The 74-year-old female director Xu Anhua is getting older and braver, and in the new film "The First Burning Incense" directed by her, she has filmed a very beautiful scene, and the heroine is Yu Feihong, who is known for her beauty!
With this role, Yu Feihong, who knows the destiny of heaven, contributed her largest scale performance since the film.
After watching the movie, many viewers squirted wildly at "The First Incense", but most of them had a positive attitude towards Mrs. Liang, played by Yu Feihong in the film.
The only thing I complained about was: Yu Feihong was so beautiful!
Such a beautiful Mrs. Liang, is it necessary to rely on Wei Long to help "pimp"?
01 Mrs. Liang, whose appearance is very different from the original
Yu Feihong's appearance is too different from mrs. Liang described in Zhang Ailing's novel "The First Burning Incense". In the novel, Mrs. Liang is a "dry and thin" woman, and the audience can easily associate her with Gu Manlu, played by Mei Yanfang in "Half Life". If the casting is really based on such standards, it is estimated that these erotic scenes now will not be so eye-catching.
Director Xu Anhua has a clear positioning for the role of Mrs. Liang, she said:
The film "The First Incense" talks about hypocrisy in high-end society, and Mrs. Liang in the film represents this. She has an affair with many men, marries for money, and after her husband dies, she has many lovers, old and young. She is a lover with Situ Xie, played by Fan Wei, but also helps him find other little girls, which is depravity, but she makes this corruption and depravity very decent.
The difference between Mrs. Liang in the film and Yu Feihong who appears in the eyes of the public is too big, and many viewers think that Yu Feihong is still too beautiful, playing Mrs. Liang, less mean and brutal.
Some viewers even suggested that Xu Qing and Jiang Wenli play Mrs. Liang, and the effect was better than Yu Feihong.
For this suggestion, Yi Xuanjun really can't agree.
Xu Qing's figure and style are enough, but Xu Qing has been too "girly" in her previous roles, and if she wants to perform Mrs. Liang's killing spirit, I am afraid that she cannot.
In addition to Jiang Wenli's mother playing the butterfly in "Farewell to the Overlord", she is a prostitute. Her subsequent role is still very different from Mrs. Liang, and letting her play may not have the effect of Yu Feihong.
02 Mrs. Liang as the control body of Wei Long
Mrs. Liang is a background character in Zhang Ailing's novels, she does not even have a name, you can call her Mrs. Liang, you can also call Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Zhang.
She represents a type of person, that is, a woman who is a partial house for those rich merchants. Mrs. Leung is the fourth aunt of Leung Kit Teng, a wealthy merchant in eastern Guangdong, who is one of the most generous men in Hong Kong and loved her very much during her lifetime.
Zhang Ailing wrote about the character of Mrs. Liang with a mean attitude, so she was written as a "dry and thin" woman. If you compare with reality, the rich merchants in areas like Taiwan and Macao, their smallest partial house is not a beautiful woman, and they are all the kind of big beautiful women who were hot in the dance hall when they were young. Mrs. Liang, as the favored fourth room, has nothing to do with "dry and thin" in any case.
Xu Anhua added a lot of drama to Mrs. Liang in "The First Burning Incense".
In addition to letting Mrs. Liang shine in her dress, two scenes were deliberately filmed at the end of the film.
One was the first time that Wei Long and Georgie Qiao were newly married, and they accompanied Situ Xie on a business trip to Shanghai. In the Hotel in Shanghai, Wei Long appeared in front of her many times and the image of Mrs. Liang appeared in front of her, coming towards her.
The scene is obvious: Wei Long seems to see his future fate like Mrs. Liang's.
In another scene, Mrs. Liang appeared in front of her at the wedding of Wei Long and Georgie Jo, and she appeared to be married when she was young.
This scene is also very interesting!
Mrs. Liang is a four-roomer, so according to the custom, when getting married, you need to toast to the three-room wives in front!
Facing the eldest lady, Mrs. Liang naturally knelt down.
When it came to the second wife, Mrs. Liang, after hesitating for a moment, saw the elongated face of the second wife and also knelt down;
In front of the third wife, Mrs. Liang could not kneel anyway...
Seeing the picture of Wei Long going forward to marry Qiao Qiqiao, Presumably Mrs. Liang at this time also felt a lot of emotion for the humiliation of her youth.
In fact, the "First Incense" movie is a double heroine, Mrs. Liang's role is not less than Wei Long, the two are "mirror images" of each other, which makes people see a certain connection between the fates of two women of different ages.
With these two scenes, the personality of Mrs. Liang's character is much more three-dimensional.
03 Mrs. Liang under Xu Anhua's lens
Those who can make good erotic scenes are masters!
Ang Lee filmed "Color Ring" and "Brokeback Mountain"; Wong Kar-wai filmed "Fallen Angel" and "The Legend of Ah Fei"; Chen Kaige filmed "Farewell to the Overlord" and "Taoist Descending the Mountain"; Hou Xiaoxian filmed "Flowers on the Sea" and "The Best Time"; Zhang Yimou filmed "Ju Dou" and "Red Sorghum". This has been proven.
I was under the impression that director Xu Anhua had never shot such a beautiful scene in his previous works, and she revealed in an interview: "I saw a photo of Charlotte Lamplin, she was wearing a flesh-colored nightgown lying in front of her, and there was a naked man behind her, and I thought it was my aunt when I looked at it. Then I showed the actors the picture, and I said I might want to shoot such a shot, and they all agreed. ”
The 75-year-old British actress Charlotte Ramplin is not only amazingly beautiful, but also an evergreen tree in the film world, her latest work is "Dune", in the film as "Virgin Helen", the leader of an organization with great power, the aura is bursting!
The scene begins with Yu Feihong's two legs hanging by the bed, and ends with Lu Zhaolin, played by Yin Fang, lying on mrs. Liang's back, and everyone is red in the face!
After this scene, Mrs. Liang also had a shot of getting up in the middle of the night to smoke, originally Yu Feihong was going to appear wearing suspender underwear, but Xu Anhua felt too sexy, afraid that it would affect the audience's attention, and could not see Mrs. Liang's expression, so she changed it to long sleeves.
In any case, seeing Xu Anhua's version of the erotic drama is also worth the ticket price.
Because of this play, Mrs. Liang's personality is more plump.
Mrs. Leung's life in the film is two parts: one is to "pimp" rich businessmen like Situ Xie; the other is to seduce young men.
But there was one person who didn't take the bait, and that was playboy Georgie Joe. That's a very interesting point.
Georgie Joe, who lives a wandering life, actually married the seemingly innocent Wei Long, and "never told her a lie." ”
If you use the food chain to describe, the original emotional food chain, are also arranged, one thing drops one thing!
Mrs. Liang's plump portrayal in the film largely makes up for the thinness of the role of Wei Long, which Xu Anhua and screenwriter Wang Anyi are indispensable.
04 Yu Feihong as an actor
To tell the truth, as an actress, Yu Feihong's results are far inferior to Yu Feihong's as a beautiful woman.
He starred in movies at the age of 8, served as a film heroine at the age of 16, was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy at the age of 18, participated in the Hollywood film "Happy Luck Club" at the age of 21, and was well known to the public at the age of 27 with the TV series "Holding Hands".
Under the seemingly brilliant resume, Yu Feihong's acting career does not have too many works to take.
Among the 8 actresses of "Xifuhui", Yu Feihong is the only Chinese national, and yingying she plays in the film, although she has a tortuous experience, Yu Feihong's performance is also online, but she is not the protagonist in the film.
In 1998, Yang Yang, the director of the TV series "Holding Hands", found Yu Feihong and hoped that she would play the main role of Xia Xiaoxue, but she finally picked the role of "Little Three" Wang Chun, although the evaluation was good, but it was far less eye-catching than Jiang Wenli's role as Xia Xiaoxue.
The TV series she participated in,"Little Li Flying Knife", is also often mentioned, Yu Feihong plays the role of the Amazing Fairy in the film, although the beauty is amazing, but the heroines of this play are Xiao Qiang and Jia Jingwen, and the role of the Amazing Hong Fairy is too little.
Yu Feihong once invested 40 million yuan to shoot his directorial debut "Love Has an Afterlife", but this "pure love movie" was released in 2009, and the box office was only 2 million yuan, which was unbearable!
Objectively speaking, Yu Feihong did not achieve results in the film and television circle that matched her beauty!
In recent years, she has played roles in film and television dramas such as "Little Husband" and "Chinese Doctor", and the audience still recognizes her acting skills and beauty, but she is not popular after all.
05 Yu Feihong in the eyes of the public
In contrast, The personal image created by Yu Feihong in the eyes of the public is perfect!
In particular, teacher Xu Zhiyuan did an interview with Yu Feihong in the ninth episode of the first season of "Thirteen Invitations".
Throughout the whole process, Xu Zhiyuan showed admiration for Yu Feihong's beauty, almost drooling over the interview.
Yu Feihong also shared his views on single life, women's marriage, acting attitudes, and the pursuit of fame and fortune.
For example, she said, no one needs to be remembered for a lifetime.
"I don't have a life of ups and downs, not because of how strong my ability is, but because I don't have too many requirements for life, I don't have too much desire, and I don't set myself a level that must be passed." 」
I have to say that her words made many people feel the same! She did this very successfully. No matter what, independent and self-reliant women are always awe-inspiring, and Yu Feihong deserves such praise!
Mrs. Liang, portrayed by Yu Feihong in "The First Burning Incense", is a completely different character from Gu Manlu portrayed by Mei Yanfang in "Half Life", who carries a lot of resentment and unfairness. And Yu Feihong's version of Mrs. Liang, but a female fierce general of life, from breaking with Wei Long's father, in a road to the black of the side room, can also be regarded as a cruel person, at this point, Mrs. Liang is a bit similar to the actor Yu Feihong.
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Author and Editor of this issue: Wang Jinyue
Producer: Zhou Nanyan