Abstract
Chen Kaige, a famous Chinese “scholar-type director”, usually contains rich cultural connotations in his films and his works are always full of Chen Kaige-style romanticism. Although he is good at narrative, making The Battle of Changjin Lake a pure war film is a challenge. Therefore, this article takes the film as the research focus. The analysis of aesthetic elements, such as scenes and scope, picture composition, color and so on, expounds into detail the narrative style of romanticism displayed by Chen Kaige in the film.
Highlights
One month or so has passed since China’s National Day, but the box office of the movie The Battle at Lake Changjin did not stop because of the holiday
Aesthetics in the films directed by Chen Kaige is very romantic, and Chen Kaige combinesaesthetics with narration to a nicety word choice that brings a visual feast to people
With the maturity of aesthetics in film application, its function has gradually changed from enriching the film pictures to expressing the theme and spirit of the film
Summary
One month or so has passed since China’s National Day, but the box office of the movie The Battle at Lake Changjin did not stop because of the holiday. On the contrary, it has made great progress and rapidly exceeded 5.5 billion. Many viewers thought Chen Kaige, one of the three Chinese directors who co-directed, is not good at making a war film with such a big scene as The Battle at Lake Changjin. Chen Kaige is good at shaping the emotional narration of movies. In his directing career, there is no outstanding work about war. The success of the pure war film Battle of Changjin Lake on National Day made Chen Kaige create greater glories and completely tore off the label of "Cheng Dieyi", one of the famous film characters he created
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