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Mei Lanfang and thirteen swallows, how much is left?

The play Mei Lanfang is a surprise.

The surprise is not Meng Xiaodong played by Zhang Ziyi, Mei Lanfang played by Dawn, nor Qiu played by Sun. They were told too much inside and outside the play.

"Your time has come." Qiu, who returned from studying abroad, told Mei Lanfang: So Mei Lanfang wants to compete with "Grandpa" Thirteen Swallows.

"Your time has passed." This is not what Mei Lanfang said to Grandpa. This is what the second left said.

The general trend.

But thirteen Yan sang all her life, and when she arrived, she didn't even have a curtain call. An empty theater and rubbish thrown on the stage. "Whoever destroys Mei Lanfang's loneliness will destroy Mei Lanfang." This is the most quoted line in the whole play. Mei Lanfang's loneliness may have made his art, but Thirteen Yan's pursuit of life finally left him alone on the stage.

Does he really not know how to change? He read Qiu's letter to Mei Lanfang and revised the script according to his changes. It's just that he has been singing all his life. "You can only choose between life and drama" is a false proposition for him.

"Those who conform to the times prosper, and those who go against the times die." It's not that they don't understand. How can you admit your failures and mistakes in the last scene of your life? This is equivalent to telling him that you have to start all over again in your life. But he is no longer young, he has no chance to correct it, and he has no time to "rebuild". Trying to change the values of parents and grandparents is always a thankless task.

This does not mean that young people should keep their mouths shut and not breathe free air. The era of "two whatevers" has long passed, and the moral stick is no longer powerful. All reasonable arguments, even if the object is "predecessors", are worth encouraging. But I believe that most of the post-80s generation have mixed feelings when they see the lonely thirteen Yan Dou on the stage, and they are by no means clapping their hands. After all, everyone has a day when they are too old to keep up.

Mei Lanfang defeated "Grandpa" and went to greet "Grandpa" after the curtain call, which was quite good. Because "Grandpa" and Mei Lanfang are one. Grandpa's last words were to ask Mei Lanfang to improve her status as an actor, not to be an inferior person. Mei Lanfang refused to go to the United States and practiced all his life. This is the feelings of several generations of actors for the pear garden, and they will not admit defeat.

Now the "seat" is called "market", and the taste changes faster and more severely. The "actor" is called "artist", which has changed from a wretched person to a heartthrob. I wonder how many Mei Lanfang and thirteen swallows are left.

digress (from the subject)

Southern People Weekly asked Mei Baojiu how he felt that Leslie Cheung was more suitable to play his father than Dawn. Mei Baojiu said: "Leslie Cheung's acting is very good, but she is a little girly. Dawn is still a big shot, a big shot in private, because my father is a big shot in private. " After reading this sentence, I feel that Mei Baojiu's realm seems to be worse than his father's.

Tell me about Mei Lanfang. As far as the origin of the play is concerned, its success is only one thing, that is, whether the Mei family is satisfied. In this sense, the film was not made for the general audience, nor for Chen Kaige, although Zhang Yihe said that Chen wanted to "save himself with Mei". To really understand Mei Lanfang, it is better to look at Gossip and unofficial history.

In fact, the film only took a few replaced fragments of Mei Lanfang's life. In the three chapters of Farewell to Death, where will you go and Gathering and Dispersing, people's comments are all anticlimactic. Judging from the appearance of the three stages, it does show an "inverted triangle" trend. The first film with the best reputation, many people exclaimed that "Overlord" was reborn, which was really flattered. All the brilliance of this part of the play comes from the exaggerated Beijing accent and rhyme, the scenes cut in sequence in the play, and the tension of scene scheduling including art and sound. Speaking of the plot and the play itself, it can be said that it is far from Farewell My Concubine. So it is suspected of bluffing. Let's take a look at the scene where Gillian was deleted the other day. Unfortunately, the story that was already too bleak was not so wonderful. The "fighting scene" in this paragraph is a highlight, but fortunately, although the role of Thirteen Swallows was defeated, the old Tan family is also atmospheric and has never heard any opinions. The audience can also clearly see that winning or losing is not really important. The alternation of the old and the new is the general trend, the trend of the times and the inevitability of history, just as today's Peking Opera is going to make way for Jay Chou. And in gold placer, until now, the old Huang Zhong of Dingjun Mountain is still angry about bullfighting. Daiyu buried flowers and a wisp of hemp had already been thrown on the stage.

In the section of "Life and Death", I heard something about Mei Meng earlier, and saw that the body of our ancestors was still warm, but it was so arranged. I'm very resistant. Look. China has always had a tradition of creating gods. Some good people don't do it, but they insist on playing tricks in front of people and playing tricks behind their backs. How ridiculous it is to be caught in the middle! This time, "Mei Lanfang" still whitewashes the dead by tampering with history under the banner of restoring her mortal identity. Actors are naturally inferior to emperors, and no matter how they change, it is nothing more than a romantic thing. How many people are just having fun. But it is full of serious disrespect for history, especially for the dead. Montessori is short of successors, so it is estimated that he is too lazy to stand up and theorize. Reading through the history of unofficial history's Talk about the Marriage between Mei and Meng, we find that Mei's performance in the realistic drama is indeed the essence of reality. "Mei Lanfang has never been a chrysanthemum altar Xu Zhimo, and there is no romantic feeling. (Yoko and) "Yes, a person who always pursues harmony, understanding, integrity and peace, such as Xue Baochai, is far from romantic. Unfortunately, thousands of pounds of marriage papers and thousands of disappointments were suddenly replaced by Plato. Even in the case of murder, body double can be used instead. Not only did the "plum blossom" become a "thorn Meng", but in order not to defile the "purity" of their feelings, it was also arranged on the eve of parting and farewell. In reality, the fuse of abandonment has evolved into a beautiful lace to decorate love fairy tales. I think it's a pity that the client didn't live to the present, otherwise he would have spit on the spot.

As soon as I saw this play, it became a sentence. When "gathering and dispersing", all Japanese sabers were raised. Mei is not a revolutionary shouting with a weapon, nor is she an old scholar whose country is bigger than the sky. As a person in the scene, for him, "being a man" should be the foundation of survival above those big concepts. Of course, he knows how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. In the end, he just struggled for survival like everyone else, risking his life in troubled times. Although the Japanese are not as good as pigs and dogs, they know how to respect art, which is better than those who chase you all day and hold you in a posture that you can't live without, but a hundred people look down on you in their bones. Therefore, this kind of drama is of little benefit to the shaping of idol golden body, far less wonderful than Cheng Dieyi's sentence "If Aoki is here, Peking Opera will spread to Japan". Except for a few lines of dog blood, Lala spilled it for forty minutes. If Qiu had shown his true colors, he would have almost lost water. I like the ending of this movie. The curtain slowly opened, and the farewell ceremony was a small stage in the whole scene. Then the camera hit Qiu under the stage, and the movie came to an abrupt end, with a knife in his hand, and there was an inexorable hatred in his heart.

As for the actors' performances, Wang Xueyin is the best. As early as before the film was released, there seemed to have been a lot of discussion about his Thirteen Swallows, but there were few cases of one-sided public opinion. I usually take this careless remark as a compliment, but after the impression accumulated, the idea suddenly came to me. Considering Wang Xueyin's qualifications and other factors, he is likely to win the Golden Rooster Award for this role next year. Wang Xueyin is a very interesting actor. What is special about him is that there is a faint tiger spirit in his temperament, and the beauty is that he is usually quiet. On the stage, what is presented to us is the elegant demeanour of the famous actress in Thirteen Swallows. The only thing I don't like about this role is the exaggerated Beijing dialect (I call it Beijing eunuch accent), which is also the characteristic of Chen's films. Zhang Ziyi's performance was full of praise, which I thought was not bad. She delayed most of the second part of the play. I remember Mr. Xie Fei once said that the only works that Zhang Ziyi can play are my parents, and the others are playing himself. This time, it is obvious that the whole person has sunk. Without the flirtation and perseverance of the previous role, she has shaped the open side of the role. She should have put her heart into it. For example, the character's tone of voice is designed to be somewhat interesting, without her usual boring hutong and gnashing her teeth, but she is a quite lovely husband. It can be seen that she is trying to get closer to the identity of "Kun Sheng". Qiu is obviously the spokesman of Chen Kaige in the film (he is used to setting his own body body double in the film, which is another major feature of Chen's film). ) Sun's own temperament is far from the role he plays. Without talent and literary accomplishment, the so-called "madness" is difficult to establish. Sun's consistent "Northeast Methodist Performance" is also very critical, but we still have to admit that some of his plays are ok, such as Qiu's later plays. Other roles, WU GANG's teacher Fei, are often mentioned. I suggest going to see his "Glorious Wrath", the performance is wonderful; Milan, a teenager in Yu Shaoqun, surprised many people. He is still a brilliant man after seeing him in An Appointment between Lu and Yu. Ying Da's reactive power is useless, and neither is Shuguang, but Chen Hong is really surprising. After years of film and television practice, immersion in the circle, life accumulation, these are not counted, shallow vulgarity is the second, and I don't enter the show at all. She really should stay behind the scenes. If she doesn't want to support her family, there's really no need to be so silly (by the way, I guess Mrs. Cheng Ying in The Orphan of Scott has already made a reservation, right? )。

Soon after this article was written, it was reported that the film was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. Unfortunately, it is no longer the pride of the past. "Overlord" "declined" Berlin, and the sword refers to Cannes. The hero is dying, and his eyebrows are bent for dinner. Of course, if Berlin is worth taking care of the elderly and the poor, it is also generous to give a consolation prize.

Finally, talk about the sexual psychological phenomenon reflected in Chen Kaige's films. I remember a joke: Zhang Yimou is a speculator, Chen Kaige is a narcissistic pervert, Wong Kar-wai is a peddler, and Ang Lee is an old lady. The theme of Farewell My Concubine is infatuation and betrayal, and Chen Kaige probably likes to use this tone to elaborate his artistic ideal. The film won the crown at Cannes Film Festival, which made Chen avenge himself and ended the "embarrassment" brought by Zhang Yimou's uniqueness to the world. After experiencing glory and publicity when the film was released, facing the media, Chen Kaige repeatedly declared that "I am a concubine", showing youthful heroism in stubbornness. It is from this narcissism with great superiority that people begin to see through the psychological symptoms of Chen Kaige's films. Chen Mo, a scholar, once traced this mentality back to the beginning of the military parade in his works, and some performance clips really made people feel a little ambiguous. In Farewell My Concubine, the special emotion caused by the supernormal psychology is brought into full play and sublimated to the extreme, and the handling of this special relationship between men and women has been continued in many works after Chen Kaige. Although the latest movie "Mei Lanfang" is a good seasoning for the theme of the pear garden and the role of the hero, it should be avoided as far as possible considering many scruples in reality. Unexpectedly, Chen Kaige, who is immortal, offered a coup, and put this important task on Qiu, a figure with a complicated expression. Sun was left behind by Qiu, and many crazy words came out of his mouth, but most of the audience were indifferent. But his words are somewhat interesting-my cooperation with Chen Kaige is like two disabled people together ... Two disabled people meet together, not alone, and they are really happy together. I think this is probably the best interpretation of the friendship between men and women in Chen Kaige's films. Looking at the love history of men and women in Chen's films, it is obviously different from the brotherly love in Hong Kong films and western films, but it may not be accurate, at least not completely right. In these "disabled" characters, Chen Kaige's self-division is actually reflected. Some people say that "watching Ang Lee's movies makes him feel that he loves women and men". Watching Chen Kaige's movies gives me the feeling that he doesn't love women or men. He loves himself, and that self seems to be distorted. As an artist, his loneliness and fragility naturally make him lack the powerful inner strength he needs when facing the secular world, and people around him never seem to give such sufficient psychological support in time. Looking at Chen Kaige's embarrassment when he looked around during Mei Lanfang's propaganda, people can't help but doubt that at least Chen Hong failed to provide him with strong psychological support. And this, Zhang Weiping for Zhang Yimou, is much better. Therefore, by appreciating each other's gentle bean fire, the candle shows Chen Kaige's deep self-pity and narcissism, which is deeply touched by the dead of night and is also a deep sympathy for himself through the years.