Special feature of 1905 film network This winter is somewhat too sad. In the past days, we have sent away one filmmaker after another.
Today, the famous Italian film director bernardo bertolucci also left.
I believe that for many fans, to a great extent, it is his works that have opened up their own road to mystery.
Bertolucci’s most famous film in China is the biopic directed in 1987. This film is the first film in history that foreigners are allowed to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing for real-life shooting.
As we all know, this film won 9 nominations in the 60th Academy Awards, and 9 were all right. He personally won the Oscar for best director that year.
Looking back at his recent news, he was still fixed on the sexual assault scandal in 2016.
However, if we carefully recall the details of public opinion at that time, we can find that there was actually a lot of information in the middle, which was once influenced by editing, malicious dissemination and other reasons.
Now that the deceased has gone, Xiao Dianjun still hopes that the public can stop exploring the brain hole of information and leave more to facts and art itself.
When it comes to Bertolucci, I believe that many fans first think of The Last Emperor and his sensational masterpiece.
Bertolucci’s exposure to movies is actually related to his "film critic" father. When he was a child, his father often led him to the cinema to watch movies. In a subtle way, he also became a movie fan.
Later, he went to Paris, the "movie capital" alone, and soaked in movies every day, feeling the "choppy" of the new wave of French movies.
In 1961, he really opened the road to film.
At first, he worked as an assistant in the film "Beggar" in pier paolo pasolini, and gradually, he became the deputy director of pasolini.
At that time, he also began to write his own plays.
The next year, pasolini was busy filming other films, so he handed over the filming task to Bertolucci. At that time, the framework of the film was very novel, and Bertolucci asked every suspect in the film to tell his own story.
That year, he was 22.
After the release of Death, it won unanimous praise because it portrayed the state of many Italian people at the bottom. Of course, this young film man is not satisfied with this.
Two years later, Bertolucci returned to his hometown of Palma and made the film Eve of Revolution.
This is the first time that he has added political consciousness to the discussion of human nature.Coming from a middle-class family, he has always been extremely disgusted with the decadent life of the bourgeoisie. Previously, he had joined italian communist party with the help of pasolini.
In On the Eve of Revolution, you can see a lot of films after Bertolucci. At the same time, we can also see the great influence of French new wave director Ge Daer on him.
In 1969, Bertolucci co-directed the film with Ge Daer, pasolini, Bellocci O and calori Zani.
The film was shot during the Vietnam War, and they expressed their views on the political situation at that time through five different stories.
The following year, Bertolucci wrote and directed the film, and his strong personal style became one of his masterpieces.
In 1972, Bertolucci began his second decade of filming. It was also this year that he made one of his most famous films.
This film successfully pushed him to the international stage, and also created Marlon Brando. No one ever thought that this film once pushed the director and the leading actor to the limelight after 30 years.
In fact, this film has been controversial since its release. Although it was nominated for Best Director and Best Actor at the 46th Academy Awards, it was banned from being shown in Italy at that time because of the plot of homosexual sex, and the government ordered the destruction of the master film. The director himself was deprived of his citizenship by the court for five years and sentenced to four months’ probation.
Five years later, Bertolucci filmed his first masterpiece — — 《1900》。
The film is set in the turbulent period of Italian society in the early 20th century, spanning 40 years, and tells the story of hatred and struggle under class contradictions and family disputes.
Not only was the subject matter of the film extremely sensitive in Italy at that time, but the film lasted for more than five hours, which led to the fact that no distributor was willing to accept it and was once banned.
Later, the film was cut for nearly 70 minutes before it was shown in American theaters.
Although the political and erotic contents of Bertolucci’s films were too sensitive at that time, the film company did not give up the investment in his films.
In 1979, he made a film with a more extreme theme — — .
In the film, he designed many scale pictures that challenged ethics, and even joined the love between mother and son. Frankly speaking, such content will be controversial in the present.
Although the subject matter is more and more biased, in the film space, he began to create some novel and thoughtful content, which is gradually different from other directors in the same period.
The 1980s was the third decade of Bertolucci’s film career. During this period, he made the film The Last Emperor.
All along, everyone has this saying:A foreigner made the most authentic and China-flavored Qing Palace drama.
This film has a unique angle, and tells the ups and downs of China’s last emperor Puyi in the Qing Dynasty by flashback.
Shooting "The Last Emperor" is very exciting for this great world director. In his own words, it is "For me, China always hides in a strange fantasy but does not belong to a part of my world.. "
In order to make this film well, he started preparations in 1984 and made a shooting budget of about $25 million. At that time, I even wanted to find Marlon Brando, a British teacher who played Puyi. Unexpectedly, the other party was unwilling to go to China. Finally, it was decided that Peter Otto would play.
At that time, there were 150 Chinese, 100 Italians and 20 British, and there were 30 translators.
Although Li Hanxiang, the great director, has also made films in the Forbidden City before, Bertolucci was the first director to make a feature film in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and so far, he is the only one. Because the buildings in the Forbidden City are all made of wood, the photography team was once worried about accidents, so it was impossible to place equipment in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
At that time, it coincided with Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to China, but because of the filming, the plan to visit the Forbidden City was cancelled.
In 1988, Bertolucci won his first Oscar for best director for The Last Emperor. When he took the stage to receive the award, he said excitedly, "I want to thank Chinese and China, the China government for allowing me to film this’ beautiful country’, and John Lone, Chen Chong and many Chinese who are unknown before and after the camera. I should kowtow to them in Chinese style. This is the most exciting moment in my life, and I can’t hide it. "
Of course, in each period, Bertolucci has his own outstanding representative works. In the 1990 s,, were all films that had to be mentioned.
Of course, in the later period, the pace of his creation slowed down relatively. However, the film created in 2003 cannot be ignored.
For many people, this is probably one of the best youth films.
Especially in the movie, three people imitate Ge Daer’s movies and walk hand in hand across the Louvre. At the same time, the scenes of focus plane and The Outsider are constantly collaged and rewritten, and reality and illusion are intertwined, which has become one of the most fascinating scenes of this film.
In this film, in addition to the political nature, the three protagonists’ fascination with the movie, which imitates the scenes of a classic movie clip every day, has also fascinated many fans.
Among them, in addition to "The Extralegal", there are other films. These wonderful movie stalks just blend in with Paris, the magical movie capital.
Three people get to know each other, know each other, love each other because of the movie, and finally leave each other. And all this comes from the magic of images.
Looking back, it seems that this is the film road of Bertolucci’s life. However, now that he is asleep, he has started another movie dream.