"Singing at Midnight" is Xiao Biqing's next period drama after three years. The director is also Xiao Biqing's old acquaintance and China's top literary film master, Mr. Du Yonghua.
Most of the scenes in the whole film are concentrated on the heroine, and the scenes that can barely count the similes of the male lead are only twenty minutes—and this includes one hand.
After all, Ming Yu couldn't spare too many schedules to shoot this movie, so in early June, the entire crew specially filmed Ming Yu's scene, and waited for the other actors' scenes to be shot later.
A year ago, when Ming Xiaoyu first joined the cast of "An Li", her acting skills really made Director Xu extremely depressed. The average number of NGs has reached four or five times. It was not until halfway through the filming that his acting skills were slowly honed by Director Xu, and when it was finally finished, his acting skills had made a great breakthrough.
I also have to thank Xu Yizong for his whipping guidance a year ago. Now Ming Xiaoyu will come back to film "Singing in the Midnight". Although his acting skills are compared with the three award-winning actresses, veteran movie stars, and veteran actors in the same crew, they are a little worse. It's a big cut, but basically it can satisfy Director Du.
In "Singing at Midnight", Ming Yu plays Ye Yang, the younger brother of the heroine Ye Xiangchan. This is a 17-year-old boy who is handsome and beautiful, but due to being sick in bed all the year round, his skin is pale and his spirit is relatively weak.
The background of the story of this film is placed in the nineteenth century more than two hundred years ago.
At that time, Huaxia was in an important period of changes in the feudal dynasty. Emerging technologies and systems are on the rise, but the ancient and decaying dynasties do not want to give in easily, thus causing a full seventeen years of turmoil.
In the second year of the Seventeen-Year War, Ye Yang's parents died in the war, leaving only a pair of siblings to depend on each other in the war.
No one knows how the twelve-year-old Ye Xiangchan took his seven-year-old younger brother and fled all the way to Shanghai from the front line full of artillery fire, but when they arrived in the so-called city that never sleeps, they were so hungry that they were about to faint.
Probably because he didn't eat well when he was born, Ye Yang was frail and sickly since he was a child, and when he was twelve years old, he couldn't walk independently.
At that time, Shanghai was full of beacon and smoke, and even in the peaceful area, feudal forces and emerging revolutionary forces had infiltrated it, and it was even more difficult for a young couple to survive.
Ye Xiangchan went to work as a handyman during the day, and went to the port to carry goods at night. Later, because of her beautiful face, she was persecuted by gangsters. In order to take care of herself and her younger brother, Ye Xiangchan was cornered and finally persecuted by sluts. She came to the biggest dance hall in Shanghai and started her own singing. Life.
The name Ye Xiangchan is a heroic heroine known to many people in this world.
She came to Shanghai at the age of 13 and spent five bumpy years as a girl. After the age of 18, she became the most well-known popular singer in Shanghai. With her singing voice and beautiful appearance, countless people bowed down to her skirt and volunteered to be her guests.
Ye Xiangchan has only loved one person in her life, but it was only a brief meeting. A revolutionary was ambushed by the enemy and was seriously injured and hid in an alley. She happened to be met by Ye Xiangchan who was returning home from work. .
During those three days, the low-ranking singer hid the young revolutionary in her house, and listened to him tell about the uprising in the south, listen to him tell about the vigorous battlefield; There are many unknown countries. He said that in the hearts of revolutionaries, men and women are equal and love is free.
Three days later, the man left without saying goodbye. He knew that Ye Xiangchan would not be able to leave with him for the sake of his younger brother, so he quietly left. On that day, Ye Xiangchan took the letter left by the other party, but did not burn it as he said.
This is the last memorial that the man gave her.
For the next two years, Ye Xiangchan still took care of her younger brother and sang in the Shanghai Ballroom every day.
Until the revolutionist reappeared.
Many of Ye Xiangchan's guests were dignitaries, so the man asked Ye Xiangchan to help him and be an underground informant of the revolutionary party.
Ye Xiangchan refused at first, but the man asked her, "Are you willing to let this world be unfair forever?"
Since then, Ye Xiangchan has become an underground informant for the revolutionaries. She began to frequently contribute the information she knew to the revolutionaries, until before an extremely important war, Ye Xiangchan's identity was suddenly revealed by a traitor.
The traitor couldn't stand the punishment, so he revealed Ye Xiangchan's identity. And this thin woman, who is regarded as a lowly singer, has endured all the punishments, until the last drop of blood on her body was drained, she was still singing softly—
"Come from the wind and dust, go back to the wind and dust, how many fools are there in the world, how can you be so affectionate. After singing a song, I came to ask each other in music again, Shanghai singing and dancing is not for you, the water in the harbor is not full of your infatuation..."
Ye Xiangchan died, leaving only one unfinished mind.
She has no confidants and friends in her life, and her love has never ended. She has only one younger brother. I wish him a good life and not be dragged down by her. But she didn't know that after her incident was exposed, the letter she kept secret was searched. On the same night, the only brother she cared about was the same as her, who experienced countless punishments in the same way. Finally died in prison.
His fingers were stabbed out of shape, but his already thin body was injected with exciting drugs in order to allow him to be tortured soberly. Not a single piece of intact skin was left.
Before Ye Yang died, he didn't leave anything, but when these people pressed him about Ye Xiangchan, he showed a rare smile.
It is impossible for a seventeen-year-old boy to be ignorant of the world. He is a useless cripple. After living on for so many years, how could he not know what his sister has done? But today, for the first time, he feels that he is not a waste. At least, he can do one last thing for his sister and keep her secret.
The two brothers and sisters of the Ye family, before the revolution was over, became the victims of this long seventeen-year war.
Their short and humble lives were like moths flying into a fire. Although they were buried in the endless fire, they also added fuelwood to the blazing fire.
In the last scene Ming Yu recorded, Ye Yang, with the help of his neighbors, was sneakily leaning on crutches, trying to use his own strength to go to the street to buy an apricot cake for his sister to eat.
Before the death of their parents, both siblings loved to eat apricot cakes, a small piece that melted in your mouth. Over the years, Ye Yang has not dared to ask for any delicious snacks, but this is his sister's birthday. He has saved money for more than a year, just thinking about buying the biggest and most beautiful tin box of apricot cakes in the store .
And on that street, Ye Yang, who was on crutches, saw his sister across the street.
Wearing a bright red cheongsam, she has a graceful figure and attractive lines. The bright red lips and the bright smile made Ye Yang stunned in place. There were countless pedestrians coming and going, but Ye Yang only saw his sister with heavy makeup in his eyes.
Leaning on a cane, he delusionally wanted to keep up with the familiar yet unfamiliar woman regardless of his stump.
Ye Xiangchan walked too fast and disappeared on the street corner, but Ye Yang couldn't keep up, and finally fell to the ground. So in the strange eyes of passers-by, this frail young man crawled across the street corner with both hands, and finally saw the largest poster at the entrance of the ballroom.
On the poster, the sister who said she was a nanny every day and the host was very generous, wearing a beautiful cheongsam, smeared bright red lips, and her eyes were wandering, causing people to reverie. And in the lower right corner of the poster, it says—
"Red Peony".
Ye Yang was in the crowd on the street, lying on the ground in an embarrassment, crying uncontrollably.
The world did not give justice to these two people, but these two people used their lives to make the world more fair.
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After the film was officially completed, after all, he died once in the play, so Ming Xiaoyu accepted all kinds of shocking red envelopes with a smile.
When the evening banquet was over, Xiao Biqing drank too much again, and then she shamelessly hugged other people's little shiitake mushrooms, and said madly: "Mushrooms, let me tell you, this role must be yours... hic... It's so good-looking, you say, other than you, who else is qualified to be my brother..."
While supporting Xiao Biqing, Ming Yu said with tears in his eyes, "Yes, yes, Sister Xiao, this is really my honor."
Xiao Biqing said this, but he was still enthusiastic, and kept saying: "That's it! Let me tell you, I am the big fan of the mushroom circle! I am the leading mushroom! What's the surname Z, the number of fans is even mine. There is no fraction, I am the leading mushroom!"
Ming Xiaoyu: "... ^_^"
Co-authoring, you have lost your horse, and you have lost your confidence.
The more he talked, the more shameless Xiao Biqing started to move. First, he touched Ming Yu's face, pinched it twice, and then the salty pig's hand went down, and it seemed to be hitting his chest!
Suddenly, one hand hurriedly snatched the stunned Ming Yu from the female satyr's hand, and with a slight push with the other hand, Xiao Biqing fell into the arms of her little assistant.
Xi Ze, who arrived in time, turned dark, snorted lightly, and looked at the pitiful little assistant: "Be optimistic about your family... Xiao Biqing of your family, be careful not to be photographed by the paparazzi reporters that shouldn't be photographed."
The assistant nodded immediately.
Next, Mr. Xi, who had already exposed his relationship, put his arms around his own shiitake mushrooms' waist and entered the parking lot. Even though a few paparazzi seemed to have taken pictures along the way, Mr. Xi continued to hug him with a thick skin.
When he got into the car, Ming Xiaoyu asked tentatively, "Vinegar?"
Mr. Xi raised his eyebrows: "The jealousy is sky-high."
Ming Xiaoyu smiled softly: "It's sour, I like to eat sour today."
Hearing this, Xi Ze raised his eyes and glanced at a paparazzi camera not far away, then lowered his head and nibbled on the mouth of his own mushroom, and then before the mushroom was angry, he quickly attacked. Changed the topic: "This month's world supermodel list is out."