Some people say, to judge whether you are good at writing, try to describe the moment when a match burns.
Zhang Ailing described it this way: In the darkness he drew a match, and the orange-red triangular flag slowly swayed in its own wind, and gradually it burned out its flagpole and died.
Zhang Ailing can meander through the deep winding path to complete a kind of storytelling description.
Can't say good at it, it's a genius.
At a very young age, she began to write in a similar way, and the family's difficulties also caused her genius to break through in a sense, allowing her to use her talent to the extreme.
Zhang Ailing's efforts the day after tomorrow have not buried and disappointed her talents.
First, in the name of cold, the power of love
Zhang Ailing is extremely sensitive to being forged by life.
The contradictions between her parents, the complexity, devastation, and indifference of the feudal family left her with nowhere to go, and she placed all her spirits in the old paper pile and the changing stories.
Zhang Ailing remembers some of the only tenderness: her father took her in his arms and taught her to read "Dream of the Red Chamber", and her mother taught her to live independently. The initial love of parents is the confidence to walk the world. When Zhang Ailing was very young, she realized that the confidence that her parents could not give had to rely on herself to earn.
The father of the feudal widow and the straightforward mother divorced, the father remarried, the mother went abroad, the stepmother hated and abused, and Zhang Ailing's loneliness and pity could only be swallowed by herself.
She immerses herself in the world of fiction. This immersion is both a display of talent and self-help.
Zhang Ailing's talent for writing has enabled her to earn a fee, and she has tasted the best treatment given by life. She bought a lipstick for the fee. She tasted the sweetness of life and penetrated the relationship between her talent and life. Zhang Ailing said: Become famous early. This is Zhang Ailing's own confidence to herself. Her life lit up.
But her feelings were cold. The characters presented in her pen are permeated with a certain degree of coldness and self. What is cold is the attitude, it is the cover-up, it is the helpless protest and silent resistance to reality. In the name of cold, she practices the power of love and writes the wisps of the ordinary in the world.
In the world of fiction, grandeur is one, seen in subtlety, but also one. Xiao Hong is a caring compassion for small people, Zhang Ailing is different, even if it is an ordinary small person, she must live a wonderful life.
Second, the small characters who are entangled in the contradictions in the pen
Not only does Zhang Ailing herself maintain a distance from people in reality, but almost all of her characters are difficult to integrate into the lives of others. Almost every character has their own strong inner world. Others couldn't get in, and she didn't want to come out.
Even if the description is warm and prosperous, the inner world of the protagonist is clear and cold, and there is no understanding of the same kind at all. Even for the most beloved lover, the surging emotion is only buried deep in the heart, on the surface, the clouds are light and the wind is light, and even, deliberately dodging and retreating, playing a game of wanting to give up.
The characters in Zhang Ailing's novels are morbid and enthusiastic. While enjoying life, it consumes life. While understanding the world, it is also disdainful of the understanding of the world. The contradiction of loving at the same time, but refusing to melt seems to have no solution. Faced with difficulties, he stubbornly and stubbornly lived.
For example, Cao Qiqiao's lifelong grudge in "The Book of Golden Locks". Her love is warm and intense, but she has to accumulate hatred in the cycle of years, and finally in the hatred day after day, it is perverted and twisted, annihilated and dissipated.
For example, Shi Jun's hesitation and hesitation in "Half Life", the wavering of The Gentle Tun in her personality, made her trance. In the end, he actually confessed his life and was numb to life. What cannot go back to the past, in addition to the years, there is also a sense of powerlessness and loss of compromise and submission to life.
For example, in "Color Ring", Wang Jiazhi's emotional fluctuations at the moment of life and death, in the emotional surge and responsibility mission that is difficult to give up, she chooses to fulfill her feelings. It is precisely because of the purity of love, the hard work and entanglement of love, her death is sooner or later, even if she does not die at the hands of her lover, she will die of the punishment of apostasy. She was just a schoolgirl, she was just a little woman, a little person, and she just listened to the voice in her heart.
For example, in "White Rose and Red Rose", in Zhenbao's eyes, the two roses only play a functional role to meet his different needs. He thought that he was the protagonist, coming and going freely, wandering freely, in fact, red roses and white roses also have their own ways of living, they still have a trace of indomitable heart in the compromise of reality, in the gap of reality, the same self-light. So, the white rose has a lover, and the red rose eventually belongs to the family. They stand almost equally with the male protagonist, you have Zhang Liangji, I have a bridge and ladder, each in their own world, crossing the robbery. Whether in form or substance, the white and red roses have also chosen the satisfaction of their own needs.
Zhang Ailing's little people have their own personality and light in their hearts, and their souls have the light of flashing stars. They move in parallel with the world, they have a full ego, even if they bow their heads in reality, they let people see their arrogance and indomitability, and they are all excited to live.
Their traits are obvious and recognizable: morbid beauty, rich and sensitive at heart, personality, strong self-assertion, out of tune with the world, eager for love and despised love, immersed in it, out of it, good at calculation, and hate calculation. In contradiction, twist Barry, find the exit of personal emotions, self-rescue, or slip away and fall into the abyss.
Male identity is also obvious, almost always a combination of rights, emotions, and reality, wandering around the female world, occasionally emotional, and finally returning to reality.
Even Fan Liuyuan in "Love in the Fallen City", in the uncertain season of fate, realistic considerations, there is still a person to take care of, know life and death. And White Tassel also believes that the whole city is overturned to satisfy her love, but love, after all, must return to the daily chaos. She uses the turmoil of the world to firmly believe in the eternity of love. The small individual finally won once.
Most of Zhang Ailing's works are viewed from a female perspective, examined and deconstructed, and the female meaning is more intense. There is also a greater sense of femininity. The love between women and men is not natural and smooth, but a game under the game, endlessly calculating, and the inner drama is bursting. The feelings in the novel also carry reality and contradictions, extremely eager for love, and extremely unbelieving in love, and in the desire and distrust, end a contradictory and complicated life.
It's very moving, and it's also very Ailing Zhang.
Third, insight into reality, towards loneliness
The loneliness and coldness in Zhang Ailing's bones not only exist in the works, but also in reality.
After liberation, Zhang Ailing once wore a cheongsam and participated in a writers' conference. In the face of the men and women in zhongshan costumes in the venue, the sensitive Zhang Ailing felt something for the first time.
She is different from ordinary people, she is the fireworks of freedom. Childhood is different from everyone in the big family, growing up, different from the classmates in the school, and adulthood is different from all kinds of writers.
Zhang Ailing was always herself. Although she did not reflect the most positive and grand side of the era, she did not give up the little people who were abandoned by the times. She is not a thorny rose, but she is a sensitive rose, and she spins around in her own tastes, seriously writing about deformed lusts and abnormal families. Her world is clearly divided and distinct, and she does not morally criticize and evaluate people's threes, sixes, and nines. She let herself go, looked at the small, respected the complexity of each individual, and completed a kind of ego consummation.
If reality can't accommodate the ego, stay away. Therefore, Zhang Ailing went to Hong Kong and went to the United States. Took a lonely and egotistical path.
Fourth, why is the score of "First Incense" not high?
There are many movies and TV series adapted from Zhang Ailing's works, and there are really not many that have received praise. My favorite level: the TV series "Golden Lock" first, the movie "Color Ring" second, the movie "Half Life" third.
The wind evaluation of "The First Burning Incense" is not high, first, from the beginning of the publicity, people have doubts about the casting of the characters. The strength of the male and female protagonists does not match the characters in Zhang Ailing's novels that are cold, alienated, flexible in their personality and sense of distance in the world. Second, because it is Xu Anhua' director, the audience still has some expectations for the plot story, but even she may not understand the essence of Zhang Ailing's novel, and she can't shoot zhang Ailing's taste. The higher the expectation, the greater the gap. Fame is something that can't be believed. Third, film and television have been fed for many years, and people's appreciation level has risen as a whole, and they have a very high vision and a critical perspective to judge the overall quality of the film. Fourth, compared with movies, Zhang Ailing's novels are more deeply rooted in people's hearts. The audience needs to be faithful to the characters and stories of the original book, because it is more profound and moving.
The character image in Zhang Ailing's novel, the female should be zhang Ailing's favorite photo: the face is slightly raised, with pickiness, scrutiny, challenge, and a meaningful smile overlooking the world, weak with some tenacity, crossed arms with provocation and fortitude, a little feminine. She can withstand almost the whole world. Such a character does have to be appreciated, and not everyone can do it.
The public's recognition of Yu Feihong, in essence, can find a young version of Yu Feihong. Ma Sichun is obviously not a young version.
The male protagonist, all the male protagonists in Zhang Ailing's novel, are suitable for Zhao Wenxuan to play. Again, a younger version is enough.
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