And this movie 1993 was released, and 700,000+fans scored 8.6 points in Douban, which is definitely one of the best.
But at that time, the film was not optimistic before shooting, and more filmmakers thought it was a "vulgar" bad comedy.
Unexpectedly, the audience's response after the release was surprisingly good. In the end, the film won the annual box office champion of Hong Kong movies with a box office of more than 40 million yuan.
In the movie, Qiu Xiang, the maid of China Palace, showed "San Xiao's compassion" to Tang Bohu, a talented person in the south of the Yangtze River. I thought that Tang Bohu, who met her bosom friend, entered Washington by selling herself miserably and became the "9527" who bravely pursued love. From here, the film officially enters the plot of "Stephen Chow-style" little people's counterattack.
Regarding comedy, the performing artist Peisi Chen once said, "The core of comedy is always tragedy."
Then, as one of the top comedy figures in China, does Xingye's works only make the audience "laugh" and then "laugh it off"?
Of course not.
Speaking of it, there are many classic scenes in the film that are impressive, such as Who dares to be worse than me, Mrs. Hua and online promotion, Laughing and Half-step Epilepsy, Four sluts in Jiangnan, A Beautiful Flower, Beyond recognition, Give me back my wandering fist, and so on.
Friends who have seen the film know that all the supporting actors in the film, except Gong Li, the actor of Chou-heung, put the funny performances of "dressing up ugly" and "playing the fool" to the extreme.
For example, the old actor Pei-Pei Cheng plays Mrs Hua, the actual ruler of Hua Taishifu. With superb acting skills, she can switch between "serious" and "crazy" freely.
There is also the "pomegranate sister" who is "absolutely beautiful and amazing" in Hua Taishi's house. King-Tan Yuen, the leading actor in the film, is the most unique "flower" in many people's hearts with heavy makeup and flaming lips.
In addition, Chen Baixiang, the "Zhu Zhishan" who was painted by Tang Bohu, cooperated tacitly with Stephen Chow, bringing the whimsy to the extreme. It is said that Chen Baixiang washed the ink for four hours after filming Naked Painting.
Years later, starring Gong Li said in an interview:
"I'm sorry that I didn't let go of the performance like other actors. If I have another chance, I will definitely make her (Chou-heung) more exciting and better. "
I think, because Gong Li has always maintained a dignified and elegant state, there really is a feeling that everyone is drunk and I wake up alone. Perhaps it is because of Gong Li's obsession that the film has not completely become "nonsense". Serious and crazy complement each other.
When I was a child, I always thought that the talented Tang Bohu and the kind and beautiful Chou-heung finally got married after many tests. They had the same happy ending as the fairy tale "The princess and the prince lived happily ever after".
Now I brush it again, but I dare not think so.
At the end of the film, Tang Bohu, who is proud of the spring breeze, rushes through many obstacles in Washington and breaks the love-hate relationship between his parents. After many hardships, she finally got the arms of a beauty. Egged on by everyone, when she wanted to kiss Chou-heung, she suddenly made a noise and interrupted him:
"Wait, guess two fists first, can't you? That mahjong, Pai Gow, black veil and four-color cards, you will always be like this, right? "
Just after listening to Chou-heung, Tang Bohu collapsed to the ground with a "ah".
This sudden scene can certainly make the audience burst into laughter. But as far as I am concerned, it is the most colorful stroke of this "love" tragedy.
Look, at the end of the movie, Tang Bohu just "clicked" on another woman who is proficient in gambling.
You know, at the beginning of the movie, Tang Bohu was crushed by his eight beautiful but gambling wives. For a time, he even had to "laugh" with his hands pulling his mouth.
Perhaps the story of Tong Pak Hu Dian Qiu Xiang was a tragedy from the beginning.
Tang Bohu, an empty and lonely wit, is bent on finding a confidante who is different from those lazy wives who only gamble at home. When Tang Bohu first met Chou-heung, she didn't fall in love with her at first sight. Only under the stimulation of "beauty needs to be set off", plus the encouragement of bad friends and the envy of others, Tang Bohu discovered that Chou-heung was really beautiful, and more importantly, her kindness was different.
For Tang Bohu at this time, he is convinced that he met "true love" this time, Chou-heung is the "different fireworks", and he will be with him all his life.
In further contact, Tang Bohu found that Chou-heung really liked his poems. Even though it is rumored that "Tang Bohu is charming and playboy", Chou-heung can still read his affectionate side from those words.
This makes Hua' an, who is standing by pretending to be a servant, feel warm. He said without a sigh, "If Tang Bohu can have a confidante like you, it would be a real death without regret." Chou-heung's adoration and obsession with her talents makes Tang Bohu feel that she is probably the only person in the world who knows her best.
This time, Tang Bohu probably really fell in love with Chou-heung in his fantasy.
What about Chou-heung?
Even before I met Tang Bohu himself, I thought I fell in love with him just because I read those poems. In the film, Chou-heung's attitude towards Zhu Zhishan and Hua 'an, who were born in poverty, became ambiguous when she called herself Tang Bohu.
In this case, it is only her imagination that Chou-heung likes Tang Bohu.
Chou-heung may really be Tang Bohu's confidant, but he doesn't really know Chou-heung. Imagine that Chou-heung, who never forgot to gamble for the wedding, returned to the Tang family and found that there were still a group of women with the same "hobbies". At that time, I'm afraid it will really become a "thousand glasses of wine."
The biggest tragedy of "Tong Pak Hu Dian Chou-heung" is that all Tang Bohu's efforts in the whole movie are in vain. Tang Caizi didn't really "Dian" Chou-heung, in other words, he just married the beautiful and kind Chou-heung girl he imagined.
? Tang Bohu has eight wives, but who can say that the story of Tang Bohu marrying them is not as romantic as Chou-heung?
Maybe when he met his first wife, he thought she was beautiful and virtuous, but after marriage, she drank too much and didn't communicate with the strange strange bedfellows. In addition to lamenting that "if life is just like the first time, why draw a fan in the autumn wind", Tang Bohu regained her confidence and made up her mind to find the next wife who knows how to handle things ... and then the next one. Until she happily "lit" Chou-heung, Tang Bohu still failed to get what she wanted.
Will there be a tenth Chou-heung after that?
There is such a scene in "Tong Pak Hu Dian Qiu Xiang". Tang's room was crowded with people, and it was smoky. Several ladies not only drank and had fun, but also used Tang Bohu's Hundred Flowers as a mahjong table, dug up the Hundred Years Phoenix to repair mahjong, and put Tang Yin's Poems on the table ... Tang Bohu sighed with a long face: "A thousand dollars is easy to get, but a bosom friend is hard to find."
In addition, in the movie "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier", Su, who was robbed of property, did not beat her chest and groan, but lay in a chair singing Nanyin, with a hint of loneliness and sadness.
Before leaving, the master took a book and said to Sue, who was lying on the couch humming a ditty, "Young Master, you really need to learn to write from today." Sue casually grabbed the book, still closed her eyes and hummed, "Are you going to buy it or not?"
When disappointed tout turned away, Sue stopped him: "I'll learn, tout." Can the average actor learn this kind of look and tone?
Master Xing often plays villain. He can portray the helplessness, love and hate of little people to the extreme. Maybe nobody is a tragedy in itself.
We can always see the loneliness and loneliness of these little people in the movies of Master Xing, just like you and me in life. Even if we are pushed by fate, even if we have never been blessed by God, we still try to love the world.
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