when Kitano Takeshi wrote his parents' story "Kikujiro and Zuo Ji", he vividly showed his character that he vowed to be different from others and must bring jokes to the world. This time, Xiaowu, who was born as a cross talk artist and lived in the shallow grass art circle in his early years, became a famous master and performed a different master's life. The grim comedian sharply told the world that even if I was nearly 7 years old, I would live a different life and make a different speech.
The story is adapted from Danshun Tatekawa's essays of the same name, and tells the real experience between himself and Master. Kitano Takeshi plays the role of Master Lichuan and Tan Zhi, and Ninomiya Kazunari plays the role of Danshun Tatekawa, a boy who wants to learn to speak.
The film has a wonderful sense of rhythm, and the soundtrack is also very interesting. It includes the inner monologue perspective of talking about spring, looking back at the 2 or 3 years of studying with Master, and the female voice narration perspective of Hiroko Yakushimaru, the idol of talking about spring. In front of the dumbfounded scene, there is often a sudden pause from GIF to JPG, while sprinting and pausing. On the contrary, there is a clumsy person who can't afford to tell jokes. Perhaps the film team just wants to lead the audience into the world of drop-OUTs with such a trendy and interesting film form, telling everyone that drop-outs are not out but humorous.
Scenes and pictures are also very exquisite. Flowers, wild cats and beautiful scenes symbolizing different seasons are interspersed among them. Even Master's home layout is extremely neat, just like the beautiful and elegant side of the language, with Kitano Takeshi's rough face and sloppy appearance, which is a great contrast.
I have learned a little more about the language. Master Tan Zhi said that "Loyalist Zang" is a story about 47 righteous men plotting to kill the enemy in order to avenge the master Asano. After the end, almost all of them died by cutting their stomachs. Forty-seven celebrities have become heroes through the ages, but in fact, there were 3 retainers in Akasui City at that time, only 47 people went out of 3 people, and the remaining 25 people who did not take revenge were deserters and ordinary people, but left behind.
Yes, it is a traditional art, and it is also an art from the people. What is folk? Where people whose lives are like dirt gather. Therefore, don't forget the atmosphere and people you want to pick up because the language has a long history and is regarded as an ancient and tall skill.
master also said that folding fans were placed in front of the seats to ward off evil spirits. Before the fan, there is the audience, and after the fan, there is the world of language-dropping artists and language-dropping. In the end, it's interesting to say goodbye, and that's why Master always talks about making herself laugh in spring.
The film also shows another possibility of mentoring. Master-apprentice system is to teach skills, advocate the kinship like father and son, and be like the employment relationship where the boss leads the team. However, it is not so transparent and free to move. There are many contradictions in this system. It is difficult to tell who is right and who is wrong between so-and-so masters and apprentices, and many problems caused by the traditional master-apprentice system are afraid.
Master Tan Zhi was very clear about this. He explicitly charged his disciples tuition fees, saying that there was no school in the world where they could teach for free, so that they could ask their parents for living expenses, hoping that they would concentrate on their language learning instead of wasting their time working around. In Tan Zhi's eyes, there should be no personal binding between master and apprentice. The apprentice is the apprentice and the master is the master. The master is only responsible for the apprentice's language lessons, and nothing else is relevant. Therefore, he will coolly refuse to be responsible or apologize for the mistakes made by the apprentice.
Master Tan Zhi restrained the relationship between himself and his disciples with almost harsh rules, which not only protected himself, but also protected his disciples, and guarded their academic and artistic relationship established purely because of their love for dropping words. Under this principle, Master has a different kind of gentleness and kindness.
Tan Chun is not good at dealing with people. honest and frank goes too far and offends the critics. Instead of getting angry, Master criticizes the arrogant evaluators for not forgetting that they are the people who make a living by commenting on the language. This kind of savage domineering "being defensive and unreasonable" is really proper and just to deal with narrow-minded people.
Talking about the bad cold in spring, he refused Master's invitation for class practice for fear of infecting him, but Master was very angry about it and sent him to work in the vegetable market in Standing Wave for one year. Perhaps in Tan Zhi's view, there is nothing more important than learning the language. It is unforgivable to give up the language for a little thoughtfulness. On the contrary, for the little apprentice who has a firm goal and refuses to go to the vegetable market, Master will also agree to let him continue to learn slang.
Before going to the food market, Master told Tan Chun through the training class for his little apprentice that jealousy only wanted to pull him to the same level as himself, which was the easiest way to avoid progress. Tan Chun's heart was appeased and she followed Master more firmly.
Working in the vegetable market in Standing Wave for a year is also a practice for Tan Chun. He has learned to judge the surrounding situation, consider comprehensively, observe keenly and work enthusiastically. In the food market, he observed the traditional fishermen's method of counting money, and really understood the words he recited, which was close to the living conditions of people who often appeared in the words. After one year's exercise, Tan Chun completed his important practice of being a man, became a person who can stand well in society even if he can't speak the language well, and also made him realize that he could never give up his love and persistence in it.
Tan Zhi often severely reprimands his disciples. Don't easily admit your mistakes and bow your head to apologize, and become a flattering artist. As a linguist, you should only bow your head and kowtow to the audience in this life.
no matter whether it's language dropping or other traditional skills, every profession has its own god, a bottom line that can't be violated and a pursuit that must be adhered to. Morality should not be a tool for chanting and suppressing others, but a law that people who stick to the profession truly fear. It is these that make these people become the same person who tells language dropping.
It seems that the lonely talk about ambition does not teach the disciples, but it has been secretly teaching the disciples the rules of the language industry and the rules that should really be observed, and continuing the value of the same language.
Senior brother once told Tan Chun that Master is like our second father, but this father is our own choice.
In the traditional profession, Master will give his disciples a stage name, and disciples walk the world with the stage name given by Master instead of their parents' real names.
Although Tan Zhi has been using his coolness and disagreement to try to strip away the personal bondage and shackles of the traditional apprenticeship system, it is undeniable that the apprenticeship system is still very different from modern school education, and the criticized personal closeness is also its unique charm. Master regards the apprentice as a son, stripping off the secular oppression and utilization, the master's hope for the apprentice, the apprentice's awe of the master, and the relationship between the apprentice and the master.
Speaking of the title of the film, Tan Chun used the money from buying goldfish to invite his brother to dinner when he ran errands for Master to buy goldfish. There was not much money left, so he went to buy cheap red snapper to make up for it, and lied to Master that it was a new variety from abroad.
In fact, Master knows that this is a red giant salamander, and that no matter how you feed it, it won't grow up, but it's also endearing because it doesn't grow up. For the disciples with different talents, Tan Zhi actually paid the same attention, and he also hoped that they could improve their language skills, but in the end, some people chose to leave and others chose to stay.
if one day we understand our master, we will really enter the master's door and fear the same gods and principles as him.
at this point, I am grateful to my mentor.
PS. I always think that the difference between two people's three views is not as big as the difference between their sense of humor. I really love Kitano Takeshi's sense of humor. Please raise your hand if you have the same good feelings!