Why do some people say that Yang Dechang's One by One is the best China film?

He can't touch his wife for ten years, and he can't think for a moment. ...

On June 29th, 2007, director Yang Dechang died of cancer in Beverly Hills.

Since then, the world has lost an eccentric Chinese movie master.

This article commemorates the 10 anniversary of Yang Dechang's death and pays tribute to the master.

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Text/Chen Wei

To tell the truth, such a man with balls is extinct.

Making movies is not his dream.

He always thought it was interesting to be an architect.

On his thirtieth birthday, the science and engineering man from computer major suddenly wanted to change his life.

Miss Chen's undergraduate major is film and television. At the age of 30 (note: she seems underage), she rested at home and thought about which channel to work in every day.

A man with seeds can return to the origin of his career at the age of 30, and everything starts from scratch.

Men stand at thirty, and women are beautiful at thirty.

Yang Dechang is at work.

He received an orthodox film education at the University of Southern California. A few months later, his film teacher suggested:

"This classmate, you still go home, you don't fit in the film in my life. 」

Therefore, he became the director who had the greatest influence on the films in Taiwan Province Province.

He also created the pinnacle of China's films.

Yang Dechang won the Best Director Award at the 53rd Cannes Film Festival for his work One by One.

Miss Chen thinks that the world is often not so beautiful, but sometimes you don't have to listen.

He is a director with high energy and low yield.

He has only made eight feature films in his life, among which at least three are considered as the most important films in the film history of Taiwan Province Province: Brighter Summer, Independent Times and One by One.

Sunny summer days in Yang Dechang.

Zhang zhen still felt terrible when he was selected by Yang Dechang at the age of 12:

"Comma, period, exclamation point and question mark in his script can't be changed. 」

I'm telling you, you can't mess around in Yang Dechang's movies. He wants to read every word according to the script.

Even a punctuation mark can't be wrong. Not to mention doing something wrong. You'll die an ugly death.

The prototype of the news event of juvenile homicide

Brighter Summer tells how a good middle school student degenerates into a murderer step by step.

Zhang zhen, 12, could not act at that time.

So in some plays, Yang Dechang found an acting teacher to guide him, while in others, he tested his acting skills, while Yang Dechang used despicable means.

In this movie, there is a scene in which Zhang zhen witnessed a group fight between teenagers. On a rainy night, Wanhua gang wiped out 2 17.

Yang Dechang needs a plain expression of Zhang zhen's shock.

As soon as he arrived at the set that day, he scolded Zhang zhen for making excuses and threw him into a dark room for half an hour.

When "Zhang zhen" was released, all the lights of the camera were put away, so you can shoot when you turn on the camera.

Zhang zhen plays the man and the murderer Xiao Si in the film.

Look, that's the expression on it. Little Zhang zhen with a V-face.

Miss Chen covered her face and said to Yang Dao in the spirit of heaven: Uncle, ginger is still spicy for you to eat.

An extremely rigorous script.

Years later, Zhang zhen said that Yang Dechang was still shaking.

"It's terrible to play his play. He has a murderous look on the set. 」

Yang Dechang has been dissatisfied with the scene that Zhang zhen was knocked down by a classmate and hit a post.

Love the pillar for a second.

The reunion of Zhang zhen and Xiaoming after 25 years.

Yang Dechang is far more terrible than that.

Because his ideas are too new and his pace is too advanced, the film crew in Taiwan Province Province simply can't adapt to working with him.

Conflicts are inevitable between directors and various types of work. It is said that director Yang often gets angry on the set.

Yang Dechang smashed the walkie-talkie when he got angry.

Self-portrait of Yang Dechang

Finally, the producer couldn't bear it anymore and got the nerve to say:

"Yang guide! The walkie-talkie is expensive, you can throw something else ... "

That sucks! ! ! When Miss Chen was a TV producer, she met a director with a bad temper.

Miss Chen just bought a lot of teleprompters.

Brighter Summer, which lasts for four hours, is an epic masterpiece reflecting the martial law era in Taiwan Province Province.

However, Yang Dechang's creative habit is more terrible than his explosion on the set.

Someone once saw a whole wall in his house with all the relationships of Guling Street painted on it.

He writes books with computer programming thinking.

Others make movies to create characters, and he makes movies to create society.

If you want to create a prostitute in some director's plays, you only need to arrange a man to touch her face when the role appears, or let her fly to the camera, and she becomes a prostitute.

In Yang Dechang's movies, if a character is set as a prostitute, he can't pass it after touching it many times.

He must think clearly about this prostitute's past life, why she became a prostitute and where are her parents? Why don't neighbors care? ...

This is the master's attitude towards creation. Don't say anything.

The so-called new Taiwanese movies, "new" means taking a step forward, which is different from the past.

Yang Dechang, who was killed by an American film teacher with a club, has such ambitions.

For example.

The first scene of Brighter Summer is deviant.

At that time, no director in Taiwan Province Province would use this composition to shoot dialogue scenes.

One side of the dialogue character is blocked by the door frame, and only sound appears, but no face appears.

The composition got stuck in one of her legs.

This composition proved to be the perspective of the protagonist Zhang zhen in the next shot.

I-Chen Ko, director of Taiwan Province Province, accompanied Yang Dechang to attend the Italian Besaro Film Festival.

When the 3-hour version of Brighter Summer was released, I-Chen Ko was worried that foreigners could not understand the background and story of the martial law period in Taiwan Province Province.

Unexpectedly, after three hours of screening, the audience was silent. After the applause.

Art has no borders.

Ke Yizheng said that Yang Dechang wanted to film a girl's menarche when filming The Story of Time.

He did a field survey and seriously asked different girls in the cafe every day:

"How did you feel when you first came here? 」

I-Chen Ko collapsed.

All his stories and all his characters are based on facts.

He has to get through himself first.

This is a generation of grandmasters. They are stupid.

I-Chen Ko: "Yang Dechang is the director who has the greatest influence on movies in Taiwan Province Province."

When Yang Dechang's film was released, many people thought of it.

Why don't I find out what I want to shoot and shoot in my own way?

"I lived in his house for three months. He drew the whiteboard in half and put a pair on each side. 」

Heroes start businesses at low cost, and the movie revolution is the base camp.

We have been talking about stories and writing our thoughts on the whiteboard.

In three months, I wrote three and Yang Dechang wrote 18.

I-Chen Ko asked him, do you want to shoot childhood friends? He said Hou Xiaoxian was walking on the road, and then he got into the elevator. When the elevator arrived, the door opened and he was inside. The door closed and the door opened again. He went in, turned on the light and turned it off.

What the hell is he going to shoot?

The master is dead.

There are many unknown stories behind this face.

The movie world he built with programming thinking mode was left for later generations to decipher.

Brighter Summer (the first full version) was launched.

(A total of eight lectures)

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