Compared with the movie, the TV series "Farewell My Concubine" is completely in the same heaven and one underground.
The plot is also completely different from the movie version. It tells the story of Yanjing City in the 1930s. Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou have been learning from Peking Opera masters since they were children. Cheng Dieyi is a female actor, while Duan Xiaolou is a female actor. Cheng Dieyi was deeply influenced by the role of Concubine Yu in the play.
He actually fell in love with Duan Xiaolou, who played Xiang Yu, but Duan Xiaolou fell in love with Juxian.
Cheng Dieyi couldn't control his emotions, was sad and jealous, and finally chose to follow the wealthy businessman Yuan Siye and voluntarily became his guest.
One stayed in the mainland, and the other arrived in Xiangjiang. More than ten years later, the two met again in Xiangjiang.
After watching the video tapes of the first and second episodes, Fang Yan frowned and knitted his brows.
The script is the foundation of a drama. The success of the movie "Farewell My Concubine" is inseparable from the genius of screenwriter Lu Wei.
“I’ve finished watching it, what do you think?”
Gong Qie picked up the remote control and pressed the pause button.
Fang Yan said: "The theme is clear and the relationship between the characters is clear, but it just doesn't look good, the drama is not strong, and the story is average..."
"I think this drama is a bit weird." Gong Xie said, "It makes people feel uncomfortable."
Fang Yan asked: "What makes it uncomfortable?"
"It's that the relationship between the characters is too confusing. .”
Gong Yan He severely criticized the same-sex love between Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi, as well as Cheng Dieyi and Yuan Siye, especially the overlapping love triangle between Cheng Dieyi, Duan Xiaolou and Juxian. My three senses were shattered. I have been acting for so long and this is the first time I have seen such an explosion!
“This is actually very consistent with the historical status quo at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.”
Dialect disagrees.
In "Farewell My Concubine", things like Cheng Dieyi being taken advantage of by Master Yuan were commonplace in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
Even warlords will take some roles as "husband-in-law", whether voluntarily or not.
“So that’s it.”
Gong Qi suddenly realized.
Fang Yan smiled and said, "I'm going to adapt this TV series into a novel."
"Huh?"
Gong Cie was shocked and changed this TV series involving same-sex themes into a novel. ?
After analyzing the dialect, the highlight of "Farewell My Concubine" is not only the emotional entanglement between Cheng Dieyi, Duan Xiaolou and Juxian, but more importantly, the story from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China and then to the founding of the People's Republic of China. In this long time span, the intricate intersections of the lives and destinies of the three people.
What’s more, it contains traditional Chinese cultural elements such as opera!
If "Farewell My Concubine" cannot become a representative work of root-seeking literature, what other work can? Who else!
"If you write it, do you have to ask for the consent of 'Li Bihua'?"
Gong Cie reminded, "After all, she wrote the script of this TV series."< br>
“You’re right to remind me!”
Fang Yan said: “We should seek authorization from Li Bihua, or the company that owns this script.”
Then, he called Xiao Zi, stated his purpose straightforwardly, and asked Sanlian Bookstore to help contact Li Bihua.
"Why, you want to write this TV series into a novel?"
"This TV series is quite interesting. After watching it, I suddenly had some inspiration."
"Yes. Well!"
Xiao Zi was happy to help, but he also warned that Li Bihua was not an easy writer to get along with.
Fang Yan asked: "Mr. Xiao has been in contact with her?"
"That's not true, there are just some rumors about her."
Xiao Zi told the truth, and in some people who had come into contact with her In people's eyes, Li Bihua is a manly man among women. She hides scissors in her backpack for self-defense.
And it is mysterious. After "Rouge Button" became a hit, he neither accepted interviews with newspapers nor appeared on TV. Anyway, he could be pushed forward.
Even her photos are rarely seen in the world, and not many people have seen her true face.
I only know that she works as a screenwriter and reporter in the TV department of Hong Kong Radio, and also writes columns and serializes novels in Oriental Daily.
“That’s indeed weird.” Fang Yan couldn’t help but be surprised. He didn’t expect Li Bihua to have such a personality.
“There is also the Oriental Daily, which she exclusively supplies, which is also very problematic.”
Xiao Zi lowered his voice and said that the Oriental Daily and the newspaper behind it Industrial companies have big historical and background issues.
The bosses behind the scenes were the "Ma brothers", one of the four major families at that time. Readers in Xiangjiang liked to call the newspaper "pink newspaper".
“Ouch!”
It’s not like Fang Yan has never seen Hong Kong movies about the four detectives and the four families.
For example, "Inspector Lei Luo of 500 Million", "Three Flags of a Generation of Heroes", "The Lame Man", "O Chronicles of the Triad Files"...
And Ma Brothers, as shown in "The Four Families: Dragon and Tiger Brothers", had a better ending than Lame Hao, escaping unscathed.
"So, someone like her may not agree to let you change "Farewell My Concubine" into a novel."
Xiao Zi said the ugly things first.
Fang Yan said: "I have also considered this. If it doesn't work, I hope to cooperate with Li Bihua."
"Cooperation? What kind of cooperation method?"
" Joint creation.”
"You mean co-writing?!"
Xiao Zi didn't find it strange at all. Co-writing by writers is already rare in the literary world.
For example, in "Dragon Babu", because Jin Yong was on a business trip for a while, he once entrusted Ni Wei to write it. After returning, he discovered that A'Zhu had been filmed by Qiao Feng, but he had already written it to death. , people cannot be resurrected after death, so they can only passively accept this setting.
But he didn’t have a long memory, so he asked Ni Yu to write for him, and wrote Ah Zi as “blind”.
But judging from the whole article, both parts are excellent in terms of design and writing.
In particular, the death of A'Zhu highlights the tragedy of Qiao Feng's struggle with fate, which is in line with the "can't get what you ask for" in "Dragon".
"Yes, while I'm staying in Xiangjiang these two days, I'll come up with a rough outline right away."
Fang Yan said: "When you contact Li Bihua, please forward it to her for me. , I believe that after reading the outline, she will definitely You won’t agree to meet me.”
“When you say that, I’m really looking forward to it.”
Xiao Zi was surprised, “What are you going to do about Farewell My Concubine? 》What will it be adapted into? ”
"Allow me to give it a try." Fang Yan smiled.
"Okay!"
Xiao Zi agreed wholeheartedly, "I will help you with the "Farewell My Concubine" matter."
"Thank you, Mr. Xiao!"
Fang Yan said thank you and hung up the phone.
Gong Qie took out the video tape and cast an inquiring look, "Yanzi, how do you plan to write this outline?"
"Well, let's talk about it tomorrow."
Fang Yan looked at The night view outside the window, "It's rare to come to Xiangjiang" , we must not miss such a beautiful moment."
Gong Jie narrowed his eyes, "Do you have any other bad intentions?"
"Besides greedy for you, I am. What bad intentions can there be?”
Fang Yan may not keep his word to others, but to Gong Zhen, he definitely does what he says.
The lights in the house were turned off, and the sky gradually became dark.
From time to time, one or two stars pierce into the Milky Way, or slip into the darkness. In order to illuminate the white night, Gong Yue only feels that a hundred thousand firecrackers and thousands of fireworks are buried in his body, igniting on his own. From the beginning, it crackled and exploded uncontrollably, and nothing could extinguish it.
The skin, muscles and bones are cracking, giving the sky some turbulence of light and heat, and giving the darkness some flickering explosions. (End of this chapter)