Author: Wu Hongfei
Southern People Weekly
Never think that you are a superman, you can exceed the binding of the times. In fact, we can't get rid of China's cultural fate. We always grow in the shadow of the times. There is a strong mark in our work. Jia Zhangke is very busy, really like a rotating gyro, his fourth movie "World" has reached the post-production period. But he still don't know what this film will look like.
When I knocked on the iron gate of the half basement, he was doing animation and trick processing, and his phone has no signal. Only three hours a day, his schedule will always be rushed to September.
When I gave him about him, he agreed, but he slept in that day, he did not think that he would not have it in the morning. Beijing Xiaoyu, in order to increase his guilt, I left "a note in front of the" one visit "in front of the iron gate.
When I first interviewed at night, he was anxious, but it was very patient, it was very unbearable. I was letting him, he ran in the legs, really quickly.
At the time of interview, it was exactly "10-sided ambush" Beijing premiere. I asked him:
"What do you think about Zhang Yimou's" Ten Ambush "?"
"I haven't seen it yet." He is old.
"Is going to see?"
"Plan."
"when to go?"
"I have been busy this time. Or wait for the fare."
"Wait for you have time, please go to the cinema to see it."
"Really?" He was surprised and happy.
"Really." In order to increase my reliability, I further explained: "Can you please watch a movie is my honor."
He smiled happily, his laughing on his face, only one word can be described: "Bloom". It's just too much.
Faless movie
In the early 1980s, domestic changes have begun to rise. In 1987, a teenager in Xiangyang County, Shanxi is busy with his brother's sister to learn to dance, prepare to "turn around" with them. He watched the US version of the "Break Dance" in the county cinema, he felt that it was much more jumped than Taiwan's "霹".
Ten years is also the most important stage in his growth. The ideal of revolution gradually disappears, and the tide of commodity is coming. Later, when he had the right and qualified to speak, his self-expression urged and passion found the most suitable carrier and home. He chose this memory as an important topic in his narrative.
"I want to use a movie to care about ordinary people, care about the real world ... Some people have forgotten those memories, some people think that those memories are not important ... But those who are important to me. I miss them Those who have been forgotten the names, those who have been with ideals when they are young, but finally at a silent people. "
The story of Jia Zhangke's "platform" has been in 1979, has been until the early 1990s. "In this section of this history, in the ages, we don't know its significance."
In the director of China, there seems to be no such a strong emotion like him.
The name of the "station" takes place in the early 1980s, the popular songs with rock tastes: long platform, lonely waiting ...
He prefer popular music. "The big brother on the street, has a checked recorder, has a cassette, then listening to Liu Wenzheng, Zhang Emperor, Deng Lijun. Slowly raise a domestic epidemic song, such as Su Xiaoming, etc.
Consistent with his memory, there is a lot of popular songs in the "Station". Those songs are the most profound imprint in his 1980s.
The life of the "platform" record is so mediocile, lacks miracles, lacks dramatic. Jia Zhangke's courage is honestly reproduces and dreams, impulses and sadness of a generation. That is a song of youth, is also an epic movie. He won the Best Asian Film Award in 2000, the Best Film, the Best Director of the Three Aernel International Film Festival, Nante Continent, France. That year, he was 30 years old.
His three movies, "Xiao Wu", "Station", "Happy Tour", has not been able to perform. But his name and his movie have become an unavoidable sign in the history of Chinese movie. "I oppose the 'legendary" of the movie, if we only turn the movie into the fictional legend of the people, we may have forgotten that even betrayed our lives. "Jia Shu said.
War history: "I want to be a big mix."
In 1970, Jia Zhangke was born in Xiangyang, Shanxi, and his father is a secondary school language teacher, and the mother is selling a salesperson in a city part of the county candy. He has a big six-year-old sister. It is a propaganda team in the school. It does not perform class performance, and the representative is "the train to open". These memories have finally become the opening of the "station".
"When I was going to school, my achievements have been bad, but more friends, there are more than a dozen brothers in elementary school. My ideal is to grow bigger than a lot of power."
"In the junior high school, half of my brothers dropped out of school, and didn't work, I was mixed on the street. I was forced to study by my father. They have been outside the school every day. I will go to the street. "
In that year, some of the mixed friends later went to be a soldier, some of the thieves were caught in prison, and the police ago gave a grand issue of "why people lived". It is also because the robbery is shot, sitting on the execution vehicle, laughing at the roadside side. These only let him feel that life is fragile and impermanent.
In the city of Xiangyang County, there was no train. And he wants to go far away.
In 1990, he graduated from high school. He did not take a college, but he didn't want to read it again. The result of the father's compromise is 300 yuan, and it is learned from the art test of Taiyuan, live in the house of the farmer.
In Taiyuan, he saw many albums, all high, Angel, Celest. He wrote poetry, writing novels, also painted, he has been looking for the most suitable way to express him "heart". Later, he saw a movie "yellow land". He didn't plan to see, but that day may be bored may be accidental, he walked into the cinema and saw this famous movie.
"The original movie can be so shooted."
He then thought of Beijing and Approaching the Film Academy. There are too many people in the director, and he adjusts the strategic plan to apply for some literature department.
He took three times. When he entered the literature department in 1993, it is not a formal student of the Film Academy, and he is much more than his classmates.
Independent movie
He doesn't wait, just start making a film. "Hill home", 55 minutes of story film, attracting countless disease, but accidentally won the 1996 Hong Kong Independent Short Slice and Video Competition Gold Award.
In 1996, after got 300,000 investments, Jia Zhangke immediately returned to his hometown in Xiangyang, taking the most familiar experience. His elementary school students and friends are his "Tone Object" of his movie.
The people in the hometown only feel that he will pull a sponsorship every day, "good hard".
In 1997, the independent film is not a very reliable method. But he still did it, this is "Xiaobu". Its great success makes his ideas and practices more clear and stable. A movie style begins to gradually surface.
He believes that the fifth generation of director is very talented, very creative, it is not able to compare, but their difference is the difference in "knowledge structure". He believes that this generation has a more powerful inverse of its own culture. And "fifth generation" lacks such a refirational capacity.
He rely on his powerful, stable, with a work team of complex cultural background, and got another award. But the names and honors don't seem to have much change to his heart.
"Never think that you are a superman, you can get out of the age. In fact, we can't get rid of China's cultural fate. We always grow in the shadow of the times. Our work has a strong negotiation."
