Xiaobian was successfully fanned by a director.
This director is the "anti-correction master" Er Dongsheng who is out of the circle again.
In the second season of the variety show "Actors Please Take Place", not only the comments are sharp and poisonous, but also various contribution memes, which is really the treasure boy of the show.
In the face of Er Dongsheng's direct comments, many people asked, why is Er Dongsheng "arrogant"?
Xiaobian can responsibly say that he really has this arrogant capital.
As an actor, he was once the most handsome "Three Young Masters" in Shaw's films, you read that right, the director when he was young was so handsome.
As a director, he has won the Academy Award for Best Director many times, and has shot many classic films such as "The Night of Mong Kok", "Disciple", "Can't Forget" and so on.
It can be said that Er Dongsheng is a rare all-round talent in Hong Kong movies.
"The Night of Mong Kok"
This time, xiaobian will talk to you about a classic love film directed by Er Dongsheng ——
"New Can't Love"
"New Can't Love" is Er Dongsheng's first self-written and self-directed film as his boss in 1993, and the reason why the story is called "New Can't Love" is derived from Shaw's 1961 film "No Love".
In order to make the story and characters more full, Er Dongsheng lived with the character archetypes in the play for two or three months, and finally completed the film script.
The male protagonist of the film is Liu Qingyun, and the two have been related for the filming of "A Generation of Empress Da Yu'er".
Er Dongsheng showed Liu Qingyun the script of "New Love", and Liu Qingyun was impressed by a line in the script and decided to act.
The film also allowed Liu Qingyun to get the first film emperor nomination, although he finally lost to Huang Qiusheng, but let everyone see his acting strength.
The heroine originally invited Maggie Cheung and Zhou Huimin to play the role, but they did not have time, and finally chose Yuan Yongyi, who was still a newcomer at the time, to play.
In addition, there are liu jialing, Feng Baobao, Qin Pei, Zhang Aijia and other actors to join.
Looking at the Hong Kong movies at that time now, people can't help but sigh, Yuan Yongyi and Liu Jialing in the film are beautiful and moving, and the acting skills of each actor are also at ease.
Especially the heroine Yuan Yongyi, "New Love" is her second film, and it is also her first film as a heroine.
Yuan Yongyi is worthy of being called "beautiful", when she was full of youth, beautiful aura, the heroine although terminally ill but loves life, positive and optimistic interpretation of the true nature.
With her wonderful performance, Yuan Yongyi won the 13th Academy Awards, and the following year, she won the 14th Academy Awards with "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", becoming the first Film Queen of the Academy Awards.
Worthy of being the champion of Hong Kong sisters, beautiful business ability and strong!
"New Love" was acclaimed and sold after its release that year.
Jackie Chan's "City Hunter" and Jet Li's "Fang Shiyu" won 30 million at the box office and ranked third at the annual box office.
In the following year, the Academy Awards shined, with 12 nominations, and finally won 6 awards such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.
In 2008, Er Dongsheng filmed the story into a TV series, starring Chen Kun and Xue Kaiqi, and the ratings and word of mouth were also good.
27 years later, more than 50,000 people have given "New Love" a high score of 8.3 on Douban, which is better than 91% of romance films.
Various praises in the comment area, and even evaluated by netizens as a masterpiece of Hong Kong love movies, can be on a par with "Sweet Honey".
With so much praise, what is the charm of this classic romance of the 90s?
The first is ordinary and simple touching love.
Now it seems that in fact, the story of the film is very cheesy, telling the love story between the terminally ill Amin and the musician Ajie, who has never met.
But it is not done at all, and unlike all kinds of dog-blood love dramas that are full of misunderstandings and misses, third-party intervention, and parental interference, "New Love" is very real.
The director did not deliberately stir up emotions, but used a bland and delicate narrative technique to tell this love tragedy, showing us a very lifelike love.
So after watching it, we will be touched by the inseparable and sincere feelings between the protagonists.
After the two people met and admired each other, they did not have so much speculation, but decisively said their hearts.
Faced with Amin's mother's objections and ex-girlfriend's existence, they are also handled in adult ways.
The two of them will watch goldfish together in the lively night market, eat sweet bowl cakes, go to the park to feed stray dogs, or set off fireworks by the river and climb mountains to talk about life.
On the first date, the heroine deliberately put on lipstick and put on a beautiful skirt, and the male protagonist in a handsome suit held a flower and quietly waited for his lover.
The nervous and sweet expressions of the two people resemble those of us in love.
Isn't that what love in reality is all about?
There are not so many ups and downs and poetic romance, more plain and simple little beauty.
In the second half of the movie, the plot takes a sharp turn, how beautiful the front is and how cruel the back is, but the director is very restrained in handling the death of the heroine.
The male protagonist rushed back to the hospital with the female protagonist's beloved bowl cake, only to see the nurse who was sobbing low, the director did not give the female protagonist a shot, and the film ended abruptly at the moment when the male protagonist covered his eyes and shed tears.
In fact, this kind of treatment can be described as silent than sound, creating a thick sadness and heartache that cannot be seen on the last side.
At the same time, the director also interprets the love for a person through the perspective of the two protagonists.
The heroine knows that her time is short, when the male protagonist's ex-girlfriend Tracy came to visit her, she deliberately opened the male protagonist, suggesting that Tracy and the male protagonist were reunited.
Tell Tracy to encourage him when he's frustrated, tease him when he's in a bad mood, and tell him when he's feeling down
You're not going to leave him anyway.
This scene is reminiscent of the plot of the ten things that the male protagonist said to the heroine's new boyfriend in "My Savage Girlfriend".
When a person who loves you leaves, you will hope that the next person can love you better than himself.
In the face of the heroine's various pushes after illness, the male protagonist did not let go, but silently accompanied, put on a ring for her, and confessed affectionately, the thing I am most afraid of is that you will not agree to marry me.
The theme song "New Can't Love" is also quite in line with the film, making the story more painful.
After the film was broadcast, the theme song was sung so popularly, and it was covered by many people, and it is said that because the song was too sad that year, the original singer Wan Fang recorded it with tears.
The second is an optimistic and open-minded attitude towards life.
Although "New Love" is a sad love drama, the drama exudes positivity everywhere.
The male protagonist, Ajie, is full of talent but has no ambition, lives alone in a dilapidated apartment, gets up late and sleeps, eats noodles, and lives a very sad life.
At this time, the male protagonist met the female protagonist who lived downstairs.
What kind of person is the heroine? The director devotes a lot of space to describing her.
When she was a child, she was optimistic, cheerful, caring, and loved life with all her strength every day, and her face was always full of bright smiles.
When the male protagonist's life is not satisfactory, the female protagonist tells him that not all people are lucky to live an ideal life, of course, it is good to have a house and a car, do you have to cry? So we should be satisfied with what we have at the moment.
When his friends are pessimistic and world-weary, the heroine advises everyone that liking and pleasing life are different, and they must learn to distinguish clearly.
And through the perspective of the female protagonist, the male protagonist saw a group of people who were more humble than him, but still strong in life.
Ah Ling seems to be a singer who sells and sings to make money, but she is the Zhengdan of authentic drama.
Mom used to be a singer and faded out of the singing world due to her bad temper.
My uncle secretly drank alcohol all day, but in fact, he was proficient in Chinese and Western instruments and was an excellent musician.
Although such a group of people who have never met with talent have been reduced to selling and singing on the street for a living, they still have not given up their lives.
As my uncle told the male protagonist, "At best, I complained about my bad luck and never doubted my talent." Remember, you must never doubt yourself.
It is the positive and optimistic attitude of these people who slowly changed the male protagonist and let the male protagonist find the direction of life again.
There is such a scene in the film, the male protagonist goes to the birthday party of the female protagonist's mother.
At the party, everyone played music together with musical instruments, and the male protagonist also took the saxophone thrown by his uncle and played it like everyone else.
At this moment, there is no frustration of life, just high music and love for life.
In fact, the director outside the film is the same, frustrated but optimistic.
At that time, the Hong Kong film industry was the world of costumes and gambling films, literary and art films were very unpopular, "New Love" was not willing to invest for three years, And Er Dongsheng did not give up and finally raised money to start filming.
It is precisely because of this optimistic attitude of not giving up that Er Dongsheng turned against the wind, and the film was greatly praised after its release.
Although "New Love" is a love film, the attitude of life it conveys is more worthy of our memories.
This is one of the reasons why it can become a classic.
"If the worst in life is only death, how can there be difficulties in life that cannot be faced", this is what the heroine told the male protagonist, and it is also what the director wants to tell us.
Because "life" means that as long as life exists, we should strive to live every day.
Piglet, | in the Editorial Department of Bluestone Films
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