In an exclusive interview with Ang Lee, Chai Jing said that "Youth Pie" is the most unlikely novel to be made into a movie. I think she must not have seen Liu Zhenyun's "Review of the Old 1942". To be precise, it was not a novel at all—just the beginning of some novels, and then with the accumulation of materials, Uncle Liu stepped into the abyss of historical documentary prose without hesitation.
Therefore, the script was not adapted at all, but a new one, and the original book just provided the material. Uncle Liu, who wrote the book, is not like a novelist, but more like a student of the history department. He is a treasure of any information he finds. And when the script asked him to turn back into a novelist, he could only piece together what a story might look like from a pile of data twenty years ago.
From the works of "Mobile Phone" and "My Name is Liu Yuejin", it is not difficult for us to see the number of ways the uncle has, and it is not difficult to foresee his ability to control epic themes. So a mediocre script, doomed the fate of this movie.
The fatal flaw of the movie is that there is no story that the audience wants to hear, and even the suffering and tyranny created cannot exceed the audience's imagination. In fact, in the original book, Uncle Liu collected some shocking information:
● Many people were crushed to death when picking up the train, "the leg bones are exposed like a white corn stalk". Some climbed onto the roof of the car, but their hands froze in the middle of the night and slipped down and fell to their death.
●A mother boiled her two-year-old child; a farmer adopted an eight-year-old orphan, and the family devoured his “meat from the bones”.
● Exploitation of the relief funds by the National Bank: all the 100-yuan bills were issued, but the victims could only exchange them for small bills to buy food.
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But none of that material is in the script, and without these lurid details, the film simply cannot save the souls of Coke and popcorn-filled souls. Maybe Director Feng is too merciful, or maybe the censorship is too harsh - but, turning the bloody facts into a shocking picture should not be an excessive requirement for an excellent director.
Although the tears were not strong, Feng Dao still lived up to the expectations and arranged a few dark humors. For example, the priest "rested in peace" for the dead several times, but the frozen corpse "didn't rest in peace"; the rich man's daughter voluntarily sold it to a brothel, but it was too much to eat. I can't squat down to wash the feet of the guests... As for the effect, it is a matter of opinion. Anyway, I am a bit dumbfounded.
There's something even more awkward. The rich man's daughter-in-law died after giving birth to a child. The rich man's wife took off her daughter-in-law's clothes and said, "Drink some milk while it's still hot" - it's fine to act like it, why do you really do it! It was a very heart-stopping part, but it was robbed by the one-minute dew point.
Oscar-winning actor Brody's "Bai Xiude" can only be said to be quite satisfactory, without seeing the value of the actor. Tim Robbins is the protagonist of "The Shawshank Redemption", but because the good deeds of foreign priests in the original book are not shown in the movie, so Father Robbins can only hide in a small church like a paradise and fight silently. with soy sauce.
Zhang Guoli's "Old Club" had to be lost, but when paired with the second male No. 2 Zhang Mo's "Long Gong Shuan Zhu", people couldn't help but play: "Is this the father and mother? They don't look alike." Xu Fan is five It's ten, and Shaodong's family is drooling for her? Feng Dao must not hurt his wife so much anymore.
What didn't let me down was Uncle Ming's "Jiang Gong" (because of him, I watched the TV series "Long March" N times), with a strong aura and a strong inner drama, people can't help but stand in his position to calculate the overall situation, So consider the height of this disaster is different. And that's the original intent of the original. In 1993, when I was still unconditionally convinced of the political textbook, Liu Zhenyun tried to exclude political overtones and moral standards, and put a certain Jiang in the complicated domestic and international situation at that time to judge his gains and losses in handling this disaster. From this point of view, Uncle Liu is really a waste to write novels.
Perhaps, we should also understand the complex situation Feng Dao is in. Perhaps, he has already told the story he can tell.
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1. Thirty years of the year Uncle Liu, who was in his early years, looked a little angry. There are two very sturdy paragraphs in the book:
● It is useless to accuse many rulers in 1992, but under the rule of which gentleman, his people often starved to death everywhere, this gentleman really should ashamed. This should be ashamed of the premise: his family and descendants, there is no starvation.
●I think that these people don't go to be bandits, and they don't go to commit murder. They really betray their courage to eat people, relatives and children... A nation that won't rise up and only cannibalize each other among relatives has no hope. Those bandits...the backbone and hope of the nation.
2. In the past few years, there has been a great wind of reversing the case in the Republic of China. Those high-ranking officials of the party and state who have been demonized have been redressed as Confucian gentlemen. For example, there is a joke, when Chen Cheng was the governor of Taiwan, the child wanted to take his bus... Chen Cheng said with a smile: "I take a car, which is a kind of treatment given to me by the state. How can you enjoy this if you don't do things for the country?" What kind of treatment?" The "Chen Cheng" here can be replaced by any great name. In fact, people are all the same. In order for officials to be honest and honest, they cannot rely on morality, character, or belief, but must rely on the system.
Just like "Ta Kung Pao" was suspended by Jiang for three days because of an "Record of Yu Disaster". Soong Meiling, who was visiting the United States at the time, asked Time magazine to dismiss Bai Xiude, who was covering the famine, but was naturally rejected. Liu Zhenyun said in the book, "Even if the Roosevelt scandal was exposed, Mrs. Roosevelt's request to fire reporters would not necessarily be taken seriously by Time magazine. It should be noted, how many years has Luo been president? How many times does Time magazine publish? Years?" The mood of these words still makes people yearn.
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