What is a classic?
After the baptism of time, it has become more and more charming, and even in the long artistic iteration, it can always be glimpsed.
If you've seen all of Hitchcock's films, then in the midst of the popularity of genre films that are popular with concepts and structures, you'll find that all the jaw-dropping designs are actually not enough.
If you've seen all of Stanley Kubrick's films, you'll find that in this mainstream craze of habitually enforcing metaphors and burying authorial values, you'll find that all the chilling foresight is also a little thin.
There is a saying about how it comes:
It has always been imitated and never surpassed.
Recently, Jia Ling's new film "Hello, Li Huanying" released a trailer and announced the finalization, and this plot of "traveling to the past and watching parental love" has been put on the screen.
From Han Han's "Riding the Wind and Waves" to Jia Ling's "Hello, Li Huanying", this drama genre film has always been the preference of new directors.
Han Han even risks "plagiarism" and wields his pen and ink, and can Jia Ling's new film reach the level of this classic 27 years ago?
- "New Brothers and Brothers".
Let's look at the plot first:
Released in 1993, the film is directed by Chen Kexin and starring Liang Jiahui, Liang Chaowei and Liu Jialing, telling the story of children returning to the past and experiencing youth with their parents.
"All of a sudden, I wanted to get to know my dad again, if only I could see them when they were younger."
Chu Yuan (Liang Chaowei) is a social youth who does not learn and has no skills, who is slippery and quick to make quick profits, and blames his father for his status quo of achieving nothing.
He often thought that if his father was a normal person, he might have gone to Canada to study medicine, and he would not have fallen into this.
Therefore, Chu Yuan has an instinctive revenge psychology towards female doctors, but if he has a good posture, he will definitely go to the third base.
Chu Yuan's father, Chu Fan (Liang Jiahui), is an old stubborn who adheres to the pragmatic spirit of the older generation.
He never complains about the status quo, nor does he know how to seek advantages and avoid harms, often put a sentence "everyone for me, I am for everyone" hanging on his lips, in the face of the troubles of neighbors and villagers, his instinctive reaction always says a sentence "wrapped around me".
When he caught the thief, he felt that he was forced to do so, so he let him go again, and before leaving, he also instructed: "Come to my house when you have difficulties in the future."
His own family is already stretched, but old acquaintances have never refused to borrow money for help.
It is completely an interpretation of strict self-discipline and virtuous rule over the world.
That is, the "rotten good guys" in the modern context.
On this day, the old friend "Lai Account dragon" came to borrow money again, opening his mouth to ask for 150,000, and his father Chu Fan did not hesitate for a moment before agreeing to lend him all his pension.
Chu Yuan was just going home at this time and bumped into this scene.
In the face of this greedy face, Chu Yuan was annoyed, and a few words provoked Lai Toulong, and then the father and son quarreled, and Chu Yuan poured out the resentment of these years.
Complaining that he is difficult to cross others and cross himself, he clearly crosses the river with mud bodhisattvas, but still punches his swollen face and fills himself with fat.
"If Li Ka-shing had a dad like you, I think he would still be making plastic flowers."
In order to help others, families fall apart and life is inactive.
Chu Yuan didn't understand what his father's intentions were, just like he didn't understand the little train he liked when he was a child, and his father preferred to help everyone, but he never helped himself to buy home.
On this day, my father staged another play of the farmer and the snake:
The thief he let go did go to his house, and the next second his father was unconscious because of the head impact and went to the hospital.
Chu Yuan looked at his unconscious father, and the resentment in his heart began to grow again, and he tentatively asked his mother whether he had ever regretted following his father in his life, but his mother said with longing in the face of this problem:
"Actually, you don't know your dad at all."
The doubts buried in his heart grew bigger and bigger, and Chu Yuan began to have a desire to understand his father, and he returned home to open his father's treasure chest and pull out one after another various objects about his father in the dust.
I saw the sign of "Chunfeng Street" and opened the photo of Chunfeng Street.
At night, Chu Yuan wandered in the streets and alleys, and was dragged to a pit where he had made a wish as a child.
He stood by the side of the earth pit and recalled the past, and at this time, when Saturn and the moon met, he saw the thunder between heaven and earth, and with a loud noise, Chu Yuan was accidentally pushed into the earth pit by passers-by.
After Chu Yuan was shocked, everything in front of his eyes changed - he crossed back to his father's "Spring Wind Street" 30 years ago.
Ignoring Chu Yuan's reaction, everything in front of him had already taken turns in turn.
He saw Lai's father "love gambling", he also saw the girl "Violet" who was like a cake print with his girlfriend, and of course, his father Chu Fan, who has now changed from an old man to a strong teenager.
His appearance is very peculiar, in order to save the "love gamble" who jumped off the building, he pushed the cart to rush forward without covering his ears, just like the Olympic athletes breaking the record under the excitement of the audience.
The young father is still the same, the same stubbornness, the same ancient road hot sausage, the same righteousness, the same "rotten good man".
Chu Yuan temporarily lived by his father's side in the name of a distant relative, and witnessed his father helping "love gambling" to pay off his debts and help "Violet" get rid of his adoptive father's clutches.
Of course, there is also the "Li Ka-shing" who makes plastic flowers.
Later, Chu Yuan met his mother, a proper rich man.
Compared with her father, her mother's approach was even more incomprehensible to Chu Yuan: she was obviously a Miss Qianjin, who was originally delicate and expensive, but she was willing to be with her poor father.
"I was born so rich, if I find a rich one again, wouldn't it be a lifetime?"
Later, Chu Yuan helped his father break through the obstacles of his father-in-law (that is, Chu Yuan's grandfather).
In the process of getting along with the villagers, his values have also changed.
In this mimetic space that completely stripped away reality, he witnessed his father still having a childlike heart in the face of misunderstanding and betrayal, and truly felt the warmth of helping each other as if they were themselves when everyone was curled up together in the residential building in that era.
Chu Yuan finally realized his father's life creed:
"Everyone is for me, I am for everyone".
Before, I used to be a sworn enemy with my old bean, but all of a sudden, I felt like I was.... he.
At the end of the movie, Chu Yuan took over his father's banner, helped Love gamble to quit gambling, helped Violet to redeem himself, helped Li Ka-shing point out the direction, and also helped all the villagers find a foothold, and then jumped off the pit again to return to modern times.
After returning, Chu Yuan finally let go of his prejudices against his father, and the two embraced and sang the old song "Tell laura i love her" together.
1，
The film was shot in 1993 by UFO Film Company, which was founded by Zeng Zhiwei and Chen Kexin.
That year was the second year of the "92nd Zhou Xingchi Year", Hong Kong films have been monopolized by this "short and fast" production model, in this high-stimulation and fast digestion of the market boom, Chen Kexin also had to design genre films such as "crossing" in movies.
UFO Films
The facial characters, novel plot settings, and exaggerated performance methods in the film all show a form of "farce", which is enough to show that Chen Kexin is also trying to get closer to the way of "nonsense comedy".
But these are all superficial commercial considerations, and the core is still the humanistic feelings that Chen Kexin is good at.
This also makes the film completely different from the genre films such as "martial arts" and "gunfights" that pursue pleasure at that time, and has room for precipitation.
The use of music is even more divine, and Tchaikovsky's "June Barcarolle Op.37 No.6" is very much in line with the film's cross-over atmosphere, and even continued many years later in Jay Chou's "The Secret That Cannot Be Said".
Therefore, after 27 years of training, the film can still sit on a high score of 8.0 and become a must-see classic for fans.
2.
After watching the plot, I think many readers have a little doubt: it is basically exactly the same as Han Han's second feature-length film "Riding the Wind and Waves" in 2017.
The same travel through time and space, the same witness to parental love, and of course the same father-son reconciliation.
Even "Li Ka-shing" can be compared with "Ma Huateng" played by Dong Zijian, and the main obstacle of the plot also comes from the real estate company, from the script structure to the plot design have reached a surprising similarity.
And this was not a small news in that year.
Many viewers suspected that Han Han had "plagiarized" after watching it, and even some netizens listed the similarities between the two movies, reaching more than 10 articles.
Media websites are also overwhelming, pointing to Han Han.
Of course, this matter did not make a big fuss in the end, after all, the ending subtitles of "Riding the Wind and Waves" clearly expressed a "tribute" to "New Difficult Brothers", which is a greeting.
Director Chen Kexin also stood up shortly after the release of the film, expressed encouragement in dialogue with Han Han, and stepped on the brakes for this plagiarism incident.
However, the phrases used in director Chen Kexin's article, "including our new brothers and sisters" and "people who honestly make movies", are still more intriguing.
(And this article has now been deleted)
And this does not prevent to this day, there are still fans who question Han Han after watching "New Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers", and their doubts about "Riding the Wind and Waves" have not stopped.
The plot of Jia Ling's new film "Hello, Li Huanying" is also almost the same, just gender replacement, and some people have warned about "Riding the Wind and Waves" before it was released.
In the end, how is the finished product, I hope not to disappoint fans.
3.
"New Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers" is about the conflict of values between father and son, but Chen Kexin did not clearly explain an answer in the movie, and made a great blank for the main purpose, which is where Chen Kexin is smart.
This is not only a conflict between two people, but also a conflict between two eras.
Chunfeng Street, where Chu Fan is located, may have just crossed the subsistence line, but the folk customs are simple and sincere, people are twisted into a ball to help each other, the neighborhoods are integrated, and there are many supports for each family.
It is this kind of atmosphere that causes Chu Fan to hang "everyone for me, I am for everyone" on his lips, and has become the driving force of life, and has been adhering to it until the twilight and still not giving up.
With the rapid development of the economy, people's living standards have gradually improved, but the distance has become increasingly distant.
The young people of Hong Kong in the 1990s had long been shattered by the impact of consumerism, and people had been given a rich life, but they had lost that sincerity. Even if this movie is put into the present, its cautionary significance should not be underestimated.
One of the songs that runs through the film is called "Tell Laura I Love Her", which is one of the top ten popular music in the United States in the 60s.
The teenage tragedy song is about a boy named Tommy who is about to marry a girl, Laura, and in order to give the bride a valuable diamond ring, the boy risks an illegal race, and is killed there, leaving him ever since.
Like the lyrics that sing "Tell Laura I love her... My love for her will never die".
Chen Kexin also injected his own remembrance of that past era in the movie, and in the Easter egg at the end of the film, his father Chu Fan crossed back to the modern era and stepped into the modern square with a retro costume, which expressed Chen Kexin's desire for spiritual resurrection.
In today's society, the fallen old man has no one to help, everyone is "Chu Yuan"
But
We don't help the elderly, at least we don't have to point at the nose and scold the "Chu Fan" who support the old man.
Call them stupid.
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