When Rose held a carnival ball, we followed Gu Jiaming back to his home. This is a home that is not only luxurious but also very tasteful, and every detail of the interior decoration is exquisite to the extreme, permeated with the atmosphere of British classical style. Xi Zhongwen, the art director of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", is one of the most talented art directors in the Hong Kong film industry, and he bumped into Chen Kexin, the director of excellence, and the two of them spared no effort to ensure the gorgeousness and perfection of the picture, strict to the point of almost luxury: almost all the oil paintings in Gu Jiaming's home were from the hands of famous artists, and the Pieces of British antique furniture were rented at high prices, and the pieces of marbles on the floor and the precious decorative panels on the walls were genuine, even the curtains, the bed decorations, The extraordinary black quilt has worked hard to create a truly exquisite environment of "golden branches and jade leaves". Of course, Xi Zhongwen's skill is not just to lay out luxurious scenes, and you can look at the rooftop where Jiaming and Rose are sleeping together, not only are they surrounded by green plants, but also are interspersed with altar jars full of folk customs, although the space is small, it is completely exquisite and elegant; of course, you can also pay attention to Gu Jiaming's rise of the naked upper body kneeling next to the jar drumming action, that kind of musical body language is comparable to the classic dance in "Ah Fei Zheng biography".
From beginning to end, the rose floats outside of Jiaming's spiritual world, and she does not understand Jiaming's heart. What can really penetrate the depths of Jiaming's heart is the big brother of the music world, Aruntie, who is full of worldly atmosphere, and Gu Jiaming calls him "Fat Woman" in the film. Zeng Zhiwei, who plays a fat woman, is the producer of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", and there are veritable big bosses in front of and behind the scenes, but there is no boss shelf, as always, I don't mind exaggeration and funny. Exaggerated to exaggerated, fat woman has played an extremely important role in the development of the plot, whether in career, life, or love, this yellow-haired fat man who is neither male nor female, can always get to the point at the critical moment and point to people's hearts. He said, "You are afraid of doing someone else, so you fall in love with someone else." You used to be a sword orchid, and you loved the sword orchid..." He said, "Which one of the music scenes is not held out?" Everyone here is out of tune, you are in the studio one tone at a time to proofread! He said, "It's not him who has the problem, it's you, ask yourself if you're GAY?" ”......
Under the persuasion and encouragement of the fat woman, Gu Jiaming developed new inspiration and was determined to cultivate a special new person. His gaze crossed the many handsome men's photographs and landed on the Sistine zenith paintings that appeared out of nowhere... The appearance of the strong God and the newborn Adam here is really funny, and the mike added after the poster is even more divine; in the hymn of "Hallelujah", Gu Jiaming issued his own "Genesis" declaration: "I am going to 'be' a man, an ordinary man, even if I can't sing, it doesn't matter, because as long as I praise him, I will let thousands of ordinary people know that there is still hope in this world." This is the true music-altar-God-word! ”
The list of screenwriters of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" is very long, and Zhang Guorong and Xu Xu are among them. Wish was once the supervising producer of Lin Yilian, and Had a love story with Lin Yilian, after the breakup, Wish turned to the supervising male singer, and won the popular boy group "Wind and Fire Sea"... This history reminds many people of the relationship between Gu Jiaming and Rose in "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves". In fact, it does not matter whether Wish is "the master's own way" in the film, what is important is that he and Zhang Guorong and other music fans have integrated the rules and allusions of the music world they are familiar with into the movie, making this film depicting the behind-the-scenes story of the music world lively and vivid. The year of the creation of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" was the most fierce year of the four kings in the music world, and their respective fans fought for who was the most powerful and who was the most popular, but behind the scenes, a group of calm musicians only worried about who to choose. In fact, the real king of the music world is Gu Jiaming, is a fat woman, they control the music and control the rules of the game, turning their hands for the clouds to cover the hands for the rain to turn the stones into gold; whether it is roses or Lin Ziying, they are just pawns in their hands. Even Zhang Guorong himself, in his early years, was only an idol manipulated by the record company and even a victim of the struggle between the record companies, allowing him to be popular, he could become popular; if he was not allowed to win the award, he could not get it. As for the transcendent status and autonomy in the later period, it was exchanged for his strength and blood and sweat, "there can be several singers of his level in the music world, but they died young", Li Xiaotian, Xu Yuan, Liang Rongjun and other famous musicians mentioned this matter, all of which sighed.
However, the dream of stardom will always be an irrepressible desire of the general public. The dream of self-realization or the impetuousness of rapid fame fills the hearts of many teenagers, whether they have talents and conditions, no matter how many thorns and blood there are in the road ahead, the former servants are crowded at the gate of the entertainment industry, year after year, year after year. When "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" was released, the plot of selecting rookies in the film seemed to be more exaggerated; looking back now, real life has been more than enough.
In fact, the scenes of several rookie selection competitions in the film are not imagined by the screenwriter, almost all of them have innuendos, if you understand the background of the music scene at that time, the effect is particularly hilarious. The benevolent brother who appeared first was dressed in an Indian salon dress, wearing earrings and nose rings on his face, and his hair and beard were unkempt... Remember the fan group at the beginning of the film, the little girl Feng Baobao shouted "Liang Chaowei's beautiful bottom skirt"? Yes, this shape is imitating Liang Chaowei. Today's Liang Chaowei has become a mature male spokesperson, you may not think that he was once a rebellious young man full of sharpness when he was young, and when he entered the music world, he tried many alternative styles, this style of wearing a skirt and nose rings was too avant-garde visual effects to be too bad, and was once rated as the first of the "worst dresses of the year". The benevolent brother who imitated him not only spoofed his style but also spoofed his songs, the Cantonese version of the film sang "One Heart of Life", the Chinese version sang "A Little Love a Day", and sang In the same tone as the chanting, Liang Chaowei's new songs of the year were sung.
The second ren brother who appeared on the scene imitated Li Keqin, Li Keqin's momentum was approaching the four heavenly kings, the singing strength was even worse, but the typhoon was slightly too stiff, the dance posture was not similar, the film this ren brother first played a set of suspected taijiquan movements and then sang, singing his masterpiece "Red Sun", even this person's hairstyle is a clone of Li Keqin.
The third one who appeared was even more hilarious, this is Zhang Guorong making fun of himself. In the Chinese version, this person sang "I am a little bird", in fact, in the original Cantonese version, he sang Zhang Guorong's famous song "Ador". In 1989, Zhang Guorong sang this song in a white shirt at the farewell concert, followed by another song "Thinking of You", slowly removing the white shirt... No one has ever dared to remove their shirts in public on the stage before, and for a time the whole Red Pavilion was full of enthusiasm, but whether at that time or in the future, whether it was the audience or the media, mentioning this scene was all relished, there was no bad comment, no wonder Zhang Guorong himself also had a little pride: "Sexy and pornography are only a line apart..." With the benevolent brother in "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" as a reference, it is easy to understand his words.
The next few who appeared, one who sang "Forget Him" was imitating Jacky Cheung, you go to listen to jacky Cheung's original version to know why it is funny; one who performed the mime was imitating Dawn, and even said that he did not make a sound and walked away in the mouth of his companion; the other climbed over to Gu Jiamingtao and sang the song "Better to Start Over" written by Wish to Lin Yilian. Gu Jiaming's "ding-ding" bell in his hand always occupies an important position in the selection of singers, and this road is closed under a "ding", and the conversation of "Tonight Is Not Defensive" said that "only singing six or seven sentences will 'ding' me" refers to it... There are also small tidbits in this section when filming: when the reporter visited the class, the new shot began to shoot, and he was surprised to find that Zhang Guorong not only memorized his own line actions, but also remembered the lines and actions of everyone in the audience, and even the key that interviewed the singer who sang in the previous shot remembered accurately, in order to maintain the coherence of the shot, personally demonstrated to the actor!
Sometimes when I think about it, I really don't know at what time Zhang Guorong's homework was done. During the filming process of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", Zhang Guorong could only sleep for two or three hours a day, because the schedule of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" was repeatedly adjusted, and as a result, he collided with another film" "Splendid Future", and he was always unwilling to open two sets of scenes at the same time to seek perfect quality, and in these days, he had to make an exception, running to Chen Kexin to do Gu Jiaming during the day and To Chen Jiashang to do Lin Chaorong at night. Who is Lin Chaorong? Find "Splendid Future" and see. It is hard to imagine that these two roles are played by the same person at the same time, and the title used in the media report "Splendid Future" is "Zhang Guorong Tianxian is paralyzed", which is used to describe the gap between Gu Jiaming and Lin Chaorong, which is really appropriate. However, Zhang Guorong himself did not feel that this schizophrenic interpretation method was difficult, but said with great interest: "It is a rotten paralysis, it is good to be addicted!" ”
Lin Ziying suddenly had a whim, to dress up as a man to take the test, to be the guardian angel of "Jiaming and Rose", and the fisherman helped her to help her, and bothered to make her more like a man. The identity of this fisherman is slightly strange: he is under the same roof as Lin Ziying, and he knows each other intimately, but he is not a brother and sister or a lover, and he looks like a pair of shared partners. The fisherman's position in the film is not very important, the role is not much, almost not even a close-up, but Chen Xiaochun still won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer with his unique performance. Chen Xiaochun was born as a dancer in his early years (in 1989, Zhang Guorong's MTV "Side", Zhang Guorong's back a group of jumping and jumping flying drivers, you can see Chen Xiaochun's face), and later made a wish to form the "Wind and Fire Sea" group, absorbing him as a singer. This small side of the "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" was originally a cameo nature, but it was unexpected, but it was a blockbuster, and since then the star journey has been smooth, and the role of the pheasant in the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" series is a well-known classic role.
The actor who took off from "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" is not only Chen Xiaochun: Luo Jiaying, who plays the girlish singer Joseph, was originally a famous Cantonese singer, and also got involved in the film world because of his cameo, "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" is his first time to play a funny role, and he plays funny in life to achieve amazing results, and then to what extent, almost all comedies in those years have his old man rolling head. Lin Xiaofeng, who plays Gu Jiaming's assistant George, is also a newcomer in the film industry, and you will find that he looks exactly like Lin Haifeng, who was just red at that time, and yes, he is Lin Haifeng's brother. Referring to why "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" invited him to participate, he modestly said: "Everyone thinks that the soft and hard Heavenly Master is very funny... They can't afford to pay the expensive, please a cheap top first. Zheng Danrui, who plays the lover of the fat woman, is an old figure in the entertainment industry, and the film is 100% a friendly performance, and the name and identity of the character are from his old work "Three Heroes of Wind and Dust", which is also produced by UFO.