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Long wait.
From last year to now --
"The Problem Of No Problem"
The top ten of the year has already been booked by it.
Not an exaggeration.
On the surface, "No Problem" is a bit niche — black and white, Republic of China themes, and a large number of dialects (Shanghainese, Chongqing).
In fact, it's an ultra-luxurious combination.
Director, Screenwriter: Mei Feng.
I know Mei Feng, mostly because he is Lou Ye's royal screenwriter. The two collaborated on "The Mystery of the Floating City", "The Night of the Spring Breeze" and its previous film, in which "Spring Wind" won him back to the Cannes Film Festival for Best Screenplay.
This time, the directorial debut has lived up to expectations, and a Golden Horse Award for Best Adapted Screenplay has been firmly in hand.
Original: Lao She.
The 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature belonged to him.
Lao She is also the most adapted Republic of China writer: "Camel Xiangzi", "Tea House", "My Life", "Crescent Moon"...
The short story "No Problem" is not well-known, and it is not written in the familiar city of Beijing by Lao She. I chose this one to adapt because its story reads so intimately today that there is no sense of distance. (When you don't believe in the plot, contact the story around you)
Starring: Fan Wei.
Teacher Fan Wei is well known to the public on the Spring Festival Gala stage, and the classic image is a fat man, a cook (zhao Benshan') and a second son.
He is also an unforgettable supporting role in the movie: the robber of "No Thief in the World", "Nanjing! nanking! Mr. Tang of "The Great Gold Robbery", the priest of "The Great Gold Robbery".
What is missing is a movie with him as the protagonist who can make him shine. Now, "No Problem" finally let Fan Wei get the Golden Horse Film Emperor.
Isn't he the one who came out of Lao She's novel?
Forty years old, medium weight, a little fat face, and the flesh is bright, Ding Wuyuan is not a handsome person, but lovely. The shiny muscles on his face have taught people to be happy at first sight, coupled with a pair of full of light, multi-faceted eyes, and an expression that changes at any time and is not inappropriate, it is not only pleasing to people, but also trusting him.
Except for Teacher Fan Wei, our "Mr. No Problem" does not think of it as a second person.
The novel was published in 1943 and takes place at Shuhua Farm in Chongqing, the rear area of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
A paradise that doesn't seem to be disturbed by bombing, massacres, and death.
It is also a historical preserve, telling the story of the past and the present.
The mantra "no problem" Ding Wuyuan (Fan Wei) is a problem.
Shuhua Farm was originally rich in products, melons, fruits, ducks and geese, cattle and sheep grew happily, coupled with the shortage of wartime materials, it was not difficult to make a profit.
However, under the management of Director Ding Wuyuan, it lost money.
What's the point?
This involves China's human relations, national habits and social trends.
The film unfolds in three acts –
Ding Wuyuan in the crisis of dismissal, the inexplicable intrusive artist Qin Miaozhai (Zhang Chao), and the Liuyang doctor You Daxing (Wang Yiming), who was appointed to take over the post of director.
This time, the small pond of Shuhua Farm turned into big waves.
Are they three people?
Or are there three kinds of people in society?
Or how much of a three-faced personality is contained in each of us?
Look down.
Ding Wuyuan, left and right Fengyuan.
As soon as Fan Wei read the script, he said, "Ding Wuyuan is very high." People who speak, do, and act are sleek and sophisticated, and leave no trace.
This is a guy who will be happy to give him money if you lose mahjong.
You can't hear this person's accent, he is like a chameleon, will fit the needs of the environment - the third wife asked if he would play Shanghai mahjong, he immediately replied in Shanghainese "will be, will be"; mixing with the workers, you can switch to Chongqing dialect "want, get"; for Miss Tong, who has a few drops of foreign ink in her stomach, she will also drag the foreign text "yes".
Qin Miaozhai pretended to be full of talent.
He claims to be an "all-round artist" who can paint, sculpt, compose poetry, compose music, and talk about art, but no one has ever seen his works.
He rented the second floor of his office at Shuhua Farm and set up a painting school, and when it comes to the rent of 10,000 a year, he always says, "My old man has money" and "money is still on the road."
Suits, leather shoes, oil heads, dignified and personable.
Where there is him, he will always be the one who can do things and make the most splash.
You Daxing belongs to the doers, returning from England, a real skill.
But he was only reasonable and did not understand people.
The introduction of modern management experience, the elimination of gardeners' sabotage, theft and other phenomena, so that the farm has a new look, but also to achieve profitability.
He also offended everyone.
Fan Wei said in the acceptance speech of the Golden Horse Film Emperor: "This is a film that is easy to be ignored, it is very lightly filmed, and the acting is also very light, especially thanks to the judges, have the patience to see its magic." ”
The film is indeed very "light".
Everyone's true intentions are often pressed and not expressed, and they are always leaked out inadvertently by you.
Ding Wuyuan appeared, at first glance, it seemed like a daily routine, dressing and washing his face, pocket watches and other small objects in turn, and then using hair oil to close his sideburns, but the action of the advent betrayed him -
Looking in the mirror, he practiced with his hands and said, "The fat chickens and ducks of the farm have sent you to the kitchen."
It turned out to be a meticulous preparation before the human drama.
The film deliberately puts the lens far and fixed, there is almost no close-up, and more uses the middle and long views to create a stage effect.
The focus is on "compartments".
In xu zhai's mahjong scene, the camera did not get close to the four ladies and ladies at the card table, and the half scene was separated by a stone fish tank.
As a result, the entire hall was presented in the picture, and Director Ding's entry into the camera had the feeling of taking the stage.
In the farm office, Ding Wuyuan talked with Li Accountant, and Ding Wuyuan gave You Daxing the wind, and they were also across the table.
Several pavilion plays, also in the same camera position, far away from the pillar to watch the changes.
Without any emotion, without getting involved.
This sense of alienation abstracts Shuhua Farm into a universal specimen.
The actor's performance, "Sink".
Ding Wuyuan was soaking his feet, and when he heard the heavy news that the shareholders wanted to change the director, he did not express any opinions and did not make unnecessary moves.
But it does not mean that he has no reaction to this matter, if you look closely, you will find that he blinked, is surprised, but also thinking about countermeasures.
No, the next scene is the birthday of the little young master of the Xu family, and he appears at the Xu house to offer hospitality.
Mrs. You, played by Yin Tao, also plays a quiet role.
You Daxing fired the farm worker who stole chickens and dogs, and the workers interceded with Mrs. You and gave her a basket of eggs.
She pushed and said no, then half pushed and half accepted, and when the workers left, she picked up an egg and put it on her chest.
A simple action, her previous heavy rejection, prevarication, slammed down.
In domestic films, such delicate literary brushstrokes have almost disappeared.
Also a republican theme, also a satirical comedy that metaphorically speaks of national nature in a small utopia, "No Problem" is reminiscent of last year's "Donkey Got Water".
If "Donkey Got Water" is an exaggeration, then the beauty of "No Problem" is all in the cracks.
After careful consideration, it will be filmed quickly.
How detailed is the depiction of human nature in it?
Let me give you two simple examples.
In the small pool of Shuhua Farm, Wang Ba's bites to death, and above them there is the farm leader Xu Laoye and the shareholder Boss Tong who are fighting in the open.
You can't see the immortal fights, but the actions of the "above" are all projected to the "below".
Ding Wuyuan is Xu's person, and farm Li accountant is Tong's person.
Shareholders actually know more about the details of the farm's losses than the field chief, and they don't have to guess that it is Li's accounting report.
Celebrating the success of the exhibition, everyone on the farm applauded Qin Miaozhai, only he secretly bowed his head.
Finally, the return of Ding Wuyuan was celebrated, and everyone drank happily, and he stood there looking decadent.
Because his master's plan to control the farm failed.
After the wind and waves, everyone pushed the cup and changed the cup, smiling and greeting each other.
Business as usual.
Watching the whole film, I want to say that the name of Lao She is "not a problem", absolutely -
Whatever the problem, it can be not a problem.
Why does a good Shuhua Farm lose money? Why did reforms that made farms better fail miserably? Why is it that Ding Wuyuan can make everyone up and down satisfied with the money he has lost?
What happens on this farm has a deep-seated logic in this country.
In order to live peacefully with the problem, it is possible to live as part of the problem.
And the people who really want to solve the problem become someone else's problem.
In the empty shot, You Daxing's room people go to the empty house, the water wheel outside the window runs, the farm returns to its original order, and perhaps it will continue to run like this in the time that water passes.
The Ding Wuyuan who was thrown into the movie were like clowns.
When we finished watching the movie, laughing and cursing, the clowns also walked off the stage and removed their makeup.
Walk back into our lives.
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