Bazin's Father of the New Wave

After World War II, the core of the French film industry is the French Film Archive, which is a sacred place for countless fans. The French government provided a small screening room for the French Film Archive, with some staff and a small amount of funds. Many famous French filmmakers in the forties and fifties often gather in the archives to watch and discuss, and countless senior directors and future new wave directors participate in it. Orphans who used to sleep on the street and in the wind have also become juvenile offenders because of theft. Fran?ois Truffaut, who was finally adopted by film theorist and film critic Bazin, and Jean-Luc Gueudar, who worked as a coolie on the dam site, are both movie fans. Both of them love watching movies in the French Film Archive, and they both converted to the film manual and eventually became the "film manual".

From 65438 to 0950, film theorist and critic Bazin founded the Film Handbook. Bazin has always maintained a strong fighter posture in the post-war French film theory circle. He criticized post-war French films for focusing only on glitz and commerce, relying on big productions and stars to make profits, and advocated young filmmakers to shoot realistic works that face life and are unpretentious. This laid the foundation for the publication of the Film Handbook, and Bazin himself is undoubtedly known as the "father of the new wave". Bazin was born in 19 18 and died in 1958. Although he didn't see the new film movement with his own eyes, his theory created a "new wave"; He wrote many film reviews and made the first sound of "New Wave" movies. Bazin's theory caused a sensation in the West in 1950s, and impacted the orthodox "montage" theory. Bazin's theory is mainly manifested in two aspects: First, "the film is the asymptote of reality". In the ontology of photographic images, Bazin put forward the aesthetic principle that "the aesthetic feature of photography is that it can reveal the truth". He said: "the camera lens has got rid of the old prejudice and removed the mental rust spots covered by our feelings on objects." Only this kind of cold-eyed lens can make the world give me a pure face and attract my attention, thus causing my attachment. " The original feature of film art-the feature of documentary. It is closer to life and reality than any art. Bazin's "film is the asymptotic line of reality" is called the slogan of "realism". Second, the scene scheduling theory. Bazin hopes that filmmakers will realize the original power inherent in the film itself. He thinks that it needs artistic skills to explain and clarify meaning, but it also needs artistic skills to show meaning through unadorned pictures. Scene scheduling theory is also called "depth of field shot" theory or "long shot" theory. "Scene scheduling" is the most valued and proud innovation of "New Wave" directors. In "Tired", Godard used the lens movement of a long lens without any dazzle, and skillfully combined it with montage editing.

The film handbook is not only the birthplace of the "new wave", but also a spiritual fortress, which has won a group of "new wave" elites. Jean-Luc Godard, Fran?ois Truffaut, eric rohmer, claude Chabrol and jacques rivette are the main players. They are called the five Iliad of the film handbook. On the one hand, they follow Bazin's film theory by writing film reviews, on the other hand, they practice their own theory by shooting short films and strive for the recognition of new films.

"Author's Theory" is another important slogan of directors of "Film Manual" school. In the view of Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol and others, the director should be the author of film works, while a series of works by the same director require a unified style. The core of the "author theory" is anti-tradition, so the "quality film" in French society at that time was first criticized. In their view, relying on huge investment, guaranteed stars, production system based on director qualification, extensive use of artificial means such as scenery, attractive storyline and long film production cycle is no different from Hollywood in production. The "New Wave" puts forward: "The important thing in making a movie is not to shoot, but to be the producer of the movie." Godard shouted: "Making a movie is writing". Truffaut declared: "We should shoot another thing in a different spirit. We should give up the expensive studio ... and shoot it in the street, even in a real house ...". When they got their own cameras, they used a completely different production method from "quality movies". Therefore, people say: "The new wave is first of all a revolution in production technology and mode", which has dealt a heavy blow to the Hollywood-style "quality movies" in France.