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Xu Qing, 51 years old this year, is still single and radiant.
In 1980, at the age of 11, she debuted and played the role of tian Jing in the movie "Iron Armor 008".
In the 1986 version of "Journey to the West", she also participated in it, playing a "fan fire girl" next to Taishang Laojun.
In 1991, Xu Qing, who had just turned 22, was caught by the big director Ling Zifeng, and his partner you Yong starred in Ling Zifeng's "sealed work" "Crazy".
However, the release process of this movie has gone through ups and downs -
After filming, the film was released in Hong Kong on May 28, 1992, but was banned in the mainland for 12 years, until the mainland version was finally approved for official release on July 14, 2004.
However, because the Hong Kong version had been released at that time, many running versions flowed into the mainland, and some viewers also watched the film through some channels, including some local television stations, and at the time when regulatory information was not developed, it was deleted and broadcast.
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Compared with the original version, the mainland version has been trimmed, which also casts a mysterious veil on this movie, and Xu Qing's bold performance in the film has also become a hot topic in the fan circle.
With a curious attitude, Pigo found the DVD version of "Pretty Lady" that was closest to the original version.
Although the length of the film is only 91 minutes, after watching the whole film, Pigo actually found that this movie that tells a bizarre story in a small town in Sichuan at the end of the Qing Dynasty has a grand connotation and significance, no less than the "Gone with the Wind" adapted from the novel "Gone with the Wind".
"Madness" is also adapted from a historical masterpiece, the original is Li Jieren's novel "Backwater Breeze"
In our Chinese literary circles, the significance of this novel is very far-reaching, and it is a sign of the maturity of modern novels.
Today, Pigo will take everyone to talk about this movie.
At the end of the 19th century in Sichuan, the peasant girl Deng Yugu (Xu Qing) longed for the life of the city, she was very stubborn, hoping to leave the countryside.
Through the matchmaker's matchmaking, she married Cai Xingshun, the owner of the Xingshun grocery store in Tianhui Town, a suburb of Chengdu, and became the boss lady, who was called Cai Dajie.
Her husband, Cai Xingshun, was a cowardly and stupid honest man, and people called him a "fool."
Cai Xingshun's cousin Luo Sheng (You Yong), known as Luo Crooked Mouth, is the big steward of the robe brother's rudder, because of his care, Cai Xingshun will not be bullied, the business of Xingshun is also very good, and Aunt Deng's life is also very stable.
Netizens may ask, what is the "robe brother rudder handle big pipe"?
"Brother Robe" is a member of the "Brotherhood of Brothers" in Sichuan, the "Brotherhood of Elders" is also called Hanliu, and it is said that Hongmen and Hanliuyuan were all founded by Zheng Chenggong, that is, the non-governmental anti-Qing organizations of the Qing Dynasty.
The "rudder master" is equivalent to the leader of the local "Brotherhood", so it is extremely unpleasant.
Rodson is generous and proud, deeply admired by the jianghu people, and deeply liked by women.
Compared with her husband, she naturally prefers Rhodeson.
Luo Sheng's side had a good friend Liu Sanjin who saw his admiration for Luo Gu, so he secretly matched the two, and Luo Sheng and Yu Gu began to communicate secretly.
But the aunt is a strong woman, because of her husband's cowardice, she can't control her, and she doesn't dare to care about her, she actually gradually makes her relationship with Rodson public, maintaining a strange relationship of monogamy.
One day, Gu Tiancheng, a native grain household at Yanglukou, came to Tianhui Town with a few hundred taels of silver to find a woman to be a little wife because his wife was ill, so he rented the hut behind Cai Xingshun's shop.
Luo Sheng then asked Liu Sanjin to seduce him, and invited him to participate in gambling money every day, not only letting him lose all his money, but also owing Luo Sheng a few hundred taels, and after being beaten severely, he was driven back to his hometown.
Soon after Gu Tiancheng returned home, his wife was also angry with him, and since then he has formed a vendetta with Luo Sheng.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, Luo Sheng took his aunt to Chengdu to see the lantern festival, and happened to meet Gu Tiancheng with his daughter to come to see the lanterns.
Gu Tiancheng wanted to cause trouble for Luo Sheng, so he instigated several hooligans to come forward and flirt with his aunt, which then caused chaos, and Gu Tiancheng's daughter was abducted by someone instead.
After Gu Tiancheng's wife and daughter were separated, he could not withstand the double blow and fell seriously ill.
His neighbor Sister-in-law Zhong was kind enough to ask a Western doctor to treat him, and after he was cured, Gu Tiancheng felt that he could only take revenge by climbing up to foreigners, so he entered the foreign religion under the recommendation of Sister-in-law Zhong.
In 1897, when the Boxer Rebellion arose, Rodson and his Brotherhood brothers burned down the western churches of the Three Houses and killed many Parishioners.
Soon after, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded the city of Beijing, and those who opposed foreign religions, whether members of the Boxers or not, were arrested and imprisoned in Tianhui, and the matter was spread to Tianhui Town.
Gu Tiancheng thought that the time was ripe, so he instigated Luo Sheng's former younger brother Lu Maolin to report that Luo Sheng had colluded with the Boxers to burn the Yang Church.
The governor of Sichuan then sent troops to capture Luo Sheng, but Luo Sheng got the news early in the morning and slipped away first.
When the officers and men could not catch anyone, they sealed the Xingshun and arrested Cai Xingshun in prison.
During the arrest, she was also injured by officers and soldiers, so she took her son back to her parents to recuperate.
Gu Tiancheng also followed to Xiangba, wanting to inquire about Luo Sheng's whereabouts, but after seeing his sister-in-law, he was attracted by her beauty and offered to marry her.
In the end, in order to save her husband Cai Xingshun, who was in prison, and relying on Gu Tiancheng to have the support of foreigners, she agreed to marry Gu Tiancheng after making three chapters with him, and soon after, Cai Xingshun was rescued from prison by Her Sister.
Luo Sheng and Gu Tiancheng actually represented the local forces and foreign colonial forces in the feudal period, and in the torrent of the times, the local forces were finally defeated by the colonial forces, which also proved that the changes in history were irreversible.
The character of Migu is in such a social environment, and her personal fate has also changed with the turmoil of society.
In her body, with an innate stubbornness, suddenly because of the limitations of history, she still can't get rid of the fate of being attached to men, but she can still do her best to save the people she loves, this indomitable spirit is precious.
That's why Pigo thinks of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind, and these two women have a lot in common.
Xu Qing was still very young at that time, his childishness had not disappeared, and his acting skills still needed to be honed, but he did his best to play the complex woman of Migu, and it was inevitable that some of the shaping was not in place.
Throughout the film, although the film narrative is concise and neat, the character image is plump.
However, in the more than 90 minutes of the film, the footage of the social unrest during the Boxer Rebellion is slightly insufficient.
Playing the story of Sichuan, the actors are not Sichuanese, less "Sichuan story" background, these are the shortcomings of the film.
When "Crazy" was released in Hong Kong in 1992, it earned 1.48 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office and achieved a good result as a literary film.
However, it is a pity that director Ling Zifeng did not wait for the day when the film was released in the mainland in 2004, and he died, which is regrettable.
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