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Many years ago, I saw a movie called "Evil in the East and Poison in the West". It was the Spring Festival of a certain year, and the TV station arranged the film after the Spring Festival Gala. I saw it in the trailer of the TV newspaper, so I watched the TV until the early hours of the morning. It must be a deep infatuation that can make a person wait patiently and indefinitely. I am a movie fan, Hong Kong movie fan, Wong Kar Wai fan, Leslie Cheung fan, and Jin Yong fan. Jin Yong fans are reading all of Jin Yong's works and are interested in everything about Jin Yong. But after watching "Evil and Poison in the West", I found one thing: it's not the name that is related to Jin Yong, but the content that is related to Jin Yong. Ten minutes into the film, I thought: If you haven't read Jin Yong's original work, you might not understand this movie. Thirty minutes into the film, I thought: Even if I have read Jin Yong's original work, I still can't understand this film.
2. Generally speaking, if you are determined to seek something, and it does exist in the world, it will surely fall into your hands. Not long after, I found the videotape of "Evil in the East". I thought Wong Kar Wai's scissors were the most ruthless in the world, but it turned out I was wrong. When I was surprised to see Maggie Cheung appear, I finally understood why I didn't understand it at all when I was watching TV - maybe it was because the TV station didn't have enough time, they cut the movie about half an hour, so I missed it A lot of things, and even, I never saw Ouyang Feng's sister-in-law at all. The only way to figure out what "Evil in the East" is about is to watch it over and over again. Fortunately, the tape can be rewinded at any time, so I watched it over and over again. Buddhist scriptures have a cloud: the flag does not move, the wind does not move, it is the human heart that moves. Ouyang Feng, male, from Baituoshan, roamed the rivers and lakes when he was young. After middle age, he worked in the desert, running a dilapidated inn, and part-time as a killer agency. One of the important guests who came to the inn was the swordsman Huang Yaoshi. This gentleman brought Ouyang Feng a jar of strange wine that his sister-in-law gave him. Ouyang Feng, who was very vigilant, refused to drink it, so Huang Yaoshi drank it himself. into amnesia patients. After amnesia, Huang Yaoshi met the third princess Murong Yan, who was disguised as a man, and said that he wanted to marry her sister. Murong Yan, who fell in love, asked Huang Yaoshi to meet another day and went to the appointment in women's clothes, but Huang Yaoshi had obviously Promised to forget about it and didn't show up, Murong Yan turned into a schizophrenic, hated her identity as a men's wearer, and both identities tried to destroy each other. The blind swordsman originally had a happy home, but he should never have invited his best friend Huang Yaoshi to attend his wedding. As a result, something happened between Huang Yaoshi and his new wife, so the blind swordsman Self-exile and play death games in the desert. The blind swordsman's wife is still waiting in her hometown. I don't know whether she is waiting for the dead blind swordsman or Huang Yaoshi who has lost his memory. In order to avenge her brother, the orphan girl came to Ouyang Feng with a basket of eggs, but Ouyang Feng felt that she looked like his sister-in-law, so she deliberately did not help her, and made her wait hopelessly at the door of the inn so that she could watch all day. following her. As a result, another swordsman, Hong Qi, came to avenge the orphan girl at the cost of only one egg, even if he lost a finger. Ouyang Feng admired Hong Qi's simplicity, especially because Hong Qi finally took his wife to the arena, which made Ouyang Feng feel very excited. It turned out that Ouyang Feng, who had been pretending to be mature and proud, was the saddest person himself. He refused to take the woman he loved to go around the world, and the fierce woman married his brother on purpose. On the night before the wedding, Ouyang Feng raped the future sister-in-law, and left the country and never came back. Ouyang Feng's older brother doesn't seem to be at home very often, so the sister-in-law often receives visiting friend Huang Yaoshi, and discusses Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Feng's son with him affectionately. And Huang Yaoshi also obviously loves this sister-in-law. Whether it was intentional or not, he never told Ouyang Feng that the sister-in-law was waiting for Ouyang Feng. Ouyang Feng saw himself from the guests and realized a lot of things, but it was too late to do anything because his sister-in-law had died of illness. Ouyang Feng left the inn and returned to White Camel Mountain to become the most powerful martial arts master.
After a long time, I realized that watching Wong Kar-wai's films and seeing the plot for the sake of delving into the plot is really a waste of money. The real scenery in "Evil in the West" lies in Director Wang's unique narrative style, shooting method, production skills, and every detail in editing, scenery, music, props, lighting, art, costumes, acting and so on. Wong Kar-wai has made us understand better than many other directors: film is a comprehensive art, it is not a comic strip, it is not a stage play, it is not as simple as arranging a scene and recording the scene on film. His films do not have a coherent plot, and many cutscenes that should be explained are omitted, leaving one mystery for you to guess. The composition of his shots is peculiar. Ouyang Feng's appearance only shows one-third of his face on the left side of the screen, making you have to look at his penetrating and indifferent eyes. Everyone in the film only speaks outside the camera without eye contact. Even when the camera is switched, the angles of the two people are completely inconsistent, leaving no room for communication at all. Everyone is autistic. Every space is closed. There is no way to know where Sister-in-law's White Camel Mountain, Ouyang Feng's Inn, and Murong Yan's Lake are located. Each character is like dust floating in the world, with no connection to others, and no belonging to them. The characters' expressions, movements, and voices are all worth repeating. Murong Yan's straight monologue, proud and sad. The blind swordsman's wife was drinking a horse in the pond, and under the reflection of the waves, she stroked the horse's body with an extremely ambiguous gesture. Ouyang Feng was speechless when he heard the news of his sister-in-law's death. "I know Huang Yaoshi won't come again, but I continue to wait. I sat outside the door for two days and two nights, watching the sky change constantly..." Don't listen to the Mandarin dubbing, please pay attention to the original sound, the sound is acting a part of. You can compare the difference between Ouyang Feng's Cantonese original voice and the Mandarin dubbing. His original voice is colder and harder, and there is a faint passion in some words, not the indifference of the Mandarin dubbing. The original music that did not appear in Wong Kar-wai's films was a blockbuster in "Evil in the East". Sometimes ethereal, sometimes romantic, sometimes melancholy, sometimes impassioned, the lute, wood chipper, bell, harp, and even guitar, appear one after another, showing the characters' rich hearts and extreme feelings. It is almost unimaginable that such gorgeous and beautiful music is actually produced by Chen Xunqi, who is a producer, director, actor, action director, editing and other identities. In the action scenes, I rarely see the actual tricks, and more of them are just casually swinging the sword and swinging the sword. It is photography and editing, which creates the flying sword spirit of the vertical and horizontal pictures. When the duel was fierce to the extreme, the figures of everyone were surging like a river, and the protagonist was always clear no matter what position he was in, as if he had been detached from the flow of people. The book tells us that this shooting technique is called "Stealing and Printing", which has become one of Director Wang's signatures. Lots of empty mirrors. MV generally beautiful picture and complex photography skills. People are moving, the wind is moving, and the shadows of flowing clouds drift across the earth. The blue sky, the white clouds, the yellow sand, the desert, and the desolate sky and the earth stand solemnly, the yellow pharmacist with a wide robe and big sleeves. Dugu Qiufei waved his sword and danced in the middle of the big lake. The smoke was vast and the birds flew. The figures of Murong Yan and Murong Yan appeared staggered. Usually when watching Wong Kar Wai movies, there are some things you will definitely see, such as clocks. But "Evil in the East" is different. In the era of Ouyang Feng, clocks had not been made, so he used his monologues instead of clocks, repeatedly emphasizing different calendars and solar terms, and using another way to tell you the passage of time and the stop, the occurrence of events with demise. Every small prop may become a wonderful scenery under Director Wang's hands, such as the bird cage in the film. Because the props engineer of the crew can weave rattan utensils, Director Wang asked him to weave a lantern, and weave and weave a birdcage. This birdcage is always turning gently, turning gently. The nearby light source does not know where it comes from, casting its shadows in all directions, and the expressions of the characters are cut into pieces. I bought the waterfall lamp after watching "The Light of Spring". In fact, I also wanted to buy this birdcage after watching "Dong Xie Xi Du". Maybe I can watch it spin gently beside me. to reveal or hide a little something. Every small prop may become a wonderful scenery under Director Wang's hands, such as the bird cage in the film. Because the props engineer of the crew can weave rattan utensils, Director Wang asked him to weave a lantern, and weave and weave a birdcage. This birdcage is always turning gently, turning gently. The nearby light source does not know where it comes from, casting its shadows in all directions, and the expressions of the characters are cut into pieces. I bought the waterfall lamp after watching "The Light of Spring". In fact, I also wanted to buy this birdcage after watching "Dong Xie Xi Du". Maybe I can watch it spin gently beside me. to reveal or hide a little something. Every small prop may become a wonderful scenery under Director Wang's hands, such as the bird cage in the film. Because the props engineer of the crew can weave rattan utensils, Director Wang asked him to weave a lantern, and weave and weave a birdcage. This birdcage is always turning gently, turning gently. The nearby light source does not know where it comes from, casting its shadows in all directions, and the expressions of the characters are cut into pieces. I bought the waterfall lamp after watching "The Light of Spring". In fact, I also wanted to buy this birdcage after watching "Dong Xie Xi Du". Maybe I can watch it spin gently beside me. to reveal or hide a little something. Lots of empty mirrors. MV generally beautiful picture and complex photography skills. People are moving, the wind is moving, and the shadows of flowing clouds drift across the earth. The blue sky, the white clouds, the yellow sand, the desert, and the desolate sky and the earth stand solemnly, the yellow pharmacist with a wide robe and big sleeves. Dugu Qiufei waved his sword and danced in the middle of the big lake. The smoke was vast and the birds flew. The figures of Murong Yan and Murong Yan appeared staggered. Usually when watching Wong Kar Wai movies, there are some things you will definitely see, such as clocks. But "Evil in the East" is different. In the era of Ouyang Feng, clocks had not been made, so he used his monologues instead of clocks, repeatedly emphasizing different calendars and solar terms, and using another way to tell you the passage of time and the stop, the occurrence of events with demise. Every small prop may become a wonderful scenery under Director Wang's hands, such as the bird cage in the film. Because the props engineer of the crew can weave rattan utensils, Director Wang asked him to weave a lantern, and weave and weave a birdcage. This birdcage is always turning gently, turning gently. The nearby light source does not know where it comes from, casting its shadows in all directions, and the expressions of the characters are cut into pieces. I bought the waterfall lamp after watching "The Light of Spring". In fact, I also wanted to buy this birdcage after watching "Dong Xie Xi Du". Maybe I can watch it spin gently beside me. to reveal or hide a little something. Lots of empty mirrors. MV generally beautiful picture and complex photography skills. People are moving, the wind is moving, and the shadows of flowing clouds drift across the earth. The blue sky, the white clouds, the yellow sand, the desert, and the desolate sky and the earth stand solemnly, the yellow pharmacist with a wide robe and big sleeves. Dugu Qiufei waved his sword and danced in the middle of the big lake. The smoke was vast and the birds flew. The figures of Murong Yan and Murong Yan appeared staggered. Usually when watching Wong Kar Wai movies, there are some things you will definitely see, such as clocks. But "Evil in the East" is different. In the era of Ouyang Feng, clocks had not been made, so he used his monologues instead of clocks, repeatedly emphasizing different calendars and solar terms, and using another way to tell you the passage of time and the stop, the occurrence of events with demise. Every small prop may become a wonderful scenery under Director Wang's hands, such as the bird cage in the film. Because the props engineer of the crew can weave rattan utensils, Director Wang asked him to weave a lantern, and weave and weave a birdcage. This birdcage is always turning gently, turning gently. The nearby light source does not know where it comes from, casting its shadows in all directions, and the expressions of the characters are cut into pieces. I bought the waterfall lamp after watching "The Light of Spring". In fact, I also wanted to buy this birdcage after watching "Dong Xie Xi Du". Maybe I can watch it spin gently beside me. to reveal or hide a little something. Every small prop may become a wonderful scenery under Director Wang's hands, such as the bird cage in the film. Because the props engineer of the crew can weave rattan utensils, Director Wang asked him to weave a lantern, and weave and weave a birdcage. This birdcage is always turning gently, turning gently. The nearby light source does not know where it comes from, casting its shadows in all directions, and the expressions of the characters are cut into pieces. I bought the waterfall lamp after watching "The Light of Spring". In fact, I also wanted to buy this birdcage after watching "Dong Xie Xi Du". Maybe I can watch it spin gently beside me. to reveal or hide a little something. Every small prop may become a wonderful scenery under Director Wang's hands, such as the bird cage in the film. Because the props engineer of the crew can weave rattan utensils, Director Wang asked him to weave a lantern, and weave and weave a birdcage. This birdcage is always turning gently, turning gently. The nearby light source does not know where it comes from, casting its shadows in all directions, and the expressions of the characters are cut into pieces. I bought the waterfall lamp after watching "The Light of Spring". In fact, I also wanted to buy this birdcage after watching "Dong Xie Xi Du". Maybe I can watch it spin gently beside me. to reveal or hide a little something.
Fourth, I am like Ouyang Feng when I was young. Every time I see a mountain, I want to know what is behind it, especially the mountain I like. After studying the background of "Evil in the East and Poison in the West", I found that it was not the mountain I thought at all, at least it wasn't the mountain it originally wanted to be. It turns out that the two people, Dongxie and Xidu, are women according to Director Wang's initial setting. This movie was originally intended to tell the story of two women who fell in love, just like the line said by Xi Du: "Anyone can become vicious, as long as you have tried what is jealous." Of course, Xi Du who said this She has completely changed into another person. Brigitte Lin, who was originally arranged to play Xidu, has become Murong Yan, and what about Wang Zuxian, who was originally arranged to play Dongxie? No one knows who she has become. There is only one scene left in the final cut film for all her scenes, you can try to find it. Director Wang and his friend Director Liu Zhenwei also discussed a lot of plots about time and space travel, but they were not used in "Evil in the East" at all. Maybe you can find some clues from Director Liu's "Journey to the West". Leslie Cheung originally performed not Xidu but Dongxie, and Xidu was not the later Dongxie but Liang Chaowei who became a blind swordsman. Two months after the filming started, Director Wang suddenly woke up: everyone on earth knows that Leslie Cheung is cool and handsome, and letting him play the cool and handsome Huang Yaoshi "has no surprises", it would be more fresh to play the gloomy and depressing Ouyang Feng, but It took 700,000 yuan to make a large action scene and was reluctant to cut it, so...The long-haired Leslie Cheung's version of Huang Yaoshi became Ouyang Feng's youth. debut. Leslie Cheung was just thirty-six years old when the long hair fluttered. By the time the filming was completed, he had already passed his thirty-eighth birthday. Hong Kong filmmakers usually get a movie done within a month, but Wong Kar-wai is an exception. For more than two years, Director Wang led the crew to shoot and shoot in the desert of northwest China, thinking and thinking, the script was changing rapidly in his mind, a thousand miles a day. Most of the characters in the play are in a one-to-one communication mode, and one of them is almost always Ouyang Feng. I thought that Director Wang had intended to let Ouyang Feng connect all of this, but later I found out that it was not necessarily, it was more about it. Because the shooting time dragged on for too long, the actors all ran away. Anyone who was free would come back to shoot a group of two scenes. The only one who was sure of the crew was Leslie Cheung. If you don't know the environment of the shooting location, you may not feel how difficult it will be to "settle the crew". The filming location of "Evil and Poison in the West" is one of the most desolate areas in Shaanxi. It is sparsely populated and the traffic is blocked. For Hong Kong people, it is almost a return to the primitive society. When Leslie Cheung arrived from Beijing to the filming location, he sat in the car for 21 hours, and the car broke down many times on the way, and he changed another one. The car performed a "cart record" one after another. To be on the safe side, after the fourth start, he rented another jeep to accompany him. It didn't take long for the jeep to come in handy: the car turned off for the fifth time and stopped moving. But after changing to a jeep, another thing made Leslie uneasy: the drivers were two brutish-looking men who kept secretly looking at Leslie Cheung. When Leslie Cheung began to worry about encountering a robber, the other party finally asked. : "Are you the Mr. Zhang who played "Across the Four Seas"?" It turned out that he met a fan. The scary things don't stop there. One day when filming in Hongshixia cave, Leslie Cheung suddenly felt a tingling pain in his neck, and instinctively patted it with his hand, and it turned out to be a scorpion that fell to the ground. As his neck gradually became numb, Leslie Cheung's panic could be imagined. The crew also panicked and rushed him to the hospital, but the local doctor didn't know how to treat it, but said that the white scorpion is not very toxic, please rest assured. Having said that, Leslie Cheung was in pain at the neck near his head, and he was still afraid that he would not be able to sleep due to the poisonous attack in the dream, so he had to ask the producer Chen Peihua to chat and spend the "longest night" together. After dawn, the redness and swelling subsided, and Leslie Cheung felt that he had regained his old life: "I'm really unwilling to think of being poisoned like this!" , the Venice Film Festival is coming soon, and the "Evil in the East" that has already signed up for the exhibition must be released. Director Wang had to lead the crew to quickly bury the end, stitching together the countless clips that were made into a story, and the plots that were really incomprehensible were supplemented with a lot of dialogue. So "Evil in the East" became a movie that was completely incomprehensible without the dialogue, but these subtle and philosophical dialogues also created another bright spot in the film, which touched countless audiences, even many comedies at that time and later. Movies are constantly using it to make fun of it, and its influence is evident. At the current Venice Film Festival, "Evil in the East and West in the West" won the Osara Special Award for Photography, and it was released in Hong Kong immediately. This film has aroused unprecedented discussions in the industry. One side believes that the film has excellent creativity and exquisite techniques, and it is a rare and excellent film; the other side believes that it is "completely incomprehensible." At the current Hong Kong Film Awards, "Evil in the East" failed again and again, and only won two small awards for Best Art Design and Best Costume Design. Having won the three most important awards of "Best Picture", "Best Director" and "Best Actor", the judging eyes of different jury groups are really different. However, with the passage of time, "Evil in the East" has become more and more important in the film industry. In recent years, several classic films in film history have been selected. Among them, "Evil in the East and Poison in the West" almost all came out on top. Among the leading actors in "Evil in the East and West in the West", Leslie Cheung was highly praised. Although all his scenes were filmed by him and different opponents in different periods, the content was incoherent, and the sequence was reversed, but throughout the film, his role was consistent, his demeanor, bearing, emotion, posture...all grasped Accuracy not only fully embodies Ouyang Feng's proud and resentful personality, but also makes it possible for the entire story to successfully gather on a stable thread. "All the actors performed very well, but Leslie Cheung is the best. I used it twice before and after he persuaded the opponent to kill." said Tan Jiaming, the editor. "As long as a little light shines in his eyes, the wildness will be fully revealed," said photographer Du Kefeng. At the current "Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards", Leslie Cheung was elected as "Best Actor", and the judges said: Leslie Cheung's achievement in 1994 was the crown of the year just by performing "Evil and Poison in the West". . I always feel that Chinese actors, maybe even Chinese, have one element that is extremely rare, and that's the handling of irony. I feel that almost no Chinese actor understands what irony is, and Leslie Cheung's implicit grasp of the role fully meets this requirement. And I've never seen an actor who could express the tragedy and bitterness of irony. Leslie Cheung's performance in "Evil in the East and Poison in the West" is so subtle, he did a good job in a film that needs acting skills. I believe that even the director may not be able to tell him clearly how the whole play will develop, or his relationship with the other characters, and he can perform a unified technique and style in this situation, and it is quite charming; this role is also related to the He's always played roles that are very different and challenging, and he does it well. As far as 1994 is concerned, no one can match him in skill. I myself prefer Leslie Cheung's performances in "Evil in the East" and "Splendid Future". I think his performance in "Evil and Poison in the West" surpassed his previous works. As for "Splendid Future", he created something very personal. 5. When I first encountered "Dong Xie Xi Du", I never planned to revisit it often. In fact, I have to watch it several times every year for more than ten years, and every time I see something different. the same thing. I almost believe that this movie can magically grow with me, that my mind has an end and its meaning never seems to end. In 2003, after experiencing some things, watching "Evil in the East and Poison in the West", you can almost touch those deep sorrows. The world is vast, the road is long, and human emotions are so deep, so easily hurt, there is nothing in life that can be autonomous. At the end of the film, the desert is vast, and Ouyang Feng's desolate and suppressed voice echoes in his ears: "When I have nothing to do, I will look at the White Camel Mountain. I clearly remember that there was a woman waiting for me there. It's just a joke she made to me. The more you want to know if you have forgotten, the more clearly you remember. I once heard people say that when you can no longer have, the only thing you can do is to make Don't forget yourself." If you don't like "Dong Xie Xi Du", perhaps because you are very lucky, there is no loss, no goodbye, no hard pursuit and finally not getting it, no boundless darkness and despair. And in this world, there are always people, young people who don't know how to cherish them, let time turn into ashes little by little in their hands, and can never be recovered. No matter how hard you try to avoid them, the demons in your heart will follow you; if you want to go back to the past, the past has become the past; always Some people, there are too many things to forget, want to forget, everything that cannot be traced ends in forgetting, but true forgetting, false forgetting, can deceive the whole world, but cannot deceive yourself; there are always people who are doomed at the beginning of seeking To lose, you can only struggle all your life to find an excuse for yourself to continue; there are always people, the world is boundless, there is nowhere to be home, and a heart can't find a place to live; there are always people who will be touched by "Evil in the East" and shed tears; If you are not, congratulations.
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