Some movies are made into poems, and some poems are written into movies.
I once watched a movie titled "Ten Minutes, Aging in the Year", which consists of a ten-minute short film produced by fifteen world film masters. Fifteen short films are fifteen poems that explore the mystery of time when we exist.
Greek Film director Theo Angeropoulos said that movies are poetic versions of the world. In a sense, the only thing movies can do is to make the passage of time sweet.
Written by | Three Books
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A blank etude
"Bodhisattva Man"
Wen Tingyun
The hills overlap the gold and the clouds in the temples are about to pass the fragrance of the cheeks and snow. I am lazy to draw my eyebrows and make makeup and wash it up late.
Front and back mirrors of flowers, the flowers faces are reflected. Newly embroidered silk robes, pairs of golden partridges.
This lyric can be used as a song, a group of melancholy emotions, or as a short film to listen to, watch, and find taste.
If it is a short movie, the duration will not exceed ten minutes. There are no plots, just a few shots that express the characters' psychology, but each shot is very emotional and beautiful.
lens 1: In the early morning, the young woman's boudoir is focused on the screen in front of the bed.
overlapping landscapes are drawn on the screen. The poet Wen Tingyun is a great director. What he really wants us to see is not the screen, but the dream of this woman. At the beginning of the movie, the woman had woken up, but she did not move, and she still delayed in that dream. Just as we sometimes wake up and long to return to the dream we just now, we feel like we are sent back and sent here as soon as we press a button.
This is a moment of confusion, half in bed, half in dream. The more vivid a woman’s dream is, the clearer the mountains and rivers on the screen are, which is the real distance between her and her lover. The "Drizzle dreams of returning to the far away of the chicken, and the small building blows the jade sheng cold" is also the same moment, the same confusion.
The mountains overlap, the sunlight is like flowing gold, clearly extinct. You can say that the fantasy symbolizing some kind of hope, or the fantasy that only lives and dies, or the lust that appears, or the dream-eating beast that walks, whatever depends on you. The world is a symbolic system, and the symbol comes from a sense of mystery. Wen Tingyun did not express the feeling of a woman. He used "small hills overlapping gold and clear destruction" to symbolize it, which is his sensitivity and meticulousness. He knew that a person could perceive the mystery by seeing the sunlight leaking from the cracks in the windows, mottled flowing on the floor or wall.
shot 2: The woman in the bed.
"The clouds on the temples are about to pass the fragrance of the snow on the cheeks", there is wind blowing here. The wind is beautiful, and when the wind blows, the grass turns green. The wind blew the woman's black hair and floated over her snow-white face. This shot is sexy, lively, and quiet. Just as I was about to write about a woman's loneliness, I said it was about writing about her beauty. When loneliness is written into poetry, it is elevated to beauty.
The word "desire" is very vivid. "desire" means to cross, "desire" means to be about to be about, and hair will not be about to be about to be fine. Feelings without mercy, ruthless and affectionate, the Chinese aesthetic tastes mostly between existence and non-existence. Here, the four things are inseparable from the style, the hair, the people, and the dreams. Writing your hair means writing about people, and writing about style means writing about dreams.
shot 3: Woman washing.
"Lack of drawing eyebrows, getting makeup and washing up late", a sensitive reader should not only see a woman's sorrow until now, but should feel when he starts to read "the hills overlap" that "overlapping" means lush and majestic. When we watch movies, listen to music, and read poetry, we all perceive an atmosphere from the beginning. Even if the beginning of the movie is a joyful scene, you can have a premonition that something disaster is approaching. The first sentence of a poem must convey the tone of the whole poem, just like whether the music uses C major or A minor, you can hear it as soon as you start. This is true for both classical poetry and modern poetry.
Haizi, which has been misread for many years, " Facing the Sea , Spring is Blooming", the tone of its elegy is conveyed from the first sentence: "From tomorrow, be a happy person." When we say "From tomorrow, I will get up early", it is precisely because it is difficult for us to do so that we have made such a determination. "Zhuangzi" says, "If you don't listen to it, listen to it with your heart, and if you don't listen to it with your heart, listen to it with your spirit." This sentence can be used as a method to read poetry.What you need to listen to when reading a poem is not what you say, but how the words are said or omitted. For Haizi, happiness is as bright as lightning, strong and unsure. This poem does not describe a simple happy happiness, but the possibility of human beings obtaining happiness. This is the poet's sincerity and depth, and it is also the meaning and truth of life, so that we can hear ourselves resonate with it.
Return to the movie shot of this poem, and then look at "lazy" and "making up". The woman's emotionlessness and sense of alienation convey the woman's psychology and also add to the woman's beauty. Most of the ancient poets liked lazy beauties, so the lazy and slowness of these two sentences are actually for beauty.
If you think of these two actions, you can also appreciate a lot of meaning, such as a woman's narcissism and self-pity. If you listen carefully, you can still hear her dialogues with herself, her and him, her and the years, and her and fate.
Lens 4: Front and rear mirrors for the painting.
This is a close-up shot. After finishing the dressing, the woman held a mirror in her hand and looked at the flowers inserted on her hair bun, and was reflected by the mirror in front of her. At this time, the human face and the flowers were in the front mirror. "The mirror before and after the flower" is not only consistent with the facts, but this sentence itself also has the dizziness of "the flowers and faces are in harmony". This close-up amplifies the woman's loneliness and almost transforms her beauty into a deep dream.
Lens 5: Embroidered silk robe.
A woman looked at her silk skirt with a newly embroidered "Shuangshuang Golden Partridge ". Partridge symbolizes the return, pairing, and of course it is her warm wish. But early this morning, the new embroidered silk skirt made her particularly cold, and the pair of partridges made her look particularly lonely.
Five silent short shots, the song "Bodhisattva Man" is like a blank etude. He was ruled by a huge absence in the early morning, which made everything absent. Without a single line, we hear the ups and downs of emotions and the real sounds in the air. The poet Wen Tingyun is well aware of this. His art of writing lyrics is to show you a few pictures, with almost static subtle movements, without any word.
Zhao Ji "Peach Dove Picture".
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Wait, single-lens poem
Let’s look at a shorter short film, Wen Tingyun’s “ Looking at Jiangnan ”:
After washing, leaning alone on Wangjiang Tower. After all the sails, there are no other things, and the slanting sunset is gushing. Heartbroken Baisu.
There are only five sentences in this poem, and perhaps the first four sentences are enough.
made into a short film, only a long shot that does not exceed five minutes, but it took her a whole day and was extremely long waiting.
When we see her "cleaning up, leaning alone on Wangjiang Tower", we must know that the story has begun for some time. The subtext of washing is that today is a special day. For those who please themselves, women are not interested in washing themselves. For example, in the Book of Songs, Bo Xi, "Who is there no ointment, who is suitable for wearing it?" After washing up and climbing Wangjiang Tower, it is not difficult to guess that she is waiting for him to come back. The return date has come, and he will be back at any time in the past few days.
"A thousand sails are not there", please pay attention to her expression. Hope, tension, loss, and cycle. Every sail on the river comes from far to near, from near to far, and her mood rises and falls until the thousands of sails pass by.
You can imagine that on the picture, the passing ships are from slow to fast, and then in the stacking, the river is sky above, leaving only "the slanting sunshine is radiant and the water is lingering." That was the boundless loss and sadness that permeated her heart. From morning to dusk, she waited for not a whole day, but seemed to have been for centuries. The Husband Stone is not a legend. Who said that people grow old while waiting for people.
Mr. Zhu Guangqian talked about Wen Tingyun's poem in his article "On the "hidden" and "exposure"". "It is a wonderful product in romance poetry, but the words are slightly closer to "exposure". If you delete the five words "heartbroken Bailu" and the meaning is even more endless."
Chinese poetry has always appreciated "the words are endless but the meaning is infinite." According to this standard, the first four sentences of "Wang Jiangnan" are extremely "hidden", with minimal words, but the hint is quite rich. If the picture stops at the slanting sunset, or the camera gradually pushes away, pushing the woman on the Wangjiang Tower into the depths of the vast universe, and finally stops at a large panoramic view, it is indeed more meaningful.
But why is there "heartbroken Bai Suzhou", and did Wen Tingyun make up the number of sentences to write the lyrics? It depends on how to understand "Baisuzhou". Since "Chu Ci", Bai Suzhou has symbolized lovesickness in classical literature. If you only take this symbolic meaning and only express your heartbreak and lovesickness, this sentence will turn into a snake's foot. If Baisu is where they once loved or parted, then there will be a different effect, which will deepen the pain of the whole poem.
Chen Hongshou Flower and bird paintings.
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10mins of age
"Huanxisha"
Zhangbi
The east gate of the small city is about to snow, and the people meet the gods and the golden cicadas are painted with yellow fragrance.
Drinks and scatters at dusk, people stand in front of the door with drunken faces speechlessly, horses neighing and dust dries up the smoke in the street.
The picture and narrative of the poem
is like a movie script. There is one lens in the upper and lower films, and between the two lenses, a blank daily time is skipped.
upper film is on the bustling street of the east gate of the small city of Chang'an City in Tang Dynasty. It was cold and there was some wind, and it seemed that it was about to snow. The street market was bustling, and he suddenly saw a woman who seemed like a god among the crowd. Her makeup, "the golden cicada is painted with yellow fragrance", is radiant and also shows her origin. She should be a lady from a noble family.
This graceful picture is somewhat similar to Xin Qiji's romantic encounter on the Lantern Festival in "The Blue Jade Case". The difference is that the woman is hidden in the night lights, smiling and fragrance goes away, and then he looks for her all over the world until "when he looks back, the man is in the dim light."
Zhang Bi's story in this word is like the snow that is about to arrive, with a desolate chill. In the last shot, the woman flashed by in the bustling street market and didn't notice him at all. For him, from the picture, she felt out of reach.
The next piece is transferred to his banquet. It was drinking and scattered at dusk, and it was obvious that he had social events and did not look for the woman. "He is a scattered person", he has no choice but to show that his heart is not at a banquet, and he is eager to get rid of this social event. However, after drinking, when he stood silently in front of the door, where was the figure of the woman there?
Only in front of me can I see "the horse is neighing and dust is baking in the street smoke", a world that is full of mixed feelings and empty and illusory because of her disappearance. Like a drop of water disappearing into the sea, nowhere to be found. The short film fades out in this picture, which is very rich in the human world and sacred compassion.
can be imagined completely a modern version, and in fact such a story happens every day. Assuming the location is still at the east gate of the small city, which is about today's East Street in Xi'an. If it cannot be called more prosperous, it will be more bustling. You are on the way to the banquet and accidentally see someone, and you feel that time seems to have stopped. But reason tells you to continue walking to the banquet you may not want to go to at all. You have been absent-minded and finally wait until the wine is over. Back to the scene, there were crowds of traffic and crowds, and the strangeness on the street made you feel like you had never had before. It almost filled your life.
Author｜Sanshu
Editing｜Zhang Jin; Zhang Ting
Proofreading｜Li Xiangling
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