to be completing the role of speaking for the Li people. However, beginning of spring is undoubtedly a tragedy in the film. Her secret love for Wang Qinglin was pure and beautiful, but in the end she lost her love. So when beginning of spring threw away the love key that touched her first love, beginning of spring's identity had quietly changed. She is no longer simply the embodiment of the beauty of the Li nationality, and she has almost completed the transformation from dream to reality in an instant. When beginning of spring walked out of Li Zhai and into the window of the world, it also predicted the inevitable ultimate fate of Wenhua Li, entered the museum, and turned itself into a museum culture for future generations to look at and study. If "beginning of spring" is singing and dancing on the stage of the window of the future world, perhaps the image of the Li people people people see only exists as a vivid national specimen, and only the value of commercial use awaits them.

Wang Qinglin: In this film, Wang Qinglin is a primary school teacher who works hard and is respected by teachers and students. He is beginning of autumn's husband, but he divorced because of his disagreement. Beginning of spring likes him, but Wang Qinglin seems to be avoiding this feeling. When beginning of autumn came back and found that he was pregnant with someone else's child, he didn't refuse beginning of autumn, but accepted her sadly. He even felt guilty about beginning of autumn because he couldn't have children.

On the surface, he is an ordinary teacher Li, but in fact, he is also a person with dual cultural symbols. He represents a new generation of Li intellectuals to some extent. He was alert to Wenhua Li's sense of crisis with the sensitivity of intellectuals. He kept running around, trying to persuade adults and children to give up learning Li dialect. He knows that once his mother tongue is broken, it means that the day when the Li nationality disappears from the earth is not far away. Therefore, he tried his best to prevent this day from coming. He simply believes that as long as the Li language is passed down from generation to generation, the Li people will not disappear. However, the fact is cruel. There are fewer and fewer children who speak English with Yvonne Wang Lin and Li Xue. Especially when the western culture represented by English is overwhelming, Li Zhai, who is far away, has not been spared. Can Wang Can Qinglin's weak body withstand the wind and waves? Does what he did hold water?

We didn't give a clear answer. The children of beginning of autumn and Xiao Xie from Hunan were born, and Wang Qinglin gave them a nice name-Li Sheng.

Li Sheng symbolizes the significance of Li people's rebirth. We guessed that this might be what Wang Qinglin meant.

Grandma: To tell you the truth, I personally like the role of grandma best. Grandma is not only a kind old man, but also a representative of the traditional Li nationality. After witnessing the process of Li nationality's prosperity and decline, grandma said nothing. She is as calm as a lake, predicting the important proposition of life.

In fact, the death of my grandmother shows the decline of Li culture, and the coffin is a symbol of this feature. The reason why this film didn't write about grandma's death is not that the story is unnecessary, but that it may be because I miss Wenhua Li personally and don't want to see such ominous omen in this film, so I left the right of screenwriter to grandma and let her stay with us.

Beginning of autumn: beginning of autumn may be a rebel of the Li nationality. Dissatisfied with his marriage with Wang Qinglin, he left Lizhai after divorce and gave birth to a child there. Xiao Xie, a native of Hunan Province, was pregnant with a child from Xiao Xie (Han nationality) when he came to the mainland, and then he was cheated by Xiao Xie and went back to his hometown with a big belly.

Beginning of autumn's behavior is abnormal. In fact, beginning of autumn's purpose is simple. She just wants to prove to the villagers that she is a normal pregnant woman. She hates Wang Qinglin for making her take the fall for so many years. When she satisfied a woman's minimum vanity, she suddenly appeared in front of Wang Qinglin.

Some people may question why Wang Qinglin accepted beginning of autumn who betrayed him and tolerated Li Sheng, a half-breed with other ethnic origins. Actually, I don't have a good answer either. I think this may be the broad and tolerant love of Li people! That's all I can understand.

Beginning of spring's parents: If Grandma beginning of spring represents the most traditional generation of Li nationality, then beginning of spring's parents are another generation of Li nationality who grew up under the interweaving of this nationality and Han nationality. They have received two kinds of education and can speak Li dialect and Mandarin. They are realistic, and the pursuit of a rich life is their greatest wish. Therefore, when beginning of autumn and Hunan Xiao Xie left the mainland, his father expressed his anger. However, when beginning of autumn made money for his father through betel nuts, his father quickly forgave her. Mother even asked beginning of spring to learn from her sister.

It is not difficult to see that the changes and cultural decline of the Li nationality began from the parents' generation in autumn. The reason is that the demand for material is the core.

There are other characters in this film, such as Xiao Li, an English teacher and Xiao Xie. Although they were in different positions and maintained the narrative relationship, they all became symbols of accelerating the decline of Wenhua Li.

style

I think these are two questions that need us to take seriously, about what style the film was completed and how to complete the style of the film.

Each film can only have one style, which is unique. So what is unique about the style of the film "The Taste of Green Betel Nuts"?

Maybe I have my own thinking habits. If I want to determine the style of every film I direct, I will look for an opinion. Who is telling the story, the director or the people in the play? Is it omniscient or unknown?

Analyzing this film, we can easily see that the viewpoint of this story is actually multi-viewpoint. On the surface, beginning of spring secretly loves her brother-in-law Wang Qinglin as the main line. In fact, it is based on the profile of an ordinary Li family, which shows the different attitudes of Li generations to life horizontally.

Therefore, the main reason for determining the style of this film should be the multi-viewpoint structure.

The main characteristics of multi-view structure are that it requires truth and nature, and refuses to be carved manually; Allow to enlarge life, but refuse to interfere with life; Capture the beauty of nature and reject pseudo-aestheticism.

Let life flow in the story, which should be the symbolic language of our movie "The Taste of Green Areca".

The style is determined, and the important thing is how we embody it. This is the second question about style, how to complete the style of this movie!

Photography: Hide us, let the camera walk into "beginning of spring House", talk to everyone calmly, and find the subtle details hidden in the depths!

Enlarge life and experience the world outside life.

Recording: Li Zhai's day is different from the morning. Don't let go of any sound in your ear.

I heard that all trees of the Li nationality can talk.

Art: The color of green betel nut rejects any attempt to pollute it. The taste of green betel nut is the "astringent" taste. If you understand this astringent word, you will understand everything.

Make-up: Try to observe the characteristics of Li people's love of beauty, which may be different from our aesthetics.

Clothing: The only difference between Li people and us is that they also have national costumes.

Props: national, modern, primitive and fashionable, including the oldest wedding ceremony and the most popular disco slow shake bar. It is rich and varied, with many choices and respect for life. Don't make national jokes.

Lighting: There are many night scenes, and warm colors are the main colors. Pay attention to the combination of freehand brushwork and realism, and assist photography to establish the style of this film.

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Most of our actors are non-professionals, so try to guide the actors to play themselves well in the performance and don't let them break away from themselves.

Linguistically, Hainan Putonghua is the main tone, so don't chew on words when learning mainland Putonghua, so as not to be neither fish nor fowl.

The use of Li language is a major feature of this film, so we must pay attention to accuracy and don't make it up.

Actors should communicate with each other, get familiar with the characters as soon as possible and enter the plot.

All departments should help actors to complete their roles as soon as possible.

In a word, this is a very distinctive film, and it is also the film we are trying to make. I think in a few years, we will be glad for our choice today, because we have left a little video record, a little conversation in Li, something that is about to disappear-

However, I know that when we really want to do this, we need courage!

Poster of the movie "The Taste of Green Betel Nuts"

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