Mei Yanfang's autobiographical film "Mei Yanfang" was released.
The big sister in the jianghu, the head of the Mei family class in the Hong Kong music scene, the changing queen of the world of light and shadow, Hong Kong's daughter Mui Yanfang, met us on the screen again.
This parting, more than ten years, life and death are two unknowns, do you remember the Mei Yanfang who played the opponent with "Double Monday into a Lee"?
The cooperation with Jackie Chan has allowed us to see the ever-changing Mei Yanfang.
Playing with Jackie Chan, there are not many opponents who can shine, especially female characters, whose attributes are equivalent to vases.
First, Jackie Chan is willing to work hard, and the action is both comedic, and second, in Jackie Chan's films, many actors and even directors are functional tool people.
However, these two characteristics did not seem to work in Mei Yanfang.
In the three plays of "Miracle", "Drunken Fist 2" and "Red Fan District" cooperated with Jackie Chan, Mei Yanfang snatched Jackie Chan's plays in three styles of elegance, funny and independent, so that the audience's eyes were not only staring at Jackie Chan.
In "Miracle", due to the problem of role positioning, Yang Luming, played by Mei Yanfang, is more often like a tool person.
But Mei Yanfang has her own strength, that is, singing, all the songs in the movie use Mei Yanfang's original voice, without any false singing.
Especially the Cantonese version of "Rose Rose I Love You", after Huang Zhun refilled the words, added a bit of style, coupled with Mei Yanfang's emotional voice, so that this old Shanghai dance music has regained its style.
This is Mei Yanfang's ability, the role makes her elegant and intellectual, acting as a vase, but her versatility allows her to shine from another aspect.
In "Drunken Fist 2", it is not too much to say that the thirteen aunts played by Mei Yanfang suppressed Jackie Chan.
If Jackie Chan didn't have those dazzling moves, maybe this play would not be called "Drunken Fist 2", but renamed "Little Mama Biography".
The funny points in the film are basically focused on Mei Yanfang, such as pretending to be pregnant to carry the pot for Huang Feihong, and when Huang Feihong punches drunk, she waved the flag and shouted on the side.
Such an excellent comedic talent, in the man-based "Drunken Fist 2", Mei Yanfang let Jackie Chan lose his color, let Andy Lau dim, and make Dillon dull.
In "Red Fan District", Mei Yanfang's role is not much, and the role also exists to elicit a love-hate relationship between Jackie Chan and the American gangsters.
Action dramas originally do not need any super-god acting skills, and they can complete the task according to the standard, and there is no mortal bodhisattva, Yang-style glare, and yellow-style greasy moth.
And "Red Fan District" is Jackie Chan's first play with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, aimed at audiences around the world, so the movie will highlight Jackie Chan's action comedy even more.
However, Mei Yanfang was nominated for the Academy Awards through the role of Yi Ling, and used an unlucky scene to make the comedy imply the core of tragedy, incidentally stealing Ye Fanghua's limelight.
The cooperation with Zhou Runfa allowed me to see the most beautiful Mei Yanfang.
Chow Yun-fat is a versatile actor who can play with anyone, regardless of the mainland or Hong Kong or Taiwan.
With Li Zhi, Zhang Aijia, Zhong Chuhong, with Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei, with John Nidep in Hollywood, with Jiang Wen, Ge You, and Zhou Runfa in the mainland, they can all tolerate it, and they are full of limelight.
However, in "Hero Essence 3: Song of the Sunset", Fa Ge's limelight seems to be less sufficient.
Zhou Runfa in the movie is still the dashing and handsome little horse brother, but Mei Yanfang is not overwhelmed by him, but with a cool and heroic look, she has left a heartwarming shadow on the screen.
The ending song "Song of the Sunset" points out the role and confirms Mei Yanfang's life.
"The slanting sun is infinite, and the helplessness is only brilliant in a breath." As the clouds fade away, the glory that has passed away is gone. Delaying the years, it is difficult to endure the changes of this life, such as floating clouds gathering and scattering, tangling this vicissitudes of weariness. ”
Another name of the song is more widely known - "A Thousand And One Songs", and both songs were released in 1989, and the reason for this strange fate is because the original singer of the song is Mei Yanfang's boyfriend.
The cooperation with Stephen Chow has given us a serious comedy Mei Yanfang.
In Stephen Chow's films, there are only a few actors who can catch his scenes because he has no rules.
There are only Wu Mengda and Chen Baixiang among the male actors, and among the actresses, I am afraid that only Mei Yanfang and Wu Junru are left, compared to Wu Junru's nonsense, Mei Yanfang's comedy method tends to be funny without smiling.
In "Death Judge" and "Truant Weilong 3: The Year of the Dragon Over the Rooster", Zhou Xingchi and Mei Yanfang's performances complement each other perfectly, and they are still and moving.
Zhou Xingchi's nonsense belongs to the big opening, and the language and action are often unexpected, which makes it difficult for actors without deep skills and excellent talent to overwhelm.
Mei Yanfang is just the opposite, her funny can not do both like Stephen Chow, but she is extremely talented in contrasting funny, complementing Zhou Xingchi with false seriousness.
And "false canon" is the most missing link in the early Stephen Chow movie.
After "Domestic Lingling Paint", Zhou Xingchi made up this ring, so that Zhou Xingchi and Mei Yanfang at that time could have the effect of combining pearls.
The cooperation with Jet Li has allowed us to see the lovely Mei Yanfang.
Since "Submission of Names", many people have seen Jet Li's acting skills, in fact, as early as "Letter to Daddy", Jet Li showed his superb acting skills.
Like Jet Li, Mei Yanfang also let the audience see another side of her in this play - cuteness, the kind of mature and mischievous cuteness.
Whether it is the awkwardness with Jet Li or the warm relationship with Jet Li's "son", Fang Yihua, played by Mei Yanfang, does not annoy people, which cannot be brought about by role positioning.
In addition to these actors, Mui Yanfang has also cooperated with Liang Chaowei, Liang Jiahui and Maggie Cheung, and they are not inferior to each other.
Among them, the actors who have cooperated the most are Andy Lau and Zhang Guorong, six times and five times respectively, and the "Rouge Buckle" cooperated with Zhang Guorong made Mei Yanfang become the golden horse and the golden film award double film queen.
However, such a perfect Mei Yanfang also has two most regrettable things, which are her regrets and our regrets.
First, the musical and the concert in the mainland were not successful, and the cooperation with Zhang Yimou was not realized, both of which were originally completed at the end of 2003.
Mei Yanfang took a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, she got the approval of the Beijing concert, and on the other hand, she joined Zhang Yimou's "Ten Faces Ambush".
Unfortunately, the day did not go according to people's wishes, and mei Yanfang's life in the cold winter moon less than 40 hours from the new year came to an abrupt end, and the two things that had already taken shape drifted away with the wind.
For the sudden death of Mei Yanfang, Zhang Yimou was very sad, decided to revise the script, leaving the role of "Big Sister jianghu" in the play forever, and the subtitle of "I would like to remember Miss Mei Yanfang in this movie" at the end of the film also expressed regret.
Can you ever remember that joy, sorrow, old age, illness, life and death, can not be said to be legendary.
The dust of the world is vague and the providence is vast, separating you from me. The broken intestines are dotted, and the wind and rain are continuous, as if the old people have come.
When the day is again, where to reunite, saying that tonight is really warm, and there is no chance to remember it continuously. Fate does not stay, like the spring breeze comes and goes, women are like flowers and dreams.