In the restaurant, the two met Ge You.

In reality, he collaborated with the national teacher in "Code Name Jaguar", but now he has not acted, and it is the first time they have met. Xu Fei hadn't seen him for a long time, and was a little surprised: "Why are you so thin?"

"Playing Yuan Siye, I'm still recovering. ”

Ge You was already thin, but now he is even more exaggerated, so that his head appears large, and his body is like a hemp rod.

"How about the Kai Ge play? I heard Gong Li say that it is very good. Zhang Guoshi asked.

"It's really good, it's good from head to toe, I didn't expect Hong Kong people to work so hard, that Leslie Cheung is a big actor......"

Ge You reacted, and praised one director in front of another is a little bit bad, and laughed twice. He filmed "Farewell My Concubine", which was filmed from February to July this year, and he had been preparing for a long time in advance.

"Director Zhang is preparing a new film and wants to talk to you first. Xu Fei quoted the conversation.

"It's a film, it's called "Alive". It's not officially published yet, so I'll give you a brief explanation. ”

Zhang Guoshi didn't care, and said, "The protagonist is called Fugui, he was a young master before liberation, he was addicted to gambling and lost all his family business. Later, he was destitute, and went to seek medical treatment because his mother was sick, but he was arrested by the Kuomintang on the way.

After the war, when he returned to his hometown, he learned that his mother had passed away, and his wife Jiazhen had worked hard to bring up a pair of children, but the daughter had become mute.

Later, Jiazhen suffered from hypochondria and could not do heavy work. The son died of excessive blood drawing to save the county magistrate's wife because he had the same blood type as the county magistrate's wife.

Daughter Fengxia married a worker, gave birth to a baby boy, called Kugen, and died of hemorrhage on the operating table.

After Feng Xia died, Jiazhen also died. The worker was caught between two rows of cement slabs due to a mistake in the crane.

His grandson, Kugen, returned to the countryside with Fugui, and his life was difficult, and he ate beans for a day to die......"

"Ouch!"

Ge You leaned back, "All dead?"

"They are all dead, and in the end they are left with Fugui themselves and an old cow.

He said that he was inspired by an American folk song called "The Old Black Slave", and this old black slave has gone through a lifetime of hardship, and his family has gone before him, and he still treats the world kindly.

So with this work, Yu Hua just wants to say: people live for life itself, not for anything other than life. ”

"This, I don't quite understand this. ”

"Human life is a kind of biological instinct, and love, money, and dreams are all other things. Whoever wants to say that I live for love and I live for my dreams is nonsense, people live for this life. Xu Fei said.

"Oh, I see, I see. If this person's dream is shattered and Bia commits suicide directly, then it can be said that it is for the dream. Ge You nodded.

"But Director Zhang, you didn't make it clear, I have read Yu Hua's manuscript, and the background of the times is very complicated. Xu Fei said.

"Uh, yes, yes. ”

Zhang Guoshi had a mouthful of white teeth, flickered and failed, and said: "The timeline span is very large, starting from before liberation, and then uh-huh, then mmm-hmm, then mmm-hmm." Anyway, there are almost all the big things that happen. ”

"Then your scale is much larger than "Farewell My Concubine", can you pass the trial?"

"I've made several films, and I've got a good grasp of it. ”

Zhang Guoshi is confident.

Xu Fei got up and poured a cup of tea.

......

Let's talk about "Farewell My Concubine" first.

The investor's name is Xu Feng, a Taiwanese actor who married the boss of Hong Kong's Tomson Group and opened his own film and television company. She admires Director Chen very much and facilitates this cooperation.

After Director Chen got the adaptation rights, the first thing he did was to find screenwriter Lu Wei.

Lu Wei looked at Li Bihua's and felt that the writing was second-rate, the drama was not strong, and the advantage was that there was a theme and a relationship between the characters.

How awesome is he?

The first is the subversion of the entire context. "Farewell My Concubine" takes place in Beijing, but the Hong Kong writer writes it in Hong Kong's habits, and he feels that he has to learn from Beijing films and write scripts in the way that Beijing people express their emotions.

borrowed the videotape of "Teahouse", watched it day and night, and used Beijing films to talk to people. Later, he slept in the Opera Artists Association, and in order to understand the industry, he became an expert in Peking Opera.

After writing, Lu Wei said: I'll get you a fake script, send it for review, and use the real script for filming.

Director Chen agreed.

The film is submitted for review twice, the first time the script is reviewed, which is called the project approval, and the second time is the finished film.

Then filmed, Director Chen first considered using Hu Wenge (Mei Baojiu's apprentice) and Cai Guoqing to play Cheng Dieyi, and the filmmaker and Li Bihua insisted on using Leslie Cheung.

Later, I considered finding Cheng Long and Jiang Wen to play Duan Xiaolou, but of course Cheng Long didn't act; Jiang Wen said that it was not a challenge to play the overlord, I wanted to play Yu Ji.

After the filming, "Farewell My Concubine" was submitted for review for the second time, but the Film Bureau said that it would not pass.

The investor found the eldest daughter of the second generation and said to give it to the old man of your family, see what attitude the old man has? After reading it, the second generation of the eye said, "I don't see anything, change it, let it go." ”

At that time, Cheng Zhigu, director of the mainland partner Beijing Film Studio, wrote a review.

After the second trial, you can only send it out to the exhibition, otherwise it is a violation. Then, "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or.

Official statement: It can be screened, but it is not allowed to be publicized, and it is not allowed to participate in the awards.

In Taiwan, the film is listed as a mainland film, and in Hong Kong, it is not considered a Hong Kong movie, so none of the Golden Rooster, Golden Statue, and Golden Horse participated.

Shengsheng is blind to the actor.

How much does it have at the box office in the mainland? It is said that it is more than 40 million, and it is impossible to confirm.

As for "Alive".

Yu Hua said: "Director Zhang often says that what details in the original work need to be changed before the review can be passed." Seeing his confident appearance, I thought that he knew so much about censorship and admired him very much.

But after the film was completed, the review still did not pass. I no longer admire Director Zhang, I admire censorship. ”

"Alive" has been banned from beginning to end. The stuff in it is so exciting that the official believes that it "denigrates certain systems and doubts the ability of certain systems." ”

Later, the investor simply did not submit it for review, and the exhibition was banned from the exhibition.

Lu Wei is also a screenwriter, saying, "When I was filming "Farewell My Concubine" and "Alive", I thought our movie was about to start, but I didn't expect it to be our end. ”

As for why it was published?

Because Yu Huatou is "Harvest", the founder is Ba Jin, Ba Jin said, fa!

......

In the restaurant, Xu Fei poured a cup of tea.

"Do screenwriters and managers have eyebrows?"

"The screenwriter is looking for reeds, and Yu Hua also has to participate. "The Red Lantern" is an international investment of the Times, a Hong Kong company, I talked to them preliminarily, and they should be able to continue to cooperate. ”

Teacher Xu turned over there, "What about you?"

"I ......"

Ge You scratched his head and said, "Listen to you, I think it's very good, I really want to act." Anyway, we'll talk about it when the script comes out. ”

"Okay, I want to change this story in half a year, don't worry. ”

Zhang Guoshi was full of confidence and began to chat, "Xiao Xu, you said that you made such a big company and made TV series, but in fact, you should shoot more movies." ”

"Yes, at least one will be released next year, and there will be a new film to shoot. ”

"Oh?"

Zhang Guoshi was curious, he knew that it should be "The Great Satan", and asked: "Is it convenient to talk about this new film?"

"Oh, the animal is fierce, wait for you to enter the urn. ”