The writer Zhang Ailing once had a very interesting analogy, comparing life to a robe crawling with lice.
Many people lament that this metaphor is weird, and such an out-of-bounds imagery appears in the black comedy of the sketch "Bullets Flying on Broadway". To paraphrase her words: Broadway is a magnificent temple, with art flashing in it and bullets flying on it.
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In New York in the 1920s, an obscure playwright was unable to stage his work because of a lack of money for a producer. There was no way but to accept sponsorship from the underworld, in exchange for his mistress as a key role in the play. The playwright thought that this would be all right, but he did not expect that when the play began in full swing, the bodyguards sent by the boss to monitor him had a lot of opinions about the script, so they made many jokes.
The absurd and comical scenes of the movie screen reflect some of the things in Broadway.
In today's parlance, it is the gossip and insider publicity of the variety industry. It draws from the alternative side of the artist, such as big-name decoration, gossip and drag, jealousy and stealing scenes, one face before the person and one face after the other.
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While gaging, the director also throws out serious questions that are as real and as nerve-wracking as these ugly things.
The first is about "artistic talent". The reason why this playwright is not popular, in addition to bad luck, is mostly due to his average talent, far less than the bodyguard can grasp the key.
The playwright is a literary and artistic youth, who only hides at home and in the café to imagine the plot and dialogue, while the bodyguard is mixed in the street day and night, who has what thoughts, what words he can say, what tricks he wants to play, he is unique. The bodyguard was forced to follow rehearsals and help his mistress practice his lines every day, and when he later felt that the playwright was a ghost, he began to come up with ideas.
Who knows that he casually pointed out, not only the drama tasted greatly, the drama road was greatly opened, the actors and producers were unanimously praised, and even the subsequent auditions were well received. The play has not yet been staged, and the scene behind it is uninvited.
The playwright is naturally happy and pitiful. The joy is that his daughter-in-law has become a wife for many years, and what is sorry is that the "masterpiece" he has worked hard to turn out to be a failed work. The bodyguard originally only clicked one or two, and then thought he was stupid and stupid, and simply took the whole script to change. The playwright cleared his weight, like a leather ball deflated. In the end, he confessed to his girlfriend like a confession, "I am not an artist."
The bodyguards are emotionally invested in the play, desperately trying to make it perfect. He watched the role of his mistress as if his heart was like a knife, and he was eager to replace her. At this time, the playwright spoke for her, feeling that the audience could not tell the difference. The bodyguard retorted that the audience could see it, but couldn't say it. Use a funny plot to uncover the inside of the circle, obviously here is a word!
Before the premiere, the bodyguard couldn't bear to kill the mistress and didn't let her drag down the level of the play. Afterwards, the boss learned the truth and killed the bodyguard. Before the bodyguard died, he also told the playwright to change the last line of the last scene. Is there really such a thing? The playwright from the cobain is not the material of the artist, and the bodyguard who lives in the knife and gun is the artist through and through. One thinks by scratching the scalp, one relies on intuition.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > strange questions about lovers and talents</h1>
While talking about art, the film is also interpreting the new theme of love!
The film begins with a scene of friends chatting, where someone laments that a woman's fault lies in falling in love with an artist, not a man, and then causes an argument. The playwright later asked his girlfriend, asking if she loved an artist or a man.
In other words, when a girl falls in love with a playwright, is she in love with his artistic talent, or is she simply in love with this person?
If this person loses his talent one day, or if he walks out of the theater and becomes incompetent, will the girl still love it? This is a big problem, because the "lover or love talent" file is also in other industries, not only in artists. However, it is not small to say that it is not small, because in the acting, there are often lace news such as the fake drama of so-and-so director and so-and-so character, and the "falling love network", which has become a topic of people after dinner.
Of course, this question can also be asked of men in reverse.
It's like this playwright later fell in love with the Obasan actor, although it looks very exciting, but is there any truth in it? Yes. Because Obasan guided the playwright's creative inspiration and ability, he consciously grew and improved as if stepping into a better field of drama through her, and also got rid of the crappy nest in reality. So the playwright is in love with Obasan's "talent".
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When the playwright is about to break up with his girlfriend, the girlfriend herself is already in love with someone else. The playwright was caught off guard, but suddenly woke up. He wanted to figure out whether he wanted to love obasan, who had a "talent", or his girlfriend who had lived together for more than ten years.
After the success of the premiere, he did not go to the celebration banquet, but went to a friend's house to ask his girlfriend to come back. He asked again if his girlfriend loved the artist or the man? The girlfriend's answer was enough: "I can love a man who is not an artist, but I don't love an artist who is not a man." ”
Men are obviously bigger than artists: it is lovers and partners who love men, and only fans and friends who love artists.
The joys and sorrows in the play can be set, but the joys and sorrows outside the play cannot be set. To love a person, it is impossible to accept only his talent and not his personality. The artist who gives a sensual speech under the spotlight and the man who is angry on the living room couch are the same person. The playwright finally figured it out and decided to marry his girlfriend and return to his hometown to teach.
Just such a story, lively and hilarious, but a very mature humorous work. Its approach is exaggerated, not grotesque. The lines are funny, not brain teasers. The content structure is unexpected, but there is a logical connection, not nonsense, how to love. As for the part of black violence, it is also the part that pretends to be relaxed, but in fact helplessly captures the dark side of society.
For example, killing people is a few thuds. Instead of reinforcing the violence, it weakens. Weakened to the point of viewing violence only as a normal condition, only as an element of drama. It does not further humiliate and abuse and take pleasure in it. Such a scene, on the surface, laughs at the surrounding changes, but in the bones is still affirming life.