Chapter 13 As bright as Tang

Looking at the first film "Shanghai Night" of "Film Studio" from the perspective of 25 years later, there are really too many illogical things. There are too many coincidences, and they are too bad—for example, people who made a covenant at the bottom of the bridge ten years ago became neighbors, and people who had connections in the sea of ​​people gathered together in one room; too many lucks, and they were too bad— ——For example, Ye Qianwen, who was drunk, rolled under the bed to preserve her chastity; there are too many places to pay tribute to "Angels on the Road" and "Cross Street", and there are too many places to learn from the literary relics of old Shanghai—the street crowd put a head The scene of left and right immediately reminds people of the bad taste in Ding Cong's comics. It is a bit powerless to use the reunion of two people ten years later to support the whole play, so when it is scattered, it is too scattered. Zhang Aijia hastily Pushed onto the stage, she wittily sang "The Song of Hee Hee Haha", which attracted the boss to offer flowers, as if to lay a foreshadowing, but there was nothing to follow.

But "Shanghai Night" is unforgettable for a long time. Among the 49 films of "Film Studio" in the past 25 years, Tsui Hark likes it the most, because it is "very watchable and warm". Karen Mok, the image ambassador of the film festival, is also the first one to recommend. It is not the logic of reality, nor the logic of discouraged new century people. It has another logic, the logic of movies, the logic of Tsui Hark, the logic of enthusiasm, and the logic of hope.Stephen King famously said "you have to believe what you write", Tsui Hark believed in all the coincidences, all encounters, and the warmth between people in "Shanghai Night" with great honesty . "Shanghai Night" has another kind of rare brilliance, which is still carried out in "Dao Ma Dan". This kind of brilliance and warmth is a kind of Tang Dynasty character.

Where do we have a chance to know what the Tang Dynasty looked like?The flying flowers in Chang'an City, the flute at the head of the Mingyue Tower, the sparse shadows of plum blossoms in front of the window, and the sound of singing on the shore are so far away that even the authenticity cannot be tested. Through the wear and tear of time, the kind of magnanimous, bright and hearty It is really hard to say how much of the character of Tang people has been exaggerated and exaggerated by us.However, the character of Tang people is not so much a real existence as it is a sustenance of an ideal character, a condensation of everything that is open, rich, and bright in human nature, and an incarnation of an era when the body and mind are greatly released.We have become accustomed to attribute the good side of the Chinese character to the Tang and Song Dynasties, the bad side to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and attribute everything that is full, abundant, courageous, and confident in the Chinese character to the Tang Dynasty. The dynasty, the cold, thin, narrow, gloomy, and dilapidated, should all be blamed on the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Moreover, the more impossible it is, the more impossible it is to return, the more perfect the character of the Tang Dynasty.

Tsui Hark has a personality ideal. The success of his films is not so much a victory of film technology as a victory of personality ideal.In Tsui Hark's movies, men are fortitude and deep, while women are plump and bright. "New Shushan Swordsman", "Huang Feihong" are all the crystallization of this ideal of character. Even "Sansa" produced by him has a new century style. Temperament of Chaoyang—I think it is the best among all the video works about the city of Shenzhen.And other works of "Film Studio" cannot be interpreted without the premise of Tang people's character, so "Women Are Not Bad" cannot be understood by audiences in the new era. Tang character.No wonder he turned his head to shoot Di Renjie.

It is generally accepted that Tsui Hark understands women best, because if we divide our world with masculinity and masculinity, the meaning is "masculine", and poetry is "feminine". Our world is "masculine" when it is cruel, but beautiful The time is "feminine", the reality is "masculine", but the hope is "female". The ideal character of the Tang Dynasty is actually "female".Therefore, Goethe said: "Eternal woman, guide us to soar!" Whenever I like those people, I also say that he is "beautiful as Tang", which means ascension.For example, Tsui Hark, such as the men and women in "Shanghai Night".