Telling the “Chang’an Story” from an international perspective, the multinational film “Chang’an·Chang’an” was completed in Xi’an
2022-06-07 16:05:19Source: Xi’an News Network
Xi’an News Network News With the completion of the shooting of two scenes in Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum Museum and Yisu Grand Theater, the “Belt and Road” theme film “Chang’an·Chang’an” co-operated by multinational film stars has been successfully completed in Xi’an. The reporter learned that the film is produced and written by Nakis Abeye, an internationally renowned director, Oscar judge and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, directed by national first-class director Zhang Zhong, and produced by well-known media personality Shi Jia. The filmmakers, well-known actors Cao Jun, Chen Sisi, and Alima lead the starring. In the past two years of preparation and filming, the film has brought together the efforts of filmmakers from China, Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan and other countries.
Individual stories show the strong voice of the times
The movie “Chang’an·Chang’an” was produced by CCTV International Online and Xi’an Port Culture and Sports Industry Development Co., Ltd. and produced by Shaanxi Butterfly Effect Entertainment Media Co., Ltd. The whole film takes the signing of the “China-Iran 25-Year Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement” as the background, and uses the “Chang’an” of the China-Europe train as the carrier to tell a touching story between the international student Ayana and the Chinese youth Sangar.
As the main theme work that came into being under the call of the strong voice of the times, the film “Chang’an·Chang’an”, under the theme of the surging era, through observing and narrating the life trajectory of ordinary people and thinking about the meaning of life, presents it in a small way. The connotation of people-to-people and cultural exchanges among countries along the Belt and Road.
In the film script seminar during the preparatory period of the film, senior experts in the Chinese film critics Li Zhun, Zhong Chengxiang, Yan Shaofei, Yuan Xinwen, Yin Hong, Rao Shuguang and many other well-known experts affirmed the film’s international communication concept and art. Exploration, said that “the film adopts the form of time and space interlacing, which breaks the limitation of time and space, and is completely different from the content, subject matter and style of the current popular theme, which is worth looking forward to.”
Multinational filmmakers work together
Through the diversified presentation of Chinese and foreign cultures, the audience can enhance their deep understanding and recognition of Chinese culture in the language of the film – “Changan·Changan” brings together filmmakers from many countries, and the filming of this film also allows them to have a better understanding of Xi’an. , or have a deeper understanding of the “Belt and Road”.
After the film was approved, the film’s producer and screenwriter, Nakis Abeye, came to Xi’an from Iran on purpose, and lived and worked in Xi’an for half a year. We conducted site surveys in Huimin Street, Datang Never Sleeping City, Datang Furong Garden, Xi’an Yongxingfang Intangible Heritage Cultural District and other places, interviewed many foreign friends, listened to them tell the Chinese stories of the “Belt and Road”, and provided many real details. into the film.
Chen Sisi, a national first-class actress and a famous female singer, played an international tour guide living abroad in the film. She told reporters: “In the film, I took tourists on the Silk Road and Xi’an again. A story of meaning. While interpreting the image of Chinese women as understanding and generous, my role also shows the friendship of the people along the ‘Belt and Road’ to more international friends. This is a new attempt I have tried in artistic creation. Space.” Cao Jun revealed: “The character I played in the film is called Sangar, a drama director. The multi-time and space-time inter-age interpretation in the film is the characteristic of this character.”
The reporter learned that in addition to a large number of Xi’an elements in “Chang’an·Chang’an”, Qin Opera culture is also the soul clue of the whole film. Alima, who plays Ayana, a foreign student in the film, said: “I didn’t know much about Qin Opera before. In order to make this part well, I made a special trip to watch Qin Opera plays such as “The Legend of the White Snake”. Broad and profound, it is a particularly beautiful art.”
Inheriting Silk Road Culture on the Screen
With the completion of the film, the film “Chang’an·Chang’an” has now entered the intensive post-production stage, and is expected to meet the audience on the screen in 2023, the tenth anniversary of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
As for why the title of the film was “Chang’an·Chang’an”, producer Shi Jia said: “The first ‘Chang’an’ represents the glorious Chang’an during the Han and Tang Dynasties, the origin in the middle represents the pause and connection of time and space, and the second The representative of ‘Chang’an’ is now Xi’an, a new image of a rising national central city under the background of the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative.”
Shi Jia said that as the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, Xi’an’s development and changes are inseparable from the proposal of the “Belt and Road” initiative. It only spreads the culture of Xi’an and tells the story of Shaanxi, but also spreads Chinese culture and shows the new image of Chinese cities. “I hope the film can take on the important task of inheriting the Silk Road culture, and show the spiritual identity, contemporary value and world significance of excellent traditional culture. , complete the mission and task of ‘exhibiting image’.” Shi Jia said.
Photo courtesy of Sun Huan Pianfang, an all-media reporter from Xi’an Newspaper Industry
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