Director: Lou Ye
Screenwriter: Xu Qin
Starring: Wang Zhiwen / Ma Xiaoqing / Jia Hongsheng / Nai An / Wang Xiaoshuai
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Release date: 1995 (Chinese mainland)
Duration: 98 minutes
/ Part 01
"The king of banned films has contributed the best actors and actresses to China"
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There are some movies you might not see for the rest of your life, because—
They are all banned.
Lou Ye has made more than ten films, and about half of them have been released, "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind" has been modified 119 times in three years before being allowed to be released, and "Lyceum Grand Theatre", which is scheduled to be released in 2019, suddenly announced its withdrawal, and was only released in theaters a few days ago.
These works, which are banned or blocked from being released, have left an indelible mark on Lou Ye - "the king of forbidden films".
The more taboo the more you want to spy, it is the itch in people's bones, but many people may not be able to find these films.
Watching Lou Ye's first film was "Suzhou Creek", and Zhou Xun also won the first film queen of his film career with this film - the best actress at the Paris International Film Festival. Seeing Zhou Xun's face in "Suzhou Creek", I believe that there is such a person in the world - as soon as you see him, you want to pour your pockets of stories and fantasies on him.
Such a performer hooks all the expressive desires and imaginations of the storyteller, just as the thunder of the sky hooks the fire of the earth.
From the perspective of private taste, Lou Ye's most commendable contribution is to discover the most attractive actors and actresses for the Chinese film industry, this kind of excavation is not to say that the actors are brought into the industry from newcomers, in fact, before contacting Lou Ye, these actors also have other film and television works, but many people are from Lou Ye's films, and they have begun to fall in love with them.
"Suzhou Creek" not only discovered the heroine Zhou Xun, but also Jia Hongsheng. Jia Hongsheng in "Suzhou Creek", alternative sad, fragile, fragile, the silhouette is good-looking, but the skin is very poor, you can no longer recognize him or is not the handsome boy in the mouth of his classmates, it is not a dispute between bone and skin, but because he has never played himself as a good-looking "person", but you will know that this is a beautiful "role".
Jia Hongsheng and his people may not know much, or maybe more of a label like this, Zhou Xun's ex-boyfriend, addict, psychopath...
In 2010, before he could become an actor known to most people, he jumped from the 14th floor and smashed a Passat in his flesh. I used to imagine that if he continued to be a male performer similar to anyone, but in the end it was fruitless, because after he left for more than a decade, there was no actor of the same type, even if he had a similar temperament. If there is a drama road, perhaps Jia Hongsheng has created a dead end.
Lou Ye and Jia Hongsheng's relationship began when they were students, and both studied at the Central Academy of Drama.
Many years later, Lou Ye wrote in an article remembering Jia Hongsheng: "At that time, I wanted him to become the male protagonist of all my films, and many friends said that I was already in love with him. ”
That night, Lou Ye stared at Jia Hongsheng, who had come to borrow the fire, and invited him to star in his first short film "Headphones". Another cooperation is Lou Ye's first feature film , "Weekend Lover".
The word forbidden film and Lou Ye's initial mutual involvement was not "Suzhou Creek", let alone "Summer Palace", but "Weekend Lover".
"Weekend Lover" is Lou Ye's first independent film, classmate Nai An pulled a Hainan real estate boss invested 800,000, the middle business failed, a film director paid 300,000 out of his own pocket to make up for the hole, Nai An raised 100,000 yuan from home, which was finished.
I like the fundraising case behind "Weekend Lover", and I like the era of the spirit, people love movies and poems so much.
Speaking of creating at that time, it seems that everyone likes to compete with the sun, and Jiang Wen of Beijing said at the beginning of "Sunny Days" that "the sun is too bright, making the eyes black." Lou Ye of Shanghai covers everything with the roar of the red troops at the end of "Weekend Lover": "The sun shines in the sky, and my eyes are dark." ”
In fact, it is not Jiang Wen and Lou Ye who are fighting with the sun, it is all young people who are fighting with the sun.
"In those days, I've been through things that every young person has experienced, and I always felt that no one would really understand these things that belong to our young people." This is the narration of Li Xin in the movie, a young man, who is so ignorant of the sky and the thickness of the earth, always carrying the strong daylight to emit the darkest moans.
The story of Weekend Lover is simple. Assi and Li Xin are a pair of "weekend lovers", and every weekend when their parents are not at home, they will have a happy meeting at Li Xin's house, until this secret date is denounced by a classmate, and in a fit of anger, Assi accidentally kills this person.
A few years later, Assi, who was released from prison, discovered that Li Xin had a new boyfriend. Since then, Assi has haunted the couple like a ghost. He directly found the boy named Lala to beat and intimidate him, threatening him to leave Li Xin. On the other hand, Assi is also using Lara to threaten Li Xin, and in the final battle, Assi dies under Lara's knife. Li Xin left the city.
"Weekend Lover" is as mediocre as a humble love story in Zhiyin magazine in the 2000s. What makes it special is that it is not about the cruelty of the adult world to youth, but the cruelty of youth to all adults and the whole world.
Li Xin's representative speech in "Weekend Lover" can see this cruelty, "I remember that at that time, I always drank, I always felt that I was the most miserable person in the world, and I blamed society for not understanding us, and then I slowly understood that it was not that society did not understand us, but that we did not understand the society we lived in." "Beauty may never be the best footnote of youth, and the footnote of youth should be narcissism and direct vision of life."
/ Part 02
"Purity and cruelty, sometimes synonymous"
Assi, played by Jia Hongsheng, is the kind of bad teenager who can be seen everywhere in the news society version, the hair in front of his forehead can cover his eyes, he is fierce and fierce, domineering and violent, and he has been in prison for eight years, as if he has not worn away a little anger, but it seems to have been suppressed for too long. A newspaper wrapped in bricks was smashed according to the enemy. That kind of lifeless fierceness, coupled with Jia Hongsheng's melancholy face, is differently romantic and also differently frightening. Eight years is enough to forget a person's face, but Assi not only asks Li Xin not to forget him, but also asks her to wait for him alone.
Li Xin actually understands that this paranoia has little to do with love, if it were not for Assi's imprisonment, they would have dispersed long ago, and an unruly boy like Assi would not have liked her all the time.
Assi is obsessed with sabotaging Li Xin's new relationship, perhaps only because Lala's appearance makes him feel that his toy has been robbed. Vanity, unwillingness, and often such a childish, unspeakable factor, let the teenagers lose their lives, blood splashed onions. In the movie, Assi appears in the background music similar to the roar of war, suggesting that you boy will always be at war, as if he is willing to pay anything.
The opening credits of "Weekend Lover" have two subtitles at each end, and the beginning and end echo are very interesting.
The opening line says, "This film is a true story, and the characters in the story are real, and they used to object to making their story into a movie because they said they weren't like that anymore." ”
At the end of the film, someone said that long after someone saw them in another city, saying that they were all very happy.
Yes, like all those who came over, they denied their past selves and completely forgot the pain of youth and became happy adults.
In the play, Arcee stays in the years of youth forever in the way of death. Outside the play, Jia Hongsheng is moving towards a mature world according to his age, he quit drugs, walked out of a mental hospital, and tried to start his life again.
A ceremony for Jia Hongsheng's rebirth is to choose to participate in his friend Zhang Yang's film "Yesterday", which is based on Jia Hongsheng's own experience and presents the whole process of Jia Hongsheng from drug addiction to drug rehabilitation, from degeneration to perkspiration, which is a bold and very satisfying subject of voyeurism, but Jia Hongsheng was beaten into the land of eternal robbery because of his appearance in this "bravest film". After the release of "Yesterday", Jia Hongsheng's every move was magnified in the public eye, and people rumored that he was crazy, and pulled out his strange behavior and exaggerated it - sometimes hunger strikes, only drinking Coca-Cola, wearing sunglasses at any time... The sincerity of the self-revealing scar did not bring him understanding, but more of a strange look, the label of madman, and addict never left Jia Hongsheng again.
Speculating about what was the last straw that crushed him seemed to have lost its meaning.
I only think of Lou Ye once said to Zhou Xun after filming "Suzhou Creek", we should all thank Jia Hongsheng and thank you for love. Zhou Xun immediately cried.
In fact, I especially understand why Lou Ye said that Jia Hongsheng should be thanked, he is actually grateful not only for Jia Hongsheng, but for all undefended souls.
I remember a Hong Kong band saying something at a concert to the effect that the world is cruel to people with youth, and people with youth are cruel to the world.
At that time, I instantly understood that the first half of the sentence could be used on Jia Hongsheng, but it took about seven years to really understand that what should really be used on Jia Hongsheng should be the second half of the sentence.
I once felt that in addition to Jia Hongsheng, Zhang Zhen was also a rare figure in the Chinese film industry, but Zhang Zhen may still have such an invisible "armor" of the dark surge and the "hidden knife".
And Jia Hongsheng is not defensive, but also has the ability to make the audience undefended.
At present, the vast majority of performances are nothing more than playing which kind of people or several people, beautiful people, domineering people, sinister people, righteous people... But from acting to life, Jia Hongsheng only makes us feel that he is just a person, only he has an undisguised anger and childishness, hating the kind of truth and freshness that cannot expose his blood vessels to the outside of the body.
As Lou Ye said: "He is a person, sometimes charming, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes confused, sometimes strong, sometimes angry, sometimes arrogant, sometimes sinking, sometimes helpless, sometimes desperate." These are the same as all of us. But at the same time, he also used his life to tell us that everyone is different, and everyone has a different grand world in his heart, which is his truth, but also his bravery and excellence. Because of this, he is also freer and happier than those of us who 'turn the corner and want to go to heaven'. ”
In "Yesterday", Jia Hongsheng has a monologue.
"The moment the first note rang in the headphones, I saw the bluest sky in the world, so pure, so cruel, that it made me completely collapse with a single touch."
It's just that he doesn't seem to know that he himself is such a pure and cruel thing.
Youth is also the way jia Hongsheng uses it to make the whole world feel cruel. We have been armed for so many years, we have been disciplined neatly, but when we see this purity, this invincibility, the loss of armor, we see at once all that we have lost.
Jia Hongsheng is a cruel actor, and we should all be grateful for this cruelty.
【Topic of this issue】What is your favorite actor? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.