Relive Wan Ziliang's "Giant"
In the early 90s of last century, I watched the Hong Kong TV series "Giant", when it was the age of prosperity and pride, I was fascinated to see it, I watched it with all my body, I couldn't help myself, I couldn't help myself, I couldn't help it, I watched it for a lifetime, and it felt like I personally experienced the life of the protagonist.
"Giant" adopts flashbacks of expression, starting from the protagonist Le Yan (Wan Ziliang), who has emerged in the American financial world, suffered from cancer, and was kidnapped in the ski resort, reviewing his bumpy life experience and optimistic attitude towards life, reflecting the style of The bottom and upper classes of Hong Kong represented by the Le family, the Hong family and the Zheng family in the 1980s and 1990s, which involves the intricate character relationship of the three families. "Giant" shows justice and injustice, family affection, love and friendship, good and evil, beauty and ugliness to the fullest, and is a rare masterpiece that guides, helps, educates and moves people in TV dramas.
The protagonist Leyan's life is full of ups and downs and legends, and he is still optimistic and uplifting under the various changes in life, honest and good, tenacious and unyielding, and interprets the image of a giant who can sing and cry.
He spent seven years in prison for his brother, and after his release, he was repeatedly beaten by his father and discriminated against by people who did not know the truth;
He gave up to Ling Feng the lover of Qingmei Bamboo Horse who had been in love for many years, but was forced to a dead end step by step by his good friend Ling Feng;
He and Zhiqing fall in love and are difficult to fall in love with;
He was regarded as an enemy by the Hong father and son for many years;
He was squeezed out of the enterprise he painstakingly managed for no reason by Mai Shouzheng;
He was kidnapped by Mrs. Mai with cancer and escaped to his death...
He walked into the dangers of life again and again without being discouraged;
He endured suffering again and again without yield;
He was misunderstood again and again and plotted again and again...
Who can withstand such a heavy pressure?
Who has suffered many misfortunes?
Who would be so responsible?
What is holding him up?
It is the inherited Chinese culture that gives it a tenacious and unswerving character.
It was the righteous father who taught him to make a steel umbrella that could not be broken.
It is his dedication to the earth-touching loyalty that wins the transformation of those around him.
Behind him stood a large group of people, including a strict father and a good mother, a skilled Mai John, a nagging and benevolent Aunt Cheng, a cowardly and kind big brother, a lover Cheng Zhen who had once loved each other, Hong Zhiqing, who was as pure as an angel, a group of loyal and dedicated old workers in the umbrella field, and finally even Hong Guidong, who was incompatible with him, was kind to him and accepted him.
His career has been repeatedly hit, and each time he has been fiercely killed by forbearance and tenacity. He lent his father 200,000 yuan to his friend Ling Feng to expand the scale of the umbrella factory, and their Le family was sentenced to 35% of the shares of the Hong's Xiongfeng Group after the death of his eldest brother and sister-in-law in a car accident, he was driven out of his business by Mai Shouzheng and Ling Feng when his career was booming, and he was found to have spread cancer after the success of his investment in the real estate industry in the United States.
Heaven gave him a heart rich in truth, goodness and beauty, a pair of iron shoulders to bear suffering and disasters, a face full of smiles for life forever, and at the same time he also won true family, friendship and love in the world.
Throughout the play, the enmity and resentment of Le and Hong runs through the entire series.
Leyan's father is worthy of being a strict father in the traditional Chinese sense, and in his bones is a traditional concept of being conservative, upright, stubborn, and maintaining the century-old foundation of the family business. His love for Leyan is that he cannot tolerate his son killing people and going to prison, and his education of Leyan is beating and scolding. But when he knew the truth, especially after Leyan was hit by the second son of the Hong family and faced blindness, a few warm words he said at the bedside of Leyan's hospital made his son cry, he asked the best friend of medical skills to treat Leyan, he was determined to ruin his family and fight a lawsuit against the Hong family, he taught Leyan to endure, he said that forbearance is to insert a knife in the heart.
Hong Guidong is a speculative businessman who has made a fortune in arms, he is fierce and vicious, unscrupulous, rich and rich, and is an old fox in the mall. He takes revenge, sees the Lejia as a thorn in his eye, and is bent on acquiring the Leshi, but his weakness lies in his unfortunate family life. He forcibly married his eldest daughter with a leg disease to the eldest brother who asked for his happy words for seven million, resulting in a marriage that seemed to be a love and a dream, and also laid hidden dangers for the death of the two in a car accident. His eldest son was his right-hand man, but his life was rotten, suspicious, cunning and vicious, and he was eventually stabbed to death by Mai Shouzheng. His second son, with the strength of Lao Tzu, committed many evils, fought and fought, and was a typical prodigal prince, ending with a lifetime of imprisonment. His most beloved is his second daughter, the angelic Hong Zhiqing, who is a special gift that God asked Hong Guidong to give to Leyan. In his later years, Hong Guidong believed in karma after being rescued by Leyan in the pool. The 20 billion-dollar boss of Xiongfeng recognized the ugly face of Ling Feng at the cost of family destruction and recognized the happy words of revenge with grace.
As the middle figure sandwiched between two families, John McJohn gives us another revelation and image of our lives. He is highly skilled, travels the world, is worth 800 million, is a gentleman, charitable, smiling, not willing to be lonely, young in mind, cynical on the surface, but in fact extremely loving, living freely. If it were not for the son's indisputable anger and his wife's mental illness, Leyan would not have suffered more disasters. He claims to be unfit for married life, has 52 girlfriends all over the world, and he is a slut and a plaything without losing his mind. He helped Leyan invest and explained that Leyan should cultivate Shouzheng as an adult. He always stood with Leshi when Lejia was dangerous, and he not only healed Leyan's eye injuries, but also bought three planes to treat eye diseases for free for victims of India and African Third World countries...
Another major attraction of this drama is the delicate emotional relationship between Le Yan, Cheng Zhen, Zhi Qing and Ling Feng. Le Yan and Cheng Zhen are a pair of excellent lovers, Cheng Yin Le was deceived by Ling in prison, Le Yan Yu Zhiqing fell in love and was entangled because of the marriage crisis of Ling and Cheng, Ling was worried about chasing Zhi Qing for three years and was punctured by Le Yan and Cheng Zhen, The marriage between Ling and Cheng was broken by Ling Jealousy due to Le Yan's unintentional intervention, and the triangular relationship between Le Yan, Cheng Zhen and Zhi Qing ended with a sentence before Le Yan walked onto the operating table: love and friendship, an unforgettable heart, a suffering and a common. And Ling Feng, who was poor in donkey skills, embarked on a road of no return for many rebels.
This plot section has ups and downs, gripping, six deaths, four people in prison, various social forces with jagged teeth, true, good, beautiful, false and ugly, alternately staged. The characters have distinct personalities, three small people in Mai Shouzheng's circle, and the low-level society in Hong Kong can be seen. The ending is intriguing, with imperfections in the consummation and sighs in the relief.
May more people watch this "giant",
May more people be their own "giants".