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Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences ISSN 2347-5374(Online) Abbreviated Key Title: Sch Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences ISSN 2347-5374(Online) Abbreviated Key Title: Sch. J. Arts Humanit. Soc. Sci. ISSN 2347-9493(Print) ©Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (SAS Publishers) A Unit of Scholars Academic and Scientific Society, India Cinematic Metaphors of the Square and Rectangular Framing:The Peg on Which to Hang the Beijing Grievance in I Am Not Madame Bovary Ya-chen Chen*, Ph.D China Medical University, 91 Hsueh-shih Road, North District, Taichung City, Taiwan Abstract: Feng Xiaogang (馮小剛) purposefully juxtaposes square framing, square *Corresponding author lens, widescreen, rectangular framing, and circular framing in I Am Not Madame Ya-chen Chen Bovary (我不是潘金蓮). Inspired by Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s square 1:1 aspect ratio in Mommy,i influential film crew members, including the award-winning Article History photographer Luo Pan (羅攀) and director Feng Xiaogang, confirmed that they Received: 25.07.2018 deliberately use both the square framing and widescreen as their unique designs for Accepted: 03.08.2018 Northern Chinese or Beijing grievance.ii This research article highlights cinematic Published: 30.08.2018 metaphors of the square lens and square framing to signify the peg on which to hang the female protagonist Li Xuelian’s legal pursuits or litigation in Beijing.The literal DOI: denotation of the English-language phrase “peg” refers to “a small stick or hook that 10.21276/sjahss.2018.6.8.11 sticks out from a surface and from which objects, especially clothes, can hang.”iii The metaphorical connotation of the phrase “peg” means “a reason for discussing something furtheriv.” In other words, the peg can perhaps metaphorically represent the cinematic peg to hang the female protagonist Li Xuelian’s Beijing grievance on, especially because it appears whenever Li Xuelian travels northward for her Beijing lawsuit. This peg, which the square framing and square lens represents, happens to be a square peg unfitted to the round hole, which symbolizes Li Xuelian’s vagina, womb, birth canal—namely, the female fertility/birth organs and the factual reason to motivate Li Xuelian’s ten-year-long litigation. Keywords: square framing, peg, grievance, divorce, square lens, square 1:1 aspect ratio. INTRODUCTION the circumstances, the two scenes of the rectangular Based on a story created by Liu Zhenyun (劉 1.85:1 aspect ratio conceal Li Xuelian’s legal retaliation 震雲), Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary (我 against whoever indirectly caused the death of her 不是潘金蓮) underscores the female protagonist Li second embryo and metaphorically serve as the peg on Xuelian’s decade-long Beijing grievance against her which to hang Li Xuelian’s Beijing grievance. husband Qin Yuhe’s broken promise to remarry her after their fake divorce to win the downtown dorm from Inspiration of Xavier Dolan’s Square 1:1 and 1.85:1 his factory as well as Qin Yuhe’s public wrongful Aspect Ratio accusation that compares Li Xuelian to the ancient In interviews related to this motion picture, pornographic woman Pan Jinlian in classical Chinese Feng Xiaogang confirmed that Xavier Dolan’s square pornography. Li Xuelian spends ten years on her 1:1 aspect ratio in Mommy inspired him to play filmic grievance. The square 1:1 aspect ratio occurs at least games of square framing and square lens with the eleven times throughout the entire movie whenever Li award-winning photographer Luo Pan (羅攀). Xuelian travels to the North or Beijing for her litigation. Following a recent trend from The square framing is like a cinematic witness of the filmmakers as diverse as Wes injustice that Li Xuelian struggles to rectify and all the Anderson and Xavier Dolan, administrative bureaucracy at the central headquarter of Luo and Feng refuse to Beijing; therefore, it metaphorically serves as the peg employ a conventional aspect on which to hang Li Xuelian’s Beijing grievance. ratio. For the most part, I Am Not Madame Bovary is viewed Even when the widescreen[v] or rectangular through a perfect circular 1.85:1 aspect ratio appears at least twice at the end of frame, only shifting to an almost-square when the drama the whole film, Li Xuelian honestly reveals the truth of vi her illegal second-time pregnancy to County Chief Shi arrives in Beijing[ ]. Weimin (史惟閔縣長) at her Beijing restaurant. Under Available online: http://saspjournals.com/sjahss 1553 Ya-chen Chen., Sch. J. Arts. Humanit. Soc. Sci., Aug 2018; 6(8): 1553-1559 Luo Pan recalled that all the photos of their Mommy. This is not a coincidence at all. This is Xavier location-scouting at the Shangtan Village (上坦村) in Dolan’s inspiration. Wuyuan (婺源) of Jiangxi Province (江西省)[vii] are square-frame pictures. While discussing the square- Xavier Dolan’s square 1:1 aspect ratio for the frame pictures of location-scouting with Luo Pan, Feng leading role’s emotional stress in Mommy matches the Xiaogang mentioned Xavier Dolan’s Instagram square same kind of square 1:1 aspect ratio for the female to cinematically highlight the protagonist’s emotional protagonist Li Xuelian’s legal pressure in I Am Not pressures and the rectangular 1.85:1 aspect ratio to Madame Bovary. Xavier Dolan’s rectangular 1.85:1 symbolically emphasize two scenes of happy moments aspect ratio for the final two scenes of psychological in Mommy. relief and happiness in Mommy echoes the same type of rectangular 1.85:1 aspect ratio for the two ending scenes "I know a lot of people are of the female protagonist Li Xuelian’s emotional saying, 'Oh, 1:1, how capabilities to release the truth of her illegal second- pretentious,’'' admits Dolan. time pregnancy and the death of her second embryo. "But for me, it seems a [humbler and more] private Diverse Kinds of Rectangular Framing in Recent format, a little more fitting to Chinese-Language Films these lives we're diving into. Recent Chinese-language films adopt diverse Cinemascope [2.35:1] would kinds of rectangular framing. For example, Jia have been extremely Zhangke’s (賈樟柯) Mountains May Depart (山河故) pretentious and incompatible contains three types of rectangular framing, each of for Mommy. To try to get in which stands for the past, present, and future. Hou that apartment and film these Hsiao-hsien’s (侯孝賢) The Assassin (刺客聶隱娘) people in that aspect ratio includes at least two different sorts of rectangular would have been unseemly." framing: the 4:3 aspect ratio for the reality, and the 16:9 aspect ratio for nostalgic memories[ix]. Dolan scoffs at the Screenwriter Liu Zhenyun’s Objection interpretation that he was Xavier Dolan’s inspiration did not smoothly using the narrow frame to win consent from screenwriter Liu Zhenyun (劉震雲), imprison his characters. He who preferred audience members’ attention to the also shrugs off suggestions artistic design of story plot, not photographic variations that the device is a nod to the of surficial formats. Liu objected to the shifts between boxed-in nature of Instagram circular and square lens. photos and Vine videos, saying, if anything, he had The use of circular and square "album covers" on the mind, lens will probably distract indelible images that have audience members, misleading "imprinted in our imaginations them to focus on filming skills over time." and overlook the importance of fictional texts[x]. He does widen the film—the image actually expands to a Sometimes the circular framing features only a 1.85:1 aspect ratio—during tiny number of leading roles without close-ups and two of the more hopeful disallows the number of people inside of audience moments in the story. members’ eyesight; therefore, Liu Zhenyun’s hope to include folks surrounding the female protagonist must "I knew going in that I depend on the square framing and square lens, such as wanted one moment where the the people surrounding Li Xuelian in the market. Liu frame would break open and Zhenyun remarked, for the character to break free," explains Dolan. "We I hope to see the people loved it so much we did [end] surrounding the protagonist in viii up doing it twice ." scenes of the hospital or county government. Except for The square framing and rectangular framing in the protagonist, there are many Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary share people in this society. I need exactly the same aspect ratio with Xavier Dolan’s audience members to see the square 1:1 and rectangular 1.85:1 aspect ratio in social background and Chinese folks. The circular Available online: http://saspjournals.com/sjahss 1554 Ya-chen Chen., Sch. J. Arts. Humanit. Soc. Sci., Aug 2018; 6(8): 1553-1559 lens and circular framing lack the screen. I feel that the use sufficient exposure of all the of the 2.35:1 aspect ratio people surrounding the leading entails some trends. Switches role because they are good at of diverse types of square focus on protagonists only[xi]. framing are relatively frequently seen[xii]. Award-Winning Photographer Luo Pan’s Follow-up Insistence Obtaining the budget of $1,000,000 RMB and Winner of the Award for the Best Photographer bringing thirty staff members with him, Luo Pan at the Shanghai Film Festival in 2014 as well as the finished a twenty-minute testing film clip in October Macao Film Festival and Asia Film Festival in 2015, 2015. After Wang Zhonglei (王中磊), one of the two Luo Pan (羅攀) is the photographer who insisted on the major bosses of Huayi (華誼) Film Company, viewed it variations of cinematic lens. In this film, all the scenes with Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Jun (鄭鈞), Feng of square framing and rectangular framing are Xiaogang told Luo Pan that the cinematic alteration of completed after Luo Pan and his staff’s adoption of square and circular framing would be approved.
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