At night, the number of vehicles has decreased considerably, the lights are high, and the overpasses are like rainbows, drawing a charming arc in the black sky.

On the streets, lights and lawn lamps decorate this historic but modern city.

Zhang Chu drove his car on Yongan Road at a fast speed, and the endless flow of car lights flickered, reflecting each other, like beautiful beating notes.

All kinds of lights are far or near, bright or dark, present or hidden, and the surrounding lights overlap and overlap, outlining the different contours of each building.

There are many people walking along the riverside greenway outside the Bishui Yuntian community, and in the open space inside the community, the elderly began to practice square dance every day, but the sound is not loud and not disturbing the people.

Since the number of residents in each building is not large, there is basically no need to wait too long for three stairs and four households.

When he opened the door, he didn't do anything, he went straight to the study and turned on the computer, and his mind was now full of the two Peking Opera actors babbling and singing on the stage!

The story of "Farewell My Concubine" has been circulating for so long, but when Zhang Chu really started watching Peking Opera, he found that a classic movie appeared repeatedly in his mind.

is also called "Farewell My Concubine", but it tells the story of a Peking Opera actor, this movie is directed by Chen Kaige, and is jokingly called by netizens as the peak that he will never be able to reach.

Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi, three powerful actors, performed the joys and sorrows of the two Peking Opera singers for half a century, showing their thinking and understanding of traditional culture, human living conditions and human nature.

The film tells the story of a pair of brothers who grew up together, Duan Xiaolou plays the sheng, Cheng Dieyi plays the dan, the two have always cooperated seamlessly, especially the "Farewell My Concubine" is famous in the capital. The younger brother admired the senior brother, but Duan Xiaolou married the famous prostitute Juxian when he thought it was time to start a family, and since then, the love and hatred between the three of them around a "Farewell My Concubine" began to escalate with the changes of the times, and eventually became a tragedy.

After its release in China and Xiangjiang in 1993, it has aroused the popularity and discussion of countless fans, and even broke the box office record of Chinese mainland literary films in the United States, so far the Douban movie score is as high as 9.4 points, ranking second in the Douban movie TOP250, second only to "The Shawshank Redemption"!

"Farewell My Concubine" can be said to have swept the world film industry, and won the Palme d'Or, the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival, in the year of its release, becoming the first Chinese film to win this award, and won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Golden Globe Awards in the United States and the British Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

In 2005, the American "Time Magazine" selected the "100 Best Movies in Global History", and "Farewell My Concubine" was on the list!

The image of Cheng Dieyi has also become the most classic character in film history, and has been remembered by countless netizens.

What some people may not know is that this movie is based on the script of the same name by Xiangjiang writer Li Bihua, and there are many stories in it.

Li Bihua first wrote the script of the TV series "Farewell My Concubine", which was made into two episodes of the TV series and then rewritten and published under the same name.

After the film rights were bought in 1983, it was not until 1992 that the film was officially launched in Yanjing, and Li Bihua was also the screenwriter of the film.

"Farewell My Concubine", which was already first-class, has become a classic in film history after the brilliant recreation of the movie version, and the original author wrote a new version of "Farewell My Concubine" based on the movie script, doubling the length of the original 200 pages!

In other words, the version we can see at this time is actually not the original version, but a recreated version that is very close to the movie script.

Li Bihua is a very well-known writer in the Xiangjiang area, she has published more than 100 books, and there are many translations, and many of them have been adapted into movies.

The original movie "Green Snake" starring Maggie Cheung and Wang Zuxian is her, and there are also representative works such as "Rouge Buckle", "Bridge of Life and Death", "Qin Warriors", "Seduction of Monks", "Kawashima Yoshiko" and other masterpieces.

However, there is no trace of this person in this world at all, the charming green snake is just a foil to the white snake, and Farewell My Concubine is just a classic Peking Opera repertoire!

Zhang Chu has always liked this movie, and he also likes the rewriting through the movie, he muttered to himself on the computer: "This person is really a god, and he can manipulate the text as he wants." The woman with Bihua in her name is really amazing, Tao Bihua and Ms. Li Bihua can be said to have brought a lot of beauty in life. ”

If it weren't for Xu Ji calling him to the theater, if it wasn't Farewell My Concubine who was staged in the theater, I'm afraid Zhang Chu wouldn't have flipped this work out of the vast pile of books at all.

Now Zhang Chu wants to show this work, it doesn't matter if it can be made into a movie, the important thing is that he likes this story and wants to share it with readers!

Obviously, "Farewell My Concubine" is not the genre that young readers like now, it is full of a sense of age, full of reality, and can be regarded as a work with a realistic theme.

And this is precisely the rarest type of bestsellers, Zhang Chu knows that it will inevitably be inferior to "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" or "The Legend of Wukong" in terms of sales, but literature also needs it.

There are always people who say that "Farewell My Concubine" is third-rate, has no literary value, belongs to disease-free moaning, and it all depends on movies to give it fame.

This statement is obviously untenable, even if the fame is not as high as the movie, it still has a considerable depth of humanity!

It has a strong sense of history and embodies the power of human nature, although the narration time is located in the past, but the purpose is not to reproduce the historical truth, but to restore the "human nature" in history.

Li Bihua, a female writer, raised the traditional realism of appearance, no longer conforming to the development of time and jumping with psychological time, and transformed the focus from the traditional plot dialogue to the movement of consciousness.

In the beginning of the narrative, she is just a cold bystander, the overall tone is relatively flat, and even the natural and true nature of a group of art children is described in detail.

But as the storyline progresses, the ups and downs of the characters' fates and survival in the dark society make their values change completely!

It is difficult to see the graceful temperament of ordinary female writers from the overall text, but it reveals a coldness, and even a faint smell of blood.

However, Zhang Chu did not rush to write, this is a good book, and he plans to write it after sorting out the whole.

At the same time, I also had to make a little preparation, I didn't know anything about Peking Opera before today, but I immediately wrote an article about Peking Opera the next day, which is easy to make others suspicious!

Therefore, he plans to seriously understand this quintessence of the country, at least to understand the basic truth in it, and at the same time, there must be a certain degree of authenticity and questioning spirit.

Is it true that the children of the troupe are learning art?

What about the various singing voices and basic skills exercises in it?

Zhang Chu set his eyes on the business card on the side, maybe he could go to the theater to ask when there was no class the day after tomorrow, and appreciate it more by the way.

It's not early now, he is going to review the movie in the system in his mind, and then if he has time, he will take a look at Li Bihua's again, and eat these two works thoroughly before starting to write!

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Even though Li Bihua participated in the production of the film and the whole process, there are still many differences between the text and the film text, and the story is generally the same.

Zhang Chu wants to combine the movie on the basis of Li Bihua's original work, which is a very tricky creation and very challenging!

Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi were sent to the drama troupe by their parents because of their poor family background since they were children, and under the strict training of the master, they depended on each other and established a deep relationship.

Dieyi's nickname is Xiaodouzi, because she is thin and delicate, she was assigned to play a woman in Peking Opera, and since then she has lost her identity as a man.

He was bullied like a low-status female actor, and in the process of being forced to sing "I am a good girl, not a man", he gradually identified with the female identity he played, and fell in love with his senior brother Duan Xiaolou, who played the overlord, in the common growth experience.

The overlord Farewell Concubine co-starred by these two people hinted at their relationship very cleverly, and Yu Ji's life and death to the overlord followed!

Cheng Dieyi lost her gender identity and couldn't sort out the distance between reality and illusion.

However, Duan Xiaolou is a real man who needs a woman's love, and Ju Xian meets his various needs, thus ignoring his junior brother's feelings for him.

Ju Xian's arrival broke Dieyi's yearning for love, he hated Ju Xian and Duan Xiaolou for Ju Xian's love, but he still regarded Duan Xiaolou as his overlord.

However, when the EN Revolution came, because the actors and prostitutes were very special existences in the old society, the three of them became the targets of criticism!

It was a chaotic and disorderly era, where everyone was crazy about criticizing others for self-preservation, and calmness and rationality disappeared, losing their reason and humanity.

Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou became the targets of key criticism, and they had to put on costumes and start parading the streets under the escort of the Red Guards.

Decades of love are not worth a penny at this time, and Xiaolou and Dieyi betrayed each other in order to protect themselves.

When the Red Guards searched out the sword that had opened the edge from Duan Xiaolou's house, the test of human nature appeared.

In order to protect her husband, Ju Xian pointed the finger at Dieyi, saying that the sword was his, and Dieyi, for his overlord and his half-life enemy, pointed at Ju Xian and said firmly, the sword was given by me, and she hung it!

This is not to entertain the public, nor is it lacking in the sense of historical weight, when these are presented in front of Zhang Chu, he understands that this beautifully written and penetrating work can also be very sharp, a needle to the reader's heart!