Text: Chapter 881
Chapter 881
Song Zheng was just thinking about letting the company's variety show launch another blind date show, but when he saw Feng Xiaogang today, he suddenly remembered the very classic romantic comedy "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb".
This movie revolves around the blind date process of the male protagonist Qin Fen, and in the film, the blind date is a very detailed and all-round introduction, to be precise, it should be called the post-blind date era.
Blind date, unconsciously has become an indispensable activity in the lives of the remaining men and women in the 21st century, the reason why it is called the "post-blind date era", because now blind date, is no longer a way to talk about marriage that is rejected by others, but with its efficient and fast characteristics, it is now talked about and highly respected.
Although only a few lucky people finally found the one through blind dates, and more of them are some ridiculous bloody stories of encountering JP men or women, blind dates are no longer an embarrassing thing, but are talked about in daily life.
As Qin Fen, played by Uncle Ge in the film, said, blind dates are actually quite unreliable, we can't look down on crooked melons and cracked dates, but anyone who looks good and looks pleasing to the eye is either sexually cold, or she is pregnant with a ghost fetus, mental health, where are the girls with clean history, why can't I touch any of them?
In the movie, Uncle Ge's blind date road is extremely bumpy, and he has encountered old colleagues who have become men, homosexual, and lover, a cemetery salesman, an unmarried mother who is looking for a father for the baby in her belly, a shrewd female shareholder who chooses men as stocks, and a sexual, cold widow once a year, who has been hit again and again, but she has been relentless and relentless to carry her backpack and embark on the long road of blind date.
What a realistic picture!
Among the leftover men and women in modern society, how many people are like this, turning over rivers and seas in love, fighting wits and courage in blind dates, but encountering all kinds of unreliability again and again.
Song Zheng once saw a very incisive point of view on the Internet, blind date is actually a process of holding a magnifying glass to find shortcomings.
Both men and women were blown away by the introducer, and after meeting, they would inevitably be compared one by one. Everyone has a Libra in their hearts, add a little here, take off a little there, add and subtract, if the Libra can still be balanced, it will pass, if the Libra is unbalanced, then let's say goodbye.
It's very realistic and cruel, but in order to live alone for the rest of your life, you still have to cheer up and look for the other half on the road of life with a smile.
Because no one dares to say that they are strong enough to die alone and be willing to be frank and open, people still need to find another person to grow old together.
But the people you meet, whether they are pleasing to you with low eyebrows and pleasing to your eyes, or approaching you ambiguously with words and deeds, how many secrets are hidden in their hearts that cannot be said, and how can they know through blind dates?
is like Liang Xiaoxiao when he first saw Qin Fen, his eyes were sad, he was inferior and self-abandoned, and when he first saw Liang Xiaoxiao, Qin Fen was oily and smooth, and he talked a lot, but he rarely mentioned himself.
Anyway, if you can't become a lover, then be a drinking buddy, but I didn't expect that under such an unreliable appearance, there is an honest heart in today's society.
Song Zheng doesn't like to watch this kind of romance movie very much, in his previous life, "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb" was also released for a long time, Song Zheng occasionally seemed bored and watched it once, but as a result, he immediately liked it.
Feng Xiaogang is obviously not the kind of person who likes pantothenic acid in movies and hypes long live love, although it looks quite nonsense, but he is also very distracted.
It is no exaggeration to say that "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is a generation of swan songs in similar love films, the humor of the lines and the novelty of the content were refreshing when it was released that year.
Feng's humor is irresistible, and the plot tells the audience that all kinds of unreliability in marriage, and the sissy tone of gay played by Feng Yuanzheng is not good to listen to. If you are looking for a man, you still have to find someone as reliable as Qin Fen, but the confession meeting at the Hokkaido church is enough, how many sins have you done?
In a small church in a foreign land, faced with an old priest who could not understand what he was saying, he dared to let the desire to talk for years be uncontrollable like a flood that opened the floodgates.
Modern people, how many secrets and stories are hidden in their hearts, but they can't find anyone to share, people have long been tired of understanding each other, the process of running in with each other, and hope to use an efficient and fast way to find the other half of the circle that suits them.
Many years later, I was separated from my friends who drank and bragged together, but in the end, I sadly found that I still couldn't find someone around me who could share my story.
Facts have also proved that Feng Xiaogang can play the most is this kind of urban sketches full of Beijing-style humor, which makes people look comfortable and can also think more or less about love and life.
In addition, in the previous life, the success of the movie "Do Not Disturb" brought about the influence of the movie, it can be said that it has exceeded the movie itself, for a long time before the appearance of "Do Not Disturb", those big directors in China are like crazy to make blockbusters, if "Hero" makes the audience feel amazing and admired, then the later "Ambush on All Sides", "Night Banquet", "Wuji", "The City is Full of Golden Armor", is to challenge the audience's patience again and again.
The birth of "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" can be said to represent the farewell of domestic directors to the empty gorgeousness on the Chinese screen, it brings the most sincere people's stories, what is the most expensive in the 21st century?
Harmonious!
Especially in 2008, after trying our best to do this calamitous year, people have become more aware of the value of "harmony".
The film takes the protagonist's marriage as a clue, involving a ridiculous "human comedy" in contemporary society, Qin Fen played by Uncle Ge as an elderly returnee, after obtaining a huge fortune with his own invention, began to try to solve his life events, he sincerely wanted to find a suitable confidante to grow old with, but the people who came to the blind date had their own scheming and no sincerity, which produced a series of interesting comedy elements.
Until he met Liang Xiaoxiao played by Shu Qi, a scarred woman who fell in love with her in a relationship, but Xiaoxiao has always loved another man.
Such a storyline may seem very ordinary and can be found everywhere in real life.
Ordinary, this is the minimum program of Fung humor, and it is also the biggest feature that distinguishes Fung humor from other Hong Kong-style comedies.
Feng Xiaogang first created a real social environment, a large social background, all the characters are real and unadorned, and all the language contrasts are natural.
In this situation at that time, these words of the characters were the most natural expression, and there were no deliberate words to make people laugh. Including body movements, facial expressions, and background music, these elements alone constitute the simplest love life film, as for the sense of humor, it is all contained in the film, it does not need additional things such as soundtrack and body movements to assist the laughter.
At its core, Fung's humor is truthful, not pretentious. "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is in stark contrast to another comedy movie "Women Are Not Bad" released at the same time in the previous life.
Xu Laowei used a lot of exaggerated techniques beyond the display to create laughter, so the funny of "Women Are Not Bad" always gives people a sense of absurdity, of course, this is also the characteristic of Hong Kong-style comedy.
And "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is bland in terms of expression, and the characters are real. The audience will feel sad for Liang Xiaoxiao's emotional encounter, and they will also be amused by Qin Fen's sincerity again and again.
Although this is a love story, this kind of love is unique to the age of middle-aged, it may not be as unrestrained as the idol dramas of young people, but it is indeed real, and this reality is sublimated into a sense of beauty, a feeling that can bring hope to people in reality.
For audiences in the age group of 30 to 50, it can even be described as "appropriate", for a comedy, the length of nearly two hours seems a bit too long, which can easily lead to a non-tight rhythm, after all, the audience's laughter index also has a tired point.
But "Do Not Disturb" is being made more as a love story, so the two-hour length becomes reasonable.
The film uses a large number of panoramic shots to depict the beautiful scenery of the emptiness, which creates a faint sadness for the emotions of the characters in the film, and at the same time sets the tone of the film in a relatively slow and soft pastoral environment.
In this pastoral song, there are sorrows, joys, and the calm sea is integrated with the chaos of life, and what is precipitated is the most sincere love and repentance in the emotional world.
The naturalness and truth of "Do Not Disturb" in the portrayal of characters can be said to be the most successful one of Feng's comedies in history, and the beauty brought to people on the picture is also unforgettable, it completely bids farewell to the contrived picture of domestic epic films, and the kind of poetry and painting shot purely for the pursuit of visual effects no longer exists, in this movie, everything is integrated into human feelings, and people-oriented things are the most sincere things, compared with Feng Xiaogang's past works, in "Do Not Disturb" In this film, Fung's humor obviously has a more natural sublimation.
What is Feng's comedy, in a word, is warmth and comedy.
In terms of story structure, "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is generally a somewhat sentimental middle-aged romantic drama, with a relatively light comedy taste, so it seems more literary, and most of the joy and jokes of the film are conveyed through the iconic Feng Shijingbai.
Of course, if you simply classify "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" as a romantic comedy, but it is not very detailed, it seems that this is a happy and festive movie, but after watching it, it will inadvertently make people see the outright sadness, because it is permeated with the ubiquitous "hypocrisy and insincerity".
In the interpersonal communication of marriage, family, love, and work, people have no object to talk to, and there is no sense of security in body and mind, so in that small church in Hokkaido, Uncle Ge poured out the secret "sin" in his heart for a day and did not finish it.
The most spoof scene is that he and his friends went to the Four Girls Bar of the Northern Pirates to prepare for a dashing time, but they were deceived by the false advertisement in front of the door, the advertisement in the light box in front of the door was four big beauties, and after entering the door, he was greeted by four old ladies who were more than 300 years old together, and the photo was from forty years ago.
The bizarre city, the busy streets, the noise and the opposite, behind the laughter, how many moments people want to talk about, but they can't find anyone to share and tell, people are in the heart of the uncertain, when they can't dilute it, how many times to flip through the phone book, but can't find a suitable person to tell.
Nowadays, people live in an era where everything requires speed in an efficient and fast way, and they are forced to shorten the process of understanding and running-in, and want to find the lover they want through the ruler, however, everywhere there are dangers and traps, where is the person who can warm each other?!
In the hopeless relationship with Liang Xiaoxiao, Uncle Ge had a real face, confided in each other's secret hearts, treated each other honestly, and had a good impression of each other.
In this movie, Shu Qi changed her impression in Song Zheng's mind, before watching this film, Song Zheng always felt that Shu Qi would also play roles such as bar girls and courtesans, acting is superficial and has no depth, but I didn't expect that in "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", she played a "paranoid and infatuated" woman who fell in love with a married man so well, and her feelings were so real.
Love is a very torturous thing, and flight attendant Liang Xiaoxiao fell in love with a married man. Met the right person at the wrong time, it was helpless, this helplessness made Liang Xiaoxiao feel painful, she didn't take it for granted to complain about the man's irresponsibility, and broke the oath, and did not complain about God's injustice to her, when love was always in the miss, not drunk and unable to sleep, she had to break herself, go to the place where the two people once loved each other, and carry out an equally vigorous self-redemption, and commemorate the love with death without hesitation.
In the early morning darkness, she strode forward, firm, resolute, without nostalgia, as if rushing to a mission, the shot that fell into the water is so beautiful, slowly descending, stretching, graceful like a water weed swaying in the water.
As deep as love hurts.
Then she was rescued by the fish boat and got a new life, but her love died.
At this time, Uncle Ge's words "No matter what it looks like, I continue" is touching and heartwarming, as he said, I want to find a woman with a temperament, he got his wish, Liang Xiaoxiao is such a paranoid and infatuated woman, with a stupid energy, but her infatuation is for that man, not him, if she changes people, can she still have such infatuation and paranoia?
Not necessarily!
Just as people mistakenly think that men who are good to their friends and buddies have a bad attitude towards women, they are not reliable, the difference is a millimeter, and the relationship between men and women cannot be compared.
In the end, she threw her phone into the water, so that the memories of both of them were refreshed and broadcast to a new page, but the seemingly beautiful ending was accompanied by helpless sadness.
Therefore, I have to say that Feng Xiaogang is really a ghost, he put on a comedy skin for "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", but the blood flowing in his bones is helpless and sad.
After laughing, something stuck in my throat, I couldn't spit it out, I couldn't swallow it.
Don't bother if it's not sincere, but how many people can face the real flesh and blood and sword light under the veil of hypocrisy?
How much courage and guts does that take?
There are a few paranoid and brave Liang Xiaoxiao, and how many Qin Fen who seem to be slippery, but are actually sincere?
Feng Xiaogang has always wanted to prove that he is not just a simple comedy director, and his works can also have a lot of connotation, so he filmed "Night Banquet" and "1942", wanting to use big scenes and gorgeous visual impact to support the connotation of his films, but the result backfired.
In Song Zheng's view, Feng Xiaogang is obviously a bit extreme, and if he wants to show the connotation through his works, there is no need to make a so-called blockbuster like "Wuji", or a painful theme like "1942" to brush up the style, a "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is enough.
is doing what he is good at, and the piggybacker has also brushed the forced style for a wave, why do you have to compete with yourself, and come up with something unlikable, or even scolded.
But this time, Song Zheng only provided a general idea, something too specific, Song Zheng didn't plan to do it for him, after all, he could copy it, but even if it was copied, it was still difficult to imitate the core part, which needed Feng Xiaogang to complete it himself.
Song Zheng can copy "Inception", that's because no matter how advanced "Inception" is, to put it bluntly, it is also an industrialized product, and the core of Feng's comedy involves the spiritual level.
Even in the original "Mobile Phone", Song Zheng has always provided a direction, specific things, for Feng Xiaogang to fill in by himself.
Song Zheng said a lot, Feng Xiaogang listened very carefully, although it was not a story, but Feng Xiaogang pondered for a while, and suddenly found that if he edited according to Song Zheng's ideas, there were really a lot of things that could be expanded.
"Kind of interesting!"
When Song Zheng heard this, he smiled and said: "What kind of story should be made, in that direction, you are good at this, I won't follow it!"
"Don't mix!" Feng Xiaogang also smiled, "It's not okay not to mix, Zhengzi, how about the two of us cooperate this time?"
Cooperate?
Song Zheng was suddenly stunned, looking at Feng Xiaogang, he suddenly felt that his butterfly was flapping its wings frantically again.