Construction of Urban Landscape in Films by Ning Hao

Abstract

As a new young director, Ning Hao has created a series of miracles with low-cost and high box office, and each work produced unexpected results with new visions among the audience, which is the concentrated embodiment of of the director's unique artistic temperament, known as "director with unique ability" in the industry. From connotation to extension, his works are permeated with the strong tension of surprise. The personality based discourse based on his unique characteristics, such as focuses on sensitive topics as the film clips in shooting, cult expression of audio-visual language, extreme rhetoric of film space, discussion on human nature in post-modern context, is constantly rewriting the solidified cognition of film ontology. Therefore, this paper takes films by Ning Hao as an example to extract the urban landscape in his film space for in-depth analysis with comprehensive explanation on the urban landscape in his works from multiple perspectives, such as construction mode, existence state and expression form.