A Study On The Imagination Of The West In Wu Tianming's Movies

As an outstanding representative of western films,most of Wu Tianming's films are devoted to the narration and imagination of western culture.The western imagination of Wu Tianming's film has its inherent logical starting point and basic mechanism.He should also be in line with the "depoliticized" atmosphere of the times and the cultural trend of thought of "root-seeking literature" at that time,and based on the call for a beautiful human nature,he will be a cruel political struggle.The adverse natural environment and even the entry of modern civilization are regarded as the opposites of the beautiful human nature,and take the dualistic opposition between human nature and these non-human factors as the main mechanism,which is not to show the true nature of human nature at the edge of politics.Is to restore human nature before the bondage of nature Beautiful,or in the contrast of modern civilization to express the euphemism of the simple human nature,strive to present a kind of "culture" rather than "political" or "class struggle" in the sense of the western region.In the process of imagining the western region and opening up the western part of the culture,Wu Tianming's film,regardless of the object to be captured by the lens,the style of the language of the lens,and even the way of editing the lens,Both show his deep understanding of the inner logic of western culture and his deep fascination with it.The grayish-yellow land under the large overshoot is the background color of Wu Tianming's film and the basic environment of the characters in the film,which to some extent constitutes the support and soul of the western culture.A large number of weddings and funerals and unique opera ballads and other folk customs,folk scenes,not only simple environmental display,but also the original culture of the western flesh and symbolic container.Pure and beautiful.Human feelings are the core theme that Wu Tianming's films never change,and sometimes they even rise to the height of national emotion.This is the blood of western culture and something that can continue to be inherited and carried forward in the future without the need for creative transformation.Carrying the hope of western culture.Through the land,folk customs,the film expression of human feelings,Wu Tianming's deep fascination with western culture flowed out.To some extent,Western China is synonymous with tradition,and Wu Tianming's Western Imagination is the expression of his love of tradition.But for Wu Tianming,"modern" is also a consistent temptation.Tradition and modernity,like two forces in different directions,pull,tear Wu Tianming's heart,and construct the tension of Wu Tianming's Western Imagination.His early western films,though mainly infatuated with tradition,present modern as an element,either bright or dark.Later,he cast aside the traditional writing of western culture and went to film-making on other subjects that were completely "modern".It's just this." The traditional attempt to escape to the modern did not succeed and had to return to the west again.Photographed the anachronistic but thought-provoking sequel,the hundred Birds,the Phoenix.This is a elegiac of western culture,and also a song of Wu Tianming's imagination of the West.In an era of cultural consumerism sweeping all over the world in the name of modern times,Wu Tianming's "Western Imagination" provides us with a rare image reference for us to look back on tradition and return to reality.