In recent days, there have been many things that make people feel depressed.
Under a dynamic posted by Sina Entertainment, a comment read: "The year 2019 will forever record the top of my most hated year", which received more than 140,000 likes, and it is clear that the mood of mourning has spread in the hearts of many people.
Indeed, it is close to the end of the year, everyone is under great pressure, movies are a good medicine to heal the soul, at this time, it is a wise choice to properly put down the tedious work at hand and go to the theater to see a light and witty movie.
Just on November 29, a highly anticipated absurd comedy is about to be released - "Two Tigers".
After frequently appearing on the hot search list due to trailers and tidbits in the previous month, "Two Tigers" finally revealed its true identity at the Beijing premiere on the 27th. Pigo was also fortunate to participate in the movie, from the perspective of the effect of the movie hall, the 1 and a half hours of the film was full of baggage, and the new combination of Ge You + Qiao Shan also lived up to expectations, combining the character lines and his own acting characteristics to fully interpret the magic of this absurd comedy.
The film tells a special kidnapping case, Ge You's Zhang Chenggong is a successful person, his career is blocked and he wants to commit suicide, but he is kidnapped by the stupid bandit Yu Kaixuan, played by Qiao Shan, these two men born in the year of the tiger are the two tigers in the title, one has no motivation to live, one is infected with poverty, abandoned by his girlfriend.
In the confrontation, the uncaring hostages dominated, "cutting" the ransom from 1 million to 2 million, while also asking the kidnappers to do three things for themselves, and the cowering Yu Kaixuan became a hostage, so that the identity confusion triggered a series of ridiculous stories.
After relying on the rapid fermentation of word-of-mouth in multiple rounds of screenings before the release, "Two Tigers" has a great trend of explosion at the end of the year, but looking closely at the comments of netizens, Pigo found that the audience talked about the most was the director Li Fei.
Two generations of comedians Ge You and Qiao Shan starred, zhao wei fan wei yan ni three powerful actors to help, look at this lineup is to do things. However, when you look at the director column, it is a newcomer director named Li Fei, and "Two Tigers" is only his second work.
I believe that many friends and Pi Ge are surprised, this is clearly a group of kings to assist bronze.
However, as soon as he opened his resume, Pigo couldn't help but sigh that the growth experience of this "bronze" was really unusual.
Li Fei was born in 1978 in a small county town in Changzhi, Shanxi, his father is a literary and artistic youth, his and his brother's names are Li Fei, Li Xin, a non, a heart, just a sad word, the father obviously hopes that the brothers can have the compassion of the literati.
Li Fei did not live up to his father's expectations, and he liked literature and art at a young age, and he was like a family treasure in Wang Shuo's novels and Jiang Wen's films.
After graduating from high school, he went to Changzhi Art College to study fine arts, usually lonely and unbearable, he and a few friends thought of finding some discs to see, but when he arrived, he found that it was "Forrest Gump", "Shawshank Redemption", "Overlord Farewell", etc., several friends were sleepy, Li Fei looked at it with relish, this trouble did not solve his physical loneliness, but became his spiritual food, after graduation, although Li Fei did not engage in film work again, but in the dark he and the film have had an indissoluble relationship.
After entering the workplace, Li Fei went to Beijing to do business, a failure, in 2008 should have been established in the year he carried 100,000 arrears, economic embarrassment to the old father who died of the anniversary of everything from Jane, by the villagers talking nonsense, he and his brother in front of his father's grave hugged the headache and cried.
But it was at this darkest moment that Li Fei exploded into the potential that ordinary people did not have, and began the extremely fast climbing road from the bottom to the peak.
On the one hand, he became a design director at China's largest design company with outstanding talent, and quickly paid off 100,000 debts.
At the same time, he also met Jiang Wen, Wang Shuo and other celebrities through the party "serving tea and pouring water", and then his experience was more bizarre, shopping in Beijing, was found by Ning Hao's team, participated in the recruitment of actors, after layers of screening, he killed to the end, and also met another actor Zhao Bingrui, Zhao is the star of his first movie.
Zhao Bingrui admired Li Fei's writing, recommended him to know Wang Xiaoshuai, Wang Xiaoshuai at the liquor bureau asked Li Fei if he could write a script, Li Fei nodded, he had never written a script, he was stunned that he was halfway out of the house and wrote "Intruder".
Later, after accumulating a certain network in the film and television industry, Li Fei became a director and filmed his debut film "Destiny Express" with his friends in 2014.
This movie almost made him ruined, the most difficult time he only had less than 6000 left on him, after the film was filmed, it was no one at the beginning, but it was precisely the most critical time that they received the shortlisting notice of the FIRST Film Festival, the chairman of that session was Jiang Wen, the judges had Yan Geling, and Li Fei was appreciated by the two at the time of difficulty.
Yan Geling recommended him to sign a contract with the company, solving his urgent needs, and Jiang Wen directly included him in his subordinates to participate in the creation of "Evil Does Not Pressure The Right", Li Fei really took off, before the release of "Destiny Express" last year, Jiang Wen personally praised: "This is the most energetic movie I have seen in recent years." ”
Destiny Express received four nominations at the FIRST Youth Film Festival, a best actor award, and Li Fei became famous for a while.
If Destiny Express is just his little test, then "Two Tigers" is his real accumulation.
Looking back at Li Fei's experience, every time in a crisis, he can always meet the promotion of big people in the circle, and then start again, in the final analysis, he has the most attractive point: talent.
Take "Two Tigers", for example, after Zhao Wei got Li Fei's script, she only read it for more than an hour, and then called and expressed her willingness to do it with Li Fei. Ge You also praised the script after seeing it, and invited Li Fei to meet and talk in detail, and another lead actor, Fan Wei, also praised that the lines were not redundant. The three big coffees only read the script to recognize Li Fei, that is, to see Li Fei's talent overflowing with words.
As an ordinary audience, in fact, from the design of the title alone, we can also taste the unique concept of director Li Fei.
The title that Li Fei insists on using comes from a nursery rhyme that we all sing, but you listen to the lyrics: "It's strange that one has no eyes, one has no tail", and it is full of sadness when you read it carefully, and Li Fei used this as inspiration to create the script, giving this nursery rhyme a new meaning.
In the two protagonists of the film's title, Li Fei also allows us to see the true imprint of our lives in the character stories.
Zhang Chenggong, played by Ge You, has both fame and fortune, but he alone lacks happiness, living in self and suspicion all day long, but he has also experienced his father's love, the shoulders of his comrades-in-arms, and the comfort of love, but at this time, the times have passed, and the regrets again and again make him seem to be able to end up alone for the rest of his life;
Yu Kaixuan, played by Qiao Shan, is an uncompromising social bottom, when he was a child, he had the dream of a poet but suffered from school violence again and again, and when his work was not going well, his girlfriend threw down a sentence of "Wait until you earn 1 million and then marry me" and abandoned him, so Yu Kaixuan took this "blessing" and a set of golf clubs sent by his girlfriend, and decided to do a big ticket.
A rich person who wants to turn back but cannot come back, a talented and motivated person but is forced by life to a dead end, although the difficult characters in these two different classes are intersected by kidnapping, but under the collision of life's frustrated past, it is a wonderful spark, Yu Kaixuan also helped Zhang Chenggong reconcile with his former self when completing 3 things, and Zhang Chenggong also told Yu Kaixuan with a letter that "more and more is getting, but more and more unhappy."
Carefully pondering, behind this kidnapping case, it is actually a "loosening" under self-redemption, which is not only to loosen the binding on the other party, but also to loosen the restraints on themselves, but also to let go of the audience in front of the screen who bear similar pain or regret in laughter.
Of course, in addition to the careful construction of the character plot, we also see the director Li Fei's skill and progress in directing the whole film.
Compared with the debut work, Li Fei has obviously restrained a lot this time, not only focusing on a character line to tell a good story, but also condensing a lot in the design of lines and baggage, and is more comfortable with story choreography and scene control after subtraction.
For example, the first 17 minutes of the film are staged in the abandoned pool of the confined space, but under the confrontation between Ge You and Qiao Shan, not only quickly explain the character and relationship, but also a series of baggage jokes created by the lines are also extended by the characteristics of the characters, natural, continuous, not deliberate, which is extremely rare in today's "funny routine".
And Ge You, Zhao Wei, Fan Wei and other famous actors to help also interpret Li Fei's directing concept more clearly, the actor played by Zhao Wei in the film Zhou Wei originally had two plays before and after the scene, the first paragraph was funny, but after hearing Zhang Chenggong's recent situation, he used a tearful performance to evoke the unnamed pain in the audience's heart, and the contrast and contrast between the two scenes also vividly interpreted the emotional entanglement between her and Zhang Chenggong, and there was no need to use more plot interpretation.
Similarly, the meeting scene between Zhang Chenggong and the blind masseuse played by Fan Wei is also handled very cleverly, in the face of Fan Wei's continuous attacks under the smile on his face, Ge You has never said a word, and the deep relationship between the two is more intriguing.
Of course, in addition to these, there are many wonderful passages in the main film that are worth savoring repeatedly, and Pi Ge does not spoil first, leaving it for everyone to reveal one by one in the theater.
All in all, Pig believes that Li Fei's painstaking new work will be recognized and loved by the public. Whether from the perspective of artistry or closeness to the audience, this extremely stylish film has given too many surprises.
We often say that the core of high-level comedy is often tragedy, a good story can also be like a mirror to let the audience see themselves, the tragic core under the comedy story arrangement is bound to trigger countless audience emotional resonance, "Two Tigers" is so, I believe that after watching the film, more audiences carrying painful memories will be inspired, learn to reconcile with themselves, and it is better to forget each other in the jianghu, as repeatedly mentioned in the film "Life is a word, can pass, the past will become a kind nostalgia."
So friend, when you sink in the sea of sorrow, don't be harsh on why time has not rescued you.
This is an era when even colds have not been cured, and it is only the norm for everyone to be injured, just like butterflies can't fly in the sea, and no one can bear to blame.