Chapter 596: Please Listen to Cross Talk
Gu Bei put down the phone, saw Chen Kaige's curious face, and didn't explain, and continued to look at the script.
I just heard Chen Kaige introduce that this script is adapted from Ye Zhaoyan's "Flower Shadow", and at first Gu Bei didn't remember whether Chen Kaige had made this movie in his previous life.
But after reading the beginning of the script, I immediately remembered that this script was Chen Kaige's work.
"Wind and Moon".
In his previous life, before making this movie, Chen Kaige had made a bold statement that he would take this work to hit the top three in Europe again.
But the result?
After its release, the film suffered a box office hit, with poor reviews from the audience, and was even described by mainstream film review magazines as "a work in which the Palme d'Or winner suffers from a feverhead and is in a hazy state".
Thinking of this evaluation, Gu Bei almost couldn't help laughing.
It's so damaging to say.
And because the movie involves very sensitive. The topic of feeling, when it was released in Xiangjiang, it was directly set as an R-rated film, and it was even banned from being released in the mainland.
Gu Bei also found a resource on the Internet, and after reading it......
In all fairness, although "Fengyue" and "Farewell My Concubine" are indeed inferior in terms of structure, the orientation of the story itself is difficult to please in the mainstream market.
However, in terms of the analysis of human nature and the delicacy of the characters, the difficulty of operation and the delicacy of the finished product of "Fengyue" are actually not inferior.
If anyone wants to know how human nature lives a morbid life in a distorted and oppressive environment, then you can take a look at Chen Kaige's Waterloo work.
After seeing it, patients with mild depression can definitely strengthen their determination to rush out.
Sou......
Syllable!
All of the above is the opposite.
After Gu Bei watched this movie on the Internet in his last life, he directly came on a trip to relieve his depressed emotions.
This is definitely not something that a normal person can toss.
Regardless of the plot, judging from the character design alone, every character in the whole movie carries an innate pathology.
Moreover, this kind of pathology also runs throughout, and people who have watched this movie will have a strong sense of discomfort, which is almost doomed to the final ending of the whole movie.
It's all over the calf!
Before watching this movie, Gu Bei's first work of Chen Kaige was "Farewell My Concubine", which was simply shocking at the time, and immediately regarded Director Chen Da as a spiritual mentor and a lifelong idol.
Then according to the chronology of Chen Kaige's works, I searched for them on the Internet one by one, so I watched this "Fengyue" next.
After reading it, Gu Bei's strongest feeling was......
There was a lump of stinky dog poop next to the crispy pigeon.
Is Director Chen Da's brain particularly watered?
Want to learn from Wang Jiawei?
The plot is messy and incoherent, and many parts are jumpy, making it feel abrupt and confusing.
And many parts are completely useless.
The overall feeling is that I filmed something randomly, and then I slapped out a plot through editing, and the spelling was not tight, and even Wang Jiawei's calf couldn't compare.
For example, at the beginning, the father told his daughter how good the plot was, is it necessary?
Indeed, in the end, Ruyi's life was ruined, but is that the point?
Get a big hat of "fate" at the beginning?
Or is this movie actually a J.D movie, and we want to educate everyone to study hard and stay away?
There is also the role of Zhou Xun, who came out twice in total, what's the use?
Is it the impetus for the plot?
Or does it highlight the character of the male protagonist?
There are also the first few subheadings, "XH Leather. Life", "a few years later" and so on, after each subtitle, the plot is less than five minutes long, and before I can figure out what is going on, I immediately move on to the next title, and I can't understand what the use is.
It feels like he is playing tricks, Director Chen Da stood shirtless on the street, shouting loudly and telling everyone: Lord is going to pretend to break!
Or is this inexplicable beginning, Gu Bei really can't figure out what the hell Chen Kaige is shooting, what kind of lens and what lighting is used?
At the end, the bright light snapped, and the little girl stood in the center of the camera smiling gloomily, and the big white teeth loomed at that time.
I'm a fourth uncle and grandmother.
Gu Bei thought that this girl was the reincarnation of a demon fetus, and she wanted to show her teeth and claws to harm the world.
In an instant, Gu Bei thought of a series of Western horror movies or something.
Theter is scary.
How to look like a ghost movie, the beginning gives the whole film a weird tone, and the plot behind is even more weird because it is too confusing.
There's also the design of the characters, which is even more fucked.
Gu Bei hasn't read the original book, and he doesn't know how the heroine in it is described.
But in the movie, Gu Bei can only say that the role of the heroine Ruyi is too thunderous.
First of all, the casting is very crotch-pulling.
Gong Huang's appearance is not young anymore, and his temperament also feels bold and spicy, but in this movie, Chen Kaige is blind and has to let her pretend to be tender.
It's really speechless, when Gu Bei was watching the movie, he could obviously feel the innocent appearance of Gong Huang, the low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, the big words were really disgusting, there was nothing more disgusting than an older woman, who had to pretend to be young.
Especially in the end, her confession to the male protagonist Zhongliang, she spoke carefully and chewed slowly, and shook her head when she said a word, I will strangle it, this is too disgusting, the kind that spits out from the bottom of my heart.
It felt like a retard.
But if you think about it carefully, this point is exactly in line with the J.D theme of this film: all watching, Ruyi has been sucking since she was a child, and finally sucked her head and became a crazy ghost.
Director Chen Da is really well-intentioned, and he is invisibly reasonable.
In short, this thing, whether it is the plot, character setting, or the overall tone, including casting, collapses completely, and there is nowhere to watch.
After watching it, I feel like Director Chen Da's painstaking "Wuji", what do you want to shoot and what do you want to express?
From beginning to end, it is full of inexplicability.
Even, until the final revelation, I don't know what the meaning is.
It turned out that the eldest brother was poisoned by Zhongliang into two strokes, but why poison the eldest brother?
According to the plot, Zhongliang killed the eldest brother for the sake of the eldest sister, but the eldest sister and the eldest brother have no grudges, after Zhongliang made such a poisonous move, he caused the eldest sister to stay alone in the empty house for ten years, and became crazy and loved to stalk people, why bother?
What's even more admirable is the feminist ideas that Chen Kaige wants to show in this movie.
The people in the whole story are really fraternal, and there is no place for it. Female episode.
So much so that Ruyi told Zhongliang clearly that she had slept with other men, and Zhongliang seemed very moved.
If you support feminism again, there will be no virgin plots, which man would want to hear a woman who is ready to sleep with him say: In order to better sleep with you, I have already rehearsed with so-and-so yesterday.
And then this man was still like a psychopath, and he was so moved.
This Zhongliang may have burned too much smoke when he was a child, and the poisonous smoke entered his brain, and he became mentally retarded.
At the end of the movie, Ruyi recalls the old things again, a little girl is running in the camera, and a little boy comes behind her, and then a little boy comes.
The child stared at the camera stupidly, innocently wide-eyed and didn't know what he was looking at, especially the little girl in the middle who was still tilting her head and pretending to be beautiful, looking self-absorbed and pretending to be broken.
Chen Kaige was still in Gu Bei's ear, babbling, babbling about what this story was trying to express.
Gu Bei couldn't even listen to a word, and the pictures he had seen in his previous life flashed in his mind, and he wanted to laugh but was embarrassed to laugh.
After all, they were biological classmates, and they had spent four years together on the campus of the university, Gu Bei felt that if he laughed at this time......
It's not very kind!
"Xiao Gu, I've said so much, how can you make a statement!"
Position?
Watch a baby fish!
With this thing, if Gu Bei invested, he was afraid of the company's feng shui.
"Brother Chen, your story...... I'll have to think about it. ”
Gu Bei knew that the current Chen Kaige had no shortage of investment at all, and people took the initiative to find him, maybe they still had the intention of taking care of the little brother.
If the wind is released and the investors in Xiangjiang know about it, they will immediately flock to it waving checkbooks.
Who made Chen Kaige just unlock the Cannes Palme d'Or?
Just like Zhang Yimou back then, after winning the three major European ones, he immediately became a sweet spot in the eyes of Xiangjiang film investors.
"Xiao Gu, I'll be honest with you, if my script is taken to Xiangjiang, I won't worry about no one voting at all, you ......"
Gu Bei pressed one hand on the script and pushed it hard in front of Chen Kaige.
"Brother!! Can you spare me? ”
Chen Kaige was decisively stunned, and he didn't understand what Gu Bei meant at all.
"I spared you? No, I came to you with a script, and I did you a harm? ”
Chen Kaige was a little anxious, this person was a dog with a temper when he was in school, and he usually looked at talking and doing things slowly, but if he was really anxious, he was also a ruthless person.
"Don't you look at how many times the plot involved in this story appears? Tell me, this thing, do I dare to vote?? ”
Belch......
Chen Kaige has nothing to say now, thinking about it carefully, it seems that he is indeed a little reckless.
Before because of the canonization of Cannes, my head has been dizzy, but after seeing the book "Flower Shadow", I immediately felt that my opportunity to hit the Palme d'Or again had arrived.
I didn't consider the market match at all, as well as the film environment in the mainland.
"I'm a dumbfounded, according to what you say, I just shot this script, and there is no chance of it being released in the mainland?"
Gu Bei shrugged his shoulders: "Otherwise, what do you think?" ”
Chen Kaige had nothing to say now, smacking his lips and looking regretful.
Gu Bei took the opportunity to add another fire: "Brother Chen, there is one more thing you don't forget." ”
"What's the matter?"
"You are still on bail pending trial, the above originally wanted to clean you up, you are honest, people may be punished with a small punishment, and it will not affect the release of "Farewell My Concubine", if you still owe it at this time, you will think about it yourself!"
Because "Farewell My Concubine" went abroad to participate in the film festival without permission, it was originally going to beat Chen Kaige.
If Chen Kaige doesn't know how to converge and come up with this "Fengyue", if he doesn't shoot him hard, even if he has a big life and a hard head.
"What do you mean...... Makes sense, too! ”
Chen Kaige can clearly distinguish priorities, he understands that "Farewell My Concubine" is a monument that he has established in the history of Chinese films, but he can't make a mistake because of anything.
But he was really reluctant to give up the script of "Fengyue", and after completing the evolution through "Farewell My Concubine", he suddenly fell in love with this kind of tricky thing.
The realistic style of "Yellow Earth" and "Singing While Walking" in the past is gone.
"Brother Chen, you better think about it, I definitely don't dare to vote for this script, Mingqian in the mainland doesn't dare to vote, and Guangya in Xiangjiang is inconvenient to vote, I hope you ...... Understand! ”
Now that the words have been said for this part, Chen Kaige has lost his temper, he can't force Gu Bei to give him money!
Next, Chen Kaige's interest was obviously not high, and the two of them sat for a while and then dispersed.
Gu Beigang got in the car, and he didn't know why there was so much for today's matter, Guo Degang called him again.
"Mr. Gu!!"
What's the matter?
"The theater of Huasheng Tianqiao has been sorted out, and I am discussing with Mr. Zhang to prepare for the opening the day after tomorrow, you ...... I don't know if you have time, but if it's convenient, I'd like to ask you to come and have a look. ”
Guo Degang's idea is still very traditional, in his opinion, the boss of the Beijing Cross Talk Conference is Gu Bei, they just performed in a class, and now they want to open a performance, so Gu Bei, the boss, has to come and see their ability.
In the past, artists in the old society ran to the dock, and when they arrived at a place, they had to go through the test room if they wanted to perform in class, and only those who were capable could stay, and those who were not really capable would not be accepted.
This is about to open??
After Gu Bei met Guo Degang that day, he forgot about this matter, and no one mentioned it to him about the subsequent signing of a cooperation agreement.
Day after tomorrow......
"Okay! On that day, I brought my friends over to cheer! ”
Gu Bei really wants to see if the current Guo Degang can hold up a cross talk club.
Although it is still only a grass platform team at the moment, the banner has been erected after all.
Hearing Gu Bei say this, Guo Degang also breathed a sigh of relief, said a few more words, and hung up the phone.
Guo Degang paid the money, hurriedly ran back to the theater, stood on the stage and looked below, for a while, his heart was surging.
He didn't dare to think about anything like reviving traditional opera at this time, he was already satisfied to have something to eat in the capital, and to have a place for him to talk about cross talk happily.
Gu Bei's side......
Day after tomorrow?
He was still thinking about it in his heart at this time, and after thinking about it again and again, he still called Ma Weidu.
"Brother Ma, the day after tomorrow, Huasheng Tianqiao Theater, I invite you to listen to cross talk."