Director Chen Kaige recalled filming "Farewell to the Overlord" with Zhang Guorong, saying: "There is no distinction between people and dramas, he has done the head. Brother Zhang Guorong's acting skills are natural, he is Cheng Dieyi, in the role of the drama, I forget both, brilliant, cute.
However, at the 34th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards in 1997, he lost to another actor in "Spring Break" - Xie Junhao in "Nanhai Thirteen Langs".
Interestingly, "Nanhai Thirteen Langs" is actually the first film starring Xie Junhao.
Previously, he was a drama actor. When he first entered the film circle, he also ran the dragon set twice for Zhang Guorong's film. No one would have thought that he would take the movie emperor with this debut film. It can be said that this is Xie Junhao's perfect work. If you have seen it, you know what it means to be "not crazy, not to live".
"Nanhai Thirteen Lang" tells the lifelong legend of Nanhai Thirteen Lang, a generation of Cantonese opera masters Tang Disheng. Nanhai Thirteen Lang, formerly known as Jiang Yujun, the thirteenth son of Taishi Gong at the end of the Qing Dynasty, was a lonely and extraordinary man with outstanding literary talent.
The legend was presented in 1993 by Hong Kong-winning playwright Du Guowei. He will smelt immortal characters, Cantonese cantonese opera and quaint Hong Kong together;
Director Gu Tiannong handled the performance with the technique of storytelling and telling the ancient, which was both solemn and humorous, lively and interesting; plus Xie Junhao, the best candidate of Nanhai Thirteen Lang, performed this talented, paranoid and simple genius playwright. As soon as this play was staged, it caused a huge sensation, and dozens of consecutive performances were performed, and the scene was full.
In 1997, Gao Zhisen, Du Guowei and Gu Tiannong cooperated in the spring stage of the troupe to remake the play and once again caused a sensation.
In the same year, Gao Zhisen's "Nanhai Thirteen Lang" film was released, using the original team of stage dramas, and won three awards at the 34th Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing. It was later adapted into a TV series.
Produced three times in twenty years, re-enacted six times, each stage has caused a sensation, hundreds of performances are almost full, such a popular work, throughout the history of Hong Kong theater, there are really few can achieve.
The film begins with the Hong Kong ancient people (storytellers), banging gongs and opening their voices on the street, and telling the life of Nanhai Thirteen Lang by the mouth of others.
As the so-called "voice of tears and shadow daughter incense, swallow return to where to find the remnant pond." The red silk night steals the cold river snow, and the idiot is Shi Sanlang. ”
Who are these thirteen langs? Is a genius.
The biological father married a total of twelve wives from the Qinglou in this life, and "a lifetime of children's debts, half a wife and slave" can be used as an annotation to his life, although the family situation is very complicated, but it is the natural nature of the thirteen langs.
Therefore, he has been sharp-toothed since he was a child, born stubborn, and can only stop for a moment when watching a play. He is addicted to drama, but has his own exclusive insights and creative talents in drama.
Facing Xue Juexian, the most famous popular man in Hong Kong and Macao in the province, he could point out the lack of his performance, and the next day he sent him the script he had written, which was bound to be wonderful and wrapped up in a good singing.
After conquering the corners of the circle, he competed to hire him as a screenwriter.
Twenty-six-year-old Thirteen Lang has also turned into a red man who everyone is competing for and rising up.
Although he himself became a big screenwriter, he did not forget to help his peers, and what he cared about was not a false name.
He also single-handedly taught Tang Disheng, a famous Cantonese opera composer who was known as the "Grandmaster of a Generation" after the war.
They admired each other and spent just a few short years together. Shi Sanlang poured out all the teachings he had learned, and did not forget to teach Tang Disheng not to imitate himself in vain, but to turn what he learned into personal use. And for him to point out the bright road that belongs to young people, to help him correct his attitude and career trend. As the protagonist, Jushiro will usher in the second half of his gray life...
The world says that there is only a line between genius and madness. Naturally, he was also a madman. Before and after his fame, many people have scolded him as a "stupid line", and geniuses always have too many words and deeds to make ordinary people unable to understand.
He is grumpy, has a vicious mouth, says that it is good to listen, is arrogant and arrogant, and says that it is ugly, it is arrogant.
At the end of the war, the old and the new era alternate, and for an old-fashioned figure like Jushiro, it is time to be ridiculed and teased by fate.
People asked him to write the strange love story of the orangutan king robbing the people's daughter and getting pregnant and giving birth to a child, but he did not want to. Others changed his script, so that the heroine inexplicably came back from the dead, and he couldn't bear it. Life had gradually fallen, and he never lowered his noble head. Even his apprentice Tang Disheng tried to prove that the article was valuable.
This is the backbone of their literati. Unfortunately, in that era, the ending of the two people who wrote the script the most was visible. For genius does not compromise with the world.
What is the literati style bone, what is the high wind and bright festival, Xiao Rou feels that this line in the movie is the best answer:
I'm going to prove that the article has a price. In another three or fifty years, no one will remember those stocks, gold, money, and world events, but a good script, after fifty years, a hundred years, there are still people who appreciate it, even if I die, my name and my play, no one will forget. This is called article price.
They left behind a song that has been sung for eternity. Tang Disheng's most well-known work is known as the "Emperor Girl Flower" of Cantonese opera treasures.
Among them, the famous section of "Xiang Yao" "Falling flowers cover the moonlight, borrow a cup of phoenix on the table" is also widely spread outside of Cantonese songs.
Nanhai Shisanlang's "Cold River Fishing snow", "Tears in the Heart", "Lixiangyuan", "Daughter Xiang", "Liang Hongyu" and many other classic works have been widely circulated.
Why they can be remembered by everyone, in fact, the film says the best answer: thinking about fame all day long can not write a good script. This advice, put into the present, is still a wake-up call to the current film and television industry. As the movie ends:
I hope that filmmakers can come up with more good works and encourage them together.