Comparing the Narrative and Formal Devices of ChungKing Express and A Bout de Souffle

When comparing the story of ChungKing Express and A Bout de Souffle and the official equipment, Wang Jiawei's movie "ChungKing Express" has many similarities with Godard's "A Bout de Souffle". First, Wai uses a lot of French New Wave's film technologies, such as jumping techniques obviously taken from Godard's movies. He seamlessly blends time-specific scenes using the Godard-ian jump clip and can not detect the passage of time.

Goddard is his colleague of the last movie - truffles, chabours, romers, rivets, who made it, or at least made it before Sufre entered the production, this is a new wave. That cornerstone is a movie that still defines the movements of the public's mind. The magazine "Visual and Sound" calls it the "organization's knowledge declaration", which more reflects the new wave of traditional film formats than any other movie at the time. It also has a young prosperity and a pair of key actors. And its style and attitude is representative of a new generation of young people. All movements, Godard represent sports as a representative of the times, defining a movie as the current art form, and personally succeeded to become one of its most important persons.

Soufre's round is an immediate success. In January 1960, just before the movie was released, it was awarded the annual Jean Vigo award to reward movies made with independent spirits. Critics unanimously praised them as the greatest achievement of the new wave. Someone wrote: "Old movie" and a new movie "These two words are now making sense ... With abort soufflé, you can suddenly feel the gap of generations." Famous British critic Penelope Giliat commented "When Jean-Luc Godard has never produced a movie before," when it was held at four commercial movie theaters in Paris, it quickly attracted a large audience did. After all, it is estimated that the profit will be 50 times the initial investment. More importantly, it stimulated generations of filmmakers - Godard became the incarnation of new waves and prototyping movie intellectuals - imitating everything he did