Feng Xiaogang's "North And South" came to an end, as the first director of the fifth generation to try network dramas and satellite TV dramas, originally thought that Feng Xiaogang would become the first person to eat crabs, but the fact was not satisfactory, gathered Xu Fan, Zhang Shaogang, Song Dandan, Wang Luodan, Zhu Yilong, Zhang Yishan, Zhu Yuchen, Zhu Shimao and a number of good actors, Huang Bo even ran a dragon set halfway, so that this originally star-studded urban women's struggle drama has more hot spots and exposure, but unfortunately, with the completion of the TV broadcast, On Douban, "North and South" also has a rating of 5.0.
Some people say that the name of this drama is not wrong, the opposite, the film director to shoot the TV series, but unfortunately there is no plot, the plot is outdated and old-fashioned, there is no heart.
Let the public question Feng Xiaogang, is it really Jiang Lang who has exhausted?
Looking back at Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B", "The Story of the Editorial Department", "Beijingers in New York" and almost every other is remarkable, people do not praise Feng Xiaogang's creative novelty and full plot.
Interestingly, the original screenwriters of these highly acclaimed movies and TV series are Wang Shuo, who once hated to wear a pair of pants with "Feng Pants" Feng Xiaogang, is feng Xiaogang who left Wang Shuo really not innovative?
As a guide to bring Feng Xiaogang into the film and television circle, Wang Shuo has done too many things for Feng Xiaogang, and their connection has to start from 44 years ago.
In 1977, 19-year-old Feng Xiaogang did not catch up with the newly restored college entrance examination, turned his head and went straight to the military camp, became a soldier, and later entered a cultural unit in Beijing through his solid painting skills, on the other hand, Wang Shuo, who also joined the army in this year, went to Shandong to join the army and became an ordinary naval soldier, studying nurses in a fleet in the East China Sea for half a year, Wang Shuo was not willing to be lonely, in addition to daily training, Wang Shuo began to pick up a pen to write novels, until the short story "Waiting" was published in the "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" in 1978. It was also with this novel about the generation gap between young girls and their parents that Wang Shuo was assigned to be an editor of the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art.
On the other side, Feng Xiaogang was not so good, because the daughter of an old comrade was full of spring hearts, hindered by the discipline of the family, he did not dare to openly fall in love, he thought of communicating with his beloved through Feng Xiaogang, at that time Feng Xiaogang was only less than 20 years old, the first time there was a girl to "secretly send autumn waves" to himself, where Feng Xiaogang could withstand the test, but where did Feng Xiaogang know that this girl was The Ming Xiu Zhan Dao Darkness Chen Cang, his own boardwalk became a stepping stone for the girl, and soon the old comrade found Feng Xiaogang here In the following days, Feng Xiaogang was terrified, and when it came time to retire, sure enough, there was his Feng Xiaogang's big name on the list.
In this way, Feng Xiaogang retired from the army in 1984, and the first unrequited love ended. In the year of retirement, Feng Xiaogang still did not know Wang Shuo, and his later wife Xu Fan was only 18 years old, still a small actor in the drama troupe, and her relationship with Feng Xiaogang had to wait for many years.
Later, the good brother Wang Shuo xian Feng Xiaogang retired from the army for 4 years, after retiring from the army, Wang Shuo entered a pharmaceutical company as a salesman, every day is to buy and sell sugar water, fortunately, Wang Shuo did not give up writing, and then his works were published in the "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art".
Until 1983, Wang Shuo could not stand it any longer and resigned to work alone. With another good brother in the compound Shi Xiaoman opened a roast duck shop, as a child star, Shi Xiaoman has long been famous, relying on Shi Xiaoman's fame, the roast duck shop was quite popular at the beginning, but unfortunately, at that time, Wang Shuo and Shi Xiaoman were good noodles, all brothers, good friends can collect money for dinner, just like this, the roast duck shop opened for less than a year, it went out of business.
Wang Shuo began to envy those writers who could support themselves by writing, and this business failure made Wang Shuo panic and seriously realize the harshness of the primary goal of life, "eating enough".
Perhaps it is by relying on the good habits he has always developed and his keen grasp of the market situation that Wang Shuo's novels have begun to become popular, and finally Wang Shuo has tasted the pleasure of supporting himself by writing.
After the fire, Wang Shuo's spring heart began to flood, chasing girls everywhere, good brother Ma Weidu also helped Zhang Luo, often accompanied Wang Shuo out to fall in love, and at that time Ma Weidu had just been married, but for the brothers to insert knives in both ribs, it was a big deal to come back and kneel on the washboard.
Wang Shuo is in love, and Feng Xiaogang is also going to fall in love.
After retiring from the army, Feng Xiaogang was assigned to a trade union of Beijing Urban Construction Development Corporation, engaged in cultural propaganda activities, once Feng Xiaogang went to a hospital for work reasons, in the hospital for a female nurse with a good face, Feng Xiaogang "fell in love", this time it was still unrequited, in the face of beautiful girls, Feng Xiaogang could not open his legs, and then calmly defeated the impulse, before acting, Feng Xiaogang also entrusted someone to inquire about a female nurse, it was good to inquire about it, otherwise Feng Xiaogang would be a bad thing.
It turned out that this nurse was the wife of Zheng Xiaolong, deputy director of the Beijing Television Art Center, and Feng Xiaogang pinched his thigh, hey, hey, he lost love again.
But after knowing that Zheng Xiaolong was the deputy director of Beijing Television, Feng Xiaogang turned the gun and aimed it at the big leader Zheng Xiaolong.
Feng Xiaogang often invited me to dinner, talked to me for "communication", ideal work, talked about everything, there was no gift-giving in that year, Feng Xiaogang used these to "bribe" me. ”
Relying on these sweet words, Feng Xiaogang was successfully transferred to the Beijing Television Art Center and started art design. After entering beijing tv, Feng Xiaogang was also very hard, as Feng Xiaogang who came in through the back door also gave Zheng Xiaolong a long face, and helped Zheng Xiaolong create a TV series "Plainclothes Policeman", "Good Man Good Woman".
In 1984, Feng Xiaogang met and fell in love with Zhang Di through the introduction of colleagues in the unit; in the same year, Feng Xiaogang married Zhang Di, and after marriage, Feng Xiaogang worked harder, but every month was basically a dead wage, and he wanted to climb up.
Later, the opportunity came, under the introduction of Zheng Xiaolong, Feng Xiaogang knew Wang Shuo to this point, just met with Wang Shuo, Feng Xiaogang patted the horse's ass, memorized Wang Shuo's novel word for word, and also relied on his sweet words to get in front of Wang Shuo, although Wang Shuo had a special disdain for Feng Xiaogang's sneaky horse, but the old Beijing bureau must be in ah, reaching out without hitting the smiley face, Feng Xiaogang's various sweet words, Wang Shuo still did not resist, just like this, Feng Xiaogang climbed Wang Shuo's thighs and began a wonderful history of ascension.
It's just that Feng Xiaogang was not too heavily used at that time, but Feng Xiaogang had strong observation, followed Wang Shuo all day, memorized Wang Shuo's novels well, and began to imitate Wang Shuo, and it was precisely by virtue of his super imitation ability that Feng Xiaogang was just beginning to be reused by Zheng Xiaolong.
On the other hand, Xu Fan was still in college in the Chinese opera, was just assigned to the school as a teacher Wang Zhiwen was a mess, Xu Fan took the initiative to attack, began to chase men, at that time Wang Zhiwen a long hair drifting, walking on the road of the Chinese opera absolute male god existence, as the saying goes, good female chasing male compartment yarn, soon Wang Zhiwen also fell, and Xu Fan began a teacher-student relationship.
In 1991, Xu Fan graduated from Chinese opera and was assigned to Renyi, and Feng Xiaogang had just switched from art design to become a screenwriter.
Also in this year, Feng Xiaogang successfully said that Zheng Xiaolong hung a name in the TV series "Encounter with Passion" written by Zheng Xiaolong, which can also be regarded as a formal change of career, and in the same year, Feng Xiaogang, who had already worn a pair of pants with Wang Shuo, said that Wang Shuo and Wang Shuo's good brother Ma Weidu supported the "Story of the Editorial Department" was born.
Relying on the co-screenwriting with Ma Weidu and Wang Shuo, Feng Xiaogang has truly entered Wang Shuo's "Beijing circle".
At that time, the "Beijing circle" headed by Haiyan, Ye Jing, and Ye Daying was also a gathering of big coffee, which was very important in the film and television circle at that time, relying on the relationship between these big guys, Feng Xiaogang met three other big guys - Ge You, Zhao Baogang, screenwriter Liu Zhenyun.
In 1992, Feng Xiaogang got into Zheng Xiaolong's car and became the screenwriter of the movie "Big Sa tong", and met the heroine of the movie at that time, Xu Fan, who had long black hair, big eyes, and a very charming smile. Feng Xiaogang was "in love" again, but at that time, Feng Xiaogang knew that Xu Fan was Wang Zhiwen's girlfriend, and because of Wang Zhiwen's status at that time, he did not dare to take people's love.
However, not long after, Xu Fan and Wang Zhiwen had a big conflict, and Xu Fan was swept out by Wang Zhiwen, and the luggage was thrown to the ground, and the legend is that Xu Fan and the director Tian Zhuangzhuang were ambiguous at that time to anger Wang Zhiwen, but these are not really evidenced, but Wang Zhiwen and Xu Fan are really jumping.
Feng Xiaogang immediately seized the opportunity and began to attack Xu Fan, but at that time, Xu Fan had become a "wrist", and Feng Xiaogang was still a small screenwriter behind Zheng Xiaolong, and the status of the two was very different. Later, it was Wang Shuo who gave Advice to Feng Xiaogang and contacted Xu Fan through actress Chen Xiaoyi, which led to the combination of Feng Xiaogang and Xu Fan.
In 1993, Feng Xiaogang's opportunity came.
The TV series "Beijingers in New York" written by Zheng Xiaolong, Feng Xiaogang, Ma Weidu and other screenwriters began filming, and Feng Xiaogang began to ask Zheng Xiaolong to let him be a director in order to be worthy of Xu Fan, but everyone objected, and only Zheng Xiaolong agreed to Feng Xiaogang alone.
Feng Xiaogang: "The first person to let me be a director was Zheng Xiaolong, and everyone objected, thinking that I didn't have this ability, but Zheng Xiaolong said, I think he can." ”
This time, Feng Xiaogang really did it, after the TV series "Beijingers in New York" was broadcast, the male protagonist Jiang Wen and the female protagonist Wang Ji were in a mess, and even the ending song sung by Liu Huan, "Ten Million Times Ask" has become a must-play song in the streets and alleys. Feng Xiaogang has completely turned around by relying on this drama.
This time, Feng Xiaogang finally plucked up the courage to confess to Xu Fan, although Feng Xiaogang was married at that time, but this time "impulse defeated reason", and Xu Fan just suffered from emotional injuries, but Feng Xiaogang used his life to promise Xu Fan, so Xu Fan also sank and became a "little three".
As the saying goes, fat water does not flow to outsiders, and like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, Xu Fan has become The Royal Heroine of Feng Xiaogang.
In 1994, Wang Shuo and Feng Xiaogang jointly opened a "Good Dream Film and Television Company", and Wang Shuo at that time had been fanatic of Xu Jinglei, a "talented girl" who played rock and roll, and even his wife and daughter were not wanted, and the company was fully managed by Feng Xiaogang.
In 1994, by Wang Shuo, Feng Xiaogang as the screenwriter, Feng Xiaogang as the director of the film "Forever Lost My Love" began filming, the heroine Xu Fan, 1995 Feng Xiaogang film "Love", in the same year he also changed another good big brother Liu Zhenyun's novel "A Place of Chicken Feathers", the heroine of the thunder is still Xu Fan.
Unfortunately, the company that the two jointly opened was also not smooth, even shooting several movies were killed, the company could not continue, and Wang Shuo suffered even more miserably, because of the reconstruction of spiritual civilization, "spiritual leader" Wang Shuo left the United States, leaving a chicken feather.
Although the good big brother Wang Shuo is gone, Feng Xiaogang met another good big brother film studio director Han Sanping, who had the right, and when Feng Xiaogang saw Han Sanping, he had to shout "Three Masters".
Right 3 Han Sanping
In 1997, Wang Shuo left the United States, Feng Xiaogang was once helpless, fortunately, the emergence of Han Sanping, he suggested to Feng Xiaogang to make a comedy reflecting the reemployment of laid-off workers, when the reemployment of laid-off workers was a social hotspot, just like that, the suggestion of the good big brother Feng Xiaogang must listen to ah, so Wang Shuo's novel "You are not a layman" was adapted by Feng Xiaogang into a movie script "Party A and Party B". Relying on the operation of Han Sanping, the movie "Party A and Party B" became the first New Year film in the history of Chinese mainland films, which created the model of Chinese mainland commercial films, and after the film was released, it won 36 million at the box office and became the annual champion.
"1997 is over and I miss it."
Feng Xiaogang probably should not miss it, his fortunes began to rise, but his friendship with Wang Shuo ended here.
As for the reason why the two broke off relations, Wang Shuo once said: "The movie hangs my name, that is trouble, you don't hang my name will be fine, then why bother, you can live, let's not die together"
This time, Feng Xiaogang also listened, and the words of the good big brother still had to be listened to.
Relying on this "Party A and Party B" Feng Xiaogang became the most profitable director in China, after earning money, Feng Xiaogang once entrusted someone to send 50,000 cash to Wang Shuo, but Wang Shuo looked at it and threw it out of the door, he was not afraid of money, but tired of Feng Xiaogang's way of doing things.
At this point, the two were completely deadlocked.
And Feng Xiaogang and Wang Shuo's affairs were also seen by another good big brother Ye Jing, and later Ye Jing directed a movie "Days Related to Youth", in which Feng Pants was a feng Xiaogang who was alive and out, especially the teeth, and under Ye Jing's arrangement, Feng Pants was shaped into an ugly-looking, obscene personality, bullying soft and afraid of hardness, love to take advantage of small advantages, and also love to cry noses, the key finally became a director, so far, Feng Xiaogang has been nicknamed "Feng Pants", but Feng Xiaogang does not like others to call him "Feng Pants".
After that, Feng Xiaogang had a good momentum, in 1999, the movie "Not Seen, Not Scattered" and "Endless" won the box office championship one after another, and Feng Xiaogang himself won the best director, the audience's favorite director.
Also in this year, Feng Xiaogang's marriage in name only came to an end, Feng Xiaogang divorced his wife Zhang Di, and held a wedding with "Little Three" Xu Fan, the wedding banquet was arranged at more than a dozen tables, and friends in the circle could shout to come to the scene, although it was the second marriage, but in order to give Xu Fan, who had been a little third for many years, Feng Xiaogang was also bloody.
Feng Xiaogang, who has a double harvest in love, can be described as a big winner in the world.
Until 2008, Feng Xiaogang filmed the movie "Do Not Disturb", in which there was such a line: "Money is not a thing for me now, it is a lack of friends." The best ones are all running their own things, and sometimes I really miss you, and I feel very lonely in my heart. Take Care", which is considered to be "Old Friend Summoning".
Sure enough, Wang Shuo liked it very much after watching it, and also took the initiative to contact Feng Xiaogang, and the two filmed "Non-sincere Do Not Disturb 2" together, so that the two began to break the ice.
It's just that the more he gets to the back, the more Feng Xiaogang appears to be Jiang Lang's talent, and the gap between him and Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige is getting wider and wider.
In 2012, the movie "1942" was released, although the awards were numerous, but the bad reviews came like a tidal wave, netizens questioned Feng Xiaogang's "rendering the evil of human nature Chinese", and Feng Xiaogang also did not dare to have a fiery temper in the past, angry: "Don't watch this movie, to watch is 'dirty my movie'!" ”
Later, this film became Feng Xiaogang's only film that failed at the box office and was still in debt.
After the "private order", "Old Cannon", "I am not Pan Jinlian" can also be regarded as helping Feng Xiaogang successfully move back to a point, and now go back to see "1942", maybe people no longer have the original doubts.
Since Feng Xiaogang's last TV series has to be traced back to 1995's "A Place of Chicken Feathers", after experiencing the box office fiasco of "Only Yun Knows", Feng Xiaogang regained the TV drama director and prepared to do a big job, and in this new drama, Feng Xiaogang is also full of heart, perhaps it can be said that it is the heart of Huayi Brothers.
There is such a scene in "North and South", in order to be able to better create Si Meng came to the Aranya Tourism Base in Qinhuangdao, and this place is a base for tourism, real estate, film and television shooting jointly invested by Huayi Brothers and Qinhuangdao zf.
In "North and South", Feng Xiaogang even spent a lot of time using the dialogue between Si Meng and his wife to introduce this film and television real estate base, "Buying a house is to settle down, after having a house, it is no longer a travel plan, but a homecoming, the house can be directly hosted to the homestay center, collect rent, and nothing else has to be taken care of."
Why this TV series will be so focused on introducing a tourist base in the final episode, it is very simple, Huayi invested, and invested a lot, secondly, although Huayi once suffered from the loss of the film and television base, Feng Xiaogang Commune in Hainan, the annual profit is only more than 1 million, but with the land, it is capital, and huayi brothers have been capital all these years, so that the boss Wang Zhongjun has to start selling paintings to maintain daily operations. The same is the VAM agreement between Feng Xiaogang and Huayi Brothers, because it did not meet the agreement between the two sides, Feng Xiaogang still owes Huayi a lot of money, so Feng Xiaogang must advertise to his own company and strive to sell more houses.
Some people say that in Feng Xiaogang's early films, we can see Feng Xiaogang's production and his unique "Beijing flavor to make people poor", but it is a pity that Feng Xiaogang, who was helped by capital, is not simple, and Feng Dao's personal traces have been erased by his own hands.
Wang Shuo once commented on Feng Xiaogang and said something like this: "Feng Xiaogang is a commercial director, but I told him, you just be yourself." Because pleasing the masses will not have a good ending. ”
Feng Xiaogang may want to please the public, but first he has to make capital happy.