The score of 8.4, a classic of Peisi Chen and Dahong Ni, has become the unavoidable peak of domestic comedies.
In the creation of movie stories, many directors and screenwriters can skillfully grasp the contradictions and conflicts between family members and create classic works. The "Father Trilogy" directed by Ang Lee is a typical example.
Family-themed movies are not the exclusive rights of filmmakers in Taiwan Province Province. On the mainland big screen, there are also many filmmakers who are good at grasping family themes. Peisi Chen is undoubtedly the most representative one.
In 1980s, Peisi Chen and Chen Qiang, the "father-son partner", were loved by many audiences on the mainland comedy screen. And a series of family comedies, such as "Seeing this Family" and "Father and Son", which revolve around the contradiction between father and son, have also become movie memories of an era for fans.
After entering the 1990s, Peisi Chen chose a transformational director. Directed and performed by him, "One Father and One Son Open a Singing Hall" and "Filial Piety Clothes" have also become rare family comedy classics on the big screen in the Mainland. What I want to talk to you today is the family comedy "Filial Piety Clothes" which was born in 1993.
The birth of My Filial Piety Clothes is closely related to the breakthrough of Peisi Chen's self-style.
In his early years, Peisi Chen cooperated with his father, Chen Qiang, and made many films in which father and son laughed and scolded. In the early 1990s, Peisi Chen established "Hainan Comedy Film and Television Co., Ltd." and transformed into a film director. His first feature film was "A Father and Son Open a Singing Hall", focusing on the contradiction between father and son.
After "A Father and a Son Open a Singing Hall", Peisi Chen began to try to get out of the bondage of "father-son family comedy" and seek a breakthrough in story style.
After all, from the family, father and son, two sons opened a shop to the stupid manager, father and son's classic car, the audience watched Chen and his son quarrel and played tricks on each other throughout the 1980 s. For this kind of father-son theme works, the audience is tired of watching and Peisi Chen is tired of acting.
1993, Peisi Chen and Jianfeng Zeng co-directed The Clothing for Filial Piety. Director Jianfeng Zeng intends to let Peisi Chen and Chen Qiang's "father-son partner" join hands again.
However, he gave up the continued cooperation with his father Chen Qiang, and chose to invite Zhao, Wei Zongwan, Dahongni and other powerful factions to play.
Of course, the change of actors is only second. The change of the story form and the core of the film is the breakthrough point of the film "Clothing for Filial Piety".
In this film, Peisi Chen is no longer obsessed with his son's growth and patriarchal resistance. But dig deep into the trivial matters of life and analyze the ideological collision between family members behind China's family. At the same time, we can see the big from the small and feed back the social problems under the big background through family conflicts.
The profound core of the story has made this film "My Filial Piety Clothes" get a high evaluation and become an unavoidable peak of domestic comedies. Above douban, the film also got a high score of 8.4.
Next, let's talk about the story of this high-scoring comedy.
My Clothing for Filial Piety is about a family whose thoughts and work are full of contradictions.
The hero of the story, "Erxiao" (played by Peisi Chen), is a public official of the civil affairs unit, who is mainly responsible for implementing the "cremation policy" in rural areas. The uncle (played by Wei Zongwan) of No.2 Primary School is an old man in charge of white affairs in the village, specializing in various funeral businesses.
With the implementation of the "cremation policy", the career development of the second uncle has encountered a crisis. Moreover, the second primary school and uncle often have positive conflicts because of their respective job responsibilities. The disagreement with my uncle has become a potential threat to the relationship between the two families.
The father of the second little boy died young, and his mother (played by Zhao) has been living with the second young couple. My uncle often secretly goes to his elder sister when the second child is not at home and speaks ill of the second child in front of her sister.
The older generation has a persistent and common concept of burial, which makes mother and uncle stand on the same front. Every time my uncle comes to visit relatives, my second primary school will be scolded by my mother.
Family conflicts are mostly caused by the gossip of people around, and this story "My dutiful son and grandson are waiting" is no exception.
After listening to my uncle's gossip, my mother is worried about being cremated by her son in a hundred years, so she cries every time she thinks about it.
The second wife (played by Li Lina) thinks of her mother-in-law crying from time to time. But out of filial piety, she kept everything in her heart. However, the more depressed the mood, the more intense it is. Under repeated repression, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law gradually fell into crisis.
After a long time, contradictions will always break out, and mother's 73rd birthday has become the fuse of everything.
The old man is very jealous of 73 and 84 years old, and so is his second-year-old mother. On her birthday, her mother was worried that she would not make it through this life, so she cried and made a fuss, forcing her second child to write down a promise and press her handprint to ensure that she would handle the aftermath in accordance with the "burial principle" in the future.
Of course, writing a letter of commitment is only the beginning. Before her birthday, the second mother called her eldest daughter (played by Ding Jiali) and asked her son-in-law (played by Dahongni) to help her buy a coffin. The sincere son-in-law also sent the coffin to his second home on his birthday.
The leader of the second primary school came to the second primary school and found a coffin at home. He was very unhappy.
The leaders advised pupils and public officials not to engage in "feudal superstition", which would have a bad influence if it spread abroad. The second primary school told the leader that all this was to make his mother happy. If her mother really comes to the end of her life in the future, she will still follow the rules.
The conversation between the second child and the leader was eavesdropped by his mother. The sad mother scolded the second child and then told her brother about her pain.
With the intensification of contradictions in the second primary school, my uncle had a bad idea in his heart.
My uncle wants to use his mother to suppress the second child. If the public official who "undertakes cremation business" carries out burial for his mother, then the "cremation promotion work" in the village will naturally be unable to continue.
So, my uncle found a fortune teller to tell the fortune of the second little mother. The fortune teller told the second little mother that she had a disaster this year, and if she wanted to escape this disaster, she had to hold a fake funeral.
The second mother believed the fortune teller's words. And uncle also added fuel to the fire, so that Ernian could "fake the play and do it", so that she could survive the disaster and see the filial piety of the second child.
Thus, a magical and absurd funeral began.
The second mother decided to hold a fake funeral according to the fortune teller's method. In order to test the filial piety of her children, she concealed the truth of "faking her own death" and handed over all the subsequent things to her brother.
The two young couples were very sad at the news of their mother's death. In addition to being sad, the second primary school decided to hand over the mother's affairs to the "Red and White Council" of the civil affairs department, and everything was cremated. These words made the mother who played dead in the coffin very angry.
Hearing her mother's "death", the second little sister also came back. My sister decided to obey her mother's wishes and bury her, but she was opposed by the second child. As a result, the two brothers and sisters fought.
The second primary school wants the leaders of its own civil affairs units to do ideological work for their families at home. But the second little sister has a bad temper and makes a scene with the leaders of the second small unit.
It is said that it is difficult for honest officials to break housework. Faced with the contradiction between the second child and the younger sister, the leaders also chose to ignore it and stop asking questions. After several quarrels, my sister occupied the mountain wind, and finally, under the leadership of my sister, I chose burial.
The unwilling second child said that burial was too expensive and cremation was better. Not to be outdone, my sister also boasted about the situation and wanted to pay for the funeral herself.
The second brother-in-law has a lot of complaints about funeral expenses. However, the character of "being afraid of his wife" made him choose forbearance.
After the funeral was decided, the uncle of the second little boy began to plan the funeral, and the second little boy was forced to participate.
My uncle told the second primary school that burial is not only a tradition, but also a kind of human feelings and a kind of embarrassment. If you give up burial and choose cremation, how can you look up in front of your relatives and friends in the future? My uncle's words stimulated the second primary school, so the second primary school decided that the mother's funeral should be held in a big way and a signboard should be set up.
The second primary school and my uncle went to the "paper-binding workshop" in the county to buy paper-binding, and the owner of the paper-binding shop enthusiastically introduced his products. From refrigerators, color TVs and washing machines to Santana, which is "like the county magistrate", it can be said that there are many kinds and styles.
When the second primary school and my uncle left, the owner of the paper shop did not forget to recommend a paper pistol to the second primary school. The boss told the second child that the road in the grave was not peaceful and bought one for the old man.
The wife of Erxiao worked in a printing factory. When she learned that Erxiao's mother had died, the director of the printing factory also visited. After the visit, the director did not forget to recommend their products to the second primary school.
It turns out that this printing factory not only prints books, but also prints all kinds of counterfeit money. The factory director also promised to Erxiao that they must all be ex-factory prices.
In order to make this fake funeral, the second mother pretended to be dead in the coffin during the day, and at night, with the help of the second uncle, she waited for the guests to leave before eating.
That night, the second mother turned over in the coffin and was heard by several guests. Relatives and friends all say that this is "the heart of the dead is gone" and should be approached by the mage. Moreover, my uncle also found some magicians from the Bangzi Troupe and arranged a ceremony.
During the ceremony, the second primary school saw several wizards pretending, but my uncle said everything was false. Is there really a ghost in this world?
Because of the funeral, the second little uncle made a lot of money from it. For the decency of the funeral, Erxiao and her sister also spent a lot of savings.
Driven by the market economy, interest has become the most concerned issue. Emotional ceremonies such as "weddings, funerals and weddings" are also bound by the interest chain formed by economic factors.
The day before the funeral, the contradiction between the two families broke out completely. Under the economic pressure, my sister and brother-in-law fought. And the second child and his wife also had a fierce quarrel.
On the day of the funeral, the second mother saw the human card of the burial ceremony, which brought great economic pressure to the child and immediately realized her absurdity.
At the end of the film, the director gave a meaningful ending. The funeral procession and the wedding procession met on a narrow road at a crossroads. The farce about the funeral has come to an end, but the farce about the wedding continues.
This film "My Filial Piety Clothes" can be described as a domestic comedy classic.
The film not only shows the triviality and conflict behind China's family through the second family, but also feeds back the social problems under the impact of material trends through an absurd funeral.
The absurd funeral happened because there were a group of absurd people and some absurd ideas behind it. And behind these absurd people and absurd ideas, is there an absurd era hidden?
After My Dress for Filial Piety, Peisi Chen successively filmed temporary dad, Extra Husband, Empress Dowager Cixi's Luck, Three and a Half Heroes and other works.
The quality of these works, compared with My Filial Piety Clothes, is gradually declining. From 65438 to 0998, Peisi Chen's sketch career and film career both met with bottlenecks. The era of comedies belonging to him also came to an end at this time.
1993, filial piety clothing, has also become the highest peak of Peisi Chen's film road.
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