This article is written by Peter Pavlovsk
Today, let's talk about a masterpiece.
Why is it called "masterpiece". Because in the selection of the top 100 classic films in the Hong Kong Film Century, there are only two "love S movies" selected, one is the 1984 Fang Lingzheng's "Tang Dynasty Extravagant Girl", and the other is Chu Yuan's "AiNu". (As for "The Great Tang Dynasty", we will talk about it in detail in the next article.) ）
"Ainu", painted on July 9, 1972, starring He Lili.
He Lili is one of The Twelve Golden Nobles of Shaw's, and her appearance is outstanding. But because of the age is too long, not many people may know her now. How beautiful is Lily Ho? In the "Big Warlord" by the director Li Hanxiang, He Lili played the singing little boss who assassinated the warlord at the end. That tender face, youthful and lovely, the appearance of the aura is not lost to Dina (Dina is more mature, He Lili is different, sweet and salty, plastic too strong), in "Love Slave", He Lili's makeup is more strange, old, the youthful atmosphere is nothing, but it is full of wind and dust, and the end also reveals a strong slaughter. Although the makeup is not very beautiful, the acting skills are covered. From the helplessness of the kidnapping at the beginning, the despair of being tortured, and the slaughter of revenge later. He Lili's treatment is very rounded, there is no disadvantage. By the way, He Lili's biggest scale in this film is the exposed elbow.
Director Chu Yuan may be more familiar to everyone, his most famous should be Liang Chaowei and Liang Jiahui starring in the "New Difficult Brothers and Brothers", (Han Han's "Wind and Waves" is copied this one), Liang Chaowei played the role is called Chu Yuan, and Chu Yuanren also appeared. An old man with a round face and a kind eyebrow, mixed with everyone' faces.
In fact, Chu Yuan's status in the Hong Kong film circle is extremely high, no less than Wu Siyuan. His famous work was 1960's Poor Parents' Hearts. Tvb also made an episode of the drama "Love Home" to talk about this drama. Another well-known masterpiece is 1973's "Seventy-Two Tenants." "Ainu" is sandwiched between these two, and the light is somewhat dim.
But in fact, "Ainu" has a pivotal position in Chu Yuan's works. Chu Yuan is known as the director who has shot the most works of Gu Long. He won the best director of the 1979 Asia-Pacific Film Festival", "Peacock Dynasty", and the highest-grossing film "Hero Without Tears", which are all original works by Gu Long. His Chuyuan-style strange love martial arts film with the taste of ancient dragons began with "AiNu".
The style of "Ainu" is unique, gorgeous and strange. There is a delicate literary and artistic romantic temperament, the storyline is simple, the conflict is not strong, but the picture is exquisite, the plot is smooth, the lens processing is very strange, the aesthetic interest and literary atmosphere are integrated into it, and the effect is very gorgeous. What impressed me the most was the scene where He Lili was tortured, the camera hit He Lili's face in prison, the whole face occupied the picture, the eyeballs were like jewels under the reflection of the light, the picture was beautiful, but the plot was desperate. This discordant weirdness is the tone of this strange film.
This kind of tone, if you are familiar with the works of the ancient dragon friends, should be able to smile, this is indeed very cologne.
There are many masterpieces of Chu Yuan, and "AiNu" is just one of them, but now everyone talks more about the "lesbian" elements in the film. What's more, this film is called China's first lesbian film. Research on this area is easy to find on the Internet, so I will not talk about it here.
All I can say is that this is indeed an element of the film, but "Ainu", as one of the best films in a hundred years, is certainly not because of this. I still hope that everyone will go to see the original film and feel it for yourself.