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In 1983, a co-produced costume film between the mainland and Hong Kong, "Fine Change", was released on the mainland. The wonderful interpretation of the handsome men and women in the play makes people laugh and cry, and the film has become a sensational classic. Until today, 28 years later, it has also scored a high score of 8.0 on Douban.
The Douban score of "Fine Change" has reached 8.0 points
But the advent of this movie is to experience a "difficult childbirth". Filming began in early 1980, and it was not until 1983 that the film was fully completed and released.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > stories written by Shandong people</h1>
The film "Fine Change" is a joint production between the Mainland's China News Agency and the Hong Kong-based Chinese Film Company.
Hong Kong Chinese Film Company, founded by Hong Kong film star Liu Lian, who is originally from Shu County, Shandong Province, and her husband Zhao Yishan, mainly shoots large-scale documentaries of Chinese mainland scenery. The famous ones are "Taishan North and South", "Qilu Yinghao", etc., and also filmed many opera films, such as the Yue opera "West Chamber" and so on.
Hong Kong movie star Liu Lian, originally from Shandong, was born in Wuhan
Although Liu Lian was born in Wuhan, worked in Shanghai, and later went to Hong Kong, her feelings for her native Shandong were extraordinary.
At that time, the "Shaolin Temple" co-produced by the mainland and Hong Kong was a great success, and it also set off a wave of co-production, and she wanted to use the resources in her hand to make a film for her hometown shandong. The selected story is also written by Pu Songling, a Shandong native- it is the prototype of "Fine Change": "Xiao Cui" in "Liaozhai Zhiyi".
Portrait of Pu Songling, author of "Liaozhai Zhiyi"
The main creators used were all Shandong people at the beginning. Director Gu Leiming (the film's signature is Lei Ming), is a returned overseas Chinese from Shandong; screenwriter Han Lanfang, a native of Qingdao, Shandong, is Gu Leiming's wife and the second director of the film.
The two main actors, the male protagonist Xu Shaohua, a native of Qingdao, Shandong, and the female protagonist, Wei Huili, a native of Jinan, Shandong.
Coupled with the other crew members, it is really a true taste of Shandong.
"Fine Change" director Gu Leiming
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the shooting process was full of twists and turns, and the director and his wife relayed to complete</h1>
No one expected that the filming of this movie was almost difficult to give birth.
In April 1980, filming of the film "Fine Change" began. The crew first filmed in Qufu, but just over 2 months after filming, the male protagonist Xu Shaohua was unfortunately injured by a horse kick, and a young actor unfortunately died in the group, and the shooting could not continue for a while.
At the beginning of 1981, the crew regrouped and went to Suzhou to continue filming, but unexpectedly, in May, director Gu Leiming died of a heart attack, and then the art design of the film also died.
Before the film was finished, 3 people had lost their lives and 1 star had been injured.
Cover of "Fine Change" Xiao Cui, played by Wei Huili
But the shooting could not be stopped, and finally Han Lanfang took over the director's job, and the crew borrowed some personnel from the Changchun Film Studio. Photographers at the time recalled that in order to catch up with the schedule, they had 3 days and 3 nights of continuous rotation, and finally completed the shooting work.
There was also an accident at the beginning of filming, the crew borrowed 2 foxes from the Jinan Zoo (there is a shot of foxes dodging thunder and rain at the beginning of the film), but soon ran away from one. There are many people who mutter, is it not the incense that should be burned? After all, it is a strange story.
Whether it has anything to do with it or not, no one can explain. But the filming of this movie has been full of twists and turns, but it is real. Maybe it should be answered by that sentence: good things are more grinding!
YuanFeng and Xiao Cui, starring Xu Shaohua and Wei Huili
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Xu Shaohua took a "huge" salary and was selected to star in Journey to the West together with Wei Huili</h1>
At that time, the crew adopted the Hong Kong salary settlement model, and Xu Shaohua, as the first male protagonist, got a full 300 yuan of remuneration. At the time, it was a "huge sum of money".
In 1983, Xu Shaohua got married, and it is said that he bought a lot of trendy furniture and appliances and spent more than 1,000 yuan, which must have been credited with this remuneration.
Xu Shaohua with people when he was young (right)
Today we look at this film again, Xu Shaohua, who was 22 years old at the time, and Wei Huili, who was 25 years old, were both "electrocuted" for the first time. Xu Shaohua was also injured because of horseback riding, but they all gave their wonderful acting skills, presenting us with the classic images of "Yuanfeng" and "Xiaocui".
Wang Yuanfeng, played by Xu Shaohua, was a silly boy in the early stage, and after waking up, he was a deep-feeling prince, and the span of the role was quite large, coupled with the film's more dramatic way of expression, in fact, it was easy to stylize it carelessly.
Yuanfeng during the dementia period
But Xu Shaohua handled it quite naturally, without exaggerated body language, more through small actions and vivid expressions, to shape a demented child from everyone into a vivid and vivid appearance. Let people cry and laugh for his stupidity, but they will not ignore his identity as a big son.
Yuanfeng, who became a normal person in the later period, was even more gentle and elegant, and Yushu Linfeng. The deep love and righteousness for Xiao Cui, the outspoken advice to her parents, coupled with her outstanding appearance and demeanor, make people feel that the good person that every woman hopes for in her heart should be like this!
Therefore, after the release of this film, Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" called Xu Shaohua "China's first young student".
After waking up, Yuanfeng gave Xiao Cui a cloak
Wei Huili, who plays the heroine Xiao Cui, is a Peking Opera actress. She plays Xiao Cui, a pair of elf big eyes, lively and affectionate, especially the first-class body, there is a play of playing football, that kind of light and ethereal beauty, without many years of opera or dance skills, really can't do it.
And "Xiao Cui" in the film, mocking and intimidating Wang's eyes when he gave advice, is also the reason why Yang Jie, the director of the later "Journey to the West", chose her. Yang Jie felt that her eyes were too agile, and it was very suitable for playing Gao Cuilan (when she was possessed by Sun Wukong).
In the film, Xiao Cui makes a grimace and scares the villain Wang Zhizhi
He caught up with Wei Huili, and then he caught up with Xu Shaohua to play the Tang monk, filling the vacancy caused by Wang Yue's departure.
I have to say that director Yang Jie's eyes are like a torch, and the two people she values, one has performed the most classic Miss Gao, and the other has performed the Tang monk with the highest recognition from the audience so far.
Xu Shaohua's Tang monk appearance
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > what the story of "Fine Change" tells</h1>
The movie "Fine Change" tells the story of the fox girl Xiaocui Bao'en, married the demented Wang Yuanfeng, played with him, cured his illness, and finally because the Wang family's parents were not tolerated, the loving couple was forced to separate.
As soon as Yuanfeng in the film came out, he smirked at the lady and his father. Although he is a son of a big family, he is naturally demented, and he is ridiculed everywhere, and even ugly women do not want to marry him.
Only Xiao Cui was willing to marry him, and after marriage, the two were not so much husband and wife as more like playmates. Yuanfeng is attached to Xiao Cui, and Xiao Cui cures Yuanfeng's illness in a seemingly foolish way, and also helps the Wang family remove the threat from political enemies.
In the early stage, Xiao Cui was more like Yuanfeng's playmate, entertaining and educating
In the words of the sober Yuanfeng: "What Xiao Cui has preserved in our house is not just a vase?" ”
However, such a beautiful and wise woman who had great kindness to her in-laws was insulted by the king and his wife for accidentally dropping a vase given by the emperor and drove away with absolute desperation.
Yuanfeng speaks for his wife:
"Daddy, do you think that without Xiao Cui, is there still your official position?" Without Xiao Cui, can your son have today? How much has Xiao Cui been frightened since she arrived at our house? How much abuse was inflicted? ”
Yuanfeng Xiaocui and his wife enjoy playing with the jade bottle
Saying these words, Xiao Cui painstakingly accompanied and treated him. Unfortunately, as soon as these words came out, they made the king even more angry with the couple.
In the eyes of the Wang couple, Xiao Cui was just a poor and lowly woman of unknown origin, and it was a great kindness to take her in.
Even if Xiao Cui cured their only son and eliminated the threat from political enemies for them, it was better than her "not keeping the way of women" (in fact, it was only a little lively), and the sin of taking her son to fool around, especially breaking the jade bottle given by the emperor, was simply to harm their royal family.
After Xiao Cui cured Yuanfeng, Yuanfeng read
In fact, what they really don't like is Xiao Cui's liveliness and assertiveness that is different from ordinary boudoir women, and they can't stand her son standing on her side and rebelling against her parents for her.
In order to repay the favor, the fox spirit Xiaocui's mother and daughter married Xiaocui to the demented Yuanfeng, treated him and eliminated disasters for the Wang family; Xiaocui was willing to give up the opportunity to become an immortal for the love of Yuanfeng.
However, because Xiao Cui's words and deeds did not conform to the norms of "lady", they repeatedly scolded her, and even more for a jade bottle to break up a loving couple, without the slightest thought of everything Xiao Cui had done for them.
Wang's father blamed his daughter-in-law's "nonsense" to invite disaster to his own family, and he wanted to take a sword to cut Xiao Cui
Xiao Cui's departure was to see through their coldness, discouraged, and also could not bear to be embarrassed by Yuanfeng in the middle.
The human heart is terrible, really inferior to the beast.
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