Chapter 153 A Monkey's Road Against Heaven
As the finale of the year for celebrity film companies, the promotion of "Making a Fight in the Heavenly Palace" has spared no effort.
Because this is an important thing, it is broadcast three times a day on radio.
Lin Zixuan also wrote a commentary article "A Monkey's Road to Heaven" under the pen name, pointing out the fighting spirit of Sun Wukong's not afraid of the sky and the earth. He dared to resist the tyranny of the heaven and dared to fight.
He portrayed Sun Wukong as a fighter, and combined with the current situation in China, he pointed the finger at the Beiyang warlord government.
And at the end, I wrote a sentence: The revolution has not yet succeeded, and you still need to work hard.
He was very hard at promoting the movie.
Of course, he did not copy "The Legend of Wukong" at this time, and it is very likely that he would fail to write "The Legend of Wukong" during the Republic of China period.
This article is very suitable.
At this time, Chen Jiongming, a Guangdong warlord who rebelled in Guangdong, was expelled. Sun Zhongshan was preparing to end his life in Shanghai, return to Guangzhou to rebuild the army and navy, and continue the northern expedition.
He mentioned this article in a conversation and was quite appreciative.
From a cultural perspective, the reinterpretation of characters in traditional literature gives them meaning in a new era, which is also a kind of inheritance and development of traditional literature.
In fact, this is also Lin Zixuan's intention to film "The Great Trouble in Heaven".
In addition to pursuing childhood memories, he wanted to create an arrogant and unruly image, and Sun Wukong's fearless fighting spirit should touch people of this era.
"The Great Hero of Tianjin Huo Yuanjia" talks about patriotism, and "The Great Trouble in Heaven" talks about the spirit of fighting for freedom.
The spirit of freedom, independent thoughts, and unyielding battles are exactly what this era needs, and Sun Wukong is undoubtedly the best spokesperson.
After the movie was screened, Lin Zixuan was also planning to write a few articles interpreting Sun Wukong under the pen name.
Now is the time for him to enjoy the movie. Even if he has watched it once, he will still not get tired of it. This is originally a movie that he never tires of watching.
The beginning of the film is a scene, and the narration introduces this brand new world.
This is Huaguo Mountain in Aolai Country, Dongsheng Shenzhou. When it was creating the world, an immortal stone happened to fall here. After countless years, a stone monkey was finally nurtured.
The outdoor scenes of the movie were all shot on Chongming Island.
Chongming Island was not yet developed during the Republic of China. It was only a small town, which was quite desolate and very consistent with the setting of Huaguo Mountain. It was surrounded by the estuary, which could show the scene of the fairy island in the sea.
Especially when fog is getting more misty.
Next, the stone exploded and a monkey jumped out of it.
Zheng Faxiang abandoned the Peking Opera facial makeup and gorgeous outfit, glued golden monkey hair to his face, and put a layer of clothes made of golden hair on his body. This dress is specially made.
This makes him more lifelike, and his movements are equally agile, crawling and jumping in the mountains like a monkey.
Here, you can't find the shadow of the Peking Opera monkey opera, you only see a clever monkey. This is the difference between movies and Peking Opera. It not only achieves the similarity of form, but also the similarity of spirit.
The stone monkey made a bet with other monkeys and broke into the water curtain cave, thus becoming the monkey king.
If it is a Peking Opera, there will be a large number of martial arts scenes here, but in the movie, it is only used to express the monkey's daily life and the brave character of the stone monkey.
But it is this kind of daily life that tests the actor's skills. If you don't really understand monkeys, it will be difficult to act vividly.
There is no Jiazi in the mountains, and I don’t know the year after the cold is over.
When the stone monkey saw other monkeys born, old age, sickness and death, she sighed in her heart, so she wanted to learn from outside and find a way to live forever.
So it left Huaguo Mountain, paddled a bamboo raft, and headed towards the vast sea.
The key point is the part of learning from a master, and this is the first time that magical magic has been shown.
After Sun Wukong learned magic, he began to show off in front of his fellow disciples.
He sometimes turns into a tree, sometimes turns into a bird, sometimes drilling into the ground, sometimes flying into the sky...
This requires various props. Whether it is a tree or a ground, there are mechanisms. Seeing Sun Wukong drilling in, but it is hollow inside, photography skills play a key role in it.
For example, if you reunited the mirror by breaking the mirror, you can take a photo of a good mirror and then take a photo of a broken mirror.
If you put a photo of a good mirror in front of a broken mirror, the audience will think that the mirror has broken.
If you place the photo of the broken mirror in front of the photo of the good mirror, the audience will subjectively think that the broken mirror has been restored.
In filming, this is called montage.
That is, when different lenses are spliced together, specific meanings that are not possessed when each lens exists separately.
Because the audience will make up for this situation by themselves, it can also be said that the director imposes his own views on the audience and allows the audience to associate according to the director's hints.
This kind of magical magic is hard to see in magic in Peking Opera, especially the scene where Sun Wukong flies in the clouds and fog.
Sun Wukong was flying in the clouds and could see the mountains and rivers below. This is what I just mentioned.
First, Sun Wukong was flying and looking down, next, there was a shot of a mountain. The audience would think that there was a connection between the two, and Sun Wukong was indeed flying in the air.
This is the difference between a movie and a live performance.
In the theater, the audience was shocked by this magic demonstration. These people have seen the world. They have watched the mechanical set show and the Western magic show, and they also know that it is all fake.
But the movie scenes formed an illusion in their minds, which made them feel really magical at this moment.
Sun Wukong was driven out by his master because of a troublemaker and returned to Huaguo Mountain and became the demon king.
Because there were no easy weapons, it broke into the Dragon Palace and asked for weapons.
In "The Great Trouble of Heaven", the Dragon Palace, the Underworld and the Heavenly Court are important scenes and are also the places that consume the most money.
Lin Zixuan drew on the structure of a later aquarium and used glass to separate the water. There were also various fish swimming around in the water, which looked like it was on the bottom of the sea.
In fact, people who truly understand the art can see the clues at a glance, where are these fishes on the bottom of the sea?
But this is the Dragon Palace, it is a myth, there is nothing in the Dragon Palace.
Pay attention to glass reflection when shooting, so that people can’t see the intrusion.
Turning the Dinghai Dinghai Sword Needle in the Dragon Palace into the Ruyi Golden Cudgel is a magic trick. Here is a particularly exciting martial arts move. Sun Wukong uses the Golden Cudgel to make trouble in the Dragon Palace.
Playing sticks in monkey opera in Peking Opera is the basic skill of an actor. Only by playing wonderfully and dazzlingly can you get the audience's applause.
Zheng Faxiang is undoubtedly the best among them. The stick seemed to be alive in his hands, dancing with many changes, which made the audience cheer.
Chapter completed!