Duan Xiaolou married a prostitute, Juxian (Gong Li), and attached her brother's butterfly dress. With a heavy heart, she came to her brother's residence, gave him the treasure knife that he had endured humiliation and his brother had longed for for for a long time, and decided not to co-star with him in Farewell My Concubine. At the call of Master Guan, the two brothers cooperated again.
After the Anti-Japanese War, they were forced to sing for a group of undisciplined and unqualified soldiers. Duan Xiaolou clashed with soldiers. In the chaos, Juxian miscarried, and then some soldiers caught Butterfly Clothes for treason. Try my best to rescue Butterfly Clothes, and humbly ask Yuan (Ge You), a bureaucrat who used to play with Butterfly Clothes. Juxian asks Dieyi to lie and beg for an explanation, and shows Dieyi written evidence that Xiao Lou no longer sings with Dieyi. So Dieyi remained indomitable in court, but she was rescued by senior Kuomintang officials because of her skill.
After liberation, their unique skills were not taken seriously. Cheng Dieyi, who ate opium by mistake, lost his voice in a performance and decided to give up drugs. After being addicted to drugs, she finally stood up again with the help of Duan Xiaolou and his wife, but she was framed by her kind adopted son Xiao Si, who forced her to perform in Duan Xiaolou instead of his concubine. Duan Xiaolou went on strike regardless of the consequences. Juxian advised him to fight for the overall situation, and Duan Xiaolou finally carried it out. Dieyi was heartbroken and broke off diplomatic relations with Duan Xiaolou.
During the Cultural Revolution, Duan Xiaolou was framed by Xiao Si and forced to frame her to death. Duan Xiaolou refused and was dragged into the street. At this moment, Die Yi suddenly appeared, dressed as a concubine, willing to be humiliated with Duan Xiaolou. Duan Xiaolou saw that Fan Yi had been imprisoned, hoping to protect Juxian. In desperation, he framed Fan Yi and even said that he was a traitor. Dieyi was in great pain after hearing this.
Thought Duan Xiaolou only cared about Ju Xian, and saw that Ju Xian, whom he resented, was feeling sorry for himself and helping himself at the moment, so he vented all his anger on Ju Xian, shaking out that Ju Xian used to be a prostitute, so Duan Xiaolou was forced to draw a line with Ju Xian, saying that he had never loved Ju Xian, and Ju Xian hanged himself in despair.
After the downfall of the Gang of Four, the two brothers performed Farewell My Concubine for the last time on the stage of separation for 22 years. Yu Ji sang the last sentence and committed suicide with the sword given to the overlord, which was full of his feelings and fantasies. Dieyi ended her acting career and this brilliant tragedy in the embrace of her brother's small building.
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Farewell My Concubine, as a flag-level work in China film industry, is a film with world-class honor, with both epic pattern and cultural connotation. Under the profound background of Peking Opera art, it shows the versatility and richness of people in the face of role dislocation and disaster, and the humanity and the power of actors contained in it can be called wonderful performances to conquer many movie audiences around the world. The film is not only recognized by the international film circle in art, but also very successful in distribution. This film sells well in France, America and other western countries, as well as in Eastern Europe and Africa. ?
As one of the highest artistic achievements in China's film industry, Farewell My Concubine is a nearly perfect classic film, which has both literariness and appreciation, while retaining the director's creative ideas, it also takes into account the audience's aesthetic taste. The film describes the Peking Opera art with the deepest cultural accumulation in China and the life of Peking Opera artists, and subtly shows the thinking and understanding of traditional culture, people's living conditions and human nature.
Farewell My Concubine tells a story that lasted for half a century with passion. The film not only has a profound sense of history, but also has a delicate male friendship and an epic pattern. Show the joys and sorrows of little people with the historical development of China for half a century.
Farewell My Concubine is one of the most classic works in China's film history, which has brought high international reputation to Leslie Cheung. Farewell My Concubine is about the joys and sorrows of two Peking Opera artists for half a century. In fact, it is about China people's thinking and understanding of human existence and humanity.
The change of times is closely related to the turning point of characters' fate, sociality is closely related to nationality, and faith is closely related to reality. Chen Kaige said that he would shoot a story of "infatuation and betrayal", so he shot such a story of "real concubine and fake overlord". The dislocation of human nature and the heavy blow of disaster have brought many aspects and rich drama to the film. Coupled with Leslie Cheung's almost perfect interpretation of Cheng Dieyi, Farewell My Concubine is a peak in the history of China movies in the past century.
When Chen Kaige attended the film festival on 1988, Feng Hsu took the initiative to meet him and came to see him with Li Bihua's novels. He saw it and said it was necessary for Chen Kaige to make such a film. The ending of the old version of Li Bihua's original novel is that Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou met in the bathroom in Hongkong several years later, naked, honest and affectionate, and then went out and went their separate ways. Chen Kaige told Li Bihua that the ending must change. Farewell My Concubine focuses on the theme of human nature-infatuation and betrayal. Before writing, Chen Kaige emphasized to the two screenwriters that they should never ideologize the characters and let them do what they should.