Chapter 44 Section VI

It is Eileen Chang's famous work. Its uniqueness lies not only in the reappearance of the scenes of Hong Kong during the war, but also in the deep admiration that Eileen Chang puts in the novel——Bai Liusu in the novel is a 28-year-old Divorced young woman, this is the same age as Zhang Ailing's mother went to France; she went to Hong Kong for the first time, and the scene she saw was seen by Zhang Ailing; she lived in the Repulse Bay Hotel, which was lived by Huang Yifan; What she hears, sees, thinks and does is also what Zhang Ailing saw and heard with her own eyes. Zhang Ailing later put the novel on the stage of a drama and wanted to adapt it to a movie, but she failed, which shows her love for this novel.

——It was Run Run Shaw who fulfilled her wish. In 1984, Shaw Brothers' closing film was directed by Xu Anhua.At that time, the Repulse Bay Hotel had already been demolished, so Xu Anhua moved the balcony of the hotel to the Shaw Brothers studio in Clear Water Bay and rebuilt it. The expensive investment was thrown away, the script had already been finalized, and filming was about to start. Only then did he realize that the copyright issue had not yet been resolved. .Later, I searched everywhere and asked, and finally found Song Qi, Zhang Ailing's good friend in Hong Kong, and then got the authorization.

I like to search for old movies, but not so old as the silent era. Even black and white movies are mostly disliked, except of course the ones starring Zhou Xuan.Ever since I heard that Shaw Brothers had made a movie starring Chow Yun-fat, my favorite movie star when I was a teenager, I frantically searched for it. After searching for a long time, I managed to get it, but I was a little disappointed.Chow Yun-fat is also okay, he is used to being suave and romantic, but he seems to be a little troubled when he is so chic; but the heroine Miao Qian is too unsatisfactory, thin, gloomy, and looks like a little widow who has been pissed off. The exposed two legs, like swollen carrots, are even more unappetizing.

The plot is interpreted word by word according to the original text of Eileen Chang's novel. From the sound of the huqin at the beginning to the little action of kicking the mosquito coil at the end, every detail is not ignored, and even the metaphors are true.The screenwriter Peng Cao is a "Zhang fan". After finishing writing, he felt proud and asked someone to ask Zhang Ailing for advice.However, Zhang Ailing didn't see anyone and didn't care about it, so she just replied with one sentence: Just don't change the title. Two years ago, mainland screenwriter Zou Jingzhi also wrote a TV series, which used almost all the common plots of period dramas in recent years, except that it had little to do with Zhang's charm, which really echoed Zhang Ailing's own words-but it was not It's just a matter of changing the title.I remember a scene where Miss Seven was abducted and trafficked, and she finally escaped from the clutches of the devil and returned home. She was disheveled, shabby, and said, "I brought back a whole body of lice." I felt uncomfortable and ran to take a bath up.After taking a shower and washing her hair, she came out, and saw that Miss Qi hadn't taken off her clothes, and was still crying about her experience to different people.I couldn't help but sighed, and said to myself to the TV: "I'm back from taking a shower, why don't you take a shower too?"

On the contrary, the drama has been rearranged again and again every few years, and has repeatedly achieved good results.The 2006 drama was popular for a while because it used Tony Leung Ka Fai, the Golden Star actor, as the leading actor.It's a pity that the heroine is unknown-after Roland, there is no white tassel. Eileen Chang also tried to put the film on the screen, and the script was ready. The director was Sang Hu, and Zhang Ruifang was also booked as an actress. Not filmed.Later, when she went abroad, she failed to bring the script out, and she didn't know where the script was now?

——This time it was Dan Hanzhang who fulfilled her wish. But Han Zhang's is, in my opinion, the best movie based on Eileen Chang's novel so far.Starring Xia Wenxi, the details of the props are very sophisticated, and the actors also played with open arms, vividly and vividly.I most remember the scene of Yindi expressing her love to the third master in the temple-the endless overlapping doors, the corridor with swastika railings, and the bright yellow pillars on both sides, one after another like endlessly.He came from the depths of the pillar.She stood and waited in the depths of the pillar, determined not to look at him, but her eyes betrayed her heart, her face was full of smiles, her lips couldn't hold it anymore, and it flowed to her cheeks a little bit, pink, peach blossoms flying Fly, burning through half the sky.Not about lust, just hunger and thirst.A thirst in the depths of life.

Said yes, but Han Zhang took half of the filming, only to find that it was based on rewriting, but it was actually better than the original story.However, it has already been started, and it is impossible to waste all the films that have been shot. I have to try my best to lean on the second half of the story and integrate the intentions of each other.So Xia Wenxi can be said to be the two of Qiqiao and Yindi.Perhaps this is also one of the reasons why the characters are particularly full.After filming, Dan Hanzhang felt that the color was not satisfactory and wanted to reprint it in the United States, but unfortunately he died before his ambition was fulfilled.

Later, mainland TV series also used some of the themes of the two novels, but the promotional drafts repeatedly emphasized how great it is for the screenwriter to adapt a 30,000-word novel into more than 20 episodes of TV series. It makes people frown and their teeth are cold; moreover, Cao Qiqiao and Jiang Jize are interpreted as a tortuous and graceful love story in the play, which completely loses the original flavor of the work; in the whole play, only Jiang Boze, played by Cheng Qian, can still watch a little, perhaps because of the original work There are very few descriptions of the uncle in the novel, and it is probably because the actors have more room to play.

In fact, Zhang Ailing has never written a complete person, and never wanted to write an absolute romantic story. The ending of Fan Liuyuan and Bai Liusu is considered happy. It is also because of the war and artillery fire that a couple in troubled times was brought about, but they are not fairy couples. Thinking about it, Xu Anhua should be a loyal "Zhang fan". It doesn't matter if he took the film, and it will be on the screen after many years. It is very appropriate for Anita Mui to play her sister Manlu; , especially her deafening loud voice, which made people feel uncomfortable even after listening to it. There is no trace of gracefulness of Xiaojiabiyu in Shanghai.

However, the cast of the film is very strong, consisting of elites from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.Liming played the male lead Shen Shijun, Huang Lei's male supporting role Xu Shuhui, Ge You played brother-in-law Zhu Hongcai, Wu Chenjun played the rich girl Cuizhi, Wang Zhiwen played Manlu's old lover Zhang Yujin-the actors alone are worth the price.It's better than the mainland TV series. Li Qinqin and Lin Xinru played the Gu family sisters. The actors worked hard and were beyond reproach, but the script was too bad. Same, it was directly turned into a Qiong Yao drama.That's really the opposite.

Besides, Guan Jinpeng's, Chen Chong's red rose Wang Jiaorui, Ye Yuqing's white rose Meng Yanli, and Zhao Wenxuan's Tong Zhenbao all have seven or eight points of strength, evenly matched, and the sets are not satisfactory. Lin Yilian's theme song "Scent of Roses" is particularly touching.I heard that it is Ye Yuqing's transition from a porn star to an acting school, so it can be regarded as a good book and a success. But then I saw an article by Cai Kangyong saying that the earliest proposal for this film was for Lin Qingxia to play two roles, playing the double rose.It makes me regret again, because my favorite actors and actresses are Chow Yun-fat and Brigitte Lin. Zhou has already played Fan Liuyuan, but Lin has never made a film of Zhang Ailing. I have to feel that it is lacking. Fortunately, she later starred in "Rolling Red Dust" written by Sanmao, which was also produced by Hong Kong Tomson Company and directed by Yan Hao. Although it was not adapted from Zhang Ailing's novel, it was a play based on Zhang Ailing herself.Sanmao is also my favorite writer when I was a child. It is really a visual and spiritual feast for a writer I love to write a story about another writer I love, and for my favorite female star to play it.Sanmao once sent a ticket to Zhang Ailing, but Zhang ignored it, and later said "I don't like it" in the letter, because she didn't like other people's interpretation of her story, which made her unrecognizable. However, aside from the authenticity, that film is a classic. Brigitte Lin lived up to my heart, she acted flawlessly, and she was so beautiful and moving that I cried once watching it; Qin Han's appearance is also very close to the Hu Lancheng in my mind, who is a Confucian general. attitude.Later they both won the Best Actor and Actor at the 127th Golden Horse Awards.The theme song of the movie is written by Sanmao himself. It is sad and lingering, and it has become a classic together with the movie. Yu Qiuyu wrote in an article mourning Zhang Ailing that Lin Qingxia once told him that it was Zhang Ailing who told her to know and love Shanghai - I just don't know whether this sentence was said before or after the filming, so I can't be sure whether Lin had "" Zhang Mi". Liu Ruoying is a self-confessed Zhang fan. She starred in Zhang Ailing in a TV series. The screenwriter and choreographer put their heart into it, and the acting is quite satisfactory, but she is too low-browed and pleasing to the eye. Xiaojiabiyu, regardless of her image and temperament, is worse than Brigitte Lin and Zhao Wenxuan's male lead, from Tong Zhenbao to Hu Lancheng, has changed even more.At this time Zhang Ailing had passed away, but Hu Lancheng's niece Hu Qingyun watched TV and only commented: "Liu Ruoying is too short. It doesn't look like it." Once I had dinner with Huang Lei and his wife, and gave them a copy during the dinner. Huang Lei pointed to the cover and said to Sun Li: "Look, Zhang Ailing should be the image of this kind of big woman." At that moment, I suddenly thought, in fact, the most suitable role is Zhang Ailing The person who married Hu Lancheng should be Sun Li and Huang Lei, a husband and wife team, one is tall and glamorous, the other is gentle and elegant, and Sun Li is Huang Lei's student, with a similar age gap. Isn't "Zhang Hu Lian" the best partner created by nature? Looking at the actors in the Chinese film and television industry, if you want to choose the best actor to play Hu Lancheng, who is both flamboyant and forbearing, elegant and romantic, scholarly, and talented... Besides Huang Lei, who else? The most sensational "Zhang Wei movie" in recent years is "Lust, Caution" directed by Ang Lee, and its influence has spread both at home and abroad.Before the film was released, I declared that I would "refuse to watch it", because the advertisement had already stated that about 30 minutes of footage had been cut from the content released in China, which made me feel like I was being teased - the production of a Hollywood director can be watched by audiences all over Europe Why are we forced to accept the cleaned and abridged version when we arrive in China? But the protest is a protest, and when the premiere day came, I obediently bought tickets—how could I bear it?During the two-hour film, I felt like I was holding my breath from the beginning of the film, but I didn't really breathe out until the end of the film, almost suffocating.That kind of tension is like a string that is stretched and cannot be relaxed, so that I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief when I think about it after a long time. After "Lust, Caution", I have never been so shocked by any film. The leading actor is Tony Leung Chiu Wai, not very handsome, but he is really stylish and has an aura that can hold him back; Chen Chong, who once played the role of Red Rose Jiaorui, plays Mrs. Mahjong's He Saifei has completely become a middle-aged vase.The heroine made the newcomer Tang Wei popular, but it also brought her unwarranted disasters—"Lust, Caution" has been controversial since the novel was published, and it has been controversial since it was made into a movie.Tang Wei was banned because of this, and there was a lot of uproar for a while. It's really sighing, although it has been fifteen years since Aileen's death, but her casual gesture is still enough to stir up the situation. Counting it down in detail, Zhang Ailing's novels that have been continuously put on the screen in recent years are relatively better than movies, because it is always easy to express the essence of such a tortuous story in a length of 100 minutes; A kind of pure torment, directors and screenwriters often distort and inject water in order to lengthen the film collection. On the contrary, there is an extremely old TV series "Nongben Passionate", which is a combination of Zhang Ailing's "The First Incense" and two novels. The elder brother Leslie Cheung plays the leading role Qiao Qi. .I don't know if it's Qiao Qi's resurrection, or her brother's body.But again, the heroine Shang Tian'e's acting was weak, because of Qiao Nazhi, Leslie Cheung's performance was a bit tired, as if he was fighting alone, he seemed dissociated. There is also a movie directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien that must be mentioned. Almost all the movies adapted from classic classics made me feel disappointed and dissatisfied in one way or another. The only thing that made me feel that there was something higher than the original one was that I was stunned to the point of stunned.This story is not Zhang Ailing's, but she has painstakingly translated it into the vernacular version, and the opening subtitle of the movie is also correct:, Han Ziyun's original work, Zhang Ailing's annotation.It can be seen that it has something to do with Zhang Ailing. The screenwriter Zhu Tianwen is even a super Zhang fan, and has a subtle relationship with Zhang Ailing. He is Hu Lancheng's private disciple, which will be discussed in detail later. In the middle of the night, I only lighted a small lamp, turned on the TV, and watched stories from another era in the faint light. I thought of not only the original creator of the work, Zhang Ailing, but also the director Sang Hu who made "No Love" and "Long Live My Wife", Yue Feng and Lin Dai collaborated in "Love is Like a Battlefield", filmed director Dan Hanzhang, edited "Rolling Red Dust" San Mao, brother Leslie Cheung who played Qiao Qi, sister Mei Yanfang who played Man Lu, and helped Zhang Ailing contact many Song Qi in the first script...has lost her soul, and I can't help but sigh with emotion, as if I can hear a faint sound of music in the distance. It's not the theme song, but Daiyu's "Cold Moon Burying the Soul of Flowers" The sound of the sky, took me out of my body, and followed the person in the painting to swim to the sky... If there is a movie theater in heaven, and they meet there again, there should be a new blockbuster movie dedicated to God and the angels.