Old movies are like old wine, satisfying your taste buds.
Tomato, who is addicted to old movies recently, found a bottle of wine that has been aged for more than 20 years: " If you have something to say, please say it " .
What kind of wine is this movie about?
Answer: Erguotou, Beijing.
The plot is straightforward and "excellent",
has a profound metaphor and is "rich in pungency",
is rich in connotation and "endless aftertaste",
is an urban-themed movie that perfectly interprets "Old Beijing in the Transformation Period", "Let's Talk Well" It’s just a bottle of down-to-earth Erguotou.
The male protagonist Zhao Xiaoshuai is played by Jiang Wen.
But you can’t find any of Jiang Wen’s own depth in this character.
has a green shave, wears small sunglasses, and speaks in a stammering and reckless manner.
Zhao Xiaoshuai's ruffian style can be described in one word: reckless!
It is easy for reckless people to do embarrassing things, and Zhao Xiaoshuai also made a lot of fools of himself in the movie.
His ex-girlfriend An Hong found a new love, and fell passionately in love with the wealthy Liu Delong, but Zhao Xiaoshuai was unwilling to accept the beauty of adulthood.
He hired migrant workers from the labor market and appointed them to stand on his behalf downstairs of An Hong's house to express his love loudly.
This is probably the most valuable combination of migrant workers in history.
On the first day, Zhang Yimou shouted: An Hong, I miss you!
On the second day, Du Xudong screamed: An Hong, I want to sleep with you!
On the third day, Zhao Benshan appeared and started reciting love poems directly.
An Hong was unbearable and asked her real boyfriend Liu Delong to come forward.
But the latter got into trouble with a bunch of gangsters and gave Zhao Xiaoshuai a hard lesson.
During the dispute, Zhao Xiaoshuai, who was beaten so dizzy, grabbed the backpack of passerby Lao Zhang and used it as a weapon.
failed to counterattack and the computer in the bag was smashed to pieces.
The owner, Lao Zhang, was therefore involved in the dispute between Zhao Xiaoshuai and Wang Delong.
The honest man Lao Zhang wants compensation.
In that era, computers were definitely a rare item.
Lao Zhang spent most of his life frugally to save a new computer, but before he could watch the fun, it was smashed by Zhao Xiaoshuai.
The stupid handsome young man wants revenge.
If he gets into trouble, even nine oxen will not be able to pull him back.
Zhao Xiaoshuai carried a bone-cutting knife with him, just because he wanted a hand from his enemy. He blocked Wang Delong for a time, but Wang Delong was so frightened that he lost his mind and hid.
Just when it reached an impasse, it was Lao Zhang played by Li Baotian .
Although the second male lead is a bit useless, he has perfectly inherited the "Liu Luoguo" style of mediating ability.
After his continuous mediation between Zhao Xiaoshuai and Wang Delong,
he finally found a plan to peacefully resolve the dispute:
Wang Delong paid 50,000 yuan to avoid disaster, Zhao Xiaoshuai received 35,000 yuan in medical compensation, and Zhang Qiusheng received 15,000 yuan in computer to reimburse.
But what Lao Zhang never expected was that after he finally achieved a happy situation, Zhao Xiaoshuai had other plans.
Xiaoshuai's plan is very simple, to turn Lao Zhang Zhangluo's "mediation meal" into a "Hongmen Banquet".
He planned to take advantage of Wang Delong's appointment to chop off one of his enemy's hands.
Old Zhang was confused.
himself was originally a manipulative lobbyist, but he was about to be ruined by this reckless man in front of him.
If Zhao Xiaoshuai really stabbed Wang Delong, then he would be an accomplice!
Seeing that Liu Delong was about to come to the appointment, Lao Zhang made up his mind to save Xiaoshuai and Delong, which was also his own salvation.
It's not that easy to turn the tide.
He ran to the street and borrowed a cell phone to call the police, but was treated as a psychopath;
He was taken back to the store and wanted to ask the clerk for help, but was mistaken for a pervert;
In the end, Lao Zhang was tied up as a psychopath. , and Zhao Xiaoshuai was also waiting in the hotel for Liu Delong, who came to keep his appointment.
This extremely real and absurd story is developing in an irresistible direction.
"Say Something Well", Douban score is 8.3.
Did you see clearly who the director is? ——Lao Mouzi, Zhang Yimou.
In the eyes of the public, Zhang Yimou is the national mentor of the Chinese film industry.
In the 1990s, Lao Mouzi was the spokesperson of Chinese films.
"Ju Dou", " Raise the Red Lantern ", " Qiu Ju's Lawsuit ", these masterpieces have won international awards and been praised. Cannes, Venice Golden Lion, Berlin Golden Bear, and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film are all in the bag.
"Ju Dou": Li Baotian and Gong Li
Some people are sour and dark, saying that his works of this period have won the favor of Western film critics because of their strong critical tone.
But these narrow rhetoric cannot shake the status of Zhang Yimou and these works in the history of Chinese films.
After the millennium, Lao Mouzi suddenly transformed into directing commercial films.
When " Heroes " was released in 2002, its magnificent and majestic artistic style amazed the whole world.
While "Hero" won the box office championship of Chinese-language movies that year, it also won a super box office of 1.4 billion worldwide, which shows Lao Mouzi's "money-making" skills.
Subsequently, some super blockbusters such as " House of Flying Daggers ", " Full City with Golden Armor ", " Great Wall ", " Shadow " came out.
It is no exaggeration to say that Zhang Yimou defined "Chinese blockbusters".
However, between Zhang Yimou's "serious" and "commercial" creative styles with huge contrast, there is this "Speak Well".
And this movie is also Lao Mouzi's most controversial work.
Shaky shots, gaudy images, and black humor make this movie neither serious nor commercial, but more like a "chaotic" cult film.
This "chaos" reached its peak when Lao Zhang wanted to stop Xiaoshuai's plan, but was forced back to the hotel by the latter.
Honest people were treated as perverts and were humiliated;
The perpetrators became heartthrobs and reveled wantonly;
When Zhao Xiaoshuai and a group of strangers competed for Mai Biao songs in a restaurant, the whole movie even became weird. Get real.
The ending of the story may still be fresh in the memory of many people.
Xiaoshuai, who wanted to commit murder, came to his senses because his plan was thwarted, but Lao Zhang, who was rational, fell into madness and said that he wanted to kill people with a knife.
The small restaurant has become a microcosm of society in a specific era, and perhaps Lao Mouzi wants to express too much through this movie.
The filming of "If You Have Something to Say" is so "tempered" that it looks like Jiang Wen's style, a little less Zhang Yimou. When
rewatched the movie, Tomato even wondered whether Zhang Yimou just had a name in the director's position, and the man behind the scenes was Jiang Wen himself?
If one day Zhang Yimou or Jiang Wen come forward to reveal that Jiang Wen actually directed and acted in this movie, I will be the first to believe it.
What is even more interesting is that the script of "If You Have Something to Say" was adapted from the first novel "Evening News" by writer Shuping .
At that time, Shu Ping also worked as a screenwriter for "If You Have Something to Say", it was through this movie that he got acquainted with Jiang Wen.
Jiang Wen and Shuping
In the following ten years, the two worked together to create countless masterpieces: "The Devil Is Coming", "The Sun Also Rises", "One Step Away" and so on.
Shu Ping became Jiang Wen’s most relied-upon screenwriter.
Weixiao, who previously guest-starred as "Old Six" in other films, once talked about "Why does Jiang Wen always seek cooperation with Shu Ping?"
Firstly, the two may have similar temperaments, and they also have a deep friendship;
Secondly, the quality of Shuping's works is undeniable and there is no substitute.
Wei Xiao said that Shuping's works are very sharp and his ideas are particularly "free".
Tomato Guess, this is what Jiang Wen admires most about him.
As the original author and screenwriter of "If You Have Something to Say", Shu Ping made his "Electric Shock" debut and also showed his own opinions in this movie.
Jiang Wen and Baotian had a profound dialogue about "morality" and "talent", and Ge You played the role of a policeman and appeared twice to tease and warn.
You may say it is a wanton "pointing out at current ills" or it may be a willful "innuendo". But in "If You Have Something to Say", such plots abound, and Shu Ping and Zhang Yimou leave enough space for the audience to interpret and think.
Now it seems that among the several works written by Shu Ping that Jiang Wen successively filmed, they are quite in the same vein as "If You Have Something to Say".
Although these movies are branded as Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen, I am afraid that Shu Ping's "freedom" idea has left a very deep mark on these works.
After filming "Speak Well", Shu Ping and Zhang Yimou never collaborated again.
But Lao Mouzi left a comment about him: the screenwriter with the strongest willpower and the most stable condition.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department)
