In the early 90s of last century, the wave of going abroad swept the country, and countless Chinese people went abroad with passion, dreaming of breaking out of a career in a foreign country, and going abroad to work for a time became the tide of the times.
At the same time, the film and television circle also blew a hot wind abroad, focusing on the social phenomenon of "going abroad fever" to create literary and artistic works came into being, "Shangdang", "Beijingers in New York" and other film and television works were very popular, and successfully influenced a generation.
The 1992 release of "The Great Satan" is also among them, and the story of Xu Fan and Ge You playing a "temporary couple" warming each other in the film touched countless audiences and became the box office dark horse of the Spring Festival file that year.
01. A temporary couple who stays behind, a lover will eventually become a family member
In the waiting hall of the airport, Gu Yan (Ge You), who has just sent his wife to the plane, meets Lin Zhouyun (Xu Fan), who accidentally miscarried her husband abroad, and the two people know each other, and more than a year later, the two meet again, but the two situations are very different.
Gu Yan, who was far away from his wife, was full of the pain of missing his wife, but Lin Zhouyun was extremely happy to go abroad to reunite with her husband, but Lin Zhouyun did not expect that the procedures for going abroad were heavy and trivial, the visa could not be issued, two years later, Lin Zhouyun still stayed in China.
Chinese New Year's Eve night, Gu Yan came to Lin Zhouyun's home for the Two people to celebrate the New Year together, and agreed to accompany each other every year during the festival, chat for comfort, and the relationship between the two became more and more intimate in getting along day after day.
During the period, Gu Yan continued to entrust the relationship to handle a visa for Lin Zhouyun to go abroad, and the day before Lin Zhouyun went abroad, Gu Yan unexpectedly received a divorce agreement sent by his wife from a Canadian lawyer, and Lin Zhouyun saw that it hurt in his eyes.
The next day, Gu Yan sent Lin Zhouyun to the airport, at the gate, the two of them said goodbye, Lin Zhouyun lied about losing the visa, Gu Yan was busy rummaging, but found the visa in his pocket.
It turned out that Lin Zhouyun did not want to leave Gu Yan and deliberately put it in, and the two people who had already been deeply rooted in love hugged each other tightly.
In the early 1990s, there were very few films telling the emotional story of urban men and women, and "The Great Satan" can be described as a thriving.
The film as a whole is full of bland life texture, there is no fierce contradiction and conflict, but focuses on the emotional life of the small people in the tide of the times, which is easy to trigger the emotional resonance of the audience, which is one of the reasons why the film is widely praised.
02, The North Film Studio recommended Ge You, but let him miss the role of pulling investment
The story of the film is inspired by the story of an overseas Chinese family, when Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong mentioned this story in the creation meeting of the North Film Studio, but no one cared, just laughed.
However, this story was noticed by Cheng Zhigu, the director of the North Film Studio, and with the encouragement of the director, Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong began to write the script.
During the creation of the two people changed their manuscripts several times, when the two took the script to invite the North Film Studio to invest in the shooting, but they were opposed by other leaders of the film studio, because the theme story of "The Great Sathor" was not popular in the market at that time, so no one dared to invest in this film.
Feng Zheng and Feng Zheng were anxious, at this time Feng Xiaogang thought of his good brother Feng Gong, and Feng Xiaogang found Feng Gong and wanted him to find a relationship for him to pull investment.
Sure enough, Feng Gong, who was already famous at that time, pulled investors for Feng Xiaogang, and in order to express his gratitude, Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong decided to let Feng Gong play The male number one Gu Yan in the movie.
With investors and actors, the film is about to be filmed, but at this time, the Beijing Film Studio found Feng Xiaogang and said that he wanted to participate in the investment, and proposed to let Ge You play.
This made Feng Xiaogang and others make difficulties, on the one hand is their own good brother, on the other hand is the well-funded North Film Studio, after several trade-offs, Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong still chose the North Film Studio.
Because at that time, the North Film Studio had a professional production team and equipment, which was indeed the best choice for the film itself, and Ge You's fame and acting skills were obvious to all, and it was also the best candidate for the male number one.
Making this decision, Feng Xiaogang felt guilty in his heart, so he found Feng Gong to explain the reason to him, and the generous Feng Gong did not blame Feng Xiaogang for this, but in turn persuaded Feng Xiaogang not to feel guilty and shoot the movie well.
With the support and assistance of the North Film Studio, the film was quickly filmed and released on schedule during the Spring Festival, and the film's humorous and funny lines and light and bright but delicate and moving love story were unanimously praised.
03, some actors in the film jumped to the top stars, some people have passed away
The performances of Xu Fan and Ge You in the film are natural and smooth, with tacit understanding, perfectly interpreting the subtle and sincere emotional flow between the male and female protagonists, and the humor cells on Ge You's actors fit perfectly with Feng Xiaogang's comedic style, and finally achieved the movie "Big Satan".
After "The Great Satan", Feng Xiaogang once again invited Ge You to star in another work he wrote, "The Story of the Editorial Department", and then the two began to cooperate for more than ten years.
In the following years, Ge You almost became the standard of Feng Xiaogang's films, and the two cooperated in "Big Shots", "Party A and Party B", "Non-sincere Do Not Disturb", "No Thief in the World", "Mobile Phone", "Private Customization", "Night Feast" and other films.
Whether it is Feng Xiaogang's early New Year comedy film, or the late commercial blockbuster works with serious themes, Ge You's figure, Ge You has become the royal male protagonist of Feng's films, and the film circle even circulates such a sentence: In Feng Xiaogang's films, the heroine of the flowing water, the iron Uncle Ge.
Lin Zhouyun, who is young and beautiful in "The Great Satan", also left a deep impression on the audience, Xu Fan, who played her, was in her early twenties at that time, just graduated from college, the temperament was clear, and the two watery eyes fascinated tens of millions of viewers, and also made Feng Xiaogang fall in love at first sight.
After "The Great Sass", Feng Xiaogang invited Xu Fan to star in many works such as "Party A and Party B", "Not Seen and Not Scattered", and in the continuous cooperation, the two had a secret love affair, and finally came together in 1999 and married.
After marriage, Xu Fan starred in films such as "Tangshan Earthquake", "1942", "Only Yun Knows" directed by her husband Feng Xiaogang, and also won the Huabiao Award, Asian Film Award and other major film festivals, and her acting career blossomed in an all-round way.
And Feng Xiaogang has also successfully transformed with serious theme films such as "The Gathering" and "1942" and has become one of the first-line directors in China.
Today, both of them are old, but they are still active in the film industry, constantly offering good works of superior quality to the audience. The recently released "Everything About My Mother" starring Xu Fan has touched countless audiences.
Compared with Xu Fan, Li Ting, another actress who plays a literary young woman in the film, although there are not many scenes, she has left a deep impression.
Like Xu Fan, Li Ting is from the science class, graduated from the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy, is a classmate of actor Zhang Jiayi, and has participated in TV series such as "The Hero with White Eyebrows", "Foreign Sister", "Western Police", "Hero Without Regrets" and other TV series, and has also been nominated for the Feitian Award for Best Actress.
Unfortunately, in 2012, after starring in the TV series "My French Years", Li Ting died of cancer in Beijing shortly after. It is worth mentioning that she once had a marriage with "Yuanfang" Zhang Zijian.
"The Great Satan" is also 29 years old, and the young actors in the film have long grown into the old drama bones of the showbiz circle, and their works when they were young are not only their youth years, but also accompany our youth. (Author: Pippi Shrimp)