Recently, the entire cast of the movie "Sauce Garden Lane" directed by Chen Kexin is extremely strong, and there are more than 30 actors with names and surnames, heads and faces, if all of them are listed, it is a very considerable long list.
This movie is based on a real case - one of the four strange cases in the Republic of China, "The Case of Killing the Husband in the Sauce Garden", the movie has been filmed and produced, and now it is waiting for a good date to be released.
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Zhan Zhou, a native of Danyang, her original name was Du Chunlan, her parents died when she was a child, she was raised by relatives and changed her name to Zhou Huizhen. Zhou Huizhen has studied, and when she was 9 years old, she was sold to a pawnshop in Shanghai as a girl, and the pawnshop proprietress made her promise to her own guy Ji Zhan Yunying, and Zhou Huizhen married Zhan Yunying at the age of 21. Zhan Yunying is tall and big, and everyone calls him "Zhan Big Guy".
After the young couple got married, they moved to live in Shanghai Sauce Garden Lane. Zhan Zhou has lived a life under the fence since he was a child, and he is very yearning for marriage. In the early days of her marriage, she was very satisfied with her life. However, the good times didn't last long, and Zhan Yunying began to show bad problems, first cheating, then gambling, and often losing all his income.
Then he didn't pay Zhan Zhou's living expenses, and Zhan Zhou's was not allowed to go out to find a job, so Zhan Zhou's often couldn't eat for a week, and he was dizzy from hunger; not only that, whenever Zhan was drunk, he would go home and punch and kick Zhan Zhou, and Zhan Zhou's body was injured. Life is slowly consuming in such suffering.
Silence, silence, if you don't explode in silence, you perish in silence.
Finally one day, after being beaten by a large man again, Zhan Zhou raised a butcher knife at her sleeping husband late at night...... One knife, two knives,...... 16 knives, and finally unloaded the husband into a large piece and put it in a suitcase.
Later, after the crime, Zhan Zhou confessed to his crime.
At that time, some modern writers started from the concept of humanitarianism, believing that Zhan Zhou's was killing people in self-defense, and the crime was not to death, among which the famous female writer Su Qing herself was a divorced woman, and she defended Zhan Zhou's from a woman's point of view:
Only those who are often wronged and embarrassed will always harbor poisonous hatred.
Su Qing not only wrote his own articles, but also deliberately opened a column entitled "Writing on the Murder Case" in the newspaper he edited, calling on people of insight in society to cry out for Zhan Zhou's grievances; Guan Lu also mentioned the following statement in the column "Zhan Zhou's and Pan Jinlian":
Why is there only an adulteress and no adulteress, and if all adulteresses are said to be killable, why should the adulteress not be killed?
It's just a man's double standard.
Later, after various twists and turns, Zhan Zhou's death was changed to a suspended death, and then to a fixed-term imprisonment, and finally lived to the founding of New China, and lived until the 90s of the last century, and died of old age peacefully.
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Hong Kong director Chan Ho-sin is keenly aware of the feminine characteristics of this case: the heroine kills her husband, girls help girls (women help women) and other fashionable themes. And his casting, you have to admire the viciousness of his vision. According to his own disclosure: The casting of the movie not only fits the characteristics of each actor, but also prompts them to step out of their comfort zone in terms of styling and performance. Only in this way can actors better hone their acting skills and grow and progress.
And the most important heroine, Zhang Ziyi, is the most suitable candidate in Chen Kexin's eyes.
Director Chen Da's vision is indeed vicious.
Zhang Ziyi not only agreed to play Zhan Zhou, but also contributed the first wave of popularity of the movie: used the actual divorce to make a wave of free publicity for "Sauce Garden Lane".
At that time, when I saw the news of Zhang Ziyi's divorce, I concluded that it was fake news, but when I saw such a big battle, I still wondered in my heart, Zhang Ziyi would not spend so much money, right: let a fake news ferment on the Internet? Later, when I saw the official announcements issued by Zhang Ziyi and Wang Feng respectively, I reluctantly believed it.
Zhang Ziyi and Wang Feng's divorce will certainly not be fake news.
But I always feel that Zhang Ziyi should not be divorced.
Many people say that Zhang Ziyi's ambition has always been shown on her face, from the moment she entered the Beijing Film Academy, she had a lot of energy, to surpass all her classmates, to live the best, so she tried to act well, and strive to fall in love with the rich;
It doesn't matter, you look at me, I will definitely subdue the prodigal son, let the prodigal son turn back, return to the family, the old lady must live well, better than all of you.
However, if you use too much force, your movements will be easily deformed.
Zhang Ziyi is like this. In the later stage of her marriage to Wang Feng, many people found that Zhang Ziyi was haggard at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Finally, a divorce declaration liberated her, and the bigger news that followed was her role as the heroine of "Sauce Garden Lane" directed by Chen Kexin.
Some people say that Zhang Ziyi learned from the pain and finally had the confidence and courage to kill her husband, and after the divorce, Zhang Ziyi became beautiful again at a speed visible to the naked eye, which is the great effect of "killing her husband".
Now there are still people chattering that after the divorce, Zhang Ziyi and Wang Feng have embarked on different paths, Zhang Ziyi is becoming more and more beautiful and sassy, while Wang Feng is declining day by day and going downhill; it is very similar to the situation of Faye Wong and Li Yapeng after their divorce.
Watching Zhan Zhou's murder of her husband and Zhang Ziyi's performance in "Sauce Garden Lane" always reminds me of a goddess of revenge in an ancient Greek drama - Medea.
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Medea is the heroine of the ancient Greek tragedian Euripides' tragedy "Medea". In the ancient heroic age of Greece, Medea was a descendant of the sun god Helios, and as a princess of the island of Colches, she possessed great magical abilities. When she grows up, she falls madly in love with the hero Iason, who comes to the island of Colkhas in search of the Golden Fleece.
For the sake of Iason, Medea betrayed her father, killed her own brother, used magic to help him obtain the Golden Fleece, and then fled with him on the island of Colcastas.
After returning home with Iason, the two lived a sweet life, Medea gave birth to two sons for her husband, but for the sake of power and status, Iason wanted to marry the princess of Cozhentos for the sake of power and status, and abandoned Medea and the two sons. Medea began her revenge in agony.
She designed a beautiful wedding dress, painted it with poison, offered it to his bride, and then killed her two lovely sons to sever ties with her son once and for all, and then flew away from Cozhentos in the solar dragon car that Apollo had given her.
Similar to the story of "Sauce Garden", this is also a story of revenge, except that Medea kills the bride and her two sons who are empathetic to her husband.
Some will ask Medea why she didn't kill her betrayed husband, but she wanted to kill her own son. That's not knowing the archetype of ancient Greek stories, and if you've read enough Greek stories, you'll understand how powerful a son is to find his father. And Medea killed her son in order to completely sever the relationship between her negative husband and herself.
Write at the end
Zhang Ailing once said: There are many incomplete people in this world, and there are not many people who are outright, and Cao Qiqiao in "The Golden Lock" is counted as one.
But I want to say it here: Medea is one, and one of the earliest to be described. She has a strong psychology and resolute action, in the face of a scumbag, she wants to try to get revenge, and will never let her fate fall into despair and helplessness.
There is no mother who does not love her son, but Medea can ruthlessly kill the son she has worked hard to give birth to and carefully raised, just to take her destiny into her own hands.
In this world, no one can sway my thoughts.
This is how her mental activity should be.
Whether it is Zhan Zhou, who killed her husband in the sauce garden, or Zhang Ziyi, who had the courage to "kill her husband" and divorce, compared with Medea who killed her son in ancient Greek tragedy, there are similarities.
This similarity is that women are not easy to mess with.
Women are a soft and beautiful species that God has brought to this world, they are gentle and generous, but they are also strong and resolute, they choose to marry men and start families, raise children, because of love, but never compromise and blindly tolerate and obey.
Women need to be loved and loved, and they also need to be treated well.