Liao Yimei: Even if it hurts, it will bloom.

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Encounter avant-garde drama

197 1 year, Liao Yimei was born in an art house in Beijing, and his parents were teachers of Beijing Dance Academy. All the children in the courtyard will be sent to learn to dance, and she is no exception. "That kind of expressiveness is too simple for me. After feeling the charm of language, I have no interest in my body. "

In the third year of high school, she heard that she could read and write casually without studying mathematics at the Central Academy of Drama, which was quite appropriate. Liao Yimei was successfully admitted to Chinese Opera. I majored in drama at that time, and she just thought it was fun. As for what drama is like and what it can be made of, she never thought about it.

Therefore, after only one class, Liao Yimei was dumbfounded: the drama told by the teacher was totally different from what he understood. In this case, Liao Yimei has no motivation to learn. She sits in the classroom during the day and the cat reads novels in the dormitory at night. Occasionally, she will complain that she has no choice but to enter Chinese opera, but who knows what will happen in the future. As a result, she became the "melancholy Daiyu" that everyone joked about.

When Liao Yimei went to Chinese Opera, Meng Jinghui was a graduate student, and they were brothers and sisters in the same school. Liao Yimei first met Meng Jinghui in a class sketch rehearsed by his classmate Yinan Diao. This is a rather strange work, which plays the whimsy of two prisoners in prison. I was squatting on the toilet, but I said I was riding a motorcycle on the rampage. Yinan Diao's class homework score is so low that the teacher can't understand it. Then, Liao Yimei remembered Meng Jinghui, who acted in a class sketch, with "eyes like a little beast, nothing like a graduate student".

At that time, carrying the banner of avant-garde drama, Zhang, Hu Jun, etc. were wooed, and an unprecedented "15-day experimental drama performance season" was produced in China opera. In all these exciting events, Liao Yimei is only a marginal participant. Her job is mainly to put up posters, clean the theater, press the alarm clock to make sound effects during acting, and cook something for everyone with an electric stove during rehearsal. Liao Yimei looks fragile, but he works quickly and meticulously. What is even more rare is that no matter how hard and tired he is, he has no complaints. In Waiting for Godot, after the rehearsal, everyone is too tired to lie or sit on the ground, but Liao Yimei refuses to take a rest and then clean up the garbage of the audience. Meng Jinghui saw all this, so he especially sympathized with this weak brother and affectionately called her "Bao Er". In this way, after a long time, they gradually fell in love with each other.

Be willful and don't love bondage.

After graduating from college, Liao Yimei was assigned to work as an editor in a publishing house under the Chinese Dramatists Association, and she worked two days a week, but she didn't want to go these two days. She doesn't want to be tied down a little. She is also afraid of dealing with interpersonal relationships. She doesn't care about what people around her care about, and what they fight for means nothing to her.

Why can't you keep a job honestly? Can idealism be a meal? She said: "Everyone has the pressure to survive, which is totally not worth talking about! However, people with strong willpower will achieve great things. I know that people stand on the mud, which is fundamental. Some people like mud, but I don't. This is the essential difference. "

After coming out of the unit, Liao Yimei once wrote a column for newspapers and magazines, and then forgot about it. "I don't have so much to say, and there is really no need to express my views on something that seemed lively at that time, but actually meaningless. I hate nonsense ... I hate others' and mine. I'd rather shut up if I didn't have to. "

She also writes for TV programs, does copywriting for advertising companies, creates ideas for MTV and even writes TV scripts. As long as she can make money, she has written almost everything. Unfortunately, the manuscript fee is not high, just enough to eat and wear.

The first person to sign a contract with her was Wang Shuo. At that time, Wang Shuo set up a company, signed many screenwriters and found many students who had just graduated from Chinese opera. Wang Shuo offered to write a movie for her 15 thousand. She was so happy that she never thought she could earn so much money. But soon, the company went bankrupt and her script was not made into a movie. From then on, Liao Yimei really became a full-time screenwriter.

In the next few years, Liao Yimei wrote many movies and TV series, such as Captain, Kokuryudo and Absolute Privacy. Although all these scripts were shot into pieces, due to various reasons, they didn't get the expected reward, and Liao Yimei's heart was full of bitterness. In particular, she doesn't like to write TV series, and she has to write countless words such as "He came in", "He sat down" and "He went out". "This actually hinders my expression. I hope that I can turn words into swords, wave them in the air at will, speak with the "brush sound" of swords and express them in the sharpest way. "

She went to Meng Jinghui to see if she could find a way out in her former drama industry. Although Meng Jinghui insisted on experimental drama for several years and became famous, he was scratching his head for the problem of "unprecedented attendance, but low box office". Naturally, they came together.

I decided on my script.

1998 After returning from honeymoon in Meng Jinghui, Liao Yimei locked himself up and prepared to write a fickle work, namely Rhinoceros in Love. At that time, even now, no one wrote such a script-a whole page of monologues, which took away the plot and blurred the identity background of the characters.

The story expresses not that there really is such a love story in life, but a fable and a surreal feeling. Liao Yimei doesn't write what kind of clothes the hero wears and where to meet, as in traditional scripts. When she wrote this, I didn't know whether the audience would accept it or not.

"Forgetting is the only thing that ordinary people can do, but I decided not to forget her." "Dusk is the worst time of my day, and I will see rhinos all over the street." Meng Jinghui was moved by the vitality of similar lines that burned so vigorously, confessed directly and exploded, and he wanted to put it on the stage.

But they have to face the bleak drama market, as well as a series of practical problems such as fund raising, actor selection and theater selection. In the choice of theater, I asked my grandfather to say a lot of good things to my grandmother. They found an unknown theater named Lao Qingyi in the little-known alley of the North Army. Qian Qi was about to rehearse when the investor withdrew.

Liao Yimei said that bowing to anyone and anything for any reason is a sign of cowardice, which will make you look down on yourself. Therefore, there is no turning arrow before opening the bow. Meng Jinghui mortgaged his house for 265,438+0,000 yuan and borrowed money from his friends. He and Liao Yimei agreed that if he lost money, Liao Yimei would write a TV series for one year to pay back the money.

I can barely make do with the choice of actors. 1997 Summer, the rhinoceros in love finally hobbled out. As a result, a miracle appeared: the rhinoceros in love was on fire, the venue was full, and even the aisle was full of people. The long queue in front of the ticket window of the theater lined up all the way along the alley of Junma Company to Anding Street, setting a record for the attendance rate of 40 consecutive performances 1.20%. As for the box office, it earned a full 500 thousand. The play became the first box-office profitable little theatre drama in China's drama history.

Liao Yimei and Meng Jinghui saved the drama in ten years, turning the pioneer into a classic and the margin into the mainstream. From then on, writing for Liao Yimei is no longer a means of making a living, but an inner need.

In 2000, Liao Yimei wrote a screenplay, Flying Like a Chicken Feather, which is a story about a poet. Facing the earth-shaking changes around us, idealists feel uncomfortable and powerless, and don't know whether to stick to themselves or judge the situation and stand at the forefront.

For more than a year, the script has been revised repeatedly and negotiated with investors. At that time, a foreign producer who was in the limelight asked Mr. and Mrs. Liao Yimei to make a choice: either write another draft according to his idea or change the theme.

Liao Yimei thought for two days, and gave an unexpected answer: No writing, no changing the theme, goodbye. This may be something the producer has never experienced since he arrived in China. He specially invited Liao Yimei to dinner, hoping to talk again. There was an awkward silence at the dinner table, eating silently and leaving silently.

In the summer of 200 1, Feiru Chicken feather finally found an investor who didn't ask for any modification. Later, this film directed by Meng Jinghui won the Special Attention Award of the Jury of Locarno International Film Festival and the Fabriz Film Critics Award of Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Liao Yimei is so stubborn that he doesn't know how to be flexible when he hits the south wall. In her opinion, most people will shrink up after being injured, just like anemones, they will never open again and will only become a stone in the end. If you are always open, free to express and expect, and free to be yourself, there will be constant injury and pain, but it will still bloom like a flower. This is the origin of the name of her later book "Flower of Pessimism".

Softness is a knife

As a screenwriter, Liao Yimei is not prolific. She said that she "will write a play until I have to say that nonsense is meaningless".

Rhino in Love is the first collaboration between Liao Yimei and his wife, and it became an instant hit. Another five or six years later, two collaborations of Amber premiered at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, which shocked Asian theaters again. Born with Amber is their son Mencius. For this little life, Liao Yimei, who has always been pessimistic, changed the ending of Amber into a bright one, which made Xiaoyou give Gaoyuan a miracle. Gao Yuan, who was addicted to drugs, said to Xiaoyou, "Because of you, I am afraid of death."

At the end of 20 10, Liao Yimei released Softness, which is the perfect ending of avant-garde drama.

When writing this play, Liao Yimei was suffering from depression. In the process of writing, she clearly saw pessimism and human tragedy.

In the script, there is a transvestite costume designer who dresses up as a woman on the stage and teases the audience: "There is no choice in life. My destiny is to be a woman for two hours a week. However, I am luckier than you. I have at least two hours to myself in my life. Don't you secretly yearn for these two hours, take off your mask, get rid of the so-called success and normality, do what you want, be yourself or be yourself in illusion? You have no such chance, poor you! "

The prototype of this role is my friend Fan, a famous fashion designer, but she prefers to call herself "seamstress". For several years, he went to the bar every Tuesday and became a singer "Biranda". Liao Yimei likes him and his singing, as well as his biting jokes. He is a man who has the courage to reveal his real life to people and smiles at himself with tears.

He had the last laugh on the stage, but the real ending was that he committed suicide at home two days before the soft press conference. This sudden news is a terrible blow to Liao Yimei. Life is really dangerous and fragile. This script is a knife. Only when it becomes a knife can it pierce the softest part of a person's heart.

In the play, Liao Yimei, who can inspire sparks again and again, is a very quiet person in private. He won't go out until he goes out. I will travel once a year. She especially likes Italy. The sun is shining, beautiful scenery is everywhere, and people are kind and casual. She also likes Iceland, a wild age-like scene, endless volcanic rocks, seemingly barren and shocking. Perhaps, staying away from the hubbub is a way to calm the mind and collect the power to start over from everything in the world.

Liao Yimei's resistance to the information age and fashion trends is somewhat incredible. She never watches TV. The TV at home is used by her son to watch cartoons. "Those fashionable words, know what does it have to do with you? This makes you happier? More profound? More insightful? You should be afraid to know a lot of things. " This is Liao Yimei's attitude towards life.

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