Old fans should all know that Yu Ji has always been fascinated by the movies of the last century.
In the era of blowing ceiling fans and eating iced watermelon, CCTV6 and the video hall carried almost half of the memories of growing up.
Some childhood shadows are now classics in film history that have changed over time.
And some movies have become the beauty and sweetness unique to childhood.
Yuji dug up such an old movie today.
The heroine is stunningly beautiful, the hero is also incredibly handsome, and the old bad guy once made us hate him so much.
The perfect fairy tale-like plot may seem clichéd and childish now, but when you see it, you will definitely feel a sense of intimacy like reuniting with your childhood playmate after a long separation:
Wooden Beauty
A long time ago, there was a prince. Falling in love with an ordinary farm girl.
But the queen blocked such feelings in every possible way. After all, only a princess is worthy of a prince.
So she asked an evil wizard to help.
The wizard gave the prince a magic necklace, saying it could witness their love.
After the ignorant prince put it on the peasant girl, the peasant girl turned into a wooden sculpture.
Only the kiss of true love a thousand years later can awaken her again.
This is the end of a good story.
A thousand years later, time has come to modern times.
Both the prince and the queen have been wiped out. The peasant girl Jessie has become a statue in the museum for people to admire. Her love story with the prince has also become a legend that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
However, no one knows that the wizard from back then is still alive. He has secretly made a secret love for Jie Qian and has been waiting for someone to lift the curse with true love's kiss and take Jie Qian as his own.
On the other side, the male protagonist Jason is a department store manager who has just arrived.
The company he works for is planning to jointly hold a performance with the museum, and Jesse's statue is one of the exhibit props.
Today was Jason's first day at work. Something went wrong during the transportation of the exhibits. The truck got stuck on the bridge and Jesse's statue fell into the river.
Perhaps because the statue was too realistic, Jason jumped into the river to "save people" without saying a word, only to find that it was just a piece of wood when he fished it out.
While he laughed at his own stupidity, he marveled at the ingenuity of the statue.
While sorting out the exhibits in the warehouse, he couldn't help but kiss the beautiful statue and then took off the cursed necklace.
Jie Qian finally woke up after sleeping for a thousand years and recognized Jason, who looked exactly like the prince, as her lover.
However, Jessie, who had not eaten in a thousand years, fainted from hunger as soon as she woke up, so Jason took her out to look for food.
Everything in modern society makes Jessie excited, and Jason gradually falls in love with this simple and beautiful girl.
But he still hasn't fully accepted the fact that Jie Qian was transformed from wood. Maybe this is all a dream of his?
That night, he quietly took homeless Jie Qian back to his home.
But the next day, when he got up early to make love breakfast, Jessie accidentally put on the cursed necklace while dressing up and turned back into a wooden sculpture.
Jason, who was not sure why, mistakenly thought that he had been high with a dummy all night. He even wanted to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Jessie in an attempt to "resuscitate" her. This scene happened to be seen by his mother, who became even more convinced that he was His son is a otaku who cares about his life alone.
Jason had no choice but to take the sculpture back to the department store warehouse, where his boss, Mr. Hollywood, the company's creative director, came to inspect with the wizard and three of his men.
Jason told Mr. Hollywood everything that happened last night, but Mr. Hollywood thought it was all his fantasy.
Seeing Jie Qian wearing "immoral" clothes, the wizard was shocked and heartbroken, and ordered his younger brother to stay and strictly guard the statue.
This time, the curious Mr. Hollywood also became interested in Jess's gorgeous necklace. He took it off and put it on himself to look pretty in front of the mirror. Unexpectedly, he resurrected Jess and turned himself into a sculpture. .
Soon the wizard's younger brother discovered that Jesse was missing. They took off the necklace from Mr. Hollywood's neck, which finally let Mr. Hollywood know the secret of the necklace.
Only then did he realize that Jason was not dreaming last night, and told Jason that the legends about Jesse were all true.
At the same time, Jesse, who was wandering alone in the mall, was rounded up by the wizard and his group. Fortunately, Jason arrived in time, and the two lovers finally escaped from the mall and hid in Jason's house.
Of course, the wizard would not give up. He called the police on the pretext of stolen cultural relics, took the police to Jason's house, arrested Jason, and put a necklace on Jesse alone, turning her back into a wooden beauty.
Seeing that the exhibition performance was about to end, the wizard would take the wooden beauty away after the end. Mr. Hollywood, a kindhearted man, decided to help the two fateful couples. He pretended to be a police chief and picked up Jason. Jason disguised himself as a member of the program crew and sneaked into the venue.
At the show, Jason descended from the sky in a prince costume and lifted the curse of the wooden beauty in front of everyone.
The whole audience was in an uproar, but before the audience could sigh at this beautiful love, Jie Qian was kidnapped at gunpoint by a wizard with no martial ethics.
On the top floor, he was preparing to take Jessie to leave the United States in a hot air balloon, while Jason climbed up regardless of his own safety.
High in the air, the three of them struggled together. Finally, Jason and Jessie teamed up to put the cursed necklace on the wizard and pushed the sculpture down.
At the end of the story, the fragmented wizard sculpture was put back together again and became an exhibit in the museum instead of Jessie.
Jessie and Jason lived happily together ever since.
I have been looking for this movie for a long time before I could watch it again, but after watching it, I no longer felt the thrill I felt at the beginning.
In fact, the film only has a score of 4.4 on IMDB. The cliché plot of the prince and princess being reunited is really not considered a good film.
Mr. Hollywood's jokes can no longer make Yu Ji laugh, but Jie Qian's beauty in her prime is still astonishing.
And we are no longer the little boy who blows the ceiling fan and eats ice watermelon. Our vision and knowledge are no longer satisfied with fairy tales.
But the beauty this deeply remembered movie has brought us has a value far higher than 2.9 points.
Friendly friends, unwavering love, and a simple and happy life all plant the seeds of kindness in our hearts.
That is the indelible romance that belongs to that youthful age.
