What is Jingyuan? Where did it come from? What's the role? What does it have to do with literature?
What is Jingyuan? As the name implies, it is a mirror like an abyss, in which characters are caught.
Give two examples:
The first one:
In Master of Memory, there is a short film: Bo Huang mistakenly entered other people's memories, and then a large number of mirrors appeared. He kept running, but he couldn't escape.
This is a dynamically distributed mirror pool.
The second one:
In Inception, the hero Cobb finds a new dream designer-Adeni, and they enter the dream. Adeni created a dazzling mirror because of her curiosity.
This is a static mirror pool.
Tracing back to Jingyuan comes from the French word "mise en abyme", which is also called granular core structure.
This is an academic term of heraldry, which means to carve a smaller identical pattern in the center of the badge, just like an abyss.
Because there are few patterns, I'll give you a similar pattern. You can imagine it yourself:
This art has a long history, but it was the French writer Gide who discovered and refined this theory (1869165438+1October 22nd-1951February19).
Gide, a famous French writer, 1947 won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works were banned by the French Catholic Church after his death because of his pioneering and unusual ideas.
His discovery came from an experience of looking at badges.
Then he studied it carefully and applied it to the novel Parude for the first time. In another book, The Forger, this technique has reached perfection.
He initiated a new narrative technique:
He cited the Maid in the Palace by Veracruz and Hamlet by Shakespeare (the former is a mirror in a painting and the latter is a play in a play) as examples of this refining theory.
It can also be simply said that the structure commonly used in many brain hole stories in China is the ring set.
You are writing a book, the people in the book are the same as you, and you are also writing a book, which will never be finished. It is called "anti-fiction".
Bian has a famous poem "Broken Chapter":
Everyone praised the poem for being well written. This is a genius move, but what good is it? Where is the beauty?
Bian himself later revealed: "From the mid-1930s, I began to appreciate the clear and steep novel style of andre gide's later period." Frankly speaking, his theory comes from Gide's "mirror in the mirror" theory. (Bian Zhilin's Mountains, Rivers and Frontiers)
You can close your eyes and wonder if it's like in the movie: a mirror is deep, layer by layer, ring by ring.
Now many writers and poets are imitating this theory, but they don't know that this theory actually originated from the French writer Gide.
So, don't blame your high school Chinese teacher for not explaining the beauty of this poem to you, because this theory is rare or absent in China.
The best thing about poetry is that this kind of mirror will make you immersed in it, have a sense of substitution, and can't tell the difference between reality and reality, so it is also a common means of brain burning and science fiction.
Back to the movies, there are countless movies similar to Russian doll narrative creation:
Rashomon of Kurosawa, Giga? Wiltoff has a camera. Ferini is eight and a half years old. ...
One story is nested with another, like a Russian doll, which is called "nested structure", "narrative endoscope" or "tattoo structure", that is, the story in the story is split and derived, which seems to be a reflexive mapping to the infinite abyss.
That is the term "mirror depth", which appears in the picture like a mirror.
Well, here, I've almost given you a detailed understanding-the details of Jingyuan.
Next, I really want to talk about the word Jingyuan in the movie.
The image of a mirror, or mirror, should have different functions in different movies, so there is no so-called standard and image, and it will always develop dynamically with specific situations.
I gave two examples above, combining Master of Memory and Inception to talk about my own views.
Ladies and gentlemen, Jingyuan, what do you think of when you first see it?
Look at the picture below.
Isn't it absurd and dreamy? There is a sense of space oppression but a sense of extension. Byakki Smoker's similarity of objects leads to fear for no reason.
And if you move in the mirror at the same time, which one is the ontology, will it be unclear? This dreamy feeling appeared.
In The Master of Memory, Bo Huang entered a dream, and then he was at a loss and was trapped in his memory, but he wanted to escape. Jingyuan represents his fear.
The director arranged a wonderful and rare scene in the mirror garden to express Bo Huang's fear and create endless dreams.
When the dream expands endlessly, with your footsteps, is there a feeling that life is prolonged and dreams are endless?
Movies or literary works will rely on external images to express the characters' hearts, and sometimes they will rely on images to contrast the characters.
When Bo Huang lingers in his dream, endless dreams, one layer at a time, are not stripped off, but begin to prolong his life. The seamless expansion of space and the seamless contraction of space are visual comparisons of inner fears.
In the film, Bo Huang's acting skills undoubtedly combine this fear with a sense of space, and many small details of trotting and shortness of breath are skillfully done.
So the audience won't feel abnormal. On the contrary, some actors tend to forget these things in front of the green screen. Although the audience can't see anything wrong with acting, they are uncomfortable.
Because they have a strange magnetic field and a sense of space around them, they don't merge. Acting is not judged by expression, but by feeling out of place with the scene and vibrating with the surrounding magnetic field.
Some actors will perform too hard, but they must have acting skills, but they are undoubtedly abnormal and uncomfortable.
Kitano Takeshi, a famous Japanese expressionless actor, has only one action and one line, but he skillfully blends into the environment, which is undoubtedly an excellent acting skill.
Tell me about the next Inception.
In the movie, the hero Cobb and the girl Adeni enter a dream, and then there is a bridge where Adeni makes a mirror garden.
In front of the bridge, Cobb told Adeni that it was a dream, and then she turned the city upside down, and then there was a bridge, which made a mirror garden.
At first, these were all her curiosity when she first fell asleep, but following the mirror, Cobb found his wife Mel mixed in the crowd, and these mirrors immediately became a projection of his heart.
Ade's curiosity about countless himself and Cobb's confusion, the mirror medium is the same, and the function is different.
If you have life experience, you will find that babies will be curious about themselves in the mirror. They will touch and hit countless Byakki Smoker, and the principle is similar.
And if we don't look in the mirror for a long time and suddenly look in the mirror, will we find that we don't know each other in the mirror, with wrinkles on our faces and white hair on our heads, will we feel at a loss and unfamiliar?
When Xiao Lizi's frown was "stiff", it undoubtedly conveyed a message to the audience: something was going to happen.
These visual effects have another purpose: this is also a special setting for director Nolan to create a fantastic freshness by visual commercial means, and guide the audience who have not yet entered the play or have already entered the play to reintegrate into the scene.
For movies, telling stories is very important, but the most important thing is to deceive the audience.
What do you mean?
Let the audience into the story, or simply into the scene, relying on the atmosphere to render and promote, sometimes the audience forgets the loopholes and logical errors of the film without feeling.
Therefore, cinema and watching at home are two different things. Seeing blue light and seeing blur are two different things, which are driven by the unconscious and visual atmosphere behind them.
The most outstanding visual works are Wong Kar-wai's films. The visualization of Sunglasses King is very beautiful. As soon as the film begins, the audience naturally falls into it, and the story sometimes becomes a foil. Of course, his craftsmanship is admirable.
Movies are visual arts, so Hollywood likes to use big special effects as a selling point to attract attention, which is also covering up the shortcomings of the story.
Using these visual means, such as lens depth, will undoubtedly increase the intensity, but it must be appropriate. As I mentioned before, it should vibrate with the specific magnetic field of the movie.
Well, it should be the end of the explanation, which is also my personal viewing angle and experience. It took me an afternoon.
Not deep, just a special mirror of the image of "mirror" in the movie.
But theories are all dead, movies are dynamic, so don't be framed when watching movies. What you see is you. What the film critics say is subjective. Don't give up easily and think that they are right and you are wrong.
Ps: In addition, I can read the book of writer Gide mentioned in my article. China people only know Borges and his mirror, but don't know Gide and his mirror.
Besides movies, if I have time, I really want to talk about my favorite books and other things.
Hey, come on, bye! Continue next time, be there or be square ~