Feng Xiaogang's Liu Ye is an image that I am familiar with - the alley, the stubble frame, and the local snake. Of course, I'm not from Beijing. To me, the image of Liu Ye is not the memory of old Beijing, but the kind of "hutong stringer" and "ruffian" that every child will always see more or less in the process of growing up. , "Little Rogue", "Young and Dangerous", there is respect, fear, mystery, and parental education - stay away from that kind of trivial people!
The role of this character is interesting. He came to power by fighting. In Hong Kong police and bandits movies, it is said that buddies solve problems with their fists. They are not good people. But he talks about "rules", such as beating people can't ignore the dead hand, such as fighting to solve "things", "reasonable", "upholding justice" plus "thieves are also right" - this is "Sunshine" Ma Xiaojun in "Bright Days", the "cold weapon" generation who grew up in CR, believes in fists and the party. Really tough, he can get into the game for his buddies, and he can dance big swords for his sisters.
In addition, Liu Ye is a tough guy full of chivalry and tenderness. There are very few such tragic heroes on the mainland screen. I scrolled through the more than 300 mainland movies and TV dramas that I have watched, including martial arts movies, there is really no one of this type, either Gao Daquan or Diaosi turning over, either young teenagers become chivalrous, or they are clowns , and the hard bones of the image of Liu Ye, the old cannon, have layers and development, and are very close to the prototype of life.
The shaping of Liu Ye is also the story development of the film, which is mainly achieved through two stages. The first is the main line of the relationship between father and son - the son went out to hang out with Laozi back then, but he couldn't keep it, and Laozi worked hard to get his son. This stage focuses on Liu Ye's incompatibility in the face of the changing times - he can still use Ma Xiaojun's way of messing around in the hutong, and out of the big world of the hutong, the outside is talking about the silver of the white flowers. The old fist is useless! Faced with such a situation, the sixth master's solution is to ask for help - the buddies who fought together in the past, but the characters who are close to him are not very good. It is to screw up the new era of "money in charge" in every possible way.
The second stage is the social problem that occurs after the problem of the father-son relationship is solved, and it is also the real background of the tragic finale in the film. Some people say that reporting this arrangement is a need for a trial, but the more you think about this ending, the more unpleasant it becomes, and the more you think about it, the more incorrect it is: What exactly is the "chivalry" of the sixth master?
The sixth master loves to talk about "rules" - one is to respect seniors, and the other is to talk about "reasonable things", especially in the second stage, he has the demeanor of an old Communist; Zhan Li, he also expects to use his fists to solve the problem stubbornly; later, he will not tell anyone, and the money will be returned for no reason. racked up. What's going on with this inconsistency?
If you put aside the image of the "Master" Liu Ye, take away the aura of the protagonist, and observe him from a different perspective, you will find that he is actually a real little person in the market: he has no skills, only fists and no heads. The third buddy is probably the worst offender; the education of the son is zero, and the son's unreasonable logic proves that his inheritance foundation is poor; in addition to showing toughness in handling his son's affairs, the specific behavior can actually be called wretched, not inappropriate. I paid back the money (I couldn’t afford it), and I didn’t show any apologies once (whether the official second-generation Ferrari is reasonable or not is another question). There are two explanations for the final report of the Disciplinary Committee. One is that it is because of the son, who is bloody to die together; the other is that he did not dare to accept the one million, believing that it was a "big right or wrong" and must be reported to the officials.
This last step, especially the battle of Binghu, is really embarrassing, because without the halo of sadness, you will find that Liu Ye is a tragic figure who has always lived in the fantasy of heroic halo. The "chivalry" that he pursues, even if it is at best "robbery", has long been ineffective in the environment of the market economy. He has no brains, and can only rely on petty fights in the hutong where everyone has no money to support the boss's face. Once he entered the world of black cats and white cats, he didn't have a single cat hair in his hand and was completely at a loss. He reported that he still had illusions about this society and still did not understand the truth of the political power struggle behind the money. He has only seen the tip of the iceberg of corruption of humanity by this enormous power that is not supervised (it's just a minister from another province!), but he doesn't think about whether this is the progress of the times or the retrogression. He believes that corruption is a person's fault, and if the "bad people" are removed, the "good people" can still restore his son's world to "chivalry".
The sixth master must be tragic, he belongs to the era of Ma Xiaojun. Although I think his age was worse than it is now, I think silver is still fairer than fist, and I still admire his cruelty and clumsiness in sacrificing faith with his life. This kind of invariability is his sadness, and it is also the key to his respectability. Liu Ye is an out of place person. He represents the socialism that came from before the market economy and did not have the characteristics of ZG. Lao Pao'er is the ostrich running on the streets of Beijing, a kind of magical reality in this country of magical reality, and weeping while watching it.
In addition, I don't know what Enzo Ferrari is, just like in "Dream of Red Mansions", the annual food and clothing expenses of ordinary people are not as good as that of a table of government officials. Liu Ye is a product of the times. This time went around in a circle, if Sixth Master encountered the same thing on Ningrong Street, the result might be similar to today. This is the biggest ZZ error in "Old Pao'er". The more I think about it, the more incorrect it becomes. I can't write it anymore.
Plus, it's getting easier and easier to watch a mainland movie on the big screen overseas. Domestic films have really gone out, this is the progress of the times, really.
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