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Wu Zhenyu once sighed: "I said that I was the best at acting in love dramas, and the reporters laughed." ”
Before I watched "Juliet and Liang Shanbo", I would laugh out loud when I saw this sentence, but after watching the movie, I was eager to give Wu Zhenyu a standing ovation.
20 years ago, 2000.
At this time, the Hong Kong film scene had been three years since the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, and three years before the signing of the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) in 2003.
At this time, director Ip Wai Shin just came to prominence in the Hong Kong film industry with his debut film "Burst Police".
At this time, Wu Junru, Ren Dahua and Wu Zhenyu have not yet been called "old drama bones", and all three are good actors in the Hong Kong film industry.
At this time, everyone is still acting diligently, with a salary that matches the effort.
This point in time, which is not before and after, is exactly what we usually call the enchanting sunset before the brilliant end of Hong Kong films.
Released in 2000, "Juliet and Liang Shanbo" is undoubtedly a dazzling part of it.
"Juliet and Liang Shanbo" was directed by Ye Weixin and starred by Wu Zhenyu, Wu Junru, Ren Dahua and others, which did not cause much splash at the time, and the box office fiasco and the awards were not satisfactory.
Unexpectedly, many years later, it began to be regarded as a classic by movie fans, and the Douban score was as high as 8.3.
Below, let's brush off the dust of time and re-appreciate the charm of this old movie.
Let's talk about the name first, this title that sounds a bit "not classy" is really a bit confusing.
As we all know, "Romeo and Juliet" and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" are classic love works in the two classics at home and abroad, spanning several media to impress countless people.
Both of these stories are based on the theme of the great love of eternity.
Juliet and Liang Shanbo, one unwilling to live after the death of the lover, followed the lover; the other died because the lover promised to match others, and both were lovers.
The name contains two famous love tragedies at home and abroad, "Juliet and Liang Shanbo", which implies from the beginning that the story told in the film is also destined to be a tragedy.
In the movie, Qiao Deng, played by Wu Zhenyu, is a well-behaved little, he is Liang Shanbo in the title.
No tattoos, not just the upper body, usually the bad thing is to gamble a ball.
There is a two-sex ghost party, and there is a hot female friend.
The low-grade version of Liang Shanbo first met the low-grade version of Miss Juliet Judy in a large restaurant called Howey, where she worked as a waitress and was responsible for helping customers line up at the front desk.
In order to help the satyrs soak up the girls who had just come to Hong Kong from the United States, Qiao Deng and his party came here to eat, received a number plate, and had to wait for more than fifty seats.
wait? There is no, how can the little bastard Joedon honestly line up.
Therefore, our comrade Qiao Deng walked up to Judy, who was very busy, looked at her badge, and then pretended to be a lame Taiwanese accent and said: "Miss Judy, we have come from Chai (Taiwan) Bay to eat here, I spent more than ten hours flying here by plane from Chai Wan, and after eating, I spent more than ten hours flying back to Chai Wan by night flight." ”
Judy watched him coldly throughout the whole time, and when he finished, he coldly replied: "Do I need to laugh?" ”
When the trick didn't work, we, Jordan's clever little brains, quickly hatched another plan: take advantage of Judy's inattention to glance at the predetermined list and fake the person on it.
He pretended to be a well-known local land snake, and he still owed money to others.
Shame is a big loss, but love has taken root and sprouted by mistake.
After the first encounter, the two lived their lives separately.
Joe Den and the Henchmen were chased and beaten all day because they had no money to pay off their debts.
Judy has a grandfather with Alzheimer's disease, and he always repeats two things every day: one is to ask his granddaughter for Coke to drink, and the other is to take out the same pair of slippers every night and say that it is for Judy, judy has to accompany him every night to act.
Grandpa always took a bottle of happy fat house water and said happily, "No coke, no hope."
Seeing this sentence, countless young people today may nod their heads wildly, and it seems that Grandpa has fully realized the charm of happy fat house water twenty years ago.
Coca-Cola, as a symbol of the United States, can also be regarded as a kind of confusion and ambivalence of Hong Kong people after the "97" period, and there is still a certain hesitation about entering a socialist society.
However, Ip Wai Shin sucked up money on the mainland a few years later with the "Ip Man" series of kung fu movies, which can also be regarded as a refutation of the skepticism and desperate spirit contained in this sentence.
In the extremely short flashback at the beginning of the film, we learn that Judy originally had a marriage, but later because of breast cancer, her left chest was cut off, her husband proposed a divorce, and her grandfather was her only relative in the world.
Unlike Juliet and Liang Shanbo, who are famous and praised throughout the ages, Joden and Judy are just nobody.
One is the worst, the other is a waitress who has breast cancer and has her left breast cut off, and even if these two people evaporate, not many people will notice.
But it is these two small people who are as small as ants, and their appearance in front of love is no worse than that of the real Juliet and Liang Shanbo.
Later, Jordon is chased by a land snake, and on the way, she encounters a panicked Judy, who is running to the hospital because Grandpa was hit by a car.
Without saying a word, Joden let Judy get into the car and asked the taxi driver to drive to the hospital first.
After sending Judy to the hospital, Joden rushed to the place he had agreed with the Ground Snake. Because he had no money to pay back, he was blown up in the head with a beer bottle by one of the little brothers of the ground snake.
Twice met with the earth snake, once was insulted, once beaten, but full of optimism Comrade Joden quickly established a strong revolutionary friendship with the son of the earth snake.
This peculiar friendship paved the way for Joden and Judy's love affair.
Watching the blood on Joden's head keep flowing, the son of the ground snake used a small milk tone to tell him to hurry to the hospital, and the ground snake acquiesced.
In this way, Jordon and Grandpa Judy became neighbors.
Please ask, fate has reached this point, what obstacles can prevent this love from occurring?
Jordon and Grandpa Judy quickly established a deep revolutionary friendship.
Of course, this friendship is more "cheap", after all, Grandpa can buy it with a few bottles of cook.
However, as a small, he can actually attract the likes of the elderly and children, shouldn't Joden reflect on what went wrong in his career?
One wrong step, one wrong step, Qiao Deng actually became the temporary "milk father" of the bastard son of the earth snake after a dog blood plot of "the second milk of the earth snake was found by the main palace".
In exchange, the land snake promised that the money Jordan owed could be halved.
Sigh, this plot, only Hong Kong directors dare to shoot like this.
Judy naturally became a "wet nurse", and the two "cohabited" in Judy's house.
It is said that the child is the bond between the husband and wife, and the relationship between the two quickly becomes intimate because of this child.
Soaking milk powder together, naming children together, going to see a sick grandfather together...
Here's the question: What does it mean if a woman takes the initiative to hand over the keys to your house?
Of course, it means that she is in love with you and trusts you.
In "Juliet and Liang Shanbo", what we see is not the impression of the spicy, open mouth and ugly and funny Wu Junru, but a Long Hair, charming, introverted and affectionate Wu Junru.
Because her left breast was cut off, she always held her waist and did not dare to straighten up.
When Grandpa was in a car accident, he ran as hard as he could, but he never shed tears.
After the secret is discovered by Joden, the lonely appearance is heartbreaking.
On an otherwise calm night, the two sat in the courtyard to eat, and the child lay in the stroller and babbled, and the picture was beautiful and warm.
At this time, Judy suddenly confessed his past, about divorce, about illness, about those difficult and hidden pasts.
It was also at this time that the little bastard Jordon shed tears for the first time, and for the first time revealed his heart.
He said he also had a complete family, but his parents gave all their love to their younger brother as if he were an outsider. Even in a car accident, it was my parents and brother who died.
He cried and said, "Why, why, why don't you even take me with you to die?" ”
Love is like-minded, love is two people hugging and warming together, love is an emotion that can be determined through a look and an action even without a "love" word.
When the agreed time comes, the child has to pay it back, and the money has to pay it back.
Judy borrowed 100,000 yuan to repay Jordon, but the money was robbed in the middle, and Jordon needed to help the land snake to do one thing so that he could clear it twice.
This thing is killing.
Before he did, Joden went to see Judy.
He looked at her, she looked at him, didn't say anything, didn't ask.
Judy originally wanted to burn charcoal to commit suicide, but his grandfather died, and there was no longer any thought in the world.
Jordon looked at her and said only one word, "Wait until I come back for dinner." ”
Then he never went back.
As Jordon lay dying in a pool of blood, he felt as if he had a key in his hand, judy's door key. But he touched and touched, but his hands were empty.
The key, he didn't pull out of Judy's door when he left, because he knew he would never go back.
The girl with the black hair and shawl, the girl with the melancholy look in her eyes, the girl who had made a table of dishes and waited for him to go back, could not wait for him any longer.
"Juliet and Liang Shanbo" has no love words, no holding hands, no kissing, no intimate contact, but it is love everywhere.
I love you, this secret, sad love.
I love you, this repressed, desperate love.
I love you, and even if I repeat this sentence a thousand times and ten thousand times, I still feel that I have not said anything, less than one ten thousandth of the way I love you.
So I didn't say anything.
I want you to live for me.
I will live well for you.
"Juliet and Liang Shanbo" describes the love of small people, but in front of love, there is no distinction between fame and nobility.
Love is extremely subtle and introverted in the plot of dog blood, exaggeration, funny and even blood, but the least said is what you want to say the most.
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