The beauty of "Farewell My Concubine" lies in its super-powerful screenwriter and director who focuses on storytelling.

I often tell others that all stories, minus all the details, can be summarized in one sentence. For example, "Ashes of Time" tells the story of Ouyang Feng's life experience and the love-hate entanglements between him and seven other people; "The Iliad" tells the story of the dozens of days before the end of the Trojan War; "Forrest Gump" tells the story of Forrest Gump's life in the course of American history. The story of "Forrest Gump" is very similar to "Farewell My Concubine", and it is also a person's life in the historical process. And the story that can be summarized in this sentence is very grand. The story structure of "Farewell My Concubine" is rigorous, and every clue is echoed before and after. ? There has always been such an interesting thing about Chinese movies. If a movie is made well, everyone will say it is the director's credit. But if a movie is not made well, everyone will immediately blame the screenwriter. I once told others that this script would not be a bad film if directed by any director with professional education.

Yes, the script of "Farewell My Concubine" is too tough. ? Of course, people who have read the original work may have the feeling that the original work is even crueler than the movie. ? The relationship between the screenwriter and the director is like that between the story writer and the story teller. The screenwriter decides what the story is, and the director decides how the story should be told to others. So when someone shows me a script he wrote, and there are scenes and plots such as: "His passionate eyes extinguished the cold and melancholy moonlight", I usually say: "Brother, can you Delete this sentence in the script, or give me a white eye that can cover up the sun's rays."