Excuse me, who is the film director who is called the father of modern film?

French film director. The world's first film artist. 186 1 was born in Paris on February 8th, 1938 1 died in the same place. He used to be a stage magician, and later set up a photography studio in Montreuil, which is the earliest studio in the world. Here he used special actors, scenery, props, makeup and other means to shoot movies, which opened up a completely different film creation path from Lumiere's natural realism. His first film was The Dreyfus Case (1899). He is best at shooting fairy tales by stopping to shoot again and changing the scenery, such as Cinderella, Bluebeard, magic lamp, Arabian Nights and so on. At the beginning of the 20th century, he first created sci-fi movies, such as A Journey to the Moon, Two Wan Li under the Sea and beyond the arctic. In particular, A Journey to the Moon has a great influence, which not only establishes the style of science fiction films, but also determines the position of film rehearsal in film production. Mei's film is the first step for film to become an art.

May Li Ai was originally an excellent magician. 1896, he got a camera from England and bought nearly 30,000 francs of film from Kodak Company, and began to make movies formally. This year, he made about 80 films, but almost all of them were imitations of existing works at that time. On one occasion, however, when he was showing a film taken from Paris Opera Square, he found that a carriage on the screen suddenly turned into a hearse while driving. After looking for the reason, he found that when shooting this scene, the film had stopped for some time because of mechanical failure. In this short pause, the carriage drove away from the camera and the hearse behind it took its place. The stunt of "Stop Shooting" was born because of such a small accident.

In June 5438+10, Mei used this stunt to photograph the disappearance of his wife. The next year, he invented many film stunts such as multiple exposures and model photography. With the construction of Montreux Studio, the era of Georges Méliès is coming.

Application of artificial scene

This studio is almost a replica of the Ropeyutan Theatre run by May Li Ai. Mei Li 'ai moved the dramatic elements such as scenery, props, costumes, scripts, scenes and the division of scenes into her own films intact. From then on, the film began to draw infinite vitality from the ancient drama art, and this process never stopped. The scenery painted by Mei is excellent. Houses, mountains and rivers are mixed with watercolors, giving people a uniform light and shadow effect, which is difficult to distinguish between true and false. In order to meet the needs of the plot, he also placed a large number of suspension bridges and movable doors and windows on the set, hung the actors with iron ropes, and simulated the scene of immortals flying in the air. During this period, Mei Li Ai shot a lot of fairy tales and fantasy movies, including Cinderella, Crazy Music and Gulliver's Travels. Soon after, an epoch-making trip to the moon was born here.

A Journey to the Moon is adapted from two of the most famous science fiction novels by jules verne and H·G· Wells. It tells the story of a group of scientists who flew to the moon by huge shells, where they met all kinds of strange creatures and returned to earth after some adventures. In the film, Mei Li Ai displays his genius imagination: a round face made of plaster represents the moon, and the Big Dipper is six beautiful women holding star props. Travelers meet giant mushrooms on the moon. People here are striped and aggressive, but when they are hit hard, they will turn into a mass of white smoke ... The production cost of this film is as high as 30,000 francs, but it has recovered all the costs in France alone.

At the beginning of the English version of the film, Mei Li 'ai typed the following words on the screen: "Georges Méliès was the founder of making movies with artificial scenery, and this creation once gave a new life to the dying film industry." No one accused him of exaggerating. In fact, it is because of his creation that thousands of talents are re-attracted to the screen. In addition to the essence of the film "reappearing reality", people have also discovered the other side of its dream-making. Juggling is short-lived, but dreams and tools of dreams will last forever. Since then, the film has its own unique life, which will never die.

An insurmountable natural barrier

But May Lee's career began to decline. He put the stage on the screen, which once made him a great success, but it also set an insurmountable obstacle for him. Because Mei Li 'ai is too rigid in the expression of drama, she resolutely refuses to use location and change the angle of the lens in the shooting process (except the mobile photography stunt that shows the movement of objects), which limits Mei Li 'ai's artistic progress. By 19 10, many action movies such as great train robbery have been filmed in the United States, and montage has gradually become the grammar of movies. At this time, May Li Ai is still shooting repetitive works, such as Space Travel and beyond the arctic. As a result, he and his films were forgotten by the world.

In order to get rid of the economic difficulties, Mei Li Ai finally decided to break his dogma. His younger brother, with technicians from the American branch, spent a huge sum of money filming in the Pacific Ocean for a whole year. But when they returned to the company, they found that most of the works were moldy and could not be used because the wax seal was not tight. This failure gave May Lee a final blow. After World War I, Montreux's photography factory was closed. Mei's movie copies are sold by the pound, and those movies that once carried countless talents, wisdom and fantasies are melted as invalid plastic and made into toothbrushes and combs. May Li Ai herself became an open-air toy dealer at the station in her later years. It was not until 1928 that a reporter discovered the founder and benefactor of film art, which caused a small sensation. People gave him a medal and sent him to a nursing home. 1938, where he died at the age of 77.