Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 62: Mummy
Subtitle of this chapter: Literary mouth cannon
It’s not that our Master Yuan looks down on the appreciation level of the people in the 21st century, but he dares to guarantee that a movie like "Party Unity and Conquering the Dissidents" will not be able to recoup its cost if it is released in the film market a hundred years later.
The purpose of this film is very grand and far-reaching. In short, it is the conflict between good and evil in the complex human nature. Human beings use the true feelings and conscience in human nature to fight against the cruelty and hypocrisy that also come from human nature.
In order to express this theme, David Griffith put together four stories: the modern story "Mother and Law", the Jewish story "The Passion of Christ", the medieval French story "The Massacre at St. Bartholomew's Day", and the medieval French story "The Massacre at St. Bartholomew's Day".》 and the ancient chapter "The Fall of Babylon", four sections that are far apart in time and space, are edited together, using the "alternating montage" technique to make the four stories appear alternately.
The parallel development of the four storylines created a strong sense of urgency, and finally merged into a torrent of emotions...which left the audience feeling chilled to the bone!
Let's review Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci". "Yang Chun Bai Xue" is good, but the author is not satisfied. "Xia Li Ba Ren" is low-class, and I bought an iPhone 7 every month.
After Griffith cheated his investors with this film, he founded United Artists, one of the eight major studios, with Chaplin and others. However, he still lost money on every film he made, so much so that his partners were no longer willing to invest in his films.
So the director, who was not doing well in his career, took his female apprentice to New York to look for investors. Unfortunately, Wall Street bankers nowadays would not look down on filmmakers. Griffith, who had been rejected countless times, finally got an invitation to the masquerade party held by the Baker family, hoping to take this opportunity to get in touch with Mr. George Baker, but he didn't expect that Yuan Yanshu would get the chance.
Our Master Yuan casually asked: "David, besides being a director, you are also a screenwriter, right?"
Griffith nodded and said, "Yes."
In fact, his original dream was to become a playwright, but being a stage playwright was not enough to make a living. In desperation, he reluctantly joined Edison Company as a film screenwriter in 1908. However, because there were too few actors, he was pulled into acting again...
Alas, a hundred years later, those little actors all over the world would be willing to do anything for the opportunity to perform, not to mention Sino-Soviet relations, Sino-Chinese relations, or Soviet-Soviet relations, or Sino-Chinese-Soviet relations, or Soviet-Soviet-Chinese relations, or whatever. But in the 1920s, some people were forced to become actors because they couldn't eat. It's really sad to think about it.
Later, he switched to Biograph Company. Once the director of the movie he starred in fell ill, the boss forced him to change from an actor to a director. However, even though he became a successful director, David Griffith still had a special liking for screenwriters. The extremely complicated "Party Against Dissent" mentioned above was written by him.
“Bang!”
Yuan Yan suddenly clapped her hands and said, "David, this is where the problem lies!"
"This..." The director, who had lost some confidence after a series of failures in recent years, did not refute. Instead, he humbly asked for advice, "Please go on."
Oh, instilling one's own views on movies into the film master is really what our Master Yuan likes. Of course, brainwashing artists should be more artistic.
Our Master Yuan blew out a smoke ring and said, "If we trace the origin of film art, it must be painting and sculpture. The reason for the emergence of these two is what I call the Mummy Complex. The ancients believed that our corpses, sculptures, and portraits carry part of our souls, which is also one of the origins of various witchcraft and religions around the world."
He pointed to the ancient Egyptian costumes worn by the director and actress, and continued, "For example, the religion believed in by the ancient Egyptians was to fight against death with life. They believed that life would last forever if the body did not decay, so they made so many mummies. This religion caters to the most basic psychological needs of human beings: to fight against time, and even to defeat time!"
Yuan Yanshu sighed with great regret and said, "Alas, with the evolution of art and civilization, we realize that there is no identity between human beings themselves and these statues. However, if people do not see the primitive need for the eternity of form to overcome the passage of time in our blind admiration for paintings and sculptures, then..."
"Sarah Savoy thin silk stockings..."
After he finished speaking French, he looked at the confused faces of the three people beside him, shook his head slightly and said indifferently: "This is what Pascal, a great French scholar in the 17th century... the Pascal on the barometer, said. Painting has become a false thing."
After our Master Yuan finished speaking, not only Mr. Griffith who started working as a reporter at the age of 17, Miss Gish who has been acting on stage since she was a child to support her family, but even Mr. Baker, a master's student in the Department of Political Economy at NYU, were all convinced, and an expression of awe appeared on the faces of the three of them at the same time!
Two stinky men would be fine, Yuan Yanshu didn't like looking at their faces. But Miss Dant's beautiful eyes were misty, and her white eyes made him... you know.
Now you know why people study philosophy. The ancient Greeks told us that philosophy is the love of wisdom. With wisdom, you can use your IQ to crush others."My fellow countrymen are so sincere.
Because you know what I mean, Yuan Yan had to adjust her sitting posture and calm down before she said , "The advancement of technology has brought us a new art form, film, but we must realize that compared to painting and sculpture, film is completely different."
“The image captures fragments of events in this world, freeing them from their original fate of passing away with time, but what records them is not the magic of art, but the indifferent mechanical effect. The film is not to create eternity, but to spice up those fragments of events, just like the purpose of mummies made by the ancient Egyptians, to prevent them from being corroded by time.”
"The objectivity of the image itself has a convincing power that is incomparable to any painting or sculpture, but at the same time, the artist who creates the image also loses the opportunity for painters and sculptors to show a strong personality in their works! Then..."
Yuan Yan suddenly looked at the great director very seriously and asked, "Mr. David Griffith, do you understand?"
Griffith first nodded with a look of sudden enlightenment, then frowned and shook his head in thought.
Our Master Yuan nodded secretly in his heart, he is indeed a genius film master and a teachable person.
