The difficult year of 2020 has quietly left, and 2021 is also expected to come as scheduled. With the end of the old and the new, people are already full of expectations for the New Year.
When it comes to the New Year, many people have the impression of firing cannons, couplets, big red lanterns, pressing old money, and the family gets together to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
But in recent years, many people have complained that the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, the cannon is not allowed to be released, the Spring Festival Gala is becoming more and more uninteresting, and the family is not playing mobile phones or playing mahjong together.
But in a movie 30 years ago, people saw the Spring Festival full of flavor in that era: twisting rice songs, setting off firecrackers, and the family sitting around and eating Chinese New Year's Eve meals.
But at the same time, this movie is not a New Year comedy, but constantly conflicting, so that after the end of the film, people feel not warmth, but endless heartache, with a certain tragic nature.
This movie is the "New Year" released in 1991, gathering Zhao Lirong, Li Baotian, Ge You, six-year-old children, Liang Tian and other difficult to copy lineups, and now the Douban score is 8.8.
01.
The old Cheng family lives on the edge of a small town in the northeast, and there are a total of 13 people in the family. Chinese New Year's Eve this day, his father (Li Baotian), who has been running around for more than half a year, bought New Year goods and sat on a plow to go home for the New Year.
Looking at his thrifty wife and child who missed his children, he gave his wife the 8,000 yuan he had earned for more than half a year, and said "it's all yours", which caused his wife to cry.
Chinese New Year's Eve, the mother (Zhao Lirong) prepares Chinese New Year's Eve meal around the stove, sits on the kang to make dumplings, and waits with her wife for the children to come home for Chinese New Year's Eve meal, but none of the children come back, and the old two eat a cold Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
However, on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the children rushed back from different places for the New Year, especially the arrival of the young daughter and the young son-in-law, which made the old couple rejoice.
Originally, the children all went home, the family was reunited, the old two were very happy, planning to eat a reunion dinner together in a lively way, but during this period, the children clashed because they were worried about the money earned by the old father, and the reunion dinner was finally unhappy and dispersed.
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, the morning of the second day of the New Year, the old couple sat on the snow climbing plow and left their home sadly, disappointed and reluctantly.
02.
The movie "New Year" is actually not an original film, it is adapted from the stage play "The First Day of the Chinese New Year", directed by Huang Jianzhong.
Huang Jianzhong came to prominence as the assistant director of the movie "Little Flower", which made people see his talent. His films such as "Ruyi", "Good Family Women" and "New Year" have a personal style and conduct in-depth exploration of human nature.
It is worth mentioning that Huang Jianzhong set the filming time of "New Year" on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 1990, and the location was set in Xinlin Village, Huanxi Township, Chuanying District, Jilin City, Jilin Province.
Therefore, the film is full of local real New Year scenes, and there are many local villagers participating in the film, making the film more authentic.
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One of the main actors of the film, Li Baotian, is a full of old drama bones, and I think everyone must be very impressed by liu luoguo and Xi Laile, who he played.
At the time of participating in this film, Li Baotian was 44 years old. Although he is a few years older than Ge You, a six-year-old boy who plays his son and son-in-law, he portrays the image of an old father with flesh and blood, especially when he frowns, and the wrinkles on his forehead are as deep as knife-cut scars.
Li Baotian probably did not play any young roles, and when he was admitted to the directing cadre class of the Central Academy of Drama, he was already in his 30s, and he was 35 years old when he graduated and stayed in school. Therefore, he who appears on the screen plays mostly elderly characters.
Perhaps it is precisely because of his accumulation and tempering that his performance in the film is very outstanding: not only the performance is vivid, but also the lines are well-trained, and the image of the head of a family is deeply interpreted.
One of the classic scenes is that the father played by Li Baotian served a "big meal" full of money and said, "What are you doing, aren't you all waiting for this dish?" Two simple words, a look, an expression, showing the old father's sadness, disappointment and anger.
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Zhao Lirong, who played the opposite role with Li Baotian, was 62 years old when she filmed this play, 18 years older than Li Baotian. However, the two of them in the film, but there is no sense of violation, it seems to be a good match.
Moreover, Zhao Lirong's smile, every action and look in the film are so vivid and natural: the touch when her wife gives her money; the joy and relief when she sees her second daughter and son-in-law; the heartache for the eldest daughter; the scolding of the eldest son... All kinds of details show the image of a typical Chinese mother, making people feel as if they have seen an old mother who has broken her heart for herself.
At the same time, Zhao Lirong's professionalism is also unmistakable in this film. During the filming process, there is a scene where Zhao Lirong cupping a fire on the kang, considering the cold weather in the northeast and Zhao Lirong's age, the director originally planned to find a stand-in to play, but Zhao Lirong insisted on starring herself.
After the performance, Zhao Lirong fell seriously ill and suffered from emphysema.
But Zhao Lirong's efforts were not in vain, and with this film, she won the Best Actress Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the Hundred Flowers Award.
After that, Zhao Lirong participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala many times and became the king of sketches with works such as "Mother's Today", "The Adventure of Part-time Work", and "The Veteran Goes Out of the Horse". But such a classic image is no longer there, in 2000, Zhao Lirong died of lung cancer at the age of 72.
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In the film, the eldest son Cheng Zhi, played by the six-year-old child, is a cowardly teacher, who not only obeys the words of his daughter-in-law, but also can be seen from his son's words that he is often bullied by his daughter-in-law in his life.
Such a man, who finally broke out after drinking at the reunion dinner, had a big fight with his daughter-in-law who was full of money, and hardened his temper.
In fact, this is not the first cooperation between the six-year-old child and Zhao Lirong, as early as the 86th edition of "Journey to the West", the two of them have cooperated, when Zhao Lirong played a little "timid" but kind-hearted Che Chi King Queen.
In fact, after "Journey to the West", this "New Year" can be called a work with a relatively superior performance of six-year-old children. In 2020, the movie "Money Fan" starring him not only had a Douban score as low as 2.5 points, but fans also complained that "this is a bad film".
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Cheng Zhi's wife is played by Ding Jiali, this eldest daughter-in-law has a very distinct personality, is spicy and strong, and disciplines Cheng Zhi obediently; at the same time, she is also a very powerful person, in order to get money, she dares to say anything, very unloved by her in-laws, as can be seen from the fact that Old Master Cheng called her "Wolf Mother".
However, this also proves that Ding Jiali's acting skills are excellent. Moreover, as one of the few northeasterners in the crew, her authentic Northeastern dialect highlights the character of this character more strongly.
Other actors speak Mandarin more in the film, and some even have their own hometown accents. Just like Ge You and Liang Tian, the thick Beijing accent is somewhat dramatic.
In fact, as early as before participating in this film, Ding Jiali won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 7th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards for her film "The First Woman in the Mountains and Forests"; and her superb acting skills in "New Year" made her win the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 12th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards.
Since then, Ding Jiali has also created a lot of classic images, but also mostly supporting roles.
What many people don't know is that Ding Jiali and Sun Honglei, who is 11 years younger than herself, have a past affair, and eventually ended in a breakup.
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The eldest daughter, who has been wronged and always has a bitter face, is played by Wang Liyun. In the film, she suffered from her husband's snub, endured his heart, and miscarried many times under his husband's persecution. Eventually, after her husband's lover's mother came to the door, all emotions erupted in her mother's arms.
In fact, Wang Liyun was not very famous at that time, but she also starred in many dramas. And coincidentally, this is not her first cooperation with Zhao Lirong, on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 1988, Wang Liyun, Zhao Lirong and You Benchang jointly performed a sketch - "Emergency".
After the broadcast of the TV series "The Three Kingdoms Era of Concubines", Wang Liyun became popular and was known as the "National Mother-in-Law". It is worth mentioning that Wang Liyun's daughter is Che Xiao, who is also a very good actress.
And Ge You, who plays the elder brother-in-law who behaves inappropriately, presumably needless to say, everyone is familiar with it.
Just to mention here, this film was filmed in 1990 and released in 1991, and in 1990, Ge You starred in the TV series "Siege of the City", which was a hit, and he and Shi Lanya, the actor of the second daughter in "New Year", both starred.
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The second son is played by Hu Yajie, mentioning this name, and even seeing this person, many people may feel very strange, and some people may feel that this person is not red at all.
But when filming "New Year", Hu Yajie can be described as popular all over the country. He is known as the first generation of "Rock Boy" and became popular because in 1987, he starred in Haiyan's "Plainclothes Policeman". Later, although he participated in many TV series, his influence was far less than that of "Plainclothes Policeman".
Coincidentally, there is also a "rock girl" in the film "New Year", that is, Tan Xiaoyan, who plays his girlfriend. Like Hu Yajie, she became popular all over the country after participating in the TV series "Plainclothes Police", becoming the first generation of "rock girls", and even Sun Li and Xu Jinglei can only be regarded as her descendants.
In "New Year", they play a little couple, one is a foreign girl from a cadre's family, and the other is a college student who wants to borrow money from his father to investigate. The presence of the two of them in the film is not very strong, but it is also a point of conflict.
In addition, Liang Tian is the youngest son in the film, a lazy and unemployed youth, Liang Tian's control of this role can be described as handy, that is, the face is slightly old.
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In the film, although the second daughter Cheng Ping (played by Shi Lanya) eloped with Dachuan (played by Shen Junyi), the two of them were the people who could most comfort the old couple.
They went home for the New Year, just to get the forgiveness and recognition of their parents, and sincerely wanted to spend the New Year with the second elder.
The most appropriate word to describe Shi Lanya is "debut is the peak": when she cooperated with Chen Daoming and Ge You in the TV series "Siege", she was only 19 years old; when she starred in "New Year", she was only 20 years old. Later, she and Li Youbin had a love affair in the play and got married, and gradually faded out of the screen.
Shen Junyi is actually not from the class, after being demobilized from the army, due to a chance, he stepped into the film and television circle. He is well known as the main villain of the 1987 "Bandits of Wulong Mountain", and he won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role.
Even if the fierce appearance of the mountain leopard is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it does not affect him in the slightest to become a thick and down-to-earth, humble and generous man in "New Year".
Huang Jianzhong did not make "New Year" into a family-friendly movie based on people's traditional cognition of "New Year", but through the 13 members of the old Cheng family, various conflicts on the first day of the New Year showed various ugly situations between family members.
This film not only has sympathy for the older generation, but also allows people to see another deep meaning: the traditional feudal thinking of parents actually deepens the unhappiness of their children's marriage, so that the whole film reveals a hint of sadness in warmth.
The Spring Festival is actually the mirror of the Chinese family, and the bittersweet and bittersweet are all exposed. It is no wonder that some netizens will comment: This movie is too realistic, the Spring Festival is indeed like this, everyone has the shadow of my relatives. (Author: West Window Snow)