<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > "puppet director" Chen Kaige, "Overlord Farewell" director has someone else? </h1>
Looking at the eleven domestic films this year, "Chosin Lake" beat "My Father and Me" and entered the history of Chinese cinema with a box office score of 5.3 billion.
Lake Chosin with me and my parents
In addition to the interpretations of wu jing, Yi Qianxi and other outstanding actors, the luxurious behind-the-scenes directing team is the key to the success of this film.
Chosin Lake director team
And in the list of co-directors, we found a familiar name - Chen Kaige. The 70-year-old director, who hovers between "great" and "bad films", used up his talents as early as thirty years ago.
Chen Kaige
For the next thirty years, he seemed to be proving that the director of "Farewell to the Overlord" was himself, not his father, Chen Huaigao. Back in time to 1988,
Xu Feng, the owner of Tomson Film in Taiwan Province, participated in the Cannes Film Festival that year, and by chance, in the film explanation session, Xu Fan was invited to watch Chen Kaige's "Child King".
Child King
Just when the other film industry bigwigs present sighed in unison, depressed about what Chen Kaige wanted to express through this movie, Xu Fan understood. She danced to praise Chen Kaige's talent. Just the day after watching the movie, Xu Feng took Li Bihua's "Farewell to the Overlord" to find Chen Kaige. And they don't know it themselves. This move of hers completely changed the life after the middle-aged triumph. Chen Kaige, who is about to usher in the year of confusion, will never be able to get rid of "Overlord Farewell" in his lifetime.
Shoot by The Overlord
After Reaching a consensus with Chen Kaige, Xu Fan found the screenwriter Reed to adapt the script of the original novel, and Reed was disgusted by the story and agreed to Chen Kaige without a moment's hesitation. "You can be unpaid, but there is a condition: "You can give advice, but you can't touch a word in the script." Later, the real situation was that Chen Kaige's opinions were finally adopted into the movie, and he poured his stubbornness into Cheng Dieyi. At the end of the original work, Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou, who should have been successfully reunited in the bathhouse, became the movie in which Cheng Dieyi killed himself on the stage of his favorite.
Overlord Farewell
Such a regretful and imperfect ending has also been recognized by the author of the novel, Li Bihua. In the creation of the script, Chen Kaige was worried about who would play Cheng Dieyi. She asked Cheung to meet at the Mandarin Hotel café in Hong Kong, and he danced and passionately told The story to Cheung, completely ignoring whether the Cantonese actor in front of him could understand what he meant.
What no one expected was that Zhang Guorong said slowly after listening: "Thank you for telling me the story, hello, I am Cheng Dieyi." Years later, as long as this matter is talked about, Chen Kaige will sigh this hair-raising moment. When everything was ready, Chen Kaige sent the script and cast list to his father Chen Huaigao, saw the old man crying, and said with equal excitement, this movie counts as my share. It was 1993, and Chen Kaige and Reed used the perspective of human nature to express the era they understood. Zhang Guorong, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li and others gathered together,
They poured themselves all into this movie. As the movie line says, "Don't be crazy, don't live." In the process of filming "Farewell to the Overlord", Chen Kaige infected every member of the crew with his crazy demon state. The most impressive scene of Cheng Dieyi's life after the disaster, repeatedly filmed many times Chen Kaige felt dissatisfied, Zhang Guorong had no choice, can only let the assistant kiss him a few mouths, the assistant does not dare. Chen Kaige didn't say much, and directly grabbed Zhang Guorong and kissed him a few times, making a mess of rouge and lipstick on his face.
Finally, the real feeling of being overwhelmed and disillusioned is presented in front of the camera. Because Chen Kaige's madness infects every crew member, in the filming process of the whole movie, each actor has dedicated the best acting skills. Zhang Guorong, 37, and Chen Kaige, 41, have stepped onto the altar with this film, and "Farewell to the King" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival.
The acting skills of the actors are obvious to all, but the directors behind the scenes are not necessarily. People like to make gods and tirelessly pull them off the altar. Winning a world-class award at a young age is too young for a director. Coupled with the tidbits of the media, Chen Kaige always has a sitting around him, and the old man with a strong aura conducts off-site guidance, and for a time everyone said that this movie was made by Chen Kaige's father, Chen Huaigao.
In the following years, Chen Kaige made many films that people scorned, and Chen Kaige, who was ridiculed by the group, finally stepped off the altar, expecting, disappointed, expecting again, and disappointing again, and people were happy to cycle tirelessly. In turn, it further corroborated the rumor that the director of "Farewell to the Overlord" had someone else", and the middle-aged man (Chen Kaige) who shed tears on the podium. How could I not have imagined that "Farewell to the Overlord" is the beginning and the end.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32">2. This bad film is definitely directed by Chen Kaige! </h1>
A long time after "Farewell to the Overlord", even to this day. People will always subconsciously feel that Chen Kaige's film of making a cow must be great, who let him be Chen Kaige, unless, "Farewell to the Overlord" is not directed by him, this deep-rooted image makes people helpless.
In 2005, Chen Kaige's "Wuji" made him completely fall off the altar.
Infinity
The spoof video of "A Massacre Caused by a Steamed Bun" pushes this group ridicule feast to a climax, and the arrogance and conceit in Chen Kaige's bones make him not as generous as a public figure should have, he feels ashamed and angry, and bluntly says that he wants to sue the author in court. In the heart of public opinion, slander poured into him indiscriminately, and before that, he was the only Chinese director to win the Cannes Palme d'Or, Chen Kaige famously said: "Within ten years, no one can understand 'Wuji'." This sentence infuriated the audience and film critics more and more, and Chen Kaige seemed to stand on a high place and look at all sentient beings, like a posture that everyone was drunk and woke up.
Since then, even if Chen Kaige is completely linked to bad films, "The Orphan of Zhao" has been ridiculed as a director who makes literary and art films to make war films.
Orphans of the Zhao clan
You are not an "old strategist", and you don't have to do porcelain work without this diamond. The jaw-dropping "bed play" in "Taoist Descending the Mountain" lowers the lower limit of old artists. Even netizens ridiculed,
Taoist monks descend the mountain
Thanks to the general director of the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games, it was Lao Mouzi, not Chen Kaige. Ten years of covenant came, Chen Kaige did not play a beautiful turnaround battle, a magic masterpiece "The Legend of the Demon Cat", everyone seems to only remember Zhang Yuqi's proud posture, but did not know that it was from Chen Kaige's hand.
Demon Cat Legend
Some people also say that a "Farewell to the Overlord" is enough, enough to let Chen Kaige stay in the history of the Chinese film industry after the years, even if he shoots more bad films, he is still Chen Kaige. In the collective group ridicule "Jiang Lang is exhausted", his works will be taken out every time and compared with "Overlord Farewell". Chen Kaige also sighed, perhaps helplessly, he has never chased after his 41-year-old self, nor has he deliberately copied the success he once had, he confessed: "Now I can't shoot "Overlord Farewell", which has nothing to do with me. "Just like people and times, it is the relationship between fish and water. When the tide is together, the big fish will appear, and when the wind and waves are calm, nothing will happen. Man is a product of the times, not the makers of the times.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" >3. 40 years old to fame, 70 years old but still regain dignity! </h1>
"Within ten years, no one can understand 'Wuji', and now ten years later, another decade has passed, and he is about to enter the 70s of his life, but he is still on the front line of creation.
Lake Chosin
In the director group of the National Day file "Changjin Lake", Chen Kaige was lined up with Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian. Netizens picked bones in the eggs, raised the bar to criticize him, Chen Kaige is a bastard in the three big directors, the difficulty was given to Xu Ke, and the highlight was given to Lin Chaoxian.
And Chen Kaige's combing of character relationships is the simplest link. In fact, looking back, if it were not for the brotherhood between Wu Wanli and Wu Qianli, or the comradeship between dad and everyone, we would not have fallen in love with these characters, would not have experienced the admirability and admirability of the fighters to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and would not have wept over their deeds. The clips between the characters directed by Chen Kaige let the audience feel the delicate emotions.
That is the soul of the story itself, the human touch and realism of the film. Looking back at the 1980s, Chen Kaige once said: "I am not at all confused about my future creations, I want to firmly follow my own path and continue to make the movies I want to make, one day, people will say Chen Kaige, we thank you."
Ironically, instead of thanking him, people made enemies of him. From "Wuji" to "Demon Cat Turn", Chen Kaige catered to the times, but was spat on to the point of no skin and forced to walk off the altar. Chen Kaige is very much like the Taoist priest He Anxia, played by Wang Baoqiang, who has become sleek and sophisticated in the secular world, and has never forgotten: I am a dignified person. Like the boy named White Dragon in "The Legend of the Demon Cat", he borrowed the mouth of the white dragon and said, "I haven't been that body for a long time." Chen Kaige himself has not been a teenager for a long time.
He once believed that one should not engage in artistic creation without pride, and this pride is called dignity. He is also very much like Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell to the Overlord". He is an idealist who "a lifetime is a lifetime, a year, a month, an hour, a day, is not a lifetime" idealist. Rather than saying that Chen Kaige is recovering his dignity, it is better to say that dignity is Chen Kaige's idealism all his life, he does not need to find it, he just wants to be a teenager who is not crazy and does not live.
He has been chasing the movie teenager he loves. And he does not need to be corrected, the director of "Overlord Farewell" is Chen Kaige.