Author: Shanjia
It's almost New Year's, so find something light to talk about. When is the easiest? When eating good things, of course. Without effort, there will be two or two more meats on the body, and this efficiency is no one.
Fish, I want it, bear paws, I want to do it, both to maintain a certain figure, but also to satisfy the appetite, what to do? Cold! Revisiting Ang Lee's film "Eating Men and Women" is a good idea to be strong and addicted.
At the beginning of the film, As the former chef of the Yuanshan Hotel, Master Zhu took turns to perform martial arts for the weekend family banquet. Picking up fish, blowing drums of duck, frying and frying, one after another delicious, all in front of the table, it is simply appetizing, almost stretched out a pair of chopsticks to come...
It is this film that let me know that the father in the play is Lang Xiong, known as Uncle Lang, an old Taiwanese drama bone.
01
Lang Xiong, formerly known as Lang Yisan, was born in 1930. His hometown of Suqian, Jiangsu Province, and liu qiangdong, the head of Jingdong.
In 1947, at the age of 17, Lang Xiong went to Taiwan with the army. He first played football in the sports team, and later entered the art team as a drama actor. In the 1950s, Lang Xiong began to appear in TV dramas. Until 1976, with the movie "Wolf's Tooth Mouth", he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and was crowned a god in World War I.
Ang Lee wanted to choose the male protagonist for the film "Pusher", and someone recommended Uncle Lang. This is the most important thing, Li An does not dare to take it lightly, he knows that Uncle Lang's play is good, but he has been living in the United States for more than ten years, has not returned to Taiwan, and does not know what Uncle Lang looks like now.
Until the last meeting, Li An felt that Uncle Lang's posture and stature were OK, so it was finalized. At that time, Uncle Lang was already the year of Hua Jia.
To this end, Uncle Lang practiced tai chi for two months with The Taiwanese taijiquan connoisseur Li Fengzhang before going to the United States for the role of "Pushing Hand". In a jargon, in order to eat through the characters, Uncle Lang is going deep into life and experiencing life.
"Push Hand" is a piece, in Ang Lee's view, popular warmth, laying the foundation for his popularity and film edge. And the role of Lao Zhu (yes, it is surnamed Zhu, also surnamed Zhu in "Eating Men and Women"), with the attitude of "nothing, nothing", has won the sympathy and resonance of many people, and also perceives a smell and feeling of the father.
With the film "Push hand", Uncle Lang won the Golden Horse Film Emperor and the Best Actor Award.
02
Next, Ang Lee's second work, "The Wedding Feast",
In the film, some details are the real experience of director Ang Lee, such as the notarized marriage of the New York City government, the drunken tricks at the wedding, the father's words, and the mother's sad and happy. It is conceivable that when Ang Lee chose to play the actor of his father, he must have integrated his own sense of truth.
Uncle Lang was the old father who was the one who did not give in, and the former army teacher.
When the hotel owner Lao Chen, after helping the old chief to finish his son's wedding feast, stood at the elevator entrance to send a gift, the old chief wanted to shake hands with old Chen, and old Chen did not dare. The old chief silently took up the hands of his subordinates, unable to let go of his body to thank him, only to pat Old Chen's hand, everything was in silence.
That kind of measure and in place, Uncle Lang is extremely layered and meticulous.
In the film, some of the dialogue is the original words of Ang Lee's own old father. But for some of the scenes in the film, Father Lee seems to be indifferent, and Ang Lee also believes that this is his wishful thinking.
Unexpectedly, it was not until September 2001 that Father Li bluntly said in an interview: "I am like an old father with his hands held high in the last scene of "The Wedding Banquet"!" ”
Uncle Lang's hands are held high, and this seemingly unintentional, simple and intentional action carries the mentality of the old father in the film, "Forget it, the children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren".
Yes, Uncle Lang made a new contribution and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.
03
Ang Lee's first two works, "Push hand" and "Wedding Feast", are about the relationship between father and son, and both are scripts that are released to see who is suitable to act, and who will act. Waiting for "Eating Men and Women", Ang Lee is completely Uncle Lang's type to design the play.
As an old father who has done a good job in the play, he is helpless in the face of his three daughters and a messy home. Until he found the bride and had a new home, Fang once again found his long-lost sense of taste...
In Uncle Lang, Ang Lee found all the needs of this image, so that he often said that Uncle Lang's face was a republic of five ethnic groups, no matter which ethnic group, even Japan, South Korea, New Malaysia, Asians and Westerners saw his face and felt that he looked like a Chinese father.
Think about it, in the indoor drama "My Family I Love", The old father and Comrade Fu played by Wen Xingyu are typical of the image of old cadres, unique to the mainland, and really cannot talk about the republic of the five ethnic groups. And Uncle Lang is like a walking Chinese father, like a USB stick, plugged into any computer, free to run, compatibility is too strong.
Ang Lee sighed that if I hadn't met Uncle Lang's father face of the "Republic of the Five Nationalities" and met an actor with such a temperament, the father image in my mind might not have been expressed; if Uncle Lang hadn't met my movie, he might not have been able to play that smell.
It can be seen that the encounter between Uncle Lang and Ang Lee is like a fate, but also like a mission.
Every New Year's Day, Uncle Lang will always receive a call from Ang Lee to say hello to him, and the two have a tacit understanding.
For after the age of sixty, Mei Kai twice won the Golden Horse Film Emperor, Uncle Lang did not think that he was lucky, only felt that this was an opportunity. Because no matter whether they are in good times or bad, they are moving forward step by step. Only when people are relaxed can they better feel life. And he has long regarded theatrical work as a kind of game and never gives up.
04
In the film "Eating Men and Women", the old father played by Uncle Lang is too depressed and too depressed. In private, Uncle Lang has a lot of words, jokes, heaven and earth, meat and vegetarian, and the father image on the screen is completely different. This contrast is big enough.
At this time, Yefu, a student who thought of Yi Zhongtian, said that when Teacher Yi had dinner with the appreciated students, he was also extremely talkative and witty.
Indeed, between people, there are always magnetic field drops, wine every confidant a thousand cups less, words do not speculate more than half a sentence, understand.
But here in Uncle Lang, a person with a full sense of humor only had a home at the age of 47.
In an interview, Uncle Lang said that he was very affectionate when he was young, but at the age of 27, he was betrayed and the past was like the wind. Until the age of 47, he married Bao Jia.
Speaking of Uncle Lang and Bao Jia, both of them are working in Zhongshi and have long known each other. Bao Jia is a director and is very famous. But it was not until the two were "electrocuted" that they held hands.
Uncle Lang said that since his grandfather's generation, he has believed in Catholicism, and he also believes in it. Whenever suffering and despair are encountered, there is always a glimmer of hope in prayer.
Therefore, before getting married, Uncle Lang also faced the wall and prayed whether he wanted to get married. Because once married, there is no divorce.
After marriage, the two fell in love with each other and had a thousand gold. When filming the film "Push Hand", Uncle Lang did not leave his hand. And he also loves to complain sweetly to his peers, the old woman, the child is small, the wife does not let smoke at home, there is no way. It seems that the kind Uncle Lang at that time understood Versailles.
On May 2, 2002, Uncle Lang died of illness. After Li An heard about it, he called to comfort Lang Tai Bao Jia. After answering the phone, Ang Lee has long been unable to cry and cannot help himself.
In 2004, Ang Lee's father also left. Ang Lee has mixed feelings and sighs——
Uncle Lang is gone, and my father is gone, which is like the end of an era for me.
Just like Ang Lee in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the choice of Zheng Peipei as the villain's blue-eyed fox is a tribute to the martial arts genre, just as Zhu Lin is a tribute to director Hu Jinquan.
And we can choose to revisit "Diet Men and Women", both to greet Uncle Lang's superb cooking skills, but also to our picky taste buds, thank it and our hard work, day after day, year after year, fighting side by side, but must not be greedy Oh ~ ~