"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..."
Mei Yanfang, dressed in a white wedding dress, emotionally sings the shadow of "Sunset Song", which will always remain in the hearts of the audience, and the afterglow is swirling.
18 years after Mei Yanfang's death, the film of the same name was released.
This film about the former superstar, the current mainland box office of nearly 70 million yuan, Douban score of 7.0 points, as a biopic that is a niche theme, it is also a good result.
This "daughter of Hong Kong", from the lonely and nameless little singer, to the big star who has achieved great achievements in the field of film and television songs and is respected as "Sister Mei", there are too many stories to tell in both work and life.
The movie "Mei Yanfang" selects important nodes in her career and the important characters around Mei Yanfang to show.
Next, let's talk about some of the important male characters in the movie who have prototypes in reality:
Confidant Zhang Guorong, who met in Weishi, Japanese boyfriend Yuki Goto (prototype is Makoto Kondo), and stylist Eddie (prototype is Liu Peiji).
The most familiar and envious of the world, but also the most lamentable and most mournful, is undoubtedly the confidant of Mei Yanfang and Zhang Guorong.
The two left us forever in the same year, with Zhang Guorong committing suicide by jumping off a building on April 1, 2003, and Mui Yanfang dying on December 30 of that year.
The loss of two superstars in the same year is definitely a big earthquake in the entertainment industry at that time, and it is still an eternal pain in the hearts of many fans.
One of the most impressive scenes in the movie is Mei Yanfang attending Zhang Guorong's funeral.
Sister Mei, dressed in black, stood in front of the coffin, distressed that her friend was drinking alone because she was afraid of her worries, and sad that she had prepared her funeral in advance.
However, when it comes to the plot of the movie, there is actually some discrepancy with reality.
Perhaps in order to reflect that Mui Yanfang takes it as her duty to promote the younger generations of her colleagues, so zhang Guorong's initial appearance scene is That Mei Yanfang goes to the nightclub to temporarily save the scene, singing Teresa Teng's "Repayment" in trilingual languages to surprise the guests, and then introducing Zhang Guorong (played by Liu Junqian) to appear, a song "Silent upstream" cheered little.
The picture turned, Tsim Sha Tsui seaside, she encouraged "Zhang Guorong" not to be discouraged, and will be able to hold concerts together in the Red Pavilion in the future, "When the time comes, I will be your guest, you will be my guest, of course, the premise is that you do not charge money." ”
Later, when he became famous, Guan Jinpeng began to shoot "Rouge Buckle", and Mei Yanfang recommended "Zhang Guorong" to play the male lead.
In fact, in 1985, when "Repayment" was launched, Mei Yanfang had already caught fire and no longer needed a nightclub to save the scene.
Zhang Guorong sang the song "Silent Upstream" on the spot, which was included in the same album and also had the famous work "The Wind Continues to Blow", when he was no longer an unknown nobody.
As for participating in "Rouge Buckle", it is also a contract of Zhang Guorong that Mei Yanfang participated in the new art city film equivalent exchange.
For viewers who do not understand this history, they may not feel anything, but for fans of both Mei Yanfang and Zhang Guorong, such a plot will inevitably have a sense of snakes.
At the same time, for Zhang Guorong's casting, from the audience feedback, most people are not very satisfied.
Of course, no matter who comes to play the magnificent brother, it is a big challenge, and it is actually smart to choose a newcomer actor who is not well known to most of the audience, and Liu Junqian is helpless.
Just to say that the appearance and temperament are different from 108,000 miles, the acting skills are also very general, and more netizens have poisonous tongues to complain: there is no half-cent relationship with Zhang Guorong.
There is also a small episode here, some netizens found that Zhang Guorong in the trailer of "Mei Yanfang" looks a little different from Zhang Guorong in the movie, so it is suspected that the producer still uses technology to "repair" Liu Junqian to Zhang Guorong's appearance when making the trailer.
This may also prove from the side that the producer does not have much confidence in Zhang Guorong's casting.
Another important role in the film is Mei Yanfang's Japanese boyfriend Goto Xihui.
If you want to seriously investigate, for the audience who does not understand that period of history, the plot setting of the movie can be regarded as a "fraud".
Watching the film alone, you will feel that the handsome man and beautiful woman are a good match, but it is a pity that the company beat the Mandarin duck, and finally there was no disease, and the Japanese boyfriend also became a cinnabar mole in Mei Yanfang's heart, unforgettable.
However, in reality, the prototype Ofe Kondo, a popular Japanese idol, is the representative of the famous "scumbag".
First of all, Makoto Kondo is one of the earliest famous idols of the Japanese Janis Company, a singer and actor who was active in the front line in the 1970s and 1980s, he sang many popular songs, and was also sung as a Chinese many times (such as Mei Yanfang's "Sunset Song" and Chen Huixian's "Song of a Thousand And One Thousand Ques" are covered by his "Xi Yan Song").
At that time, when Makoto Kondo launched an offensive against the popular Mei Yanfang, he was in a relationship with the Japanese diva Nakamori Akira.
When he interacted with Mei Jie, he lied that he had broken up with Nakamori Akira.
Later, he split his legs several times, nakamori's old enemy in the entertainment industry, Matsuda Seiko, causing the former to commit suicide for a while.
Later, in order to save his career, Kondo Masahiko used a golden screen (in Japan, holding a press conference to hang a golden screen to indicate that he was married) to deceive Nakamori Akira to the press conference, and when Nakamori arrived at the scene, Kondo suddenly turned his face and blamed all the mistakes on Nakamori alone, not only saying that he would not get married, but also asking Nakamori to admit that her suicide had nothing to do with herself and asked Nakamori to apologize.
Subsequently, Makoto Kondo married and had children, and at the end of last year, he caused a cheating scandal.
Last year was The eighteenth year of Kondo's marriage, four years before his wife, Atsuko Wada, bore him her first child.
According to the Japanese media "Fumiharu", Makoto Kondo maintained a relationship with a 31-year-old woman who was 25 years younger than him for five years.
The woman, the president of a custom suit company, fell in love at first sight, but the woman already had a cohabitant, and Kondo snatched her from the other.
After being split legs, netizens complained that it was not surprising to see that it was this "Japan's first scumbag" who cheated.
In connection with reality, Makoto Kondo can only be said to be a past event in Mei Jie's love history that is like a mirror flower and water moon, far from being unforgettable and unforgettable for love.
Looking at the casting of Goto Xihui in the film, it is no wonder that everyone will be very angry after watching it, and the setting of the overly glorified scumbag is really unpleasant.
The most acclaimed adaptation and performance in the movie should still be the costume image designer Eddie Liu Peiji played by Gu Tianle.
For Mei Yanfang, Eddie is also a mentor and a friend.
When Mei Yanfang was still a newcomer, he would mention her as a senior and also strictly demand her;
When Mei Yanfang is confused about love, he will encourage her to bravely pursue love and not leave regrets;
When Mei Yanfang's career fell into a bottleneck, he took out a gorgeous and out-of-character battle robe to encourage her to stick to herself.
When Mei Yanfang insisted on completing the final concert, he carefully prepared a wedding dress for him and sent her to the final stage.
In reality, Liu Peiji has been named one of Hong Kong's Top Ten Outstanding Youths, won the Hong Kong Artist of the Year Award, the Fashion Design Award and the Image Design Award, and is also linked to the names of many Hong Kong stars: Mui Yanfang, Rowan, Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, Wang Mingquan, Hui Guanjie, Aaron Kwok – many of the costumes they wear at concerts are Liu Peiji's masterpieces.
This time, in order to promote the film, Liu Peiji also came out to accept an interview.
He recalled that before Mei Yanfang's last concert, she couldn't eat every night.
When preparing for the concert offstage, even though there were ten heaters in the background, Mei Yanfang was still afraid of the cold because of her weak body.
"One night, she came backstage very early and I asked her Ame how did you come so early, and she said she wanted to do it quickly, because it really hurt, and my heart was broken after listening to it. But when the stage went up, she was Hong Kong's daughter, Mui Yanfang. ”
As a biopic, between the real and the unreal, how the film balances, is always the hardest;
Considering the limitation of the length of the film, the various concerns of the still living characters, and some intentional or helpless beautifications and adaptations, it is not incomprehensible.
In any case, flaws are not hidden, and the intentions and sincerity of the creators in the production of this movie can be felt by the audience;
Producer Jiang Zhiqiang fulfilled his promise, and it was enough to let her light up again, and let more people who had not experienced that golden age feel her light.
Source: Thoughtful