Chapter 1,284 Your justice is too much like mine when I was young
Jiang Qinghe is actually not that old, but he has a lot of experience. Although he is not born with a boyish spirit like his brother, he has an ancient charm and a bookish spirit about him, which is different from modern scholars and the like.
Of course, what really made Li Yi think that he might give it a try was that his eyes were very smart. They were different from his brother's, who had the same joy, anger, sorrow, and sorrow, but they were the same pair of eyes that made people look at him at a glance.
Eyes that are unforgettable.
"I particularly like your description of Ning Caichen, and of course Xu Xian! I think these two characters are probably the most successful human-male (ghost) love characters ever created," Jiang Qinghe said.
"Oh? Why?" Li Yi was quite curious.
"I have been exposed to these two stories since I was a child. At first glance, they seem to have no sense of existence. They feel more like foils. For Xu Xian, I only remember his incompetence and verbosity, and for Ning Caichen, I only remember his old-fashioned
portrait of a scholar, on the contrary, I was deeply impressed by the two beautiful heroines. Nie Xiaoqian described in the story is cold and charming, and White Snake is uncontrollably beautiful, and their abilities are stronger than the male protagonists in the story.
"In many critical moments, they often have greater autonomy, and they often give more help to men." Jiang Qinghe has obviously studied these two stories.
This is also true. In fact, whether it is "Nie Xiaoqian" in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" or "The Legend of White Snake", people tend to remember Nie Xiaoqian more deeply, or the thousand-year-old snake demon Bai Suzhen, rather than Ning Caichen or "White Snake".
Xu Xian.
"What about now?" Li Yi asked.
"Actually, I haven't read much of the story "Nie Xiaoqian" because in the original work, the ending always felt a bit ridiculous. The ending of Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian in Pu Songling's "Nie Xiaoqian" was perfect.
Ning Caichen took Xiaoqian back to his hometown, and Xiaoqian lived with them. She was popular, could eat food from the underworld, and gave birth to three children.
I actually don't like this ending very much, because humans and ghosts have different paths, and it involves the love between humans and ghosts, and the happy ending always feels like a fairy tale.
I have no feelings for Xu Xian in the past, but looking back now, my childhood impression has been reversed. They are no longer the foils in my childhood impression, but the soul of the whole story. Their persistence in love is in my mind.
It seems to be more than the two female protagonists. We know that the two female protagonists are aliens and have some abilities that exceed ordinary people. However, the two male protagonists are ordinary people. If we put ourselves in their shoes, there are many things that we cannot do.
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Xu Xian insisted on abandoning his family and son after his wife was trapped in Leifeng Pagoda. He also gave up the way of accumulating virtue by treating diseases and saving people, and chose to always accompany Qingdeng. Some comments he read would call him stupid, saying that the merits of treating diseases and saving people in the world are better than those in the temple.
He can read some scriptures that are not painful or itchy all day long, and he can still take care of the children. But who understands the pain in Xu Xian's heart? He did not treat his beautiful and virtuous wife well, but made her suffer because of his own reasons.
, was crushed under the Leifeng Pagoda.
"Ning Caichen, I don't know what the story you adapted is, Director Li, but I think it won't follow the ending of the original version, right?" Jiang Qinghe looked at Li Yi curiously.
Li Yi smiled and handed him a copy of the script for "A Chinese Ghost Story".
"Take a look and tell me how you feel!"
Jiang Qinghe took it and looked at it eagerly.
Of course, Li Yi gave him a literary script, which seemed more intuitive.
When I saw: The scholar hurriedly closed the window, blocked the sun with his body, and while weeping, he urged the female ghost to quickly return to his ashes... After a few considerations, a few glances, a few looks back, then, never again
We met.
Jiang Qinghe's eyes turned red and he burst into tears!
"Okay, okay, okay!" He said three good words in a row.
"Although this Ning Caichen is not as wise as Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio", it gives people a deeper sense of reality, and the ending is really great!"
"Although Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen were rescued by Yan Chixia, they escaped without a lover and finally got married. Although the two people in "Different Paths of Man and Ghost" achieved love, they still had to separate sadly. Ning Caichen
He didn't even get to see Xiaoqian for the last time. After Nie Xiaoqian's reincarnation, Ning Caichen and Yan Chixia continued to drive their horses away to the end of the world. Such a tragic ending is the embodiment of Eastern aesthetics. Fatalism and reincarnation have been in our country for thousands of years.
The culture endures for a long time, and no matter how powerful human intervention is, it cannot withstand the wheel of fate.
As the saying goes, "There is a time in your destiny, you must have it, and there is no time in your destiny, don't force it." Eastern fatalism, which emphasizes optimism and understanding of fate, does not appreciate the Western saying that "fate is in one's own hands." Manpower may be able to change destiny a little, but Jincheng cannot.
The ending is just like in Director Li's earlier "Westward Journey", Sun Wukong traveled through five hundred years and defied the will of heaven several times, but in the end he still had to succumb to fate. Nie Xiaoqian also could not resist her fate. Let Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian
The eternal end of love and the separation at dawn confirm the saying that only the incomplete is beautiful."
Li Yi couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this.
Sure enough, people with a little bit of ink in their belly like to be tortured!
The story "A Chinese Ghost Story" is actually not that famous in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". After all, "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" contains too many love stories between humans and demons, and between humans and ghosts.
Compared with "Nie Xiaoqian", stories such as Ying Ning are more outstanding.
However, after adaptation, the "Nie Xiaoqian" chapter, which was not so eye-catching in the first place, has become a well-known story.
In Li Yi's opinion, the ending is indeed the finishing touch.
After that, it was just a simple audition.
What surprised Li Yi was that although Jiang Qinghe seemed to be incompatible with Ning Caichen, there was no sense of incompatibility when he acted, which surprised him a little.
After several more auditions, Li Yi finally selected Jiang Qinghe to play the role of Ning Caichen.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After the male and female protagonists are selected, the preliminary preparations for "A Chinese Ghost Story" are basically completed.
In fact, filming "A Chinese Ghost Story" was much more troublesome than "A Ghost Story".
Because there are many scenes in it that you need to build yourself.
Conquering the Tao and so on also require Li Yi to set the tone.
No matter what, the team of "A Chinese Ghost Story" has finally been formed.
Although the film has not officially started shooting, Li Yi still organized the first script reading.
Some movies may not require so much trouble, but for a play like "A Chinese Ghost Story", script reading is undoubtedly necessary.
"Come on, let's all talk about our thoughts. Well, you can tell us if you have any questions." Li Yi said with a smile.
The script has been sent to everyone for some time. Sometimes, actors not only need to interpret their own characters, but also need to consider the entire movie, because only by understanding these things can they truly understand the characters.
Chen Wen was the first to raise his hand. He recommended himself to play Yan Chixia because he fell in love with the role when he read the script.
But he was a little confused: "What kind of social background is this? I can't understand it. Also, why do I feel that except for Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen, other characters, including Yan Chixia, feel like they are deliberately pretending
ugly?"
"Hahaha!" Everyone couldn't help laughing.
In fact, this is also what everyone is confused about. There was a makeup party before, and Li Yi specifically requested to look ugly.
Especially the makeup and image design of Yan Chixia and other supporting characters can be said to have completely subverted their perception. They are ugly, and they are all ugly!
No, at this time, another actor who played Xia Hou, Yang Zheng, raised his hand with a smile and said, "Brother Q, my character is actually not ugly!"
"Hahaha!"
There was another burst of laughter. Not to mention, among the characters in the entire film, the only one who did not pretend to be ugly was actually the character Xia Hou.
Of course, in fact, although Yan Chixia is ugly, she at least has a decent personality, while the others are really ugly.
"Let me explain. After reading the script of "A Chinese Ghost Story," what kind of society do you think they live in?" Li Yi asked with a smile.
"This, chaos?"
"Ignorant and worldly?"
Everyone said something and I said something, but they all had the same feeling, that is, it was an extremely dark, depressing and despairing world.
Li Yi nodded: "I did it on purpose, how should I put it? Mainly because I want to use these, through the ugliness of these people, to reflect the ignorant world of living in a chaotic era, and the human form has been distorted with the times.
In my mind, the market in the film is full of butcher-like warriors, arresting people savagely; the ugly fortune teller, and the ugly county magistrate who speaks in dialect
Not only are they ugly, I hope they can form a picture of a suffocating, depressing and disgusting social atmosphere. Everyone is so godless, and they still exude the stench of a dead body.
And why is Xiahou different from others? Because Xiahou, who pursues the false reputation of being the best swordsman in the world, is more humane than others. After all, he has his own clear pursuit, and this pursuit is not as good as the pursuit of those ugly people in the market.
It’s considered very high; I want to use these to show that in that perverted society, ugliness has become the norm, and beauty only exists in the reclusive people who don’t care about the world and those who are bullied everywhere and have their lives taken away by the ugly people in this society.
In the heart of the poor scholar who came to see the joke, isn’t this the greatest tragedy in society?
Therefore, the tree demon who has been cultivating for thousands of years can also high-profilely claim that he is doing justice for heaven and eliminating harm to society; then, Yan Chixia laments that he is a human but does not want to be a human being, and Xiaoqian is a ghost but wants to be a human being; thus, the most touching scene
Only love can appear between humans and ghosts
In fact, there is nothing in this society that can stir people up in the hard disk. Everyone has drifted with the tide, not knowing where their souls are. It is like a pool of stagnant water, and there are no moving stories to tell. So the ups and downs of the story happened naturally.
At the dark edge of society, there is true love and hate and pure personality, finally retaining a mysterious corner of beauty in this world. Because of this, the story of the ghosts in Lanruo Temple in the deep forest will be deeply felt.
It attracted me, even though the story was ups and downs, scary and disturbing.
Everyone pursues beauty and security in their souls. When they cannot have both, what will you choose?"
When everyone heard this, some were confused and some were thoughtful.
"Ask me, what kind of person do you think Yan Chixia is?" Li Yi asked with a smile.
"He, I think, he has a bit of an angry youth personality!" Chen Wen pondered for a moment and said.
"An angry youth personality?" Everyone was a little confused.
"Yes, to be precise, he is full of justice, full of chivalry, and loves to fight against injustice. However, there are too many injustices in the world, and there are endless things to deal with, so much so that he has to escape from the world and live in seclusion in the mountains and forests.
The original meaning of a chivalrous person is a person or behavior that relies on one's own strength to help the bullied. In the development process of China's extensive and profound chivalrous culture that has lasted for two thousand years, it has added the following elements: robbing the rich and giving to the poor, punishing the strong and helping the weak, acting bravely when seeing justice, and sacrificing oneself to help others.
and other various forms of expression, as well as spiritual connotations such as loyalty, integrity, bravery and fearlessness, and not asking for anything in return, and derived a group of people who make this a career, called knights.
Li Bai, a more famous chivalrous man in history, claimed to be "a white horse with a frosty sword, capable of killing people thousands of miles away." At least we believe that chivalry is a kind of heroic spirit, which exists in Li Bai's poems and can not be seen but felt.
In our story, Yan Chixia, with her belief in justice and passion, takes it as her own duty to restore justice and safeguard kindness, whether it is against corrupt officials, friends, evil forces, or ordinary people, she can distinguish right from wrong and punish ordinary people.
Encouraging evil and promoting good has become the protector of people like Ning Caichen who also believe in justice and kindness. It has also become an invisible supervisor that deters the government from avoiding or mitigating corruption. It also attacks the evil forces that the government cannot control and forces them to restrain themselves.
The antagonist of evil deeds.
The reason why I like this character is because I think Yan Chixia is the most unique in the entire film. He is the defender of human morality, but he is the hero Yan Chi who is neither accepted by the government nor the demons.
Xia.
In my opinion, Ning Caichen's appearance only led to the phenomenon of the weak being bullied, and it was Yan Chixia who solved this problem.
Ning Caichen only has kindness. In the words of the story, he has "love", and his love comes from himself. If he didn't have love with Xiaoqian, would he care about saving people and fires that have nothing to do with him?
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No, he was just trying desperately to help his own people get out of trouble. Without Yan Chixia's guidance, not even Xiaoqian could have been saved.
Yan Chixia, on the other hand, kept saying that she would no longer care about Jianghu affairs, but her strong sense of mission made her stay away from anyone in need of help. She kept saying that she didn't care about Ning Caichen, but she not only saved Ning Caichen's life again and again, but also saved Ning Caichen's life time and again.
Moreover, he further rescued Xiaoqian and others, and tried his best to attack the thousand-year-old tree demon, one of the evil forces, and completely eradicated the old black mountain demon. If Ning Caichen did it for his love, all Yan Chixia's efforts were in vain.
My own interests have nothing to do with it, all I have is to calm my heart that beats violently due to chivalry and injustice.
My favorite hero is Yan Chixia. I like the words when he hugged Ning Caichen and cried bitterly, "Your justice is so much like me when I was young, and I was so moved." He is grateful to others just because others have spared themselves.
