There are innovations and breakthroughs, and theme movies can be so beautiful!
Special feature of 1905 film network When it comes to theme movies, some people’s impressions are still stuck in the rigid and faceless tradition. However, it was released on August 1st Army Day in 2019 and adapted from real historical events, but it won the recognition of ordinary young audiences.
"The red theme can also be very beautiful, and the movie has a super-fast pace, which is particularly burning in one breath", "This kind of red movie has historical value and educational function, and I hope the patriotic spirit and mind of our ancestors can continue", and "As the successors of the new China, people who have never forgotten to dig wells can come to the cinema to feel the heroic deeds of great men and see what beliefs they had when they were young, so as to change the whole era" … …
From the audience’s comments, it is not difficult to find everyone’s love for this film. "Gutian bugle" scored as high as 9.5 points in the cat’s eye, ranking among the best in summer files.
Seven days after the painting of Gutian bugle, a film of the same type with creative inspiration and material based on reportage of the same name was released. This film and television work based on American journalist Si Nuo’s own experience has also attracted the attention of many original book fans and ordinary audiences.
In terms of artistic creation, both works are based on respecting history and public cognition, and strive to explore more possibilities of theme movies. The film is remarkable in story structure, characterization and lens language. The well-meaning and advancing with the times of the creative team make the viewers feel refreshed.
The real power can move the audience most.
With the rapid development of China’s film market, the domestic audience’s concept of watching movies has gradually matured. At present, the audience has a complete evaluation system for the quality of film and television works.
They don’t have an innate prejudice about the film type, but they are demanding on the quality of the content. Any suspended film and television works without realistic foundation will be ruthlessly eliminated by the market.
How to reproduce the real life of the revolutionary ancestors and show the characters’ personality traits in ordinary life has become the primary problem faced by Chen Li, the director of Gutian bugle.
In order to restore the little-known history before the Gutian Conference in 1929, director Chen Li went deep into the life of the old revolutionary base area with his creative team for many times, and comprehensively excavated the creative materials closely related to the film.
The creative team interviewed a large number of people, including a Mao Zedong student who is now 101 years old. In the aspect of excavating the historical truth, Gutian bugle is very important. Hard work pays off, and the film has been affirmed by the audience.
"Very touching, good, very real", "quite good, with tears" and "the details are touching" … … Most of the audience’s comments are based on the realism of the film from the inside out.
The dialogue of the characters in the film not only conforms to the social environment at that time, but also directly touches the emotional depths of the audience. For example, in the scene where Chairman Mao teaches children from poor families to read, he asks: Do you know what a "person" is? A child replied: the landlord is human, mother said we are cattle and horses, and grandma said we are not as good as cattle and horses.
Many viewers were red-eyed when they saw this paragraph in the film. I am glad that I was born in the great motherland, and I feel helpless for the bottom people before liberation.
In the macro war scene, the film used more than 8,000 troops, and the post-production took more than 8 months. Although the proportion of such war scenes in the film is not too high, the audio-visual quality in the battlefield environment has reached a high level. "Gutian bugle" evokes people’s respect for the eventful years with its initial heart, and more young people’s patriotic enthusiasm is also awakened.
Similarly, "Red Star Shines on China" impressed the audience with truth. In the public opinion at that time, the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s image was "demonized" by the media with ulterior motives such as the West. In 1936, American journalist edgar snow risked his life and made a long journey into the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, trying to find the truth.
At that time, after Si Nuo’s report was published in the newspaper, it changed the prejudice of the international community to a considerable extent. In this reportage, the author witnessed the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants with his own eyes, and decided that they were the future of China.
"This is not a timely work, but it is something that flows from my heart." Director Jixing Wang was so impressed in an interview. He hopes that he can portray it with the heavy feeling of real history and rigorous details, and guide the contemporary young people to find the backbone of the national spirit.
The two works have been released successively, and they have touched many audiences with the same effect. For the audience, among the entertainment-oriented film and television works in the summer, these two more thoughtful works also give them more choices to watch movies.
Creation injects more humanity, and the theme film enters people’s hearts.
With the popularity and box office Qi Fei, the main theme movies, which were not favored by the market, became popular and had a good audience.
From the fringe to the mainstream, how does the current film that promotes the main theme do this?
Structural innovation, injecting humanity and truth into the story at the same time, is an important internal reason why such works can be recognized by the audience. The protagonists are no longer Gao Daquan’s characters, but they are grounded in personality, from which viewers can smell the reality of life.
Gutian bugle begins with flashback, and from the perspective of a Red Army trumpeter, it interprets the unknown side of key figures in real historical events.
This third-vision story-telling method also exists in The Red Star Shines on China. From the bystander’s point of view, observing the protagonist’s words and deeds with an objective attitude makes the work more authentic.
In Gutian bugle, the film is full of flesh and blood in shaping young revolutionary leaders. When there are differences in major decisions, Mao Zedong and Zhu De will also have a bitter quarrel on the issue of principle, or even "run away in anger". But he didn’t go far, and always cared about revolutionary work. After realizing his mistake, Zhu De will also put down his face and ask Mao Zedong to take back the overall situation.
Chen Yi is the adhesive of the two, and makes contributions to the maintenance of team unity. Although Liu Angong had some dogmatism, it did not prevent him from throwing his head and blood for the revolutionary cause.
The Red Star Shines on China unfolds the whole story from the perspective of a western journalist. The plot arrangement is tense and orderly, the scene is big and the creative ending is even more memorable. It is reported that the film’s main creation has been shot in Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanghai and Beijing, striving to present the northwest scenery and southern customs perfectly.
In an interview with the media, director Jixing Wang said: "In the past, we were worried that young people with historical themes would not be interested and would not enter the cinema after hearing this name. But I think, instead of going to see some bad movies, it is better to walk into the cinema and learn about national history and national history. "
At present, this film has achieved a good result of 8.7 points on the cat’s eye platform. From the comments, we can see the recognition of the young audience for this film.
"There is no bad type, only bad content." This sentence, which is circulated in the film and television circles, is also the golden rule for the development of China’s main melody film and even the whole film industry.
With the continuous efforts and innovations of filmmakers, the creative spring of main melody film and television works has quietly arrived.
At present, cinemas all over the country have launched outstanding new film screening activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China (PRC). Apart from Gutian bugle and Red Star over China, which are being shown nationwide, many other main melody films that are highly anticipated by the audience are about to meet with you. Let’s wait and see.