The movie "Wu Kui" was very bold, especially the scene where the old lady verified whether the bride had lost her virginity. She sprinkled plant ash on the table, asked the bride to take off her clothes and squat on it, and then used chicken feathers to disturb the bride's mouth and nose, pretending to be the bride. After sneezing heavily and checking that the gray vegetation on the table had not moved at all, the old lady showed some warmth and held a yin-yang wedding for the bride and her dead son.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Zhao not only blushed with embarrassment, but even muttered in an angry tone: "Who wrote this? It's so disgusting!"
Li Tang is not a woman and cannot empathize with her, but this scene must be an extremely disgusting insult to a woman in a new era.
So it makes sense that this movie would be banned. In fact, many excellent movies that were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s can no longer be seen on TV.
For example, another work directed by Huang Jianxin, "The Black Cannon Incident", such as "Ju Dou" and "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" directed by Zhang Yimou, "Sunny Days" by Jiang Wen, and "Farewell My Concubine" directed by Chen Da etc.
It's not something that's explicitly prohibited, but a tacit understanding that you can't see it on TV anymore. If you want to watch it, you can only buy pirated DVDs, and you can't even find the original ones.
It is estimated that it has been released to the public, and as the social situation develops, it is found to be inappropriate, but you cannot slap yourself in the mouth, so you can only use this tacit method to reduce the scope of dissemination as much as possible.
As for Xiao Zhao's angrily asking who wrote this, Li Tang handed her the cover of the disc, which clearly said "Adapted from Jia Pingwa's work of the same name."
Xiao Zhao was silent for a moment and then said angrily: "No wonder!"
Regarding Jia Pingwa, most readers only know this resident from Shaanxi through "The Wasted City". If I could sum it up in one sentence, it would be that no domestic writer can compare with her about the things in the crotch.
It is precisely because of this that the book "The Wasted City" was greatly sought after by readers at that time, and it taught a very vivid lesson to young men and women who were in the developmental stage. Xiao Zhao has obviously read this masterpiece.
Li Tang didn't know whether sneezing and plant ashes actually existed in history, but such descriptions, like those detailed descriptions in "The Wasted City", were absolutely eye-opening.
Li Tang was not originally a person who loved reading, but he was attracted by the rumors back then. He bought it and read it, and even studied it carefully with his ex-girlfriend. Now I don’t remember most of the content in the book, I only remember the descriptions of the crotch. Probably like many people who have read "Jin Ping Mei", they only like the illustrations in it.
Li Tang likes it now. In his previous life, he received Western education. Although he can speak and write Chinese, he has not dabbled in it much. It is difficult for him to understand the breadth and depth of Chinese for a while. In addition, he did not read much. It is not only a way of entertainment, but also It is also a kind of self-charging.
Although Li Tang has not read the original work of "Wu Kui", he can roughly restore Jia Pingwa's writing style through the movie and the review of "The Wasted City".
The women in his works are always beautiful and affectionate, but they are buried in the world and left untouched. Misfortune strikes them repeatedly, making them more sad and moving. The male protagonist is often loyal, foolish, brave, and carefully protects such a beauties that are only found in heaven, thus interpreting a tragic story.
It's just a pity that under the current environment, his destiny cannot be adapted into a film and television drama.
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On January 27, "Hero", which had been in theaters for 45 days, finally came to an end, raking in 248 million at the box office. It was officially crowned the 2002 box office champion and also set a new box office record for domestic films. The only regret is that it failed to surpass the domestic box office record of 360 million set by "Big Ship" in 1998.
There's nothing we can do about it. Since the release of "Hero", in addition to its box office success, various controversies have always followed. Most of the criticism from so-called "experts" focuses on the film's too much emptiness and too much emphasis on commercial packaging. , lack of core values and so on.
He also said that he was making a fuss and moaning for no reason. Some even called "Heroes" a bad movie.
These rhythmic negative reviews inevitably affected the further improvement of the box office of "Hero", but in the end they did not prevent "Hero" from eventually becoming the top domestic film box office champion.
"Teacher Li, congratulations!"
"Teacher Li, congratulations!"
Although Li Tang was only a supporting character who appeared for less than ten minutes in "Hero", he still received congratulations from everyone on the set.
Regardless of the constant criticism of "Heroes" from outside, in fact everyone in the industry knows that it is not easy for domestic films to be of such quality, and I dare not say that they can match the masterpieces such as "Big Ship", but at least they have touched Hollywood. The level of blockbusters.
"Thanks!"
"thank you all!"
Li Tang politely expressed his thanks to everyone but also felt a little embarrassed. After all, he didn't have many roles.
"Hey, Teacher Li, I heard that the fight scene between you and Li Lianlian took more than a month to shoot, right?" Seeing Li Tang come to the scene, classmate Su Yan immediately jumped to his side with a look on her face. asked curiously.
Various publicity during the movie's release also revealed a lot of behind-the-scenes footage from the filming. For example, the temperature suddenly dropped during the filming in Dunhuang, and many staff members suffered from frostbite. There were also Li Lianjie, Tony Leung Chaowei, Zhang Manyu, etc. There are all kinds of dedicated work by big-name stars, anecdotes and so on, and of course some behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of the most exciting fight scene between Li Lianjie and Li Tang in the film.
To her, it seemed unimaginable that a shot of only ten minutes in the finished film would have taken more than a month to shoot. If nothing else, let’s just talk about the filming of “Wandering”, which has been started for about ten days, and is almost halfway through filming. If everything goes well, it will be completed by the end of the Spring Festival holiday.
"It's not as exaggerated as more than a month. It's only about twenty days, less than a month." Li Tang said with a smile.
"Wow, that's scary! Mr. Li, how did you shoot it? You couldn't just shoot one scene in one day, right?"
Before Li Tang could speak, Wu Di, the photographer next to him, interjected: "Children don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Didn't you see that the fight scene between Li Tang and Li Lianlian was all in full view? It was all real Kung Fu. I'm sure. It was repeated and adjusted constantly, and finally the effect appeared in the movie. Isn’t that right, Li Tang?”
After all, he knew what he was doing. Li Tang gave him a thumbs up and said with a smile: "That's right, Brother Jie and I were fighting every day at that time, and we had to take pictures over and over again more than twenty times. The key is that it's difficult to take pictures of such a large panorama. If you make a slight mistake, you have to start over.”
At this time, Lao Deng also interjected quite gossipily: "Hey, Xiao Li, if you and Li Lianhe really fight, who will be better?"
"Then Brother Jie must be great." Li Tang said without hesitation.
Lao Deng obviously didn't believe it, thinking that Li Tang was just saying something for fun, and asked: "Didn't you say that boxing is afraid of young people? You are so much younger than Li Lienjie, can you really not beat him?"
During this time on the set, in addition to running every morning, Li Tang would often box in the hotel yard or practice swordsmanship with a short stick. There are some good people who want to spar with him, but he can often knock people down with just one confrontation. Combined with the exciting fight scene between him and Li Lian in the hit "Hero", now the crew has already confirmed that he is a martial arts master.
"I really can't beat him!" Li Tang shook his head and said seriously, "Although Brother Jie and I have sparred several times, if we really have to fight with our lives, I will be the one lying on the ground."
Although Li Lianjie came from a martial arts team, according to him, all he practiced were routines and tricks. The discussions between Li Tang and him outside of filming were also playful and playful. But make no mistake, he was a martial arts champion as early as the 1970s. , at that time there were still many people who knew how to play really well.
It is said that an expert can tell if something is there as soon as he reaches out his hand. Although Li Tang could not be called an expert, he showed his calm and calm demeanor during sparring. He dared to conclude that the opponent was probably hiding a powerful killing move. If he really had to fight for his life, he would fall down like that. It must be yourself.
Not to mention anything else, he had seen Wu Jing's tricky Tai Chi style before. It couldn't be said that he was either dead or injured. A normal person would definitely not be able to bear the blow.
According to Wu Jing, this is for life-saving purposes and should never be revealed. And it’s useless if you know it well. You must know that this kind of skill has really been immersed in practitioners for more than ten or even decades.
Seeing the serious expression on Li Tang's face, Lao Deng said sarcastically: "How else could he become a big star? Daqing has real skills."
Li Tang chatted with everyone at the scene for a long time, but he still didn't see director Wang Xiaoshuai. Usually he was always the first to arrive at the scene, and then directed everyone to prepare for rehearsals and so on.
There is no other way. In order to save film in a small business, we can only let the actors rehearse as much as possible before starting actual shooting. We will not be like Lou Ye who burns film uncontrollably, so that the budget will be overrun at every turn.
This is why Wang Xiaoshuai's output in recent years has been much greater than that of Lou Ye. He is reliable, serious and not willful, so naturally someone will invest in him.
"Where's the director?" Li Tang couldn't help but ask.
"Hey, didn't you know, the director went to Huzhou." Assistant Director Niu Le said.
The seaside town they are now in is under the jurisdiction of Lianjiang, a subordinate branch of Huzhou, and is about 70 kilometers away from the urban area of Huzhou.
Zhao Yiwei, who plays the eldest brother Li Tang, also explained with a smile: "The roots of our old Hong family are coming."
Zhao Yiwei and Li Tang play two brothers. Their parents died early. The eldest brother and sister-in-law have no children. They have been taking medicine for many years but still have no improvement. So they ask Fusheng, the son of the second brother Hong Yunsheng, played by Li Tang, to pay their parents a grave and inherit the old family. The Hong family's incense became the two brothers' only obsession.
Originally, the role of the child was also an important role in the play. The young actor had been found for a long time. He was the son of a colleague of Wang Xiaoshuai when he worked at Hu Jian Film Studio. He is just five years old this year and is said to be very cute. .
This is Li Tang's first time filming with children. To be honest, he feels quite uneasy. After all, he has never interacted with children in his entire life. Originally, he suggested to the director that the child should come to the set early to get acquainted with him and develop a relationship, so as not to be caught off guard during filming.
But Wang Xiaoshuai clearly refused. In his own words: What he wanted was the feeling of strangeness between his second brother and his child.
Thinking about it, his son Fusheng was less than two years old when the second brother was deported. Now he is five years old and he has long forgotten his father. What's more, when he was here, Fusheng could only call him mom but not dad. It was precisely because he secretly taught Fusheng to call him dad that his father-in-law reported him to the immigration bureau and was deported.
After all, they didn't recognize him as their son-in-law at all, and they didn't let Fusheng recognize him as his father. To put it bluntly, he is just a vaccination tool.
Thinking of this, Li Tang couldn't help but ask Zhao Yiwei for advice: "Hey, brother, how did you get along with your son when he was young?"
"When my son was four or five years old, I often went out to film movies. I was away for more than half a year. I was afraid of making fun of you if I told him that he didn't come. At first, he really didn't recognize me as his father. But after getting along with him for half a day, he got better. It follows me like a little tail..."
Zhao Yiwei is in his late forties and almost fifty, because he got married late and his son has just entered junior high school. Recalling every moment of his childhood with his younger son, Zhao's bitter and resentful face is filled with happiness.
Li Tang listened for a long time and couldn't help but interrupt: "No, brother, I want to hear what you did in the last half day when you just came home and got along with your son?"
"Just play with him. In fact, children have a vague impression, and they will naturally remember it after they are familiar with it. And what do you say about this thing? After all, blood is thicker than water, and there is probably some kind of telepathy... …”
The script wrote about the scene where the second brother and his son met. For the first time, he could only see his son's head and arms while sleeping through the crack in the door, but could not see his face. At that time, the second brother's eyes were full of excitement. But when the eldest brother actually brought Fusheng home and the two were alone, the second brother was at a loss.
It's just that Li Tang couldn't figure out why the second brother was at a loss, and he couldn't quite grasp the character's emotions. After all, he has no experience in this area in his life and cannot learn from it. The only explanation may be the metaphysics of telepathy that Zhao Yiwei mentioned, where blood is thicker than water.
Since he couldn't figure it out, he simply gave it up and went to the kitchen to continue learning how to cook with the master chef. In fact, he was already good at cooking now.
The eldest brother and sister-in-law run a guest restaurant. In addition to cooking and making props every day, the most common filming scenes between the second brother and the eldest brother and sister-in-law are the eating scenes. The meals are all freshly cooked, and it also solves the crew's meal problem.
Li Tang came to report late. Most of the crew members have been here for more than a month. They are tired of eating all kinds of fish, shrimp and seafood. Li Tang often pays for it out of his own pocket and asks the life producer to buy some fresh food. We will provide beef, mutton, etc. to improve the food for everyone.
Not to mention, he took advantage of the opportunity to learn the art of stewing meat from the master chef hired by the crew.
While he was busy in the kitchen, suddenly there was a noise outside.
Usually when the crew is filming in a small town, there are always a lot of onlookers, and they often have minor frictions with the staff who maintain order, but Li Tang doesn't take it to heart.
But immediately I saw Xiao Zhao running in in a hurry: "Teacher Li, the director is back, and... uh, he also brought Sister Yuanyuan to visit the class!"
My illness is gone and I have a severe headache. Please bear with me these two days.
(End of chapter)
