There are good romance films in domestic movies.
Unlike now, there are no sugar tablets, only endless emotional value, either exporting dog blood or providing masochism. I have forgotten how the genre told the story.
Everyone scolds Feng Xiaogang, but he doesn't know that Feng Xiaogang's text is excellent. Of course, this is the former Feng Xiaogang, who is far better than the if you are the one trilogy, which is a copycat of the former.
After the hit of if you are the one, Feng Xiaogang seems to have suddenly learned something about commercial films.
You can make money by patting yourself casually, so why bother with the box office failure of "1942"? Feng Xiaogang has strengthened this determination even more.
The "if you are the one" series has become that the rich are idle and bored to fall in love and do a ritual to relieve themselves. "Private customization" is the rich who specialize in teasing the poor.
Without the meticulous craftsmanship of "do not break up" and "Party An and Party B", there is only opportunism, so Feng Xiaogang's Feng comedy has declined year by year since "non-1" until "non-3" let his mask be completely torn off.
The structure of sketch + crosstalk series is still there, but now we can only see a frame, keeping up with fashion will only make a false move, without practical things, where there will be a "good" core.
"if you are the one" is the low-end version of "do not go away".
However, because he can not reach the upper class, the foundation is still low taste, "if you are the one" can see, but compared with "do not go away", the three values are too incorrect.
The smile played by Shu Qi is the current situation of Douban female Wenqing.
I want you to pay, but I can give selectively, or even not. If you cross the line, you are irresponsible.
Qin Fen, played by Ge You, is a gentle mask and speaks appropriately on the surface, but in fact, he is full of male thieves and female prostitutes, and the key is that they are also cited by various circumstantial evidence to prove that their values are correct.
The attitude of seeing the world is the way of making movies. Since then, Feng Xiaogang has changed.
"if you are the one 2" with Wang Shuo, also failed to reproduce "Party An and Party B."
Wang's connotation disappeared, Feng's humor disappeared, more like Wang Shuo, Feng Xiaogang a perfunctory, all elements, but failed each item, like a hodgepodge cobbled together.
Used to talk about feelings, now only business, finally bite a few words, chew a few words, obviously have been talking about that thing in the crotch, but pretend to be dignified.
As for "if you are the one 3", it is a dog's tail and a mink.
Not to mention catching up with "if you are the one" is not even suitable for the first two shoes of "if you are the one". The "if you are the one" series is not so much a movie as an advertisement, which is also one of Feng Xiaogang's characteristics.
There is no such thing as "if you are the one" or "if you are the one".
There are parodies of grand narration and mainstream discourse in "do not break up", such as Ge You's prude, which is often recorded in several quotations.
Although it is a joke, it is just right, unlike now, Mandarin is full of wisdom in Mandarin within the scope of the examination, which looks very boring.
"Don't go away" is a hot film, which is one of Feng Xiaogang's characteristics.
Can always follow the crowd, shoot the public like to see, the background of the film is in the late 1990s, when going abroad is hot, "do not break up" put the story to the United States.
But Feng Xiaogang photographed the United States and did not blindly beautify it. As people described at that time, the lighthouse was full of gold. He went to live in a mansion and became a master immediately.
Instead, it shows the true side of the United States. Los Angeles, a big city, is also dirty and messy, and its law and order is not as good as that in China.
When Chinese people come to the United States, they are not so-called landing and making a fortune.
Many people are doing the work of washing the floor and cleaning glass, and they may not be able to get a green card for more than a decade, catering to the trend but going against the trend, which sublimates the idea of "never breaking up" to more than one level.
Another look at the "if you are the one" series, has already erased the pride of that year, turned to everything is beautiful, to create a pink bubble, the audience looks relaxed, but compared with the previous Feng Xiaogang, seems to copy their own carelessness.
In terms of script, "do not break up" is also pretty good.
It is composed of five chapters: making a movie, running a travel agency, opening classes, 1.0 and 2.0, which are integrated into the theory of learning and fun.
The collocation of Ge You and Xu Fan is the laughter and amusement in crosstalk, happy first, followed by a basket of bad luck, between joys and sorrows, true feelings are revealed, Feng Xiaogang plays quite silky, without any sense of fragmentation.
But now he has obviously become a blunt patchwork, and the fluency that he has seen in one breath has long disappeared. He knows that he repeats the surface of the past, refuses to study why he succeeded in the past, and it is only a matter of time before he is forgotten.
In a four-character movie, "never break up" is as good as "endless".
"endless" is still the model of Feng's comedy, in addition to the inherent elements, there is also bad taste.
For example, the ethical jokes aimed at the next three roads can move people's hearts, and Feng Xiaogang's precise control of telling a good story makes a simple farce interesting and affectionate.
Akira Kurosawa once said that a good film must be interesting and easy to understand. Obviously, Feng Xiaogang knows this very well.
The plot of "endless" is not complicated at all.
Fu Biao owed GE you 98000 of the charter money and begged for nothing many times. Ge You had no choice but to force Fu Biao to submit with Wu Qianlian.
Under the error, the two men joined forces. Wu Qianlian wanted to test whether Fu Biao really loved her. Ge You wanted to get back her own money, making a series of endless jokes.
This time, Feng Xiaogang used all the talking, learning and singing.
Ge You's poverty is a burden in a few words. Ge You's learning, the dilemma of whether or not to do it, and Wu Qianlian's calm contrast, "laughing fruit" highlights the character's character.
Fu Biao's teasing, eight thousand Louis XIII, full-service door-to-door massage, warm-hearted mental hospital, ring after ring of pua, the joy of friends, Fu Biao's madness, the laughter of the audience, the trinity.
Fu Biao's singing, Allegro in hand, complacent, although teeth and claws, stingy, but essentially not bad.
If only this, "endless" is at best a good comedy, not up to the standard of a good story.
But with Ge You sister this layer of relationship, the story sublimated, Ge You honest, why dare to do illegal things?
Because his sister has become a vegetable, he has to ask for money to treat his sister, so that the family will not break up. He loves money, which is his sister's life, and he still loves his sister inside.
The plot is not abrupt.
From Ge You mustering the courage to ask Fu Biao for money to him taking Wu Qianlian to the ward to see his sister, Ge You's motivation came from her sister lying in the hospital.
All the storylines are also developed around this point, which is equivalent to a suspense story. Feng Xiaogang arrived in the second half of the movie to reveal the truth.
Until Fu Biao called the police, Ge You turned himself in, and love was added to the family affection. Wu Qianlian gradually saw his truth and sincerity in her relationship with Ge You, and Ge You also got a good day.
Many people criticized that the end of the film should be when Ge You's car was towed away at the airport, forming a closed loop with the beginning, rather than a year later, when her sister got better and Wu Qianlian returned home.
But in this way, only anger and sorrow, no joy, this is contrary to the hope of the millennium, with this pandering type of reunion, joys and sorrows, endless, this is all.
This is also one of the reasons why Feng Xiaogang's early films were sought after by the common people. Tonality is always positive and not so miserable, and there is also this reason for the failure of 1942.
"Mobile phone" is another style of Feng Xiaogang, which favors serious movies.
No more fragmented stories, but complete presentations, with some dark humor, as well as cynical irony of reality, such as strictly guarding one, Fei Mo on the surface of five people six, secretly hook up with three.
This contrast is the main theme of Feng Xiaogang's serious movies, why it is so different from his Feng comedies, because the person who endorses Feng Xiaogang has changed from Wang Shuo to Liu Zhenyun.
So it can be said that Feng Xiaogang made three films in his life, "Party An and Party B", "do not break up" and "Mobile phone", and the rest of the films are imitations of them.
In addition, after Ge You and Feng Xiaogang were bound, the serious and funny image was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
It's hard to go back to the seriousness of "alive". Comedy has become a label he can't tear off, and people don't remember that he was the actor of Cannes.