The 1980s were the golden age of Chinese cinema, and many popular masterpieces emerged, such as Lu Xiaoya's "The Girl in Red", which resonated with the audience with the choice of junior high school girls in reality and ideals, and was named the best feature film at the 1985 Golden Rooster Awards.
As a representative of the fourth generation of directors, Lu Xiaoya has not shot many works, but they can all be recognized by the audience, especially the various female characters in her films can always make a deep impression.
For example, in 1989, Lu Xiaoya's film "Hot Love" with actors Li Kechun and Lu Xiaohe triggered a wide range of hot discussions in the whole society after its release, and now Douban also has 8.0 points, but unfortunately only less than 300 people evaluate.
Different from the girlish heart of "The Girl in Red", "Hot Love" tells the love story of adult men and women, which is a true presentation of life choices, marriage and love concepts, part-time work and other issues, and the scale of criticism is amazing, which is still not outdated today.
01, female Wenqing and rich businessmen love and hate obsession
The most valuable thing about the film is that it truly depicts the social situation at that time and the dilemma between ideals and reality of the people of that era.
In the 1980s, with the tide of reform and opening up, countless young people went to the sea to find their own direction in life.
The heroine of the film, Wen Jiefei, is a college student who has just graduated from a normal university, with exquisite appearance and outstanding temperament, and her boyfriend is also a young teacher with ideal pursuits, and both of them have come to Hainan to pursue their goals in life.
The local construction contractor Fan Zong was a "soil boss" with no culture, but the society at that time was full of the concept of money first, and Fan Zong was regarded as a successful person by countless people, who had a car and a house to live a rich life.
Fan Zong, who succeeded in his career, fell in love with Jie Fei at first sight and immediately launched a fierce pursuit.
In the face of Fan Zong's enthusiasm, Jie Fei fell into a wandering, and like others, she also faced the double test of ideals and money.
At the same time, Jie Fei's career has also fallen into a bottleneck, seeing that everyone around him has a home, under the dilemma of reality, Jie Fei gave up his ideal and broke up with his boyfriend, and summarized with Fan as a husband and wife.
After marriage, Fan Zong's career encountered a crisis, pregnant Jie Fei dragged a bulky body to accompany her husband to socialize, after the birth of the child, Jie Fei looked at the intimate appearance of her husband and son, remembering the time when she used to struggle for the ideal with her ex-boyfriend, and shed sad tears...
After the release of the film, the role of Wen Jiefei touched the emotional pulse of countless people, under the wave of commodity economy, education and knowledge are not valued, most people are drawn to money and fame, and jiefei's story continues to occur in reality.
As Wen Jiefei warned the students at the end of the film: life is full of choices, and many people may not know whether their choices are right or wrong, but time will prove everything.
02, the director went deep into the grassroots, Li Kechun quickly saved the scene
Like "The Girl in Red", the film is also based on literary works, and Lu Xiaoya has both director and screenwriter positions in the creation of this film.
Before shooting this film, director Lu Xiaoya read a lot of literary novels to lay the foundation for the creation of film scripts, and after a long process of script creation, he poured a lot of effort into the creation of film scripts.
In the process of adapting the script, Lu Xiaoya set the story background on Hainan Island, an island that countless people yearn for, and she did not just want to tell the love between men and women, but to express life through the love story between young men and women, reflecting the reality of social life in that era.
During the creative process, Lu Xiaoya personally went to Hainan to understand the customs and customs of Hainan, especially the living conditions of migrant workers.
To this end, she also filmed a large number of documentaries, interviewed many non-local workers working in Hainan, and finally was able to truly present the living environment of construction workers and their emotional stories in the film.
After the script was written, Lu Xiaoya and the staff of Emei Film Studio quickly entered the work of selecting actors, and the director quickly selected Ni Ping as the heroine.
But on the eve of filming, Ni Ping was suddenly transferred to Beijing to work and could not participate in the filming of the film, which made the director and other staff panicked.
Under the emergency, a staff member of the crew recommended the actor Li Kechun to the director, and after the director saw the photo, he felt that it was closer to the image of the heroine in his mind, so he decided to play the heroine by Li Kechun.
The crew quickly got in touch with Li Kechun, and since Li Kechun was an actor at the North Film Studio at the time, director Lu Xiaoya personally wrote to Li Kechun's unit leader asking to second her to the film crew.
After the joint efforts of the crew, the film finally started smoothly, and Li Kechun, who was in a hurry, completed the shaping of Wen Jiefei's character very well, and the shape of the short hair was also very in line with the positioning of the role.
After the release of the film, many young men and women at that time were deeply moved, and people lamented the fate of Wen Jiefei, while also reflecting and considering their own life situations and choices, setting off a trend of reflection in society.
03, Li Kechun is married to the United States, and the male protagonist is the Golden Rooster Emperor
Li Kechun's name may be relatively unfamiliar to young audiences today, but for older audiences, Li Kechun can be described as a famous big star.
At the age of 20, Li Kechun was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama with the first result in the region, and in her junior year, she starred in the TV series "Mountain Road Bend" and became famous in the show business circle, and she stepped into the show business circle with her professional ability.
In 1987, Li Kechun starred in the movie "Who is the Third Party", and it was this movie that made the young Li Kechun fire all over the country, successfully nominated for the Best Actress of the Golden Rooster Award that year, and regrettably lost to Pan Hong's "Well".
The success of "Hot Love" originally could have made Li Kechun win the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, but it was unfortunately inferior to Song Jia in "Courtyard Deep".
Although this movie did not let Li Kechun win the Hundred Flowers Film Queen, it made her harvest a complete love.
In the filming process of the movie, a foreign actor fell in love with Li Kechun at first sight, this mass actor is not an ordinary person, but an American expert invited by the crew to make a cameo appearance, under the fierce pursuit of American experts, Li Kechun finally could not suppress his inner emotions and threw himself into the arms of this American expert.
At that time, Steven was one of the first merchants to go to Hainan to engage in development, and he also had a husband and wife. After falling in love with Li Kechun, he immediately returned to the United States to end the marriage.
In 1990, Li Kechun and the American went to the temple of marriage, and the life after marriage was very sweet, and they had a lovely daughter.
After 2000, Li Kechun rarely filmed in the mainland, but chose to settle in the United States and grow old with his beloved.
Not long ago, director Lu Xiaoya also revealed in an interview that Li Kechun had cancer in the United States, but fortunately, he was found very early, and his condition was well controlled, and he is now recuperating at home in the United States.
The male protagonist of the film, Fan Jiyuan, is played by the famous actor Lü Xiaohe, whose most famous work is Xie Jin's "Garland Under the Mountain", with which Lu Xiaohe won the Best Actor of the Golden Rooster Award of Chinese Cinema and the Best Actor of the Hundred Flowers Award of Popular Film.
Now that he has entered old age, Lu Xiaohe has created a character image that many audiences are familiar with. For example, Dong Zhuo in the new version of "Three Kingdoms" and Li Yapeng's version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" in the Demon Sect Director I Xing, etc., have left a deep impression on the audience.
Nowadays, both the director and the actor in the movie "Hot Love" have aged, and they all choose to return to their families and enjoy the joy of the world.
Although more than 30 years have passed, when revisiting "Hot Love", you can still be touched by the sincere feelings of the movie, which may be the power of the classic movie. (Author: Pippi Shrimp)