Ang Lee's film "Color Ring" won the Golden Lion Award at the 64th Venice Film Festival in Italy in 2007. For a time, in the world's Chinese cultural circle, the reputation was shocked. This is a film based on a novel by writer Zhang Ailing.
Among Zhang Ailing's many short works, there is an infernal story called "Color Ring", which she said to have written for thirty years. The content of the story is as follows: Wang Jiazhi, a beautiful and sexy anti-Japanese female hero with a feminine temperament, may be moved by the generosity of the other party willing to spend thousands of dollars for her, or perhaps out of lust, fall in love with a traitor Mr. Yi who he has sworn to kill quickly, sinister and cold, old and obscene, perverted and shameless, and even buried himself and his comrades' young lives to protect the traitor.
Of course, if "Color Ring" had not been made into a movie by Ang Lee, it is estimated that not many people would know about this story. Zhang Ailing is a typical literary and artistic young woman, writing love, sadness, wandering, petty bourgeoisie is handy, but how can the inside story of this sinister and terrifying struggle against enemy and pseudo-agents be known by her, so as to write such a 'true'' story?
The secret is in her husband. Zhang Ailing had a traitorous husband named Hu Lancheng, who was serving in The Wang Jingwei puppet government at the time. Zhang Ailing heard some fragments of catching wind and shadows from Hu Lancheng's mouth, and then combined her and Hu Lancheng's emotional experience to create a story of "love and hate entanglement". Although the plot is basically fictional, the protagonist is still reliable.
In the story, the prototype of the anti-Japanese female hero Wang Jiazhi is Zheng Pingru, and the prototype of the seduced traitor Mr. Yi is Ding Mo Estate.
Zheng Pingru's father, Zheng Yu, studied at Hosei University in Japan in his early years, and later followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen in his revolution. Her mother, Hanako Kimura, is Japanese. Hanako Kimura sang with her wife and accompanied Zheng Yu to China to participate in revolutionary activities. In other words, Zheng Pingru not only came from a revolutionary family, but also was of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent. At that time, there was a pictorial newspaper called "Good Friend" in China, and its influence in China was about the same as that of Time Magazine in the world. And Zheng Pingru was once the cover girl of "Good Friend", and her posture needless to say, was naturally a first-class beauty at that time.
In 1937, under the dual influence of the family and the current situation, the 19-year-old Zheng Pingru was introduced by Chen Lifu's cousin, Chen Baohua, the head of the Shanghai area of the Kuomintang Central Unification, out of patriotic enthusiasm, into the Kuomintang's Central Unification Secret Service Organization as an intelligence officer in the Shanghai district of the Central Unification. Under the deliberate arrangement of Zhongtong, Zheng Ping, who has outstanding acting skills, pretends to be a young girl who is not deeply involved in the world, and encounters Ding Mo Estate, the predetermined predestined prey of Zhongtong, ""unexpectedly", and has charmed Ding Mo Estate between Yu Wan's low return and Gu Panjiao's moaning. After coming and going, the fire has arrived, and Zheng Pingru invited Ding Mo Estate to his home. Because the Central Unification planned to move near the Zheng family to get rid of this big traitor. In the face of the invitation of super beautiful women with emotional pulses, especially the invitation to the home to tell such a beautiful temptation, I am afraid that with the willpower of ordinary men, it is really impossible to refuse.
Supposedly, the old sex ghost Ding Mo Estate has no reason to refuse. However, when the car was about to arrive at Zheng Pingru's home, he suddenly changed his mind and turned around. The old spy is the old spy, although he is obscene, but he pays more attention to his own life. The first time was unsuccessful, you can only continue to work hard. At this time, Zheng Pingru's boss was changed from Chen Baohua to Zhang Ruijing. Zhang Ruijing ordered Zheng Pingru to find a way to lure Ding Mo Estate to a leather shop in Shanghai, a Siberian leather goods store, where he had arranged for the killer. However, just after all this was properly arranged, Zhang Ruijing was arrested by Li Shiqun, the head of the traitor's secret service, because of the betrayal of traitors. Li Shiqun was born in zhongtong, and Zhang Ruijing was an old acquaintance. Acquaintances met, Zhang Ruijing was also happy, and he did not wait for the torture to be fully recruited. Surprisingly, I don't know what ulterior motives Li Shiqun had, but he did not publicize this matter. He not only protected Zhang Ruijing, but also sent snipers to ambush near the Siberian leather goods store, and it seems that Li Shiqun Ding Mo Estate, the two traitors, have a conflict and want to kill each other. On the afternoon of 21 December 1939, Tin Mo Estate was pulled into a Siberian leather goods store by Cheng Ping Ru. Zheng Pingru pretended to go to the side to pick out a leather coat, and distanced herself from Ding Mo Estate. The best time to snipe Ding Mo Estate has come! But at this moment, with the intuition of the mixed secret agent for many years, Ding Mo Estate seemed to have a premonition of something, and suddenly ran out with the momentum of "'The Flash Man'" Bolt Olympic 100 meters to win the championship.
His car was parked on the side of the road, there was no turning off, the driver was ready to pick it up at all times, and the door was of course open. Ding Mo Estate jumped three times and jumped twice, and rushed into the car, shouting to drive. At the same time as the gunshots sounded, the car was already speeding out. The opportunity was fleeting, and the killers sent by Zhongtong and his rival Li Shiqun returned empty-handed. After Ding Mo Estate escaped from danger, he wiped away a cold sweat and thought about it, his patronage of the Siberian leather goods store was from Zheng Pingru's suggestion, but the killer was actually ambushed there, so there is only one possibility, Zheng Pingru and the killer are together. Next, Zheng Ping was naturally arrested. The Japanese originally wanted to use Zheng Pingru's life to blackmail their father Zheng Yu into the position of puppet government, but the upright Zheng Yu refused, showing a Chinese patriotism, which was his daughter's life! For the sake of the country, it is really remarkable to give up one's flesh and blood. On the execution ground, Zheng Ping was as awe-inspiring as righteousness, calm, showing the strong character of a Chinese son and daughter, and she said her last words to the executioner: Help, play accurately, don't mess me up. After the death of his daughter, Zheng Yu fell ill and ended up with a grudge in early 1941. Three years after Zheng Yu's death, Zheng Pingru's brother Zheng Haicheng fought against the Japanese Kou in the defense of Chongqing and died heroically. After another half a year, Zheng Pingru's fiancé and air force colonel Wang Hanxun died. What a singable and tearful loyal martyr!
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ting Mo Estate was arrested by the Nationalist government and executed by firing squad in 1947.
This is the story of the character archetype in "Color Ring", which is breathtaking and touching.