Director Xu Anhua's new film "The First Incense" was released on Friday, and there was a bad comment on the Internet!
In the 4 days of release, it only received 25.86 million yuan at the box office; in Douban, the film's rating was only 5.6 points.
Most of the audience's evaluation of the film is: this is a Waterloo on the creation of director Xu Anhua!
From the casting, the performances of the actors, the costumes, and the atmosphere of old Hong Kong created by the film, it was completely defeated.
Although the box office is not good, the netizens' desire for evaluation has been stimulated, which confirms the words of Hong Kong female writer Li Bihua:
I think Zhang Ailing is a well, not only a well, but also an ancient well that people from all walks of life and gentlemen from all walks of life can enjoy. Very generous and very reassuring. There is no wave in the ancient well, and the more you dig, the more you have it. What is the loss to her?
But the question is, do you really understand the movie "First Incense"?
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Wei Long is Zhang Ailing when she was young
Zhang Ailing's original work "The First Incense" is only 40,000 words, and one of the biggest features of Zhang Ailing's novel is that it has an accurate depiction of character details, which brings great challenges to film adaptors.
The audience's criticism of this version of the "First Incense" movie comes largely from the huge contrast between the appearance and temperament of the current actors and the character images in Zhang Ailing's original novel.
For example, the obesity of Ma Sichun, who now plays Wei Long, the Jianshuo of Peng Yuyan, who plays Georgie Qiao, and even the excessive beauty of Mrs. Liang, played by Yu Feihong, are very different from the text descriptions in the novel.
Admittedly, if the audience is critical of the film based on the novel, such a bad comment is understandable.
But Yi Xuanjun's personal view is that novels are novels and movies are movies.
After being made into a movie, this work is self-contained, and it should be evaluated in the aesthetic category of the film, using the standards of the film.
Of course, even by the standards of movies, this "First Incense" has many shortcomings. When Yi Xuanjun watched it, he had one of the biggest feelings, that is, the overall atmosphere of the film lacked a charm, that is, the decadence, extravagance and fragrance of old Hong Kong.
Many viewers can also see this.
But there is one point, Yi Xuejun is fully affirming "The First Burning Incense", that is, it has filmed a very special female image on the screen, that is, Wei Long in the film, and from Wei Long's body, we can see Zhang Ailing's appearance when she was young.
Yi Xuejun believes that Wei Long is Zhang Ailing when she was young!
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Wong Kar-wai's "The Legend of Ah Fei" has portrayed similar characters
What kind of person is Veron? Director Xu Anhua and screenwriter Wang Anyi had a clear positioning of this character before shooting, that is, Wei Long is a woman who fights for love.
Some viewers believe that Wei Long is a very assertive female student before stepping into the gate of Mrs. Liang's villa, and has a clear plan for her future. In the film, Wei Long also slowly learned to socialize and calculate, such a woman, for The love of Georgie Joe is also reserved and calculated, right?
This time Xu Anhua did a better job, the Wei Long in the movie "The First Burning Incense", for Georgie Joe, the playboy, is no resistance, simply put: Georgie Joe is the doom in Wei Long's life!
In fact, a role like Wei Long has long been portrayed in Wong Kar Wai's films.
In Wong Kar-wai's film "The Legend of Ah Fei", the dancer Mimi (real name Liang Fengying), played by Liu Jialing, is a kind of person like Wei Long.
Mimi liked Xu Zai played by Zhang Guorong at first sight, Xu Zai and "The First Burning Incense" in the same as Qiao Qi Qiao, are to see a prodigal son who loves one, at the beginning of the film, Xu Zai pimped Su Lizhen, a commissary clerk played by Maggie Cheung, but when Su Lizhen wanted to marry him, he immediately withdrew and turned to Mimi.
There's a scene like this: Mimi says to Asahi that if you don't have enough money, I can go to a nightclub and be a dancer, which has a high income, but on the condition that I come to pick me up every day after work.
Mimi also deliberately said to Xu Zai: I don't care about doing this.
If you think that Mimi is an abusive person, you are very wrong.
Xu Zai has a good buddy, a crooked boy played by Jacky Cheung, who likes Mimi at first sight. But no matter how hard Crooked Boy tries, Mimi just doesn't give Crooked Boy any chance. There is a scene where Crooked Boy picks Up Mimi home in heavy rain, Mimi just doesn't get into the car, Crooked Boy drives behind Mimi, and Mimi gets angry. In the end, crooked boy gave Mimi a slap in the face in extreme sadness, and Mimi, who collapsed on the ground, stood up and actually walked alone.
If you like it, you can give everything, even if it is worldly dignity; if you don't like it, even if the crooked boy sells the Mercedes-Benz and puts it in front of her with money, she is only moved.
Does Mimi behave much like Veron?
In fact, the French film "Rodin's Lover" played by Adjani tells the same story, the film tells a young girl with a natural interest in sculpture and extraordinary talent, Camille (Adjani), due to the trickery of fate, trapped in impossible love and was squeezed into nothing by love.
In "The First Incense", Wei Long's love for Georgie Joe, many people think it is calculated, it is depraved, in fact, it is not, Wei Long's love for Georgie Joe is an irrepressible fanaticism, her shrewdness and calculation in life reflect this love can not extricate itself!
This is the Wei Long portrayed in "The First Incense".
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Hu Lancheng is the Qiao Qi Qiao in Zhang Ailing's life
Hu Lancheng is the Qiao Qi Qiao in Zhang Ailing's life.
Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng met in the spring of 1944, and after the two met, they quickly fell in love. Zhang Ailing wrote behind the photo given to Hu Lancheng: When she met him, she became very low and very low, low to the dust. But her heart was joyful, and flowers blossomed from the dust.
In August 1944, Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng married, Hu Lancheng was 38 years old, Zhang Ailing was 23 years old, no ceremony was held, only the marriage book was written, the text said: Hu Lancheng Zhang Ailing signed a lifelong marriage, married as a couple, willing to make the years quiet, the present world is stable.
But just three months later, Hu Lancheng had a new lover, Xiao Zhou, a 17-year-old nurse working at Hanyang Hospital.
This plot is similar to how Similar To Georgie Joe swims with a bikini girl on his wedding night in First Incense!
In 1945, Hu Lancheng got along with a woman named Fan Xiumei again.
Zhang Ailing, who had not seen her husband for half a year, chased her husband all the way to Wenzhou, heartbroken, when she left Wenzhou, it was raining, Zhang Ailing sighed: "I have thought, if I have to leave you, I will not seek short-sightedness, nor can I love others anymore, I will just wither away." ”
Even so, in the next eight or nine months, Zhang Ailing would still use her own writing fees to help Hu Lancheng, only because she was afraid that he would suffer in exile.
This is similar to the money that Wei Long earned for Situ Xie, played by Fan Wei, as a lover in "The First Burning Incense", to provide for Georgie Qiao!
In the novel "The First Incense", there is a description of Georgie Jo:
He was even bloodlessr than Zhou Jijie, and even his lips were pale, like plaster casts. Under the black pressed eyebrows and eyelashes, the eyes were like the wind blowing through the waseda field, sometimes revealing the blue light of the water under the rice, flashing and darkening again. ”
Such a Qiao Qi Qiao must be pale with a literati atmosphere, but it is very suitable for Hu Lancheng's temperament!
How can the sunshine and strong Peng Yuyan play it?
Wei Long is full of madness and forbearance for this love of Georgie Joe, and Georgie Joe knows this very well, and at the end of the novel "The First Burning Incense", Georgie Joe says to her:
One day, you will have to admit what a despicable person I am, and at that time, you will also regret that you sacrificed so much for me! In one breath, they will kill me, or maybe, I am afraid!
And Wei Long laughed:
I love you, what's the matter with you? It's weird, and it's not up to you.
Georgie Joe said:
In any case, the distribution of our rights and obligations now is also too unfair.
Wei Long raised his eyebrows and smiled slightly:
fair? In the relationship between people, there is no word for fairness at all. I have to ask, how did you suddenly find such a conscience today?
Zhang Ailing's personality characteristics determine that she will not be as obedient and stoic as Wei Long. But Zhang Ailing after Hu Lancheng, her love life has indeed withered. After arriving in the United States, she married her second husband, Raya, who was 29 years older. In her later years, Lai Ya suffered many strokes and urinary incontinence, and Zhang Ailing did not abandon it and personally took care of it. The two lived a 13-year marriage, with Raya dying in 1967.
For modern women, female figures like Wei Long and Mimi are difficult to understand. These women, who are calculating and willing to degenerate for money in the eyes of secular morality, actually hide in their bones the deep affection that is willing to crush bones and be lonely for a man.
Creating a typical human figure is one of the main purposes of a work of art. From this point of view, Xu Anhua's version of "The First Burning Incense" is really not as useless as it is said on the Internet!
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