The sun will also rise.

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Title: The sun also rises.

English name: The sun also rises.

Director: Jiang Wen

Screenwriter: Ping Shu

Starring: Chen Chong Zhou Yun

Cui Jian, Huang Qiusheng

Ytterbium Fang Zuming.

Type: feature film

Produced by: The Emperor's movies are so happy.

Issue: Poly Bona

Release date: September 2, 20071day

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[Summary]

1958 One day, Zhou Yun was pregnant, and she went to Xinjiang to find her volunteer husband. A woman traveling in the desert named Kong Wei, an overseas Chinese in Nanyang, went to marry her fiance Jiang Wen. Kong Wei walked alone in front of a monument engraved with the "finish line" in a continuous mountain range, and stopped to meet Jiang Wen. This is a very romantic scene. Then at a bonfire party, they got married, reveled, robbed the bride, and the man touched the woman's ass. This custom is very open.

What zhou yun saw was her husband's legacy, a military uniform with three holes, three Russian women's braids, and a package of love letters written by her husband and foreign women. Her husband died, but because of his lifestyle, he can't be a martyr. Zhou yun was very sad about her husband's death and his betrayal of her feelings, and she began to lose her mind. On the wedding day of Jiang Wen and Conway, zhou yun gave birth to a child on the railway. She took the children all the way to her husband's hometown and settled down.

In the next 20 years, Zhou Yun always lived in the ambivalence of remembering her husband and feeling betrayal and hatred, which was manifested in cutting out her husband's photos and later burning his letters. One day 20 years later, Zhou Yun walked away from her shoes because she met a bird, which completely induced her mental disorder. Yelling at trees or digging holes to build houses. But in fact, she is not really mentally ill. In a sense, this is a self-protection mechanism of the body, which can vent and alleviate the contradictory psychology that has been suppressed for 20 years. 1one day in the summer of 976, when she built a stone house, the ambivalence that had been suppressed for 20 years was released, and she finally got over it and returned to normal.

A person who has been depressed for 20 years finally got over it and got rid of her spirit, so her death was a natural choice. In fact, it doesn't matter whether she dies or not. At that moment, what people need is complete liberation.

Also in the summer of 1976, Jiang Wen worked as a teacher in a school. His wife Kong Wei separated from him, and he hooked up with Chen Chong in the school infirmary. Jiang Wen's colleague Huang Qiusheng is also an overseas Chinese in Nanyang. He is an honest and clean man with elegant manners. One night, an open-air movie was shown. He touched a female worker's ass in the school cafeteria. The woman worker admired him, but wanted to come and hug him. He was surprised and turned to run. At this time, someone shouted "catch a rogue" and chased him as a rogue. Huang Qiusheng escaped into Jiang Wen's room and jumped out of the window, crushing the love affair between Jiang Wen and Chen Chong. In order to avoid the exposure of adultery, Chen Chong tricked Huang Qiusheng into jumping off a building and broke his leg. He was illuminated by 42 flashlights, beaten by everyone and humiliated.

Finally, Huang Qiusheng was acquitted, but he committed suicide the next day. Why did he kill himself? When he was illuminated by 42 flashlights, beaten by others and betrayed by Chen Chong, this dignified man had no dignity like a dog. He didn't commit suicide because he didn't want to die in disgrace, so when his charges were cleared, he committed suicide with a smile.

1976 Autumn, the affair between Jiang Wen and Chen Chong was finally exposed, so Jiang Wen was sent to the village of Fang Zuming, the son of zhou yun. Jiang Wen snubbed his wife by hunting all day, and his wife, Kong Wei, was a romantic woman, so she hooked up with Fang Zuming. When Jiang Wen found out, he planned to kill Fang Zuming, because Fang Zuming said he had never seen velvet, so he ran to Beijing to ask Cui Jian for help. The fault that Cui Jian analyzed for him was not others, but himself. So Jiang Wen gave up this idea and went back to the village, ready to let Fang Zuming go and live a good life with his wife. On the other hand, simple Fang Zuming found velvet and used silly words to stimulate the dignity of men in Jiang Wen. Jiang Wen was very angry and shot Fang Zuming.

From an artistic point of view, the whole film is a masterpiece that has created a precedent. What the director wants to express is human nature in various repressive environments. Everyone lives in the social environment, the small living environment, and the primitive human nature shown by the repression of their loved ones.

[Film analysis]

Part I: Crazy

At the beginning, a pair of sexy women's feet took us into a foggy village. The houses in the village are covered with flowers and colorful animals, and the roads are white beaches.

Zhou yun had a dream of buying shoes. After buying shoes, she saw her truant son Fang Zuming. She simply asked him to drop out of school.

On the way home, zhou yun relieved himself under the tree. When he stood up, he found that the shoes hanging on the tree were gone ... zhou yun was crazy. ...

Since then, she has become the most charming witch in the world. She carried the sheep up the tree, talked to the cat, planed the tree and dug stones ... Everything in the house disappeared every day ... Her son Fang Zuming found that zhou yun had built a white house for him with stones on a beautiful island, and everything lost in his house was here ... The White House was decorated as his new home.

Finally, zhou yun disappeared, and only the shoes and clothes she bought floated on the river. ...

Part II: Love

In a university, Jiang Wen had an affair with Chen Chong, but Chen Chong had a crush on Huang Qiusheng, and Jiang Wen and Huang Qiusheng were good friends.

In the evening, the school showed a movie on the playground, and Huang Qiusheng was censored for "touching" a woman's ass. During the investigation, it was found that five women had been touched, and Chen Chong volunteered to find a rogue to "save" Huang Qiusheng. ...

Huang Qiusheng, who was injured by everyone, learned in the hospital that Chen Chong loved him. At the same time, Jiang Wen tried to prove Huang Qiusheng's innocence. Finally, Huang Qiusheng hanged himself on the water tower because of this incident of being touched on the ass. It's not ugly to die smiling. ...

Part III: Guns

Jiang Wen took the gun that Huang Qiusheng gave him and sent it to Wucun with his wife Kong Yishan. The day they arrived in the village was also the day when crazy mother zhou yun disappeared. Fang Zuming drove a tractor to pick them up. ...

Jiang Wen's job in the village was hunting. One night, Jiang Wen found that his wife had become Fang Zuming's prey. In the White House built by zhou yun for Fang Zuming, the lights are sultry ... Jiang Wen heard his wife say to Fang Zuming, "My husband says my stomach is like velvet." The next day, Jiang Wen pointed a gun at Fang Zuming's head on the edge of the paddy field, but Fang Zuming asked Jiang Wen "What is velvet antler?" ...

In order to make Fang Zuming understand this matter, Jiang Wen went to a distant village to look for velvet. However, Jiang Wen, who figured it out, didn't bring velvet back to the village, only to find that Fang Zuming found velvet and said, "Your wife's belly is nothing like velvet." Jiang Wen's shotgun rang. Fang Zuming fell down with a smile.

Part IV: Dreams

This is actually the beginning of the whole story. Xinjiang folk songs. The setting sun dyed the sky red. There are two women riding camels on the Gobi desert. Jiang Wen's wife is telling her love story with Jiang Wen when she was in Nanyang. The woman traveling with her covered her face with a piece of black gauze and listened silently all the way. She was pregnant with zhou yun in Fang Zuming.

The two parted at the fork in the road.

On the one hand, zhou yun came to a morgue without a corpse and spoke to a pile of relics of her man ... On the other hand, Jiang Wen held his future wife at the end of the horizon and said intoxicated, "Your belly is like velvet".

Jiang Wen held a woman in her arms and fired a shot into the air. This shot lit up the world, a warm song sounded, a bonfire was lit in a tent in the wild in the mountains, and a group of young people held a carnival wedding for the two. In the crowd singing and dancing, Huang Qiusheng was pushed around by the girls. He sometimes touches the naughty woman's ass, and the woman will make exaggerated cries. ...

A tent lit by fire rose into the sky, and the fire lit up a train. On the train, pregnant zhou yun gave birth to Fang Zuming in the middle of the tracks covered with wild flowers. A huge fire was floating in the air, illuminating Fang Zuming's smile at birth and Jiang Wen's wedding with his wife.

Behind the scenes story

A film reflecting on the meaning of life, The Sun Also Rises, is scheduled to be released in several major film markets in Hongkong, Mainland China and Southeast Asia on September 2 1 2007. For the fans who like the works directed by Jiang Wen, it can only be described as "looking through autumn waters", because Jiang Wen has not directed a film for seven years since he directed The Devil Comes.

14 years ago, Sunny Days, which he directed for the first time, not only achieved excellent box office results, but also made China films famous in several important international film festivals, and made Jiang Wen among the world's top brands. Director Jiang Wen's latest work The Sun Also Rises has attracted the attention of many international film festivals.

On July 15, Emperor Film held a grand press conference with Pauline Bona and formally signed a distribution agreement. At the same time, it also kicked off the publicity campaign of The Sun Also Rises, and the trailer of The Sun Also Rises made its debut, including a scene of Fang Zuming urinating naked on his ass. Chen Chong and Fang Zuming are both watching this trailer for the first time, and both of them are sitting on the stage and enjoying it quietly. Regarding The Sun Also Rises, Mr. Yu Dong, President of Poly Bona Film Distribution Company, said: "The Sun Also Rises has always been concerned by all parties in the Mainland, and I also know that director Jiang Wen has an unusual position in the eyes of mainland fans. In addition, "Sunny Days" set a total box office record of 50 million in the mainland more than ten years ago, with the audience exceeding100000. Based on this calculation, it is estimated that the mainland box office of The Sun Also Rises is expected to reach 400 million yuan, so I am full of confidence in this cooperation. " When the host asked that the director and two actors were the selling points of the film, Chen Chong said, "Fang Zuming's sex scene!" The whole audience was dumbfounded, and Zuming immediately laughed awkwardly. This is definitely not a selling point, because it is not a "selling point". How can it be a "selling point"?

When the host asked Chen Chong and Fang Zuming why they had different feelings about The Sun Also Rises, they found that they had never met during the filming for more than a year. Fang Zuming said: "Sister Chen Chong and I appeared in two different stories, so we didn't play opposite each other at all, so of course we have different feelings about this film. It's really a pity that I can't work with such a good actor. " As for Chen Chong, he is especially infatuated with Jiang Wen's persistence and rich fantasy in filming. "This cooperation can be said to be a long-term agreement. We always wanted to cooperate, but there was no chance. When Jiang Wen came to me, I didn't know what role I wanted to play, but I really wanted to cooperate with him and agreed. After reading the script, I have no idea why Jiang Wen asked me to play the role of thirteen o'clock, because it's nothing like me. But the power of the director lies in the potential that the actors themselves can't see. " For unforgettable things, Chen Chong said that Jiang Wen's insistence on the costume modeling in the film made her admire very much. "The director will pay great attention to the shape of the button and whether the collar is round or square. Once, he even asked me what kind of bra I should wear to be attractive. It is very careful. " The Sun Also Rises was jointly produced by the Emperor, Taihe and Joy, and was written, directed and performed by Jiang Wen. In view of "the beautiful epic style of the film, the extraordinary suspense charm of the story and the unique creativity of Jiang Wen", Hong Kong "Emperor" plans to launch the global release of this mysterious film with high profile, which also means that Jiang Wen will spend tens of millions of dollars and will last for a long time. For the box office of The Sun Also Rises, the producers expressed infinite expectations. I hope "The Sun Also Rises" has a box office of over 100 million yuan, and I hope fans all over the world can see this movie.

Oriental culture weekly [film review]

At Jiang Wen's level, most people hold firm expectations for his new film. However, this new film is completely different from Jiang Wen's previous films. Many people think music and pictures are good, but many paragraphs are incomprehensible. Nanjing xinjiekou Studios even launched three times 120 yuan to watch The Sun Also Rises. This is indeed a fact, because The Sun Also Rises itself is not an entertainment feast for everyone. Jiang Wen put too much information, saturated emotion and overflowing space into this work, and it is very westernized in structure and rhythm, so that the film forms a layered understanding texture, and you can see which layer is your own understanding. In this regard, Jiang Wen laughed at himself: "Movies are only good-looking or not, but they can't be understood without understanding. My movie is wine, not three meals. People who are used to eating may not like drinking. " The friend who had dinner with him told me that he cared too much about his life. This is a hard, overbearing or narcissistic Jiang Wen. His arrogance, delicacy and sincerity are all shown in this new work. Unfortunately, not everyone can understand.

In China, Jiang Wen's status and reputation are like Marlon Brando in the west. This part refers to his temper and his toughness. Simply put, Jiang Wen is a "person". Secondly, part of it refers to his talent in movies. From the youthful agitation in Sunny Days to the national fanaticism in Here comes the Devil, Jiang Wen's films always make the audience respect. After seven years of silence, Jiang Wen finally "the sun rises as usual".

Although disappointed with Venice, this work has set off a climax in China. Because of the excellent quality of the film itself, the producer invested 650 copies, which is the highest record this year. In addition, the rest of the whole September schedule are some dirty imported films. "The Sun Also Rises" is released in this gap where there are almost no competitors, and it is very promising to set a box office record for domestic films this year. In addition to these external factors, the version of The Sun Also Rises in the cinema is subtitled in Chinese and English, and the version shown in the mainland is exactly the same as that shown in Venice, which should be good news for fans who have been "hurt" repeatedly.

"The Sun Also Rises" is neither a legendary love story nor a "cultural revolution theme" speculated by people. The script of this film originated from the short story Velvet by the female writer Ye Mi, but the film completely got rid of the time and space limitation of the novel. In fact, Jiang Wen told a story that happened in China and may belong to the whole world. He used four stories that were both independent and full of suspense to freeze people's desires and destinies, and created a puzzle that transcended region and time. Peggy Chiao, a famous film critic in Taiwan Province, said: "This film has a lot of fun to decrypt, almost as complicated as The Da Vinci Code. Once the key is found, it is very clear and shocking. " Therefore, trying to analyze this film from the four paragraphs of the plot and the relationship between the characters will ruin your expectation of going to the movies, and may be trapped in the scattered time and space woven by Jiang Wen. Why don't you jump out and talk about the key points in The Sun Also Rises that can help you get rid of the fog, find the key and be suddenly enlightened.

The Origin of Movie Titles and the Motivation of Dreams

The Sun Also Rises has nothing to do with Hemingway's novel of the same name. The name comes from the Bible: "One generation comes and one generation goes, the earth will last forever, the sun will rise as usual, the sun will set as usual, and the sun will rise as usual." Jiang Wen greatly revised the novel and divided it into four independent and complete paragraphs, telling a story that happened from 1950s to 1970s. Among them, the story of Jiang Wen and Kong Rong is a story, the story of Kong Rong and Fang Zuming is a story, the story of zhou yun and Fang Zuming is a story, and the story of Chen Chong and Huang Qiusheng is a story, but this is not an absolute division, and the rest of the characters will also play a vital role in other paragraphs.

Ye Mi's original novel Velvet is very short, which is not a movie at all, but it has very attractive and exciting inspiration. After Jiang Wen's re-creation, the work became a dream, a dream that belongs to Jiang Wen's memory. Many good movies come from dreams. This dream does not necessarily refer to sleeping in bed, but many dreams of people. Thus, The Sun Also Rises seems to have happened in ancient times or in the future, or in another world. There, Shangri-La-style natural scenery and supernatural dreamland blend together, romantic hero and heroine are both natural and detached, and the end of the world may stand on the Gobi in Xinjiang. This is a film that reflects various extreme realms of human desires. It also has a dreamy color that stirs people's hearts, a imaginative genius and an interesting curiosity. Jiang Wen's expression in The Sun is free, and he even tore up the time, so the storytelling method has a very special new aesthetic value. When you enter the movie world, you won't get out for a long time.

Body close-ups and a desire for language

There are too many erotic hints and puns in The Sun Also Rises, which were rarely mentioned in Jiang Wen's previous two films. Maybe he was only 30 years old when he filmed Sunny, which was the strongest period in his memory, so he was very young. At the age of 35, when he filmed The Devil Comes, he traced back to the story of the previous generation, but in any state of joys and sorrows, he was full of blood and passion. Today, The Sun Also Rises is the most fascinating part of his mind. Jiang Wen himself said, "This movie is a world that lingers in my mind for a long time. I always feel that I didn't shoot this film, because this thing already exists, and I just dust it off. " The attraction of The Sun Also Rises is that some absurd whispers, some nonsense stories and some surreal poems are set off by the smoke of music and the fire of desire, echoing in a mysterious and somewhat depressed huge space. So its subtext is not difficult, and it is enough for anyone who can understand Chinese.

At the beginning of the film, a pair of sexy women's feet occupied the picture. During her running, these beautiful feet, like a camera, took pictures of clean red land, misty villages, roofs full of flowers, colorful animals, silky rivers and other scenery. This is Zhou Yun's foot, which is the opening theme of enjoying women's interest in Almodovar style. Later, when investigating Who Touched the Ass, Chen Chong, dressed in a white nurse's costume, pursed her ass, her eyes filled with the breath of spring, and several invisible hands touched her ass through a layer of cloth, which was sultry and poetic, making us a little nervous. After that, I entered the key paragraph of the film-Kong Wei's skin-velvet skin, but there was no close-up of her body, and all my desires lingered in the text, which was obscure and full of suspense. Later, many reporters asked Kong Wei how her skin was. Finally, there is zhou yun's belly, which is the source of the whole story. We can feel crazy. That kind of madness is not rude madness, but a vulgar dream of running away from reality.

Extreme props and instinctive needs

Jiang Wen once said: "My directors basically lose money." "The Sun Also Rises" was jointly produced by the Emperor, Taihe and Joy. In view of "the beautiful epic style of the film, the extraordinary suspense charm of the story, and the unique creativity of Jiang Wen", it also means that Jiang Wen spent a year shooting in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the border of Yunnan, the Gobi Desert in the northwest, and spent tens of millions of dollars back and forth. With such a huge investment, we saw a Shangri-La village, a Nanyang school and a colorful Gobi in Xinjiang.

In the movie, Jiang Wen spent more money making a pair of embroidered shoes than a car. In order to make clothes and shoes float perfectly on the river, he also designed pulleys. Hundreds of birds and animals were used, dozens of boxes of ammunition were consumed, hundreds of tents were burned, and dozens of tons of pebbles and red soil were transported to the site from thousands of miles away. In order to create a gale effect, they even invited an air force plane to fly at low altitude in the valley. Moreover, the crew spent nine cities assembling a train. At the end of the film, the train looks like a spell, which is the strongest point of the "dream" part. Its sound is earth-shattering, which makes your heart beat faster, and pure smoke gushes out, which instantly wakes up the dreamer.

Jiang Wen's demanding and overbearing character is reflected in the meticulous details of the film. The shock brought by props and gadgets throughout the plot is lasting and thrilling, and it also has the same addictive effect as LSD. Jiang Wen never shies away or hides people's instinctive reactions. In sunny days, all Ma Xiaojun's behaviors are actually driven by teenagers' instinct. In "The Devil Comes", Jiang Wen magnified people's instinct driven by instinct to the extreme, almost to the point of cruelty, which made people feel fear and shame; The characters in The Sun Also Rises are still driven by instinct. Jiang Wen said: "This is not touching the ass, this is touching the ass!" Full of instinctive wildness and impulsiveness, it makes people excited.

The magic of music and the tension of photography

Whether you understand this film or not, there is no denying that Jiang Wen refined the beauty of music and photography to the extreme in this work. The author of "Music" is Joe Hisaishi, and this name has established a master position in the global film industry. He is not only Miyazaki Hayao's music spokesman, but also Kitano Takeshi's golden partner. The cooperation with Jiang Wen was firstly because Joe Hisaishi was deeply attracted by the fantastic color and romantic spirit of the film, so he spent several months in it. In Joe Hisaishi's words, "all music has no language, but is a humming melody, full of fantastic amorous feelings. The overall style is as ethereal as the picture of Tianshan Mountain, which sounds like an emotion penetrating the bottom of my heart. " In fact, anyone who has seen this film will be deeply impressed by the use of three kinds of music: the exotic singing at the beginning, Huang Qiusheng's guitar playing "Soro River" and the bustling carnival at the end of the film.

On the one hand, music is burning, and on the other hand, photography is gorgeous. This film uses three famous photographers as never before: Zhao Fei, Li Pingbin and Yang Tao. The most impressive picture of Zhao Fei's first film "Crazy" was that several pairs of embroidered shoes hung on a tree like fish. The background sky is almost transparent, and everything seems to hover between breaths, hiding power in extreme silence. Later, Zhao Fei left because he had no money. Du Kefeng promised to be a good person, but invited Li Pingbin, the royal photographer of Hou Xiaoxian, because the schedule didn't come. It is because of him that the fourth paragraph is so dazzling in the desert. This is a specialty of Li Pingbin. He can shoot the feeling of 100% sunshine with one-third lighting equipment.

Absurd revelry and magical banter

Magic realism is the focus of Jiang Wen, and its essence is the ending: many friends dance around the bonfire, a tent lit by fire rises to the sky, and the fire illuminates a train. On that train, mother suddenly found that she had a son. The train stopped, and the baby lay in the gorgeous flowers and plants, safe and sound, without blood stains or the pain of the mother of obstetrics and gynecology. His smile lit up the rising sun. There are many sudden plot obstacles and emotional jumps in the film that can be explained by magical realism. However, many people haven't thought deeply enough to define Jiang Wen as a "madman". In fact, as far as magical realism is concerned, Jiang Wen is neither a real creator nor the most authentic trader. I believe that the magical realistic literary works in South America and European art films have greatly inspired him. Therefore, for the audience, we might as well learn about the classic works of magical realism, such as the films of Castro Ricca and Ferini, and the novels of Marquez.

Marquez's novels are a world full of magic and revelry. Although it is full of fiction, it can still attract every reader into an imaginative fantasy. Kusturica's film temperament is closer to Jiang Wen at the moment-there is a deeper melancholy soul buried under the wildness. In Kusturica's Underground, he described the history of the Yugoslav war in an almost incredible comedy way. In the film, jokes, banter, ridicule and ridicule are everywhere. Finally, all the dead people were reunited at the wedding. No matter what their cause of death is, what grievances and wrongs they have, they all seem to be forgiven and redeemed in an instant, and people are in a picturesque wilderness. How similar this scene is to that of Jiang Wen. Tracing back to the source, Ferini is also the representative of the polyphonic poetics of "irrationalism" and "carnival" in Italian films. In the 1960s, he focused on the emptiness and absurdity of the soul. Jiang Wen, like Ferini, can be wide-eyed and eccentric, but the theme of redemption has never changed after the indulgence of human nature.