Wild Wolf Disco.
said it is a divine comedy, not only because of its popularity, but also because it hits the secret feelings of many people with inadvertent cultural symbols.
"Infernal Affairs", "Ling Ling Paint", Aaron Kwok and the first generation of Northeast Thunder...
especially this sentence:
can't take off my fur coat no matter how hot it is.
can almost be regarded as a resurgence of the stubborn signal of an era.
commented that the Northeast Renaissance, which had been turbulent for several years, finally returned to its peak in the old man.
except for the music circle.
writers Shuang Xuetao, Ban Yu, and Zheng Zhi took the position.
movie?
After "Fireworks in the Daylight" and "Undocumented Crimes" opened the way, "Assassination of Novelists", "Under the Sun" and "Siberian Tiger" also followed suit.
△ Lu Yang's new film "Assassination of Novelists" is adapted from the work of the same name by Shuang Xuetao, and the filming location is changed to Chongqing
△ Yi Qianqian recommended Ban Yu's "Winter Swimming" on ins, sales surged
not found, domestic comedy/ Crime dramas especially favor the Northeast. why
?
Sir would like to ask today.
01
The song of the loser
The film and television field, the cultural output of the Northeast, a name we can not get around.
Zhao Benshan.
The comedy empire that Zhao Benshan created through the Spring Festival Gala sketches and the "Country Love" series was once a staple of laughter for a generation.
Today’s top three comedians in the film industry, Shen Teng said that on the New Year’s Eve, his dad was on the TV that was showing Uncle Benshan’s sketches, and asked his son who was still happily humming and humming a drama. When can you go to the Spring Festival Gala.
can go up and have a good life;
can't go up, shameless.
, in the eyes of Northeastern people, it's just that.
However, before 2011, Northeast China actually had other things in Chinese movies.
-Why was Sir first sold out in 2011.
In 2006, Xu Anhua's work "Aunt's Postmodern Life".
Xu Anhua is one of the most underrated movies.
This movie hides an era aspect. Aunt
(played by Siqin Gaowa) comes from the northeast, lives alone in Shanghai, and meets Pan Zhichang (played by Zhou Runfa), a liar from Guangdong.
Northeast-Shanghai-Guangdong. The three cities of
have differences in economic levels and are closely related to the level of civilization.
In the movie, Shanghai and Guangdong are so neat and bright.
is spotless and almost dreamlike.
This is the source of my aunt's tragedy. The daughter of
(played by Zhao Wei) wearing a small leather jacket once asked her aunt in anger:
was with us when you were in trouble, why didn't you dislike my dad and the workers. Whenever there is a chance to go back to Shanghai, he never looks back.
can go back to Shanghai, thinking that she can get her dignity back, she is deprived of her dignity step by step. In the
film, the most hilarious point of the audience is probably the Shanghai aunt wearing a swimsuit made of red wool and entering the water. The result of
misunderstood the lifeguard: Aunt
, what did you do? You will be in the water during your period.
funny?
When the progress bar reaches the end of the film, Zhengrong is exposed.
Our aunt has lost money and has to go back to her hometown in Northeast China and continue to face the life she once hated.
With the broad eyes of a young boy like Yang Dechang, he saw that his aunt's life had become like this: outside the door of
, the old residential building full of small advertisements was covered with remnant snow.
's house is dilapidated and sloppy. The only spiritual hobby of the worker's aunt is watching TV (mostly sketches) and giggling.
and what about the aunt?
is neither resentful nor moved.
seemed to have completely died the night when she left Shanghai. The deeper despair of the
film is that even if the aunt of
is "dead", the Shanghai that she has been thinking about for her whole life will blast forward and will not look at her more.
The song of the loser of the Northeast people was caught by a Hong Kong director.
but. If
really composes and plays it, he has to be from the Northeast.
2011 year, "The piano of steel".
Director Zhang Meng, starring Wang Qianyuan and Qin Hailu.
look at a set of pictures. The story of
is that laid-off iron and steel factory workers formed a band and rushed around in weddings, funerals, and shop openings. Chen Guilin (played by Wang Qianyuan), led by
, used broken copper and iron to build a piano in a dilapidated factory for his daughter's musical dream.
dancing flamenco, playing the accordion, and arias, this is more literary and romantic.
but this is only half of the picture. The other half of
is an abandoned, swarthy steel workshop. The heat of the past suddenly cooled down and became a hollow hard shell. The roof of the
factory building resembled the wings of a big Peng, taking off accurately, but was frozen under the hazy sky.
is the big chimney.
Obviously the factory collapsed, it is still burning, exposing soot, trying to maintain the warmth of the long winter in the northern city in the old way. Director
recalled:
In 1999, I saw a wooden piano in Tieling Pingju Troupe. It was made by people in their group. At that time, I began to think about the story of this piano.
There is a steel market in Tieling, where there are a lot of unemployed workers. After they are unemployed, they bought the same machine tools as they used to work and turned into small workshops, but in fact, these workers are all gathered together. Everything is done in this market.
The two "ideas" collided, and the creation of "The Piano of Steel" sprouted. "The most painful period when a person is facing the society after a sudden job loss is what I have always wanted to shoot. I don't want people to take that era. Forget it."
"I don't want people to forget that era." What era is that? Although
was born in the south, Sir often heard a word on TV when he was young.
laid off.
What is laid off? According to Wikipedia,
, a term specific to China, refers to “the workers who lost their jobs in state-owned enterprises in China during the institutional reform. The workers still belong to the factory unit, but they have no wages, which is actually equal to unemployment.” A layer of gentle and ambiguous color:
laid off, laid off, there is always some time to start again.
But if you understand the wave of layoffs at the end of the 1990s, you will know that there are very few people who will eventually get back to work.
In that year, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises affected the whole country, mainly in old industrial bases and economically underdeveloped areas. The three northeastern provinces accounted for 25%.
From 1998 to 2000, the number of laid-off workers from state-owned enterprises averaged 7-9 million. After
is laid off, the company has several ways to deal with workers:
or one-time buyout, or leave without pay, or receive the minimum wage every month.
For a time, the bundling of laid-off workers with enterprises came to an abrupt end.
is unemployed, so that everything I believed before collapsed. The state-owned enterprise management of
back then was closed. Because
is closed, the internal living facilities are complete, and workers are more dependent on it;
is also closed, and workers have no other skills. When a laid-off incident occurs, it is like being abandoned by fate.
is simple-
collapses not only the stable days, but also the rush to life.
In "The Piano of Steel", the daughter asked Chen Guilin, can this piano make a sound?
Dad said, yes, sure.
-but you have to play "the simpler the better".
This actually implies that this piano is inherently flawed and cannot handle complex tunes, just like these unemployed workers cannot adapt to the ever-changing era.
is a more explicit metaphor than this: "Blizzard is Coming". Although the story of
takes place in the south, the director has a contrast in the images, creating the atmosphere of a heavy industrial city in the north, which is the "Northeast" of his mood. The beginning of
is like this.
Yu Guowei, played by Duan Yihong, is applying for an ID card.
"What's your name?"
"Yu Guowei."
"Which three words?"
"The rest, the country, the great Wei."
"Which rest?"
"...the extra rest."
The ending of "Snow is Coming" is like this.
Duan Yihong was waiting for the bus. He took out the newly-issued ID card, looked at it, and put it back in his pocket. The
car is coming, and Duan Yihong gets in the car.
After finding a seat, sit down and wait, the car is motionless. The
car won't start, and there is a car with people stuck there.
At this time, it was snowing. Duan Yihong looked up at the late, northern snow through the car window. He wanted to say nothing in his eyes. The opening lines of
are easy to understand. Why is the end of
designed like this? The answer of
director Dong Yue is:
many movies, maybe got on a car, the car drove away, and disappeared, a particularly freehand and lyrical ending. But he didn't want to deal with it this way. At the corner of the times, those who have lost their way can't actually go anywhere, so there is this bus that can't start. A generation of people stopped there, cruel and real.
How do losers get along with failure?
In literature and art, we have found Ah Q-style spiritual victory. The
red sweater can knit a one-piece swimsuit, and waste steel can make a piano.
They seem to be optimistic and romantic, but in their bones are all the sadness of ice scum.
is like the passage in Shuang Xuetao's novel "The Flying Man": The second uncle
said, Xiaofeng, it is almost dawn, and there is no more delay. I won't talk much with you. Remember the words of the second uncle, to be a Napoleon, even if people are shut down on the island, there is still something to say in this life. If you can't be Napoleon, you must also be Columbus, and you have to keep going. To be a man, you must go upstream, and you can only find the garbage dump downstream.
……
At this time, my brother patted me behind my back and said, brother, I will go first, take care, and don’t forget to give your second aunt the real estate certificate. After speaking, he walked over, put the rod box in the big basket, and then took out a backpack from the big basket on his back. I said, wait a minute, second uncle, you said this balloon can go up all the time, isn't it going to explode sooner or later? ……
is another group of poor people who make their own hot air balloons. They are pilots who want to fly to the distant, warm South America. The ending of
is "a dead end" when you think about it.
So, when it comes to Northeast comedy, don't just remember the Spring Festival Gala sketch and the joy and joy of the duo.
There is another kind of "flying" in the northeast.
is to use magical laughter to fill the pain that the era has run over a generation.
02
sex, homicide, disco
set his sights on Northeast crime films.
In 2014, Diao Yinan's "Fireworks in the Day" captured the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and the actor Liao Fan became the first Chinese actor.
This movie shattered the "Piano of Steel" and the previous "Northeast" type mold.
It shows a more ferocious and candid violence.
has three elements, outstanding and unique.
sex.
opens with the "mutilated corpse case" in the coal mine, with broken limbs exposed in the black coal of the production line.
Soon, the policeman Zhang Zili (Liao Fan) wore a white vest and played cards with his ex-wife Su Lijuan in a small hotel, and then did it.
Note that at this time, the "corpse" of a ladybug is stuck to the white bed sheet. The opening sex of
is extraordinary, suggesting the theme of "love and death".
Zhang Zili invited the suspect Wu Zhizhen (Gui Lunmei) to skate.
That night, the two kissed, and then they didn't shoot (or they finally cut it off). What happened to
?
The next day, the two were in the stall, and Wu Zhizhen put on lipstick.
and Wu's husband is Liang Zhijun (played by Wang Xuebing).
He wanders in the city every night carrying ice skates.
skating and ice skates are all metaphors of male ability and power in the movie. The ice skates attached to
are bluffing, but they hint at Liang's weakness and incompetence.
Why is sex so important in crime themes?
Because sex is the most effective way to vent dissatisfaction.
is anxious, have sex.
is angry, have sex.
is empty, sex.
And the good sex of "Fireworks in the Day" is good-
not only says the "have to" sex, but also saysOut of sex "but so". After the brief pleasure of
dissipated, you still have to face the huge question mark.
When it approached again, further crimes occurred.
kills.
Five years ago, Wu Zhizhen’s husband Liang Zhijun (played by Wang Xuebing) was found to have died in a bizarre corpse case by the police. Wu Zhizhen did
?
"Five years later, a similar serial case happened again, and these deceased were in love with Wu Zhizhen." Wu Zhizhen should have done
.
Good crime themes often don’t care who the murderer is.
It cares about overtones.
looked at Sir, the most meaningful line of "Fireworks in the Day" was when a colleague asked Zhang Zili why he worked so hard and what you want to do.
"Do you still want to win the world?"
"At least you can lose a little bit slower."
Why does Zhang Zili know that Wu Zhizhen is dangerous, so he still keeps up.
sense of justice? Responsibility?
is neither.
Zhang Zili's essence is a person who was mutilated by the system and surrendered to the system because he was unable to resist.
He just can only "forward" unclearly.
So on Zhang Zili's face, the most expression you see, is to cry without tears. The most typical of
is that disco that can be written into Chinese film history.
Zhang Zili betrayed Wu Zhizhen at the end of the film and got the position he wanted. Suddenly, he danced solo in the disco.
looks relaxed but more like pain.
A spear-like action, stiff, lonely, and helpless.
-The music is Ouyang Feifei's "Longing". This improvisation of
is the magical touch of humanity in this film noir. How does
understand human nature?
Never think that you see through it.
put it plainly, sex, murder and disco correspond to desire, sin and catharsis.
Therefore, those high-quality Northeast crime films have always been permeated with pessimism.
has to mention the "Undocumented Crime" that made the online drama film quality.
It photographed the absurd but true division of the northeast land. The most effective embodiment of
's split is the villain. Li Fengtian, who smoked cigarettes against
, is definitely the most memorable metamorphosis of domestic dramas in recent years.
But in terms of behavior, Li Fengtian just doesn't change his attitude.
He is like a simple migrant worker who can be found everywhere on the road: loves to drink liquor, knows the brand, old drunkard...
is enthusiastic when eating noodles, just like a manual worker who has been tired for a day.
occasionally popped out a sentence or two, which is still the northeastern humor with a strong breath of life. When he commits a crime, it is especially horrible and untimely-
ran to Guo Yu's house and kidnapped him. He didn't rush to do anything, but first laughed at Guo Yu:
You call the police when it's dark... What time is it dark in your house?
These normal greetings are precisely his horror.
because such a person may be by your side. To put it bluntly,
gnaws on chicken legs and kills, for him, they are all basic physiological needs.
is also the interweaving of abnormality and normality, giving this character the uncertainty of a real character.
-You can't predict when they will do it.
"Undocumented Crimes" points to the fact that it is not a serial homicide without evidence, it is an atypical policeman, atypical murderer, and atypical perverts with no trace of their masters.
And the harsh, cold weather in the northeast gave the characters an atmosphere of hesitation and alienation. Why
03
in the northeast of
reproduced from Su Youpeng's "Devotion of Suspect X" was filmed in Harbin.
went to the forest area of Changbai Mountain to film "Snowstorm" starring Zhang Zhen and Liao Fan.
to Chinese-language films that have not yet been released, Cai Shangjun's "Under the Ice", Geng Jun's "Relax + Pleasure", Liang Ming's "Under the Sun"...
why so many Chinese-language crime films pay so much attention to the Northeast.
Sir believes there are several reasons.
First of all, the transformation of heavy industrial cities has undergone tremendous changes. A group of people caught up and moreMany people are falling behind, being left behind, still trying to catch up, trying to lose more slowly.
During the painful period, there are gaps in the social sector, hiding evils.
From the perspective of movie creation, the Northeast has unique advantages.
is cold.
Because of the cold, desire is contrasted more intensely, such as sex.
ice and snow, the contrast with blood, the impact is even more shocking.
Furthermore, the city has a diverse outlook.
is particularly like Harbin, Changchun, Dalian and other cities.
has European, Japanese, Russian, and former Soviet architecture, and there are emotions behind them. The
heavy industry has passed, but it has left iron-gray and deep traces on the city, representing collective consciousness, the age of innocence, grand singing and dancing, and so on.
As the old man mentioned in the beginning, isn't he the one who lives in the cracks?
singer Dong Baoshi commented on this icon like this:
is not actually a social brother, but he must have the temperament of a social brother. Assuming that the family is not so rich, he would wear a very thick chain, then shave his hair very short, and finally a sable comes outside to protect his fragile heart.
-GQ report "I want to use my old man to build a magical universe in Northeast China"
This is not the most vivid metaphor in Northeast China.
Once, it was the eldest son of the Republic.
Now, it is not.
So its expression at this moment is an eager roar of the times, and also the helplessness and confusion that can't keep up with panting.
To watch the Northeast movie, you need to see its direct delivery, but also the idle writing.
The chaos behind the laughter and sin are the footprints of our passing.
To put it vulgarly, Northeast movies like rough men are our sexual enlightenment. Behind every sexual enlightenment, we can summarize the unspeakable commotion.
Seriously, the Northeast movies of the rough men are our history.
history is over.
But history has shaped and defined us, and history is the only way for us to become what we are now.
We cannot forget history.
To forget history is to betray oneself.
Finally, attach a Northeast film list.
these movies.
are all worth seeing and worth collecting.
"Aunt's Postmodern Life"
(Director Xu Anhua starring Siqin Gaowa 2006)
"Shinjuku Incident"
(Director Er Dongsheng starring Jackie Chan smuggled to Japan from the northeast, killing the bleeding road in 2009)
The piano"
(director Zhang Meng starring Wang Qianyuan, Qin Hailu 2010)
"Yellow Sea"
(director Luo Hongzhen starring He Zhengyu, the male protagonist from the northeast, seeking his wife and revenge 2010)
"Day Fireworks"
(director Diao Yinan starring Liao Fan Gui Lunmei 2014)
"Undocumented Crimes"
(director Lu Xing starring Qin Hao and Deng Jiajia 2017)
"Going to the Sea"
(starring Geng Le Qixi laid-off female worker in Paris "Standing on the Street" story 2017)
"Snowstorm"
(Director Cui Siwei starring Zhang Zhen, Liao Fan Ni Ni 2018)
to be screened:
"Under the Ice"
(Director Cai Shangjun starring Huang Bo Song Jia, the best actor in the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival)
"Relax + Pleasant"
(Director Geng Jun 2017 Sundance Film Festival screening)
"Under the Sun"
(Director Liang Ming starring Lv Xingchen Wu Xiaoliang 2019 Pingyao International Film Festival Best Director)
"Northeast Tiger"
(Director Geng Jun starring chapter Yu Ma Li)
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