Please give me an analysis of the drama script "Ruan Lingyu", please, urgent. Thank you.

Her Beauty and Sorrow

It is a bit difficult to make a biopic with new ideas - the biggest difficulty naturally comes from shaping the biographical character itself. Although appropriate fiction is allowed, the entire The plot setting must still fit the real life of the characters represented. Innovating on this basis requires both boldness and caution. The Hong Kong movie "Yuan Lingyu" took a different approach and made some wonderful innovations from another angle.

Opening and ending: "The first sentence marks its purpose, and the last chapter shows its ambition."

When discussing the opening and ending together, in addition to considering their completeness, there is another Important reason: After careful analysis, you will find that the director has certain considerations in the processing of the opening and ending. At the beginning of the film, Maggie Cheung and the director discussed the death of Ruan Lingyu. She left us when she was the most beautiful 25 years old. The ending ends with Ruan Lingyu’s posthumous photo, echoing from beginning to end, as if it were Ruan Lingyu’s life.

The title sequence is very simple and plain, but it still cannot hide its sophistication. Starting with a set of old photos - the old photos give viewers the most direct sense of the vicissitudes of life in Baiyun Canggu. Director Kwan Kam-peng's voice enters the picture, and the on-set documentary of him narrating the scene to Maggie Cheung is skillfully transformed into the most concise and concise narration. This group of photos are stills from films shot by Ruan Lingyu in different periods. They are completely documentary techniques, which establish the documentary style of the film. In other words, they give the viewer a strong psychological hint, making everyone believe that this is the film from the very beginning. This video is completely real.

I think there is another purpose in using stills. Viewers know Ruan Lingyu through the screen. In everyone's mind, she is synonymous with old movies of the 1930s. These stills bring the time back to the 1920s and 1930s - Ruan Lingyu's most beautiful and wonderful time. The beauty has passed away, and the real and vivid Ruan Lingyu is hard to find. However, the characters she created still live in the hearts of viewers and are unforgettable for a long time.

What’s interesting is that the film stills shot in the two periods before and after Ruan Lingyu are deliberately displayed separately in the title to highlight a contrasting effect. In the early stage, they were all similar in terms of appearance. According to the director, they were "vase" characters. However, in the later stage, Ruan Lingyu's appearance became obviously richer: noble, low-level, sad, suffering... To a certain extent, joining Lianhua Company did change Ruan Lingyu's life. She became smoother and smoother on the road of performing arts, and her achievements became higher and higher, becoming a true "Queen of Silent Films"; but at the same time, Her life trajectory gradually deviated from the normal path.

Maggie Cheung, who plays Ruan Lingyu, appears in the opening scene without makeup. The director asked her if she wanted to be like Ruan Lingyu and still be remembered in people's hearts after half a century. Maggie Cheung compared herself with Ruan Lingyu, saying that Ruan Lingyu left when she was at her most glorious and glorious is now a myth. ——It is precisely because the actor is Maggie Cheung, and it is precisely because she plays Ruan Lingyu that there is such a unique opening: these are two very similar women. Ruan Lingyu has always been regarded as a vase in the early stage, and Maggie Cheung at that time was the top. With the title of "Vase"; Ruan Lingyu had to leave the star and join Lianhua because of being left out. At that time, Maggie Cheung was questioned by the company and public opinion because of her appearance in this drama; Ruan Lingyu was played by two men during her lifetime and finally chose to commit suicide. At that time, Maggie Cheung was exhausted physically and mentally after her boyfriend published her love letter.

Is such a different opening title also a kind of dialogue? It is a deep dialogue across time and space between Ruan Lingyu and Maggie Cheung. It was specially created by the director for these two such beautiful but sad women. A conversation. The most obvious thing is that when the director mentioned that Ruan Lingyu was once commented as a "vase", Maggie Cheung immediately responded, "That doesn't look like me." At that moment, a flash of sympathy and embarrassing self-deprecation flashed across her face.

Ruan Lingyu died in the end. At her most glorious. She once again chose suicide. In fact, the sleeping pills did not kill her, but several transfers to the hospital delayed the opportunity for treatment. The film does not elaborate on this, but just focuses on Ruan Lingyu's most beautiful moment. This sad and desperate woman was still unwilling to give up before she died, and still wanted to ask: "Have you ever loved me?"

The ending is very stream-of-consciousness. The funeral actually started with Lianhua's farewell party. Ruan Lingyu kissed every director she had ever worked with. They were her best friends in art. And these people were also one of the saddest people at Ruan Lingyu's funeral.

They can accompany her artistically, but in the end they cannot save her unfortunate fate.

This party is real, but not all the people at the party were present one by one back then. At least, Cai Chusheng is missing. However, everyone, including the crew and the audience, hopes for a situation where Ruan Lingyu meets all her beloved friends before she dies. Ruan Lingyu was indeed radiant that night. She wore her favorite cheongsam and kissed everyone at the party. No one expected that this woman was saying goodbye to everyone!

The presentation of her funeral is a true blend of reality and dramatic situations. On one side, Director Wu Yonggang lowered his head in grief, but we heard Director Guan Jinpeng shouting: "Stuck"; on the other side, Director Fei Mu was talking about his thoughts on Ruan Lingyu, while the staff next to him was helping Maggie Cheung touch up her makeup. In fact, Lianhua once photographed Ruan Lingyu’s funeral, which was hailed as the most beautiful funeral. Maybe the director also wanted to repeat the situation, but a beautiful woman like Ruan Lingyu could never come back.

Special multi-angle narrative: multi-faceted Ruan Lingyu

The narrative of the film is multiple and no longer a single narrative angle. The Ruan Lingyu we come into contact with is also multiple. There is Ruan Lingyu in the eyes of the participants at the time (such as Li Lili and Chen Yanyan), Ruan Lingyu in the eyes of the material writers (such as Shen Ji), Ruan Lingyu in the eyes of the director (Guan Jinpeng), and actors. Ruan Lingyu in the eyes of (Maggie Cheung). They told Ruan Lingyu what they knew about different things from different aspects. Whether it is true or not is no longer the point. What we see from their words is a plump and complete Ruan Lingyu.

For more than half a century, all film and television dramas involving Ruan Lingyu have focused on the emotional entanglement between her and Zhang Daming and Tang Jishan - "Ruan Lingyu" is naturally the same, but it is different. Emotional entanglement is certainly the focus, but the original intention of the film is not to judge and arbitrate the rights and wrongs between them, but just to restore the real situation at that time as much as possible, including the love between Ruan Lingyu and Cai Chusheng that has not had time to blossom and bear fruit.

No matter how beautiful Ruan Lingyu is on the screen, she is a woman after all, and she also longs for love and to be loved. Zhang Daming was her first love and the person who hurt her the most. The love between them has never withstood the test of time. Zhang Daming relied on Ruan Lingyu for everything from material to spiritual. Not only that, he broke Ruan Lingyu's heart time and time again. No matter how strong a person is, he will get tired and want to get rid of it; Tang Jishan appeared at the right time. We must admit that at this time, no matter who appears, Ruan Lingyu will accept it. She wanted to be taken care of so much, and she wanted to get rid of Zhang Daming so much.

At the same time, we must not forget Ruan Lingyu's status as the "Queen of Silent Films". This is a major focus of the narrative and a highlight of innovation. Among them, nine films are highlighted, almost covering the most important achievements of Ruan Lingyu's screen career. There is a step-by-step process for the presentation of these nine films. It can be seen in every film that Ruan Lingyu put in a lot of effort: in the original "Weeds and Flowers", in order to film a mother biting her finger to feed blood to the baby, Ruan Lingyu lay in the snow on a snowy night Feel the plot; "City Night", the plot is very similar to her own unbearable childhood experience. It was difficult for Ruan Lingyu to break through, but in the end she still gave her most wonderful performance without reservation; "Fragrant Snow Sea" and "New Woman" In the film, she was extremely serious, and she was already so preoccupied that she cried bitterly when she got too deep into the scene...

At the same time, Ruan Lingyu's own inner world was also undergoing great changes. She is used to playing women from the old society, upper class, lower class, noble, and promiscuous. These roles are easy for her. For this reason, when director Bu Wancang was planning to shoot "Three Modern Women", he did not rashly cast Ruan Lingyu. But this time, Ruan Lingyu took the initiative: she asked to play the role of female worker Zhou Shuzhen. "Three Modern Women" achieved great success, and Ruan Lingyu expanded her acting career.

During her time at Lianhua, Ruan Lingyu worked with almost every director in Lianhua, and more than once. She always thought that it was Lianhua and the directors who made her a success; in fact, it was she who made these young people a reality. She made the characters in their imaginations come true and gave them the opportunity to realize their film dreams. So, they are close friends.

From the beginning to the end, there is always a line that firmly "binds" all the plots together. This is the film's theme song "Buried Heart":

"Butterfly" Flying away, my heart is no longer there/Who will wipe the tears on my cheeks in the long and lonely night/It’s a little bit of dependence and a little bit of love/It’s time for the old relationship to end, and it’s hard to be replaced by a heart full of sorrow/How can I bear to live here and guess the monster over there/People’s words come together The ocean of sorrow is unbearable / I don’t blame God for the hardships or disasters / I should never be afraid of being alone in my youth / When the forest flowers are gone, my heart will be buried / Where will I be when the spring swallows return?" (Lyrics: Composed by Yao Ruolong : Xiaochong (sung by Huang Yingying)

This is almost a portrayal of Ruan Lingyu’s life. Especially the phrase "Be greedy for dependence, be greedy for love", isn't it one of the triggers of Ruan Lingyu's tragic fate? This ditty started from the beginning of the film, vaguely, like crying - Ruan Lingyu's tragic fate was doomed from the beginning.

Others: Discussing the actors’ performances and the details of the film

The most important feature of the film is that it shuttles between reality and dramatic situations, with frequent changes in time and space. This is true from the beginning to the end of the film. There are two main advantages to doing this: First, the real time and space mainly includes on-set records and interviews with relevant people. The emergence of real time and space after an event is generally a summary of previous events or the creator's view, which helps the viewer better understand the movie. Secondly, this reflects the director’s uniqueness. When the actors and actresses without makeup appear on the screen, the audience will suddenly be separated from the scene just now. The director may not want everyone to get too involved in the play, so he adopts a "game life" attitude, which is not deep, but not superficial.

In terms of detail processing, the film is very detailed and unique. For example.

Cai Chusheng and Ruan Lingyu officially met on the stairs of Lianhua Company. At that time, Ruan Lingyu was discussing Zhang Daming with Tang Jishan. Cai Chusheng appeared just like that, and they began to interact with each other. Then Cai Chusheng left from upstairs, Tang Jishan left from downstairs, and Ruan Lingyu who was standing in the middle actually wandered around. She didn't know where to go. What a clever metaphor. If Ruan Lingyu hadn't been confused about her future, she might not have committed suicide.

Do you remember what Ruan Lingyu said at the Lianhua Gala:

“We are celebrating Women’s Day today. What exactly are we celebrating? It is to celebrate us Women stand up from five thousand years of men's history!"

Ruan Lingyu will never say this in public. She never stood up from the history of men. Although the film depicts this very implicitly, we can still see Zhang Daming's crazy deprivation of her, Tang Jishan's teasing and ruthlessness towards her, and Cai Chusheng's weakness.

At that time, people no longer paid attention to her works and acting skills. Her private life became a topic that people talked about after dinner. Faced with these rumors, Ruan Lingyu was lonely and had no one to rely on. So when dealing with these problems, she was always unwilling to face them head-on. It is even less possible to go to school to give a speech. Paradoxically, she hoped that she would be like this. She hoped that she would be braver to tell the truth and no longer be misunderstood. Unfortunately, it was too late.

At this time, Ruan Lingyu has decided to commit suicide, so does this passage have a special meaning? Ruan Lingyu who said this finally gave up her life because she couldn't bear the pressure brought by the man she loved!

There are many opinions about the reason why Ruan Lingyu committed suicide, mainly due to the debate over the authenticity of Ruan Lingyu's suicide note. The suicide note involved in the film is probably a fusion of the true and false versions. It is also used as a narration, but it is different from the traditional way of expressing the content of letters. Ruan Lingyu in the film just repeats the words she wrote to Tang Jishan and Zhang Daming, saying "human words are terrible" again and again, which is desolate. Extremely.

There is another detail worth mentioning. The film uses a variety of dialects, including Shanghainese, Cantonese, and Mandarin, forming a unique "Shanghai style" style.

Let’s talk about the actors. The most noteworthy one is Maggie Cheung.

Maggie Cheung won many awards for this drama, and her image of Ruan Lingyu was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

To put it into detail, it’s hard to tell how similar Maggie Cheung and Ruan Lingyu are in appearance. Even if Maggie Cheung deliberately painted the makeup of the 1930s and 1940s, she still couldn’t see Ruan’s unique “squinting eyes” style - Ruan Lingyu She is not a peerless beauty, but she has a style that no one can match; Maggie Cheung is very beautiful and elegant, and she is also a very malleable actor. Because of Maggie Cheung, this drama has truly reached the state of "indistinguishable between human and drama". "If you are not crazy, you will not survive." When this woman is lying on the hospital bed crying to the point of breaking her heart, can you still tell whether she is Ruan Lingyu or Maggie Cheung?

Although it is said to be a biopic about Ruan Lingyu, in my opinion, this is a joint performance by two strange women from different eras across time constraints, and it is also a collision and harmony between two eras. dialogue. The meaning is meaningful and the aftertaste is long.