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Yesterday was June 29, 2017, it has been ten years since Yang Dechang left us .
The master passed away suddenly, taking away too many secrets.
We no longer have the opportunity to hear the director himself explain the great works.
"Guling Street Teenage Murder" is Yang Dechang's most representative Chinese film. This masterpiece starring the young Zhang Zhen is based on a real love murder case of Yang Dechang's alumni in 1961.
Xiao Si (Zhang Zhen) falls in love with the eldest woman (Xiao Ming), but eventually kills Xiao Ming. This is a typical love murder case, but it was given a deeper meaning by Yang Dechang.
The entire 4-hour film is actually showing us the appearance of all beings in Taipei in the 1960s .
From countless textbook-style highlights, we have selected ten of the most representative and well-designed scene arrangements to review this Chinese-language film masterpiece together.
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Wearing a suit is Wang Guozheng, known as "Wang Dog" in the movie.
Wang Gou came back from a business trip in the United States and invited a large table of people to dinner, in fact, to show off, including the family of Xiao Si (Zhang Zhen).
After dinner everyone took a group photo. This scene has a lot of information, and Yang Dechang is very subtle.
Especially the relationship between Wang Guozheng and her wife (played by Cai Qin) , a group photo, full of grievances and grievances.
Wang Guozheng boasted, saying that visiting the US atomic bomb factory "is just to play, how do I understand?"
Everyone on the side was listening , only his wife silently opened a jar of cool oil and smeared it on his temples.
The meaning is: the old lady has listened to it too many times and has a headache.
A shot and a can of cool oil clearly express the relationship between the couples who are separated from each other.
(The editor weakly speculates: this may be the relationship between the director himself and Cai Qin in real life.)
TOP 9 Your male god got up
In one shot, the whole family of Xiao Si appeared one by one.
Through a sliding door , Yang Dechang skillfully completed the scheduling skills of the characters' appearance, full of scheming.
The director didn't want the whole family to appear at the same time in one shot, but wanted them to appear one after the other. How to arrange the appearance order of the characters without appearing too contrived, he actually spent a lot of time designing.
First of all, this is a "subjective shot", which is the perspective of Xiao Si looking out from the gap of the sliding door.
In fact, this is the composition designed by Yang Dechang. This composition adjusts very naturally as the sliding door opens and closes.
The legs of the second son are drawn from above.
The sequence of appearances of this character seems to be the daily state of a family morning, but it is actually the result of careful design.
The critical voice of the father is heard outside the painting, and the majesty of the father is shown by only hearing the voice but not the person.
Then the second brother pulled it smoothly and closed the door in half.
Then, the second brother came out and the younger sister entered the field of vision of the fourth. (This gossip little sister is played by Lai Shengchuan's daughter)
This scene scheduling, on the one hand, determines the order of appearances by the relationship between the characters.
On the other hand, the order of appearance is determined by the relationship between sound and picture.
The hazy feeling of this picture is because a mosquito net is blocking the front. This is revealed through a subsequent reverse shot.
Have you ever thought that during the real shooting, there is no room for a 35mm camera in the closet where Xiao Si sleeps.
Moreover, it will never be a mosquito net that really creates a hazy feeling in front of the camera.
So where is this camera angle in the house?
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Xiao Ming and Xiao Si once again came to the studio next to the school for a date. In the evening, the studio did not start work, so it became a sweet little world for the two of them.
The main light source of this scene is arranged by Yang Dechang in the external space. The light-receiving area of the whole picture forms a fan shape , and the characters form a silhouette effect.
Who said dialogue scenes have to let the audience see faces? This is Yang Dechang's rebellion against traditional shooting methods.
In order to improve the vertical depth of the picture, the director arranged a strong light in the background of the picture to form an overexposed highlight.
In the scene design, because of the rationality of the set, a track appeared in the picture . The main action designed by the director for Xiao Ming is a playful tightrope walking on the track.
Xiao Ming walks a tightrope, implying that Xiao Ming's life is always in desperate danger .
Because of her beauty, she was pursued by countless boys, and because of the embarrassing family conditions, this girl took on the burden of the family prematurely, and also had a premature insight into the cruelty of life.
In order to protect herself and improve her living environment, she often wanders among various suitors, with the gang's gangsters.
The flashlight on Zhang Zhen's hand adds a chasing light to the picture, which is a wonderful fill light.
The flashlight shines on Xiao Ming, like a sunflower following the sun, Xiao Ming leads Zhang Zhen, a little virgin , emotionally .
Suddenly Xiao Ming disappeared into the darkness, and the flashlight in Zhang Zhen's hand worked again. He lit around looking for Xiao Ming, and the director dispatched Xiao Ming to appear from behind him.
It means: a girl like Xiao Ming, Zhang Zhen can never guess .
The poster of last year's Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival paid tribute to this scene.
TOP 7 The multiple triangular relationship of five teachers and students
The scheduling of the following set of shots and the positioning of the actors fully demonstrate Yang Dechang's creative use of the basic vocabulary of the film.
This paragraph was that Xiaotao's slippery head and Xiao Si were arguing in the class. Xiao Siyi grabbed the bat of the classmate's plane 's hand and wanted to slide his head. At this time , the dean of education happened to come over.
And so the first triangular composition was born.
The top corner is the director, and the two bottom feet are the small four and the slippery head.
The purpose of the triangular composition is to focus the audience's attention on the relationship between the three of them.
At this time, the moment of arrogance came. The dean raised his hand .
As soon as the hand is raised, the focus of the contradiction is changed, and a new triangular relationship of characters is formed. The director wants to confiscate the bat in Xiao Si's hand, but this bat is from an airplane .
In other words, the center of gravity of this triangle is where the bat belongs .
After confiscating the bat, the director began to walk away, effectively directing the audience's attention to the tiger in the background . This is a metaphor for a triangular relationship in the future tense : Xiaohu, Xiaosi, and Slicker will be rivals in love with each other.
TOP 6 The person I love is not my love
Xiao Si bumps into Slicker's bubble Xiaoming. Slytou is afraid that he will be beaten to death if the story of his "sister-in-law" spreads out, so it is rumored that he is Xiaocui.
Xiaocui and Xiaosi met at the entrance of the "Little Park" ice shop and talked about the rumor. Xiaosi asked "isn't it you" , Xiaocui admitted "yes, it's me".
In the background, the trumpet played "You are my angel" sung by the kitten . This song expresses the atmosphere of the times, and more importantly, it touches the hearts of the characters in the play. It constitutes a very wonderful sound and picture counterpoint relationship.
For the sake of her angel, Xiao Cui dares to top her bag and solve the difficulties of her sweetheart.
For his angel Xiaoming, Zhang Zhen repeatedly asked who it was, and did not want to believe that it was Xiaoming that he saw at school that day.
Both of them knew that it was Xiao Ming who was slick, but they were both lying .
After this conversation ended, Xiao Si lingered under the neon lights of the "Little Park" .
The whole ice shop is a world, not only representing the gang organization of "Little Park", but also a world full of charm and temptation .
Yang Dechang arranged him at the door, whether to go in or not, as if to let him make a decision.
TOP 5 Zhang Zhen's Courage
Yang Dechang's performance of the potential of the junior four is shown through the first appearance of the gangster Hani.
Xiao Si robbed Hani's girlfriend Xiao Ming, and Hani finally came back to settle the bill. It might have been a fight, but what he didn't expect was that Hani fell in love with Xiao Si at a glance.
Don't think wrong, Hani seems to see himself back then.
In order to confirm Hani's prediction of Xiao Si, the director asked Xiao Si who had left the ice shop to not run away. In one of Haney's subjective viewpoint shots, we can see Xiao Si and Xiao Ming in the background snuggling in a large in front of the tree.
This scheduling is the description of the four courage.
Hani didn't get angry when he saw this scene, but felt that this little 4th person was not afraid of death , and it was in his heart. This is about what makes Haney as a boss.
You pry my horse. It's okay, I appreciate you.
It is estimated that he also thinks that Xiao Ming and Xiao Si are indeed more suitable, so there is a follow-up drama of "Too Gu" .
By the way, the big guy Hani opened his mouth, his tone and tone were somewhat inconsistent with the appearance of his creamy boy, and there were scenes hidden in the pauses.
This is the voice dubbed by Director Yang Dechang himself , fulfilling the dream of a director.
TOP 4 Small Four Seconds Change Picker
Xiao Si Hani divides the screen equally, one left and one right on an equal footing.
Hani first entrusted Xiao Ming to Xiao Ming, and then introduced the "carriage", the thug of the Wanhua Gang, to Xiao Si.
After making an appointment to become a husband and speculating in stocks to become a shareholder , Xiao Si was appointed by Hani as a pick-up man to take over his brother and Ma Zi.
In addition to entrusting his own life, he also has to make a conclusion for himself. For this reason, Hani told a story.
"There was an old man. Everyone thought he took the wrong medicine. It seemed that everyone in the city had their heads turned upside down, and was set on fire everywhere. He was going to block Napoleon by himself, but he was slashed by a sliver."
Does this plot look familiar? This is the outline of the content of the martial arts novel War and Peace that Hani read . Haney attributes everything that happens in the world to the battle between human morality and depravity and shamelessness. Even the simple hooligan language is quite advanced.
TOP 3 Shooting is picking up girls
Xiaoma is a transfer student from Primary Four's class. Because he found that Xiao Si was very loyal, he always regarded him as his good brother.
The pony is an uncompromising second- generation official . The little hooligan usually gives three points when he sees Commander Ma's son, so Xiaoma has also rescued Xiao Si several times.
Xiaoma's family is rich, he is used to seeing big people, and his thinking is more mature than Xiao Si.
In this scene, Xiao Si was depressed because he was rejected by Xiao Ming, Xiao Ma persuaded him, and Yang Dechang designed a gun -wiping action for the dialogue scene.
Gun, a metaphor for male genitalia. To wipe the gun is to think about picking up girls.
The two then shot in the backyard of the pony's house. Shoot, you know.
Sure enough, after the shooting, Xiaoma took Xiao Si to flirt with her sister . These two scenes are arranged in the front and back, and there is no relationship between the front and back in the plot. All associations are at the metaphorical level.
By the way, Pony and Xiaocui's date in the dark, the composition given is also super boring .
TOP 2 Directing your own drama, leaving others without drama to direct
Xiao Si got into the director's chair and wrote a letter to his second sister. In fact, it was a new director who was writing his own script.
His female lead is Xiao Ming.
At this point, the real director walked into the studio. The director asked where Xiao Si Xiaoming went.
Two directors are vying for the same female lead, one is directing a movie shot in the studio, and the other is directing a movie shot on the street. One is fictional, the other is real.
So here, Zhang Zhen questioned the director: "You can't even tell the difference between the real and the fake, what movies are you making?"
TOP 1 The fate of a knife
In the film, a mysterious photo of a Japanese schoolgirl appears repeatedly .
who is she? Why does this photo appear repeatedly in the plot of the movie?
This photo was found by Xiao Si's classmate Kitten. He climbed to the roof of his house to look for it because he envied Xiaoma's family having a samurai sword .
Because Taipei at that time had many buildings left over from the Japanese colonial period, the Japanese had a habit of hiding knives on the roof to prepare for incision when necessary.
The dagger that Kitten found on the roof of his house was later taken by Zhang Zhen, which eventually became the weapon he used to stab Xiao Ming to death .
There is this photo of a stack of Japanese relics found along with this knife.
Let me tell you, this is Xiao Ming's past life. This is the sense of fate that Yang Dechang designed for this knife .
This dagger was destined to be inserted into the body of a schoolgirl. This is the weirdest part of the movie.
Xiao Si has always been inexplicably interested in this photo, and the film shows Xiao Si looking at this photo many times.
In the end, the knife fulfilled its destiny. Once again it drank the blood of a female student.
Tribute to the great film director!
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