A few months ago, Zhang Yimou read the book published in a magazine called "Harvest" under the introduction of a friend. It was written very well and in-depth. Since then, Zhang Yimou has the idea of ​​making this into a movie.

Calling a group of wives and concubines is a novella created by the writer Su Tong, telling the story of Song Lian, a female student who was "educated in the new era", who voluntarily married into the orderly feudal family Chen's mansion with high walls and deep courtyards, and finally headed towards a tragic fate of "a group of wives and concubines" in the open and secret struggle.

The story is backed by the 1920s in the early 20th century, when the country was still in turmoil and warlords fought each other. It was an era of fierce collision between feudalism and modernism.

Su Tong depicts an extremely pathetic world of female survival with calm and almost plain words

They are a group of humble and pitiful people. Their fate is like a candle in the wind and a duckweed in the water. There is always the danger of being swallowed and submerged.

Feudal ethics and patriarchal oppression are extremely important and unshirkable factors that cause the tragic fate of women.

However, women's own problems cannot be ignored either

At some point, the harm to women is no longer just a social problem or a traditional problem, but a problem of people themselves and women themselves.

He grasped a very profound theme. The reality that women hurt each other after identifying with male culture. So the more miserable the woman's ending is, the more sad the more it is, and the stronger it hits the readers' hearts.

These women, whether they are wives and concubines, prostitutes or mistresses, all have a strong sense of personal dependence. It is this "innate" sense of dependence that makes women in a state of inability to choose from.

And the subject of being attached - the temporary likes and dislikes of men often cause women to lose dependence.

This kind of subject that directly hits human nature and explores human nature is the most popular theme of the fifth-generation domestic directors represented by Zhang Yimou.

This can be seen from every movie they have filmed since they directed the guide

They are particularly keen on new ideas and new artistic techniques, trying to find new angles in every video

Their films have strong subjectivity, symbolism and meaning. They strongly desire to explore the history of national culture and the structure of national psychology through the film.

Zhang Yimou saw from the movie "The Story of Wife and Concubine" that he had been pursuing, exploring national culture, national psychology and human nature, so he quickly contacted the author Su Tong and bought the copyright of the movie "The Story of Wife and Concubine"

Gong Li is undoubtedly the best and most suitable heroine in Zhang Yimou's heart.

Because Gong Li has the stubborn and rebellious spirit of the heroine he wants

But what Zhang Yimou never expected was that after listening to his brief introduction to the content and some of his ideas about the movie, Gong Li thought of it as soon as he was very familiar with the plot of lighting a lantern.

It seems that I heard it from Qiao Feng's mouth a few years ago

Why is Zhang Yimou going to light a lantern in his movie now?

Is it plagiarism or plagiarism

When Gong Li said that what Zhang Yimou told was very similar to the story of hanging lanterns that Qiao Feng once said in the Qiao family compound, Qiao Feng almost slapped himself in a big mouth

This is the end of talking nonsense

It is obvious that the setting for lighting lanterns was invented by Zhang Yimou himself, but now Gong Li begins to suspect that the original creation is plagiarizing

How did you say this

The key is that the ritual of hanging lanterns can even be said to be the core element of this movie and the story.

The movie Zhang Yimou is going to shoot must be a big red lantern hanging high

From the name of the movie, you can see the importance of lighting a lantern for the movie

In Su Tong, the story takes place in Jiangnan, which is filled with mist, while in Zhang Yimou's movie, it is changed to the tragic and heroic Xishan courtyard.

In order to conform to the image presentation, Zhang Yimou created a series of rituals about lamps, such as lighting and sealing lamps in the film, which is not available in this scene.

Lanterns are the core image in movies

On the wedding night, the master lights the lanterns "fortunate" and the wife is happy to hang eternal lights. The gray courtyard wall, big red lanterns, dim room, red light

Mr. Chen in the film has never shown his face, and the director may not want to transform him into a recognizable person.

He is a symbol of a kind of people in the feudal family

Similarly, in the Chen Mansion, the master is supreme. He is scrutinized by everyone and is in the "God's perspective". To others, it doesn't matter what he looks like, what matters is his position.

In Qiao Feng's view, the lanterns in the movie symbolize the desires in the hearts of the deep-lived women in the movie

Status, preferential treatment, honor and favor, and human primitive desires

The rules in the mansion: Where can the master go to spend the night, light the lights, and when the master leaves, turn off the lights

Lanterns are closely connected to the master

The four women in the mansion stood at the gate every day and waited for a strong servant to walk to the wife who was "turned over the sign", and then the butler shouted "A certain courtyard lights the lights!"

Just like the concubines in the deep palace, the emperor's favor is the foundation for their living. Whose sign the emperor turns on means who the emperor gives kindness to. Here, the lantern symbolizes honor and favor.

Honor means rights, "Which house is lighted, where is the house is ordered," the master wants to "go to the house is lucky", and the wife can enjoy the preferential treatment of "beating her feet". Lanterns symbolize rights

With honor and favor, power, you will naturally have status

If the yard does not light the lights for a few days, the people's faces will be hung, and the lanterns symbolize status

To put it bluntly, the lantern is the master's favor to the women in the deep house.

The girls have lost their independence, and their presence in the big house is given by lanterns, and the value of their existence is determined by the master.

The master likes you, loves you like treasures, and doesn't like you like abandoned

The beautiful illusion of the lanterns in the yard during the honor and pet cannot cover up the essence behind it, and women are alienated

What is alienation? It can be understood as marginalization, toolization

Women in the Chen family are not treated as human beings. The master regards women as tools for venting and inheriting the family line; servants do not care about the wife's own qualities and pay attention to which room to light the lights tonight

Because the meaning of lanterns being artificially attached connects lanterns with value

The servant's eyes follow the lanterns, and the master's preferences dominate the direction of the lanterns. They are the place where the lanterns stay, and they are the master's new pets. They themselves have no value and are not worthy of cherishing, because the master's preferences will be noticed.

You can only pity yourself in the mirror in the phantom of the lantern

It can be said that the existence of the lantern lighting ceremony is one of the most basic reasons why the big red lantern is hanging high.

Such an important ceremony was clearly created by Zhang Yimou, but because he yearned for the superficial symbol of turning lanterns and turning over the brand, he became his original when he was visiting the Qiao family compound, and then he became plagiarized and plagiarized.

Thinking about it, he was so injustice for Zhang Yi
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