It should be that in the past two years, Sir has watched the most face-slapping movie.
Bomb Disposal Expert 2.
Hong Kong films that are generally considered to be old and fading.
Without warning, he was pulled back by Qiu Litao, Andy Lau, and Liu Qingyun.
But Sir noticed that most of the critics seemed to overlook one person.
He is the other film emperor in the film, in addition to Shuang Liu.
He is the crazy white-haired villain who holds up the final conflict of the film.
Xie Junhao.
who?
After 00, you may not have heard of it.
After the 90s, the most recognized him was the bohemian drunken fairy.
△ The Legend of the Paladin Sword
It doesn't matter if you don't know.
In addition to "Bomb Disposal 2", there has recently happened to be an old film re-emerging.
Pull the highlight of this movie emperor back to our eyes.
Another crazy "neurosis".
01
elegy
In Sir's hard drive, there is a Hong Kong movie that has been stored for 23 years.
Whenever I feel that the article cannot be written, I will take it out and look at it.
"The Thirteen Langs of the South Seas".
Starring Xie Junhao.
It was also this movie that allowed him to defeat Zhang Guorong of "Spring Break" and win the Golden Horse Film Emperor.
A few days ago it finally released a Blu-ray repair version.
Not many people know, but that's really exciting (including Sir).
Because even if it is put into the present, it is not outdated at all.
Most excellent biopics, with "people" as the cutting point, sing an elegy of the times.
"South Sea Thirteen Lang" is more ambitious——
It writes about a "man" who is ahead of his time.
Irony of the madness of the moment.
02
madman
Who is Jusanro?
The Movie's English Translation: The Mad Phoenix.
"Crazy Phoenix".
Five words basically cover his life.
He's a lunatic.
Childless, childless, homeless and unemployed.
Grumpy and mean to people.
In his later years, he often wandered the streets in disheveled clothes and was repeatedly admitted to a mental hospital.
Finally, he died at the age of 74 in margaret hospital.
He was still a genius.
Without him, there would be no Cantonese opera shining brilliantly.
Let's start with a photo.
Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian, two famous artists, are legends in the history of Hong Kong Cantonese opera.
You know, the "Emperor Girl Flower" performed by the two of them has been a must-hear track for every Cantonese opera fan until now.
Hu Yun, Zhang Shuxian.
The famous ticket holder of Peking Opera, Mei Baojiu's ten-year-old Kaimeng Opera, is the "Three Niang Godsons" performed by Hu Yun.
Putting these characters together in one photo is precious enough.
And the skinny little old man sat in the C position.
Why?
He did come from a prominent background.
A native of Nanhai County, Guangdong Province, formerly known as Jiang Yuyi, he was the thirteenth son of Jiang Taishi Jiang Kongyin.
Taishifu has always been incredible, rich and noble, spending money like earth, Jiang Kong Yin in the South China Sea, with the name of "gourmet old food".
Taishifu has always required that it be eaten well and well, especially the "Taishi snake soup" in the province, until now, it is still a well-known Cantonese dish.
Rich and noble, it is also easy to produce some useless stupid children.
However, jiang Yujun was admitted to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in the 1920s.
Knowledge is naturally not low.
However, he suddenly wandered to Shanghai (rumored to have gone for love), and only returned home after two years, and naturally, the school was also removed from the school.
If you can't learn, it doesn't matter.
Since he was a child, he has watched big dramas, and he also has a hobby, watching Cantonese opera and singing big dramas.
Jiang Yuhao's favorite actor and the most popular actor at that time was Xiaosheng - Xue Juexian.
At that time, there was a saying: there was Xue Juexian in the south and Mei Lanfang in the north.
Fan brother Jiang Yu is crazy, and he does not consider what face is not faceless, and his star chasing is not like now, buying a ticket to listen to the concert can be satisfied.
He wanted his idol and sang his own songs.
In this way, his "first time" was dedicated to Xue Juexian.
A copy of "Snow Fishing in the Cold River".
The words and sentences of this work are beautiful, the rhymes are smooth, and the singing section is even more catchy.
Xue Juexian is also a person who loves talent, and when he encounters such a good screenwriter, he naturally refuses to let go.
As soon as it was hit, Jiang Yujun joined Xue Juexian's "Jue Xiansheng" Cantonese opera troupe.
Since then, it has been renamed "Nanhai Thirteen Lang".
Like today's box office guarantee, as long as you see the name of the screenwriter "Nankai Thirteen Lang" on the water card, the scene is full.
Thirteen Lang's life, from peace to war, from glory to lows.
After a period of upheaval and displacement, most of his works were lost, and only a few works that could be left were composed by posterity into a small poem covering his life.
It is said:
Voice of tears shadow daughter incense, where yan returned to find the remnant pond.
Red pin night thief Han Jiang Xue, the idiot is Shi Sanlang.
03
Idiots
Neither a madman nor a genius could encompass his whole life precisely.
Stupid, that's right.
"Nanhai Thirteen Lang" is a combination of two idiots.
Xie Junhao's obsession + Thirteen Lang's delusion.
Xie Junhao's entry into the drama is so deep and the level is rich, zhang Guorong lost to him that year and was not unjust.
Not to mention that the opera singing sections in it are all learned word by word with the Cantonese opera teacher, and there is no flaw at all.
Xie Junhao's obsession made Shi Sanlang's infatuation fall to the ground.
He's a lover.
Thirteen Lang pursues Lily, the goddess of love at first sight, and begs her on the dock not to go to Shanghai and stay.
Lily said, you're stupid.
He said, not stupid, but stupid.
He's also a joker.
Even if he was poor later, he was rarely reused by the big boss.
But others changed his script a little bit, and immediately jumped to his feet.
He was more obsessed with his own insistence.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he joined the army and wrote labor dramas in the army.
I wanted to cheer up the soldiers with a rousing opera.
But, conceivably.
Whether it is opera or chorus, it is better than the flesh of others.
He thought to himself, don't boys need a sense of righteousness when they fight for the country?
But these crooked ways obviously poked at the excitement of the soldiers.
In a fit of rage, he beat ren Xihua, the screenwriter on the other stage, but was scolded for being a neurotic who did not know the current affairs.
The next scene is particularly magical:
Thirteen Lang was pulled by his comrades-in-arms and told him not to make trouble again.
On the one hand, it is Thirteen Lang's own morality, and my plays are all plays that teach people to have a beginning and an end, and lead people to goodness.
On the other side, behind him, the meat bombers once again took the stage, seducing and provoking everything.
Thirteen lang could not understand.
Is it yourself crazy, or the world crazy.
He was completely obsessed, and those who were with him finally had to admit that he was "obsessed."
Demobilized and returned home, no one asked him to write a script anymore.
In order to make a living, he returned home to help someone pick up a Cantonese drama of chivalrous vs chimpanzees.
On stage, Hua Dan opened her thighs and was toyed with by the orangutan.
The off-stage workers were overjoyed and excited to open the door to trendy comedy.
That's the current affairs.
Back to the reality of the thirteen lang, have to admit:
People don't want to watch fights and kills, they just want to see something light-hearted and curious.
Don't say, more like we are now.
Thirteen Lang changed a version, and the class owner was not satisfied with the serious preaching in it. He demanded: The evil in the middle is extreme, and in the end the evil has evil retribution, just do it.
"You strip naked and dance
Fresh, Cantonese opera has never been tried
And also
Undress this time
Next time you shave, if you don't take it off, fight the real army."
As long as everyone loves to watch, how evil it is in the middle can be.
At this meeting, the class master scolded him for another word--God hates ghosts and ghosts.
But even so, he was still stupid.
Obsession, once in the drama of happiness and revenge, enmity and hatred, the right way in the world.
Obsessed, he saw the absurdity of the times and the numbness of the people.
Still did not choose to pretend to be sober.
04
The Vanishing Man
A line from the film:
Genius has only two ends: early death and early madness.
Jushiro is the latter.
In the movie, he has another genius confidant: screenwriter Tang Disheng.
At that time, almost all Cantonese opera red lings performed his plays, "Emperor Girl Flower" and "The Tale of the Red Plum of the Rebirth" were written by him.
As a result, he died of a heart attack at the age of 42.
Although in the movie Tang Disheng is arranged to be The Apprentice of Thirteen Lang.
This may not be true.
However, no one can say for sure whether Tang Disheng was also inspired by Shi Sanlang's works and aspired to become a Cantonese opera screenwriter.
The sympathy of these two geniuses is also in a "stupid" word.
Obsessed with words.
Tang Disheng met With Thirteen Lang for the first time and helped him copy the score.
Looking at the words on the songbook that did not rhyme, I didn't think about whether it was appropriate or inappropriate, and I said with a straight heart, this is wrong.
Thirteen Lang looked at this guy with some material.
The words you sing yourself can also be copied word for word.
So I got myself.
Singing and singing, one will be Hua Dan, the other will be Hua Face.
And Tang Disheng also copied a look of joy.
Where is the transcription, this is clearly the resonance of the two screenwriters when they are immersed in the creation.
For Shi Sanlang, the existence of Tang Disheng was a reassuring pill for him in this chaotic world.
It is this that goes beyond friendship.
It only made the reunion of the two many years later seem so moving.
Idiots always like to dream.
Shi San Lang did not know that Tang Disheng would die early, and after saying that he wanted to revive the heroic wind, Tang Disheng had a heart attack.
There is only one thirteen lang left in this world.
He went mad even more.
All day long, I held a blank piece of paper with only five words on it: Snow Mountain White Phoenix.
It was snow again, it was white phoenix again, and on white paper, nothing could be seen.
But what does he mean by seeing it as a treasure?
The phoenix is not himself, not Tang Disheng.
Tall and cold, unwilling to join the world, unable to put down a white feather.
He cannot be depicted, he is defiled.
This is the pride of their treasure.
It is also a waste paper that the world does not see.
05
Articles have a price
At the end of the movie, there are a few big words:
"Dedicated to all Hong Kong screenwriters
Congratulations"
In 1997, Gao Zhisen's intentions were very obvious:
He was not used to the "Golden Age of Hong Kong Cinema" that ran too fast.
Twisted in madness and excesses.
Now, isn't it also a wake-up call for us who are running faster.
Sir is still impressed by one detail.
After being insulted by the class master, the frustrated Thirteen Lang asked for his script.
The other side threw the script on the ground with disdain.
What about him.
Bending over, hands, gently closing, dusted the dust on top.
Words have a price.
The so-called "price" is not a reputation, nor is it a benefit.
It is a self-esteem that is not swallowed up by the current ruin.
He did it.
Thirteen did the same.
But, can everyone do it?
Don't get me wrong, "The Thirteen Heroes of the South Seas" is not a tribute to a legendary genius.
It belongs to all of us.
Keep an eye out for the empty mirror at the beginning and end of the movie.
Opening -
Hong Kong Night Market, where people enjoy the nightlife freely.
Singing, storytelling, fortune tellers...
At that time, on the streets of Hong Kong, even in order to listen to a fascinating story, they deliberately attacked the police and followed the storyteller into the police station.
The ending.
It is also a piece of empty mirror on the street, but it has no vitality - homeless people, beggars, old people.
They may not have the glory they once had, like The Thirteen Langs of the South Sea.
The same thing is that they are all people who have been left behind by the world.
Sir certainly can't ask everyone to have ambitions like Thirteen Lang, like Tang Disheng.
But Sir does miss the era when he could accommodate a "delusional heart" .
Even if it's short.
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