He pays more attention to the beauty of the picture and the collocation of colors. Realistic style is the mainstream of his early works. In a fashionable word, his early films paid more attention to people's livelihood. Are ordinary citizens or rural subjects. Good at using natural things to render the atmosphere (such as the winding country road in the Story of Qiu Ju, which symbolizes Qiu Ju's bumpy road to the top).
His innovation and personal understanding of movies are more about pursuing color contrast to pursue the sublimation of picture beauty. For example, the contrast between Jiang Wen's dark skin and yellow straw and sorghum in Red Sorghum, and the contrast between Zhang and Zhang's red wedding dress and golden rice in Hero. The whole picture is very beautiful. After all, he is a photographer.
In addition, his works have also embarked on the road of commercial blockbusters in recent years. The realistic value of the film is greatly reduced, and the story defect of the film itself has become the object of criticism by many film critics.
If you are writing a thesis, you should pay more attention to his early works. Mostly realism and realism. Pay special attention to several of his representative works and award-winning works. After all, the paper is written by yourself, so you must write your own opinions. Don't follow the trend.