A Brief Analysis of the Classic Lens of the Movie Goddess

Introduction: Goddess is a silent film directed by Wu Yonggang and starring Li Keng and Ruan. The film tells the story of a prostitute's bloody life in Shanghai.

First, the plot introduction

A woman who lives in poverty has only one young son. In order to make a living and raise her son, she will not hesitate to sell her body. She is a prostitute, and for the sake of her children, she gritted her teeth and endured insults from others. Nevertheless, society is cruel to them.

When the police came at night, she hid everywhere. I didn't expect her to hide in the bully's house and be raped by the bully. Unfortunately, her home was also found by bullies, and her people and money were occupied by bullies. She tried several times to get rid of the bully, but failed.

A few years later, when her son grew up, she wanted him to go to school, but she didn't want to lose the opportunity of education because she had no money, so she continued to sell herself to make money for her children to go to school. The money she got was extremely limited, but she still hid some money from the hooligans in a secret place on the wall.

The story of his son's schooling at school was known by some parents. They suggested to the school that prostitutes' children should not be allowed to study with other children at school, which would undermine the style of study. The headmaster had to go to the children's home to inquire about it.

The woman refuted the opinions of the headmaster and those parents. When the headmaster saw this scene, he was very sympathetic to the mother and son and let the children stay at school. But the school board is very opposed to keeping children in school. No matter how hard the upright headmaster tried with his meager strength, the child was finally expelled.

Women want to leave here and go somewhere else so that their children can continue their studies. But when she went to get the money she had saved, she found that the hooligans had stolen it and lost it all. In anger, she picked up a bottle and threw it at the rogue, who was killed. And she was sentenced to 12 years in prison for murder and put into prison.

Second, the interpretation of the classic lens of Goddess

1 From the fun center: The fun center in the picture is also the place that attracts the audience's attention. In the lens, the heroine's cold and arrogant face and the bully's laughing face form the strongest contrast area, attracting the audience's attention, and the actions of the hero and heroine are also different. One is standing, the other is sitting, but the man who stands alternately has his arms on his chest and a relaxed face. The heroine sitting with a cigarette in one hand, holding it in front of her leg, frowning and expressionless, looked stiff and cold.

2 From the lighting style and color style: First of all, the lighting is low-key, the shadow layout is transparent, and it has the style of Gao Fancha. The light was on above the bully's head, and the heroine looked down at other places slightly under the bully's gaze, and it was dark behind her. Thirdly, with regard to color, black and white cool tones represent calmness and alienation, low-key lighting and dark tones show a sense of oppression and fatalism, and white and black-gray tones symbolize the beginning of the heroine's hellish life.

3 From the lens distance and lens type: the picture adopts a middle lens, including two people's lenses, and the shallow lens blurs the messy background, highlights the beautiful heroine, and gives a moral effect to the simple plot. Good people make us sympathize; Bad people make us sincerely hate.

From the lens angle and the position of the characters: adopting a horizontal angle is equivalent to being in the world observed by human eyes, presenting a vivid situation. The position of the actor in the picture shows the relationship between the characters. Generally speaking, the top of the scene box represents authority and control, because psychologically, the same thing, placed above and below the scene box, always looks heavier and has a heavy sense of oppression. People or things crowded on the edge of the scene frame will lose the main control of the picture and appear passive and powerless. The bully stands at the top left of the picture, while the heroine's position is at the bottom right, indicating fragile obedience and powerlessness.

Judging from the scene, the compact lens makes the characters fill the whole picture, which is very crowded, suggesting the existence of the prison. It also symbolizes a more tragic turning point in the heroine's life.

Third, film evaluation.

For this film, we can only apply the original words in the textbook: the peak of silent film and the peak of Ruan's performing arts.

"The great success of this film is first of all a profound exposure and criticism of reality. Through the story of a humiliated woman in the lower class, she would rather swallow her voice, endure physical and mental destruction, and try to raise her children, but she could not stand on her own feet, complaining about social injustice, moral decay and dark oppression everywhere. "

Goddess, the title of the film is such a holy word. Is it a distant virgin, a handsome heroine, or ... no one would have thought that the director would give such a title to a poor woman living in the dust. However, when we watch the whole film, no one will disagree to give this title to this great woman. Yes, in the film, the prostitute is just her humble occupation. Her real identity is a mother, a mother who devoted all her love and hard work to her children.

Motherly love, a warm word, occupies endless time and infinite space. We see this eternal emotion from Ruan's mother. We are familiar with such emotions, and we are attached to such emotions, which can resonate even without sound. The maternal light of the mother in the play is convincing, and we ignore her modesty. It can even be said that her humble status embodies the eternity of maternal love.

No language. Mother's helplessness, sadness, pain, hesitation, joy and panic are still vividly displayed in her gestures. She is a tragic figure, wandering at the bottom of society, doing the most humble "work", relying on the strength of a woman to hold up a sky for her children. However, she can choose to bear and endure this painful fact, because her only belief is to make her children live better. She still has a bright smile in the hard life: when the child taught her to do exercises seriously, she smiled; She smiled when she chose a lovely toy for the child by the roadside. When she saw her children singing at the party, she also smiled ... Her smile was bright and warm, and she seemed to see no shadow of life. This is because of her strength, but also because of her faith. As a mother with almost nothing, her smiling face only blooms for her beloved child.

The appearance of "boss" is the fuse of mother's tragic ending. He occupied his mother, her body, and the money she got from buying it. She once chose to tolerate, but could not resist the aggressiveness of the "boss"; She chose to escape, but she couldn't escape from her palm. I think, if there are no children, as a dusty woman, she may always endure it. After all, she is too young to allow her to make any resistance to fate. However, as a mother, she can not fight for her own destiny, but she can not but fight for the fate of her children. She has progressive ideas. She wants her children to go to school and have a bright future, even if she is kept in the dark. In fact, the tragic fate of the mother is doomed, and the appearance of the "boss" seems accidental, but it is also inevitable. In that era when the country was in turmoil and the people were poor, the fate of such a weak woman was by no means up to her. She is a weed, even a stubborn weed, which can't escape the burning of ruthless fire, and will eventually turn to ashes and be annihilated by that cannibal era.

At the end of the film, my mother was in tears behind the bars. She wants her children to think that she is dead. She wants them to live a normal life without any burden. In her hazy eyes, I clearly saw hope, in a desperate life.

Because the film was shot in 1933, the film technology was not very developed at that time, so it was always silent in black and white, but it still failed to erase the artistic value of the film. As the sun sets, the lights attract each other, a simple window shines faintly, and the lens brings the audience indoors. The decoration of this house is extremely simple, with only some necessities. What is extremely incongruous with this simple room are two fashionable cheongsam. When shooting cheongsam, the director used slow motion, as if to intentionally draw the audience's attention here, as if asking the audience a question: "Why does such a simple family have such a fashionable cheongsam?" But the director didn't stop, and the camera turned to a mother and son. The mother is putting the child to bed. The mother looked at the clock, gently put down the child, crept to the front of the mirror, quietly put on makeup and changed clothes, and the little action was full of maternal love. When she stood in the street with a handbag, everything became clear. She is just a humble goddess standing in the street at night. The prosperity of Shanghai at night does not belong to her, and the evil night pushes her to the opposite of morality, which he has to do in order to survive. But it is this identity that has become the root of her misfortune. In order to avoid the police, she fled to the home of a local ruffian and began to entangle. She finally saved money for her son to go to school, but because the school knew her identity, the child lost the opportunity to go to school, so she was forced to leave this evil place. The man gambled all the stolen money, and finally she escaped from prison, ending the man's life and sending herself to prison.

Her misfortunes were a series, but these heavy pressures did not make her fall, because her son was her courage to live and the pillar of her continued life. From the beginning, the child's father has been away. We don't know who this man is, how to abandon the mother of the child, and how to get her into this unfortunate situation. However, even if life is unfortunate, the mother has no idea of giving up. All she can think about is how to raise her children. She always smiles in front of her children, hoping that her children can grow up and receive education as happily as other children. However, her career was ultimately unacceptable to society. Because her children were forced to drop out of school, she could even say that she wished her children didn't have a mother like her. Reality made her despair. Only escape is the way out, but boss Zhang cut her off. On impulse, she killed boss Zhang and was sentenced to 12. She walked into the prison in cold blood. Obviously, she hasn't recovered from her fear of murder. When the prison door closed, she thought of her son and shook the door in despair, but to no avail. When the old headmaster told her that he would educate her children well so that she could finally breathe a sigh of relief, the last sentence was "but when he grows up, please tell him that his mother is dead, so that he doesn't know there is such a mother." Ruan well expressed her mother's mood at this time-despair and hope. Despair means that you can't see your child's growth, and you hope that your child can grow up healthily.

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