The characters created by Jiang Wen in furong town, Red Sorghum, Beijingers in new york and other film and television works all reflect his strong personal characteristics, showing his arrogance and aggression in his bones, and almost every character has become a classic. It can be said that before Jiang Wen became a director, his strength and bloodiness as a man have been fully demonstrated in film and television works. Jiang Wen, the "actor", has long been recognized by the audience.
Sunny Days is the first film directed by Jiang Wen. The film was a great success. After its release, it gained unexpected recognition and became a recognized classic. But compared with the success of the film, what is more important for Jiang Wen is the audience's recognition of his directing talent ... Everyone really didn't expect Jiang Wen's first shot to be so loud.
After the release of the movie "Let Bullets Fly", the professionals in the workshop and the industry formed a unified "voice"-Jiang Wen's director level finally synchronized with his acting skills. "Let Bullets Fly" opened the eyes of the audience at that time, and it was also the perfect fusion of Jiang Wen's "personality" and commercialization. The success of Let the Bullets Fly undoubtedly made Jiang Wen's "director-level aura" even bigger.
Unexpectedly, the film One Step Away directed by Jiang Wen fell into an unprecedented tide of bad reviews, which formed an incredible contrast with Let the Bullets Fly ... The audience affirmed Jiang Wen's talent and pointed to his "narcissism".
Generally speaking, Jiang Wen's works in recent years are few and not productive at all. However, his unique expression of the film and strict self-persistence left a deep impression on the audience, and his "Excellence" is obvious to all.
Jiang Wen and his films are a unique existence for China film and television industry, and this uniqueness comes from his personal stylization and powerful influence. In his childhood, in his military life, he came into contact with movies and was very interested in this art form. With his obsession with movies and performances, Jiang Wen overcame many difficulties and was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, from which he embarked on the road of interpretation that he loved.
In furong town, an intellectual who had no choice but to be sent to sweep the streets, Ma Wang, a policeman who lost his gun in Looking for a Gun, and Li Huiquan Jiang Wen, a nobody who died in the tide of the times in Animal Year, have created classic screen images one after another by virtue of their unique and exquisite deductive level, and become one of the most influential actors in China film history.
As an actor, Jiang Wen is undoubtedly very successful. However, Jiang Wen's pursuit of movies does not stop there. With full enthusiasm and strong desire for expression, he directed his first film Sunny Days from 65438 to 0995. As soon as Sunny Days appeared, it caused a sensation in the film industry, set the highest box office in China at that time, won the Best Actor Award at the 5 1 Venice International Film Festival and other domestic and international awards, and was incorporated into one of the top ten films of Time magazine in the United States. Later, he created many high-quality films, such as The Sun Also Rises, Let Bullets Fly, One Step Away and so on, which established Jiang Wen's position as a director in China film industry.
As a director, Jiang Wen's films are also very stylized and personalized. His films often show imaginative writing of personal experiences and pay more attention to subjective and emotional expression. So the audience you like may never get tired of watching it, and the audience you don't like may yell and don't understand. Objectively speaking, the sensational effect brought by Jiang Wen's films proves the powerful influence of Jiang Wen's films to a great extent, which is of great significance to the development of China's films and even the world's films.
Famous director
Jiang Wen once said that impression is not equal to accuracy, it is far above accuracy.
Capricorn, he is an actor first. An actor with great personal charm, he knows how to control, has strong atmosphere, lines and skills, and his performance is also very brilliant.
As a director, he is masculine and has straight male cancer. He is rational, intelligent, despises authority and deconstructs history and times. He can shoot the perspective of the devil's arrival, and he can also shoot the evil spirit that makes the bullet fly.
Watching Jiang Wen's movies is hearty and metaphorical, which hides his ambition. Sometimes he is so careless that he takes out all the clever things and forgets to exercise restraint. This is a disadvantage.
However, his extraordinary leadership temperament made China's classic Sunny Day a success. Jiang Wen is an actor. He knows how to perform. This is very convenient for him to communicate with the actors, and he can show them when talking about the play.
Xiaogang Feng once said that Jiang Wen told him that movies should be wine, even if there is only one mouthful, but it must be wine. You took grapes, fresh grapes, and even frosted grapes, but you didn't turn them into wine. At first it was grapes, but it was still grapes.
In fact, this sentence also represents the essence of Jiang Wen's films. He is not straightforward. He is not as eager to tell you things as Xiaogang Feng is. He is eager to make your money. Unlike Zhang Yimou, I don't put the visual images directly, and tell you the importance of photography and pictures to movies with colorful colors.
Proud Jiang Wen deconstructs the world with his own understanding. He admitted the misunderstanding and felt that the whole world was a misunderstanding. This tolerance is hard to see in Zhang Yimou, Xiaogang Feng and Chen Kaige. This is Jiang Wen's advantage.
Jiang Wen once said that impression is not equal to accuracy. It is far above accuracy. Only when it is accurate enough can a correct subjective impression be established. Without this precision, imagination and feeling are worthless. That friend doesn't even know what a happy Buddha is, so he says he believes in Buddhism. Isn't this interesting? Details determine success or failure.
Although the film is an art of "instant vision", it is also "small things can't be casually". When making Titanic in 3D, Ka Shen paid special attention to details. Although the story of the 3D version of Titanic is almost exactly the same as that of the first version, there is a small change that deserves praise: a guy named Neil Degraces (an astronomer) emailed Cameron, saying that there was a major mistake in the film, and he always made him scratch his paws while watching it-at the end of the film, Ruth lay on a driftwood and looked up at the night sky.
"In fact, at 4: 20 am on April 6, when the Titanic sank 19 12, there was no star field at all." Degrees' correction hit the nail on the head of the "perfectionist" Cameron. Of course, he flew into a rage-the bugs in the past can be ignored in an instant!
But the card god is the card god, and he immediately wrote back and said, "You son of a bitch X can send me the correct sky map, and I will make a 3D version." Neil really made it, and the card god really did it. People who are interested in eating melons may wish to confirm this detail and see what is the difference between the two versions of the sky map.
Coincidentally. As heroes think, so thought Bruce. In Thirteen Invitations, Jiang Wen pointed to a map of Peiping in the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938) drawn by a Japanese, and introduced the permanent population and per capita density of Peiping at that time. He said that in his upcoming new work "Evil Doesn't Suppress Righteousness", there won't be crowds jostling with each other, and those scattered vendors won't be screaming down the street-"That kind of shooting is only in line with the imagination of contemporary people, neither in line with historical truth nor with real life."
If you can do a good job, how can you not get the initial sense of the times? From this point of view, it should be understandable to issue a model worker certificate to Jiang. Ginger, old or "warm" and spicy? The answer is self-evident.
Learning to be excellent is an official, and doing well is an official. A mature director is not necessarily an excellent actor, such as the famous director Zhang Yimou. Everyone agrees with his works, but he is far from being an excellent actor. Jiang Wen is different. He has never studied directing. He went to college in Chinese opera, not in North Film. It can be said that acting is his specialty. Jiang Wen, who has not been trained, has a kind of pride and domineering that ordinary people don't have. As an actor, he is unique. As a director, he has his unique style and temperament. Someone once asked Jiang Wen such a question: Who is your favorite director? He blurted out without thinking: me. In that frivolous era, I was really crazy, without any modesty and taboos. The audience who have seen the films directed by Jiang Wen should know that he is a thoughtful director, a whimsical genius, and also a willful genius, such as Sunny Days, Devil Comes, and Let the Bullets Fly ... Some of his films have failed, and some have failed, but he is not sharp or enlightened. I like one of his articles, "Middle Age on Dog Day" very much. Its language style is unique to Jiang Wen. It is humorous and full of criticism of reality. It's so profound, so real and so classic. He said that without hobbies, time will be boring, without interest, life will be tasteless, life is not a race, reaching the finish line with the fastest speed, ignoring the scenery and applause all the way, which is not middle age.
Jiang Wen is a director who is good at acting. There are two most famous directors in China, one is Zhang Yimou and the other is Jiang Wen. When two people collaborated on Zhang Yimou Virgo's Red Sorghum, there were many disputes on the set. It is such a controversy that I didn't expect the Berlin Film Festival to win the Golden Bear Award. Later, Zhang Yimou recalled that Jiang Wen had many ideas and suggestions at the scene, and he certainly wanted to be a director, and then it was sunny.
A director with a strong desire for control In our country where the film industry is extremely developed, the director has a strong desire for control and is responsible for the film.
Hollywood directors only do their jobs well because of their high level of development and mature assembly line operation; And our director should not only be a good director, but also take into account scriptwriting, overall planning, production, props, clothing and a series of things.
Jiang Wen should learn to control himself and his overflowing talents. Movies should find a balance between artistry and commerciality. For example, his favorite movie "The Sun" didn't achieve the success he thought in business, and he wouldn't admit it, but the movie did fall on the street. In our country, where the art cinema is not perfect, the development of movies is still in its infancy, and most of the income depends on box office, it is very important for movies to get a good box office.
Sunny Days received rave reviews and sold well.
"The Devil Comes" was banned;
"The Sun Also Rises" was criticized for mystifying, and the box office threw itself on the street;
"Let the Bullets Fly" received rave reviews and the box office was red;
"One step away" box office is average;
Without a good box office, public opinion will drown out movies and our few talented people. Although he is a director deeply loved by ordinary audiences, fans, intellectuals and officials, the result of being too impatient may be a bleak box office.
Why do I care so much about the box office of Jiang Wen movies? Because the word Jiang Wen means to stand up and earn money, it means that his genius can be realized, and it means that we can concentrate on our creation in a few days and bring us better works.
Our geniuses, such as Peisi Chen and Pu Shu, are unwilling to do things for the sake of art.
I feel that I am brilliant, have my own views on life, and are unconventional in film shooting techniques. "Let the Bullets Fly" can become a classic among the classics, with a compact plot. There is still a difference between the director and the trained director. Accustomed to the unchanging narrative mode, watching the films directed by him suddenly feels novel, but the level fluctuates. I belong to a cutting-edge director with aura and ideas, and look forward to new works.
In China, if you trust the director most when you go to the cinema, it is Jiang Wen, whose works are few, but it is the most controversial step. 1995 sunny day, the devil came in 2000, the sun rose as usual in 2007, and the bullets flew at 20 10.
The period of each work is as short as 4 years and as long as 7 years. In such a society of power and money, Zhang Yimou and Xiaogang Feng are caught in the torrent of "circling money" movies, while Jiang Wen is still making his own movies with his heart. Don't you think his movies are very distinctive, interesting and have his own movie characteristics?
Anyone familiar with Jiang Wen knows that he is not a director, but an actor turned director. 1984 Chinese opera was assigned to the theater after graduation, and began to move to the screen one year later. Two years later, at the age of 24, he won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor, with many works, the most famous of which is Red Sorghum.
The prize won by the scarlet letter on the poster
1 1 years later, Jiang Wen's 32-year-old first directorial work, Sunny Days, completely established Jiang Wen's unique position as a talented director. The "youth" described in this film is too real, dissolute life, fantasy of the opposite sex, quiet and beautiful!
The first work won the best director in Hundred Flowers Award, including actor, screenwriter, photographer and editor,1* *11award, 8 awards and 3 nominations.
I won't talk about the later works. Someone commented that he said
"The unique Jiang Wen deserves the highest expectation of China fans" and "As long as there are films in which he plays, he will be endowed with his own temperament and integrated into his soul".
Jiang Wen, born in 1964, is 54 years old. His next work, Evil Doesn't Suppress Righteousness, is adapted from the martial arts novel Xia Yin and is scheduled to be released this summer, starring Jiang Wen, Eddie Peng Yuyan Swift, Liao Fan, Zhou Yun and Summer Xu. This film is also the last chapter of Jiang Wen's Republic of China trilogy.
Guess who is the character in the poster ~
I just watched the trailer and can't wait to see the feature film. Looking forward to it ~ ~ ~
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Jiang Wen's film talent is for people to see. As the most prestigious film director in China, Jiang Wen's contribution to China's films cannot be ignored. Everyone knows this, so I won't go into details.
I'll show you another side of Jiang Wen with another detail. I don't think movies can represent Jiang Wen's talent. I used the collected letters that Jiang Wen wrote to Chow Yun Fat and Ge You when he invited them to see the other side of Jiang Wen's talent. Each letter is only a few hundred words, but every word is "fateful". I'm afraid many professional writers can't write such a beautiful article. It is no exaggeration to say that Jiang Wen is a writer who is delayed by the film director.
In life, Jiang Wen still loves listening to classical music and writing short articles.
In today's era when the Internet is developed and efficiency is pursued, Jiang Wen chose to write to Chow Yun Fat and Ge You and invited them to star in Let the Bullets Fly.
You can try these two letters. First, they are addressed to Fage. Let me give you a brief summary:
Brother Fage, I have a great script and set up a big stage for you. You will shine on this stage! Then he boasted that Fage had Cao Cao's heroic spirit and Zhou Yu's heroic spirit. Finally, he stressed that everything was ready, except that Brother Fafa was "in debt".
Brother Fage was also very funny, saying that he cried after reading it. Also, who doesn't cry when reading such a affectionate letter?
In his letter to Ge You, Jiang Wen even used the "honey trap".
In addition to the consistent "awesome script and other awesome you", other sincerity is in this letter.
Look at these two short-lived letters. Their words are sincere, their language is beautiful, and they are humorous without losing depth. We can get a glimpse of Jiang Wen's knowledge.
As he himself said, "I am everything except a vulgar person."
This is Jiang Wen, a poet director with a strong black sense of humor.
Successful career, both actors and directors, are standing at the top of the pyramid.
In life, the heart is bright, casual ruffians and delicate poets coexist, and they are loved by peers, superstars, masses and officials.
We don't need to comment too much on such an alternative contradictory and talented person.