For many years, there has not been this, and the whole process of watching the film has always maintained a kind of excitement, in addition to the full and smooth narrative rhythm of the film itself, it is also as if it is to meet again with the friends who grew up in the same lane for many years, and the surprise does not know how to be good.
Nowadays, most domestic films are very much like a group of people in the middle school graduation class taking group photos, and the mainstream class cadres who are mixed in the front row can sit next to the teacher, and the back row stands on a high stool in turn, and can only show their heads, either pretending to be happy and squeezing out laughter, or a serious book, with a vague face. This is the current situation of domestic films, which can not blame them, there are too many rules and regulations, there is no way to come by their own nature, but once they speak in dialect, how to say it, suddenly the faces of the people suddenly added a touch of freshness.
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Speaking of Shanghainese films, there are only three contemporary films in recent decades, 1994's "Stock Madness", 1998's "Sea Flowers", 2016's "Romance of the Demise", but these three can not be completely defined as Shanghainese films, the first starring is Pan Hong, Shanghainese, because this film won the 14th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award, after becoming a personal transformation work, but the other starring Liu Qingyun, is a Hong Konger, saying that Hong Kong and Pu are very difficult, fortunately, there is no hard for him to speak Shanghainese, the two leading actors speak their own dialects Everyone is at peace. The second part, about the late Qing Dynasty, the actors, Liu Jialing is a Suzhou native, Li Jiaxin's mother is a Shanghainese, their Shanghainese is barely able to listen, but Liang Chaowei is a Hong Konger, speaking Shanghainese is simply the scene of the disaster of the line, to the back of the head simply speak Cantonese, everyone was immediately relieved. There is also an actor is the Japanese Haneda Michiko, the whole process is dubbed in Shanghainese, which is not understood, since it can be dubbed why it is so awkward to let others say "pidgin", the speaker is laborious, the listener is embarrassed, the only thing that brings strength is a group act at the beginning, several unnamed supporting roles are all Shanghainese, an old-school Shanghainese language is crisp, especially in Shanghainese guess boxing, the father was this flavor, how many years did not hear; this point later "Romance of the Demise" On the smart and convenient, Ge You and Zhang Ziyi are Beijingers, Yan Ni is Shaanxi people, Asano Tadanobu is also Japanese, only Wang Chuanjun is an authentic Shanghainese, so simply dubbed the whole time, everyone is happy, the soft and sticky Shanghainese dialect sounds, even the gangsters have become kind-eyed and gentle, maybe this is the charm of Shanghainese.
But there is an insurmountable technical problem, that is, there is no way to give a large close-up shot when speaking, even if there is a constant flash of the heart, the actor's performance is greatly discounted, at that time there was only one Wang Chuanjun, with a disdainful shrugging, said a sentence of "small egg", that is called an original, vivid and fragrant.
"Love Myth" should be the first shanghainese Shanghainese film in complete sense, shanghai streets on the ground, old houses in the old lanes; Shanghainese city life, through the chai rice oil and salt can not be erased in the exquisite; starring Xu Zheng, Ma Yili, Zhou Yemang, Ni Hongjie, Wu Mian, Zhang Zhihua are all Shanghainese, the advantages of language are suddenly highlighted, even if mixed with a foreigner, there is a mixed-race little girl, but they are fluent in Shanghainese, there is no sense of violation. The actors are calm in front of the camera, and the camera is finally not timid, able to carefully capture the subtle changes in their expressions during their dialogue, the actors with native speakers have no trace of performance in front of the camera, as if they are them, they are also originally them, and a large section of lao Wu sitting at the table recounts him and Sophia affectionately. Roland's love story, a super long shot recorded Zhou Yemang's textbook-like perfect performance, it was really a thousand hills and valleys turned into clouds and flowing water, and it was amazing to watch. I fully believe that this film will become a seeder and milestone for Shanghainese films.
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Talking about the movie itself, Lao Bai is a middle-aged unmarried man, a middle-aged man in literature and art, teaching middle-aged and elderly people to paint in his own small courtyard, but he even fell asleep watching dramas; at that time, there were three female friends who were relatively close to her: Miss Li, a middle-aged woman who was divorced at the same time, Qingxiu Intellectual, was a bully when she was young, and had monstrous ambitions, but now she was wronged to live in her mother's house with a young daughter and was counted down by her mother every day, Lao Bai was pursuing her, although she once entered Hong Kong by chance, Miss Li was always like a departure There is no further attitude to clarify the relationship between them; Gloria, unrestrained personality, beautiful as a flower, the husband is Taiwanese, has not known where to go, she always boasts that "rich and idle husband disappears", idle and idle with Lao Bai to learn to paint, counted as his student, and Lao Bai described ambiguously; Bei Bei, Lao Bai's wife who has been married for more than twenty years, was divorced because of infidelity, but still in and out of Lao Bai's home, from time to time to show the sovereignty she once had. Three women around a man, plus a small white, lifelong unmarried old Kele Laowu, several people in completely different circumstances, but equally lonely, so in a short period of time interlaced, staged a tragedy and joy of life.
The best thing about this movie is that it tells a Shanghai way of life, just like the old shoemaker who set up a street stall used to drink afternoon tea and eat cheesecake, shoe repair is a means of livelihood, drinking coffee is a way of life, and there is no conflict at all.
Shanghainese are accustomed to saying everything without saying it thoroughly, just like from beginning to end, they didn't say why Miss Li divorced, where Gloria's husband went, and whether Lao Wu really had a relationship with Sophia. Roland had a one-night stand, because you will find that in fact, the truth is not so important to Shanghainese, you say I should be true, you don't say I don't ask, you want to talk and stop, well, don't say it, because I already understand. Several friends in a certain period of time, because of a certain opportunity to know each other, good enough to be willing to confide in each other to share the most unbearable privacy of life, but for a different point of view can kill decisive, ruthless. The city is big, it's easy for you to meet new people, adults are lonely, it's so easy to get close, and because the city is too big, rushing to and from, strange roads are natural.
The name of this movie is "Love Myth", in fact, there is no real talk about love, Miss Li took the portrait painted by Lao Bai and said with emotion: "When I was young, I was the most able to eat this set", Lao Bai said so now? She smiled slightly and replied meaningfully, "What do you say?" When people reach an old age, they do not believe that there will be myths in love, just as they do not believe that they will get extraordinary good luck, and adults seem to be only qualified to contribute a decent life without any romantic color, not to mention that when it comes to remarriage, love is often discarded as the most undesirable and inevitable condition. However, in the film, they still have to try to squeeze out a little bit of extra money in this forced squeeze, which is not only to leave some beautiful visions for everyone watching the film, but also to the optimistic nature of Shanghainese. In love, we still have to believe that there is a myth, what if it is realized?