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Coinciding with the National Day file, after "My Motherland and Me" and "My Hometown and Me", "My Father and Me" came again. Four different directors, four different periods of story, reflecting the story of four different periods of fathers.
If Nalan had to choose one, it would definitely be Xu Zheng's "Duck Prophet".
Although the name is a bit strange, the style of film criticism is as always with a strong Xu Zheng personal style label, full of humor full of life, often able to make people smile.
More importantly, although it is only a few tens of minutes, the information density and Easter eggs in "Duck Prophet" have a "stem", which is definitely the highest among the four stories, so that the audience is still relishing the review after watching it, and even opens the two brush and three brush mode to find the "stem".
Easter Egg One: True "Details"
This time, Xu Zheng's "Duck Prophet" still focuses on the story in the Shanghai Lane, which is the same as the background setting of his filming of "My Motherland and Me" "Winning the Championship", which is also Xu Zheng's unique feelings for his hometown as a Shanghainese.
And Han Haolin, who played his son in "Duck Prophet", is the third cooperation between the two. Interestingly, this time Han Haolin's character name is also called "Winter Winter", the reason why the word "also" is used, it is because in the "Win the Championship" chapter of "My Motherland and Me", Han Haolin's character name also happens to be called "Winter Winter".
Not only did Han Haolin continue the setting of his previous works, "Duck Prophet" also appeared in his young partner "Xiaomei", played by Fan Yujie, who played the role of "Xiaomei" in the "Championship" chapter "My Motherland and Me".
There are also familiar faces in the neighborhood include Zhang Jianya and Zhang Zhihua, who also played the neighborhood neighbors in the "Win the Championship" chapter of "My Motherland and Me". With this level of detail, it is enough to be careful.
"Duck Prophet" portrays the social situation and character group portraits in the lane in 1978, and many star artists have wonderful cameos in it, such as Wan Qian playing the medicine and liquor counter salesman with a smile and kindness, Zhang Guoqiang playing a cadre portrait of the distillery director, and the husband and wife played by Jia Bing and Zhang Yuqi are full of joy.
But speaking of couples, there are at least two real couples in "Duck Prophet".
Among them, Sha Yi and Hu Ke played a couple. On the bus, Sha Yi was almost moved by the "situation advertisement" of Dong Dong and Zhao Pingyang singing and harmonizing, and in order to please the old man, he was ready to pay for wine, and the look of pleasing his wife almost made people think that it was the true color.
And Xu Zheng's wife Tao Hong also made a cameo role as Dongdong's class teacher, and she and Xu Zheng argued about family education in the office, like the scene that will appear in life.
Easter Egg Three: True Profession
The number of cameos in "Duck Prophet" and the weight of The Cast are enough to make many movies envious. What is even more enjoyable is that some of the cameos of some of these characters are cameos in their true colors.
The big director Zhang Yimou made a cameo appearance as the director of the TV station in the film, and he asked the young choreographer played by Ou Hao to take a look at the newly filmed advertising film when Versailles said, "Take your commercial to see, don't fool me, I can have made a movie." Good guys, this guy is just "made a movie".
It is worth mentioning that in 1978, Zhang Yimou entered the photography department of the Beijing Film Academy to study, which can be regarded as the beginning of his film road.
And Cao Kefan, who is clustered next to the director of the TV station, is a real Host of Shanghai TELEVISION, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he starred in "Duck Prophet".
Easter Egg Four: True History
China's first television commercial was broadcast in 1979. On January 28, 1979, Shanghai Television broadcast China's first television advertisement, Shangui Yangrong Wine, and received 300 yuan in advertising fees. The "Duck Prophet" is based on this story as the prototype for creation, and according to Dong Dong's composition, the savings earned by his father Zhao Pingyang's various scalping businesses are exactly more than 300.
According to Wang Zhicheng, the former head of the advertising department of Shanghai Television Station, the price of "Ginseng Yangrong Wine" was expensive at that time, which may be the reason why the earliest sales were not good: in 1979, the per capita annual net income of Chinese farmers was 160.17 yuan, and the monthly salary of a university undergraduate student at the TV station was only more than 60 yuan, but a bottle of "Ginseng Yangrong Wine" sold for fifteen or six yuan.
The turnaround came after the advertisement was broadcast, and although the 1 minute and 30 seconds advertisement was only broadcast five or six times in total, the effect was surprisingly good, "The main stores selling that medicinal liquor in Shanghai were all sold out and out of stock." After the advertisement was broadcast, it was followed by a 10-second slide that read: "Shanghai Television will accept advertising business from now on." ”