The Flowers of War
《金陵十三釵》

Background
背景

December 13 marked the 74th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre. This film, which is based on a historical novel by Yan Geling, is set to pay tribute to the historical event–an element central to The Flowers of War.
12月13日正值南京大屠殺74周年祭。該影片根據(jù)嚴歌苓的歷史小說改編，旨在向這一歷史事件致敬，這也是該片的主旨元素。

Driector and cast
導(dǎo)演和演員陣容

Every time Zhang Yimou produces a new film it grabs headlines. The criticism of his last two films, A Simple Noodle Story (2009) and Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010), didn’t stop him making different types of films.
張藝謀的每部新片都會登上報紙頭條。外界對他前兩部作品（2009年的《三槍拍案驚奇》和2010年的《山楂樹之戀》）的爭議之聲并沒有阻止他拍攝不同風(fēng)格影片的腳步。

As usual Zhang has picked a bunch of new actors and actresses for this film, such as Ni Ni. The biggest name is certainly Oscar-winning star Christian Bale, who is known for playing Batman.
與以往一樣，張藝謀在選角時挑選了一批新人，比如女演員倪妮。最大牌的演員當(dāng)屬以扮演“蝙蝠俠”而聞名的奧斯卡影帝克里斯蒂安•貝爾。

Production
電影制作

Zhang likes to play big. With an estimated production budget of 600 million yuan, The Flowers of War is China’s most expensive film yet.
張藝謀喜歡大制作，《金陵十三釵》耗資約6億元人民幣，是目前國內(nèi)投入最大的一部電影。

The film is also aimed to take the international market. It’s set for runs beginning December 23 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, with a wider release to follow next year.
同時，該片也旨在進軍國際市場。12月23日，該片登陸紐約、洛杉磯和舊金山三地影院，明年將會在全球更多地方上映。

And the film will represent China for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards next year.
該片也將代表中國參加第84屆奧斯卡最佳外語片的角逐。

Story
故事概要

Begins in the rubble of Nanjing after the fall of the city to the Japanese on December 13, 1937. This film is a conscious bid to make the horrors of the Nanjing story dramatically accessible to a wider audience.
1937年12月13日南京淪陷到日本人手中，故事在一片瓦礫廢墟中開始。該影片試圖用一種清醒的方式將南京大屠殺這段慘痛的歷史，用戲劇的形式呈現(xiàn)給更多的觀眾。

It places a politically unaligned American mortician John Miller (Christian Bale) in the middle of a desperate group of local civilians comprised of convent schoolgirls and courtesans.
影片將一位當(dāng)時無政治陣營的美國入殮師約翰•米勒（克里斯蒂安•貝爾飾）置于一群絕望的南京平民中，這些人中有教會學(xué)校女學(xué)生，也有風(fēng)塵女子。