Analysis of Red Sorghum

Analysis of Red Sorghum When Zhang Yimou first appeared in the director, Zhang Yimou served as director's debut "Red Sorghum" in 1987, he is known as a film director. It is essential. (Released in 1984, 1987) and Chen Kaige's Yellow Land (1984). Red Sorghum became the first Chinese film that received the Golden Mere award and the highest honor in the international major film competition, as well as being the fifth generation pioneering film in Berlin in 1988 It was.

"Red Sorghum" is a landscape, romantic, violent and symbolic melodrama that bloomed in the early days of the movie. Indeed, it was filmed in 1988, shooting in China with CinemaScope and color does not make it a contemporary film, but it is fully accepted. Hollywood's complexity was lost due to the simplicity of the story, its nearly fairy-tale image quality, and a shocking and intense sudden appearance. Per was dead, a young widow inherited the control of the winery, the winery was in trouble. She encouraged the workers to bring new pride to their wines, and met the people who rescued and destroyed her again. He was drinking alcohol now and drank a drink and drank a big bucket of wine one night. But somehow, his urine acts as a catalyst, and the wine tastes better than before.

The novel includes volumes of "Red Sorghum", "Sorghum", "Dog", "High Funeral" and "Funny Death" which were first serialized in various magazines in 1986. "Dog Road" was published in April 1986 ("October" magazine), "Gao Liquor" announced the art of People's Liberation Army in July 1986, "Gaosheng Funeral" was issued in August 1986 , Beijing Literature, "Singular Death" It was published in Kunlun magazine from November to December. This was a series of magazines before the complete novel was published in 1987. Director Zhang Yimou met him and he immediately suggested Mo Yan to adapt the novel to the movie. The second year of the novel was published and nearly simultaneously the 1987 Chinese film "Red Sorghum" won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Initially, the temporary English title "The Red Sorghum Clan" (Wang 1996) was translated by Chinese by Howard Goldblatt in 1993, but the subtitle was "Red Sorghum - Chinese Fiction".