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What kind of movie is the Three Gorges Good Man?

After filming the trilogy "Hometown", especially "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", Jia won the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at Venice Film Festival, which made him famous and received mixed reviews. Questioning even overshadowed praise, and some people even talked wildly. Didn't they leave the camera there? Who won't shoot? Every time I hear such words, I want to laugh. This is not only Jia's dilemma, but also the dilemma of all art film directors. People who stand tall have to put up with people below throwing stones. They don't want to explain, because the stone thrower doesn't understand at all. Art movies are for everyone, but only a few people can finish the cake happily. More people swear and show their ignorance.

In terms of movie lighting, Hollywood movies rely heavily on artificial light, and the layout of lighting changes with each lens change, but generally three-point lighting is used. For art films, especially realistic documentaries, directors will consciously use natural light sources instead of artificial light sources. Artificial light constructs an accurate closed space, which is inherently false. Without studio and artificial light source, we will get rid of this closed space and bring the audience into a more real and open space.

There is a clip in Jia's film Xiao Wu, which shows a conversation between Xiao Wu and Hu Meimei at the window. They sat on the bed with their backs against the windowsill, and the light outside the window shone into the room. They sit quietly, chat, smoke and sing. The use of natural light here is intended to show the quiet atmosphere that has emerged over time. Although artificial light is not used, it is still beautiful.

The composition of the film is also a fragment in the film. Xiaowu went to visit Hu Meimei, who was sick, and Jia Dao broke the routine and filmed the conversation between two people. That is, take a panoramic view of two people first, and then make a single shot from front to back. At first, Xiaowu only appeared in the form of voice-over, suggesting that Xiaowu did not enter the emotional world of Hu Mei's beauty at this time, and they were more strangers. As Xiao Wu's body slowly enters the picture, it implies that the relationship between Xiao Wu and Mei Mei is getting closer and closer.

This shooting method is more obvious in the platform. In the emotional relationship between Wang Hongwei and Zhao Tao of Fenyang County Cultural and Art Troupe, Jia used a fixed lens, and often two people entered the painting and one person went out. Even if two people appear in the lens at the same time, they are separated by a certain distance or some objects. This is the love between people in that era, implicit and restrained.

As for the sound processing of the film, take the Three Gorges Good Man as an example. The sound of migrant workers knocking on the wall and the sound of migrant workers knocking on the iron pipe were not taken directly when shooting. If you listen carefully, these sounds are rhythmic and carefully designed, as if those migrant workers are not really tearing down the wall, but playing an elegy about the ancient town of Fengjie in the Three Gorges.

Jia graduated from Beijing Film Academy. He is a scholar. He must know commercial film shooting and basic shooting skills. Therefore, every shot of him is obviously not as simple as what you see. A film that can win the international film festival award must have its merits. Of course, we must oppose authority sometimes, but it is foolish to oppose it blindly.