Special feature of 1905 film network 3.4 points!This is the score of Guo Caijie Edition on Douban. The one-star bad review reached 56.6%, which once again confirmed the sentence: "Yi Shu is hard to shoot!"
The box office of the film is also mediocre, with only 50 million yuan in the four days of release.In that play, "Xibao", which requires a lot of money and a lot of love, obviously failed to do so outside the play.
The netizen commented: "Everyone who plays Guo Caijie is Gu Li." "The whole film is a TV drama texture shot by the model room and the wedding dress base."Guo Caijie’s role as "Xibao" has been questioned since the official announcement. The scriptwriter’s "magic change" and rough service to the original work have even aroused the collective condemnation of book fans and fans.
It’s been 41 years since the publication of "Xibao" in 1979. What kind of attitude should this story of "forgetting the past year" between a female college student and a wealthy businessman in his twilight years be "revived"? How can Guo Caijie get rid of the lingering "Gu Li" label?
happyWho is Bao?
"I always hope to get a lot of love. If there is no love, a lot of money is good. "As Yi Shu’s masterpiece, Xibao tells the story of a 21-year-old Cambridge Law Department who was born in a slight cold, was studying Ginger Xibao, and happened to meet a rich man who was over 60 years old, then entered a rich family and completely changed his life.
The frequently quoted "quotation" above is the concentrated expression of the contradiction of "Xibao". This is a fairy tale about love and bread, dignity and material desire.Two sentences in the novel can sum up Xibao’s view of love and the way to survive:
"If someone says he loves me, I won’t be a little more happy unless his love can be discounted."
"I came to the society with my bare hands. If I don’t step on people, people will step on me."
Just as Xu Cunzi described the 21-year-old girl in front of her with two words when she first saw Xibao: "cruel" and "practical".This is the background color of the characters belonging to Xibao. It is this undisguised frankness and weed-like vitality that arouses the desire for love and conquest.
But Xibao is by no means a gold digger in the traditional sense. On the one hand, she is high flyers from the Law Department of Cambridge University. She longed to be an independent woman, but was forced by reality to achieve it in a twisted way of attaching to men.
On the other hand, in her description of the ideal, love is always higher than money, but repeated injuries have made her realize that money is more secure than feelings.
Being arrogant and inferior, worshipping money and hating wealth, being sober and blind, this is the contradiction of Xibao and her tragedy. It can be said that Xibao’s life is a tragedy brewed by family of origin and the social environment.
Family of origin needless to say. Xibao’s father has been absent for a long time, and his mother has been tossing and turning between daily necessities and various men for a living. This fate of lack of money and love is exactly what Xibao tried to escape all his life.
At the same time, Xibao’s values are also the epitome of Hong Kong society at that time: the economy is rapidly taking off, the class differentiation is intensified, and the envy of wealth and the desire for class promotion are Xibao, which is also the synaesthesia of everyone in the "money society".Therefore, for Xibao, any adaptation that leaves the background of time and space and abandons the complexity of characters is doomed to failure. This is the "original sin" of the current edition of Xibao.
The setting of the film in time and space is ambiguous. The costumes and shapes of the protagonists are sometimes retro and sometimes modern. There are old household appliances and classic cars in the props, but the background is the general decoration style of new Chinese model houses and the urban landscape mixed with history and modernity.
Perhaps the main creation is deliberately blurring the time and space background of the film, but it is followed by a completely overhead sense of suspension and an affectation of stressing and worrying about adding new words.
Let’s talk about Xibao’s personnel. Since the official announcement, the voice of "Guo Caijie is not suitable for Xibao" has been heard. The main reason is that Guo Caijie is not a metropolis girl with big breasts and full of feminine charm as described by Yi Shu, and she lacks the unique shrewdness and pride of Xibao.
However, judging from the film, the biggest problem of Guo Caijie version of Xibao is not only its shape and temperament, but its contradiction and complexity.
In the original work, Xibao analyzed his feelings about Xu Cunzi like this: "At the beginning, for money, for safety, for ambition; Later, for shame, for hate, for revenge; Up to now, Mr. Xu, please don’t laugh at me. Now it’s for love. I love you. "
From "for money" to "for love", Xibao experienced complex psychological entanglements. This unsolved contradiction between reality and ideal, material desire and emotion is the cruelty of this story and the most touching place of Xibao.
However, in the movie, Xibao’s persona was simplified to a girl named Marisu who lacked love since childhood and sought emotional sustenance from a rich man over forty years older. At the end, Xibao gave up all her wealth to find her own choice, without any logical support.
It is true that since the publication of the novel, some people have questioned the "three incorrect views" in "Xibao", and many values in Yi Shu’s novels really seem out of place at present.But we can’t help asking, is it really necessary to create a Jiang Xibao who wants nothing but love? onceappearanceWhy should an all-African adaptation be branded as Yi Shu and Xibao?
Who’s Guo Caijie?
"Who is Guo Caijie?" The answer to this question can be the sweet and lovely "Yogurt Girl" on the album cover, the fresh and smart Susie in the movie, or the little neon who dares to love and hate in Love.But more viewers will subconsciously think of it.Gu Li, a character who has been with Guo Caijie since 2013.
Even, Guo Caijie’s acting career can be divided into "pre-Gu Li era and post Gu Li era" with Tiny Times as the boundary.Guo Caijie in the "pre-Guri era" is a pure and lovely "Yogurt girl" with an innate sweet appearance and baby sounds, and the record company naturally packaged her as a fresh and lovely girl next door.
Guo Caijie’s Invisible Superman MV(2007)
In the TV series "Invincible Sambo Girl" and the film debut "One Page of Taipei", Guo Caijie is also repeating the "Water Girl" over and over again.
On the surface, Guo Caijie tried to cater to the expectations of the market and the public, but his heart was full of entanglements. "I didn’t know anything at first, all I could do was meet the expectations of others. Do you think that the female college students who just graduated are too far away from taking the guitar,’ OK, then I don’t want to take the guitar’, and you need a lovely role,’ OK, I will do my best to be cute’. "
Starting from Xiao Ni in Love, Guo Caijie began to try a more powerful character.In the film, Xiao Ni’s sentence "Just because I’m not so great, I don’t deserve to love, don’t I deserve to be loved?" Poke a lot of people’s tears, but also causedJing M.GuoAttention. He urged Guo Caijie to play Gu Li, the overbearing and powerful queen of Leng Yan in the novel.
Like Xibao, when it was just announced that Guo Caijie would play Gu Li, public opinion was also full of doubts.Guo Caijie also admitted that she was seventy percent different from Gu Li’s personality, but it happened that the indomitable tenacity in her bones was exactly the same, and it was this stubborn strength that made her resist criticism and play "live" Gu Li.
Unexpectedly, it is this controversial role that makes Guo Caijie truly familiar to mainland audiences, and it has also become a role label that she can’t erase.Many people say that being a singer can show yourself better, but Guo Caijie admits that when singing, he is like "playing a singer", but in acting, he can release himself more and project his personality into different characters.
For example, Gu Li is the "sharp" side of her personality. In three years and four "Tiny Times" and the process of constantly running in with Gu Li, Guo Caijie also gradually excavated the confident and strong side of his personality.
This time, Xibao also has a lot in common with herself.When Guo Caijie was 12 years old, her mother died in childbirth, which made her learn to be independent and take care of her family early. "I grew up in a single-parent family, and my family background is similar to that of Xibao. I have a strong sense of economic independence since I was a child." Guo Caijie said so.
Under the gentle and soft appearance, Guo Caijie hides a strong and pragmatic side, and that strong "ambition and ambition" has a strong resonance with Xibao.As she once said, when she was a child, she secretly vowed: "I must be a very successful woman in the future."
From One Page of Taipei and Tiny Times to marching into the mainland and challenging the era dramas Great Expectations and Xibao, we can easily see Guo Caijie’s "ambition" to break through all the way. However, from the real success, she still lacks some chances and the vision of choosing a script.
As it happens, just today, Guo Caijie’s other new play "Beijing is 9 to 5" officially announced that it will be finalized on December 24th.Perhaps, the change is in the "next part".
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