Having just finished cursing “the deer and the cauldron”, we don’t want to start cursing the next remake so soon.
But I couldn’t help it.
Because “Half-Life” also… The overturned.
It was originally scheduled to appear on Beijing SATELLITE TV in May last year, but it was cancelled temporarily. A year later, it will be broadcast as a network drama…
To be fair, compared with the expectations of Zhang Yishan’s version of Wei Xiaobao, “Half life” this operation has already reduced everyone’s psychological expectations to a minimum.
As a result, after broadcast, or escape the fate of being ridiculed.
The first wave of fire, for the unreliable casting —
Carina Lau, 55, plays gu Manlu, who is under 30
37-year-old Jiang Xinyan gu Manzhen in her 20s
Zheng Yuanchang, 38, plays Shen Shijun, while Guo Xiaodong, 46, plays Zhu Hongcai…
The whole scene looks like “Half a Lifetime of love”, and the one who is closest in age to the original character may be Zhu Hongcai.
What’s more terrible is that the actors are all good actors of the acting school, but their temperament is totally wrong.
Carina Lau’s aura has grown stronger over the years, and playing a dancer who sacrifices her younger sister in order to hold on to a man is utterly unconvincing.
Look at her expression, feel in order to get Zhu Hong to lay down on the beach is more likely. She will not die of hate; She will only bring a bitter end to anyone who has offended her.
Jiang Xin, if nothing else, just looking at her appearance, how can you convince me that this is a weak, tall and cold republic of China literary young woman? She looks stronger than Zhuhong.
As for Zheng Yuanchang —
Do you know that “half life fate” remake movie and TV two versions, is generally believed that the film version of dawn play than tan yaowen version of the TV version is better, because there is a blunt blunt of rich kids honest – yes, we have now been various dominating the President’s charming brainwashed, can actually had been “three generations”, there will be no looking sharp phase: they don’t need at all.
This is embarrassing.
Although the right view has always been: don’t judge a book by its cover; Middle-aged actresses should be given more opportunities; No appearance of shame, no body of shame…
But because of the show, they all got smacked in the face.
Whose fault is this, anyway?
First of all, this involves a very delicate question: for a particular role, the character image of the actor, or acting, which is more important.
Of course we know that kids make choices and adults make all choices, but given the state of the entertainment industry today, one of the two would be nice. How do I choose this?
Awkwardly, we all know that acting is the right answer, but in reality, we still scream at the flesh-and-blood kids who match our image and temperament.
The most typical example is the boy f4, touching his conscience and saying that they in meteor Garden have a little something called acting?
But chai Zhiping looking for four handsome boys as long as standing there, is man tear male, play what do not delay all Asian girls want to go with them to see the meteor shower.
If the four images although not consistent but the acting skills of the old drama bone? Think about it a little bit, don’t you think it’s scary?
That’s right, Zhou Xun is still being scolded for the girl drama in Ru Yi Chuan.
As ru Yizhuan enters the middle and late period, Zhou Xun’s face and character match very well.
Secondly, why are actors not suitable for the roles?
After all, there are too few choices.
Too few suitable scripts for actors to choose from; The cast has too few suitable actors to choose from; This is the real cause of “Half luck in love”.
An industry’s prosperity, always need a virtuous circle to achieve.
And finally, a myth: Why do good actors always have the bad faith to take on roles they’re not suited for?
Back to “Half Chance” itself.
It took Zhang Ailing 18 years to write it. The original story is called eighteen Springs, which tells the sad and happy stories of Shen Shijun and Gu Manzhen during the 18 years from the end of 1930s to the founding of new China. At the end, both the hero and the heroine devote themselves to the construction of northeast China in the new era with a little bit of light
However, in 1967, Zhang Ailing changed it into the current version of Half-Life, which played down its political overtone, and the ending came to an abrupt end when The two lovers met.
This is the real Eileen Chang: famous young, with a pessimistic and playful nature of life. She never cared about politics — in her stories, the grand narrative of nations was always at the service of an emotional narrative.
In Love with A Fallen City, a city of Hong Kong is captured to help Fan Liuyuan and White Tassels. She also did not believe in perfect love. At the end of half A Lifetime, Manzhen and Shijun met each other, only saying “Shijun, we cannot go back”, which was even more desolate.
Such a view of love, now accustomed to see black and white, hit the face of the rising type of cool text audience, will have a sense of identity?
But for Eileen Chang, this is the life she’s been through.
As we know, Eileen Chang was born into a declining noble family. Grandfather Zhang Peilun was a famous official in the late Qing Dynasty, and grandmother Li Jucoupler was the eldest daughter of Li Hongzhang, an important official in the imperial court.
His father Zhang Tingzhong (Zhang Zhiyi) was a young master of a large family, and his mother Huang Yifan (Huang Suqiong) was a new-style woman.
If you are interested, you can take a look at the photos of Huang Yifan, because he was a rare independent woman at that time, with money and leisure.
Eileen Chang’s father is a typical remnant, do not do things to produce, except in the study while away the time, the remaining hobbies is smoking cigarettes and aunt.
Huang Did not look up to such a husband. After giving birth to Zhang Ailing and his brother Zhang Zijing, he turned around and went to Study in Europe.
She had bound her feet, put them on after going abroad, wore a bikini to sunbathe and went skiing in Switzerland; After returning to China, he did not go home. He lived in a foreign house in the concession and stayed with Zhang Ailing’s aunt.
This is the real “The world is so big I want to see it”.
But for her daughter, Eileen Chang, such a mother could only be a symbol of beauty — during Huang’s time abroad, Eileen Chang and her brother were left in China with little attention.
When Huang Yifan divorced zhang Ailing’s father and his father married his step-mother, the two children began to lack food and clothing, and began to provoke from their stepmother from time to time, their father beat them until they almost died.
After being severely beaten by her father, Zhang caught pneumonia and almost died. A cleaning woman who loved her sent a message to Huang Yifan, who took her to care for her and saved her life — but later, Huang Yifan said to her, “I regret that I took care of your typhoid before. I would rather see you die than see you live and suffer everywhere.”
This sentence, Zhang Eileen never forget, then written in his prose, visible injury deep.
As a new woman, Huang is radiant, but as a mother, she is not responsible. She explicitly tells Zhang how much she plans to spend on her and lets her choose whether to dress up socially or use the money to go to school. Eileen Chang chose to go to school.
Later, Zhang’s brother, unable to bear the abuse, came to his mother. Huang Yifan told his son, “I don’t have enough money to support two people. You’d better go back.
— Isn’t that enough? When Eileen Chang was studying in The University of Hong Kong, she tried her best to win scholarships and wore a blue cloth gown to save money.
Huang has been living in repulse Bay hotel, not contact with her daughter, also refused to give money to her daughter and son. She always loved herself best.
When Zhang Ailing became famous and became rich, the first thing she did was to return two gold bars to Huang Yifan.
One way or another, this was the norm for mothers in traditional aristocratic families — marriage and childbearing only out of duty to the family. After a child is born, it is left to the servants to take care of it. The so-called maternal love is a rare luxury.
Zhang Ailing that grows up in such a family, what be influenced by what one sees and hears, it is cool thin life completely.
Her brother Zhang Zijing once wrote:
“In November 1941, my sister published this novel of nearly forty thousand words in the monthly magazine. She was twenty-four, I was twenty-three. I can tell at a glance that the story and characters of The Golden Lock were born in the home of Li Jingshu, the second son of Li Hongzhang. Because many years before that, my sister and I had already come face to face with cao Qiqiao, Third Father, Chang ‘an and Changbai in the novel.”
Therefore, when Eileen Chang became famous, she was also despised by the family. Her relatives thought she had “exposed her dirty linen in public”, and outsiders saw the joke.
This is the real Eileen Chang, lonely life, soul branded with a gray bleak mark. She saw in love and humanity a sad, but miraculous, glimmer of trust.
Such she, wrote “half life”, a “love”, can be clear? Or is showbiz today capable and patient enough to really show it?
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