Chapter 80 giant

Every time I watch "Movie Legend", which Cui Yongyuan is the producer of, my heart is always in suspense. The episode "Female Secret Service" brings together the classic images of female secret agents in domestic movies, Alan played by Wang Xiaotang, Aunt Mei played by Liang Ming, Bagu played by Di Fan, and Yu Huang played by Ling Yuan... The episode "Spring Comes Back" is about the movie "Sister and Sister Stand Up" filmed in 1951.This film directed by Chen Xihe is about the transformation of prostitutes in the early days of Liberation. One of the actors was selected by the director from among the students after watching the performances reported by the students in the reform class.She played the old bustard Yanzhihu, and played the poor and evil appearance of Yanzhihu to the fullest.On the set, every time she was touched by the scene in front of her, she cried bitterly again and again.

But what happened later?They acted in such roles, and they were still so devoted and vivid. Did they suffer any difficulties in the later extraordinary times?In particular, the female spy played by Ye Linlang is so simple and close to ordinary people, she neither draws eyebrows nor puts a cigarette in her mouth - she thinks that spy is just a profession, and being too conspicuous is not conducive to hide.Has this knowledge and this performance become a crime?It was not mentioned in the program, only the aging Wang Xiaotang and Ye Linlang talked about the creative process at the beginning, but I was tortured by a known suspense, like watching Titanic through a glass curtain wall of time The ship's boarding site.

There are also a few episodes where the whereabouts of the actors are given. The episode "Flowers of the Motherland" specifically mentioned the later story of Li Xixiang who played the role of Xiaopang. He was sent to the Northwest as a coal miner in those years. He was unmarried all his life and died young later.In the program, accompanied by the theme song of "The Spring of the Cow Herding Class", the scene in the movie where Xiaopang turned his head and stared deeply at the camera was replayed again and again; The life of Yang Likun of "Flower" and "Ashima", who was sent to a mental hospital in 1970 and spent the rest of her life in a state of chaos.

There are several behemoths in the life of the Chinese people, and they cannot be circumvented. Even if a modern fairy tale ends abruptly when the prince and princess get married as usual, we still know what happened to them afterwards.Those young men in white shirts boarding the train and waving to their comrades, the Liubao girls with big braids running across the field of rapeseed, no matter their real bodies or their actors, I know what happened to them—— —They are bound to encounter those giants. That’s why we seldom have romance novels, romance movies, and all literary works that require romantic elements, because romance literature and art need self-confidence, dignity, and a sense of mystery, and it takes more than 30 years of stability to cultivate this confidence, dignity, and sense of mystery. But we don't have time.It is absolutely difficult for us to write a romantic story that happened in 1965, and it is absolutely difficult for us to accept such a story psychologically-the hero has to be criticized the next year.

One of the achievements of modern civilization is that society has become more and more rational and self-controlled.The society is less and less producing such behemoths, or trying to lengthen the time interval between the appearance of such behemoths. Even if it is clear that there is a nuclear button in hand, it will never be easily used, and it is clear that the masses can form a wave again, and it will never be easily activated.We are already in the midst of change, and there is still change to come, but my expectation is that there will be no more of this inescapable behemoth.Even if it is only for the audience thirty years later, they can easily finish an episode of "Movie Legend", or for a romance novelist to write a romantic epic spanning fifty years.