This article is written by Fang Sheyu
Recently, Zhang Ailing's original "First Burning Incense" was released, which reminded me of a movie from a long time ago, "Color Ring".
Director Xu Anhua, including the casting, is not very satisfactory to the original fans, making people feel that this film work is neither Zhang Ailing nor Xu Anhua, and even not much "First Incense".
The lofty nature of the adaptation of "Color Ring" appears on another level.
The original work of "Color Ring" is a work that Zhang Ailing changed for 30 years, Zhang Ailing created it in 1950, and only published it in the collection "The Book of Confusion" 30 years later.
The setting of this story is actually quite simple.
The woman assassinates the man, and as a result, she develops love and is killed in the opposite direction.
A beautiful and stupid female college student, to approach a high-ranking agent in Wang Jingwei's camp, fantasize about assassinating him, winning glory for the country, and contributing to the motherland. However, when things came to pass, the female assassin found herself in love with him, completely in love with the man who was going to assassinate, and as a result, the man killed the woman mercilessly.
The movie "Color Ring", which I think is the best of all Ang Lee's film and television works, is indeed Ang Lee's painstaking work.
During the filming of "Color Ring", Ang Lee completely broke down, overwhelmed, and directly flew to Rhode Island to find his spiritual comfort, hugged and cried with the film master Bergman, and continued to complete the work.
However, the film came out, but because Ang Lee designed three large-scale bed scenes for the film, the style of the comment area was completely deviated, and "Color Ring" seemed to have become a taboo topic in society for a while.
Zhang Ailing's original work is relatively simple in intention, and it is also incomparably feminine.
Love makes women stupid, but love awakens women's inner cognition of themselves, the cognition of love, and the cognition of sex, so women are individually conscious, choose to be loyal to themselves, and let go of male spies.
But this ending is cruel, and the answer given by Zhang Ailing is that don't go near men, you will become unlucky.
Because the ending is that the male agent mercilessly signs the kill list and kills the woman. Reason prevails and love is out. When women choose to be faithful to love, men are ruthless.
Therefore, in this case, it is extremely stupid to see the description of women in the original work, and Wang Jiazhi still firmly believes: "He loves me, he will come to protect me."
But Wang Jiazhi, who was still in love, was taken away by a gunshot. The last second of rescue without dog blood is death. The original directly rejects love on this point.
Although Zhang Ailing's original work negates the blossoming of love, the existence of love. But it is still a symbol of feminist awakening, and it is interesting to note that the turning point of the story lies in a huge pigeon egg diamond ring, because the diamond ring is sparkling and as beautiful as love, and Wang Jiazhi immediately has the mood to protect him. She gave up the responsibility she shouldered, was blinded by material things, and indirectly lost her life.
And Ang Lee's adaptation, although it did not move on this point, still respected this ending and intention. However, three large-scale bed scenes, up to 20 minutes of love scenes, from three bed scenes and postures and content, step by step show women from oppressed, objectified identity, gradually grasp the initiative, gradually enjoy love, take the initiative to possess.
From repression to awakening, this is free-flowing, and human nature comes with feelings and desires.
Ang Lee's performance of the theme of female awakening begins in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the heroine Yu Jiaolong, as an aristocratic lady, is willful and rebellious, indulging in hostility in the rivers and lakes, and finally after a night of entanglement with Luo Xiaohu, she devotes herself to the ultimate gap, which is the awakening process of female consciousness.
"Color Ring" is not the first work of Ang Lee to express the awakening consciousness of oriental women, but it is the most profound work.
The lofty point of Ang Lee's adaptation of "Color Ring" is that it does not stop there, and the film is even higher than the original work because it not only shows the awakening of women's bodies and consciousness, but also lies in the understanding of sex and women in mass culture.
The public's concept of gender relations is changing, love is not love, this is a personal private matter, hair can not have a relationship, this is the two of their own grasp of the matter, even if Wang Jiazhi and Mr. Yi have a relationship, others will not because of this to affect the judgment, still can not get rid of your identity as an assassin, must you die.
In the movie, after Wang Jiazhi saved Mr. Yi at the moment of a thousand gunshots, she walked on the road and had nowhere to go.
The male classmate who helped her behind her plot once told her that there was a safe house, where she could go to hide, and it was very safe.
The original book went, the movie didn't go.
In the movie, Wang Jiazhi walked into the love nest of her and Mr. Yi's usual private meeting like a soul. She had completely trusted this love until she died, not knowing where the tragedy came from.
Implicit in this is a major awakening of gender and physical consciousness, she helped the country to assassinate the secret agent, and finally because of love was shot on the cliff, this is the ethical and moral struggle between the individual and the country, this wonderful thing, not only in the stupidity of the germination of female love, but also in the appeal for a more ambitious theme, the female body, not the weapon used by the state to fight.
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