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She Came From the Sea The Legend of Eileen Chang

She Came From the Sea The Legend of Eileen Chang

王蕙玲

  • Biographical memories

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  • 1970-01-01Published
  • 108727

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Chapter 1 preamble

Because it is Zhang Ailing, because Zhang Ailing is hard to say, because Zhang Ailing is hard to say and unwilling to interpret it hard, because it is hard to say and can't say more but has to be accurate; so this script has its own special style.Wang Huiling broke the limitation of time and space, and the plot does not follow the time axis. The story begins after Eileen Chang arrived in the United States in middle age, and then returns to the growth period of a girl, and then becomes famous, falls in love with Hu Lancheng, leaves China, and jumps back to 1962. Marriage in the United States, and die of old age in a foreign country.Why is the biographical story not written according to the convention, starting from birth and following the time?Wang Chuling said that one of the many reasons for choosing to start here is that Zhang Ailing is completely unfamiliar to the Chinese people at this time. Because of unfamiliarity, the audience can get rid of many preconceived concepts about Zhang Ailing and have the opportunity to re-understand Eileen Chang.Seeing something extraordinary from a few people is his attempt.

From the beginning of the American part, Eileen Chang is thirty-six years old and a Chinese writer from Shanghai. Other than that, there is nothing.With such an appearance, Eileen Chang is just an ordinary person, at most, she has an extra identity as a writer.From here, from her status as an ordinary person, we can see her and Ruihe's ordinary almost boring love and dull marriage, and then flash back from the details, some memories, and Zhang Ailing's memories and stories. Her origin, her childhood and everything that followed.Yes, if you want to know Zhang Ailing's legend, you should first know that she is just an "ordinary person".

The ordinary part of writing a legendary character is to get rid of her too much legendary smoke; people can see her plain face clearly, and only when she meets her plain face can one see her true heart; such an attempt is naturally to avoid drama as much as possible in the script style create.Almost all the story characters in this play have their basis, and the plot and dialogue are arranged, but few incidents are fabricated, in order to restore the true colors.Because the main body of this drama is to write about "people" and "life", what it tries to present is the complexity of people and the many faces of life.There are many contradictions, inconsistencies, unexplainable behavior motives and turning points of mind. We can only try to keep the development of events as they are, without subjective interpretation and arrangement; to avoid distortion or narrow restrictions.Therefore, Zhang Ailing and many other characters in this play are not unified by dramatic characters, but are closer to real life.

Being faithful to the facts is the basis of biography.However, to write a creator.Thoughts and emotions in the spiritual world cannot just be the straightforward factual plots of general biographies, so Wang Huiling mixes more narrative techniques, sometimes close to Eileen Chang's heart, rashly entering her memories; sometimes skipping Eileen Chang's works, She also tries to show the echoes between her works and her emotions; sometimes, a large number of narrations appear directly, directly letting Eileen Chang speak...These complex techniques, organized in an attempt to create a colorful style and a clever narrative style, make this work More literary, but also more difficult to dramatize.

Wang Huiling believes that we cannot speak for the biographer, but we can make people get closer to her.Yes, getting close to Eileen Chang and feeling Eileen Chang may be the intention of this play: lead the audience into Eileen Eileen Eileen's life journey, into the spiritual world of Eileen Eileen Chang, into the world of Eileen Eileen Chang's works, let yourself know her, feel her, To think for yourself, to know or not to know, to understand or not to understand.Others, we can't say much, because it's her life, it's your feelings. Writing Eileen Chang in this way can only completely restore drama to the complexity and diversity of life, as Wang Huiling herself said: I want to write a play without a play, a story without a story.The script has no dramatic plot, only the details of life scenes, life documentary, more like diary prose, more like painting or music, enriched with the various colors of life, what is connected in series is the rhythm of the soul.It seems to be a challenge to the audience who are accustomed to the idea of ​​TV series, but it will actually be a kind of liberation: when the plot no longer leads the audience, the audience can generate their own views and feelings, and use their own feelings to feel Zhang Ailing; Do not hold Eileen Chang and the audience themselves.

Because of this, this script may be closer to Eileen Chang who stayed in this world, and it also shows Eileen Eileen Chang's various aspects; the so-called: people at the time are like a dream to this flower.is that true?is that true?Is Zhang Ailing like this?She makes people think endlessly and talk endlessly; the depth of feeling is that each of us drinks water and is comfortable with warmth and coldness, but we cannot judge, and it has nothing to do with herself; this is Wang Huiling's respect for Eileen Chang and the public, and it is also a restoration The biographical attitude that a legend should have.I like this script, because it writes Zhang Ailing we want to know, and at the same time, it doesn't write what shouldn't be said for her, and it doesn't hold her own life.

Life stretches and blooms in her own unique posture; everyone is impressive, and no one can speak for it.
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