Text | Wang Chongyang lp
1991 was the era of Hong Kong films, when the Hong Kong literary and art circles in the festival were full of ups and downs. In the last issue of "Green Snake", I roughly introduced the cultural exchange environment between Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland in that year, because of the environmental restrictions at that time, some works that are more worth watching will wait many years for mainland audiences to taste.
But this does not prevent some of the familiar faces in these works from being familiar to us at that time, such as Maggie Cheung, Wang Zuxian, Lin Qingxia, Zhang Aijia, Zhong Chuhong, Qin Han, Liang Jiahui, Er Zhou cheng, the Four Heavenly Kings and so on. It may just be that because the cultural and entertainment works in the mainland were relatively single, the audience at that time was more willing to choose some happy entertainment film and television themes...
Well, it seems to be similar to now.
In short, a few years later, some people will know that the idols and goddesses who have been chased have also performed some thought-provoking and unpopular works, such as this "Ruan Lingyu", the film director is called Guan Jinpeng, who is also a relatively "niche" character.
In fact, this movie is an "atypical character literary and artistic biopic", why is it said so? Because the filming method is different from any Chinese film I have seen before:
It narrates a story through the dialogue of two characters in time and space and the scene switch, a time and space in old Shanghai, "Ruan Lingyu" in a serious interpretation of the story of grief; a time and space in Hong Kong, the people who play "Ruan Lingyu" are real actors, chatting and communicating, often this side just finished talking about the director said it was time to act, so everyone quickly adjusted the state, from the Hong Kong set "crossing" to Shanghai in the Republic of China.
When I first watched it, I didn't feel so surprised, I just thought it was "fun" and had some appreciation and praise for Guan Jinpeng, and I felt that the director had an idea, "something in my head". Later, after watching "Ruan Lingyu" a few years later, I found that Guan Jinpeng's arrangement was right, the theme of this movie is too sad, if you go all the way to the straight story, the audience may be very depressed after watching it. Even so, the "little friend" who watched with me at that time still cried a lot after the end of the film.
Just because --
Since ancient times, I have been obsessed with empty hatred,
Beautiful people live in the homes of the people.
Today, looking at "Ruan Lingyu" and re-examining Ruan Lingyu, the Republic of China woman, and the people and things around her, and the final tragic ending, even as an old straight man, I have some intolerance in my heart:
How big is this?
However, this kind of thinking always begins to "empathize" with every time you watch a movie, and director Kwan Kam Peng obviously has the sensitivity and delicacy that is common to the characters. As for Ruan Lingyu, one of the four beauties of the Republic of China at that time, she was born into poverty, her mother was a maid, and she followed the young master of the master's family, Zhang Damin (Wu Qihua), at the age of sixteen.
What does a sixteen-year-old girl know? Without a rich material life, it is impossible to resist such a thing as love. Coupled with her own family background, the inferiority mentality has always entangled her all her life, simply put, "lack of love". The so-called late spring night candles, the little girl alone thinking about the window lang. Today's sixteen-year-old child is the same, Huaichun girl met a stupid child, thinking that she could be entrusted for life, who knew that it was a five-"good" (eating, drinking, gambling and smoking) youth.
Then there was a good play of "the towel angry and abandoned the loser", after being introduced to acting, he also became a star, but he was favored by the rich businessman Tang Jishan (Played by Qin Han), which met an "old driver", but the other party was gentle and gentle, and the two people lived together.
The dog's blood is that her previous Zhang Damin's debt has not been eliminated, repeatedly asking her for living expenses, and on the other hand, the "old driver" tasted the beauty and began to be "Aquaman" outside to hook up with other actresses.
Tangled Ruan Lingyu this side to deal with the ex, there is angry at the current, the most ridiculous thing is that these two men have also had a new love, according to the literature of the year, "new huan" actually beat her ...
Unfortunately, later she met the director Cai Chusheng (Played by Liang Jiahui) because of filming, originally thinking that there was a common language to know and love each other, but at that time, her "articles" were flying all over the sky, Cai Chusheng was obviously a person who knew how to write and be polite, and he was also a person who considered his name and identity.
There is no response here, there is a wolf over there.
If a person who lacks love has no love, the world has no more meaning for her.
So the "bell" was dumb and the "jade" was broken.
I've talked so much that I actually summed up the whole story in two sentences.
Only --
The little girl does not know the evil of the heart,
Who expected the student to be a tiger wolf.
On March 7, 1935, Ruan Lingyu and Tang Jishan attended the celebration banquet of the movie "New Woman", and that night she wore her favorite dark green cheongsam, and she was very happy, hugging and kissing everyone. She asked many people at the scene a word:
"Am I a good person?"
Two days in the early morning of the next day, Ruan Lingyu committed suicide by taking sleeping pills.
In the suicide note, "people are fearful" became the inevitable of her death.
There is such a scene in "Ruan Lingyu":
When the storm broke out, Ruan Lingyu was walking on the street, and the three sisters and six wives in the alley next to her pointed at her, and she looked back and stared at each other for a long time. Quiet surroundings. When she turned to leave, the whispers were still there, the right and wrong were still the same...
Ruan Lingyu committed suicide on the day with Tang Jishan, Tang woke up and found that when he woke up, he was not sent to the big hospital for treatment in time, but went to several small clinics, and finally because of the delay in treatment time, Yi finally died.
Those who have the heart to look at the relevant articles about Ruan Lingyu on the Internet can understand some more detailed content, about her story, associative friends may also be surprised to find:
Seemingly different people and things can overlap and repeat themselves for decades.
I don't want to talk about it here, after all, I am engaged in film and television culture, not street gossip. Even if someone like "Zhang Damin" came to me today and said that I wanted to give me someone's "secret news in the boudoir", I didn't have much interest, but the movie "Ruan Lingyu" made me feel very appreciative and its artistry was very strong.
Spreading out the lineup of the film, the actors needless to say, the producers are He Guanchang and Jackie Chan, and the supervising producers are Chen Ziqiang and Xu Xiaoming. Let the insiders lead the filming of a story of insiders, and its significance and depth are naturally worth talking about.
2021 is a year of "star design collapse", all kinds of things that can be thought of are basically inseparable, which is a more embarrassing phenomenon that also needs to be pondered. Of course, I'm not here to educate anyone, and I'm not qualified to educate, just sigh, sigh, sigh? Sighing is ruan Lingyu, the woman's "ugly things" that year, put it in today's view, and it is actually "clean" much.
I don't know whether we "improved" decades later, or whether people decades ago were too "conservative", in addition to leaving 29 films in the nine-year screen career, there is also a suicide note.
At the end of the film, Maggie Cheung painted her makeup and chatted with Qin Han and Liang Jiahui, Guan Jinpeng asked her to prepare to "lie down", and then the "funeral" began, and only then did she say that the laughing people were sad and sad, and the end of the play, the music began.
The ending song is called "Burial of the Heart", also known as "Wild Grass Idle Flowers Peng Chunsheng", the style and lyrics are excellent, imitating the old Shanghai style of the last century, especially a paragraph of "is greedy to rely on, greedy to love, the old fate should be difficult... This head guesses that side is strange, people's words converge into a sea of sorrow, bitter and difficult to endure..." Completely interpreted Ruan Lingyu's tragic life.
The inspiration for this song should come from the movie "Wild Grass Idle Flowers" starring Ruan Lingyu, which tells a love story full of idealism that confronts life:
A music conservatory graduate who refuses to arrange a marriage falls in love with a flower seller (Ruan Lingyu) who has fled to Shanghai from the disaster area, and trains her to become a singer, and the two bravely bear the storms of life together. In this way, the musician Worm gave the song a name, which also has the meaning of "consolation".
Only the way --
What has love been feared since ancient times?
Only words are the most fearsome.
Several actors in "Ruan Lingyu" played more normally, not too brilliant, not too crotch-pulling. Basically, it is decent, and the wonderful thing is the theme of the story, as well as the creativity of director Guan Jinpeng.
In this movie, through the "halftime state" of the actors, we can see the appearance of all the leading actors as "ordinary people" rather than "stars".
These actors in the 1991s were still relatively "tender-faced", and more than a decade later, when Qin Han appeared as a loyal elder in a certain travel show, I happened to revisit this movie again.
Maggie Cheung needless to say, when she starred in this movie, she also happened to fade the girl's youthful years, without small teeth, and her acting skills became more mellow, and the "Green Snake" talked about on Tuesday can prove that what she said is not false.
As for Liang Jiahui, I will not let him go, because yesterday afternoon I thought about talking about "The King of Chess" and The "Comrade Lover" that Luo Dayou was entangled in.
As a result, my brain twitched, and I sent the editor-in-chief six film and television dramas to talk about, and I asked her to flip the cards herself, and pretended to be modest and asked her which one she liked? But at that time, I had a premonition in my heart:
This product is estimated to choose "Ruan Lingyu", and the result is really unfortunate to be guessed by me.
No wonder, girls, always love to see some love and love things, unlike me, just look at a "no code" ...
I'm talking about uncoded horror films, you think?
Originally, I secretly hated that I would have finished writing the manuscript without her, and I had to dig a pit again. But then think about it, if you insist on merging similar items, in fact, "Ruan Lingyu" is also a "horror film"——
A girl, just engaged in some love and love things, met four or six men who did not rely on, and finally the person who created the evil had nothing to do, but she was forced to commit suicide by the words of a group of men and women. Only one sentence is left, "People are fearful."
Isn't that scary enough?
What is even more "terrifying" is that in the film, Maggie Cheung said several times that "I am not sorry to die, but people are afraid of words".
It can be seen that people at that time still valued the word "famous festival" after all.
Therefore, the "flowing" people are the same, and the "buried hearts" are "buried hearts".