An Hong, I miss you! "Something to Say"
In 1995, Jackie Chan's first hollywood action comedy film "Red Fan District" was also released in the mainland. For Jackie Chan, this is just a test of the mainland film market, but he taught a mature concept of Chinese New Year films to his counterparts in the mainland.
Therefore, in 1997 Chinese mainland the first New Year film was born, which was Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B".
"Party A and Party B" was released on December 24, 1997, screened on New Year's Eve, and the final box office was more than 36 million.
Because of the good box office results, the male and female protagonists Ge You and Liu Bei also won the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award; therefore, Feng Xiaogang took advantage of the opportunity to shoot "Not Seen, Not Scattered" and "A Sigh", making the first New Year's Eve film trilogy in Chinese mainland.
Since then, Feng Xiaogang has been the first Chinese New Year comedy film director for many years.
In fact, in 1997, there was also a classic comedy movie released, Zhang Yimou's "Have Something to Say", which grossed more than 46 million.
At that time, Zhang Yimou was already an internationally renowned director, and Feng Xiaogang was just a newcomer in the film industry who had only made 3 movies and 4 TV series. At that time, his most famous work, "Beijingers in New York", was co-directed with Zheng Xiaolong.
If "Party A and Party B" and "Have Something to Say Well" were placed in the same slot pk, the loss would be even worse; if Zhang Yimou, because of "Have Something to Say Well", concentrated on making comedies, there might not be anything for Feng Xiaogang later.
[Ge You, the male protagonist of Feng Xiaogang's film, was praised by Zhang Yimou as an international film emperor in Cannes in 1994, and he is certainly willing to follow Zhang Yimou.] Without Ge You, can Feng Xiaogang's comedy movie still rise? 】
"Have Something to Say" is also known as "Evening News" and "Keep Cool", which is an urban absurd comedy film; based on Shu Ping's novel "Evening News", directed by Zhang Yimou, written by Shu Ping, starring Jiang Wen, Li Baotian, Qu Ying, etc.; Ge You, Zhao Benshan, Du Xudong, Li Qi, Fang Qingzhuo, Liang Guanhua, Li Xuejian, Fu Biao, Li Qiang, You Yong, Chang Rong, and Zhang Yimou all guest starred.
Zang Tianshuo sang the theme song of the movie "Love Forever", which was composed by Zang Tianshuo; the film inserted several paragraphs of the Beijing play book "Have Something to Say", the songwriter and singer are all Beijing Piano Book Taidou Guan Xuezeng, and his granddaughter Guan Xiaotong was also born in September of that year.
[Shu Ping later became Jiang Wen's royal screenwriter, and he participated in "The Devil Is Coming" and "Let the Bullets Fly".] 】
This is also the first cooperation between Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping, when the subtitles in the film were played, and the supervising producer wrote Zhang Weiping.
"Have Something to Say" was released simultaneously in China and France on May 16, 1997.
It was the 50th anniversary of the Cannes International Film Festival in France, which opened on May 5 and closed on May 20. "Something to Say" was probably not nominated for Cannes, but appeared as an exhibition film.
In 1995, after filming "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge", Zhang Yimou and Gong Li broke up. In 1997, Gong Li was a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival, so "Have Something to Say" was in an awkward position in Cannes.
However, at the 54th Venice International Film Festival in August, "Have Something to Say" was nominated for the Golden Lion award for Best Picture.
The quality of "Have Something to Say" has still been recognized.
The plot of "Have Something to Say" tells the story of a young Beijing young Zhao Xiaoshuai, who is fanatical in his desire to save his ex-girlfriend An Hong, and triggers a witty and humorous and absurd and bizarre story.
Jiang Wen plays Zhao Xiaoshuai, qu Ying plays An Hong, which is initially an entanglement between the two of them, but after Zhang Qiusheng, played by Li Baotian, appears, it evolves into a road between Jiang Wen and Li Baotian, which can be translated as "A Computer-Caused Case".
Qu Ying, who is an international supermodel, is 175 tall, has a neat short hair in the film, wears a yellow ultra-short hip skirt, and wears coffee-colored sunglasses, which is simply explosive.
In today's parlance, it's called a and a sa.
In fact, the whole "Have something to say" is very trendy. Not only are the characters in the film dressed very fashionably and coolly, but also a lot of popular songs of the time are selected, such as Sun Yue's "Good Mood", which has a very sense of the times.
Qu Ying is a Hunan girl, but she has played a trendy and cool Beijing big girl An Hong, full of Beijing flavor, worthy of being the most fashionable girl.
[It is said that the role of An Hong originally wanted to find Faye Wong to play, and an Hong's style in the movie is indeed very Fan of Faye Wong; Qu Ying had a relationship with Li Yapeng before Faye Wong. This is definitely a fairy casting. 】
Jiang Wen is the representative of the tough guy image in the Chinese mainland actors, born domineering side leakage, hooligans can also be a scoundrel.
In "Have Something to Say", Zhao Xiaoshuai, the owner of the book stall played by Jiang Wen, is a stout and arrogant stunned Qing, who speaks a bit stuttering, in Beijing dialect, it is a word: axis.
Zhang Qiusheng, played by Li Baotian, is a reasonable cultural person, who can use computers, likes to have words to say well, and is accustomed to solving problems with civility and reasoning. However, he is also a very shafted person in his heart, and when he sees uneven things, he must go to the level, uneven.
Therefore, in "Have Something to Say", the problem that could have been solved by talking well was almost killed because of the collision of two axis people.
As a comedy, the funniest part of "Have Something to Say" is when Zhang Yimou, Zhao Benshan, Liang Guanhua, Li Qi, etc., cameo actors appear.
At the beginning, Zhao Xiaoshuai chased An Hong into the community, and the person turned around and disappeared.
At this time, Zhang Yimou played the tattered migrant worker Jia riding a tricycle. Zhao Xiaoshuai asked him to help shout people for 50 yuan, and Zhang Yimou's Shaanxi-style "An Hong, I miss you" came out, and immediately amused the audience.
An Hong glanced down from the window, Zhang Yimou ran, Zhao Xiaoshuai bought a loudspeaker, and then found Du Xudong, who had a loud voice, to shout. As a result, he shouted "An Hong, I think you can't sleep" and shouted it "An Hong, I think you want to sleep.". Not only did no one shout out, but a group of children upstairs took turns to splash water down.
The next day, An Hong changed her mind herself, took Zhao Xiaoshuai home, and when she entered the room, she undressed and prepared to make a comparison. Zhao Xiaoshuai still wanted to refuse to return the favor, but at the moment of being pushed down, the interest also came up, and the shouting of the loudspeaker came from downstairs.
This time it was the hottest sketch king of the year, Zhao Benshan, appeared, and it was not an ordinary shout, but a poem.
At this time, Zhao Benshan had already revealed the potential of the Flickering King.
Originally, Zhao Xiaoshuai gave Du Xudong 100 yuan, and as a result, 30 yuan was transferred to Zhao Benshan, 30 yuan read 3 times, and he still did it with relish. Itself was fooled by himself, Zhao Xiaoshuai rushed down to stop it, and he also fooled Zhao Xiaoshuai, saying that this was a good thing to do a good job, and it was a special fund specially allocated by the street.
The most important thing is that in this Zhao Benshan is also an axis person. Zhao Xiaoshuai took out 100 yuan for him, and he couldn't stop, saying that this was not a matter of money.
In terms of plot and character design, Zhang Yimou is really quite careful.
In the movie, Ge You plays a policeman, appearing twice, namely when Zhao Xiaoshuai and Zhang Qiusheng were detained and released; he sent people out and explained some of their human principles in a serious and long voice.
Zhao Xiaoshuai and An Hong almost achieved good things twice, but the result was destroyed by Zhao Benshan and Li Baotian respectively, and the design was very natural and reasonable.
After that time, An Hong left in a negative mood, and what was left was the double male drama of Jiang Wen and Li Baotian.
The second climactic comedy moment is when Zhang Qiusheng lifts the table in the restaurant.
Zhao Xiaoshuai was beaten by her then boyfriend Liu Delong because she was pestering An Hong, so she was bent on revenge. Zhang Qiusheng was stirred in because Zhao Xiaoshuai smashed his computer when he fought back.
In the end, the matter was made clear, Liu Delong was willing to take out 50,000 yuan to solve this matter, and lost Zhao Xiaoshuai's medical expenses and Zhang Qiusheng's computer.
However, when he arrived at the restaurant, Zhao Xiaoshuai brought a kitchen knife and was still ready to cut Liu Delong's hand.
He also bought a computer in advance and lost it to Zhang Qiusheng. Zhang Qiusheng could get out cleanly, but he didn't want to watch Zhao Xiaoshuai go down the road of crime, and was ready to call Liu Delong and ask him not to come. As a result, he was discovered by Zhao Xiaoshuai and tied him upstairs as a madman.
Zhang Qiusheng is upstairs, and is treated as a hooligan by the second uncle (played by Li Qi) of a restaurant waiter, all kinds of torture, emotional collapse and madness. Before he went crazy, he fell to the ground, knocked off the speaker downstairs, and hit Liu Delong. Liu Delong was injured, and Zhao Xiaoshuai did not want to cut him.
But at this time, Zhang Qiusheng, who was mad, was looking for people everywhere with a kitchen knife!
The biggest feature of Zhang Yimou's film is the bold use of color, but "Have Something to Say" does not show off on color, but plays with flowers in photography.
The cinematographer is Zhang Yimou's Classmate of the Beijing Film Academy, Lu Le, who uses hand cranks to shoot the whole process, and there are many close-ups of chasing the body and chasing the face, which exaggerates and magnifies the various dramatic changes in the personality, emotions and hearts of the characters, which is very powerful.
Later, Lü Le became Feng Xiaogang's royal photographer, from "The Gathering Number" to "Nineteen Forty-Two", which was Lü Le's handheld.] 】
"Party A and Party B" left a lot of classic golden sentences that year, such as "1997 has passed, I miss it." ”。
In fact, when it comes to movie sentences, "Have Something to Say" is stronger.
The most famous is the sentence that Zhang Yimou shouted out in Shaanxi dialect: An Hong, I miss you.
Zhao Benshan took a popular love song of that year, and the lyrics of Gao Linsheng's "The Person Who Cares About You Is Me" are all good words and sentences.
Qu Ying went to the book stall to find Jiang Wen, and Jiang Wen exposed a sentence: I am still a virgin, a yellow flower guy.
Jiang Wen and Li Baotian ate at the restaurant, and Li Baotian had a sentence: Don't take ignorance as a personality.
None of this is out of date.
Later, many people criticized Zhang Yimou's films for not telling good stories, but in fact, he was still very good at telling stories. "Have Something to Say" not only proves that Zhang Yimou can tell stories, but also can make comedy movies.
From the content to the form, as well as various metaphorical symbols, "Have Something to Say" does not lose "Party A and Party B", which is definitely an underrated comedy classic.