Recently, "East Fourth Archway East" has been controversial, and it is full of expectations before it starts: "The Big Mansion Gate" director Guo Baochang's new work, starring the film emperor Fu Dalong and the powerful Hao Lei.
But the higher the expectation value, the greater the disappointment, the plot of dog blood, the exaggerated acting skills, even If Fu Dalong and Hao Lei cannot save it.
Fu Dalong has always been recognized as a powerful film emperor in the circle, and his first impression is still that of Li Tengu, the ranger who guards the forest with life and blood in "Tengu".
"Tengu" as a main theme film, released in 2006, adapted from the novel "Murderer", and the novel is based on real events, which is shocking.
The film is a super shocking rural realism work, which won many awards that year, and the Douban score was as high as 8.7 points.
Director Qi Jian used his unique interspersed narrative techniques, as well as the explosive acting skills of the film emperor Fu Dalong and Zhu Yuanyuan after the scene, to create a classic that is difficult to surpass for us.
01, the guardian - the loneliness and tragedy of Li Tengu
This veteran of the field army, just appearing on the scene will make your scalp tingle.
Badly injured and bleeding profusely, a pair of dark eyes stared dead ahead, trying to struggle forward.
Li Tengu, who was lame on one leg during the battle, was assigned to panyuan village as a ranger.
He was thick and stubborn, facing the initial warm hospitality of the villagers, first looking at the shyness of looking east and west, looking at a large number of valuable gifts at night, and feeling that it was difficult to return the favor, and did the registration inventory overnight.
Walking slowly and working hard, the usual Li Tengu could not see the appearance of a half-battle hero.
However, it is such a "nest bag person" who shows the fortitude and self-discipline of the soldiers when they encounter the cold-eyed rebuke of the villagers and the temptation of the interests of the village tyrants.
The village relied on cutting down trees to sell money, and the previous rangers, regardless of the question, all got rich oil and water, and two were promoted to be the station chiefs of the rangers station and the deputy director of the Forestry Bureau.
Not wanting to go with the flow, Li Tiangu has been advising the villagers not to cut down trees, but has been regarded as a public enemy of the whole village.
In the tears of the village bully's bullying, in despair in the addition of the bully's stick, Li Tiangu desperately guarded the mountain forest, sacrificed to become a vegetative person, appearing lonely and tragic.
This stubbornness coincides with the character of actor Fu Dalong.
When filming "Tengu", Fu Dalong's life was tight, carrying more than 200 yuan to Shanxi to audition, the crew proposed to give him an extra salary, and he said" "I really like this role, money, just give a little." "Sent away.
At the beginning, the crew looked for Chen Jianbin as the male lead, but he did not have time, and Jiang Wenli also missed the female lead because of the schedule, and both of them expressed regret.
Fu Dalong, debuted at the age of 8, won the Chinese Film Child Cow Award at the age of 11 with "Young Peng Dehuai", graduated from Nortel at the age of 22 with the first place in the class, and had played with Chen Daoming and Chen Baoguo before this.
Fu Dalong belongs to the talent, appearance, acting skills, professionalism at the same time online ace actor, it is reasonable to say that he should have been popular, but he prefers to stay away from Vanity Fair and let himself live a very "independent".
Pick scripts, should not be paid, do not take advertisements, and have delivered takeaways and worked as teachers when there is no drama.
After several years of grinding a sword, Fu Dalong's insistence on the identity of the actor finally made the image of Li Tengu a blockbuster, winning three awards including the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor.
02, the evil man, the accomplice - the ferocity of the village bully and the villagers
The three brothers of the Kong family are the most ironic existence in the whole film.
In the remote and poor village, only the Kong family lived in luxurious houses. From the carved dragon stone wall, the car, and the hot pot feast, it can be seen that their family's life is very luxurious.
As the saying goes, trees make a big move. The Kong family, who had been received by the leaders, not only was not jealous of the neighbors, but even the village chief had to bow his knees and smile.
In several scenes in the film, the Kong family is in a condescending position overlooking what happened in the village.
All this implies that the rich entrepreneurs in the village are a vicious force that runs amok.
The tragedy of Li Tiangu was also caused by the conspiracy of the Kong family.
Kong Yinlong and Kong Yulong's invitation to cooperate was rejected by Li Tengu. They then used the name of the contractor to block the only well in the village and cut off the water source of the Tengu family.
In the next step, the Kong family cut off the power supply of the Tengu family in an attempt to force the rangers away.
The owner of the shop, with thick glasses, sat on the ground at the beginning of the price, collected the mineral water, and let the tengu buy high-priced coke and candles day after day.
Seeing that Li Tengu did not yield, the second elder of the Kong family used the water in the middle of the night as bait to trick the tengu's daughter-in-law Peach Blossom into insulting the water room, and then took the opportunity to abduct the son of the tengu, and only sent someone back after dark to show a warning.
The days without water and electricity are not terrible, but the terrible thing is that the villagers who are still warm and polite on the front foot have become "accomplices" under the coercion and inducement of the Kong family.
Therefore, the boss opened his eyes and said nonsense, and when Director Wang investigated the case, he slandered Peach Blossom for taking the initiative to have an affair with others;
Kong Qinghe, a messenger who had been a soldier, lost the iron-blooded justice of the soldiers, seized the letter of help, and almost stabbed the tengu with a knife;
The bullies beat Li Tengu like crazy people, and the others gathered around to watch the hilarity, cold and frightening.
The movie subverts our understanding of the countryside, there is no simple human touch, only the blackened face is exposed one by one, which makes you shocked.
The more indignant and helpless you are, the more you will feel that the characters are too realistic, as if it is Mr. Lu Xun's "world of cannibalism".
03, the drowned - the paralysis of village chiefs and township cadres
It is worth mentioning that the film does not simply criticize good and evil, but portrays the fierce social contradictions and people's inner struggles in the context of the times.
While the villagers hated the evil deeds of the three brothers of the Kong family, they obeyed the dispatches against their will, and they had the dual identity of victims and perpetrators.
Tiger Zi was punished by Kong Laosan for peeing in front of the Three Dragon Monument for standing all night, and since then, when he saw the Kong family, he would urinate and incontinence, and the family could only swallow their anger.
The township government cadres who played cards every day used the lack of cars as an excuse to delay the distribution of support materials to Li Tiangu.
Kong Qinghe, who was also a soldier, once advised Tengu to leave out of goodwill, "How long will the mountain keep you?" "Withdraw, listen to me."
After injuring Tengu, he sat at home drinking alcohol and told the boss that Tengu's intestines had been stabbed out, and when the boss asked who stabbed him, he shouted, "It's me!" ”
The village chief did not dare to administer justice and hid from the tengu in the name of the meeting. Tengu was beaten, and the boss ran to ask what to do, he smoked hard and was silent, until he heard that the village bully had been killed, and finally began to accuse the Kong family of crimes.
For the sake of profit, everyone sank, and the three brothers of the Kong family successfully pulled the villagers of Panyuan Village into a large dye vat they had built.
The village chief once said a sentence: the fish and water conditions of the agriculture and forestry family. In the turbid environment, Li Tengu's fish was doomed to survive.
Among the many supporting roles in "Tengu", Liu Zifeng, who plays the village chief, is a well-known old drama bone.
In 1986, he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for the role of Zhao Shuxin in "The Black Cannon Incident".
Outside the play, Liu Zifeng has a high artistic talent, likes to practice calligraphy and painting, and his skills are quite good.
In 2017, Mr. Lao also co-organized a calligraphy and painting exhibition with Tang Guoqiang, which can be regarded as the predecessor of virtue and art.
04, the only remaining kindness - peach blossoms, children's warmth
Director Wang came to investigate the case, and according to the contents of the diary left by Li Tiangu, when the truth was uncovered step by step, the film could be regarded as having some justice and hope.
But it's easy to miss some of the warm details.
For example, the innocent seedlings, when peach blossoms and Li Tengu are in an awkward situation, the strength to protect their father; the little girl Hui Hui in the village, quietly cares for and helps Li Tiangu's family, all of which are a trace of warmth hidden in the darkness.
There is also the conjugal feelings between Peach Blossom and Li Tengu, which are expressed implicitly and cleverly.
In the film, Peach Blossom is ridiculed by the villagers for being old-fashioned, and Li Tengu often calls her "sister", and when he feels sorry for his daughter-in-law, he will affectionately call her "Huahua".
Peach blossoms have the vulgarity and greed of rural women, and when they see a table of gifts, they smile and close their mouths—if they had come two years earlier, they would have had tvs and refrigerators.
Later, ostracized by the villagers, she scolded the tengu every day for not arguing, but supported her husband's decision with actions, her mouth was cracked, and she insisted on using Coke to make steamed buns, wash her face, and light candles to scold the straw to eat.
When they can't bear it, peach blossoms will also sprinkle, drag the children into the village chief's house, drink water, wash, fight with the village chief's daughter-in-law, vent the resentment in their hearts, and also want to force the village chief to solve her husband's dilemma.
One is a knife mouth tofu heart, one is a bitter self-carrying, and finally Li Tengu lies on the hospital bed, peach blossom rushes into tears, and the love between the husband and wife in distress is heart-wrenching.
Zhu Yuanyuan, the national daughter-in-law, played such an ugly role for the first time, and she is very good at dealing with female images in this special environment.
The heart is a little depressed, and very powerful, and lifelike, can not see the traces of performance.
In "Send You a Little Red Flower", she is the mother of a sick child, and in "My Sister", she is the aunt who sacrificed herself to become a brother from childhood.
In the year of the release of "Tengu", Zhu Yuanyuan was nominated for best actress twice, and also won the "Golden Eagle Award for Audience Favorite Actress Award" with "Home with Nine Phoenixes".
As an "after-the-viewer", Zhu Yuanyuan is like Fu Dalong, who takes care of the child at home after she is pregnant, and will go out to take over the drama when she "can't wait to express it". I hope that Zhu Yuanyuan will have more works in the future.
15 years after the release of "Tengu", director Qi Jian died, Fu Dalong's new drama was ridiculed, and Zhu Yuanyuan climbed the peak of her career again, which could not help but sigh.
From the movie, we can see a lot of things: the complexity of human nature, the living conditions of rural people, the contradictions in social development, the protection of natural ecology, and so on.
Usually watching more superheroes defeat the evil people of the cool movie, opening "Tengu" again is like a cup of bitter spirits, but it will make more life thinking and life feelings gush into the heart. (Author: Yan Xing)