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In the past two days, in addition to the fantasy epic "Turandot", the film and television area of Station B has ushered in a team building masterpiece that deepens the revolutionary friendship of all UP masters, "The First Incense".
As a literary and artistic youth who has seen several Zhang Ailing films, I naturally want to participate in the grand event.
In line with the principle that there is no voice without investigation, I personally went to the cinema and sat for 144 minutes.
And this short 144 minutes is as long as two and a half hours.
I finally felt the mood of teacher Li Chengru when he watched Guo Jingming's "Sorrow Against the River" in "Actors Please Take Place".
Also a famous director + screenwriter + powerful actor, "Turandot" is directed by Zheng Xiaolong, written by Wang Xiaoping, and starring Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, Sophie Marceau, and Vincent Perez, and the result has been spoiled in advance on the poster.
"The First Burning Incense" is directed by Xu Anhua, written by Wang Anyi, photographed by Du Kefeng, and soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto, all of which are gods.
Although they are half-siblings, they rot as if they were born of a parent.
Many people say that this movie failed in the casting of the male and female protagonists, and turned the "First Burning Incense" of the drunken fans into "The First Furnace steel", of course, there are also curses like "Camel Shoko".
But after watching the movie, I want to say, don't insult "Camel Xiangzi", on the depth and tragic color of the characters of Xiangzi and Tiger Girl, Peng Yuyan and Ma Sichun can't play a good fight at all!
"First Burning Incense", full name "Agarwood Crumbs , First Burning Incense", is a novella written by Zhang Ailing in 1943, which is also her debut novel, which shook the literary world as soon as it was published.
The novel tells the story of Ge Weilong, a female high school student in Shanghai, who follows her family to Hong Kong, and in order to continue her studies, she defects to her rich widow's aunt Mrs. Leung, and then quickly falls under the temptation of clothes and jewelry.
Mrs. Liang uses Wei Long as bait to attract young talents, and also tries to push her to her old lover Situ Xie.
Wei Long is infatuated with the playboy Georgie Joe, and marries Georgie Joe under the arrangement of his aunt, becoming a high-level social flower who gets people for Mrs. Liang and money for Georgie Joe.
As the first female lead, Ge Weilong's choice largely determines the success or failure of the film.
Her appearance is described in the novel as follows: "Her face is a plain and beautiful little convex face, her eyes are long and charming, and the deep marks of her double eyelids sweep straight into her sideburns." Slender nose, small fat mouth. Perhaps her facial expression is slightly lacking, but only because of this sluggishness, it shows the gentle and thick ancient Chinese atmosphere. ”
As early as a few years ago, when the "First Incense" movie was established, netizens played the brain hole YY who was the most suitable to play Ge Weilong, Liu Yifei, Song Yi, Jiang Mengjie, Ni Ni and so on have been nominated.
Not to mention how suitable these actresses are for Ge Weilong from their looks to temperament, but they are definitely more suitable than Ma Sichun, but in the end, the producer still chose Ma Sichun.
This choice does not matter, at least it is a world of difference, and Zheng Xiaolong selected Guan Xiaotong to play "Turandot" among 9,000 people.
Moreover, in the movie, Bai Bing, who plays Ge Qiqi Qiao and his father's new love, is more like Ge Weilong than Ma Sichun.
As for the second heroine's aunt, Mrs. Liang, yu Feihong came to play in the movie, the acting skills are no problem, and the appearance is of course beautiful enough.
But the problem is that it is so beautiful, and such a beautiful aunt also wants Ma Sichun to seduce men for her - it is Fan Wei who seduces her!
It seems that the economic situation in Hong Kong is really bad, and Situ Xie has been downgraded from Yu Feihong's consumption to Ma Sichun.
And in the original work of Situ Xie, it is clearly written that he is a "skinny little old man", and Teacher Fan Wei's food is a bit too good!
As for the male protagonist Qiao Qiqiao, in fact, there is not much drama in the novel, and the label is a handsome flower heart soft rice man, the prototype is rumored to be the gambling king He Hongshen, but Zhang Ailing herself did not admit it.
Qiao Qiqiao's appearance is described very specifically: he is even bloodless than Zhou Jijie, and even his lips are pale, like plaster casts. Under the black pressed eyebrows and eyelashes, the eyes were like the wind blowing through the Waseda field, sometimes revealing the blue light of the rice under the water, flashing, and then darkening. Man is tall and well-behaved, but his clothes are so obedient and casual that people forget the existence of his body.
Netizens originally fantasized about countless handsome men on this description, and Zun Long, Yan Kuan, and Chen Guanxi at the peak of their appearance were all popular candidates.
Even if these actors are not the right age now, I don't know why Xu Anhua would choose Peng Yuyan, whose gender does not match the role.
Can you feel me sitting in the movie theater, watching Liang Luoshi persuade Ma Sichun one second, You know that the mixed-race boys are good, somewhat gloomy, even a little bit of a, and the next second Peng Yuyan wearing a sleeveless vest and throwing two strong dark arms into the house with champagne?
In fact, from the day of filming, the main actor of "The First Burning Incense" has been complained about, so that many people think that this movie is badly shot is all the problem of the actor.
But after you actually see the movie, you will find that the director and screenwriter's pot cannot be shaken off.
The director of this film, Xu Anhua, a heavyweight director in Hong Kong, a representative of the new wave of Hong Kong cinema, is good at portraying the image of middle-aged and elderly women in ordinary life, and has made classic works such as "Running to the Fury Sea", "Day and Night in Tin Shui Wai", "Auntie's Postmodern Life", "Woman, Forty", "Sister Tao" and so on.
At the same time, she is also the director who has made the most novels of Zhang Ailing, such as "Love in the City" in 1984, "Half Life" in 1997, and "The First Incense" this year.
But the amount of shooting does not mean that the shooting is good, in fact, in addition to the "Half Life" selected by God is an exception, "Love in the City" was not highly evaluated in that year, and now there is no word-of-mouth counterattack, let alone "The First Incense".
Xu Anhua likes Zhang Ailing very much, otherwise he would not have filmed her works again and again, but liking and understanding are two different things.
Zhang Ailing is delicate to mean, although she writes about love, she never shys away from or even is willing to expose the weakness and dark side of human nature.
Xu Anhua is also delicate, but in her films since "Woman, Forty", the lens has always been gentle and broad, simple and unpretentious, lacking the breath of Zhang Ailing's drunken gold fans.
Even the best-rated "Half Life", Xu Anhua's shooting is really too simple.
Therefore, when the story is replaced by the more gorgeous and decadent and dark and deep "First Burning Incense" with a more gorgeous and decadent color tone, Xu Anhua's style and understanding of the fallacy can also be imagined.
What a beautiful scenery, it is said that it was taken on Gulangyu Island, and this wet and thick green really restores the scene of the novel.
Du Kefeng YYDS, people are better to remove.
I really don't understand why this slogan should be written on every character still, "Give love without a anniversary", where the love in "The First Incense" comes from, only indulgence and depravity in the name of love.
This photo is really the peak of Ma Sichun's appearance, although she does not look like this in the movie.
In the movie, the creator implements this sentence quite thoroughly, afraid that the audience will not understand their good intentions:
I would never have dreamed that one day I would see in "The First Incense" that Mrs. Liang once had a leg with Georgie Joe and his father, and I couldn't love it;
Seeing Ge Weilong angrily scolding Mrs. Liang, "Unlike your aunt you, after the hours have passed, there will always be a famine in your heart, and you will never fall in love, in my opinion, your way of courting is ridiculous";
Seeing Situ Xie slapping Georgie Qiao on the shoulder during the wedding banquet toast, asking him to be nicer to Ge Weilong, love but not;
Seeing Zhou Jijie become a nun, love - Zhou Jijie loves who comes, in the movie I think she loves Ge Weilong.
At the end, when Ma Sichun stuck his head out of the car window and shouted "I love you, you have no conscience", I dreamed back to Li Bar for a second, and finally persuaded myself to give up the last glimmer of hope for this movie.
The natural thing that made up these outrageous plots is that the screenwriter of this film, Wang Anyi, a famous contemporary female writer, whose representative work "Long Hate Song" and Zhang Ailing are also representatives of Haipai writers, are often compared by critics.
Perhaps because it has been compared too many times, Wang Anyi's attitude towards Zhang Ailing is particularly entangled, and this sense of competition is vividly reflected in the film's adaptation of the novel.
Let Zhou Jijie and Qiao Qiqiao, who could not see their brothers, have a deep affection for each other and become close friends with Ge Weilong.
Let Georgie Qiao, who is obviously afraid of snakes, raise a snake, and the snake is a metaphor for desire - but why is the next shot cutting The bed scene between Mrs. Liang and Lu Zhaolin?
However, this bed scene is one of the few places where I think this movie is worth the ticket price, Yu Feihong's curves are really beautiful, and Yin Fang even showed half his ass.
Change Ge Weilong, who is sober and self-aware that he is actively degenerate and unwilling to confess, and can only grasp Ge Qiqiqiao as a life-saving straw, into a simple ignorance for love and madness.
The psychological activity of seeing a cabinet of beautiful clothes, "What is the difference between this and buying a pleasing person in the Long Third Hall" was also moved to yakuza.
Therefore, although the lightness of the literati is the traditional artistic ability of your circle, the smart person should not compete with the genius, and he is still a genius who has passed away.
Although I scolded so much, but this movie is actually not a little advantage, I insisted on staying in the cinema until the end of the film, and the big sister who was swept up the floor took a broom and a garbage can to drive people away, just to listen to the soundtrack of Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Forty years back, I think the professor to play Georgie Joe is more suitable than the current male protagonist.
In addition, there are several adaptations of the film that are not bad. Ge Weilong lost herself to Qiao Qiqiao, ready to flee back to Shanghai, it was difficult to squeeze on the boat, was scolded by an old woman who wanted to rob her purse, squatted on the ground and cried, in just one minute of drama, Xu Anhua's criticism and concern for the bottom were in it.
The half-hour after the end of the marriage life of Ge Weilong and Ge Qiqiqiao very vividly filmed the embarrassment of the newlywed couple's appearance, and the performance of the male and female protagonists finally became natural.
When Peng Yuyan was lying on the bed and begging Ge Weilong not to be a translator for Situ Xie, I even saw the rare childishness that should have belonged to the role of Qiao Qiqiao.
Situ assisted Ge Weilong to eat oysters, and made Ge Weilong laugh, and at that moment I actually wanted to stand on the cp (bushi) of the cult.
But the goodness of these minutiae does not obscure the overall failure of the film.
To paraphrase a phrase from "Camel Shoko", like buying a pile of rags, there are also one or two small colored objects that glow in the broken copper and rotten iron.
But normal people certainly don't buy a bunch of rags for these glowing little things, let alone spend 40 oceans!
Therefore, please pity the poor film that has been tested by yourself, like it, share it with your relatives and friends, and let everyone not go to the cinema to watch "The First Incense" because of curiosity.
Bye bye!
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Edit: Haike