In 1997's " Nanhai Thirteenth Lang ", the actor Xie Junhao who played Thirteenth Lang defeated Zhang Guorong in that year, and won the Golden Horse Award and the Golden Image Award for Best Actor. The screenwriter Du Guowei won the Golden Horse Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Image Award for Best Screenplay.
According to screenwriter Du Guowei, this film is: "A down-and-out screenwriter tells the story of another down-and-out screenwriter." The fate of the people is entrapped into the torrent of history, time goes by, and hundreds of people live out hundreds of lives. The fate of genius is sad.
1 Geng Jie, a screenwriter with integrity and conscience
The genius of Cantonese opera Thirteen Lang, who has 11 mothers in the family (his father is a concubine), and is fond of Cantonese opera. Like a fish in water, "Cold River Fishing for Snow" is famous all over the world. There is a saying in a Tang poem: "The lone man in the boat, fishing for the snow in the cold river alone." Looking at his life, the title of this play seems to be a prophecy. This famous screenwriter refuses to integrate into the kitsch world in the way of an isolated island. Qi Yuhan, half insane and half insane, still insists on his screenwriting beliefs.
In the play, he said to his apprentice Tang Disheng (that is, the "ghost" playwright who wrote " Emperor Girl Flower "): "Those who learn from me live, and those who like me die." He threw down a stack of yuan Zaju to him, and told him that young people should look at the characteristics of young people. Nine times out of ten his own audience is illiterate, but Tang's is different, and the times have changed. This is the earnest concern for the apprentice, and it is also the requirement of the playwright for the work. Faced with a developing audience, how a screenwriter can keep up with the tradition while keeping pace with the times is common in any era.
When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Thirteen Lang became a playwright with the army and used Cantonese opera to perform the army. Who would have thought that someone would jump out and fight him in the ring, let the actress scratch her head and make a pose, and dance her legs in cool clothes. He couldn't stand this nasty stage performance and resolutely resisted.
After the end of the war, various repertoires appeared. In order to attract attention, there was even a plot of "animal version of the lotus lantern", where the orangutan and the three virgins of had dark knots. Waving away. This is exactly the same as today's scripts with big brains, ignoring natural laws, historical common sense, and social rules. In short, the problems of Thirteen Lang’s era still exist in today’s society and are getting worse.
An outline, a domestic drama that an IP wants to set up a project to shoot, the fundamental motivation is to make money, and even sell it without a script. The most important script here becomes so embarrassing that it even becomes the last thing the crew considers.
Thirteen has been carrying a picture, the picture is called "Snow Mountain White Phoenix". When he died, the sheriff played by Huang Zhan covered this picture on his face. Independence and purity, this is what he expects of himself and the standard by which he acts all his life. At the end of the
film, a big line was launched: "Dedicated to all screenwriters in Hong Kong for mutual encouragement." This is probably the expectation for all colleagues in the world, that is: to be a conscientious person and write a conscientious drama.
2 Inheritance of arrogance
Years later, when the master and the apprentice met, the apprentice said to the master, "Even if I can't learn your talent, I will learn your arrogance." What kind of arrogance makes the apprentice so admire?
Thirteenth Lang once said to the flourishing Tang: "Thinking about becoming famous all day will not be able to write a good script."
Both are talentsSmart, the person who appreciates the food from the ancestors. On the screen when the two met for the first time, Thirteen Lang’s words came out in a melodious tone, and Tang Disheng sang in harmony, one move and one style, and he was even able to catch the master’s momentary stammering when he entered the play. The two of them were laughing with their eyes and brows, the mountains and rivers flowing, and the friends met each other. This period was really a wonderful time. Famous teachers and apprentices, both teachers and friends, Thirteenth Lang's unreservedness, and Tang Disheng's agility and eagerness to learn, all show us a typical scene of the inheritance of oriental masters and apprentices.
Tang Disheng was in the backstage, watching the cheering performance in front of the stage, he said expectantly, Thirteenth Lang said, " I want to prove the value of the article! After three or fifty years, no one will remember those stocks, gold, World events are only fleeting, but a good script will still be appreciated after fifty or a hundred years, and even if I die, no one will forget my name and my play." In his shining eyes, there was the sound of babbling, and the world's code characters shed a pair of tears. This is probably the so-called "screenwriter's conscience", which is the cherishing of self-worth. These words directly attack the strange situation of today's film and television scripts being inferior and chaotic.
3 The teacher mad and the apprentice died, and the fate is tragic
In the movie, the apprentice Tang Disheng finally found a master, hoping that he would return to the screenwriting world, but he fell on the stage due to heart problems, quite a bit jealous of talents, and Thirteenth Lang's personality is arrogant and unruly, Not allowed to be in the world, the second half of life was spent in madness.
At the beginning of the film, there is such a scene: Thirteen Lang called the police station in English, the police thought it was a foreigner who reported the case and the whole team came, so there was the following dialogue:
Thirteen Lang: "Someone stole my shoes Ah!"
Police: "Who stole your shoes"
Thirteenth: "There are two guys, but you dare not arrest them" Saburo: "It was the British who stole my left shoe, and the Japanese who stole my right shoe. They all stole the shoes from the Chinese. There is no way to go, nowhere to go, no way out, no way to go. Brother!" Sure enough, he is a famous screenwriter, and his writing style in Spring and Autumn is so wonderful. The film was shot in 1997, and the metaphor is about to come out. The
film sighs like this through the mouth of the storyteller: Genius, either die early, or is crazy! It looks sad.
This is the sigh of Du Guowei, who is also a screenwriter, for his peers, and it is also a sigh of loneliness and perishability of all the beautiful and outstanding things in the world.
The bosom friend is searched again, the worldly talents are rare. The red silk crossed the cold river and snow at night, and the idiot was Thirteen Lang.
