Using montage technique
Montage is a basic means of expression in film art. Montage (montage) comes from
French, from the composition and assembly of architecture, and is borrowed from film art to mean assembly and composition⑶. The montage way of thinking not only has a long history, but with the increasing influence of film art in human social life, montage as an artistic way of thinking and expression technique is no longer just a patent for movies, but has begun to be consciously used in novels, dramas, etc. In literary and artistic styles, there have been many works that draw on montage thinking to achieve the intersection of time and space and large jumps. If we call montage as a film art expression technique montage in the narrow sense, then the image combination method as an artistic feature of literary creation, especially poetry creation, can be called montage in the broad sense.
Fang Wenshan knows this well and boldly uses montage techniques in his lyrics. His lyrics are like a movie, full of jumping words that, at first glance, don’t fit in with anything. , but it is extremely creative and imaginative, with jumping pictures and tight rhythm, constructing a three-dimensional thinking space, giving people a three-dimensional shock, and surprising that text can be edited in this way. Fang Wenshan himself also said that this was entirely due to movies: "Movies are the art of editing. For example, if someone was killed today, most people will write it directly, but I will use the movie's split shots to write it, the moon is dark and the wind is high, A malicious face, a knife, a shadow jumping over the wall, a pool of blood, my lyrics are not so straightforward, the connection between sentences is not so natural, I can jump to it, like 'Indian old turtle dove, Learn to open the mouth, the cactus is shy, the lizard walks sideways, there is no inevitable connection, but there is an atmosphere in it. "The use of montage in lyric creation not only makes it possible for lyrics to use pictures to narrate, but also through editing and reorganization of pictures. Breaking the boundaries of time and space, expanding the capacity to express life in a large jump of time and space, and generating a strong artistic appeal.
There are many types of montages, including sequential montages that jump due to the acceleration of the narrative rhythm and the omission of intermediate processes, reverse montages that cause jumps due to the inversion of natural timing, and inverted montages that jump due to the inversion of natural timing. A jumping, intersecting montage produced by the interlacing of spaces.
For example, "Light Bulb-I" written by Fang Wenshan for Kang Kang:
Today is a sunny day\but you brought your brother out\and when you saw his face\the mood immediately turned into a rainy day \Like salt being sprinkled on a wound\My pain has nowhere to redress\The date turned into a nightmare\Take him to the cinema\I want to hold your little hand\He is sitting in the middle\A wonderful scene is being played\He is clamoring to pee\Come When I got to the toilet, I actually laughed that I was cheated. We went to the park together and took some sweet pictures. I found out when I got home that there was no film installed.
In this lyrics, several groups of pictures are described: The first group , I was on a date with my girlfriend, but I saw my girlfriend showing up with my younger brother, and I was disheartened; in the second group, in the movie theater, my younger brother sat between them, ruining the atmosphere; in the third group, I was tricked by my younger brother into going to the toilet; in the fourth group, I went shopping I took photos in the park and came home to find that there were no negatives. These sets of shots are superimposed together to completely show the destructiveness of the super lightbulb that is my girlfriend’s brother. This is due to the jump caused by the substantial omission of the plot development process, the narrative rhythm of the lyrics has been accelerated, and the narrative capacity has also been greatly increased.
Another example is "Sorry", which he wrote for Jay Chou. The first part tells about the frustration and sadness of the copper coins and the ring, and the second part tells about his own emotions, and a memory is inserted in the middle: "I miss the desk in the elementary school. Chair, remembering to write a diary with a pencil, recording the most primitive beauty, recording the first time I met you. "The natural sequence of the development of events is broken here, and the unfolding of the plot is restructured to make the lyrics jumpy. Due to the interlacing of time and space and the jumping of the picture, it not only avoids the monotony of straightforward narrative, but also often creates unique charm in the clever blending of reality, past and future.
Another example is "Stop the War", which intersects three action lines that occur at the same time and in different spaces in one lyric: one is "she" on the stage For the last performance, one shows the whole village watching quietly in their seats, with some people clamoring to eat sweets. The other shows the chariot driving towards the village, and the hometown is about to be surrounded. The scenes jump back and forth to create suspense. and tension. These three action lines are twisted together and advanced, making the atmosphere gradually tense until it makes people feel suffocated.
As a kind of reading text, the jumping characteristics of the lyrics speed up the narrative rhythm, effectively avoiding the procrastination of the plot, static scenery, and slow lyricism, so that listeners who are tired of listening to love songs can get a new experience. A new auditory experience. Moreover, due to the existence of jumps, the audience needs to combine many individual shots, which forces them to give full play to their imagination in order to give logic and coherence to those intermittent pictures. In such a listening process, the listener's awareness of participation and creativity are mobilized in all aspects, and previous auditory memories and even visual memories, tactile memories, etc. must be integrated in a new model to form an inner vision. In this sense, jumping is not only an important feature of Fang Wenshan's lyrics creation, but also one of the important reasons for his unique artistic charm.