Leslie Cheung lost the best actress in Cannes by one vote. The reason behind it was that the judges thought that Cheng Dieyi of Leslie Cheung should run for the best actress, so they abandoned the vote. Although my brother didn't win the best actress, Cheng Dieyi's role has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which makes people moved.
Cheng Dieyi was the concubine in Farewell My Concubine, a Peking Opera. Her mother was a prostitute with a bad background. Because she was a boy, she sent him to the theater to learn drama. Because he was born with six fingers, he was rejected by the theater owner, and his mother cut off his remaining fingers alive in winter. Since then, he has become a member of the theater.
Because of her beautiful and feminine appearance, she was chosen as the actress. There is a scene in Beijing Opera: "A young nun is 28 years old, and her hair is cut off by the master. I am Nv Jiao moths, not a man," but Cheng Dieyi, as a man, doesn't want to succumb to the world, and always reads it; "I'm a man, and I'm not Nv Jiao's moths." I was repeatedly punished by my master. Since my mother threw him away, as long as exemptions were good to him, he gave in to exemptions, and since then, he has fallen in love with men.
He thought his martial brother Duan Xiaolou was the overlord on his stage and his lover under the stage, but his martial brother Duan Xiaolou didn't love him, only treated him as a brother. In this story, as long as Cheng Dieyi was a real concubine, people and dramas were not divided, and Duan Xiaolou was not a real overlord. He married a prostitute Juxian, and he left the stage. He finally exposed Cheng Dieyi and Juxian, causing Juxian to hang himself. Cheng Dieyi.
The drama is a metaphor for the country, which sings the inseparable connection between drama and the times.
1937 In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War, Peking Opera was always the quintessence of our country. At that time, no matter whether people had money or not, the favorite thing for men, women and children was to go to the theatre. At that time, go to the opera was comparable to today's stars, and it was hard to get a ticket. People held it everywhere, and it was also regarded as a guest by dignitaries.
This period is the heyday of Beijing Opera. Born in this era, Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou took the policy of becoming horns. We can see from the movie that Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou, who became horns, went out to pick up the car and sent it, and everyone sought after them, called the boss.
However, the good times didn't last long. With the start of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the introduction of new democratic ideas, drama became a beggar. People with cultural common sense thought that drama was an old thing, but the sound of national subjugation, which would prevent the development and progress of the country. The drama began to be resisted by insolence, causing Duan Xiaolou to abandon the stage and Cheng Dieyi to keep opium.
When the People's Republic of China was founded, Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou were forced to expose each other's past in costumes and ravaged their favorite dramas. The Cultural Revolution passed away and dramas returned to the historical stage. At this time, Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou have gone through vicissitudes of life and have no enthusiasm at the beginning. Extremely disappointed, Cheng Dieyi drew his sword and committed suicide for his love when he and Duan Xiaolou sang the last farewell to my concubine.
Fortunately, Farewell My Concubine depicts for us the changes of a period of time, the development of Beijing Opera, the real concubine Cheng Dieyi who bravely pursued love at that time and took drama as her life, and the fake overlord Duan Xiaolou who was afraid of life and death and would give in, just like ordinary people.