2016 to the present, Taiwanese actor Huang Shanghe has been working in Beijing many times, and has made its mark in movies such as " Founding of the Army" and "Grasping Red". He said that the creative environment in Beijing is similar to that in New York, where people with dreams gather. This historic city is filled with many new energy that collides with each other.
Huang Shanghe recently said in an exclusive interview with China News Service reporters that the new generation of Taiwanese filmmakers are getting rid of their burdens and returning to their own ideas to create films, and their works have gradually formed a new narrative style.
14, " Drunk·Life and Dream Death ", starring him, was screened in a small-scale screening in Beijing. This art film released in 2015 involves homosexual themes that have been hotly discussed on the island in recent years, and has won multiple awards including the Berlin Film Festival and the Golden Horse Award .
In recent years, many Taiwanese movies that reflect realistic themes have been "wonderful and popular". In this regard, Huang Shanghe said that movies originate from life and should pay attention to reality. Films closely linked to social issues remind people that they should care more about the people around them and care more about things they usually ignore. This is also a virtuous cycle that movies and society can form.
From the 1980s to the 1990s, Taiwan's new wave movies represented by Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang Dechang emerged. Many works that tell the fate of ordinary people in a specific era have received praise from the public and have been passed down to this day. After that, Taiwanese films have gone through a long period of dormant, and now a group of young directors have emerged, and their works are also focused on the present.
Huang Shanghe, who has been involved in the shooting of local films in Taiwan, has witnessed the changes in the film industry on the island in recent years. He believes that for a time, the younger generation had hoped to get rid of the influence of previous film styles, and in recent years people seem to be no longer afraid of this. New Wave movies are an important label, and the new generation can draw nutrients from them. Facts have proved that no longer fearing the influence of predecessors, it will help young people get rid of their burdens, and their works are gradually forming a new narrative style.
Huang Shanghe went to the Performance Institute of Columbia University in the United States several years ago, and participated in the production and performance of many films such as "The Fantasy Drift of Pi" in New York.
Reviewing this experience in the United States, he said that in the past, many Asian actors would choose to work hard in Europe and the United States after they became successful, while young actors now prefer to do the opposite. It is impossible to evaluate which method is better, but actors from different generations have realized that being influenced by different artistic environments will be more helpful in creation.
"In the United States, I observed religious and racial issues that I had rarely been exposed to before from the perspective of bystanders, which made me reflect on Eastern culture while also making myself more diverse. After I came back, I became more clear that I wanted to tell characters and stories in Mandarin." Huang Shanghe said. Like many young actors, developing their acting career in the mainland has become his current important career plan.
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