Introduction to the girl in red

Introduction to the girl in red | Appreciation | Reflection

1984 color film 10 copy

Produced by China Emei Film Studio.

Director: Lu Xiaoya (based on * * * The Red Shirt Without Buttons)

Photography: Xie Erxiang's main actors: Zou Yitian (played by An Ran), Luo Yan (played by Jingjing), Zhu Xu (played by his father), Wang Pin (played by his mother) and Li Lan (played by Wei Wan).

This film won the first prize of 1984 excellent film of the Ministry of People and Culture of China; 1985 Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film of China Film Association and Hundred Flowers Award for Best Feature Film of Popular Film.

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In the preface, my childhood fell on my mother's shoulder. When my tired mother saw a car coming on the road (with the slogan "Down with XXX" on it), she got off the car and waved for a ride, and the car drove by. Enron looked up and asked his mother, "Why does the car run so fast?" Mother squatted down, took out red dates and gave them to Enron: "Run by yourself, and mom will chase you." Enron's little figure waddled away. Arrived in the city, Enron fell on his mother's back again, eating and asking, "Mom, why do people eat?" "If you don't eat, you will starve to death." "Why did you starve to death?" "You will know when you grow up." "When can I grow up?" ……

In the 1980s, Enron was a high school student, lively and cheerful, with a childlike innocence. One Sunday, she wore a red shirt that her sister gave her without buttons and followed her sister in the street. She is carefree, pestering her sister to buy "fluffy shortcakes", pointing to foreign vendors to show her new farmers in the 1980 s, and comparing the wrinkled grandmother to "exquisite wood carving" ... She walked into the furniture store and immediately asked her sister if she wanted to get married. However, Enron also has some concerns. When it comes to the upcoming final exam, the mood will be low. Sister knows Enron is not afraid of exams. She is smart, diligent and has excellent grades. I'm just afraid that I won't be rated as a top three student at the end of the term. According to the unwritten rules, you can take care of yourself by entering high school and college for three consecutive years.

Why does Enron have no confidence in the selection of three excellent students? Because I offended the head teacher, Miss Wei. It was in a Chinese class. Teacher Wei read (Ye) as Xie and found that the teacher read it wrong. After checking Xinhua dictionary, the monitor Zhu also said it was wrong. Raise your hand safely and point out the teacher's mistakes. Teacher Wei was angry and asked the students to find out the dictionary on the spot. Enron asked Zhu to take out the dictionary, but Zhu said he didn't bring it. As a result, Enron left a smug impression on Mr. Wei and his classmates. When my sister learned of Enron's distress, she went to visit Mr. Wei and wanted to do some work, because Wei Wan was her primary school classmate. Wei Wan doesn't like Enron. She introduced to Jingjing that she often plays with some students who are not good at learning, which is different from others. She also pointed out that wearing that red shirt to school has a bad influence. After listening quietly, she was a little embarrassed. Wei Wan told Quiet that she contributed a poem to the quiet editorial department, hoping to have a quiet look.

No matter what the teachers and classmates think of her, Enron criticized the behavior of the monitor Zhu in the composition class. But this incident caused controversy at home, and Enron's father praised the composition for being well written and telling the truth; Mom thinks it's not good. She blames Enron for being too stubborn and not suffering. How can she scold the monitor? Teachers like the monitor; My sister is very worried about her, so she won't let her wear a red shirt anymore. Enron refused to accept it. She asked her sister, "That's strange. Didn't you buy it for me? Isn't everyone saying that I look good in this dress? "

Mi Xiaoling's family was poor, so she dropped out of school to work as a shop assistant instead of her mother. Enron felt sorry for her, went to the store to visit her and invited her home for dinner. When Mi Xiaoling saw the oil painting by Enron's father, she didn't know what it was called. Enron introduced with her true feelings: "You see, the earth raised this big tree, and the earth is her mother. In summer, trees, like sons, provide shade for Mother Earth. In autumn, the tree began to dress up in gold. They floated to the earth and their mother in costumes and kissed their mother's chest. You see, the mother also opens her chest to welcome her son back. This is the best gift from her son, a solemn and affectionate kiss. " Enron's father listened silently. Mi Xiaoling envied Enron for knowing so much, and regretted that she could not insist on going to school. Compassion and comfort, tears with friends.

After the exam, Enron rode to Baiyangdian with several boys. Liu Donghu bought melons by the roadside, giving 50 cents less. After hearing it safely, he said to the boys, "Shit!" On her way home, she returned the money to the melon seller. During a break, I took Liu Donghu's fifty cents safely and returned it to him with a note: "Your harvest is more than fifty cents."

Mom was angry because she went to play with boys safely, accusing her of "why do you want to play with boys, just you …" Enron said angrily, "Mom, I look down on you." Enron can't understand her mother's questioning and her sister's concern. She believed her father's words: "You can't wear other people's glasses forever." She said, "I'm not like anyone. I am like me. "

I quietly read the manuscript sent by Wei Wan, and found it really difficult to publish, but after careful consideration, I wrote "Suggest sending". The editorial department gave her an internal movie ticket, and she also gave it to Wei Wan. Wei Wan got the message, and at the class meeting to select the "Three Good Students", he used hints and inducements to mobilize everyone to choose Enron, so that Enron barely got one more vote to become a "Three Good Students".

Enron was confused and depressed. In the election discussion, she was still criticized and accused. Since she doesn't understand me, why did she choose me? When the whole family congratulated her on her evaluation of Miyoshi, she was unhappy and depressed. I happened to see the proof of Mr. Wei's poems published in my sister's schoolbag, and she realized the taste. She said excitedly, "I now understand why Teacher Wei mobilized everyone to choose me. This gift came from here!" She rushed out of the house in pain and began to cry.

I fell in love with a divorced man with children silently, and my family was surprised. My father, who is usually enlightened, is very angry and openly opposed. Enron is a little confused. Although he doesn't understand why his sister is like this, he still loves her deeply, silently observes her every move and cares about her. Enron reflected on what happened from the school's evaluation of the conflict between Miyoshi student and his sister at home, showing a calm and calm. At the last class meeting, she took the initiative to tell Zhu: "I have been thinking about a problem recently" and "not everything should be written in my composition". Seeing the list of miyoshi students published on the blackboard, she went up to erase her name, added "strive for peace next year", and stated the reasons for giving up the honor of miyoshi students to Mr. Wei. Teacher Wei was abrupt at first, and then persuaded, "You have always been simple, but you can't think too complicated." Answered without hesitation: "no, Mr. Wei, it's not what I thought." I discovered it myself. " Teacher Wei silently stared at Enron's sincere and frank eyes.

Quiet finally decided to find her beloved and send her sister to the station safely. The back of the two sisters moved to the distance, and they each went to life with new thinking and courage.

Distinguish and appreciate

This film won the Golden Rooster Award, Hundred Flowers Award Award and * * * Award on 1985. At that time, public opinion thought it was a big surprise. Mixed with countless praises and sharp criticisms. For example, on May 4th, 1985, Shanghai Liberation Daily had two tit-for-tat comments: Enron-a successful typical and false girl image. The focus of the debate is whether the sincere and pure aesthetic character embodied in Enron's image has a basis in real life. But the fact that the film touched the hearts of the audience and won unanimous praise from everyone is beyond doubt, which shows that the ideal beauty of Enron's image is based on its reality.

This film is novel and refreshing. Whether it is the presentation of life scenes, the portrayal of characters or the use of film language, it presents a simple and fresh artistic style. Let people see strange things from the plain, taste bright, and the small life world contains profound and broad life topics. A 16-year-old girl bid farewell to childhood and stepped into youth, seeing life with her own eyes and feeling life with her own heart, calling for sincerity between people. This character is a new image of a screen person who radiates the light of the era of ideological liberation. Xia Yan's doyen brilliantly summed up her aesthetic value: "Enron was not a teenager in the 1950s, but a typical one in the 1980s. She doesn't blindly follow and doesn't believe in preaching. Nowadays, middle school students do have their own opinions. They should see things with their own eyes and think with their own brains. She doesn't accept the old customs in society and is an open and positive example. She is kind and pure, but she has the spirit of not being superstitious and daring to face difficulties. She loves her sister and her father, but she dares to oppose what she thinks should not be done. I like such teenagers. I think that with this character and courage, China's' national character' can be transformed and China's nation can be revived. "

The most important basis for the success of Enron's image-building lies in the artist's cordial feelings about life and sincere pursuit of art, and the original Red Shirt without Buttons is a masterpiece of realism. Director Lu Xiaoya was strongly infected by this novel, which triggered his original life experience and thinking, and triggered his re-creation. After communicating with the original author, she adapted it herself, changed the draft five times and put it into shooting. The pursuit of her director is to "express by natural and objective means, let the characters truly stand up, and then let the audience see the second, third and fourth grades through their own association ..." These pursuits are clearly reflected in the artistic style of the film.

The environment of the film's safe life and the growth of the characters have a real sense of reality.

Enron's pure and clear temperament is not imposed on her by the director's subjective thoughts, but bred in her specific and ordinary life situation. Enron was loved by his parents and sister, and didn't start washing his hair until 16 years old. Her sister did it for her and she lived a carefree life. Although she was born in and grew up after the Cultural Revolution, her unrestrained mind was nourished by the ideological liberation movement in the 1980s. She wore that red shirt to show everyone that she was a girl and publicly showed her beautiful nature. At school, she likes to play with boys and thinks that boys have a wide range of knowledge. She is willing to help Mi Xiaoling, who is not good at her lessons, because looking at Mi Xiaoling is a bit tacky but upright. The characters around Enron and their living environment are in the natural life process.

What is particularly convincing is that the turmoil of the three outstanding students selected in the end leads to a direct contest between sincerity and hypocrisy, which involves the realistic contradiction of what kind of person should be, remarkable in the ordinary, subtle and profound. Enron hopes to be a good student, but she is more eager for everyone's understanding and trust. Faced with the false honor of "three good", she was confused, painful and brave to abandon it. Her persistence in sincerity has aroused conflicts with those around her who violate sincerity and are afraid of sincerity. Conflicts do not appear as strong drama entanglements, but are naturally revealed in the words and deeds of the characters in their respective situations, which can illuminate all aspects of real life and the differences in people's ideological concepts and moral realms.

Quiet and complicated mentality has profound practical pertinence. She is basically connected with Enron in spirit and temperament, hates secularism and likes Enron's sincere character. However, in the face of practical difficulties, in order to obtain practical interests, they go against their will to cater to the secular. She is well aware of the obstacles that Enron failed to evaluate the three good students. At the critical moment, she used her limited commercial rights to pull relationships, make deals and remove obstacles. As a result, she sacrificed her honesty, trampled on her sincerity and hurt Enron's sincere heart. The mother showed meticulous care and love for her little daughter, but because of the frustration after losing her ideal, she became nagging and narrow-minded, and only asked for peace of mind to listen to the teacher so that she would not learn to be a sinner. She rudely hurt the beautiful sentiment in her daughter's heart when dealing with the selection of three good students. Father and daughter can still communicate, because he can face the ups and downs of life and stick to integrity. Therefore, Enron can feel the beauty connotation of his father's paintings with his heart; Father is glad that his daughter can criticize the monitor's hypocrisy frankly. But it is such an enlightened father who flew into a rage when he heard that his eldest daughter was quietly marrying a married man in his forties. This stroke extremely powerfully reveals the deep-rooted feudal traditional consciousness that remains in people's consciousness. Wei Wan, the head teacher, is secular and hypocritical, and has no basic professional ethics for teachers. This figure is typical. Not only does she dislike Enron's frank personality, but she thinks she is conceited. Under the influence of her educational thoughts, there are bound to be "obedient" students like Zhu, who get full marks in academic performance and are sophisticated, and are not allowed to offend people. Obviously, she didn't like Enron, but she traded her personal interests and used the authority of the teacher to mobilize students to vote for Enron. Enron discovered the truth with his own eyes and gave up this fake "three good students", which greatly shocked her and strongly felt this sincere spiritual strength.

The real documentary scenes and concentrated lyric scenes that run through the whole film blend harmoniously, making the picture full of real poetry. This is an important artistic feature of this film.

At the beginning of the scene where some sisters were walking in the street, while the camera followed the crowd to show colorful street scenes and all kinds of people, with Enron's whimsical comments, the camera selectively fell on some symbolic scenes: the stiff model in the window, the wrinkled old woman selling popsicles, and the fat girl walking with watermelons, which set off her lively, naive and imaginative personality. Some details of life have been refined into a unique flavor, which makes Enron's innocent character look particularly moving. When Liu Donghu knew how to use the fifty cents of the old melon seller, she gave him a sentence: "Your harvest is more than fifty cents", which shows that she is really happy for the progress of her classmates. Once, she went to the store counter to see Mi Xiaoling. At the end of the store, she suddenly put her schoolbag on the stall and went in, because she remembered that Mi Xiaoling once said that it was sad to see her classmates carrying schoolbags. This detail reveals Enron's true feelings about friendship.

On the poplar avenue that Enron passes on the way to school every day, rows of stout poplars, the scars left by branches are flashing like all kinds of "eyes". This landscape was quickly replaced by montage and became a unique mirror image. Enron's eyes often communicate with different "eyes" in trees. This scene is not only full of life interest, but also expands the inner space of the characters. Similar to borrowing scenery from poplar to express emotion has appeared in many movies, and its application here has really achieved the harmony between water and water. After the class meeting to select three excellent students, Enron felt abnormal with his sincere heart and felt restless. When she walked to the poplar, 1 1 close-ups (lens number 430-44 1) appeared one after another in Wei Wan's embarrassing flashback, showing different forms of "eyes" on the poplar. They stared at Enron's confused eyes, and the audience seemed to see her different eyes alternately: thinking eyes, worried eyes, angry eyes and tearful eyes. Close-up 12 jumps to tears. The most expressive stroke is that when Enron decided to give up being a "three-good student" and answered the teacher's criticism that she thought things were too complicated with a sentence "I didn't think of it, I found it with my own eyes", a close-up of Enron Ming Che's crystal eyes appeared on the screen. These frank and brave eyes hit people's hearts, as if they had a penetrating power. They exposed the hypocritical and smooth vulgar world that was concealed in a tacit way in reality, and lamented that the beautiful mind was influenced by it.

There are also some meaningful modeling spaces, which make Enron's inner world implicitly and powerfully contrasted. Playing safely on the playground, I overheard my classmates talking about Mi Xiaoling leaving school. She was very surprised and rushed to the classroom anxiously. In the empty classroom, Amy is alone, packing her schoolbag, and the camera moves slowly on the rows of experimental tables and desks. Looking at Amy calmly, watching Amy take out stationery from her desk and stuff it into her schoolbag. Amy took out a small plastic bag and handed it to Enron. Pick up some stamps safely. Amy stepped onto the platform, erased her name from the "duty column", began to cry in a low voice, and looked at Amy with tears in her eyes. There are only two of them in the empty classroom. In the whole scene, not a word was said. The only sound is that the students practice chorus in the distance, and the meaning of the song deepens the meaning of the picture. Here, silence is better than sound. In the quiet and carefree image atmosphere, people feel that two sincere hearts are beating together, pure friendship, sincere wishes ... all kinds of beautiful feelings are flooding in their hearts.

A red shirt without buttons is not only an ordinary dress in Enron's life, but also a symbol of Enron's character. Enron likes to wear it, which symbolizes her enthusiasm and sincerity; When she was criticized, she dressed without scruple, symbolizing her self-esteem and self-confidence. Enron's actor Zou Yitian's performance is clear, transparent and full of vitality. The amateur actor's unique pure and natural quality close to the role was successfully applied to the creation of the role under the guidance and inspiration of the director.

The vivid and moving image of Enron depends on the success of the surrounding characters in the overall creation. Actors who play the roles of father, mother and sister communicate with Enron in a proper and natural way. In addition, it is worth mentioning that Li Lan has artistic sincerity in shaping the role of Teacher Wei. This is a very annoying role, and several actors invited by the director are unwilling to take it, but Li Lan accepted it seriously. She pondered that this model is not only among teachers, but also a typical image deeply influenced by thoughts. Therefore, she did not simplify and caricature this character, but carefully grasped its personality characteristics, and truly reproduced the complex modality of this character's inner hypocrisy, friendly appearance, dogmatic concept and tacky behavior, which left a deep impression on people.