Platform is a feature film directed by Jia Zhangke and starring Wang Hongwei, Zhao Tao and Liang Jingdong, which was released in China on September 4, 2000.
The film tells the story of a group of young people from Fenyang County Art Troupe who grew up from "searching" to "returning" in the wave of social change at the beginning of the reform and opening up in the 1980s.
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In 2000, the film won the Asian Film Promotion League Award at the 57th Venice Film Festival.
- Chinese name
- platform
- Foreign name
- Platform
- Other translated names
- Zhantai
- Generic type
- story
- Production area
- Hong Kong, China
- Direct performance
- Jia Zhangke
- dramatize
- Jia Zhangke
- Main performance
- Wang Hongwei , Zhao Tao , Liang Jingdong , Yang lina sodium
- Film length
- 154 minutes
- Release time
- September 4, 2000
- Dialogue language
- Mandarin, Shanxi dialect
- Production time
- In September 2000
In 1979, just after the reform and opening up of China, young people such as Cui Mingliang and Zhang Jun of Fenyang County Art Troupe rehearsed and recited "Love Song" together. Cui Mingliang very admire as recitation actress Yin Ruijuan, two people often rehearse together, but never express each other's thoughts. On Sunday, Cui Mingliang and Zhang Jun asked Yin Ruijuan, Zhong Ping and other colleagues to go to the movie"
Vagrant
", encounter Yin Ruijuan's father. Yin Fu dont like daughter and Cui Mingliang together, and misunderstand two people are in love dating, daughter from the cinema called away, make everyone unhappy. But Yin Ruijuan and Cui Mingliang heart is more not calm, two people in the evening street accidentally meet, finally expressed his mind. In the 1980s, coastal cities gradually opened up, and Teresa Teng's songs could be heard in hair salons. Zhang Jun went to Guangzhou to visit aunt, sent Cui Mingliang a postcard printed with the city street scene, Cui Mingliang looked at the postcard of high-rise buildings, sleepless all night. Zhang Jun returned from Guangzhou with many new things, including a Cotton Tree brand guitar, and Cui Mingliang soon became obsessed with playing the guitar. The troupe rehearses a light music program and wants to go on tour, but Yin Ruijuan cannot go with the troupe because her father is ill. Yin Ruijuan and Cui Mingliang had to temporarily separate, early in the morning, Cui Mingliang, Zhang Jun and others in the car gradually away, began their tour
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- Wang Hongwei 饰 Cui Mingliang
- DUB-
- Zhao Tao 饰 Yin Ruijuan
- DUB-
- Liang Jingdong 饰 Zhang Jun
- DUB-
- Yang Tianyi 饰 Zhong Ping
- DUB-
- Han Sanming 饰 Han Sanming
- DUB-
- Wang Bo 饰 Tao Eryong
- DUB-
- Samlam 饰 play
- DUB-
| Production MANAGER: | Zhou Qiang,Ichiyama Sangsan,Masayuki Mori,Liwei |
| Supervise the production of | Li Jieming,Ichiyama Sangsan |
| Original work | Jia Zhangke |
| director | Jia Zhangke |
| Assistant Director (Assistant) | Gu Zheng,Miyatjun |
| WRITER | Jia Zhangke |
| shoot | Liwei |
| Background music | Zhang Yang |
| montage | Kong Jinlei |
| Art director | Qiu Sheng |
| lamplight | Yao Jianyun |
| Recorded AT | Zhang Yang |
| Script clerk | Rossa |
Reference source: Film Network
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Yin Ruijuan
ACTORS
Zhao Tao
DUB
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Yin Ruijuan is a member of the county cultural troupe, she likes fierce pop music, at most just sit on the side, for the crazy rhythm of the people intoxicated in the dance beat; She yearns for the outside world, but refuses to wander wandering performance, but wants to find a bigger stage for life by entering the provincial art school.
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Cui Mingliang
ACTORS
Wang Hongwei
DUB
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Cui Mingliang like Yin Ruijuan, refused to put down the shelf said the initiative, just silently appreciate. When Yin Ruijuan told him to go on a blind date, Cui Ming bright dont care to be blunt; When Yin Ruijuan took the initiative to break up, Cui Mingliang's natural and unrestrained outfit was determined; Several years later, Cui Mingliang was invited to Yin Ruijuan's home for the first time, and the words inadvertently revealed the familiarity of Yin's home furnishings, only to expose their own years in the wall silently looking at what was branded in the heart of how deep traces.
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Zhong Ping
ACTORS
Yang Tianyi
DUB
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In order to live with her loved one Zhang Jun, Zhong Ping was injured twice, had an abortion and was punished by the public Security Bureau for soliciting prostitution. Two injuries, Zhong Ping's reaction is very different. For the first time, Xu head to keep a secret for the ugly, looking for countermeasures, the two people from the county town everywhere to the remote countryside secretly surgery, in order to make peace. The second time, Zhong Ping Zhang Jun and a scandal, Laozheng was called by the police station to get people to admit their mistakes, Laozheng will two people from no one knows Wu Bao back to the county.
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Tao Eryong
ACTORS
Wang Bo
DUB
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She appears as a supporting character in the first half of the film. In the troupe dissolved, began to walk after the performance, two yong think that the old Song led no future, intend to do small business to support the family, did not follow Cui Mingliang and others together, they completely disappeared from the story. In the second half of the film, after Zhong Ping leaves Zhang Jun, Er Yong joins Old Song's walking troupe under the pretext of being tired at home, and soon gets together with Xiao Juan, one of the two new sisters in the team.
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Awards
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prizewinner
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result
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The year 2000
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57th Venice Film Festival Asian Film Promotion Alliance Award
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Jia Zhangke
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Win a prize
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The year 2000
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Section 57 Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival
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Jia Zhangke
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nominate
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November 2001
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Best Screenplay Award at the 30th Montreal International Festival of New Films and New Media
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Jia Zhangke
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Win a prize
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"Platform," a script that director Jia Zhangke began writing in 1995, is one of his early works. Director Jia Zhangke believes that the interesting point of "Platform" should be that it makes himself really work in an industrial system, shooting "Xiao Wu" when the crew are good friends, 15 people, sleep on the shoot, shoot tired sleep, no pressure, flexible operation. When shooting "Platform", there were 100 people in the team at the most, and suddenly there were many more departments, and there were many things to do, so it was necessary to ensure that the energy was focused on the creation, and it was also necessary to trust the production, which was the first time, and it was a challenge.
The title of the film comes from the song of the same name "Platform" in the 1980s, which is a very popular song among young people in the mid-1980s. It describes a person waiting for his lover's arrival on the platform, which is a kind of expectant mood. For director Jia Zhangke, it is the key to unlock the memory of the 1980s, "platform" is the place of departure, but also the place of return, it is related to the journey, there is a tired and sad feeling of life
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Company name
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nation
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remark
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Kitano Takeshi Studio
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Japan
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Production company
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T-Mark
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Japan
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Hutong production
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Hong Kong, China
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ArtcamInternational
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France
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BandaiEntertainmentInc
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Japan
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PrimerPlanoFilmGroupS.A.
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Argentina
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Issuing company
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PrimerPlanoFilmGroupVideoS.A.(video)
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Argentina
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SlovenskaKinoteka(allmedia)
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Slovenia
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AdVitam
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France
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Artificial eye
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Britain
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EmpirePicturesInc(subtitled)
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America
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Prodimag(DVD)
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Spain
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ContactFilmCinematheek(theatrical)
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Netherlands
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NewYorkerVideo(DVD)
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America
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MoskwoodMedia(VHS)
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Netherlands
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Table Reference source: Mtime
The performance of "Platform" is not only the various stations that the characters in the film constantly go through, nor is it just a description of the destination of personal history, but the film shows respect for ordinary people and understanding of life, describing some ordinary people as important history. On the contrary, that history becomes the background of ordinary people. In the historical sayings that do not disappear, those young people begin to touch the changes of life. This allows a historical background to exert the power of fate in the film. However, it is this power that makes the fate of some people history. History is no longer about the great men, but about the little men who go about their lives and dreams. Only in this way can they truly appreciate the transformation of history and constitute the true commentary of history. It's an epic for the little people.
(Golden Eagle Entertainment Review)
This is a genius film. Two and a half hours of constant surprise, "Wu" has surprised the audience, but the elements of it are extended and enlarged here. The result is a panorama of a whole generation falling, a handful of young people clenching their teeth, from 1979 to 1989, and at the end, the ideal is not there.
(French "Liberation" commentary)
Since taking selfies of "Xiao Wu," Jia and Wang have continued to develop the character in more detail. They have created the most unlikely character in contemporary Chinese cinema: a ridiculous, depressed guy, yet naive, vulnerable and tested, who is an ideal character in a film full of intelligence and desire. The lad seemed at all times to understand the creeping changes, and this attitude was very touching, but he could still be overwhelmed by them.
(French Film Handbook Review)
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"Platform" is a memoir of Jia Zhangke's personal growth, in which the county is familiar and nostalgic, and the young people in the county are filled with images of the past life. The film, through the love and life of a group of young people who came out of the county during the transition period, expresses a kind of respect and understanding of ordinary people. It shows ordinary people as if they were important history.
(Jin Ying net review)
