The comedy film "Stubborn Lord" born in 1988 is adapted from Wang Shuo's novel of the same name, which has praised Zhang Guoguo, Ge You, and Liang Tian, and the 110-minute plot exposes and attacks the pathological phenomena and pathological personality of the real society in a humorous and ridiculous way, and the pungent satire of the cynicism of entrepreneurial youth is even more intriguing.
Although it is a funny story of three unemployed young people opening "Three T Companies", it is far more like the story of most entrepreneurs than the phenomenon-level movie "Chinese Partner", and the irony is sharp enough. In the film, Yu Guan, Yang Zhong and Ma Qing are decadent and wandering all day long, life has no purpose, even if they open a service company, they also regard "play" as their main business.
In the film, 3T Company's main business is to solve problems for people, solve problems for people, and suffer for people. This is a standard service company, the three protagonists for business, sometimes set up a platform on the side of the road, set up a spiritual clinic, for the people who come to the consultation to solve life problems, but also a variety of promises, is to pull business.
The opening scene, with the "Worried Talk" by Wang Di, the first generation of Chinese rock singers, can be seen rising from the ground, and all kinds of cars filling the roads that are not spacious enough, condensing the scene after the reform and opening up in the 1980s. After all, the complicated and trendy affairs coexist under the lens of director Mi Jiashan.
Ge You, who plays Yang Zhong, is commissioned by an doctor at the beginning to spend a day with his new girlfriend, Yang Liping, instead of himself. Relying on his ability to talk about the mountains, he talked about the woman in a confused way. But at the critical moment, the woman pestered him and had to call her two buddies to come to the round.
Bao Kang, played by Li Geng, is a pseudo-literary youth, who claims to be a writer, saying that he is very weak about fame and fortune, but he has a huge vanity in his heart. He boasted that he had written a stunning work that was not recognized by society. I hope that 3T will give itself a writer's award and pretend to say that it is a little too explicit?
After taking over Baokang's unrealistic dream of winning the award, Yu Guan, played by Zhang Guoguo, booked the venue of the International Exhibition Center, and Yang Zhong and Ma Qing also immediately executed it. How to invite extras and friends to support the scene, how to pretend to be well-known writers to cheat on their friends, are actually planned.
Yu Guan had a conversation with the actors and the audience, including Disco with a water, free drinks, a wonderful fashion show, and a sentence "But I can reveal that the show wants to be vulgar", which revealed the hobbies of young people at that time.
After that, the grand stage catwalk unexpectedly dedicated the most magical part of the domestic film. Landlords and peasants, different people from the Republic of China and contemporary times, actually took turns to appear. Inside there are both Peking Opera faces and bodybuilders. These unrelated characters are still walking hand in hand to great harmony under the strange music of disco.
The three secretly asked the backstage actors to pretend to be writers, disguised as leaders to deliver opening speeches, and various fake writers came to the stage to deliver award speeches. What "I was born dead", "the grass is full of flowers, but the cattle come here to find only... Feed", spicy satire on many untalented people, all of whom have earned fame by award ceremonies!
At the end, because they couldn't buy trophies, a bunch of award-winning group performances could only hold the big dish jar as a trophy and slipped around the runway for a whole lap. Afterwards, Bao Kang knew that the writers were all pretending, because the vanity was satisfied, and he was still very happy to talk to his new girlfriend.
Under the introduction of Baokang, the 3 people met Zhao Yaoshun, a professor of moral education at the university. This person is both hypocritical and preachy, Teacher Zhao does not say a word about what 3T Company has done, behind their backs, they say "watch martial arts videos" and "friends can be sexually called and can not be called", when the negative material is told to others on TV.
Professor Zhao did not have such a noble personality as he said in his own mouth, how detached from low-level interests. He is nothing more than a fake canonical person holding high the banner of morality, and he even stares at the beautiful women who pass by in fascination, and is ridiculed and teased by the three protagonists.
Zhang Guoli plays Yu Guan as the male protagonist, who belongs to the kind of person who can speak the Tao and solicit business, but does not want to make progress. His father wanted him to face himself and turn his district into a civil servant, but the buddies disdained doing so. Ding Xiaolu, the girlfriend played by Pan Hong, suggested that he go to the night test, and he also prevaricated.
Look at the business of 3T company, help families with barriers, be a gas bag for their husbands, help thin-skinned people break up with their girlfriends, and also pay for people to eat ice cream, help the old man to take care of his mother, but because of his resignation, he did not expect the other party to fall off the building and die, and since then 3T company has been closed for rectification!
The old man blackmailed three people, and also took a family directly into the 3T company, and the fake writer Bao Kang also came to complain. The three protagonists can only go as stand-ins to make money, but they ask for high salaries for the real glass of the crash, and they are bombarded back by the director. Several of the protagonists, after playing cards overnight, went out to find that there was a long queue at the door...
This absurd comedy is very avant-garde, and at the same time it is a metaphor for all kinds of impetuous young people in society at that time to start a business, but they do not understand the responsibility and rules of doing things, so 3T Company is doomed to failure. After all, the service industry depends on dedication, they say "your mother is my mother", in the name of solving problems, but they mess up everything.
Many years later, Director Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B" cooperated with Wang Shuo was born out of "Stubborn Lord", but the creative direction has changed greatly, and self-deprecation and ridicule have become much less. With the Chinese system's shackles on culture and art, such a pungent and satirical masterpiece may be even rarer, and it will make people nostalgic for this masterpiece of the 80s.