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Chapter 65: Farewell My Concubine Wraps Up

On New Year's Day, January 1, 1992, the Tobacco Monopoly Law was officially implemented.

It's like a salt and iron monopoly...

China's first famous film company, Yanjing New Picture Film Company, was established.

It was opened by Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou together - but it ended up being a mess.

At the New Year's Eve party, Xiao Xu and Tao Huimin, who played Lin Daiyu and Xiao Baicai in the film version of Red Mansions, appeared on TV at the same time and talked about issues of love and marriage.

Xiaoxu has also learned to lie with his eyes open~
On this day, the movie "Da Saba", adapted from Xia Tian's original novel, was released.

The male lead is Ge You, the female lead is Xu Fan, and the screenwriter is Feng Kuazi.

……

The crew of "Farewell My Concubine" had a holiday on New Year's Day, and Xia Tian went home to have dinner with Milan, Xiaoxu, Zhang Li and others.

Xiaoxu's cooking skills have improved, and he even made two dishes~
Vegetarian grilled eggplant pig
Roasted cauliflower lamb
Well, at least it looks like that!
……

Just after New Year’s Day, I saw on the "Lianbo" program in the summer that we had begun to shake hands with the "CIS" countries. At that time, it was less than ten days since the Russian bear died.

I also saw on the "Lianbo" that China sent troops to participate in the UN peacekeeping force for the first time and joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

CCTV launched a new military program called "Thirty-Six Strategies from Ancient and Modern Times", and I saw the young director in the summer.

On January 1th, the old American president visited Xiao Rizi in a dishonest way, and then turned into a human fountain at Xiao Rizi's state banquet~
Since it is a state banquet, there will definitely be a Japanese specialty dish - sashimi.

As a result, when Lao Bushi saw the sashimi, he thought of his former comrades~
During World War II, Lao Bushi was still a young pilot. During a mission, his plane and several of his companions were hit by the Japanese army and they parachuted to escape, but only he escaped, and the rest were captured by the Japanese.

When we heard from them again, they had already been killed.

It is said that the death of his comrades was extremely tragic and they were eaten by the Japanese like sashimi - this is why George H.W. Bush suddenly vomited after eating sashimi.

Anyway, it's on international news~
……

At this time, the filming of "Farewell My Concubine" was also reaching its final stage.

The filming of this drama was very exciting, but also very exhausting.

Everyone has put all their energy into this during this period. They feel great but also very tired.

Especially the two male protagonists, Arong and Zunlong, they are simply a little crazy!

Fortunately, most of the scenes have been filmed, and only some finishing and reshoots are left.

Xia Tian deliberately put the last scene, Cheng Dieyi's suicide, at the end, in order to help the two friends get out of the play completely.

Eleven years later in the plot, on a dark stage with a blurred background, a searchlight is chasing Yu Ji and Xiang Yu on the stage.

Duan Xiaolou: "The little nun is only 28 years old!"

Cheng Dieyi: "My master cut off my hair..."

Duan Xiaolou: "I am a man!"

Cheng Dieyi: "She's not a girl..."

Duan Xiaolou: "Wrong, wrong again!"

Cheng Dieyi: "...I am a man, not a woman..." Then he was stunned.

…With a plop, the scene froze at the moment when Duan Xiaolou suddenly turned around, "Dieyi! Xiaodouzi?"

Everyone at the scene looked at Xia Tian, ​​who stood up, raised his megaphone and shouted, "Passed!"

On January 1, "Farewell My Concubine" was completed!

……

Although the film was completed, the crowd cheered at first, but soon fell into chaos.

Arong and Zunlong suddenly collapsed to the ground, holding their heads and crying!

Xia Tian went over and patted A Rong on the shoulder: "Alright, alright, A Rong, A Rong, wake up! Wake up! The scene has been filmed!"

Then he patted Zunlong on the shoulder again: "Brother Zunlong, it's all over."

Deng Jie was directing the crew to clean up the scene and do the final finishing touches while watching Xia Tian comfort the two male leads.

The two of them cried for half an hour until they were so weak that they had to be supported to sit on the chair. Finally, they stopped crying.

But he looked exhausted and as if he had lost his soul.

Everyone else had packed up, and Xia Tian waved his hand: "It's okay, let's go! Let's go to the wrap-up party first!"

In their case, eating a big meal, getting drunk and taking a nap would make them half better. Xia Tian always felt that as a director, one should not only be responsible for the work, but also for the actors.

You filmed a good work but then ruined the actors. That's a beast.

Treat actors as tools, even consumables!

Not to mention that Arong and Zunlong are both his good friends, so he must be careful about any injuries that may come with filming, especially not being able to get out of the scene.

The purpose of filming the last scene and the ending of the movie at the end is to make them subconsciously accept that "the play is over", which has a great impact on their subsequent performance and mental state.

During the filming of "Farewell My Concubine", Arong even changed the way he walked and sat.

During that period, he always sat with his legs tightly together, while his previous habit was to sit with his legs wide apart.

After a summer of subconscious filming, drinking, playing, singing, skating and other "summer therapy", the two had basically recovered in less than a week.

Now Arong has returned to his previous sitting posture, and his behavior is no longer as feminine and operatic.

Zun Long's was simpler, he was saying goodbye to his childhood. Very successful!

During this period, his personality became much more cheerful, and he often took Arong to Maxim's to eat and listen to music.

In the summer, I have to do the post-production work of the movie, such as editing and dubbing, and also prepare for this year's Spring Festival Gala program.

Xia Tian: Actors only need to act, but directors have to consider a lot of things.
……

When filming "Farewell My Concubine", we spent most of the summer living in the newly purchased courtyard house that was used as the filming base.

So, even though I was in Yanjing during this period, Mr. Mi and the others were very greedy for me!
Milan: This is all you can see but no one can eat. Isn’t this bullying an honest person?
Now that it has finally come to an end, Mr. Mi will not be polite anymore!
Didn’t Mr. Mi take out a belly dancing bell before?
As soon as it got dark that night, Xiao Xu started to get jealous: "Wow, you've really made it! The bells have been ringing for most of the day before it even got dark, and you didn't even cry for help?!"

Milan was puzzled: "???" "I just went to change into some underwear that increases attack speed and critical hits!"

So, the two of them looked at Zhang Li, who was lying on the sofa, looking drowsy and as if she had not woken up yet.

Xiao Xu: "Lily, Lily, I really underestimated you!"

"Okay, okay, Lily, you're such a cunning fellow!" Suddenly Milan laughed. She remembered a saying: A dog with a bell runs merrily.
But I can't say it out loud. I'm worried about whether it will lead to Zhang Li's revenge, mainly because I usually carry the bell with me.

Milan: "Lily, I'll teach you how to belly dance~"

Xiao Xu: "Ha, well, he said you have inner beauty!"

Milan: "He also said that the bell increases attack speed!"

Xiao Xu: "What do you mean?"

Milan: "You will understand later!"

Milan: "Hey Lily, are you wearing my two bells with little clips?"

Zhang Li buried her face in her elbows, neither raising her head nor opening her eyes: "I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen, you bastard, you can eat as much as you want, but you won't get anything if you are thin-skinned."
……

During this period, Arong and Zunlong were not in a hurry to leave. China is actually a very good place to heal injuries, and there are no paparazzi following them.

During this period, Xia Tian also talked a lot with A Rong and Zun Long about the post-production issues of "Farewell My Concubine".

Especially about Peking Opera - now they all know that Xia Tian often had verbal battles with Peking Opera veterans in newspapers in his early years.

Xia Tian had good reason to criticize those stubborn old men: "Things that remain unchanged will eventually die. Peking Opera should change a little!"

In the summer at Maxim's restaurant, while playing rock music, I explained to Arong, Zunlong, and Ms. Song:

"What I mean is this: Frenchman Bizet used Spanish flamenco music to compose Carmen; Italian Puccini used the Chinese minor tune Jasmine Flower to compose Turandot; Verdi used classical music to compose La Traviata; and Wagner used modern symphony to compose Die Nibelungen.

The melodies that have been passed down include: Carmen Overture, Nessun Dorma, Drinking Song, Flight of the Valkyrie...

Foreign operas can be so rich and free, while Chinese opera is obsessed with the 'rigidity' of its ancestors. There are only a few dozen tunes, and musicians can play for their entire lives without even using sheet music. And they think it's an honor? This is wrong."

"Beijing Opera is currently solely supported by the government. If this situation doesn't change, it will only slowly die..."

During this period, Xia Tian also sang "Looking into the Window" with A Rong and Zun Long in the recording studio.

"He sang of meeting an old friend in a foreign land, and every word and every step was filled with longing; the people in the audience, whose names were on the imperial examinations, did not recognize their old acquaintances on the stage~"

——I am just an actor, shedding my own tears in other people’s stories.

Xia Tian also used the crew of "Farewell My Concubine" to shoot a song MV - in his early years, in order to commemorate the elder Lao Ma Tou who taught him Peking Opera, he wrote a piece "Chi Ling" and also wrote this song.

This time, the MV of this song was shot.

The dilapidated old theater reopened, and children passed by, but now the old man, his gray hair, was lost in memories of the past...

The Japanese invaders threatened his life, and the actor on stage committed suicide. The last zombie fell...

(End of this chapter)