The film 1942 tells a disastrous historical event in a specific period and place. 1942, there was a famine in Henan, and millions of people left their homes and were displaced. During the long journey to escape from the desert, the national government turned a deaf ear to the victims, and the Japanese bombed one after another. When the victims have eaten up their dry food, even the bark and poisonous weeds, there is a tragic incident of people eating people and dogs eating people. Some people, old and young, watch their relatives starve to death one after another, but there is nothing they can do. The victim gradually became numb and seemed to return to the barter lifestyle of primitive society. In order to fill their stomachs, they can sell their wives and children for three buckets of millet, or even give up all human dignity. The disaster finally caused an unprecedented tragic situation in which 3 million people starved to death.
First of all, the background of the film and the tone of the sound design.
Using modern digital technology to generate strong visual and auditory stimuli to attract audiences has become an important means of commercial film production at home and abroad, so the role of sound in movies is becoming more and more important. According to the Hollywood film production mode, a professional sound production team needs many people to work together and perform their duties, mainly including: sound designer, synchronous sound recorder, music sound recorder, mime, sound editor and Andhadhun. Among them, the sound designer began to conceive the overall sound effect of the film before the film started shooting, grasped and decided the role of sound in the film, and guided and participated in the post-editing and mixing process of the whole sound effect of the film. [1, 2] At present, domestic film sound production teams have gradually realized the importance of sound design, [3-5] which is reflected in many blockbusters that have emerged in recent years.
Different types of movies have different ideas in terms of beauty, lighting, photography skills and sound design. Musicals, for example, mainly infect the audience through beautiful music in the voice; Action films pay attention to the design of onomatopoeic words of various action sounds; Western movies mainly combine music and sound to create a grand sense of scene, and so on. The film 1942 is both a historical film and a disaster film. Traditionally, in terms of sound performance, the audience will be shocked by magnificent or touching music and elaborate exaggerated sounds, such as Schindler's List, Titanic and 20 12. However, the film 1942 gives people a natural, true, desperate but not sensational feeling from the actor's performance, the use of lens and the design of film sound, and the narrative style is more like the documentary style. Looking back at the sound performance of the whole film, people can't help but sigh the good intentions of the director and producer. Not exaggerated, not sensational, it looks like a documentary, but it is eloquent, fascinating and touching. The whole film is quite different from the current mainstream trend of attracting audiences with strong audio-visual stimulation and various dazzling techniques, but it has won more audiences and touched more people's hearts. This seemingly documentary expression is actually a well-designed voice expression everywhere, which is worth reading carefully. Next, according to the current scientific classification method, this paper divides the film and television sound into three categories: language, music and sound, [6] and analyzes the sound design of the film 1942.
Second, pay attention to the use of language and portray the image and inner transformation of the characters.
For different types of movies, the emphasis of language, music and sound is different. In general, disaster films focus on shocking the audience through loud, exciting and shocking onomatopoeia; Historical biographies show big scenes through a large number of original or idyllic symphonies or grand symphonies like rivers and valleys, which make the audience deeply impressed by the scenery or scenes. But the film 1942 focuses on language.
The language of movies not only plays a basic role in interpretation, but also plays an important role in shaping characters, portraying their personalities, expressing their inner world and creating a realistic film. According to the artistic attributes of film and television language, language can be divided into objective language and subjective language. [6] Objective language is the language that actors express synchronously when they perform on the screen. Consistent with the actor's mouth. It is the sound that the audience hears when they see someone talking in the film, which mainly shows the authenticity of the scene and characters. There are three forms: monologue, dialogue and group voice. Subjective language refers to the language in which the audience hears a passage but does not see the actor talking on the screen, and the voice is out of sync with the actor's mouth. Often used to express the inner world of a character, or as a narrative task in a special documentary, there are two forms: inner monologue and narration (or explanation).
The film 1942 begins with a third-person narrative, which can effectively explain the background and character relationship of the whole film and quickly bring the audience into the story situation, and has been well used in films such as My Mom and Dad and Titanic. In addition, the film does not follow the novel idea adopted by mainstream movies at present, and designs subjective language to attract the audience, but completely tells the story directly in objective language. This is consistent with the overall tone of the film and reflects the truth of that period as objectively as possible. Of course, the objective language design of the film is actually painstaking and carefully conceived, mainly in two aspects: (1) All the characters who fled abroad performed in Henan dialect; (2) The language styles of several main actors have their own characteristics, and a few short lines vividly depict the characters and inner world. For example, the blind deer played by Feng is a tenant with a poor family. All his actions revolve around eating. As the most common peasant at the bottom of society, he is unremarkable, but his concept of survival is very practical. When his daughter asked him what escape meant, he replied, "Going out to find food is called escape"; After the old club took out a small pot of millet to help the family, it caught up and asked for a few liters. He looked for the lost donkey with a bolt and found that the donkey had been stewed by several soldiers. He also dared to gather people to beg for donkey meat and died for it. For another example, the landlord's daughter, the star played by Olivia, was spoiled from childhood. At first, she didn't understand why her father wanted to run away with everyone. She jumped off the scooter and said, "I won't run away with you" to show a lofty and confident girl image. However, after many days of flight, the food has already been eaten up, and the whole family is starving. In addition, when her sister-in-law was about to give birth and needed nutritional supplements, she acquiesced in killing her domestic cat and said, "I also want to drink cat soup", which showed her inner change-she could give up her lofty and proud nude in order to fill her stomach; Later, in order to eat, he sold himself, refused his father's detention, and said, "Let me live and sell me ..." At this point, the star completely gave up all his love and dignity. The plain language expression style and distinctive line design in the movie 1942 make every character vivid and touching.
Third, deliberately do not use music to grandstanding.
Film music can play a role in shaping the characters, prompting the background of the times, portraying the characters' hearts, promoting the development of the plot and rendering the emotional atmosphere of the film. Nowadays, music plays an increasingly important role in movies. In many commercial blockbusters, music almost runs through the whole movie. This is because music is the most effective way to arouse the audience. Sometimes the characters in the film don't need to say much. When the music begins, the audience's emotions are immediately brought into the story, sometimes crying and sometimes ecstatic. The movie 1942 has only one or two pieces of music in the development of the whole story, and these few pieces of music did not deliberately incite the audience's emotions, but only lightly paved the way for the background. This is also my question after watching the movie. However, with the release of the film and the audience's reaction, it did not affect the extent of the audience's infection, but all the people watching the movie were deeply shocked and moved. It is good to enrich the auditory experience of the film through music, but this film deliberately does not use music to sensationalize, which is determined by the overall creative thinking and intention of the film: it does not deliberately add the creator's point of view and let the audience experience it themselves. Therefore, the lack of music in the film should be deliberately designed by the creator.
The lyrics of the film's ending song "River of Life" come from a Christian hymn written by a rural woman and re-composed by teacher Zhao Jiping. "The river of life, the river of joy, slowly flows into my heart; I want to sing a song, the song in the sky, the dark clouds above my head and the sadness in my heart have all fallen ... "The original song of this song is widely sung by Christians, and the joy in the melody is like the dark clouds above my head and the sadness in my heart described in the lyrics. However, although the ending song after the re-composition is more beautiful in melody, the sadness and heavy mood cannot be alleviated, just as the victim in the film has not given up hope in the face of heavy blows again and again.
Fourth, objective and meticulous voice performance.
Sound generally refers to all sounds in a film except language and music. The role of sound in the film is mainly to increase the life flavor of the narrative content of the picture, set off the plot atmosphere, expand the audience's vision and give the picture environment a specific depth and breadth. There are countless films in science fiction, disaster, war and action movies that use exaggerated sounds to create grand scenes or tense atmosphere to attract audiences, such as Jurassic Park, King Kong, Tangshan Earthquake, 20 12, Pearl Harbor, Heroes Invincible and House of Flying Daggers. In addition, monotonous and mechanical sound design can also be used to create a special atmosphere of the film. For example, in the movie "bodyguards and assassins", the sound of clock hands moving is exaggerated at first, and then from slow to fast, emphasizing the urgency of time, grasping the hearts of the audience and creating a tense atmosphere.
The theme of the movie "1942" can easily remind the audience of the past viewing experience before watching the movie, just like the scenes in many movies listed above. However, in the actual viewing, it is found that the film does not deliberately exaggerate or highlight the sound design, but completely follows the picture. What I saw on the screen, I heard the corresponding voice, and objectively and synchronously reproduced the events that happened that year. The sound design of the film seems dull, but it is not easy to be so real and basically consistent with the scene environment to express those objective voices. Most of the sounds in the film are simulated by props in the quasi-sound shed. In the film, from kitten licking to Japanese bombing, every scene shows its proper sound, without deliberate exaggeration. It always matches the performance of the picture and does not usurp the role of the master. This is consistent with the overall creative thinking of the film: don't deliberately add the personal views of creators such as directors or screenwriters, try to objectively reproduce the events and let the audience see and experience them!
Verb (abbreviation of verb) conclusion
The sound design of the film 1942 does not follow the pattern of mainstream commercial blockbusters, but mainly depicts the characters' hearts with language; Don't use a lot of music to incite feelings; Elaborate sound production, without exaggeration or prominence, matches with the picture and objectively reflects the content in the scene. Although the film did not deliberately create auditory stimulation and shock, it was touching enough. At present, under the general trend that a large number of mainstream films pay attention to the pursuit of formal audio-visual stimulation and use music and sound to incite emotions everywhere, the film 1942 seems straightforward, but in fact it is very rare to design it with heart. This also has to cause us to think, what should movies rely on to attract audiences? What is the connotation of movies? Does the movie bring the audience an hour or two of moving in the theater or deeper thinking after leaving the theater?
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