Author| Film Lady (Headline Signed Author)
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There are many movies about old Beijing, such as:
"Tea House", "Seongnam Old Things", "Sunny Days", "Old Cannon", etc., each of which is a classic.
And the "Beijing, You Early" that Madame wants to talk about today is relatively "niche", but it is also a rare domestic masterpiece.
Stylistically, it is very similar to "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears", even if it is a documentary.
The film tells the story of a driver on the 99 bus and two conductors.
It reflects the inner struggle of the young post-60s in the early years of reform and opening up when facing the attack of the commodity economy.
As Wang Lang, the conductor in the film, said:
Have you heard that there are now 28 billion yuan households in Beijing?
What an incredible thrill for thousands of ordinary people.
Times have changed, what should people do?
The core of the story is the emotional twists and turns of the heroine Ai Hong, which reveals the ups and downs between people's fate and unwilling desires during the period of social change.
There are also portrayals of the social landscape of the late 80s and early 90s, such as:
Red extra-long belt buses, dilapidated and deep alleys, majestic department stores, the ever-changing Deshengmen bus stop, creaking and loud pigeon whistles, seductive shabu lamb, aluminum lunch boxes and other imagery.
Including the skillful use of popular music like Jia Zhangke, of course, the most frequent is Cui Jian.
To some extent, the image carries a considerable value of historical documents, anthropology, and folklore.
Especially today, 30 years after the release, the rough film sense makes people have the illusion of being in a trance, and the full feelings are not overflowing.
The same is the two words of Beijing, it turns out that its connotation is too different.
This feeling is very similar to the movie itself, and there are too many helplessness and sadness of the changes of the years.
The most touching thing is the change in the lineup of the cast, and the feeling of things being human is too strong.
First of all, let's talk about director Zhang Nunxin, the fourth generation of directors.
In 1962, at the age of 22, she graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.
It was not until 1974 that the 34-year-old "advanced age" went to the Shanghai Film Studio, gave Sang Arc and Xie Jin as assistants, and officially embarked on the road of film.
In 1981, his feature film debut, the sports film Sand Gull, was released.
Won the 2nd Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards Director Special Award.
In 1990, he directed his fourth work "Beijing, You Are Early", the script was written by Tang Danian when he was 22 years old.
Starring Ma Xiaoqing, Wang Quan'an and Jia Hongsheng, three newcomers who have just debuted.
However, it won the Top Ten Chinese Film Award of the Year at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
It was also awarded the 1989-1990 Outstanding Film Award by the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television.
Unfortunately, she only made 6 films and died of cancer at the age of 55.
Zhang Nunxin has always liked to use long shots and depth of field shots to try to directly and deeply touch life.
Advocating documentary aesthetics, and striving for objective restoration, the works have a strong sense of reality.
"Beijing, You Are Early" is the best memory she left us about old Beijing in the 80s and 90s.
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The heroine Ma Xiaoqing was active in the show business circle in the 90s.
But after entering the new millennium, it faded out of the public eye.
She was born in Shanghai in 1968 to a family of intellectuals, and at the age of 11, she was favored by director Xie Jin.
Before graduating from high school, he had made 7 children's films and was a child star with a solid foundation in acting.
In 1986, stubbornly, she was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy despite her family's opposition.
However, in the third year, the decision to withdraw from school was made.
This year, Mi Jiashan of Emei Film Studio asked her to star in "Stubborn Lord", partnering with Zhang Guoguo, Ge You, and Liang Tian.
The wayward Ma Xiaoqing ignored the school's objections and went straight to Beijing to develop her own artistic career.
With the adaptation of Wang Shuo's novel "Stubborn Lord", it was nominated for the best supporting actress at the 1989 Golden Rooster Awards.
The reason why I didn't give her a real hammer was all the work of Mr. Xie Jin! He felt:
After the young actor won the award so early (21 years old), he would only run abroad, such as Chen Chong, SiChengaova and so on.
Until 1997, for Huang Shuqin's "I Also Have a Father", she won the 17th Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress and became the female star of the fire at that time.
At this time, she chose to fade out of the entertainment circle and return to her parents in Shanghai.
In "Beijing, You Are Early", Ma Xiaoqing played Ai Hong, a bus conductor.
Tired of watching the cookie-cutter face in today's film and television dramas, I think her fat baby face full of flesh is too cute.
It is said that due to her lack of "standard", the clothes prepared for her by the crew can only be worn by the supporting character Jiang Shan.
Ai Hong didn't like the bitter, tiring and low-cost ticket selling job at all.
She loves vanity and stupidity, pins her hopes on "men", and always wants to live a good life on the golden phoenix.
She first had a leg with Wang Lang (Jin Tiefeng), another conductor in the same car.
But after the arrival of the new driver Zou Yongqiang, he immediately became close to the family.
The reason is simple, drivers have a better future than conductors!
Master Zou used 50 yuan to buy the clothes she was reluctant to spend money on, and the relationship between the two quickly warmed up.
Wang Lang was panicked in his heart, but what could he do?
He had no ambitions and could not meet Ai Hong's mate selection needs. He once said:
Believe it or not, buddy just loves to sell tickets.
Perhaps it is difficult for people today to understand, how can there be such a stupid hat and unenterprising youth?
In fact, in reality, where are so many people with lofty aspirations and dreams?
In a sense, we even envy Wang Lang because he has a simple attitude towards life and a simple love for his work.
However, the tide of the times is destined to shoot such people to death on the beach of the commodity economy.
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Many people dare not imagine that the person who plays the driver Zou Yongqiang is Actually Wang Quan'an.
They do not believe that the bald director from Yan'an, an old revolutionary area, who is well known to the public for his prostitution arrest and his love history with Zhang Yuqi, is actually "young".
Wang Quan'an in the film is a proper little fresh meat:
The hair is dark and thick, the mustache is sexy and handsome, and there is a kind of childish and cute handsomeness.
Look at his lines in the mall, especially thunderous.
Zou Yongqiang: What is this?
Ai Hong: Beriberi potion.
Zou Yongqiang: Do you have athlete's foot?
Ai Hong: No, my grandfather, my grandfather wanted it.
Zou Yongqiang: My father also has athlete's foot.
Ai Hong: Really? What a coincidence.
Funny, the athlete's foot potion has such functions.
On the one hand, he is an honest and honest family, concentrating on driving buses, and pursuing a stable iron rice bowl for work.
On the one hand, it is a literary youth who loves Razinghu, plays the guitar, and sings rock and roll like a decent.
It was really impossible to connect him with Wang Quan'an in everyone's mind.
Suffice it to say that he could have honorably joined the Association of "Actors Delayed by His Career as a Director" and was successfully elected Secretary-General.
It is said that Wang Quan'an liked to draw since he was a child, and when he was 12 years old, he accepted his parents' arrangement and went out of the campus to work as a dancer in a song and dance troupe.
Began a period of travel between the city and the countryside, incomparably comfortable life.
In the early 1980s, taking advantage of China's opening up to the outside world and the continuous development of various cultural exchange activities, he visited many countries and greatly expanded his artistic horizons.
In 1987, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy.
Before graduating, he became a male in Zhang Nunxin's "Beijing, You Are Early".
It is a pity that this pig-killing knife can carve the trajectory of a person's destiny for whatever it wants.
Later Wang Quan'an everyone knew, the lady did not say much, and continued to talk back to the movie.
Although Master Zou was a driver, when his lavish and spending money (upside down, buying and selling things) appeared, Ai Hong was immediately deeply stimulated.
She desperately wanted to make a lot of money and become a rich man, but she still set her sights on men.
Master Zou, who was honest and honest, was hindered by the face of his father's class and could not open his mouth to resign.
To tell the truth, he attaches great importance to his stable status as a regular worker and is not interested in "going to the sea".
Since he can't give the life that the girl wants, it is only a matter of time before he breaks up.
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At this time, a young cool handsome man who often sat in the 99 bus Chen Mingke appeared.
The name is easily reminiscent of the poet Munk.
He threw himself into his favor, gave her a gold necklace, a tape recorder, and used real materials to pry open the door of love, and the lecherous and handsome style soon conquered Ai Hong.
The domineering president's sense of control, coupled with the gentle and pampered warm male temperament, the handsome died.
The two eat Western food, go to the disco, drink oranges, and go outside to play wildly.
Obviously, the rich and talented rock youth played by Jia Hongsheng has become her happy "terminal station".
When the film was released, many people went to see it for the male actor Jia Hongsheng.
At that time, he had not yet contracted drug addiction, and was a beautiful teenager who was clean and delicate.
Speaking of Jia Hongsheng, it may be strange to the post-90s and post-00s.
He was born in 1967 and was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1985.
He is a classmate of Gong Li, Shi Ke and others, and is a lover with Wu Yujuan, who is also the first to debut at the 85th level of Chinese drama.
In 1990, after filming Li Shaohong's debut film "Silver Snake Murder" and Zhang Nunxin's "Beijing, You Early", he quickly became the most high-profile and most idol young male actor of that era, such as the fake girl killer and the public lover.
There are "Weekend Lover", "Extreme Cold", "Suzhou Creek" and other literary and art masterpieces came out.
However, during the rehearsal of the drama "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" directed by Zhang Yang, he was exposed to marijuana for the first time.
Jia Hongsheng and Wu Yujuan's love affair also had to end, and Wu Yujuan once said bitterly:
Jia Hongsheng is a very personal person, I really like him, in order to persuade him to quit drugs, I even knelt on the ground and begged him, but in the end I had insufficient strength.
Perhaps, no one can really understand the inner world of this Chinese Lennon.
At about 6 p.m. on July 5, 2010, Jia Hongsheng fell to his death in the Anyuan Beili Community in Chaoyang District, Beijing.
10 years on, for the audience who liked him, people will always remember his cool and unstoppable style in the movie.
For example, in this film "Beijing, You Are Early", Jia Hongsheng sang a song by Cui Jian's "False Monk" in the discotheque.
I want to go from south to north, I have to go from white to black, I want people to see me, but I don't know who I am;
If you see that I am a little tired, please pour me a bowl of water, if you are already in love with me, please kiss me on the mouth!
In the dancing of light and shadow in the dim light, it is the free roar of the passion of life, how trendy and handsome.
The sense of devotion and intoxication between the hands and feet is so charming, it is no wonder that Ai Hong will throw herself into his arms.
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It is said that once a woman is moved, she often has no time to take care of him, even if she may only be confused by money, but she is also silly to treat it as love, such as Ai Hong.
When she came to the door after she was pregnant, she realized that:
There is no Chen Mingke, the so-called Singaporean international student in the international student apartment!
At that time, the abortion also required the unit to issue a certificate, fortunately, the friend played by the mature woman Jiang Shan helped her to have an abortion.
Seeing that the woman who once truly loved was bullied by scum, the two ex-boyfriends did not consider the previous suspicions and jointly shot.
They guarded the alley at night, beating Chen Mingke, who dared not be bold.
Then he was put on his shoulder and sent back to his rental house.
In Jiang Wen's words, this is called exquisite! Madame also wants to give these two grandfathers a thumbs up!
At the end of the film, the subtitles show that a year later, Zou Yongqiang and Wang Lang are still driving the bus.
Ai Hong got her wish, married her rock boyfriend Chen Mingke, put on a stall, and became a "fallen grandfather".
This is not only the director's "affirmation" of the material victory concept of love, but also the helpless identification with a certain social phenomenon.
Zhang Nunxin's perspective is very neutral, she did not deliberately criticize anyone, but accurately captured, delicately showing the confused struggle of the four young people.
A bus is like a microcosm of the whole society, writing about the restless breath of the younger generation about love, shouting, longing, and benfu.
They hesitate and wander at the crossroads of their feelings and lives, but they have to make their own choices.
Behind it there is the influence of its own personality, ability factors, and different values, but it also perspectives the ruthless invasion of personal destiny by the changes of the times.
What is different from today is that the Chinese at that time had just faced the influx of money and capital, and many people, like Zou Yongqiang and Wang Lang, were still in a state of wait-and-see and twisting, or they were afraid to do whatever they wanted because of their conscience.
Although they will be knocked down by the mighty times, at least, personality deserves respect.
30 years on, some things have gotten worse.
Some people have been alienated by money to the point of brazenness, otherwise, how can they put forward the advocacy of the bottom line such as eight glory and eight shame?
The only thing that is the same is the lingering anxiety of young people.
PS: There's also a great movie about buses called "Get on the Bus, Let's Go."
Directed by Guan Hu, Huang Bo's debut film, urban version of rural love.
In comparison, it is more rustic, light comedy style, and the sense of the times is also the biggest highlight.
There is also the original Qingdao dialect, madame here together @ to everyone.