Hong Kong films hit a "comic sense", and this Spring Festival appetizer is so special!


Special feature of 1905 film network Producer, directed by Albert Kai-kwong Mak, the crime comedy film starring,, and others landed in the cinema on January 19th.


The film tells the story of two middle-aged "paupers", he is my brother A Hui (Richie Jen) and A Xun (Lin Jiadong), who plan to rob, but are accidentally spoiled by the gangster Mei Lantian (Aaron Kwok), and the three of them temporarily form a team because of a sack of money. As the movie with the highest number of people before the Spring Festival, what surprises will Temporary Robbery bring to the audience?



The movies of the Spring Festival in 2024 have a common feature, that is, they all have comedy elements more or less, and most of the protagonists in the story have a "middle-aged crisis". Temporary Robbery also has these two characteristics in content, just like a "starter" of the Spring Festival.


Taste the "appetizer" of the Spring Festival stalls in three bites.


Taste this appetizer from three aspects. At the first bite, you will find that such a multi-line narrative method in Temporary Robbery is particularly like, structurally, there are actually many coincidences in the film, and these coincidences may lead to many comedy elements.



If Crazy Stone is a series of crazy actions triggered by a stone, then Temporary Robbery is a series of accidents triggered by two sacks of money.


After tasting the second bite, you will find that its taste has some comic sense. The overall style of the film is very young, including the shaping of characters. The most delicious thing is Aaron Kwok’s performance of this gangster Mei Lantian, who is sour and sweet.



At the end of the appetizer, it will be "grounded" and memorable. Although it may have a strong sense of comics in form and a multi-line narrative in structure, in fact, it tells the story of three middle-aged grass-roots men from the core, especially grounded, and has a realistic foundation.


 A standard "stone flavor"


To sum up, such a pre-Spring Festival dish "Temporary Robbery" has both a stone flavor and a comic sense, and it also resonates with some middle-aged frustration. In fact, in recent years, there are many films similar in narrative style to Crazy Stone, but not many of them are of high quality. On the whole, Temporary Robbery is still a very "right" stone-flavored film.



The main feature of multi-line narration is that several different protagonists get together in a major event through many coincidences.



There are actually many coincidences in Temporary Robbery. For example, the robber stopped there to repair the car. As a result, in order to sell the stolen goods, he coincidentally threw a bag of money into the trunk of the car, and the taxi driver got mixed up inexplicably.


This particularly accidental event is usually a very important turning point in a multi-line narrative drama.


"Temporary Robbery" is to mix up three waves of different people because of this car through big and small coincidences. Big cases, small cases, big robberies, small robberies, and then there are real robbers, as well as this inside job and petty theft. All kinds of people are mixed together, and finally 12 small cases are attributed to a big case. Such a film structure is still very delicate.



A surprise "comic sense"



The comic sense is also a new change brought by Temporary Robbery. The usual Hong Kong films give the audience a serious feeling. Sir A is Sir A, and thieves are thieves. But in Temporary Robbery, we can see that it is dispelling this stereotype.



As far as the characters are concerned, Aaron Kwok used to play more roles in Hong Kong-made films, such as a depressed father and a bitter undercover, but this time the role is actually a little playful, a subversive buck-toothed and stuttering Aaron Kwok. Some viewers even commented, "Help, Aaron Kwok is like my second uncle" and "The famous actor Aaron Kwok is still missing".



His buck teeth make it easy for the audience to think of his present shape, his big steel head and his way of speaking, which are also very similar to the Spanish killer in the movie.


In the film, he himself said, "We are bandits". It can be seen that he is a particularly principled gangster in his professional orientation. For example, if a brother is going to be shot, he must make up a shot. For example, if someone annoys him, he must say "Say sorry".



These mandatory "unwritten rules" contribute the most jokes in the film. He may not be the same as the people the audience will see in daily life, but in Temporary Robbery, the audience will trust this person very much.


Because he fled from Annan’s hometown to Hong Kong to be a gangster, he once won the East Asian Games, but his life was actually very bitter. He got into the underworld in his hometown and was ruined.


He has a lot of pre-history to express in the film, so he can also say why Mei Lantian, the gangster he plays now, is a little neurotic, a little abnormal and a little exaggerated. In fact, Aaron Kwok has found a good character base for all these characteristics, and the biography of this character is very solid.



A middle-aged frustration


In addition to Mei Lantian, he has two teammates this time, Lin Jiadong and Richie Jen. These two are also two of the three thieves in the film "A tree catches the wind". This time, they are incarnated as three bandits. They are two people in the role, but they bring a completely different experience to the audience.



In "A tree catches the wind", Richie Jen and Lin Jiadong are both particularly fierce bandits, but this time, they are two middle-aged men who are not very useful, a waste and a waste in a waste.



Lin Jiadong is an idiot who is losing all his hair. He lives in a public rental house with his family, and his mother and wife quarrel every day. Life is a chicken feather. His character is a coward from beginning to end.



Richie Jen opened this nursing home. As a result, because he couldn’t afford the room, he took risks for the old people, and then he became a robber. But his fear of hands and feet made his robber dream so unreal. In fact, there is a line of his own, which is very consistent with the characteristics of the role. "Good people can’t do it well, and bad people can’t do it."


These three characters also lead to the core of the film-middle-aged frustration. Three people live three different lives and have three different situations, but in the end all kinds of reality make them make the same choice. In fact, under the funny shell, they also poked some tears in the audience’s heart.



What is different from watching Temporary Robbery is that some comedies may be passed after the audience has finished watching and laughing, but there are still some very distracting parts in this drama.


In the middle, the three of them are pushing a cart, telling each other why they took this road, and then the three brothers sang together, "I just want to go with you all my life." At that moment, I felt that these three robbers seemed to poke you a little. That kind of frustration is very distracting, but some empathy will happen and it is worth going to the cinema to have a look.


Return to the 1990s in the name of suspense and visible trauma.

  The online drama "The Long Season" broke down during the May Day holiday, making "suspense", "Northeast China" and "laid-off workers" become hot topics again. Why does the story of the frustrated and failed old man’s revenge for his son impress the current audience? Why are the "old cases" that could not be told and detected 20 years ago repeatedly "cleared up" by film and television dramas after 2010? All history is contemporary history. In the name of suspense drama, people once again feel the social trauma suffered by urban workers in the transitional period of the 1990s.

  Looking back on the industrial suspense drama in the 1990s.

  "The Long Season" was filmed in Kunming, Yunnan. The biggest label of this drama is suspense drama, especially the director Xin Shuang once created the masterpiece "Hidden Corner" of domestic suspense online drama. This online drama is set in Hualin Iron and Steel Plant, with the case of dismemberment more than ten years ago as a clue, and presents three parallel time and space stories in 2016, 1998 and 1997. There are two generations, Wang Xiang, Gong Biao and Ma dui, who secretly investigate the case of dismemberment, and Wang Yang and Shen Mo, who fall from the youth of the flower season, and show the vicissitudes of life. The highlight of this drama is not only to uncover the mystery of "suspense" at the end of the drama, but also to reproduce the mental pain of laid-off workers who have undergone market-oriented reform like still life sketch.

  In 2014, Yinan Diao, the sixth generation director, combined the northern industrial towns with murder and suspense stories, presenting a tense and chilling atmosphere. Then in 2017, the film "Blizzard is Coming", "Detonator" and other works once again started suspense narration with the factory as the background. In 2018, Lou Ye directed A Cloud Made of a Rain in the Wind, and in 2019, Yinan Diao directed The Party at South Station, which represented the 1990s and the beginning of the new century as a "dark" space full of crises and dangers. In this sense, The Long Season continues this narrative type of "industry+suspense+black", turning industrial cities and factory spaces into "scenes" of murder and crime. The typical representative of black and suspense films is Hitchcock’s films in 1950s and 1960s, which are used to show the social emotions of anxiety, nervousness and fear of the urban middle class who don’t know where the danger comes from. These films, which combine the local context with the times and are full of crimes and suspense, show people the humble fate of the little people trapped by the big times, and show how individuals are caught in the black whirlpool of desire in the market-oriented reform in the 1990 s, as well as show people’s floating and fear of the times when they are laid off.

  If the market-oriented reform from 1990s to around 2010 is regarded as the transition period of the dual-track reform, then the economic rise of China in 2010 has started a re-examination of the 1990s. For example, the black suspense online dramas Crime Without a Certificate (2017), Chasing the Murder in the White Night (2017), Hidden Corner (2020) and Silent Truth (2020) all happened at the turn of the new century. At the beginning of 2023, The Knockout, an online drama, became a rare TV series that crossed classes and became popular in recent years. This story of the second generation of the factory going to the underworld at the turn of 2000 is like another version of The Long Season. All these show that the police criminal investigation drama, once a realistic theme, has gradually changed into a more Hollywood black suspense drama.

  Different from the cultural identity of forging ahead and embracing globalization in the 1990s, The Long Season has a different narrative about the story of laid-off workers in the 1990s: all kind and honest people have been laid off, while the powerful class represented by the factory director (power) and fake Hong Kong businessmen (capital) are bad guys who embezzle and misappropriate public funds. This rewriting shows the rethinking and examination of the narrative in the 1990s after 2010.

  From Patricide Culture to Father’s Return

  In addition to the "blackening" in the 1990s, since 2010, another cultural symbol is the appearance of an image and the return of his father. Different from the patricide culture in the May 4th Movement or 1980s (denying the previous era), China’s films have intensively told the story of his father’s return in the past ten years. For example, the father of workers in Piano of Steel (2011) and August (2016), the red father in Taking Tiger Mountain 3D》(2014), the right father in Return (2014) and One Second (2020). The father’s story is accompanied by the reconstruction of the father-son order, such as The Wandering Earth (2019), Looking Up (2019), Feng Bao (2021), Me and My Father (2021) and other films showing the story of father-son reconciliation and son inheriting his father’s business. These images of returning fathers play a dual social function. One is to rewrite the historical memory and let the exiled father return to history. Second, the Oedipus complex between father and son has changed into "loyalty and filial piety", which reflects the re-establishment of patriarchal order, which is related to China’s modernization and economic rise. However, this picture of reconciliation between father and son is also full of cracks, which shows the dilemma and drift of cultural narrative.

  The Long Season has formed an intertextual relationship with works such as The Piano of Steel and August. "The Piano of Steel" rewrites the image that laid-off workers, as the "eldest son of the Republic" and "the big brother of the working class", were eliminated in the name of inferior and backward labor. The laid-off workers in the film are all "skilled craftsmen" who are hidden and hidden from the people, and they have transformed themselves into skilled workers with clear division of labor and their own duties in the ruined factory buildings. Similarly, the 2016 literary film "August" is also a tribute to the father who experienced the changes in the 1990s: for the father who is engaged in film editing, on the surface, he believes that he can rely on his ability to eat from now on, but in fact he does not want to "lower his noble head". Because he knew that he would lose a stable life and friendship with his colleagues when he changed from a state-owned worker with the main body of the master to a hired worker, and he was greeted by being displaced, swallowing up and trying to earn money. On the one hand, these films regard laid-off workers, losers and people who leave the system as fathers; On the other hand, they perform their father’s duties in movies, such as building a piano for their daughter in Piano of Steel, going out to work for their son to attend a good middle school in August, and the meaning of father’s life in Long Season is to "settle grievances" for his son.

  The premature death of the family and the pain of reform

  However, unlike the father’s return and the reconstruction of father-son order, The Long Season also tells the story of his son’s untimely death. Such plots have been reflected in Wang Xiaoshuai’s chongqing blues (2010) and Forever (2019) — — The former tells the story of the return of the father who went out to work for a long time, investigates why his son died, and finally finds that the son who lacks fatherly love has committed suicide; The latter is that the son accidentally drowned, his parents were laid off, and the family left the factory and moved to a distant place to start a more difficult life. The same is true of The Long Season, in which the return of father and the death of son become the most prominent mental symptoms. The Long Season focuses on the train driver Wang Xiang, and takes the double trauma he suffered in 1998 as the turning point in his life: one is the accidental death of his son and the death of his wife; Second, I have been laid off from the technology of "loving the factory like home" as a taxi driver. For Wang Xiang, two "homes" died in the autumn of 1998, one was his own family and the other was the home of the unit. Therefore, there are two Wang Xiang in the play, namely, a model worker who was full of pride and sense of justice before he was laid off, and a white-haired little old man who later lost his mind. With the help of Wang Xiang in the two eras before and after, the changes of the times of steel mills and industrial cities with factories as the core in the 1990 s were brought out, and the reform from the 1990 s to the beginning of the new century was expressed as an era of trauma and pain.Present the social crisis and transformation dilemma in the market-oriented reform.

  In a word, these film and television works that returned to the 1990s have re-opened the old scars of laid-off workers, showing the new problems brought about by the reform and opening up, and the other side that was covered and suppressed by the reform discourse — — Especially in the process of radical marketization, individuals encounter trauma and fall into a dangerous and uneasy state of mind. These have aroused the resonance of the current audience. At the end of The Long Season, two Wang Xiang met again in the golden cornfield. The old Wang Xiang waved to the train driver Wang Xiang and told himself in the 1990s to "look forward and don’t look back". This train in the "industrial pastoral" scenery is like another parallel space at the fork of history, heading for a future without darkness and blackening.

Five kinds of minor criminal cases in Shanxi Province can be reconciled.

    On September 1st, the Provisions of Taiyuan People’s Procuratorate on the Application of Criminal Reconciliation in Handling Minor Criminal Cases (Trial) came into effect.


    Set the original intention, resolve social contradictions and save judicial resources


    Zhang, a middle school student in Xinghualing District, Taiyuan City, stabbed a person seriously in 2006. After accepting the case, the Xinghualing District People’s Procuratorate visited the victim and his relatives, and went to Zhang’s school to make a detailed study of his daily life. The procuratorate learned that Zhang is usually very dutiful, and although his academic performance is not very good, he has been rising steadily. Li, who was three years older than him before the incident, was bullied many times. After the parents learned about it, they took Zhang to the Li family to discuss the argument. However, Li was abusive to Zhang’s parents. Zhang was angry for a while and smashed Li into a serious injury. The two parties reached an agreement on civil compensation, and the Xinghualing District People’s Procuratorate finally made a decision not to prosecute.


    This case has become a typical case encountered by Taiyuan People’s Procuratorate in the exploration of criminal reconciliation system.


    "Such a child, just a moment of anger made an excessive move, subjective malignancy is very small. If he is sent to prison, his future life may be completely changed, and some teenagers will be’ infected’ again after being imprisoned, and they will completely embark on a wrong path. " Nan Li Ming Dow, Director of Public Prosecution Division I of Taiyuan Procuratorate, explained the original intention of the criminal reconciliation system.


    The "Regulations" determine that in the process of minor criminal cases, the criminal suspect can actively gain the understanding of the victim by pleading guilty, apologizing, financial compensation, etc., and reach a criminal settlement agreement with the victim. After confirmation by the procuratorial organ, the procuratorial organ will make a decision not to prosecute the criminal suspect.


    According to reports, in reality, if criminal sanctions are imposed on a large number of cases, under the existing judicial mechanism, both the offender and the victim are in a situation of mutual loss for a long time. For example, neighbors’ relationship, because one side’s head is broken and one side’s nose is interrupted at a moment’s quarrel, constitutes a minor injury. After the implementation of criminal sanctions, neighbors may die of old age, but it will increase social contradictions.


    "Frankly speaking, prosecuting all these cases will not only have a bad social effect, but also waste judicial resources. Regardless of whether the case is big or small and involves prosecution, all procedures are actually exactly the same. The whole procedure has to be taken once. " A prosecutor said.


    It is reported that from 2005 to 2006, Taiyuan City prosecuted 5,806 criminal cases with 9,223 people, among which 1,912 cases with 2,622 people were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of less than three years, accounting for 28% of the total number. There is considerable room for criminal reconciliation.


    Experts analyze the theoretical basis of criminal reconciliation


    According to Li Qi, an associate professor of Shanxi University Law School, criminal reconciliation has its profound theoretical basis.


    First of all, criminal reconciliation is the requirement of implementing the criminal policy of combining leniency with severity. There are various criminal cases, and the circumstances of the crime are light and heavy, which requires different resolution mechanisms for cases of different nature, so as to make the strictness strict and the leniency lenient. For those minor cases, the application of criminal reconciliation instead of blindly emphasizing the investigation of criminal responsibility can not only eliminate the opposing feelings of both parties, protect the rights and interests of the victims, urge the perpetrators to confess their sins and mend their ways, turn negative factors into positive ones, but also save judicial resources.


    Secondly, criminal reconciliation embodies the characteristics of China traditional culture. In the traditional culture of China, there is a spirit of "harmony is the most important". Reconciliation based on distinguishing right from wrong and consultation between the two sides is conducive to social stability.


    Thirdly, criminal reconciliation adapts to the trend of restorative justice in the international community. The focus of restorative justice is not the pursuit of punishment for crimes, but the pursuit of order reconstruction and social harmony. Procedurally, restorative justice also pays more attention to consultation and reconciliation. From the practical point of view, restorative justice has become a rising judicial reform movement in the international scope, and has also achieved remarkable results in preventing crimes, reducing judicial investment and safeguarding the interests of victims.


    Finally, criminal reconciliation is in line with the spirit of China’s current laws. China’s criminal law, criminal procedure law, etc., have some provisions on non-penalty punishment methods, mediation and reconciliation for minor cases. However, due to the lack of detailed legal provisions, the scope of application of these provisions and procedures has been greatly limited, and the positive functions have not been fully exerted. Therefore, it is very necessary to improve and refine the operating procedures.


    Scope of application Five kinds of minor criminal cases


    According to the "Provisions on the Application of Criminal Reconciliation in Handling Minor Criminal Cases (Trial)" promulgated by Taiyuan Municipal People’s Procuratorate, criminal reconciliation is applicable to minor criminal cases that meet one of the following circumstances: (1) The criminal suspect has a statutory lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment; (2) The criminal suspect is a negligent offender, a first-time offender or an occasional offender; (3) The criminal suspect is a minor, an elderly person or a student at school; (4) The victim is obviously at fault; (five) the case is caused by disputes between relatives and friends, neighbors, colleagues or classmates.


    In practice, criminal reconciliation can easily cause people’s worries about "buying punishment with money". In this regard, the head of the criminal reconciliation research group explained that although criminal reconciliation pays attention to protecting the interests of victims, criminal suspects, the state and society also benefit from it. Through criminal reconciliation, victims can be prevented from retaliating against criminal suspects and criminal suspects can be prevented from endangering society again, which not only embodies the protection of human rights, but also plays a positive role in controlling the occurrence of social crimes. Therefore, criminal reconciliation is a judicial idea and model to prevent crime from the victim’s point of view, which embodies humanistic care and social civilization and progress, and should not be misunderstood as "buying punishment with money".


    In addition, in criminal reconciliation, the "power" of procuratorial organs is remarkable. In this regard, the person in charge of the research group introduced that the procuratorial organ is a legal supervision organ. If the criminal suspect and the victim reach a settlement, they shall apply to the procuratorial organ for confirmation. The procuratorial organ is not the host of criminal reconciliation, but the supervisor of criminal reconciliation. In practice, we should try to avoid the interference of "public power" on the will of both parties.


    Procuratorial organs also have corresponding supervision and restriction mechanisms in the application of criminal reconciliation. If the grass-roots procuratorial organ intends to make a decision not to prosecute by applying criminal reconciliation to minor criminal cases, it shall be discussed and decided by the procuratorial Committee and reported to the Taiyuan Municipal People’s Procuratorate for approval; After accepting the request from the grass-roots procuratorial organs, the Taiyuan Municipal People’s Procuratorate shall report it to the procurator-general for decision or the procurator-general shall submit it to the procuratorial committee for discussion and decision.


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    ● What are the conditions for the procuratorial organ to confirm that the parties have settled?


    If the settlement agreement meets the following conditions at the same time, the procuratorial organ shall confirm that the criminal suspect and the victim have reconciled: (1) The criminal suspect pleads guilty and repents, apologizes to the victim, and makes corresponding commitments in writing; (2) The criminal suspect and the victim have reached a consensus on civil compensation matters, which have been fully fulfilled; (3) The victim expresses forgiveness for the criminal suspect.


    ● What happens when the procuratorate does not confirm that the parties have settled?


    If the settlement agreement has one of the following circumstances, the procuratorial organ shall not confirm it: (1) it infringes on the national interests, social public interests and the legitimate interests of other citizens; (two) against the true meaning of the parties; (3) Violating the prohibitive provisions of laws and administrative regulations.


    ● What corresponding supporting measures does the procuratorial organ have after criminal reconciliation and non-prosecution?


    Within one year after the implementation of the decision not to prosecute, the person who is not prosecuted shall regularly report to the procuratorial organ in writing his compliance with laws and regulations and his commitment. The procuratorial organ shall pay a return visit to the person who is not prosecuted and the victim. (Reporter Yuan Wei)


Editor: Wang Yuxi

Bertolucci is gone. Thank you. He made The Last Emperor for China.

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.

National Film Chronicle 06 | A Chen Kaige work, but Zhang Yimou stole the show and said that he saw a UFO.

    Special feature of 1905 film network  In 2015, a biography of Zhang Yimou was published. According to the book, in the summer of 1985, during the filming of a film, Zhang Yimou witnessed a UFO.

    This book quotes Zhang Yimou’s words in a direct quotation, which is positive and convincing.

    Zhang Yimou was convinced that what he saw was a UFO.

    Many years later, a reporter asked Chen Kaige, the director of the film, about the UFO incident.

    Director Chen made a surprising statement, saying that he was there that night. When the reporter asked about the authenticity of the UFO, Chen Kaige shook his head gently and kept it a secret.

1905 solo broadcast on the whole network Grand parade

    This mysterious film is Parade, Chen Kaige’s second work.

    However, the point of view of the film is by no means limited to "anecdotes". After watching the whole film, you will be hit by Zhang Yimou’s photography.

    Chen Kaige’s film, however, was upstaged by Zhang Yimou.This incident is the real highlight of the military parade.

Brilliant Zhang’s aesthetics shook the film world

    The authenticity of "UFO" is beyond examination, but Zhang Yimou should have seen something "unusual" that night.

    The incident happened before the "Military Parade" started. Now, it seems like an "inspiration" to Zhang Yimou.

    It’s like he got through the "Ren Du Er Mai" and made an extraordinary picture.

Zhang Yimou (first from the right) is on the cast of One and Eight.

    In 1983, Zhang Yimou just graduated from Nortel and was assigned to Guangxi Film Studio.

    In the same year, under the promotion of the old factory director Wei Bida, he became a member of the first "youth film crew" in China and served as the photographer of the film One and Eight.

    This year’s graduates have created films independently, which is unprecedented in the country. Zhang Yimou caught a golden opportunity.

    Compared with the previous domestic films, One and Eight has made a big breakthrough in style, and Zhang Yimou has made great contributions as a photographer.

    The film is visually subversive.

    Use more natural light and pay attention to the realism of images. Abandon the "theatrical use of light" of similar films before.

    Pay attention to the aesthetic feeling of picture modeling, and the composition is concise and "geometric". Let the image be no longer just a "picture of lines", and strive to be "visual" in narrative.

    After the publication of One and Eight, after controversy and discussion, it finally won the approval. Therefore, Zhang Yimou was invited by Chen Kaige to be the photographer of Yellow Land.

    The image style of Yellow Land is similar to that of One and Eight. While keeping the previous thinking, Zhang Yimou also made a breakthrough.

    The film continues the natural light and "realistic style" of "One and Eight", however, it takes a bigger step in the picture modeling. The theme of "Yellow Land" gave Zhang Yimou the soil to experiment boldly.

    The film’s discussion on the relationship between man and land allows Zhang Yimou to use a more radical composition and try to outline the modeling combination of characters and space.

    The paragraph of "begging for rain" in the film embodies the visual experiment of the main creation.


    There are two works as the base, and Zhang Yimou’s image ideas are beginning to appear.

    Since then, he has continued to cooperate with Chen Kaige, and the next film is the masterpiece of his initial style.

    After "Yellow Land", the cooperation between Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou was getting better and better, and the filming of "Grand Parade" started non-stop.

    On the one hand, the cooperation between them is more tacit, on the other hand, the theme of "military parade" is a natural "picture experiment field".The right time, the right place and the right people, those amazing images of "The Great Parade" came into being.


    The scene distinction of "The Great Parade" is very clear — — Indoor and outdoor.

    There are probably two views of barracks and bathrooms indoors, while there is basically only a training ground outdoors.

    Due to the characteristics of military parade training, the lens outside the film has almost become a "composition laboratory". People and the environment make up all kinds of "lines" and "figures", which makes the picture "geometric beauty" everywhere.


Diagonal composition in the Great Parade

    When representing the whole queue, diagonal composition is often used.

    Avoid the formation of parallel lines between the team and the picture frame, and try to break the monotonous state of the picture.

The iconic close-up of the Great Parade

    When shooting a single person, we often use the "Lionel style" to compose a close-up of the face.

    This technique highlights the individual characters, which is in contrast to the "dense" picture when expressing the "collective" and closely follows the theme of the film "the relationship between the individual and the collective".

    In addition, Zhang Yimou often regards the whole queue as a subject, and makes a fuss about the relationship between the environment and the subject with a larger perspective.

    The same way is also presented in One and Eight and Yellow Land, which can be regarded as a continuation of style.

Indoor drama photos of "Grand Parade"

    The outdoor drama of the Great Military Parade is "face" and "lining" is an indoor drama. Surprisingly, the light of "Lizi" almost overshadowed "face".

    The photography of indoor drama is actually the real brilliance of the Great Parade.


    The scene of the opening physical examination of the film is very subtle.

    Chen Kaige concealed the sound of the scene in the later period, while Zhang Yimou used the lens of the medium telephoto end to shake and wander among the people undergoing physical examination.

    Using the moving crowd as the foreground to express specific characters is the symbolic composition of the Great Military Parade.

    Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige want to visualize the theme of "individual and collective" through this relationship of depth of field.

Bathroom of the Great Parade

    Bathroom drama also followed the previous shooting method, and more resolutely used the way of "people making prospects".

    In addition to the function of being close to the theme, this way is also in place in the description of the atmosphere, and there is a sense of participation in the scene.

    The use of silhouette in the film is also very careful.

    Interspersed use in indoor drama plays a boosting role in establishing characters.

    In addition, the film tried a lot of complicated scene scheduling.

    Use the movement of the camera to match the position of the characters, so as to add richer and more three-dimensional content to a single shot, and strive to break the monotonous techniques of domestic films for many years.

    It can be seen that although the scenes of the military parade are "graphic beauty" to attract attention, the breakthrough and ingenuity of indoor drama is the key to the title of "visual feast" for the Great Military Parade.

    Zhang Yimou’s talent was fully displayed in the Great Parade.

    Of course, the film is under the control of the director. The talent of a photographer can only be known to the world if it is appreciated and recognized by the director.Therefore, the partnership between Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou is very successful.

    At that time, they didn’t know what they would achieve in the future.

    Now, as the two most successful directors in the "fifth generation", their early experience of "combining two swords" has quite a sense of "heroes cherish each other".

China CDC: The main epidemic strains in Covid-19 have changed into XBB series variants, and the pathogenicity has not changed significantly.

  Cctv newsOn May 8th, the the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference with the theme: Prevention and control work after the COVID-19 epidemic no longer constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern".

  At the meeting, Chen Cao, a researcher at the Institute of Virology, China CDC, introduced that with the continuous increase of China’s foreign exchanges, the composition of major epidemic strains in Covid-19 has also been significantly increased by international influence. According to the monitoring data, in late April this year, among the imported cases, the composition of XBB series mutants has reached 97.5%, which is basically consistent with the proportion of XBB series mutants in the world. Among the local cases, the proportion of XBB series mutants has increased significantly since February this year, from 0.2% in mid-February to 74.4% in late April. At the same time, BA.5.2, BF.7, BA.2 and their subdivisions together account for about 25%. At present, the main Covid-19 epidemic strains in China have become XBB series variants.

XBB series mutant is a kind of recombinant mutant in Omicron, and its spreading ability and immune escape ability are stronger than those of Omicron mutant which was popular in the early stage, so it is a global dominant strain at present. According to the current monitoring data, the pathogenicity of these popular variants, including XBB variant, has no obvious change compared with the early popular Omikrongya branch. China CDC will continue to do a good job in monitoring the confirmed cases and clustered epidemic strains in sentinel hospitals, especially the strains of severe cases, deaths and special populations, and work with customs departments to monitor the imported strains. At the same time, China has established a multi-channel monitoring and early warning system to monitor the epidemic situation in sentinel hospitals, fever clinics, key places and urban sewage. Once abnormal risk signals are found, local disease control departments will verify, evaluate, warn and dispose of them. In addition, China CDC will strengthen health publicity and education with various departments to effectively respond to social concerns. Here, I also call on everyone to maintain the good health habits they have developed, look at the epidemic scientifically, and not be too scared or careless, and maintain a good attitude.

Baidu disease category post bar stops business cooperation

  Recently, the news that the hemophilia bar was sold in Baidu Post Bar and introduced a medical institution "hemophilia expert" as the new bar owners was exposed, which immediately caused great controversy. Yesterday, Baidu Company officially announced that Baidu Post Bar has completely stopped commercial cooperation and is only open to authoritative public welfare organizations. The new bar owners of hemophilia bar is an NGO focusing on the prevention and treatment of hemophilia, "Home of Blood Friends", which will be operated and managed together with hemophilia bar friends.

  Further investigation by Beijing Youth Daily reporter found that some diseases were suspected to have been sold to informal medical institutions, and these institutions were suspected of publishing false advertisements. At the same time, some "doctors" with doubtful qualifications have also been active in the disease bar.

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  "Home of Blood Friends" becomes the new bar owners.

  Recently, some netizens broke the news that the hemophilia bar of Baidu Post Bar was sold, the original members of the bar were replaced, and the hemophilia expert named Professor Liu Shaanxi, Dean of the Hemophilia Research Institute of Shaanxi Medical University, was introduced to become the new bar owners. Later, some netizens pointed out that the expert was a liar and had been exposed by the media.

  Yesterday, Baidu Company issued an official statement saying that the NGO "Home of Blood Friends", which focuses on the prevention and treatment of hemophilia, has accepted the invitation to become the new bar owners of hemophilia bar, and it will jointly operate and manage with more than 7,000 hemophilia bar friends. "Home of Blood Friends" has also become the first public welfare organization to participate in the operation of the disease category post bar.

  The reporter of Beiqing Daily opened "Hemophilia Bar" and found that "Home of Blood Friends" has indeed become the new bar owners. In addition, three new bar owners’s have been added, and the original second largest bar owners "Ant Cuisine" has become one of them. He posted on the Zhihu that "this hemophilia incident proves that although there is always injustice in the world, good people still occupy the majority, and justice is free from people’s hearts."

  At 11: 57 am yesterday, Baidu said on its official Weibo that all kinds of disease stickers have completely stopped commercial cooperation and are only open to authoritative public welfare organizations. At the same time, Baidu will strengthen the rectification of Post Bar, and never allow anyone to cheat by posting it.

  Some middlemen said that "the statement will not affect"

  According to a person familiar with the matter, the reporter of Beiqing Daily revealed that Baidu Post Bar has its official operating partners in its enterprise platform. If you want to contract a post bar and become a post bar bar owners, you only need to contact these companies.

  Yesterday afternoon, the reporter of Beiqing Daily contacted one of the official operating companies of the Post Bar, and its staff told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that at present, Baidu is adjusting the disease category and posting it. "It should not be contracted for diseases in a short time."

  However, the reporter of Beiqing Daily called another official operating company of Post Bar, and the person in charge of the company said that because the company mainly focuses on education, finance and other industries, the current statement may not have any impact on the agency.

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  Some diseases are accused of being sold to informal medical institutions.

  Yesterday, WeChat official account, whose micro signal was "Gu’s IDEA", published an article, which caused many netizens to reprint and reply. According to the post, many kinds of disease stickers were sold to some "pheasant institutions", such as "hypertension bar", "hyperthyroidism bar" and "vitiligo bar", and some of the advertisements were exaggerated and easily misled patients.

  Taking "Hypertension Bar" as an example, the reporter of Beiqing Daily found that an institution named "Gemei Chinese Medicine" was the actual controller of the bar, and the bar service team also showed that many Gemei Chinese medicine doctors were bar owners Jr.

  In the "Enterprise Profile" of official website, the full name of this institution is "Guangzhou Gemei China Nutrition and Health Consulting Co., Ltd.". However, in the enterprise credit information system of Guangdong Province, the reporter of Beiqing Daily found that the business scope of this institution is "nutrition and health consultation (excluding disease diagnosis and treatment activities); Marketing planning; Industrial investment consulting ",etc.

  Subsequently, the reporter of Beiqing Daily inquired about official website of the State Food and Drug Administration, and found that Gemei’s name was not found in the lists of health food, Internet drug trading services and online pharmacies.

  In addition, according to the list of "online doctors" provided by Gemei’s official WeChat, Beiqing Daily reporters searched on the official website of Guangzhou Municipal Health Planning Commission, and most of the names did not have relevant practice registration information, and none of the doctors in the list indicated their affiliated institutions.

  At 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the reporter of Beiqing Daily found that the advertisement on "Hypertension Bar" had been revoked. A post user said, "The hypertension bar is all thanks to Gemei, and it has finally been liberated today."

  The qualification of "doctor" in the disease bar is doubtful.

  Yesterday afternoon, the reporter of Beiqing Daily entered the epilepsy bar. According to the data, the number of people who followed the post was nearly 30,000, and the number of posts reached 440,000. The epilepsy bar is marked with a QQ number and a micro-signal. The reporter of Beiqing Daily added the micro-signal and found that the main account is "Beijing Huasheng College Hospital".

  The reporter of Beiqing Daily contacted "Director Guo" through the "online consultation" window. He claimed to be an expert in Beijing Huasheng Hospital. However, under the repeated inquiry of the reporter of Beiqing Daily, the other party also called himself an expert assistant and didn’t know much about epilepsy.

  Subsequently, the reporter of Beiqing Daily contacted a self-proclaimed "Anti-epilepsy Association" Dr. Xu. When the reporter of Beiqing Daily asked him if he was the designated doctor of China Anti-Epilepsy Association, the other party gave a positive answer, but soon after, he deleted the reporter from his friends.

  The reporter of Beiqing Daily noticed that the portrait of Dr. Xu was the same as that of a netizen in the epilepsy bar, and the netizen appeared frequently in the post bar. In the post bar he was concerned about, there was Beijing Huasheng Hospital. In addition, the QQ number he left in the post is the same as that of the above-mentioned "Dr. Xu".

  Yesterday afternoon, a staff member of China Anti-epilepsy Association told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that Dr. Xu, who claimed to be an anti-epilepsy association, was not a doctor of the association.

  The staff said that the China Anti-Epilepsy Association is a social group, and it will not arrange doctors to contact patients actively to treat diseases, nor will it leave a QQ number to answer questions for patients.

  At about 18 o’clock yesterday, when the reporter of Beiqing Daily opened the epilepsy bar again, he found that the advertisement of the top picture of the bar had disappeared, and the text description containing QQ number and micro-signal under the head of the post bar also disappeared.

  Text/reporter Zhou Dan Huang Xiaojing

Russian President Vladimir Putin inspects korolev Energy Rocket Space Group.

On October 26th, local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected korolev Energy Rocket Space Group in Moscow State. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Manturov and President of Russian National Aerospace Corporation borisov accompanied him and showed Putin the Russian orbital space station module that has been manufactured. Russian astronauts will use Russian-made space stations after withdrawing from the International Space Station project.

On the same day, Putin said in a discussion with the staff in the space rocket field that he expected the first part of the Russian space station to be launched into orbit in 2027.

Putin also said in the discussion that he was saddened by the crash of the "Moon -25" probe, but it was also an experience. Russia will not stop the lunar exploration project and will continue. Borisov, president of the Russian National Aerospace Corporation, later said that the launch of Russia’s next lunar probe "Moon -26" may be advanced from 2027 to 2026.

After the inspection and discussion, Putin held a working conference in the space field. Putin said at the meeting that although Russia decided to extend its participation in the International Space Station project until 2028, this move is only a temporary transitional step, and Russia should develop its own orbital space station. (Reporter Wang Bin, General Desk)

Extreme Fox Alfa T5 officially unveiled the new medium-sized pure electric SUV.

  [Aika Auto 2023 Guangzhou Auto Show Original]

  At the 2023 Guangzhou Auto Show, ARCFOX Polar Fox brought a brand-new pure electric medium-sized SUV— — Compared with Alta T, which is also a medium-sized SUV, the new car is slightly smaller in size, and will compete with BYD Song PLUS EV, Volkswagen ID.4 and other models after listing.

Polar Fox Alpha T5

  In terms of appearance, the new car adopts a new design language, which is different from the Alfa T on sale. The front face adopts a narrow strip-shaped front grille, which is connected with the headlights with long and narrow shapes on both sides to widen the visual width of the new car. At the same time, the new car also adds raised ribs at the hood of the engine, which has a strong sense of muscle. The diversion grooves on both sides of the lower enclosure further increase the sense of movement of the vehicle.

Polar Fox Alpha T5

  The side of the car body is in proportion, the window line is decorated with black trim strips, the door handle is hidden, the front and rear wheel eyebrows are clearly depicted, and the rim is blackened with red brake calipers. The roof tilts from the A-pillar, creating a slip-back appearance. A waistline runs through the front and back, and with the black decorative board below, the feeling of forward dive is increased.

Polar Fox Alpha T5

  The rear design is relatively simple, with integrated taillights, blackened rear bumper and taillights, and a low warning light in the center of the diffuser below, which increases the overall layering and movement. In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4690*1936*1650mm and the wheelbase is 2845mm respectively.

  In terms of interior, the new car adopts the minimalist interior design that is very popular at present, and the door adopts two-color design to create a sense of fashion. In addition, the new car is equipped with a large-size central control screen, and the shape of the dual-spoke steering wheel is more sporty. The car is also equipped with atmosphere lights, wireless charging of front mobile phones and HUD head-up display.

Polar Fox Alpha T5

  In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a front single motor and offers high and low power versions to choose from. Among them, the maximum power of the low-power version motor is 185kW, and the maximum power of the high-power version motor is 200kW. The suspension structure of the chassis is designed with front McPherson and rear multi-links. The battery is also available in Ferrous lithium phosphate and Lithium Ternary.

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Beijing BMW i5 (import) price reduction information! The latest offer is 579,900 yuan. If you miss it, you won’t have it.

[car home Beijing Preferential Promotion Channel] Special News: In order to give back to the vast number of consumers, the highly anticipated imported BMW i5 is currently experiencing a heat wave, and a round of unprecedented preferential activities has been launched in Beijing. Remarkably, car buyers can enjoy a cash discount of up to 60,000 yuan, which greatly reduces the original car purchase cost. The minimum starting price has been reduced to 579,900 yuan, which provides an attractive opportunity for consumers who are ready to buy BMW i5. If you want to seize this rare opportunity of price reduction, you must click "Check the car price" in the quotation form to get more attractive preferential treatment.

宝马i5(进口)头图

BMW i5 (imported) attracts people’s attention with its unique design. The front face adopts the classic BMW family-style design, and the iconic kidney grille shows the perfect combination of strength and elegance. The body lines are smooth and dynamic, and the overall style combines the sense of future technology and sports aesthetics, showing the unique interpretation of BMW brand for luxury electric vehicles. In detail, the exquisite LED headlights set off with the outline of the car body, creating a strong visual impact.

宝马i5(进口)正侧

The body lines of BMW i5 (imported) are elegant and dynamic, which shows the perfect integration of luxury and technology. The body size is quite spacious, with a length of 5060mm, a width of 1900mm, a height of 1505mm and a wheelbase of 2995mm, providing passengers with spacious interior space. The front wheel specifications are 245/40 R20 and the rear wheel specifications are 275/35 R20. With exquisite rim design, it not only improves the handling performance, but also increases the visual impact of the vehicle. The overall shape is smooth, showing BMW’s ultimate pursuit of details.

宝马i5(进口)中控全图

The interior of BMW i5 (imported) is famous for its exquisiteness and luxury, which shows the sense of craftsmanship and technology of BMW brand. In the spacious cockpit, the steering wheel is made of leather, which provides electric up and down+front and rear adjustment functions to ensure the driver’s comfort. The 14.9-inch central control screen is not only impressive in size, but also integrates multimedia system, navigation, telephone and air conditioning functions to realize voice recognition control and improve driving convenience. Seats, including imitation leather, genuine leather and leather/suede materials, provide passengers with a comfortable ride experience. The front seats are equipped with heating and ventilation functions, the driver’s seat also has electric seat memory, and the electric adjustment function extends to the passenger seat, including multi-directional adjustment of front and rear, backrest, height, leg rest and lumbar support to meet the needs of different drivers. In addition, the car is also equipped with USB/Type-C interfaces, including front and rear rows, and the wireless charging function of the mobile phone, which provides convenience for passengers’ electronic equipment.

宝马i5(进口)发动机舱

BMW i5 (imported) is equipped with a powerful engine with a maximum power of 442kW, which provides the driver with surging power output. The maximum torque is an astonishing 795 Nm, which can show excellent performance both in daily driving and when acceleration is needed. This engine is undoubtedly a highlight of BMW i5 in performance.

At the time of summing up the full text, we learned that BMW i5 (imported), as a high-performance electric vehicle, has always attracted consumers with excellent driving experience and innovative technology. Now, in order to further give back to the majority of riders, dealers have provided unprecedented price reduction promotions. Seize this rare opportunity, you can own this trend-setting car at a more affordable price, and enjoy the fun of driving and the convenience brought by intelligent technology. Seize this moment, BMW i5 (imported) is waiting for a perfect encounter with you. Let’s start an intelligent driving journey together.