28 years ago, the Hong Kong drama "Big Times" premiered on TVB. As TVB’s 25th anniversary TV drama, "The Great Era" was placed high hopes, and it did not. It became the hot golden drama of the year in one fell swoop. The play is based on the Hong Kong financial market in the 1960s and 90s, with the two generations of Fang Ding’s family and two generations as the main line. Under the tide of the big era, it shows the division of family love, the entanglement of interests, and the entanglement of complex human nature. Destruction is a drama of contradictions and conflicts that excavate the evil of human nature by unscrupulous means for the sake of profit.
"Big Times" is a period when outstanding works of Hong Kong TVB's golden age emerge in endlessly. An extremely alternative and brilliant representative of Hong Kong drama, it is the passionate youth of a generation. first watched "Big Times" 14 years ago. At that time, I pooled a thousand dollars with my classmates, bought a cumbersome desktop computer, and put it in the dormitory while studying and watching the world famous dramas. Once, I accidentally bought a DVD disc from the market. This is the Mandarin version of "The Great Times." I never expected that when I watched this play, it would become an absolute classic in Hong Kong and China. Since then, the play has been taken out by me countless times to admire and worship.
The split personality and paranoid villain Ding Xie
played the first actor in Gu Long and Jin Yong's book when he was young, to the first villain who subverted the inherent image in "Big Times", Zheng Shaoqiu put an extremely neurotic, selfish and paranoid. The self-righteous, unreasonable Ding Crab with extraordinary human thinking can be portrayed well.
I think Ding Crab is a person with personality defects, insanity, and good at using robber logic .
01 You said that when you want to marry me.
When he was young, his wife Ding Crab went to Macau to be a dancer. He entrusted Hui Ling to take care of her children and went to Macau to find a wife. The purpose of not wanting him to go is not to get her back, but to splash her with boiling water. Only Ding Crab can think of this kind of brainstorming plan. After returning, Hui Ling was about to leave, but he blocked her and frightened her to hide.
Coincidentally, Hui Ling met Ding Xie's friend Fang Jinxin, and begged him to take her away. Fang Jinxin softly agreed. Ding Xie was furious and found Fang Jinxin. The other party asked him to calm down, and then promised to show him to Hui Ling. People have seen it, but they don't like themselves. Hui Ling told Ding Xie that she actually didn't like him. paranoid Ding Crab's bastard logic and self-awareness began to awaken , he said to Hui Ling, you must want to marry me .
02 I killed someone but I am not guilty.
Following the contact between the two, Huiling developed feelings for the other Jinxin. She bought a ring and asked Fang Jinxin to give it to herself. By coincidence, this ring was seen by Ding Xie. The paranoid Ding Crab was furious and started to fight Fang Jinxin. Fang Jinxin was not Ding Crab's opponent. He was directly beaten to internal bleeding and his brain was broken.
Not long after, Ding Xie saw that Fang Jinxin's injury was a little better, so he came to him and wanted him to go to the police station to close the case and anger Fang Jinxin's son Fang Zhanbo. Fang Zhanbo was going to call the police, the neurotic Ding Crab shouted to stop it, and Fang Jinxin, the guardian, was eager to stop Ding Crab. The tragedy came again. Ding Xie allowed Fang Jinxin to beat him, even fantasizing that this could offset the previous festival, but in the end he still couldn't control himself, and turned from being passively beaten to attacking the weak Fang Jinxin. This time, no one could save Fang Jinxin, and he finally died under Ding Crab.
Many years later, Ding Crab, who personally killed his brother, returned to Hong Kong and was tried. Ding Crab defended himself innocently. He exclaimed passionately. I killed Fang Jinxin, but I was not guilty and I did not owe Fang Jinxin anything.
03 I killed people, you are atonement for me
Ding Crab's paranoia and split personality, which led to his thinking often out of normal people's thinking, the world is turning around him. After Ding Xie killed Fang Jinxin, he couldn't understand why this happened to others' accusations. He thinks that such a thing cannot be entirely blamed on himself.A relief. That is, even though I killed someone, I was in jail. This is a punishment that is heavier than death.
This is the logic of Ding Crab's ruining three views. Fang Jinxin is dead, Hui Ling decides to stay to raise his four children, Ding Crab, who feels good about herself, feels good about herself. She believes that Hui Ling's doing this is actually an atonement for him. In his consciousness, Hui Ling had always loved herself, but she didn't know. He even said to Hui Ling, in fact, you love me, you are just lying to yourself.
Ding Crab is definitely a wonderful thing on earth.
The first time I watched "The Great Times", I thought that Fang Jinxin played by Liu Songren was the first actor because he was decent, wise and unwilling to go with bad guys. Unfortunately, he was beaten to death by Ding Xie soon. Ding Crab, who had an unsound personality, destroyed his family all his life. He himself was beaten to death by Ding Crab. Later, when his three daughters grew up, they also had trouble with Ding Crab’s son in different ways, committed suicide or were killed; Even his beloved fiancé Hui Ling died at gunpoint.
The world is so miserable, who can beat Fang Jin's new family?
The decent Fang Zhanbo of the dead family
has an enlightened sect, and Fang Zhanbo, who has experienced many misfortunes, does not exist in reality. If you want to blame, you can only blame the screenwriter for being too ruthless and too vicious to the audience. In the 40-episode TV series, Ding Crab and his four sons have been hacking and killing all the way from start to finish. Except for Fang Zhanbo, all his family members were killed or forced to death. Only in the last episode did he avenge him. was just after he avenged his revenge, those relatives who had surrounded him vividly, but they all died tragically. Looking around, there is no one behind to tell.
01 The death of his father
When he was young, Fang Zhanbo's father was beaten into a fool by Ding Crab. After he was treated, he just got a little better and suffered misfortune. He finally died at the hands of Ding Crab for the second time. The once carefree life suddenly fell from high to the top of the mud. Fortunately, Dad's fiancee and their stepmother Hui Ling did not leave, and raised them in one hand.
At the same time, Ding Crab who killed his father fled to Taiwan. At the same time, Ding Crab's four sons grew up in an unattended society and became a gang. And all of these will gradually split his family into fragments after Ding Crab returns to Hong Kong from Taiwan. The death of the sister of
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Fang Zhanbo's three sisters finally died, it can be described as tragic. The eldest sister Fang Fang, because of her cowardly personality, testified in court for her father's death. Although Fang's family eventually won the lawsuit, she incurred revenge from Ding Crab's son and was thrown downstairs to death. The second sister was played by Li Lizhen, who was thrown downstairs to death like the eldest sister, and died under the eldest son of her former lover Ding Crab.
Speaking of which, Fang Ting's life is too tragic. First, he was almost raped by Ding Crab’s second son, Ding Yixie. Fortunately, Ding Xiaoxie rescued her and the two began to fall in love. But as Ding Crab returned to Hong Kong from Taiwan, the conflict between the two people was once again placed in front of the two, and the relationship ended. With Ding Xiaoxie's fierce character, if he can't get something, he must destroy it, and eventually he will die. Fang Min, the youngest sister of
, a girl who only knows how to read, was insulted by Ding Yixie, played by Tao Dayu, and was afraid to talk to her family until she contracted a venereal disease. The lawyer caught this point and asked Ding Crab to tell her in court that she had a venereal disease to fight her. Although the paranoid Ding Crab felt that he couldn't bear it at this time, he was still a bit conscientious, and there was some unbearable in his heart, but he still pressed Fang Min about this for himself, and Fang Min, who was originally introverted, almost collapsed. In the end, Fang Min was killed by Ding's family at the door and in the elevator, all of which were covered with leaflets about her privacy. This became the last straw that crushed her and she committed suicide by jumping off the building.
Think about it, there is no tragedy in this world.
03 Huiling’s death
Huiling died in episode 36, this is also after Fang Jinxin’s death, The most tearful scene.
Ding Xie knows or refuses to admit that Hui Ling has never loved him, but he is still "infatuated" with Hui Ling. But who dares to accept this kind of paranoid love? Besides, Hui Ling never loved him. Ding Xie went to Changzhou to look for Hui Ling. He accidentally saw the picture of Fang's family and the 20 yuan ring she bought many years ago, and was furious. Ding Xie thought that Fang Jinxin had been dead for more than 20 years, and Hui Ling was still in love with him, and threw the ring into the toilet in front of Hui Ling.
For more than 20 years, Hui Ling, who has suffered countless ups and downs and mental shocks, is undoubtedly the ring if she still has any thoughts about this world. She was furious in an instant, grabbed a knife and pierced the crab. The crab fled, her face was broken, and her palm was scratched. Ding Crab rushed out of the room, and Hui Ling also chased it out. She caught something and threw it at Ding Crab. It can be imagined how ridiculous and sad it was that the Ding Crab suddenly turned into a drowning dog.
was also at this moment, two police officers passed by to stop Hui Ling, she seized the opportunity to take the police's pistol. When the police competed with her for a pistol, a gunshot hit her chest suddenly. Ding Xie hid behind a car and took out the ring again to signal to Hui Ling. It turned out that he hadn't lost it at all, but it was too late. Hui Ling fell to the ground. At this time, Faye Wong's " Vulnerable Woman " music suddenly started. Under the flying debris of the sky, she crawled towards the ring that had been treasured for more than 20 years... was easily injured. The woman
Hui Ling finally died, dying in Fang Zhanbo's arms, pushing the atmosphere of the whole show to its climax. And Fang Zhanbo called Hui Ling for the first time in more than 20 years, calling her "mother". Believe that this scene must have blown the tear ducts of countless audiences, it is simply a fragment of violent heaven, which makes people tearful.
PS: In 2018, Lan Jieying, who played Hui Ling, died in Hong Kong. She was once known as the top of the "Beautiful Mount Wutai". In the end, she was really like Hui Ling in the play. It ended in this way but lived a lifetime. It's sighing.
04 The death of a little Jewish
Zhou Huimin was really young and invincible. She plays the mainland sister Xiao Jue, a girl suffering from hereditary congenital heart disease. In the process of contact with Fang Zhanbo, the two gradually fell in love with each other and fell in love deeply. During this period, Long Jiwen, the daughter of Hong Kong underworld brother, also fell in love with Fang Zhanbo. It's a pity that Long Jiwen made a heavy oath in front of her gangster father in order to save Fang Zhanbo, which made her unable to break the vow to never return to Hong Kong. He left Hong Kong and Fang Zhanbo.
When the enemy was all gone to hell, when only a little Jew was left by his side, in the end destiny still did not give Fang Zhanbo a person who could accompany him to the end of his life. One day, Fang Zhanbo took the little Jew to the outskirts, sat on a hillside, watching the sunset, he took out a ring and proposed to the little Jew to marry him, whispering softly, the little Jew slowly in Fang Zhanbo’s arms Closed his eyes.
Postscript:
"The Great Era" is a Hong Kong drama that makes people feel relatively low. The screenwriter is too tragic and the plot design is too tragic for people to come out for a long time. Although Ding Xie and the four evil sons received their due retribution in the end, their son jumped off the building and died. Although he was fortunate not to be thrown to death and saved a dog’s life, he is still like yesterday and can only live in his own world. in. The villain of
ultimately has its own rewards for the villains, but for good people, it is unlikely that a few people will end well. This may be the charm of Hong Kong TV dramas. While we cursed, we let it immerse in our hearts forever, and precipitate it into an unrepeatable classic.
