Zhang Yimou and Lu Liping teamed up to perform a movie "Old Well", which was released in 1986 and became a sensation. The reason is that there are two passion scenes in the movie, which are very common to watch today, but they were large at that time. Zhang Yimou's acting skills are superb, and he also won the Golden Rooster Award for Film Emperor.
In the films of the 1980s, the scripts were almost entirely from literary works. "The Old Well" is the same, originally a short story, similar to Lu Yao's "Life", the difference between urban and rural areas has caused a huge psychological distortion.
Laojing Village has been short of water for many years, in order to drill a well, several generations of people have been followed by predecessors and successors, and they have not hesitated to fight for their lives, but they have never been able to achieve their wishes. Male No. 1, played by Zhang Yimou, after unremitting efforts, finally became a well. The story is very simple, and the emotional line interspersed in the middle is not complicated: Zhang Yimou's family is poor, and he cannot marry Xiaofang, the same village of Qingmei Bamboo Horse, and it is difficult for a lover to become a family member. Only a young widow could be a door-to-door son-in-law. In the end, Xiaofang left the countryside and went to the city to develop; Zhang Yimou became famous and stayed in the village to lead the villagers to get rich together.
The original novel should have been published in a literary journal first, and published separately ten years later, it is a little regrettable that such a serious literary work has been packaged as a stall of books by the publishing house, which is a bit nonsensical
