Comment on "A Hundred Birds Face the Phoenix" 1 "Wu Shuang Town can't live without suona." -This is the heartfelt words of Jiao San-ye, the head of Jiao Jia class in the movie "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix".
Suona is also a career that Jiao Sanye struggled for all his life, or in his mind, it is not a career, it is a craft, it is a heritage. Throughout the film, Jiao Sanye mentioned his master, master and master's master many times. In my opinion, this is precisely his love for suona and his pride in this craft.
They call the suona player a suona craftsman. A craftsman is a person who only does one thing in his life.
In the first half of the film, Master You follow focus learned to play suona. Tian Ming's talent is not high, and he failed to pass the assessment arranged by Jiao. At first, Jiao didn't even want to accept him as an apprentice. However, when his father broke his head because his foot slipped and wiped his father's injured head with tears, Jiao accepted and agreed to learn suona skills from himself. In the first two months, Tian Ming took a reed pole and sucked the river by the river every day. The process of learning suona is hard and boring. In this skill, the highest achievement is to play "a hundred birds fly at the phoenix". Tian Ming wants to learn, so does his more talented brother Lan Yu. Finally, on the Heritage Day, Master Jiao promised to teach how to play "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix". Jiaojiaban was renamed Youjiaban and passed to Tian Ming.
In the second half of the film, due to the invasion of foreign culture, people tend to invite bands to play in weddings and funerals rather than "old-fashioned" suona. The study class in Tian Ming has no financial resources, and all his disciples have left, far away from the countryside, to work in the city, just to support their families. Only you, Tian Ming, alone support this crumbling family class.
At this time, Jiao personally came out of the mountain under the condition of extreme heartache. In this performance, Jiao dragged his body in the late stage of lung cancer and played the role of "birds fly at the phoenix". When Jiao's blood flowed down through the trumpet of the suona, I think especially at that time strengthened his determination to carry on the suona career unswervingly.
Even in Xi 'an's corner, when he saw the old man playing the suona begging, he never wavered in his insistence on the suona cause. In that era when he didn't want to accept the local instrument suona, and in that era when foreign cultures were constantly invading, he insisted on a cause that even people around him no longer supported. You Tian Ming is bitter, but firm, because this is his beloved musical instrument, his beloved career, and his promise to his late master.
Craftsman's spirit is the spirit of persistence in work, Excellence in what you do and products you produce, and meticulous carving.
Craftsman spirit is the spirit of pursuing the ultimate and focusing on the professional spirit.
Craftsmanship is not an exotic product. In Zhuangzi, there is a story that an expert can help a cow.
The cook slaughtered cattle for Liang. Where his hand touched, where his shoulder rested, where his foot stepped and where his knee rested, there was a rattle, and there was nothing out of rhythm when he entered the knife.
Liang asked, "How can you have such superb skills in understanding cows?"
The chef replied that he contacted the cow by spirit, not by eyes, but according to the original structure of the cow. Insert a thin blade into the seam joint. Nineteen years later, his blade was as sharp as if it had just been ground from a grindstone.
The chef also said: whenever it is difficult to cut a knife where bones and muscles are intertwined, he carefully improves his attention, focuses his attention on one point, slows down his movements and moves the knife very lightly. With a bang, the bones and meat of the cow were untied at once.
A capable person knows the story of cattle and tells people a truth. Do anything, as long as the heart, heart, you can reach the peak, superb.
Jiao is a craftsman;
You Tian Ming is also a craftsman;
They deeply carved their beloved career and musical instruments into their bones and integrated them into their own blood.
As Jiao said in the film, the suona should be blown into the bone!
Comments on "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" 2 A thing can be circulated for a long time because it is valuable and has not been submerged by time and space in the historical iteration, so it is a time choice to circulate it so far. Speaking of which, I have to say that a film, the director of this film, died before his film was released. A film shot in an "antique" way was actually completed in 13, but it was only recently released in the cinema. Before that, investors could not be found, because the film was considered by them to have no so-called market competitiveness, and the current society was seriously vulgarized. Fortunately, some investors with strong aesthetic ability sponsored the film later. The film is "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix".
People are animals who love to label, so they always label this film as "the swan song of the master" and "Wu-the real giant of the film". I have nothing against Wu. He may be a good director. This film reflects the director's originality in framing, composition and actors, and I like this shooting technique very much. Judging from the shooting level and actors, this film is impeccable.
The values and ideology expressed in the film are still somewhat different from what we understand, and there are some inevitable values. I hope readers have seen this film. As a folk musical instrument and an intangible cultural heritage, "suona" may be passed down, but the public still likes it too little, especially in this era. You can try. Listening to suona once may be acceptable. What if you listen to it ten times or twenty times? Do you want it? I don't want to hear it once anyway. On the contrary, if it is a guqin representing the pure culture of the Central Plains, I will be very willing, because it is in line with my hearing habits and those of the public.
Because "Suona" itself was born in the Yellow River valley, it mostly describes the desolation and desolation of the loess high slope, which is different from the pure "whispering" of the Central Plains culture. Today, the widespread spread of world music makes it gradually forgotten, which is inevitable. This is a bit like the loss of the western musical instrument "Jun". It is a choice made by history, such as the musical instrument "Zan". Some experts say that there is almost no need to restore, which is like the fate of suona. In the historical trend, it is useless, so it is gradually forgotten. Imagine if the suona troupe would be invited to the wedding now. Even funerals are modern, and even in funeral homes, orchestral music is used. Because it obviously conforms to the living habits of modern society.
In China, there are also beautiful musical instruments, such as guqin. Nowadays, more and more students are studying guqin, and even guqin will appear at many Chinese-style weddings. It also conforms to contemporary aesthetic values and public audio-visual habits. One day, many things will disappear, because with the improvement of people's aesthetic level, lifestyle changes.
In fact, the advantage of this film lies in the director's good sense of lens, folk photography and grounded vision, which embodies the customs, enthusiasm, changes and persistence of people at that time, as well as ignorance, and also exposes the contradictions between the past and today's society. Parents always force their children to do what they want and let them pursue their unfinished ideals instead of themselves. This film is destined to be mixed. Good words will push him to the sky, and bad words will make him sound like mud. And the above content is only my subjective opinion. I can't say it's good or bad, nor can I say it's good or bad. In any case, a good movie must let the audience see the director's ideas through stories and shots, just as the article has no ideas, even colorful words are superficial.
In short, I sum up my feelings after watching the movie: "With the passage of time and filtering, people will see clearly through the phenomenon. Unless there are inevitable objective factors, the classic people, things or things will be passed down, and the inheritance will be doomed to die ... "
Comment on A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix 3. I haven't seen a movie for a long time. Drinking tea and chatting with colleagues in the office in the morning, a beautiful woman said that she had just watched a movie and shed a lot of tears. What movie? Wu's last film, A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix, has a low box office, but it is worth seeing. I have always been dismissive of funny movies, but I have a soft spot for movies that make people cry. On May 12, 20xx, the famous producer Li Fang knelt down and kowtowed on the live broadcast platform, asking the national cinema managers to arrange films for "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" and calling on them to give China movies and China culture a chance. At the same time, he also begged netizens to help spread and support director Wu's masterpiece. Although he didn't watch many movies after graduating from college, Wu still knew that he was the director of An Film Studio and directed Old Well, which was regarded as Zhang Yimou's benefactor. In order to support the film industry in China, I should go and see it. Colleagues checked it out. There is a performance at the cinema near 7 o'clock tonight. I decided to go to see it with my wife at night.
We can sit in a small cinema with dozens of people, or even we only have five spectators. Even better, you can enjoy it quietly. At the beginning of the film, I was shocked by the desolation and emptiness of Qinchuan in 800 miles and the simplicity of the characters. I know this is the movie I want to see and won't let me down. After reading it, my evaluation is only four words: tears, shock.
Actually, the story is very simple. 1982, a boy of 13 years old, You, was forced by his father who loved suona to learn from the suona master in the neighboring village. After years of hard work and hard practice, I have developed superb suona skills in Tian Ming and become the successor of the master. You Jiaban replaced Jiao Jiaban. However, with the changes of the times and the development of the economy, traditional skills are increasingly ignored, which not only loses its original position, but also is unsustainable. A generation of Suona Wang Sanjiao bears a grudge against traditional skills, and tour artists go out to work one after another. Where is the skill inheritor, Tian Ming? The film did not give an answer, leaving the audience with heavy thinking.
It is conceivable that the shooting cost of this film should not be very high. In this respect, it is not only a blockbuster, not even a China movie, but at best a small movie. However, if it is ideological and artistic, it is a blockbuster. Give people a great shock in mind and soul. No wonder my colleagues cry. My eyes are always moist within 90 minutes, as if I had experienced a baptism of thought. Today, with the development of market economy and the impact of foreign culture on the country, where will the traditional skills and culture go? Do you want to watch them die in front of us, or do you want to do your best to protect, inherit and carry forward them? This is a question that every China person with cultural consciousness should ponder deeply. While paying attention to the ups and downs of the stock market and the skyrocketing property market, pay attention to wages, education and medical care. Can you spend some time and energy to pay attention to the traditional culture of our nation? Only the national is the world. I am not totally opposed to absorbing foreign advanced culture. In fact, compared with traditional political culture, I am more willing to accept the universal values of democracy and freedom. But when McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks are all over the streets, can we still call ourselves an ancient civilization? !
Seeing that the teenager You Tianming was forced by his father to learn from the teacher, I thought of his father. He has no education, but he hopes his son will have a future. When I was only in the third grade of primary school, he led me to learn English with Han. At that time, it was 1978, the country had not been opened, and knowledge had not been taken seriously. I thought of Humber and his uncle. They took a group of rural children to learn English in their shabby old house, just like Suona Wang Sanjiao. They not only taught them to study, but also taught them to be human beings. The children came and went, and the kerosene lamp in the hut lit up their way forward. I also think of Xu and his mistress in No.4 Middle School. They treat their students like their own children, always caring about their studies and taking good care of their lives. It has been eight years since Xu Shi left us, but the students will always remember his voice and smile, and everyone still went to visit his mother.
Maybe it's because they are similar in age and both were born in the countryside. I seem to see my own shadow in you Tian Ming. Perhaps this is the main reason why "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" moved me more easily. I want to recommend it to my son, but can he understand and appreciate it? I'm not sure.
Comments on "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" The 1980s was my era. I had a pure childhood and clear eyes. My peers and I used to think about the new century at that time. The most typical picture is that we turn on the computer and other people's videos in the morning, and then I can finish many things without leaving home.
It's 16 years in the new century. We have gone further than we once thought. We can only exchange a lot of information by using portable mobile phones.
Director Wu was born in 1939, and A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix is his last work, because its release cost a lot of twists and turns. This shows how determined the times are to abandon him.
The screen picture I caught my eye was the rural scenery in the 1980s, reeds on the banks of the river, cheerful birds singing, quiet farmyards and simple people. It was a year I was familiar with, warm and unforgettable.
As the main line of the film, suona has finally declined and disappeared in the new era, which is its inevitable fate. Jiao, a strong Guanzhong man, with his persistent insistence, hopes that it will never die, and also hopes that the values of the old times represented by suona will remain in the world forever.
The main structures of traditional musical instruments in China are mostly bamboo, wood, brown, silk and other things, which come from simply processed animals and plants. Therefore, China people call musical instruments silk and bamboo, which is the product of agricultural civilization with low human productivity, and suona is no exception. The materials of western musical instruments are refined metals and chemically synthesized polymers, and the different materials make the timbre and range different.
Only one thing has happened in human history, and that is the industrial revolution. Since then, human progress has changed with each passing day, productivity has increased geometrically, and new technologies have constantly refreshed the lifestyle of human society and eliminated the old mode of production. People in China began to feel this pressure 65,438+000 years ago, and it is still the trend in the world today. From the fact that the new loom replaced the old loom more than 0/00 years ago, and from Ye Shengtao's book "Overharvesting 35 Doors", we can see that foreign rice and ocean are squeezing farmers engaged in traditional management in China with more efficient production.
Scientific and technological progress not only improves productivity, but also changes human thinking. Equality, freedom, transparency and openness are unheard of in traditional China society. Jiao is patient, stubborn, idealistic and full of heroic dreams, but he also shows autocracy, arrogance, narrowness, monopoly and neglect of others' feelings. Since ancient times, people in China have been surprisingly stingy in imparting skills, passing on men instead of women.
On the one hand, he adheres to the sublimity of morality, on the other hand, it is an absolute monopoly. I don't know that music is music, and it should never bear such a heavy burden. I don't know that in today's commercial society, all kinds of music lessons are taught by teachers asking students to pay. Only when the ceremony stops can music return to its proper position and freedom begin.
At the end of the film, Jiao's last performance of weeping blood, as a post-70s generation, I can understand his tragic and persistent, and his generation's reluctance to leave, but as a post-70s generation, I can also see his desperate struggle and his ridiculousness.
The most ironic thing is that at the end of the film, when the third master plays with tears of blood, the suona suddenly disappears, and the background is the low and sad cello sound. At that moment, many audiences were moved. Even the director himself knew that cello could move the audience, but suona could not.
We are the luckiest generation in human history. We are fortunate to witness the dazzling progress of human society. We are also the saddest generation in human history. We have suffered the unbearable pain of the most dramatic changes in human life.
Time sees everything in your eyes, says nothing, and goes straight ahead. If you die, you die. Suona is suona. Music is just music. There should be no blood here. No one needs to be tragic. Dry your tears and let Master Jiao play it again and leave with a smile.
Let the ceremony collapse and the music break, and give freedom to future generations.
Comments on "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" 5 A thing can be circulated for a long time because it is valuable and has not been submerged by time and space in the historical iteration, so it is a time choice to circulate it so far. Speaking of which, I have to say that a film, the director of this film, died before his film was released. A film shot in an "antique" way, actually 1 was finished, and it was only recently shown in the cinema. Before that, investors could not be found, because the film was considered by them to have no so-called market competitiveness, and now the society is seriously vulgarized. Fortunately, some investors with aesthetic ability sponsored the film. The film is "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix".
People are animals who love to label, so they always label this film as "the swan song of the master" and "Wu-the real giant of the film". I have nothing against Wu, but he may be a good director. This film reflects the director's originality in framing, composition and actors, and I like this shooting technique very much. Judging from the shooting level and actors, this film is impeccable.
The values and ideology expressed in the film are still somewhat different from what we understand, and there are some inevitable values. I hope readers have seen this film. As a folk musical instrument and an intangible heritage, "suona" may be passed down, but the public still likes it too little, especially in this era. You can try. Listening to suona once may be acceptable. What if you listen to it ten times or twenty times? Do you want it? I don't want to hear it once anyway. On the contrary, if it is a guqin representing the pure Central Plains, I am very willing, because it is in line with my listening habits and those of the public.
Because Suona itself was born in the Yellow River valley, it mostly describes the desolation and desolation of the loess high slope, which is different from the pure "speaking quietly and rightly" in the Central Plains. Today, the widespread spread of world music makes it gradually forgotten, which is inevitable. This is a bit like the loss of the western musical instrument "Jun". It is a choice made by history, such as the musical instrument "Zan". Some experts say that there is almost no need to restore, which is like the fate of suona. In the historical trend, it is useless, so it is gradually forgotten. Imagine if the suona troupe would be invited to the wedding now. Even funerals are modern, and even in funeral homes, orchestral music is used. Because it obviously conforms to the living habits of modern society.
In China, there are also beautiful musical instruments, such as guqin. Nowadays, more and more students are studying guqin, and even guqin will appear at many Chinese weddings. It also conforms to contemporary aesthetic values and public audio-visual habits. One day, many things will disappear, because with the improvement of people's aesthetic level, lifestyle changes.
In fact, the advantage of this film lies in the director's good sense of lens, folk photography and grounded vision, which embodies the customs, enthusiasm, changes and persistence of people at that time, as well as ignorance, and also exposes the contradictions between the past and today's society. Parents always force their children to do what they want and let them pursue their unfinished ideals instead of themselves. This film is destined to be mixed. Good words will push him to the sky, and bad words will make him sound like mud. And the above content is only my subjective opinion. I can't say it's good or bad, nor can I say it's good or bad. Anyway, a good movie must let the audience see the director's ideas through the story and the lens, as if there is no idea, and even the colorful words are superficial.
In short, I sum up my feelings after watching the movie: "With the passage of time and filtering, people will see clearly through the phenomenon. Unless there are inevitable objective factors, classic people, things or things will be passed down, and inheritance is doomed to die. "
Comments on "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" 6 In the news, Li Fang, the producer of "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix", knelt down and kowtowed, asking major theaters to increase the number of films for this film. This news was reprinted by many parties. Mr Fang's behavior deeply touched me, and I felt sorry for him, so I bought a ticket and went into the cinema with Qi Jie on Sunday. The child has been at home for two weeks and has been taking Chinese medicine to regulate the spleen and stomach. Taking medicine every day is like killing a pig, plus being naughty. My grandparents' patience has reached the limit and ordered me to take the movie away, whether I watch cartoons or not. Even I'm not sure about the literary films I can watch. It is not easy for a three-and-a-half-year-old child to stay until the end of the film. Although there are popcorn and coke, I still want to praise Qi Jie here.
Still half an hour late, I went to the Red Star International Cinema in the Aegean Sea. I went in in the dark and dragged the child to find a seat at random. I looked around and found that there were less than ten people in the whole screening hall. As it turns out, this literary film is really not my cup of tea. This is a good movie, and all the big coffees say yes. The picture of the film is beautiful, but it doesn't feel particularly grand, the plot is compact, and the actor's performance is unpretentious. In today's impetuous social atmosphere, being able to make such a pure and clear film proves that the director is really a quiet and profound person. I only blame myself for not having that cultural background, being too low-level and not appreciating elegant things.
Here I have probably analyzed several reasons. First of all, the art of suona originated in the northwest, which is far from the growth background of this northeast girl. I'm not familiar with it, I don't know how to appreciate it, I can only watch it. Besides, there are no stars I like in the movie. I only know Tao Zeru, but I can't say I like him. Nobody else is familiar with it. I have never heard of Master Wu directing, so please forgive my ignorance! Today's society is in an impetuous period of rapid development. Most people only look at their faces, men are not handsome and women are not beautiful, and actors who are not conspicuous can't attract attention. I have to admit that I am a layman in the Appearance Association, and I also like beautiful things. If the director takes care of us amateurs a little, it may attract more audiences. The most important thing is that I don't feel anything that can make me sing. Unlike the chicken soup movie "Spice Girls at the Bottom", there are endless memories and a little confusion. Why can't you attract me? I understand the content, which expresses the helplessness of the older generation of folk artists to the gradual loss of craftsmanship. When You Tianming finally blew "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" at the grave of the master, he also revealed a tragic ending, that is, the suona art gradually withered, and there was no successor.
This ending is also related to the fact that the country does not attach importance to traditional culture. The director of the Cultural Bureau wanted to record a suona performance, but you Tian Ming couldn't even get together, and everyone changed careers because of the pressure of life. Some people are disabled at work, and some people have pneumoconiosis, so they can't play suona again in this life. This ending makes people feel particularly powerless!
When it comes to traditional art, its emergence and development have certain historical conditions. Without a specific environment, social development may not be appreciated by anyone. Take Beijing Opera as an example. My grandparents and other elders like it very much. By my parents' generation, most of them won't catch a cold. When my generation can't appreciate it, don't mention my children again. No one will watch it, and sooner or later it will be eliminated. Fortunately, the state pays more attention to it, and many children are also studying, but it is more difficult to reproduce the glory. It has always been said that the inheritance of traditional culture is only inheritance and inheritance, and development is rarely mentioned. So far, I haven't heard of any new tracks in Beijing Opera. Of course, the creation of Beijing opera is definitely more difficult. There is no innovation, can't keep up with the times, the national costume is not strong, and many traditional skills are facing the dilemma of being lost.
Let's talk about the masterpiece of this master. What you can't appreciate is not necessarily bad. I suggest you go to the cinema to see this film. If you are used to watching a lot of bad movies, it's time to change!