2. Yuan is a declining aristocrat, the overlord of a generation of pear orchards, and is called Master Yuan. Yuan likes Peking Opera best and often spends a lot of money on it. After he became famous for Farewell My Concubine, Yuan was impressed by his demeanor.
3. Yuan can be said to be the only person who knows in the movie. On the night of marrying Juxian, if Yuan hadn't stopped it in time, he would have committed suicide with his sword and his concubine. Yuan can see at a glance that he wants to die, but those who grew up together can't.
Yuan bought a confidante with his sword. Maybe Yuan has true feelings, but Yuan knows that Cheng Dieyi only loves.
Farewell My Concubine is one of the most classic works in China's film history and the best film directed by Chen Kaige so far. This film is starring Leslie Cheung, ZhangFeng yi, Ge You, Gong Li and others, and is now called the "King-level lineup".
In the film, Cheng Dieyi, played by Leslie Cheung, is a person who is obsessed with Peking Opera and even "immersed in it". He has reached the point where people and dramas are indistinguishable, and really integrates himself into the world of concubine Yu, thinking that concubine Yu can still live without overlord.
But this is a tragedy. Cheng Dieyi turned himself into a concubine, but Duan Xiaolou didn't turn himself into a overlord. He regarded Peking Opera as a business to support himself, so he said to Cheng Dieyi, "If you are not crazy, you will not survive".
However, there is another person in the film who is very similar, and that is Yuan and Yuan played by Ge You. His obsession with Peking Opera is very similar to that of Cheng Dieyi. After watching Farewell My Concubine, Master Yuan has been thinking that the overlord has taken five or seven steps. Even though he was in danger, he still insisted on performing.
He once told Cheng Dieyi that he should be regarded as a bosom friend. Master Yuan's attitude towards Cheng Dieyi is respectful. He believes that the "concubine" is beautiful and should not be touched, but has turned himself into a concubine, and Master Yuan has also brought her identity. In the film, when he first saw Dieyi, he looked at Dieyi and said, "For a while, Yuan was in a trance and suspected that it was the reincarnation of his concubine."
This is the feeling that two people who are fascinated by Beijing opera appreciate each other. Because Grandpa Yuan has traveled all over this land, he has never found anyone who is as obsessed with drama as himself, so he cherishes it very much.
When Duan Xiaolou was criticized, he betrayed Cheng Dieyi and said, "Have you been cheated?" In fact, it can be clearly seen that he is an extremely secular person, completely different from Grandpa Yuan's ideological realm, so he will think in that direction. And Grandpa Yuan's "artistic singing" became very dirty and incomprehensible in their eyes.
That night was found by grandpa four yuan, and it didn't happen. No matter in the original or in the movie, Zhang Gonggong insulted him, and Master Yuan would never do that. To him, Yu Ji is sacred, and Cheng Dieyi is the embodiment of art and Peking Opera.
As Master Yuan said, "a confidante". For Duan Xiaolou, Peking Opera is a business to make a living, and Cheng Dieyi is his partner to earn money; But for Master Yuan and Master Yuan, Peking Opera is everything to them. They are all crazy about art, regardless of people and dramas.