"What do you think of the movie?"

"To be honest, I don't think it's very good, maybe the expectations for Director Kai Ge are too high! After all, it's someone who has filmed "Farewell My Concubine"..."

"So how much do you think the box office will be?"

"There should be no problem with breaking 100 million, Bi is a great director, and the appeal is still there, but there is only one 100 million, and it is impossible to have more. ”

Tang Yiyi said, and then looked at Tang Tang, who was still a little sleepy-eyed next to him.

"What about you, what do you think?"

"It's boring, I'm almost asleep..."

Tang Yiyi smiled and touched Tang Tang's head.

"You can't do this in the future, if this is photographed by a reporter, it will inevitably be hacked hard. ”

"Got it..."

The young lady stuck out her tongue and almost didn't sprout Tang Yiyi!

"Let's go, let's eat hot pot!"

Tang Yiyi took the young lady's hand and left.

......

A few days passed.

"Mei Lanfang" officially landed in domestic theaters.

Director Chen's appeal is indeed good.

The box office record on the first day directly broke 10 million.

Even higher than in previous lives.

But then came the collapse of word of mouth!

Many netizens commented that Li Tianwang is far worse than his brother!

And it's not even a star and a half!

"No matter how you look at Li Ming, it's an overindulgent face!"

"Yu Shaoqun and Wang Xuejin are quite outstanding, but Li Ming has a little less taste..."

"The second half is very strange, maybe it's because the first half is so exciting, and the supporting characters are too brilliant..."

"Whether it is the opening and ending or some scenes in the feature film, after all, it is too "Farewell My Concubine"! Even Mei Lanfang is like a copy of Cheng Dieyi! And the saddest thing is that painting a tiger is not an anti-dog..."

Basically, all of them are coming for King Li...

Poor Li Tianwang wants to play this role well, but it's a pity...

So, don't take it easy to play some roles that others have already succeeded!

Of course, it doesn't matter if you're trying to be famous.

After all, someone scolding can prove that you are famous.

"After watching the movie, the whole person was a little stunned...

At the end of the film, Mei Lanfang, played by Li Ming, dressed in white, bowed slightly to many admirers, and said softly: "Thank you, don't follow, I'm going to play a role." ”

The play is a good play, the words are good words, the artistic conception of the whole film is so far, gently and skillfully made a flower, and passed into the clouds, as if there is nothing, it is also a good ending, but it is ...... It's just a lack of charm and a lack of strength...

This Mei Lanfang is not as good as we thought, and it doesn't seem to be what the film wants to explain.

Chen Kaige told media reporters: "While waiting to photograph him, he kept walking around the corridor of the studio, lifting the hem of his shirt with his right hand, and I was very moved to see it." What else can we say about such actors?"

It seems that there is indeed nothing to say, Li Ming is not an actor who does not work hard!

In addition to him, if you find another "Mei Lanfang" actor in the world today, I am afraid that it will only be between him and him at most.

In the play, he has been trying hard to get close to Mei Lanfang, so much so that Sun Honglei, the actor of Qiu Rubai in the film, called him as soon as he watched the film and told him that he acted really well.

So much so that after Mr. Mei Baojiu finished watching his "Mei Lanfang", he said that in his lifetime, he would not authorize a second person to play Mei Lanfang.

However, this Mei Lanfang still has its form but loses its soul, and looks like it has no god.

Screenwriter Yan Geling said that Mei Lanfang is a gentle resistant.

You must know that Mei Lanfang is not resisting a certain person, a certain force, or a certain predicament, he is resisting an era!

First of all, when Peking Opera was transformed from an "old opera" to a "new opera", the general suspicion from industry peers and the majority of ticket holders, or even the slander of open guns and hidden arrows, was burdened with the pressure of "I can't afford to lose, and I will never turn over if I lose".

Secondly, when the drama was transformed from "lower ninth rate" to "identity", the contempt and incomprehension from cultural giants including Lu Xun, Hu Shi, and Chen Duxiu, and the mainstream voices of society, and he was still burdened with the pressure of "can't afford to lose, and if you lose, you will never turn over", what he resisted was the vast majority of people in society at that time.

Just "gentleness" can't resist, and there must be an incomparably firm and persistent inner force that supports him to drag the times forward, but this can't be seen in Li Ming.

Li Ming is still the same Li Ming, the Li Xiaojun in "Sweet Honey", and the Shi Jun in "Half Life", just a gentle intellectual, not a fighter who overcomes obstacles.

He learned Mei Lanfang's makeup, learned his posture and gestures, and even learned the steps of Peking Opera at a very professional level, but he didn't learn Mei Lanfang's fighting spirit and courage, because he had never broken with an era - just once upon a time, there was a decisive person who played a similar excellent role, but it's a pity:

There is no Leslie Cheung in the world.

On April 1, 2003, Leslie Cheung jumped off a tall building, declaring his complete uncompromising with the world.

is also director Chen Kaige, who commented on Leslie Cheung's performance by saying: "Leslie Cheung must invest in the characters he plays with his personal feelings, so as to achieve such a state in performance." It was one of his eyes that exhausted the theme of infatuation and betrayal in "Farewell My Concubine". ”

In fact, a director cannot be "speechless" to actors. It's just that maybe, he learned that it's useless to say more, because the performance has reached a certain level, and the acting is the madness in the bones, which is unattainable and impossible to replicate unless he is reincarnated as a human.

However, in the film "Mei Lanfang", there are indeed many places that need that kind of madness, such as:

Mei Lanfang can't hope for Meng Xiaodong, the "favorite woman in her life", and her biggest wish is just to watch a movie with her, just when the two are about to make a trip, but the owner of the drama garden wants him to save the scene - this is a very symbolic plot, because if you miss "this time", you will also miss "next time", and you will miss it forever. So Mei Lanfang said to the boss:

"I can't go, I'm in a hurry. ”

The boss smiled: "What could be more urgent than saving the scene?"

Mei Lanfang said in a deep voice: "What if I have to make a mistake?"

The boss smiled: "You are not such a person. ”

Mei Lanfang stared into his eyes and said, "What if I am that kind of person?"

In just a few words, it was Mei Lanfang who desperately wanted to grasp the thread of fate in her hands, and it happened that there was a similar plot in "Farewell My Concubine":

Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi were removing their makeup backstage, Dieyi tested Xiaolou and said that she wanted to play with him for a lifetime, Xiaolou realized that something was wrong, and smiled awkwardly:

"Haven't you been acting for a lifetime?"

Dieyi heard the intention of escaping in his words, and hissed:

"No! One month, one day, one hour is not a lifetime!"

They all want to grasp it but can't grasp it, Leslie Cheung's performance is to do his best, and the jade is burning in the past, but Liming is just warm water around his body, as if he is angry but not angry, and all the anger is mentioned in his throat, but he does not force his mouth, nose and tongue, and spit it out unremarkably.

For another example, Mei Lanfang was forced to attend the "press conference for the comeback performance" arranged by the Japanese military, and gave herself a typhoid injection that can create a disease in advance, and grew a beard early to express her uncompromising attitude.

"I have an elder who said to me before he died, Wanhua, you will become famous in the future, can you give us the status of singing and promotion? I said okay. ”

In "Farewell My Concubine", Cheng Dieyi refused to bow to the rebels, Duan Xiaolou went to persuade him, Dieyi didn't let him in the door, and told him through the door:

"You Chu Overlord has bowed his head and confessed his guilt, can Peking Opera not die?"

is the same when he was fighting against the pressure of the times with his own strength, he traced back to his heart, and took out the most essential and simple strength to support himself:

It's just doing the duty of a play.

One is to establish the image of an upright actor in front of the world, and the other is to want to sing honestly, sing how you want, and not be disturbed by other factors. It's a pity that in the same realm, two performances, Leslie Cheung shrank all his crazy demons into his body, and spit out word by word, poignant, and Liming's lines are in the chest, and the hero is short of breath, just borrowing the shell of "Mei Lanfang", not his inner words.

In "Farewell My Concubine", Leslie Cheung seems to be speaking from his heart, if he is not crazy, he will not be able to play, and he finally interpreted his life into a tragedy that made thousands of people cry and sad.

"Thank you, everyone, don't follow, I'm going to play a show. ”

From the looks of it, this sentence doesn't seem to belong to "Mei Lanfang", but it seems to be an excellent line written to Leslie Cheung who is 5 years late. I think that on that night, Leslie Cheung was looking out of thin air from a high-rise building, with the dazzling night scene of Hong Kong Island in front of him, and said such a line to thousands of fans in his mind, which may be what all those who love him and still miss him can imagine that he left in the world's most beautiful "last scene" ......

"It's so well written!"

Tang Yiyi praised.