Zixia, played by Zhu Yin in "Journey to the West", is a goddess in the hearts of countless people, and her smile and every move in the play can touch the heartstrings of the audience outside the play.
But did you know that in the same year of starring in "Journey to the West", Zhu Yin once acted in an emotional drama with Wu Mengda, who was 19 years older than herself, and the two even almost became lovers in the film. The film is a comedy film released in 1995:
"Crayon Boy" (aka "Stinky Fart King")
The film is directed by Taiwanese director Zhu Yanping, and the previous year, Zhu's "New Oolong Courtyard" was very popular after its release, which made him decide to follow the routine, and the similar style of "Crayon Little Student" also appeared.
The film stars Wu Mengda, who is very pleasing to the classic old and young match with child actor Hao Shaowen in the film.
In terms of supporting roles, the crew invited Jin Chengwu (22 years old) and Zhu Yin (24 years old), who were still very young at the time, and Zhu Yin also staged a hazy emotional drama with the 43-year-old Uncle Da.
"Crayon Boy" tells such a story:
The rich child Xiaowen (Hao Shaowen) is dissatisfied with his father's remarriage and chooses to run away from home, and the naughty one is taken in by the tramp Uncle Da (Wu Mengda) by chance.
Uncle Da usually shines shoes for a living, and in his spare time, he often visits the blind flower girl (Zhu Yin), who sells flowers weekdays just to raise his 500,000 yuan for surgery.
By chance, Uncle Da saw that the school offered a reward of 500,000 yuan to find a class teacher for the Overlord class, and he thought of the operation of selling flower girls, and Uncle Da's heart was touched.
After that, Uncle Da and Xiao Wen ran to the Shaolin Temple to refine their skills, and after a period of cultivation, Uncle Da, who had the confidence, accepted the school's 500,000 reward.
The process of adjusting the class exceeds expectations, and Uncle Da not only successfully tames the overlord class students, but also mingles with the students and helps one of the students (Jin Chengwu) out of the cowardly demons.
Because of the offending son of the director of the Education Bureau in the process of protecting students, Uncle Da was dismissed by the school for no reason, and the 500,000 prize money was also lost.
Xiaowen, who could not bear Uncle Da's worries about the operation, ran home and "stole" 500,000 yuan for Uncle Da, but the price for this was that he was "left" at home.
On the other hand, the flower girl successfully completed the operation after receiving Uncle Da's 500,000 yuan funding, but after recovering her vision, she could not see Uncle Da's figure.
At the end of the story, Xiaowen returns to the family after clearing the misunderstanding with his father, and the students change their habits and fall in love with learning.
And the blind girl has another lover after regaining her sight, and Uncle Da continues to be his tramp, although he has not harvested love, but he is optimistic and optimistic, he still has hope...
Unfolding at a relaxed and witty pace, the film is a comedy film with standard Zhu Yanping characteristics, and it is also a comedy work suitable for all ages:
First, the golden combination! "Wu Mengda + Hao Shaowen" in the 90s = funny + warm
In Zhu Yanping's films, there is often a combination of "Wu Mengda + Hao Shaowen + Shi Xiaolong", which is a combination of one old and two small, and this film reduces the action element in the case that Shi Xiaolong does not appear, and the tacit cooperation between Wu Mengda and Hao Shaowen presents us with a warm comedy.
In the film, Wu Mengda plays the role of a tramp, but Zhu Yanping's perspective is not focused on presenting the difficulties of the people at the bottom, but in the form of laughter and anger, he presents the life-like side of the small people.
Although the child played by Hao Shaowen was born in a rich family, due to the nature of the child, he did not have a sense of estrangement from the poor uncle, and the two got along very naturally, and even gave people the feeling of being like a father and a son.
It should be pointed out that Hao Shaowen was only 5 years old when he starred in the film, but he could not lose to others when he played a lot of small dramas, and 5-year-old Hao Shaowen vividly interpreted the image of a cute and naughty child.
At the end of the film, Uncle Da, who has lost his love and career, sits on a park bench, Hao Shaowen suddenly appears with a smile, and the audience's heart is finally put down, and Zhu Dao finally gives Uncle Da, who has nothing, a warm ending.
Second, the comedy technique is exaggerated and playful, which makes people happy to hear
As a qualified comedy film, the outstanding feature of "Crayon Little Student" presents the simplest and most natural comedy for the audience.
This is reflected in the exaggerated laughter and fireworks, and the clips of the film that amuse the audience come from the depths of life.
These plots are presented by the actors with rich body language and exaggerated performance techniques, which makes people feel that they may have done this in their lives.
The laughs are piled up but not abrupt, and there are so many laughs in the film that there is a plot in almost a few minutes that makes people laugh.
Zhu Yanping, who is experienced in comedy, does a very natural job in plot design, and does not make people feel that laughter is hard to add.
Third, the emotional drama between 43-year-old Wu Mengda and 24-year-old Zhu Yin,
One of the highlights of the film is that 43-year-old Wu Mengda and Zhu Yin, who are 19 years old, can be arranged to meet these two people with a large difference in age and temperament?
The answer is that Zhu Yin became a blind girl who sold flowers, and Uncle Da reached out to her.
In the play, Uncle Da has always liked the blind girl but dare not say it, although even the characters understand that the gap between the two is too large, but the plot setting still leaves room for feelings.
This left the audience with a sense of novelty, seeing that in the end they were all looking forward to whether the screenwriter would arrange for the two to be together.
"Unfortunately", until the end of the film, the director still did not bring "surprises" to the audience.
At the end of the film, Uncle Da and Zhu Yin, who has regained his sight, meet by chance, and Zhu Yin vaguely recognizes Uncle Da by feeling, but seeing that she already has a boyfriend around her at this time, Uncle Da chooses to let go...
Many viewers believe that if the ending is arranged for Uncle Da and Zhu Yin, the abruptness is too obvious; and the arrangement of the too desperate ending does not conform to the setting of the comedy, so the arrangement for Uncle Da's feelings is a just right ending, and it can even be said to be the finishing touch.
This kind of ending, for Uncle Da, seems too sad. He is obsessed, but also helpless, at this time Uncle Da's acting skills soared, the picture made people cry, it told everyone in a cruel but realistic way: fairy tales are all lies.
But it is precisely because of this design that the whole movie has more room for aftertaste.
Fourth, 22-year-old Jin Chengwu, 24-year-old Zhu Yin, this prosperous beauty you got arrived?
Talking about more things inside, let's talk about the "surface", let's take a look at the handsome men and women in this film.
Jin Chengwu was only 22 years old when he participated in this film, and was one of the four little kings of Taiwan. The year before, he had just starred in Wong Kar-wai's "Chongqing Forest", but compared to the complexity of the role composition of the previous film, the role of "Crayon Little Student" did not require Much for Jin Chengwu, and he only needed to be responsible for playing handsome in the film.
And the 24-year-old Zhu Yin was at the peak of the standard appearance in that year, in addition to taking over the role of "Crayon Little Student", her classic work "Journey to the West" was also released in this year, and In 1995, Zhu Yin, the Zixia Fairy Buddha- was also.
In addition, the appearance of Chen Yu, the actor who plays Jin Chengwu's girlfriend, is also very stunning, and the sense of youth overflows the screen, under the blessing of this group of handsome men and beautiful women, the film also adds a lot of eye-catching on the basis of funny.
Of course, looking at this movie now, you will feel that the traces of the film's routine are too obvious.
The film uses a lot of comedy classic frameworks, and the clips of Uncle Da and Zhu Yin are borrowed from the plot of the tramp and the flower girl in Chaplin's "City Lights".
The story of the bully class is not the first of Zhu Yanping, after the fire of Zhou Xingchi's "Truant Weilong" in 1991, such a plot began to be widely borrowed.
Borrowing from others is not counted, Zhu Yanping's film has also moved to the routine of many of his own films, compared with "Crayon Little Student" and the previous year's "New Oolong Courtyard", we will find that the two have a lot in common.
Since "Crayon Little Student", he has also filmed comedies such as "Dog Egg Soldier" and "Report Squad Leader", and the pattern mark in the film is obvious, but at that time, everyone liked to hear it, and it was also in line with the needs of the times.
Entering the 21st century, with the development of the film industry, the audience's taste is becoming more and more stubborn, and the excessive routine of Zhu-style films is not bought.
Whether it is "Two Birds with One Stone" or the follow-up "Big Slam Dunk" and "Laughing Jianghu", they are the kind of routine movies that can roughly guess the ending by looking at the beginning, the most tragic is the "New Oolong Courtyard" that mainly plays the old IP, and after the release of the word-of-mouth, the reputation is all over the street, and the score so far is only 3.6 points.
But in general, "Crayon Little Student" is definitely a qualified comedy work, due to the limitations of the subject matter and the times, we can not use the 2020 magnifying glass to examine the shortcomings of this 1995 work, the essence of comedy movies is to make people happy, in this way, "Crayon Little Life" is definitely a success.
It is a masterpiece suitable for people to watch in their leisure time, the film's endless laughter constantly tickles the audience, let go of harshness, and we will enjoy the most simple happiness in this hour and a half of watching the movie.
And if you are a Yan control, then this film can not be missed, this is a movie that stores the peak Awu and the peak Zixia's appearance, what are you waiting for?
Bluestone Film | Lelede (Internship)
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