Recently, revisiting the old movie "Pen in Love", I saw a lot of fun, and now some so-called costume dramas cannot be compared with it, and the two are not on a horizontal line at all.
Filmed in 1982, Pen in Love won the Foreign Film Award at the Royan International Film Festival in France in 1983. The male protagonist's name is Zhao Xuzhi, but the name spoken is a word taken from the names of the three major Chinese calligraphers. The word "Zhao" was taken from Zhao Mengfu's name, the word "Xu" was taken from Zhang Xu's name, and the word "Zhi" was taken from Wang Xizhi's name.
Tang monks white dragon horses rarely share the same frame
The whole movie takes the art of calligraphy as a clue, the male and female protagonists know each other because of the word, because of the pen, although the love story is next to the branches, yin and yang, but the two people's love and pursuit of calligraphy art is like the red line of the old moon, and finally binds the couple together.
From the many details of the movie, it can be seen that the back of the era of this story is the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhao Xu's free and casual, extravagant and dashing, and the style of "escaping from death" on the eve of the big wedding coincides with the allusion of Wang Xi's belly and the east bed. In the movie, there are also plots such as washing ink ponds, large white geese, bamboo fan inscriptions, and watching the dancing sword to realize the essence of calligraphy, which can basically be identified as the story of the book Saint Wang Xizhi.
The picture of the movie is absolutely beautiful, the bamboo forest, Qingxi, ancient wood, pavilions, magnificent mountains and rivers presented in the lens, several talented people suddenly splash ink in the middle, suddenly play chess, and suddenly dance swords to travel through the landscape... Wherever they go is where the audience's eyes go. Like a painting of active ink and blue, the ancient rhyme is leisurely, and the fresh Athens is fresh.
The three flowers of Qi Province, Wen Juan, Yu Juan and Xiao Juan, are both talented and beautiful, the eldest miss Wen Juan and Zhao Xu are in love with each other, and Yu Juan and Huan Shu Gongzi Lang are in love with concubines. Xiao Juan and Zhao Xuzhi's younger brother eventually formed a bond.
This movie is full of stars, and the supporting characters are all famous, no wonder the plot does not have too many ups and downs, tearing the heart and lungs, but it is able to withstand people's memories over and over again.
Each character is properly grasped, the interpretation is in place, the costumes and props respect history, and efforts to restore history are also successful.
Film director Yan Bili strives to shoot the original historical appearance when shooting the film, hoping to achieve the same concise and subtle, simple and elegant effect as Wang Shigu's "Wind and Rain Returning to the Boat", so she requires that the scenes, objects and people in the film have distinct characteristics of the times. This is obviously the present person playing the ancients, but the director requires that the actor's performance must also have the charm of "the ancients acting in the ancient drama".
It can be said that this movie does not have a small role, only a group of big actors.
Tai Wei Qi Shen is played by Cheng Zhi: Everyone is more familiar with the Elder Jin Chi he played in CCTV's "Journey to the West", the thief who stole tang monk's baby robes.
Chi Chongrui, the Tang monk in "Journey to the West", played Huan Shu Gongzi in the play, and eventually became a pair of good things with Miss Qi Fu's second miss. "Pen in love" is Chi Chongrui's film and television debut, and I feel that the good boy in the play is even higher than the Tang monk.
With the Tang monks, there must also be a white dragon horse, but the white dragon horse is the male protagonist in the play, born clean and elegant, not only has a bookish atmosphere, but also has a bit of arrogance.
Xiaojuan, the third lady of Qi Fu, is also a beauty, she is Zhu Biyun, the heroine of "Rouge".
Wen Juan's maid is played by Zhang Min, and everyone will not forget the crazy woman Xiuzhen she played in the old affairs of Seongnam.
Huan Shu Gongzi's mother is the eldest princess, and her role is actually Qiang Ying's mother in "XiyingMen", Renwen's brutal mother-in-law. I haven't forgotten the way she hugged her son-in-law's thigh when she was arguing. This place has become a noble and dignified princess. This is the acting skills of the actors. Acting like what!
The croaking bird Jiang Mie in "Xiyingmen" has also changed, and in this movie, she has become an old lady who sells fans.
The hotelier with only a few shots in the film is played by BullBenk. He won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 3rd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema and the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 6th Hundred Flowers Awards in 1983 for his vivid role as the herdsman Guo Koubian (piǎ) in the film "Wrangler".
The stars hold the moon, who is the moon that the stars hold, of course, the heroine Zhao Jing.
There are beautiful people in the north, one look at the city of the people, and then look at the country of the people.
Zhao Jing is the beauty in the play, a beautiful woman, beauty in nature, beauty in that kind of Chinese classical temperament. One hand, one foot, one look, one smile. Timid, solemn and elegant, Zhao Jing wrote well in the play, and she can also play the fence and play the guqin.
That's not acting, that's really going to be. In order to play this role, she had to practice calligraphy for half an hour to an hour every day, and after the filming of this scene, she also insisted on practicing Xiao Kai for a period of time. In addition, because the footage of the piano in the film needs to be filmed by herself, she also learned a lot of guqin knowledge, and her fingering is completely accurate when shooting.
The male protagonist Wang Bozhao said: I am practicing hanging wrists while filming. There is a scene in the film where Zhao Xuzhi swipes a large pen and writes the word "flying", because it cannot be replaced by stunts, these two words were finally written by me personally.
That's why classic old movies can't be surpassed.
The costume styling of the film can also be remarkable.
The same is combing the high bun, looking at the three young ladies of qi province, and then looking at the sewing machine on guan Xiaotong's head in "Phoenix Prisoner Phoenix", it is simply an instant slag.
Don't be afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of the goods
Cai Yulian, the makeup artist of "Pen in Love", once introduced in an interview that year: "The background of the era reflected in "Pen in Love" is the Jin Dynasty, and the "Qi Fu Sanjuan" it shapes has its own personality. These two factors are taken into account in hair styling and grooming. Wen Juan's hairstyle is made of a frightened bun, and the hair plate is rolled up like a startled bird to spread its wings to flatter Wen Juan's dashing. And Yu Juan's hairstyle, double-horned braided bun, is coiled up on the top of her head, in order to make her look heroic. As for the clever xiaojuan, we designed a double-loop braided hairstyle for her to show her innocence and liveliness.
The moment to draw the key point came, and the makeup artist also said: the audience does not necessarily pay attention to the hair ornament style of the character when watching the movie, in fact, it is also a skill, which cannot be lost.
Now film and television dramas, often large investment, high prices to invite Japanese and Korean designers, you will not give the heroine a serious comb of hair? Either the shawl is distributed, or the hairstyle of a thunder man is casually given. Dai Yu combed the copper money head, this is simply a waste of classics, thanks to the master of traditional Chinese studies Wu Mi died, he so much love "Dream of the Red Chamber" love Lin Daiyu, usually appearance is serious and polite, but in Kunming when he saw a beef shop named "Xiaoxiang Hall", he thought it was insulting Lin Sister, angry and waved his cane randomly.
If he saw Sister Lin being dressed up as a drama, he didn't know how many television sets he would smash!
Therefore, instead of watching bad movies, it is better to revisit the classics, so that it is not a waste of time, but also enjoys the art.