On The Classical Aesthetic Features In Huo Jianqi’s Films

After witnessing the historical path of "spiritual patricide","cultural reflection" and "national allegory" of the fifth generation directors,the pan-fifth generation director Huo Jianqi has returned to the countryside,reconstructed ethics and forged an ideal With the creative concept of returning to the countryside,reconstructing ethics and creating an ideal spiritual world,he has made a large number of films with a southern mood and poetic aesthetic style.Since his independent film "The Winners" in 1995,Huo’s film creations have gradually formed into three story categories,including the vernacular narrative represented by "That Mountain,That Man,That Dog",the historical character narrative represented by "Autumn’s White Flower" and the emotional narrative represented by "Lover’s Knot".In the course of more than twenty years of creation,the three characteristics of "beauty of landscape," "beauty of human feelings," and "beauty of mood" have been running through the overall style of the film.This paper takes the ten most representative films directed by Huo Jianqi as the main object of study,and explores the inner meaning of classical aesthetic heritage in Huo’s films with the theoretical support of painting theory,mood theory and related film theories.The first part of the paper is divided into four parts.The first part starts from the exploration of Huo Jianqi’s creation,and analyzes the characteristics of Huo Jianqi’s film style from a comparative perspective by combining the overview of Huo Jianqi’s growth experience and the tracing of Huo Jianqi’s film creation influence;the second part starts from the ancient Chinese painting theory,and combines the composition techniques of Huo Jianqi’s films,the camera movement and time and space expansion in the film images,and the light and color in the film images with the common techniques of Chinese painting and the laws of film composition,The third part starts from the core proposition of classical Chinese aesthetics-the theory of mood,and analyzes the beauty of Huo Jianqi’s film by combining the two systems of "establishing the image in order to exhaust the meaning" and "the realm is born outside the image"."The third part starts from the core proposition of classical Chinese aesthetics,the theory of mood,with the two major systems of " the creation of an image in order to exhaust the meaning " and " the realm is born outside the image ".The fourth part starts from the classical aesthetic thought in Huo Jianqi’s films,combining the Confucian ideas of " benevolence," " harmony," and " the path of the circle.The fourth part analyzes the meaning of classical thought in Huo’s films by combining the ideas of "benevolence," "harmony," and "the way of the circle" put forward by Confucianism.