Created in 1993, "Nanhai Thirteen Lang" tells the story of the legendary life of nanhai thirteen lang, a famous Cantonese opera writer in Guangdong and Hong Kong, starring Xie Junhao.
Nanhai Shisanlang was a master Writer of Cantonese Opera who became popular in Guangdong and Hong Kong from the 1930s to the 1970s. Proficient in English, French, German and Chinese, he wrote Cantonese opera masterpieces that have been handed down to this day, but most of his life was obsessed with turmoil and wandered the streets.
The protagonist Jiang Yuyi (Yin Liu) really has his own person, his ancestors are hugely rich tea merchants, and his father Taishi Gongjiang Kongyin is the last branch of the late Qing Dynasty.
Nanhai Shisanlang was born in a rich and noble family, his father and old wife married Mrs. Twelve Houses, among the many children, it is this sharp-toothed and stubborn Thirteen Lang who has been born with strong teeth since childhood.
The young and intelligent Nankai Shisanro was almost unforgettable, and he had a great sense of justice, because the principal of the primary school was not morally good, he actually burned his mosquito net, hoping to burn him to death.
Jiang Yujun went in and out of celebrity venues At a fortuitous dance party, he met Lily, a Miss Qianjin in Shanghai, and he fell in love with this woman, but although the two sides met, they did not marry. For this reason, he followed her thousands of miles to Shanghai, no one knows what happened in those two years in Shanghai, and he is not allowed to be mentioned, only that after two years he fell into poverty and returned to his home in Guangdong. He had long been expelled from school, could not become a doctor, and taught at will. In his spare time, he went to listen to the drama every day, and since he was a child, he had become a masterpiece, and was appreciated by the boss of the drama class, Xue Laowu, and became a royal screenwriter. The nickname of the man is Nanhai Thirteen Lang. The teenager became famous, and the works toured thousands of empty alleys, and the limelight was the same for a while.
The unruly Thirteen Lang laughed and angrily scolded the digging of his peers, and rescued his niece who had fallen into the dust field. In the cantonese opera line of singing and playing, the opera style of Shi Sanlang is more and more lonely, the people who are traveling with him can't keep up with his ideas, and his personality is becoming more and more obedient, until he meets Tang Disheng, and the two meet Zhiyin in the mountains and flowing water.
The film uses the technique of third-person narration to borrow the mouth of a storyteller to tell the story of the golden screenwriter of Cantonese opera, nanhai Shisanlang Yihai' floating life.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out and the situation was turbulent, Shi Sanlang broke up with the deceased and went to Jiangxi to write a script to comfort the frontline soldiers, because he could not see the kitsch of his peers, he angrily shot out and injured Ren Xihua. Who knew that after returning to the drama class after the end of the War of Resistance, his peers were not accustomed to the arrogance of Thirteen Lang, and magnified this matter infinitely, and no one dared to use Thirteen Lang anymore. His life is also getting more and more sloppy.
Thirteen Lang himself is indeed grumpy, with a vicious mouth, saying that it is good to listen to, it is arrogant and arrogant, and it is arrogant to say that it is ugly.
He is untamed, he is proud, he cannot tolerate the upside down of black and white in this world, he cannot tolerate the aesthetic destruction of the script, everything seems to be the foreshadowing of fate, the higher he holds it, the more painful it falls. In exchange, he was lonely and wandering the streets for the rest of his life.
A car accident reunited him with his former lover, but unfortunately she was married to a rich man and did not recognize his appearance, even if he wore glasses for half his life. He had fantasized about the scene of their reunion countless times, he was personable, she was very moving, he did not show off but did not show off his career, hoping to start all over again with her... But fate was cruel and made people powerless, "Why didn't you come back early and late, but I met you when I was most depressed?" He could only bury his head and sigh.
God seems to feel that he has not tortured enough, jumping out of the car and dying, he is even more crazy.
When he came to Hong Kong, he was ridiculed by countless people and received help from the deceased, but he said that "some things don't need to be seen so clearly" and still chose to wander. Until he met Tang Disheng, an apprentice who had been sorry for each other, who knew that a generation of geniuses had actually died violently, Thirteen Lang's sentence "He is my apprentice..." was heartbreaking. The only person in the world who knew him was gone.
Shi San Lang worked as a beggar on the stone road in Central, and there was no shortage of rich people in the Guangdong and Hong Kong areas, however, that was where the abuse of wealth first began, the conflict between art and wealth, the conflict between fame and fortune and self-preservation, forcing the rugged as the road he walked, and he refused to surrender himself after all.
The storyteller in the movie said, "Don't think of yourself as a genius, because the real genius has only two endings: either die early like Tang Disheng, or go crazy like Shisanlang and end in tragedy." Because genius never compromises like the world. "It's not easy to be a genius." Free, innocent, cute, and insist on his pursuit of art and beauty. ”
As a result, everything did not go as expected, and Thirteen Lang lived a big joke, a sad legend, which made us lament the injustice of the world. However, as small as you and me, no matter how you sigh, you can't control your own destiny, let alone others?
In 1983, Nanhai Shisanlang fell into the cold wind of the streets at the age of seventy-four. In his lifetime, he lived in a mental hospital twice, was proficient in English, French, and German Chinese, and wrote Cantonese opera masterpieces that have been handed down to this day, but most of his life was obsessed with upheavals and wandered the streets.
There is a saying in the film that true geniuses only have two ends, one is to die young, and the other is to become crazy...