If Zhang Ailing were still alive, she would have seen "The First Incense" filmed like this...
That bleak mood, probably only Yi Shu saw Guo Caijie's version of "XiBao" comparable.
Zhang Ailing's "Agarwood Crumbs, The First Burning Incense" is her stepping stone in the literary world, writing about "the story of Hong Kong before the war".
Shanghai girl Ge Weilong (Ma Sichun), who went to Hong Kong to attend middle school, came to the mansion in Mid-Levels to visit her rich aunt.
In the original novel, the two meet for the first time, and there are many foreshadowings:
Ge Weilong has been in Hong Kong for two years, and he is still quite unfamiliar with the luxurious residential areas on the top of Hong Kong's hills.
What kind of painting style is the mid-level mansions in Hong Kong?
(This is Lin Qingxia's house)
Because of the novelty and because of the shock, Ge Weilong would willingly stay, and only then did he have the fall behind.
Aunt Mrs. Liang (Yu Feihong) is half to ma Wei, and half to test, to see if this distant relative has the courage and ability.
Ge Weilong seems to be only a promise, but in fact, he has already made up his mind:
Do not return to Shanghai, stay in Hong Kong, find your aunt to sponsor some tuition.
This was originally a fight with Lin Daiyu entering jia mansion.
In the movie, you can only see:
Miss Ma Sichun, with a hard time entering the gate, looked at the east and west with a cute face.
The tone of the film is predestined from the beginning.
Ma Sichun's fatness destroyed Ge Weilong
Ma Sichun plays Ge Weilong, and the biggest slot point is the appearance problem.
What Ge Weilong looks like, Zhang Ailing explained very specifically: her face is a plain and beautiful small convex face, and now, this kind of "puff face" is outdated. Her eyes were long and beautiful, and the deep marks on her eyelids swept straight into her sideburns. Slender nose, small fat mouth.
According to this mold, the most appropriate is the early Liu Yifei, the current spring and summer, or Song Yi.
Which of the pony's eyes is "long and charming"? Obviously, it is "round and blunt".
It is not a sin for ordinary people to be fat.
The role of Ge Weilong is fat.
Mrs. Liang said to her: Your legs are a little too thin, but young girls are always much thinner.
The maid said to her: Look at you, these two weeks have been busy preparing for the big exam, and my face has lost a circle!
Sorry, is it a joke to say "skinny"?
The blue dress that Ge Weilong attended the party was at least 1.5 times the size of her aunt.
Sitting side by side with Qiao Qiqiao (Peng Yuyan), Ma Sichun's shoulders and neck & waist are the same width as the muscle man Peng Yuyan.
This is obviously a blessing full of vitality, and it cannot be a poor student Ge Weilong who has a problem with tuition fees.
From the very beginning, the audience instinctively does not believe it.
Secondly, the acting skills also make people laugh.
The prodigal son Qiao Qiqiao (Peng Yuyan) sits directly next to her in order to hook up with Ge Weilong.
At that time, Ge Weilong had been in Liang Mansion for two months and had received training from his aunt as a celebrity.
As the two of them sat closer, Georgie Joe began to say flirtatious words that made people blush.
Pony Sister moved her ass, a squeamish, a signature "SpongeBob SquarePants smile".
When it is time to be ambiguous, it is not ambiguous, how did you get involved with Georgie Joe, for him to die or live?
The first bed scene between the two is when Georgie Joe climbs over the balcony and climbs into Ge Weilong's bedroom.
It was raining outside, and a wet man came in, and he had an affair with himself... The atmosphere couldn't have been more than enough.
Little Miss Ma threw herself into the bed, motionless, a signature "lips slightly open + eyes confused", finished.
By the time Georgie Qiao issued a "declaration of non-marriage" and said, "I can't marry you, but I can give you happiness", Ma Sichun finally had a large body language.
He grabbed Georgie Joe's collar and placed his head on his chest, his facial features crumpled together.
In the novel "The First Burning Incense", the direction of the heroine Ge Weilong is actually a kind of "sober degeneration".
From the first time she entered liang mansion, she knew that she might not be able to get out.
But at that time, there was still a small pride and a small obsession.
Even if the social arrives late, it will stay up late to read.
I don't want to mess with my aunt's old men, but I want to dress up a little, go to choir, and make friends with college students.
I wanted to stay in Hong Kong because I had a fever in the rain and I wanted to have a "reliable person" during my illness.
Should I continue to associate with Georgie Joe? It was a night of ideological struggle.
Looking at Georgie Joe, she thought "I can make money to support him", my aunt asked her where the money came from, and she opened her mouth: How can I see that I can't make money? I didn't ask Situ Xie (my aunt's old sister-in-law for many years) what he wanted, and he gave me the bracelet.
At this time, I have become a cargo with my aunt all the way, and I know how to calculate men.
But watching Ma Sichun act, it feels like watching someone in a condom.
Her rendition is to skillfully switch between several classic expressions:
In addition to the "SpongeBob SquarePants smile", it is "lips slightly open + eyes are confused".
There is also a trick, "semi-permanent crooked head + dismissive expression".
Used in provocative aunt "your courtship, ridiculous" time.
And after marriage honeymoon, when a person is playing slot machines at a casino.
The performance of the heroines of these romantic dramas has long been outdated.
The more you need emotional tension, the more you feel that she is making trouble again; instead of understanding her downfall and sympathizing with her encounters.
Screenwriter Wang Anyi has a comment: she acted too simple.
Her presentation, to put it bluntly, is the love brain. It's very ungodly, but very ma sichun.
The second generation of stars who grew up in a good environment have three major wishes in life: to write a book, to marry a good person, and to direct a play.
As soon as her love brain is on her head, she can call out in the center of the world "July is Ouhao's";
Everyone shouted and beat the scumbag musician, Ma Si pure iron heart to make a private life with him, others can not pull.
In the movie, it is concocted, repeatedly chanting: I love you so humble, I am so humble, can't you love and love me?
The biggest set of embarrassments is to count the two people who go to the flower market for the New Year after they get married.
The British sailor flirted with the street girl, and by the way, he noticed her and wanted to take her away, and Georgie Jo ran over and grabbed her.
Sister Ma's signature interpretation came again, her eyes were empty, and Youyou said: They are forced, I am voluntary.
The two of them took the car home, and Ge Weilong suddenly began to be 45 ° sad: Today's New Year, can't you tell a lie to deceive me?
Georgie Joe smoked, pretended not to hear, and she came by herself: you don't say, I say! I love you!
I also added: you have no conscience!
Director Xu Anhua, your play is really not specially customized for Ma Sichun???
Qiao Qi Qiao gave Peng Yuyan, and also paid by mistake.
This strong figure, this face that is both man and boy.
Fierce, righteous, right-positioned character, no problem to hand him over.
Even if Xu Anhua used him last time to shoot "When is the Bright Moon", it was also right.
But this time, Georgie Joe, the novel is written like this: under the black pressed eyebrows and eyelashes, the eyes are like the wind blowing through the Waseda field, sometimes revealing the blue light of the water under the rice, flashing, and then darkening.
What he can rely on is the identity of a "second generation", a youthful flesh, a set of tricks to observe the color of the scene and please women.
It looks delicate and fragile, sculptural and beautiful men, but not very brainy.
He is a nameless nobleman, and He is also "small" Mrs. Liang, and the two are actually from similar origins, so they can play together.
At the same time, he was full of hormones and did not have a woman who could not be determined, so he went to liang's house, slept with Ge Weilong here, and spent the night with Wei'er by the way.
The eye that worked with Xiao'er before also had a leg with him.
Now, netizens have simply and rudely summarized him as a "stallion", and I don't know how Peng Yuyan feels?
Supporting roles from aunt to celebrity are stronger than the protagonist
Set off by indisputable peers, Yu Feihong is the least problematic.
Although this smooth and immaculate face is not like the original "white greasy slightly transparent green", there is no purple-black rouge on the lips.
But the phrase in the novel, "The beauty is old, but the eyes are not old", is not it about Yu Feihong Benhong?!
Peng Yuyan was in the same frame as him, and he didn't have a "sense of sister and brother" when he looked at it.
Situ Xie, played by Fan Wei, often sends a diamond bracelet... He must have been voluntary.
And Yu Feihong at least tried to find a way to play the character.
The character of Mrs. Leung is both like a prostitute and a bustard.
She wants to immerse herself in the pleasure of lust, but also has a calculation for every man she fights with.
For Situ Xie, he wanted to take advantage of him and eat him to death, and also arranged for Ge Weilong to continue to maintain a relationship with the old man.
There is also Ge Weilong's male classmate Lu Zhaolin, who entered the Liang Mansion for the first time and was targeted by Mrs. Liang.
Ask the puppy to eat dessert, do not eat it yourself, because you are afraid of getting fat.
Watching people eat and eat, they also said that they wanted to try it.
Then he moved his hands, took a bite of his, and fed him a bite of his own.
Luring the people to the bedroom, Yu Feihong stretched out one leg from the bed, and the slippers that were pulled down were already full of lust.
The supporting characters represented by the aunt are quite remarkable.
Georgie Joe has a half-sister, Zhou Jijie, who is said in the novel to be "one of the best socialites among the younger generations in Hong Kong", with a mix of seven or eight pedigrees from Portugal and Britain to India.
Who else is more suitable than Liang Luoshi, who is of mixed Chinese, British, and Portuguese descent?
Zhou Jijie can dance at the dance party here, and sit in front of the dresser over there and spit with Ge Weilong.
Enter, you can go on stage at any time and show the newly learned dance steps;
Retreat, have a cup of tea with Ge Weilong, you can all pick up the male waiter.
People asked her what she wanted to drink, and she said, "I want you."
Radiant and full of indifference, they say that they have excess hormones, and most men can't cure themselves...
On a pile of people's mahjong tables, the most eye-catching thing is a temperamental sister.
She actually is, White Ice!
Born with a movie face, exquisite facial features & the arrogant temperament of a real celebrity, although only a few minutes of scenes. But I can't forget it after watching it! Netizens spontaneously Amway the most, is also the beauty of white ice.
The two servants of Liang Province, one with a look and one with a wide eye.
The latter is played by Zhang Jianning, who is spicy and brutal, and dares to make a fuss with Mrs. Liang.
Picking out one at random is much better than the heroine of painful youth.
From Xu Anhua to find Ma Sichun & Peng Yuyan to star, the title of the play was ridiculed "The First Furnace Steel" and "Peng Yuyan Upside Down and Pulled Down the Willow" began... It makes people feel that something is not good.
Although in this team, all the award-winning professionals can be called a master class. Any combination of two or two is a configuration that can win awards.
However, as the person at the helm, the idea of solving the problem at the beginning was in the opposite direction, which was wrong.
Xu Anhua has already filmed Zhang Ailing's works twice, and both have pounced.
After the filming of "Love in the Fallen City", Xu Dao realized in hindsight: the original war drama and the love drama were incompatible.
In "Half Life", it is the dawn of Mu Ne, and there is also a bit of Shen Shijun's inner taste.
She has always been fast in filmmaking, and has work every year, this time aiming at "The First Burning Incense", the motivation is actually: I have not filmed a love scene, I hope to retire before, come to one.
Romance... Okay, no wonder Zhang Ailing's proud "desolation" was not seen at all, and the sense of pain and youth was full of vision.
Screenwriter Wang Anyi, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, had previously written "Wind and Moon" for Chen Kaige, and many years later complained in her "Bright Stars Tonight": It is really an unfortunate thing for people like Chen Kaige who have too many thoughts and emotions to be fascinated by movies.
She gave Xu Anhua a screenwriter because the two collaborated on the stage play of "The Golden Lock", and they had a very good impression, and this time they came to give Xu Anhua a favor.
In the interview of "Southern Weekend", Wang Anyi directly said: This time I am afraid it must be a somewhat "contrived" movie.
The screenwriters all feel contrived, and the audience will only feel more when they see it, it is really contrived to open the door for contrivance - contrivance has arrived home.
Zhang Ailing's own cold alienation, the world is insightful, or gorgeous and desolate... Under their hands, it turned into an unbelievable chicken soup story.
Wang Anyi began writing the script in early July 2018, and it took a month to write it in August; Xu Anhua started up in May 2019 and finished shooting in early August, less than 80 days.
They are full of confidence in their understanding of Zhang Ailing, isn't it a contrived love film?
He also selected the famous Zhen Wenqing + pseudo-Zhang Mi Ma Sichun, and several people together recited this sutra.
What's more, Xu Dao also has an inextricable friendship with Ma Sichun's aunt Jiang Wenli for many years.
The actors and screenwriters are all acquaintances, even if they perceive that something is wrong, play a haha, and it will pass.
You get a little wrong, I get a little wrong, and in the end you get it all right, and you can only rely on chicken soup to suck up a wave of fans who don't know the truth.
This movie is like, Xu Dao cooks at home and invites guests, obviously has flower glue, Yaozhu in his hand, and seafood... They were all the best ingredients, and finally she took it to make a four-different, spicy and hot.