＂Jianghu Children＂ reappears ballroom culture. Zhao Tao Liao Fan jumped back to the ancients.
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1905 movie network news Fans who are familiar with Jia Zhangke’s works know that disco elements will appear in his films from "Platform", and this time’s "Jianghu Children" is no exception. Today, the film released a set of "retro disco" stills, showing the disco trend in the film in 2000. Jia Zhangke, the screenwriter and director of the film, also revealed in the interview that he was a disco culture lover when he was young.
In the newly exposed stills, Zhao Tao (played by Qiaoqiao) and Liao Fan (played by Brother Bin) are incarnated as disco youths, dancing to their hearts’ content and releasing themselves in the disco. Zhao Tao was dressed in a trendy outfit, dancing in the middle of the dance floor, showing her fashionable style. Liao Fan is dressed in black, with a cool Jianghu costume. Whether drinking with others or dancing with Zhao Tao, he is unsmiling and maintains the majesty of Jianghu bosses. The pictures of Liao Fan and Zhao Tao dancing disco perfectly restore the scene of young people dancing disco together in 2000, which makes people feel like going back to that era, showing the enthusiasm and energy constantly stimulated in their young lives with music and dance. In the director’s special feature previously exposed, Jia Zhangke danced a short dance with Zhao Tao on the set, and revealed that Liao Fan and Zhao Tao choreographed their back-to-back dance moves.
In fact, it is not uncommon for people to dance in discos or in groups in Jia Zhangke’s films. In Ren Xiaoyao, young Bin Bin and Qiaoqiao consume their confused youth in discos. In "mountains may depart", the young people in the town, Zhang Jinsheng, Shen Tao and Liang Zi, fell in love and felt free while dancing disco. In Children of the Jianghu, Brother Bin and Sister Qiao, as Jianghu people, danced freely in the disco, which proved that their scenery was infinite at this time. These iconic scenes in Jia Zhangke’s films are not only the plot of the story, but also the vivid memories of youth for Jia Dao.
No one thought that Jia Zhangke, who was gentle and elegant in the eyes of everyone and won numerous awards, was once a "little prince in disco". As early as the film "mountains may depart" was released, Jia Dao once showed his dancing talent slightly. Although the dance steps were a little unfamiliar, it was enough to surprise everyone. In this regard, Jia Zhangke said: "When I was studying, there were many discos next to the school, and I went almost every Saturday. From eight or nine o’clock in the evening, I jumped to two o’clock the next day, and even changed three discos a night. At that time, there seemed to be endless strength in my body." It turns out that this internationally renowned director was once a hot-blooded young man who liked disco dancing!
The film "Jianghu Children" will be released nationwide on September 21st in the Mid-Autumn Festival.