The only film starring Li Min becomes, the more sad it becomes
Author of this article: Li Xiaotian
A generation of singers Li Min CoCo died suddenly at the age of 48, which is shocking. The reason is depression, and because of suicide, it is even more strangled.
Sri Lankan has passed away, and the best way to commemorate her is to see her works.
As a singer, Li Min CoCo focuses his main energy on singing. Film and television, very little participation, as a movie, only participated in a "Gardenia Blossom" directed by He Jiong, and then starred in a "Self-amusement".
"Gardenia Blossom" is only a cameo, there are very few scenes, and the film is also a bad film, so I won't mention it here.
Here, let's talk about "Self-amusement" starring Li Min.
To be honest, just because Li Min passed away, I can't say in good conscience how good "Self-Amusement" is, as if everyone does not recognize the big beads. In fact, no, "Amusement Yourself" is really a bad film, a very bad kind.
This is also one of the biggest regrets, Li Min only starred in this film, or a bad movie. The only "Gardenia Blossom" starred as a supporting role is also a bad film. The only two appearances are all bad films, which can only prove that Li Min really has no acting ability, and acting more is useless.
Of course, in "Self-Entertainment", Li Min's performance, at least it can be seen that she is trying very hard to perform well, she is not the worst, the real rotten is the male protagonist Zunlong.
Zunlong, who once became famous because of "The Last Emperor", became the light of the Chinese. Once, the script of "Farewell My Concubine" was placed in front of him, and it was a script specially created for him, and it turned out that he asked himself to come to film, but he and his dog had to fly first class. As a result, the director at the time, Xu Feng, was furious, feeling that Zun Long was teasing him, so he rejected him. In the end, the guide tube was changed to Chen Kai singer, and the protagonist was also replaced by Leslie Cheung. And Zun Long turned around and went to play a role similar to Cheng Dieyi's "Butterfly Jun". After coming again, everyone saw that Leslie Cheung was crowned a god, and Zun Long walked down the god platform step by step.
When it came to "Amusing Yourself", it was still his first time filming in the mainland. However, his state was completely gone, and he was clearly tired.
The story of "Amusing Yourself" tells the story of a young man Mi Jihong (Zun Long) in a small mountain village who saw that his favorite girl, Lu Hua (Li Min), liked acting, but had no way out. So, Mi Jihong bought a DV by herself and decided to shoot a martial arts movie called "The Great Hero in Guanzhong" for Lu Hua, and let Lu Hua be the protagonist.
So, he raised the blind date he wanted to participate in, distributed the scene according to the amount of donation, and filmed it in a hurry.
Therefore, this is a movie that tells how to make a movie, similar to "Pancake Man" and "The camera does not stop", the behind-the-scenes story of the filming process.
Zun Long didn't understand China at all, just like an American who first arrived in China, and then the environment around him was completely different, so he was in a state of confusion all day, with a pair of innocent eyes, hyaluronic acid beaten faces stiffly squeezed out some smiles, unfamiliar Chinese, saying some inexplicable things, doing some inexplicable things.
Moreover, at that time, Zun Long was 53 years old, and he was going to play a young man in a mountain village, which was also a role he could not bear. Not everyone is Aamir Khan, 44 years old to play a 20-year-old youth is still in control, both form and god.
The story of this film is actually not a blind shoot, but a true story adaptation, and the prototype played by Zun Long is Zhou Yuanqiang, the head of the cultural station in Jingcheng Town, Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province. Since he is the head of the cultural station, Zhou Yuanqiang pondered not to eat empty pay, so he wanted to get something out. And he also saw that the farmers now have money in their hands, and many people have returned to the gambling table, which arouses his sense of responsibility even more. Therefore, Zhou Yuanqiang thought of making TV series——— let the farmers themselves be actors, act their own lives, and play the people and things around them, they must have a taste when they watch such TV series. Since then, Zhou Yuanqiang has used two DV machines in the cultural station to shoot 23 TV series with 49 episodes in 11 years, creating a miracle that ordinary people dare not imagine, and is known as "the first Chinese peasant DV person". In 23 TV dramas, more than 1,400 farmers participated in the performances, accounting for one-third of the total number of people in the village. It can be said that Zhou Yuanqiang's work has greatly enriched the entertainment life of the villagers and has done a great thing.
It can be said that Zhou Yuanqiang This is a very inspirational positive story.
In reality, a certain sound and a certain hand, there are not many earthy "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", earthy "Journey to the West", small drama bones "Dream of Red Mansions" and so on, and the traffic is quite large. The public's evaluation also tends to be positive, and there is not much cynicism.
What Zhou Yuanqiang did was carried out far between the founding of Shake and Kuai. It can be said that Zhou Yuanqiang is a veteran figure of earthy drama. Much earlier than the Erlonghu universe created by "Siping Youth".
Similar to Zhou Yuanqiang's behavior, Zhao Lanqing, a farmer in Xingyuanpu Village, Lingjing Town, Xuchang County, Henan Province, also played, and he mobilized the villagers to write, direct and act in a movie called "The Devil Enters the Village", creating a precedent for farmers to make their own films. Moreover, Zhao Lanqing was also made into the movie "Not for Joke" by Henan actor Li Yixiang, and it was also made into a trilogy, the second is "It's Just Fun", and the third is called "Not Fun 3". It's just that the trilogy produced by Li Yixiang has too low investment and less impact. Even, an additional 30-episode TV series was filmed. However, the overall impact is not too big, which is a pity.
And "Self-amusement" was released in 2004, with an investment of 20 million, which was already a medium-sized film at that time, and invited Zun Long, Li Min, Xia Yu, Tao Hong to star, all of which were top at that time, which was already quite an influential work.
The whole film takes the form of comedy, and it is a farce, with some spoof meaning, which makes Zhou Yuanqiang extremely dissatisfied. After the film was released, a reporter interviewed Zhou, and he said helplessly: "I am in my 40s this year, I have children, and the description of the film has a bad impact on my local image." ”
Zhou Yuanqiang is a series of works to take on the responsibility of the head of the cultural station, and "Self-amusement" has been changed to a work shot by Mi Jihong, played by Zunlong, who wants to chase the village flowers, which greatly reduces the tone of the film and makes it vulgar.
And Lu Hua, played by Li Min, how beautiful is it, why is it worth Mi Jihong to treat her like this? "Amusing Yourself" is not clear and the language is not clear.
In other words, Li Min also failed to play the character of Luhua.
Li Min, born in Hong Kong and then immigrated to the United States at the age of 9 and grew up there, has become very Westernized in terms of cultural customs and body language, just like Gu Ailing in the eyes of the public. It's just that the blood is connected, everything else has been westernized.
Let her play a mountain girl, how can it be like? It's like no matter how hard Zun Long can't act as a mountain man should be. Li Min is the same, no matter how hard he tries, he can't show the state of a girl in the mountains of Jiangxi.
But from the performance, it can be seen with the naked eye that Li Min is much harder than Zunlong.
Although it is funny, Li Min is really working hard, trying to adapt to the role of Lu Hua in the film in the mode of stage acting sketches.
In the words of idols, it is that although Coco's acting skills are not good, Coco works hard and fights.
There is no credit, there is hard work. From this point of view, Li Min should give a high score.
But film is art, and it is not something that can be recognized by hard work. Art is art, and a bad performance is a bad performance.
It can also be seen that the entire movie of "Self-amusement" is trying to make a good shot, but the initial direction is wrong, and no matter how hard the people on the set try, it is useless.
As a comedy, the comedy of "Self-Amusement" is not strong, and it has a hard feeling. As a motivational film, it is too uninspirational. As a romance film, the whole love story is too watery.
The love between Mi Jihong and Lu Hua lacks a clear clue at all, and there is no inheritance of Kaihe, that is, the man makes movies for the woman, doing everything possible to please the woman, and finally he succeeds and hugs the woman back. A very simple effort has a feeling of reward, simplifying the image of both sides of love, and also simplifying the story, such love can no longer be fake, almost no watchability.
Fortunately, now with the death of Li Min, some viewers have also gone to watch the movie "Self-amusement", and its Douban score has increased from 6.1 points to 6.6 points. Despite the improvement, this sympathy did not make the film fission, still did not reach the qualification line, and still belongs to the category of bad films.
That's it. This is a very poignant result.
People who like Li Min can take a look. Ignoring the characters and acting skills, at least you can see Li Min's very hard work, which can be regarded as seeing another side of Li Min.
Finally, let's end with the last 40-second message to the fans on the eve of Li Min's death. (Source: China Fan Alliance)