If you want to choose one of the most worthy of ticket prices among the new films in the National Day file, Yi Feijun thinks it is the movie "Only This Green", which is adapted from the popular dance drama of the same name.
This film is created by the original cast of the dance drama of the same name, and the directors Zhou Liya and Han Zhen are the "twin stars" who have risen on the stage of dance drama in recent years. The original dance drama starring Zhang Han, Meng Qingyang, Xie Suhao, etc., still play the same role in the movie.
Why is the ticket price of the movie "Only This Green" the most worthwhile? First of all, since the premiere of the dance drama "Only This Green" in 2021, it is still a phenomenal hit drama, with rave reviews, the venue is full, and it is difficult to find a ticket. Yi Feijun checked it, and the tour list of this dance drama in the country has been scheduled for May next year, and the cheapest ticket is 180 yuan. According to the current average ticket price of 40 yuan, the performance ticket is more than 4 times that of a movie ticket. Watching the same IP on the big screen saves at least 140 yuan! Moreover, "Only This Green" tells the creation process of the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". As one of China's top ten famous paintings, the precious value and legend of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" need not be repeated: it is a collection of ink and wash landscapes since the Northern Song Dynasty, and the author Wang Ximeng's history books have almost no records, and he died suddenly after painting at the age of eighteen, and his burst of talent and his premature fall are amazing.
The work is painted on a single piece of silk, and the mineral pigments on it are so easy to peel off that it has only been exhibited in public four times since the founding of the People's Republic of China, most recently in 2017 at the Palace Museum, where many people queue up a few hours early, but each person can only stay in front of the painting for five minutes at most. Watching the movie version of "Only This Green" in the theater is equivalent to killing two birds with one stone: not only appreciating the dance drama, but also being able to understand and appreciate "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" more deeply. I don't know what year it will be the next time I see the authentic masterpieces of famous paintings, and the dance drama may not come to your city to tour, and whether you can grab tickets is still a matter of words, so the gold content of the movie version of "Only This Green" has been greatly improved?
The most important thing is that the movie version is not equivalent to a high-definition image on the stage, it is not as simple as filming the dance drama live, but using the language of the film to reinterpret the IP of "Only This Green". This involves the difference between theater and film. Drama is a stage art, everything happens on the stage, the audience can imagine the stage as any scene, and the emphasis is on "virtuality"; Film is the art of the lens, although the subject is vast, but it needs to be combined through the logical editing of the lens, and the emphasis is on "reality". In the dance drama, the studio created by Xi Meng, the painting academy where he studied, and the production scenes of various painting materials are all imaginary, all relying on the imagination of the audience, and there are no props such as brushes, carving knives, and looms around the actors.
But in the movie, everything becomes a visible reality. The main creator built exquisite scenes such as studios, painting studios, silk weaving workshops, and ink-making caves, allowing the actors to dance in these real scenes. Strictly speaking, "Only This Green" was a dance poetry drama at the beginning, and since it is a poetry drama, it is inevitable that it will be highly abstract and concise, testing the audience's appreciation threshold, but the movie version will implement everything, and for the audience, it has actually become clearer and more popular.
The film's director of photography, Park Song-il, gave the work a beautiful composition and camera movement, capturing the dancers' movement and static, strength and femininity, overall posture and local details.
For example, Xi Meng danced on the vast water, found inspiration from Zhong Lingyu's beautiful landscape, his feet stirred up ripples and splashed on the water, and the stirring soundtrack and the actor's flying posture were perfectly integrated.
Overall, the movie version gives me the feeling that it is closer to a song and dance movie, except that there is no singing, and it is all high-level dancing.
There have been some cases of using movies to interpret dramas in recent years, such as "The Legend of the White Snake · Love" is to put Cantonese opera on the big screen, but there are really not many works like "Only This Green", which has a very high reputation and is currently high in reputation (Douban score 8.0). It is hoped that the appearance of the film version of "Only This Green" can explore a new way for theatrical adaptation of films, which is also of great significance for the diversified development of Chinese film genres.
Don't look at the fact that the film has only one story line, the plot and characters are also very simple, but the amount of special effects is really not small, and basically every chapter uses a large number of special effects shots visibly with the naked eye. The special effects play a very key role in the scene construction and atmosphere creation of this film, such as directly allowing the dancers to "enter the painting" and move in the painting, as well as the "green" walking slowly, and the long skirt on the ground dragging out the green brushstrokes in the painting, which are all very good visual creativity.
Yi Feijun was particularly impressed by the chapter "Searching for Stones", in which the old man of the grinding stone climbed between the steep cliffs with a basket on his back, just to find the ore that could be made into green pigment. The special effects make the effect of lofty mountains and cliffs, which makes people can't help but sweat on the adventure climbing of the millstone, and also realize more deeply that behind the great work of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is not only a variety of superb and exquisite traditional crafts, but also the hard work and sweat of countless working people.
Another highlight of the movie version is that it shows the wonderful performances of the actors in an enlarged way. From the viewing distance of the dance drama, even if you sit in the first row, you can only see the outline of the dancers' movements, but through the camera lens and the magnification effect of the big screen, we can see not only the details of their movements, but also their facial expressions. I have to say that as one of the best young dancers in China, they not only dance well, but their movie performances are also enough to kill a bunch of small fresh meat and flowers in the film and television industry.
Meng Qingyang plays the role of "green" in the film, which is originally a non-human abstract character that represents the green element in the painting. I can't imagine how difficult it is to perform abstract things in real life, but Meng Qingyang's performance is unforgettable.
Her expression in the film is dignified, and her demeanor is myriad, which immediately reminds people of "I see how charming Qingshan is, and I expect Qingshan to see me like this". Her beauty is completely devoid of gender, and there is a kind of detached divinity that can make people hold their breath and appreciate without a trace of selfish distraction. Zhang Han, who plays Ximeng, interprets the youthful spirit of a genius painter, the hills and valleys in his heart, and his painstaking efforts to create, and his search up and down, which is both accurate and infectious.
There is a scene in the film where Xi Meng finally completed the creation of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and his face is full of joy and satisfaction after achieving his goal.
The actor's slightly raised chin trembles, vividly expressing the artist's excitement and pride. This is reminiscent of Zhang Ziyi's super facial muscle control ability in "The Grandmaster". Good actors, they are really similar! If we hadn't made a movie, how could we have seen Zhang Han's dedicated and expressive performance? There is also the reunion between the last exhibitor and Xi Meng at the Palace Museum. At both ends of the long display case, the scroller and Ximeng looked at each other without saying a word: one bowed deeply, and the other made a salute. This is the "emergence" of cultural relics researchers and research objects, and it is also the encounter between ancient and modern in parallel time and space. Xie Suhao, the actor of the scroll, performed very vividly, with a hint of shyness in his surprised expression, while Xi Meng was relieved and relieved, because he knew that his creation back then still had a bosom friend after thousands of years, and was still recognized and understood by the world.
Only this scene, what is the continuity of the cultural context and cultural inheritance, is beyond words. Around "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", whether it is the continuous mountains in the painting, the fishing woods in Jiangzhu, or the painstaking solitude of the artist outside the painting, the wax torch turning into ashes, or the hard work of countless people behind the painting, all have been echoed and continued after a thousand years. At the end of the film, the silk weaver, grindstone, and pen maker behind the painting are smiling at Ximeng and at the audience, and only one shot is enough to make people cry, and the expressiveness of the actors can be seen.
If these dancers in the film transform into film and television actors one day, not to mention crushing a large group of people, at least the performance level will definitely be fine. "No name, no money, just this one volume; Green for thousands of years, mountains and rivers are boundless. "There is no threshold for watching the movie version of "Only This Green", and audiences of any age can fully immerse themselves in the picture scroll of thousands of miles in 90 minutes and feel the oriental aesthetics that have been passed down for thousands of years.
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Author and editor of this issue: Yuan Yun'er
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