Every New Year's Festival, homecoming reunion is the deepest entanglement of the Chinese on the family, and the "Mama brand chicken soup" and "Daddy's Braised Pork" on the table are the taste of home.
As early as 1994, director Ang Lee dug deep into human nature with the movie "Eating Men and Women", analyzed the Chinese family dinner reunion, and told the entanglement and choice of different members facing family affection and love.
At the beginning of the film, lao Zhu's process of preparing a family banquet makes many "foodies" salivate, fry and cook, stir fry, cook, boil, and steam, and cleanly display each process, no wonder some viewers call "Eating Men and Women" depicting "Chinese families on the tip of the tongue".
The film is also quite distinctive in the choice of actors, accurately conveying the director's intentions, and to this day, "Eating Men and Women" is still a private film for many people.
Coinciding with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Uncle Chai and everyone look back at the front and back of the classic old film, as well as the changes in the actors in the past 27 years.
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12-year-old Ang Lee, for the first time, saw Yi Ping, played by Gui Yalei, in "Smoke and Rain", bright and moving, and decided that she was the "white moonlight" in her heart.
In 1993, Ang Lee became director Li, and when filming "The Wedding Feast", he finally cooperated with the childhood goddess.
Gui Yalei, 49 years old, played the mother of the male protagonist, and the makeup artist pasted the age spots and added two sideburns and white hair.
Seeing this scene, Ang Lee, who has always been gentle, was angry: Playing a mother must be so old?
Later, Gui Yalei deliberately permed her hair, and the image presented in the play was graceful and luxurious, and the temperament was full of points to be the immortal goddess in Li Anxin!
The next year filming "Eating Men and Women", Ang Lee did not hesitate to ask Gui Yalei to play Aunt Liang, and the image was still based on the premise of "beauty", and there were many perms and red lips.
Before shooting, Ang Lee suddenly thought that Aunt Liang's hunan dialect should be quite interesting. Although Gui Yalei was born in Changsha, Hunan Province, it is still difficult to speak her hometown dialect since she left home.
Therefore, she found relatives and neighbors in her hometown, recorded the lines into Hunan dialect, practiced them over and over again, and finally presented them perfectly.
After the screening, Aunt Liang left a deep impression on the audience.
She is sharp and picky, complaining to her loved ones non-stop, twittering, and where she is, it is impossible to be quiet, typical of "social cows with advanced disease".
Gui Yalei's standard Hunan dialect is even more vivid in the interpretation of a "eight mothers" image.
Many viewers said that if they did not look at the list of actors, they did not see that it was Gui Yalei, and had to admire the role shaping ability of the old drama bone.
Inside the play, she is a widow with exaggerated costumes and a lot of whimpering; outside the play, she is a traditional woman who is single-minded in love and teaches her husband and children.
She knew exactly what she wanted, and later Ang Lee invited her to make Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon many times, but she refused to accompany her family.
This year, "Great Song Palace Words" was released, and the 77-year-old Gui Yalei played Empress Xiao, which was very eye-catching, and in addition to filming, she and her wife enjoyed the pastoral life at home.
Beauty is late, but still elegant and calm, clean and self-righteous, and cautious in doing things.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="274" >2, Jinrong-Zhang Aijia</h1>
Gui Yalei is the goddess invited by Li Anxin, and Zhang Aijia's alliance is completely friendship.
At that time, Xu Ligong, a mutual friend of Ang Lee and Zhang Aijia, came forward to meet in a tea room in Taipei, and after a pot of tea, the role was finalized.
There are not many scenes and lines in the play, but every appearance is vaguely implied that what seems to be the neighbor of the Zhu family is actually the "big BOSS" behind it.
Zhang Aijia took this feeling very well, revealing blatantness in a low profile.
Actress Zhang Aijia seems to be very suitable for playing a yearless love affair, and the reason why she can interpret the special love affair well stems from rich emotional experience.
In 1975, Zhang Aijia, who was in the entertainment industry, enthusiastically pursued a popular student, and after being rejected, he turned around and became entangled in the emotional vortex of "music godfather" Liu Jiachang and rock singer Gao Lingfeng.
If you want to love, you can't always get it, but there are always people who come later.
In 1979, 26-year-old Zhang Aijia, despite everyone's opposition, married Liu Youlin, who was 16 years older than himself, and became his second wife.
In the days after marriage, she did not want to spend time in chai rice oil and salt, but had no scruples about starting a career. Zhang Aijia is destined to be a wild horse that can't stop running, from actor to director to producer, excellent work, countless awards, and the men around him have never been less.
From Yang Dechang, who returned from the United States, to Luo Dayou, who used musical notes to confess, to Li Zongsheng, who was up-and-coming, all of this directly "scared off" Liu Youlin, the "main palace" in his family, and in 1985, the two divorced.
Only 5 years later, at the age of 37, she gave birth to a child out of wedlock and married Wang Jingxiong, the "husband of a wife". Zhang Aijia, who is bent on love, will not think that her son Oscar will be kidnapped at the age of 10 and asked for a ransom of 20 million yuan by gangsters.
After 6 days and 6 nights of suffering, the son who was rescued by the police suffered from autism. Zhang Aijia stopped working and accompanied her son wholeheartedly.
In 2003, my son finally spoke: "Thank you Mom! ”
Since then, Zhang Aijia has slowed down and reduced production, and she has become introverted, and the rich emotions in her works have begun to be expressed in a calm and gentle way.
Now, at the age of 68, she is still passionate about creating and inspired, with three new works coming out in 2021. However, she will spend more time with her son growing up and accompanying her family until she is old.
Love seems to be a necessity for Zhang Aijia in the first half of her life, and family affection has become the tone of the second half of her life, jumping around in the world, and the taste of it is only her who understands.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="275" > third, eldest daughter Zhu Jiazhen - Yang Guimei</h1>
Compared with Zhang Aijia's rich life path, the life of Yang Guimei, the eldest daughter Zhu Jiazhen, is somewhat "bleak".
Yang Guimei grew up in an ordinary family, as the eldest in the family, she has a greater sense of responsibility than her younger siblings since she was a child.
From a young age, he began to subsidize and make money, went to the vegetable market to pick bean sprouts in the summer vacation, and went to the factory to paint Santa Claus during the winter vacation, and the money earned, in addition to paying tuition for himself, would be handed over to his mother.
If not, director Ang Lee will choose actors! Yang Guimei's childhood experience coincides with the inner world of the eldest sister Zhu Jiazhen.
Yang Guimei used her action details and micro-expressions to perfectly show the process of Zhu Jiazhen's psychological change.
Before the arrival of love, JiaZhen, whether at home or at school, was always expressionless, with a look of "others are not close to me", which seemed to look down on the world.
After meeting the physical education teacher and receiving frequent love letters, Jia Zhen began to walk with the wind, and her eyes were no longer empty.
Not perishing in silence, erupting in silence, Jia Zhen chose to erupt.
She couldn't wait to sit in the back seat of her husband's motorcycle and "gallop away." How depressed and lonely before, how free to leave, the people who were once sure that they would not leave, but they walked most resolutely.
Yang Guimei starred as Zhu Jiazhen, with ease, from forbearance to outbreak, the action expression is very in place, and her superb acting skills make her more famous, and she is active in major film and television dramas and awards stages.
Later, her mother suddenly suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in bed, and it was the star-studded Yang Guimei who stopped all her work, took care of her mother wholeheartedly, and even broke up with her boyfriend of 20 years.
After that, Yang Guimei closed the door of affection, but properly lived into a light of her own, becoming a "single nobleman" in the world.
Last year, the 61-year-old debuted at the Golden Bell Awards in a black suit, and the photo aura did not lose the small fresh meat.
The years have never defeated the beauty, although there are traces of time gently crossing, but after the faltering, the positive temperament is impossible to depict by the fat powder
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="276" >4, Li Kai-Zhao Wenxuan</h1>
In the film, Zhu Jiazhen's crush Li Kai, who plays Zhao Wenxuan, is not from a science class, and he became the protagonist for the first time.
In 1992, the 32-year-old Zhao Wenxuan just quit his vacant job, by chance, coupled with the ability to speak English, was selected by Ang Lee to play the male lead of "Wedding Feast", the film was a fire, and Zhao Wenxuan also got the opportunity to participate in "Eating Men and Women".
In the play, he plays Li Kai, and the second daughter Zhu Jiaqian, played by Wu Qianlian, is a colleague, with strong work ability and high appearance, which has captured the hearts of a large number of female fans.
Ang Lee opened the door to film and television for Zhao Wenxuan, and it turned out that he was born to act.
After "Wedding Feast" and "Eating Men and Women", with his excellent appearance and epiphany about performance, he cooperated with many famous directors and created many unforgettable characters, including Zhou Ping in "Thunderstorm", Tang Gaozong Li Zhi in "The Secret History of Wu Zetian", and King Chu Wei in "The Legend of Mi Yue"...
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Wenxuan is upright and highly malleable, he has played Dr. Sun Yat-sen five times, gentle and elegant but full of power, which impresses the audience.
Years of cang dog, now 61 years old, he seems to have become an uncle, with a bald head, through the white beard, you can faintly see the handsome appearance of that year.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="277" > fifth, second daughter Zhu Jiaqian-Wu Qianlian</h1>
Jia Qian, who is entangled with Li Kai in the play, has grown into the look that all men like, but there is no perfect love.
Ang Lee is "eccentric" towards Wu Qianlian, which is fully reflected in the portrayal of Jia Qian's role.
The director gave all the beauty to Jia Qian, beautiful looks, good figure, enviable work, good opposite sex, cooking talent and so on.
Wu Qianlian, whose career is in the ascendant, has not lived up to the director's expectations, she has integrated into the role, and the detail of wearing flat shoes is reflected, and the strong woman Qian is essentially a traditional woman who longs for her father's approval.
At first, Ang Lee was firmly opposed to wearing flat shoes, but later he could not compromise with Wu Qianlian, and he did not expect that the effect after the film was good.
In fact, Jia Qian is the person who is most seriously tied up by the original family. She is the most determined, but her heart is the most delicate and sensitive.
All the emotions and delicacies, Wu Qianlian expressed through her eyes.
When Jia Qian proposed to move out at the dinner table, her attitude was not resolute, she had been "peeking" at her father, there was no expected retention, and the disappointment in Jia Qian's eyes poured out.
When she accidentally saw her father go to the cardiology department for examination, Jiaqian's eyes became soft, more painful, guilty, and finally, she finally went into her own kitchen as she wished, cooking food like her father, and the two finally let go at the table.
Jia Qian was the only one who did not want to stay, but eventually stayed.
She is independent and free in making every decision, which is very similar to Wu Qianlian, in the real life, she has always not followed the trend and insisted on her own disposition.
Wu Qianlian has been the eldest sister of the school since she was a child, and it is common to break dance, set up stalls, and fight with boys, but behind the mischief, she has always insisted on a small hobby - watching movies.
Influenced by the film, Wu Qianlian worked hard to be admitted to the art college, and in 1988, she signed a record company, saying that she was signed, but in fact, she only did some primary work such as accompaniment and harmony. But luckily, love is coming.
Wu Qianlian met Yu Zonghua, who was already famous, and the two began a sweet love, and soon, her career also ushered in a shining moment.
In 1990, director Chen Musheng selected Wu Qianlian among thousands of beautiful women and strongly invited her to be the heroine of "Heavenly Love", partnered by Andy Lau, the King of Heaven.
"She is not beautiful, but she has a temperament", after this time, Wu Qianlian became a "male god harvester" with a unique temperament.
The male actors she works with are all top big names, envious of thousands of girls.
However, after the scenery was fully displayed, Wu Qianlian encountered the "Waterloo" of her acting career.
In 1998, Wu Qianlian challenged the little dragon girl of "Divine Eagle Hero", dressed in black, which attracted group ridicule, and was called "the ugliest little dragon girl in history", and the next year, her boyfriend Yu Zonghua also left her.
Disheartened, Wu Qianlian embarked on a journey of healing alone, until she married her boyfriend outside the circle in 2007 and lived an ordinary life as an ordinary person.
Over the years, except for the occasional comeback to shoot one or two plays, she spent most of her time enjoying the quiet years with her family.
She has climbed the "altar", enjoyed thousands of cheers, and has also slipped to the ground and been scolded for her duties, but this is the definition of her by the outside world, for Wu Qianlian, she is just doing what she likes at different times, according to her own heart.
Let the world change, and everyone is spoiled.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="278" >6, father Zhu-Langxiong</h1>
If you say that when choosing other roles, you more or less look at the acting skills, but in Lao Zhu's choice, a large proportion of them rely on "face" to win.
In the film, Lao Zhu, as the core character, strung together the development of the whole family, and his actor Lang Xiong was evaluated by the audience and had a "father's face".
In 1970, Lang Xiong officially became an actor in China Television and began to emerge with the roles in "A Generation of Tyrants" and "Wolf's Tooth Mouth".
The image he plays is mostly tough guy, tough and rough, and others feel "iron bone" when they look at it, but some people see the real delicacy of his heart, this person is Ang Lee.
In 1990, Lang Xiong, who was in Huajia, enjoyed honor and applause, and planned to retire and raise his family.
At this moment, 36-year-old Ang Lee, "lurking" for 6 years, finally won a large prize money by relying on the original script "Pusher".
The film began to be planned, Andre Lee ang looked at Lang Xiong's appearance, he felt that "Uncle Lang's face is a republic of the five ethnic groups", no matter who watched it, he felt that this was a "Chinese father".
In the face of a new director, I did not expect that Lang Xiong, an old artist, readily agreed.
The crew shows the picture of chef Lao Zhu cooking, in fact, in order to achieve better results, the cooking at that time was done by the real kitchen god double.
But the expression of actor Lang Xiong can not be underestimated, he takes a knife to chop meat, the smoothness of holding a roast duck, the quick decision to deal with the crisis of restaurant dishes, and the proper kitchen god upper body, leaving no trace.
Old Zhu was widowed in his early years, and when the child mentioned that Aunt Liang could often chat with his father, Old Zhu retorted for the first time: "Am I so idle?" ”
Uncle Lang has a deep insight into the Chinese father, and he also does not say much, but the tone is stubborn and unchallenged authority, like the father in every Chinese family.
In the choice of feelings, he did not consider Aunt Liang, who was the same age as himself, but fell in love with Aunt Liang's daughter Jinrong, "yearless love" plus old age to get children, so that Lao Zhu's taste felt restored.
Lao Zhu found his love and was reborn, and Lang Xiong, the actor of Lao Zhu, met Ang Lee and opened another life.
After cooperating in the "trilogy", Lang Xiong became a "father professional household" and became a "father template" in the hearts of many audiences. The two achieved success with each other, shared medals, and became very good friends in private.
In 2002, before Uncle Lang died of illness, he specifically instructed him not to tell Ang Lee about the details of his illness and not to delay his work.
On May 2, the 72-year-old Uncle Lang died, and Ang Lee, who learned the news, cried silently on the phone, and he later said in a eulogy: "Uncle Lang is gone, for me personally, it is a disappearance of an era." ”
Lang Xiong has passed away, but the father figure he played has become a classic, and some people call him the "father of Asia" of his generation, which is the highest reward for his half-life interpretation.
"Men and women who eat and drink, the great desire of man to survive.".
Emotions and diet are all necessities of life, Ang Lee uses the lens to interpret, actors express emotions through acting, you and I rely on life to express, all are human nature.
A seemingly ordinary and bland drama film, but it hides the way of life enlightenment, which is probably the reason why it maintains a Douban 9.1 rating and has won countless awards.
The characters in the play have distinct characteristics and strong personality contrasts, each character is like a well-crafted work of art, acting skills and appearance are equally online, skilled and not contrived.
27 years later, look at "Eating Men and Women", the taste is still good, good works, and can stand the test of time.
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