I used to dislike Wang Zuxian, I didn't like Zhang Guorong, and I didn't like the "Ghost of Qiannu" starring the two of them.
At that time, I was attracted by "I Love Night Fragrance", "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Oriental Undefeated" and "Hero's True Colors", it was Zhou Runfa, Jackie Chan and Lin Qingxia. Nie Xiaoqian, played by Wang Zuxian, cries and cries in "The Ghost of Qiannu", sad and affectionate, and does not attract love, and Ning Caichen, played by Zhang Guorong, appears to have no power to bind the chicken, and most of the time is running and hiding in panic.
In "The True Colors of Heroes", Zhang Guorong is not happy enough to take revenge, repeatedly implicating Dillon and not allowing him to show his strengths in the jianghu, which only makes him short of heroism. Watching the second part of "The True Colors of Heroes", the three people such as trench coat sunglasses and Zhou Runfa, who was holding a double gun, were full of righteousness, killing all the enemies in the film, and they were lying on the broken sofa, without fear of death and life, how arrogant and painful. To this end, I heard that there was a movie in "Please Answer 1988", and I went to see it.
Stills from "Please Answer 1988"
Once, having breakfast with a classmate who ran to the society before finishing his junior year of high school, we talked about the Hong Kong film emperor, he said that the film emperor only had Zhou Runfa, and no one else was. In his consciousness, there is no two days in the sky, there is no two lords in the earth, there is only one person in the Shadow Emperor, there is no other semicolon, and Zhou Runfa is famous and the most kingly, besides him, who else?
Yes, when I was in high school, we loved Zhou Runfa the most, and Zhang Guorong, who was feminine, was not very legal. Later, Zhang Guorong suddenly passed away, our age is not self-consciously older, encountered the soft Wong Kar Wai movie no longer turned around, think it is difficult to swallow, "Chongqing Forest" also feels charming. Turning his head to look at Zhang Guorong's films, looking at his screen image, and looking around at the movies of that time and today, how many people can catch up with him? He deserves to be glorious and a faction of his own.
Zhang Guorong was satisfied, and Wang Zuxian was even more confused. Look at "Qiannu Ghost", her every move in the film, a smile and a smile, her gloomy eyes, her exaggerated flying can have hundreds of meters of ribbon, and her long hair that often brushes her cheeks shows that she is the most beautiful female ghost. This made me feel that I should apologize to Miss Wang Zuxian, and I should not have been blind to gold and jade earlier.
Wang Zuxian's Nie Xiaoqian exudes a seductive charm, thanks to Xu Ke. He was moved to make "Ghost of a Woman", saying that he had seen the movie of the same name when he was a child, and left a deep impression. He is a film producer with great power, and he has recruited Cheng Xiaodong, who is good at designing flowing movements, as a director, persuaded Zhang Guorong to wear a costume he once disliked, and let Noonma put on a beard to play the powerful Taoist Yan Chixia.
This "Ghost of a Lady" is adapted from Li Hanxiang's film. Xu Ke is good at old bottles of new wine, and after some blending, it often has another taste and makes people intoxicated, "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Liang Zhu" and Huang Feihong series are among the representatives. "Ghost of a Lady" does not follow the trend, but boldly innovates, retaining the original story trunk, the plot of the branches and leaves is carefully managed by itself, and finally has a different appearance and style. Advanced stunts helped him, allowing the characters to fly in the air, allowing the audience to experience the wonderful fights and chivalrous atmosphere. In contrast, the original version of the fight scenes is less and also looks rudimentary.
Li Hanxiang's "Ghost of Qiannu" was filmed in 1960, in addition to creating an atmosphere and telling a good story, it pays attention to the fun of traditional literati, so it specially arranges the plot that is not in the original "Liaozhai Zhiyi", so that Nie Xiaoqian can play the piano under the moon and recite poems in Linchi. The sound of the piano attracted Ning Caichen, who revised the words in the words written by Nie Xiaoqian, and also inscribed a poem on the painting made by Nie Xiaoqian, which was pressed and rhymed, and the poem was called: Ten Mile Ping Lake is full of green sky, and the jade hairpin secretly regrets the Chinese year. If you have to protect the appearance of the rain cover, only envy the Mandarin duck and not envy the immortals. This painting also became an important clue for Ning Caichen to know that Nie Xiaoqian was a female ghost.
Ghost of a Woman, 1960 edition
Li Hanxiang's generation of filmmakers mostly came to Hong Kong from the mainland, traditional literacy and aesthetics have always accompanied them, Xu Ke is a new wave of characters who returned from studying in the United States, and lacks the ancient taste of such talents and beauty. This 1987 "Ghost of Qiannu" abandons the plot of writing words and changing words, and simply inscribes poems on Nie Xiaoqian's portrait, which is a modification of the original work: Ten Mile Ping Lake is full of frost, and the inches of green silk are sad. Looking at the moon alone, only envying the Mandarin Duck and not envying the immortals.
The words have changed, and the flat tone of voice has also come out of the line, which cannot be called a serious grammatical poem. There is also the famous contemporary poem in "Undefeated in the East" produced by Xu Ke: The world is out of my generation, and the years of entering the rivers and lakes are urged. Huang Tu Hegemony is talking and laughing, and it is better to be drunk in life. I even saw it in a dumpling restaurant, framed and hung on the wall.
This poem is told by Ling Hu chong, who drinks in the moonlight, to the East undefeated, he is a reckless figure who fights and plays with swords all day, and the Undefeated in the East is a martial arts high-roller, and they don't have time to care about pingping or pingping. However, Ning Caichen, a scholar, made a poem with a discordant tone, and with his level of writing, it is probably not easy to walk the road of science field, no wonder it has become a substitute for people. And this poem on the portrait, Nie Xiaoqian also participated in the creation, she is the daughter of the official eunuch family, do not usually read and write poetry?
The painting inscribed with poems in Li Hanxiang's film is a pair of Mandarin ducks under the lotus leaf, which matches the poems in a similar way, although it looks of average standard, but it is also a traditional technique, ink sketching, dot dyeing. The paintings in Xu Ke's films, on which are the images of Nie Xiaoqian's hair hanging down in the water, are painted in a modern way, and in the era in which she lived, the paintings of ladies were not painted in this way. Moreover, looking at the ancient Chinese female figures, they are all skirts dragging the ground, not showing their feet, and the characters in the Tang Dynasty's "Lady You Chun Tu" and "Hairpin Flower Lady Figure" of the Tang Dynasty, which are known for their openness, are the same, at most they show a little shoe tip, where like Ms. Nie, showing a bare long foot. In the past, the foot was a very private part and never saw outsiders, Nie Xiaoqian said that the painting was done by someone, which was equivalent to Ruth on the Titanic naked and asked Jack to sketch.
Nie Xiaoqian's portrait was later packed in a bamboo utensil carried by Ning Caichen, which did not have a uniform name, some people called bamboo frames, some people called box cages, some people called back baskets, some people called book baskets, and some people called them pipes. In films that preceded the release of the film, I only found it in Hu Jinquan's "Empty Mountain Spirit Rain" and "Legend in the Mountain". Hu's royal actor Shi Jun used this tool in "Legend in the Mountains", which he called a bamboo rucksack, which was designed by the versatile Hu Jinquan. When Xu Ke studied film abroad, he specialized in studying Hu Jinquan, and he wanted to come to the bamboo rucksack, and the things behind Zhang Guorong may come from Hu Jinquan, and there was no such thing in the 1960 version, and the one that Ning Caichen carried with him was a jacket that was more suitable for collecting accounts. As for the inspiration for Hu Jinquan's design, it is said that he saw an ancient painting called "Xuanzang Negative Di Tu" in the museum.
Hu Jinquan emphasizes seiko and stability, the bamboo rucksack in his movie looks solid and firm, Zhang Guorong's imitation saves a lot of material, the bamboo pole is also thin, there is only a border on both sides, there is no other extra fixed bamboo strips, it looks like the negative weight is very small. However, the shape is still good, and it is also suitable for Ning Caichen's body. Looking at 2011's "Ghost of a Woman", it is still a bamboo backpack, but the complex appearance is difficult to say.
It is too harsh to ask Xu Ke to use a painting to judge the merits of the film, and it is only a narrow taste of the person to find two films from the 1990s that should not appear in the Hong Kong movie poster that flashed quickly at the beginning of "Please Answer 1988". The assistant director of 1960's Ghost of a Woman was Hu Jinquan, who later made several martial arts films. Ang Lee believes that his film mood has reached its peak, and his costume design is the first in the world. Hu Jinquan later said that Xu Ke came to him to shoot "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" because Xu lacked classical literacy and wanted to find him to solve the problem of character lines and clothing. However, although the poems in Xu Ke's films do not conform to the law, they are victorious in the abundant weather and the taste of the rivers and lakes.
Xu Ke's films are informal, and the bigger heat is used to cook love. Li Hanxiang's Ning Caichen was bookish, sincere, had feelings for the family and the country, did not covet the love of his children, although she had feelings for Nie Xiaoqian, but the first time she visited late at night, she gave her a hug, he drove him out of the door, came to the door again, he said boredly, "Why are you here again." After Li Hanxiang's "Ghost of Qiannu", more than twenty years have passed, and there have been great changes in society and people's hearts. Although Xu Ke's characters are dressed in ancient costumes, their emotions are modern, their two feelings are like fire, the love is hot, for each other can be poor and fall into the Yellow Spring, Nie Xiaoqian broke with her BOSS Millennium Tree Demon because of Ning Caichen, and Ning Caichen bravely fought the Black Mountain Old Demon for Nie Xiaoqian. The love drama is the territory that Xu Ke has run wildly, giving the characters a sense of the moment, allowing the women under the lens to jump out of the shackles of their times and boldly love, which is the novelty he has blended. The mandarin duck under the lotus flower symbolizes classical love, and the portrait of the beauty herself is a modernist promise, Nie Xiaoqian exposes her feet, and Ning Caichen stages a ghostly love affair with Ning Caichen. Wang Zuxian is no longer like her many other characters, her face and personality are blurred and flowing in the vase, and "Ghost of Qiannu" can also be unique. Just like "New Dragon Gate Inn", borrowing Hu Jinquan's "Dragon Gate Inn" and "Yingchun Pavilion's Storm", two mellow mash bases, and taking the "Casablanca" used in "I Love night to incense" to mix, it is even more impossible to combine Maggie Cheung's spicy and amorous, Lin Qingxia's chivalrous heroism and the liaoyuan of the desert into the wine, which presents a strong visual delicacy.
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