After watching "Wives and Concubines", I immediately saw the red lanterns hanging high, the former's delicate style of writing was still in my mind, and the latter's gloomy scene brought me back to reality. Zhang Yimou made several changes to the original work of "Wives and Concubines" in the red lantern hanging high, and recorded the following from memory: 1. The song lotus at the beginning of the original work was carried into the Chen family, and it was the Chen family garden. In the movie, Song Lian walked into Chen's house by herself, and did not see Chen's garden from beginning to end, only the cold gray Shanxi courtyard. 2. In the original work, Songlian has short hair with Qi ears. In the movie, Gong Li has two braids before entering the door, and after entering the door, she pulls her hair behind her head like most wives. I personally think that Su Tong's short ear-length hair can better express the childishness of the schoolgirl Song Lian, which is very different from the average girl of that era. 3. The details of hammer feet and hanging lanterns are not in the original text. It must be an element that Zhang Yimou deliberately added in order to express the etiquette and rigidity of the feudal family. 4. When Song Lian went to visit the ancestral tablet and the wives after entering the school, in the original book, Chen Zuoqian, also known as "Master", led it, and in the movie, the housekeeper took Song Lian. Although this is harmless, what Su Tong meant in the original text was to express the master's love for Song Lian more at the beginning, so as to compare with the indifference of the later master. In the movie, the change of the master's attitude towards Song Lian is not too obvious. 5. In the original book, there was a well under the wisteria in the back garden, which was replaced by the house of the dead in the movie. Here's what I'm least happy about with the changes to the movie. In the original book, Su Tong asked Song Lian several times to go to the well to look in the mirror with the well water. Every time Song Lian felt "hard coolness, slowly knocking her body like a stone." And this should be used as a movie The technique is the most difficult to express, so Zhang Yimou turned the wisteria frame into a "house on the roof", so that Songlian would have no well water to express her thoughts, and no reverie by the well to advance the development of the story. Some were just a locked stone house, and Song Lian was just curious and didn't have any "premonition" about her destiny. 6. A pair of daughters of the second concubine Tai Zhuoyun, there is only one daughter in the movie. 7. The section of the old man's birthday was deleted, and a section of Song Lian pretending to be pregnant in order to regain the master's favor was added. At the same time, the cause of death of the maid Yan'er was also changed. In the original text, Songlian forced Yan'er to swallow the straw paper in the toilet when she saw the straw paper that cursed her, and Yan'er suffered from a serious illness and died. In the movie, in order to make the story more coherent and avoid cumbersomeness, Song Lian was added pretending to be pregnant and was discovered by Yan'er and told Zhuo Yun that Zhuo Yun dismantled Song Lian. things are revealed, Yan'er was punished to death. This should be the part where the movie has changed the most compared to the original. 8. An ambiguous relationship between Song Lian and the eldest master Feipu is a bit inexplicable in the movie. In the movie, Song Lian and Feipu have only met twice, once listening to Feipu blowing flute, and once listening to Song Lian passing by. When drinking on her birthday, Songlian only said one sentence to Feipu for the first time, and she didn't see any other meaning. The second time the two started flirting directly. The one omitted in the middle is precisely the plot that best expresses the love between the two. Including the ambiguous relationship between Feipu's friend Mr. Gu and Feipu, and the ambiguous relationship with Songlian. Not shown in the movie. 9. It's also something I don't like very much. In the movie, the scandal of the third wife Mei Shan was unintentionally exposed by Song Lian when she was drunk. In Su Tong's original text, Song Lian was sent to Mei Shan to say "You have to be careful!" Mei Shan was discovered later. What I understand is that the phrase "you have to be careful" in Su Tong's original text is purely a kind reminder from Song Lian. She had already seen the evil spirit in the door of the mansion, and Mei Shan was at least someone who put her emotions on her face. She doesn't want her to have an accident. However, Song Lian's "tell the truth after drinking" was inserted in the movie, which made Song Lian's goodwill disappear, and Song Lian also took the blame for this and took the unspeakable charge on his back. This may make more sense because Songlian went crazy later, but it goes against the author's original intention. 10. In the original book, Songlian kept repeating that she would not jump into a well. In the movie, Songlian doesn't say anything. I like Su Tong, the reason I found after others said he was the originator of Guo Jingming's writing style and Annie's baby writing style. The group of wives and concubines is the epitome of almost all the stories of the polygamous system of the feudal big family. In the film, the existence of men is downplayed, and the open and secret struggle between women is more floating on the story. Then I want to say that Gong Li was really beautiful when she was young. After Song Lian said to Mei Shan, "You have to be careful!" Mei Shan was discovered later. What I understand is that the phrase "you have to be careful" in Su Tong's original text is purely a kind reminder from Song Lian. She had already seen the evil spirit in the door of the mansion, and Mei Shan was at least someone who put her emotions on her face. She doesn't want her to have an accident. However, Song Lian's "tell the truth after drinking" was inserted in the movie, which made Song Lian's goodwill disappear, and Song Lian also took the blame for this and took the unspeakable charge on his back. This may make more sense because Songlian went crazy later, but it goes against the author's original intention. 10. In the original book, Songlian kept repeating that she would not jump into a well. In the movie, Songlian doesn't say anything. I like Su Tong, the reason I found after others said he was the originator of Guo Jingming's writing style and Annie's baby writing style. The group of wives and concubines is the epitome of almost all the stories of the polygamous system of the feudal big family. In the film, the existence of men is downplayed, and the open and secret struggle between women is more floating on the story. Then I want to say that Gong Li was really beautiful when she was young. After Song Lian said to Mei Shan, "You have to be careful!" Mei Shan was discovered later. What I understand is that the phrase "you have to be careful" in Su Tong's original text is purely a kind reminder from Song Lian. She had already seen the evil spirit in the door of the mansion, and Mei Shan was at least someone who put her emotions on her face. She doesn't want her to have an accident. However, Song Lian's "tell the truth after drinking" was inserted in the movie, which made Song Lian's goodwill disappear, and Song Lian also took the blame for this and took the unspeakable charge on his back. This may make more sense because Songlian went crazy later, but it goes against the author's original intention. 10. In the original book, Songlian kept repeating that she would not jump into a well. In the movie, Songlian doesn't say anything. I like Su Tong, the reason I found after others said he was the originator of Guo Jingming's writing style and Annie's baby writing style. The group of wives and concubines is the epitome of almost all the stories of the polygamous system of the feudal big family. In the film, the existence of men is downplayed, and the open and secret struggle between women is more floating on the story. Then I want to say that Gong Li was really beautiful when she was young.
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