歷史 日常
2020
1960年代的西門町,街頭小混混李墨成,逐日與朋友幹些偷雞摸狗之事,兼職送貨郎的他,意外損毀了客戶的海報,欲偷天換日卻被原畫師傅逮住,然而,這位凶神惡煞老楊過竟宣告收墨成為徒?!
Struggling to get by in the 1960's Taiwan, the island nation's golden age of cinema, a young man alters his destiny by turning away from a life of crime and becoming a master of the art of hand-painted movie billboards.
1960年代的西門町,街頭小混混李墨成,逐日與朋友幹些偷雞摸狗之事,兼職送貨郎的他,意外損毀了客戶的海報,欲偷天換日卻被原畫師傅逮住,然而,這位凶神惡煞老楊過竟宣告收墨成為徒。進入海報繪師的世界,卡通化、大頭人的喜劇,人物神態英氣逼人武俠片,賺人熱淚的社會人倫悲劇。在有限的參照物中,釋放自身的創意,將電影劇情精髓凝聚於海報畫面,一幅圖像就帶給觀眾無限想像。這項傳統工藝的生命與價值,如何傳承、延續? 漫畫家簡嘉誠與國家電影及視聽文化中心攜手獻映,職人匠心背後,傲骨光榮與辛酸黯然。回顧關於手繪電影海報的記憶,捕捉過去的生活娛樂,映入大眾眼簾的「活色聲相」。
When he's not loafing around on the streets or engaging in petty burglary, small-time hoodlum Li Mo-cheng occasionally engages in legitimate work delivering packages. One day he accidentally damages a delivery he is making for a one-armed man with a fearsome reputation. When Li Mo-cheng opens the package to inspect the damage, he finds he has ruined part of a hand-painted movie poster intended for a movie production studio. To cover his error, he decides to repaint the damaged portion himself. His ruse is easily discovered, but when the one-armed seeks out Li Mo-cheng, it is not to give him a retaliatory beating, but to offer him a job as a painter's apprentice! Only after entering the trade does Li Mo-cheng discover that the one-armed man is the most in-demand movie poster and billboard painter in Taiwan. But as an apprentice, Li Mo-cheng's duties are to wash paint brushes and perform other menial tasks – hardly a step up from his days of loafing about, and difficult pill to swallow for a man who overrates his own abilities. Only after secretly accepting a commission and having his work rejected by the client does Li Mo-cheng realize there is more to the art of painting movie posters than he first imagined. He further witnesses the role a well-painted poster plays in creating a box office sensation, and feels a sense of accomplishment when one of his sketches is praised by his teacher. However, none of this is enough to spare him from the temptation of easy money when some old associates ask him to help carry out an armed robbery. Hand painted movie posters and billboards have a special role of the cinematic history of Taiwan, China, and Japan. Golden Comic Award winner Jian Jia-Cheng recreates the heyday of this overlooked art form with vivid characterizations and compelling storytelling. Additionally, the lives of Taiwan's most famous movie poster painters are interwoven into the plot to help situate the story within the historical development of the craft.
曾擔任鐵道、財經、二戰等漫畫主筆、廣告分鏡、動畫分鏡、小說插畫,現為自由創作者。
Despite having graduated with a BA in English, Jian Jia-Cheng decided he would spend his life drawing comics while still at middle school. After college, he worked as a financial cartoonist and as a storyboard artist for animation studios and advertisements. He began to publish his own original works, not only as a solo artist and writer, but also as a collaborator with others. His published works include Back Street Dusk and Time Train, and he has represented Taiwan at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2014.
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專文:https://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20210221000401-260115?chdtv