I have been reading about Yang Dechang recently. Yang Dechang is a director I like very much. He is a famous film master in Taiwan, China. Known as "the scalpel of Taiwanese society" for its profound style.
Of course, profound things generally cannot arouse the interest of melon eaters. Gossip is the joy of ordinary people's life. The "10-year Platonic marriage" between Yang Dechang and Cai Qin is what many melon eaters talk about.
The marriage of Yang Dechang and Cai Qin is described in the general media as follows:
In 1984, Yang Dechang invited Cai Qin to star in his movie "Childhood", and then Yang Dechang fell in love with Cai Qin and pursued Cai Qin crazily.
In 1985, the two got married.
After getting married, Yang Dechang put forward the requirement of platonic marriage, which is the way of " spiritual love ", not talking about carnal desires, but only about feelings. The movie made a lot of contributions.
In 1995, Yang Dechang actually cheated, married Peng Kaili, who was 18 years younger, and gave birth to two children. Yang Dechang said that those years with Peng Kaili were the happiest times in his life, and his marriage to Cai Qin was:
"ten years" Years of marriage, a blank"
This made Cai Qin unacceptable. She said, " I don't think it is a blank, I have all the sacrifices ", Cai Qin later cried in the program " I lost my chance to be a mother " .
Yang Dechang is a scumbag in marriage, treachery and cheating in marriage, which is a moral criticism that can easily be drawn.
I am more curious about some details:
Spiritual love, Platonic marriage, this kind of marriage, in the eyes of ordinary people, is simply a fantasy, it is extremely wonderful, people eat whole grains, and no one has a bit of sensuality.
What kind of people think of this way of life? How could Cai Qin agree to such a nonsense marriage agreement as
?
Yang Dechang is a person
Yang Dechang is a person with a very "complex" life experience. He was born in Shanghai in 1947. Like Wong Kar Wai, he is called "Shanghainese" or "has a Shanghai plot" by many people.
Yang Dechang and his older brother
Yang Dechang's parents were from Meixian County, Guangdong Province, and worked in Shanghai for a long time until they moved to Taiwan in 1949.
In Yang Dechang's films "Guling Street" and "Yiyi", it is always indispensable to let the characters speak a few Shanghai dialects.
Yang Dechang once asked his "father" to speak a Cantonese dialect in the movie "Guling Street":
Those who don't have a spring bag are troublesome.
to the effect that women are troublesome. After
arrived in Taiwan, China, Yang Dechang was influenced by Japanese culture, and especially liked Osamu Tezuka's cartoons and "Astro Boy". In
University, Yang Dechang went to America to study electrical engineering, then studied for a master's degree in computer , and then worked as an electronic engineer, and lived in the United States for 10 years.
Yang Dechang's 10 years in the United States, from the 1970s to the 1980s, happened to be a period when young American people were keen on the hippie movement, and various rebel concepts such as rock, drug doping, and sexual liberation became popular.
That generation is the most fanatical, or even crazy, for the spirit of rebelling against traditional life. Apple's Steve Jobs is one of that generation. Steve Jobs is a famous rebel. Stinking ran to the company, with a fanatical pursuit of the spiritual world, and went to Africa to learn meditation.
From ordinary billiards youth to film literary youth
In Yang Dechang's script for "Hope", he once wrote:
This is the era of hippies, miniskirts, and brother dance.
In the traditional Chinese concept, Platonic marriage is a fantasy and unimaginable, but from Yang Dechang's experience, we can see that he is a person influenced by traditional Chinese culture, but not so deep. The 10 years had a great influence on his conception of marriage.
Yang Dechang is a rebel with the " geek spirit".
Yang Dechang likes literature and art since he was a child. He likes architecture. Electrical engineering, and went to the United States to read a master's degree in computer science.
When he graduated with a master's degree, he received a grant. At that time, he chose to study the Chinese input application of the computer. This research was unprecedented at that time. At that time, his computer's main memory was only 4K, and it could process one word document at most. , and later he went to Seattle to do software design for 7 years and worked on defense encryption engineering. At the age of 30, he felt "old".
He submitted applications for architecture majors at Harvard and MIT, and both received admission notices, but after watching a movie "Alky, God's Wrath", he decided to return to Taiwan, China, to make movies.After
returned to Taiwan, denim and T-shirts were Yang Dechang's daily wear and the classic look of Jobs. They all understand technology and love literature and art.
The parents of the traditional concept have been persuading Yang Dechang to continue working on computers, and he will starve to death when he makes movies. Yang Dechang has been making movies for 10 years, but Yang Dechang is already a "rebel", he said:
No one is starving to make movies. dead. The flip side of the
geek is perfectionism, paranoia, extreme self-confidence, ignoring traditional rules, ignoring other people's feelings, and Yang Dechang is just such a person.
In 1981, Yang Dechang entered the film industry. His first work was to write a screenplay for the movie "Winter of 1905". The starring at that time was the later famous Hong Kong director Tsui Hark . Yang Dechang and Tsui Hark became good friends, and later Yang Dechang went to Hong Kong to write the screenplay for Lin Lingdong 's movie "Yin Yang Wrong". At that time, there were 4 co-writers.
Yang Dechang was fired later, because he " insisted too much on his creative concept ", other screenwriters changed Yang Dechang's part, Yang Dechang would change it back, and then it was changed again, Yang Dechang changed it back, and changed it for half a year, Yang Dechang was fired.
"No one can change my things, except myself."
Tsui Hark said that when Yang Dechang just came back from the United States, everyone was an unknown young man, and Yang Dechang wrote "Hull" on his T-shirt Zog, Bresson, Yang Dechang."
The first two are European film masters.
Yang Dechang filmed "Duckweed"
Later, Yang Dechang directed an episode of "Duckweed" in the unit drama "Eleven Women" for Zhang Aijia . Originally, the upper limit of one episode was one and a half hours. Yang Dechang wrote a thick script, It took two and a half hours to shoot, and no one else could modify it.
Zhang Aijia had an idea and changed it to two episodes up and down.
In 1983, Yang Dechang started shooting " a day at the beach ", still starring Zhang Aijia. At that time, Yang Dechang didn't like the photographer assigned by China Film, and found a photographer who had never shot a movie - Du Kefeng .
Du Kefeng was a master photographer who later formed the "Iron Triangle" with Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Shuping, and won numerous awards, but at that time Du Kefeng had never made a movie, or even lighting, but Yang Dechang liked him.
Later, Zhang Aijia heard Yang Dechang and Du Kefeng arguing on the set. Du Kefeng left with tears in his eyes. Yang Dechang said to call Du Kefeng back.
Zhang Aijia said that in addition to being the starring role, he also wanted to be an "uncle of the mother" - to adjust the relationship between Yang Dechang and Du Kefeng.
"A Day at the Beach" is 3 hours long, which is twice as long as the average movie. When it came to "Guling Street Teenage Murder Incident", it was 4 hours long, and "Yiyi" also had 3 hours. Is
something that ordinary people can do?
4 hours of movies are generally not suitable for movie theaters.
Yang Dechang is so self-willed, I have the final say on how long my movie will be, others can't change it, it's like a paranoid programmer has written a piece of software, and no one else can move every line of code. When
was filming the part of "Hope" in "The Story of Time ", Yang Dechang was going to use the actress in "Duckweed". It felt very good. The film company said that we have new actors to push. .
As a result, Yang Dechang said that if there is her without me, if there is me without her, you can decide.
It is said that one of the ordinary scenes in the movie "Yi Yi" - the male protagonist NJ and his family took a car home and re-shooted three times. The main actor Wu Nianzhen was very puzzled. The second wife changed.
In the filming of the movie "Yi Yi", none of the actors were hired "extras". Yang Dechang felt that the extras were props and suits, and the people in the film must be "real people" in life, so when filming, The entire crew calls friends every day, and calls all relatives and friends. In
's memoirs about Yang Dechang, everyone said that he was extremely confident and never concealed his pride, " felt that his views were superior to other collaborators without hesitation." When
sells his films in Europe, the price is very high. Others think that he is asking for "the sky is the limit", but he thinks that my works are worth so much money.
"No martial arts" is a typical feature of that generation of geeks, not to mention the well-known Steve Jobs, who scolds employees and opens them up when he sees them having the same name as his own, you can ask others to change their names.
"The character is very bad, the product is very good."
How did Cai Qin fall in love with "such" Yang Dechang?
Regarding the love affair between Cai Qin and Yang Dechang, there is one person who has the right to speak and be credible, that is, the female writer Yuan Qiongqiong, she and Cai Qin are good friends, and have interviewed Yang Dechang at the same time. Human love details.
Yuan Qiongqiong once wrote an article to evaluate Yang Dechang: As a director, Yang Dechang is famous for being difficult, selfish, unsympathetic, full of tricks, has the desire to control people, and has the ability to control people.
Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang Dechang
In 1981, because Zhang Aijia planned and filmed the "Eleven Women" series, Yuan Qiongqiong was one of the screenwriters. When I saw Yang Dechang for the first time, I felt that Yang Dechang was thin and ugly with orange peel on his face.
But after the interview, I feel that Yang Dechang has the charm of a director.
"I had a good impression of Yang Dechang when I interviewed him.He had the look of a little boy, unbelievably shy. Speak slowly, humble and quiet. "
However, this good impression was quickly broken, because Yang Dechang "didn't know" Yuan Qiongqiong very soon. At the "A Day at the Beach" test film, Yuan Qiongqiong went to congratulate him on finishing his career, but Yang Dechang did not " Recognize "Yuan Qiongqiong.
" and don't recognize the person? "
Yuan Qiongqiong and Cai Qin are good friends. When they met once, they saw Cai Qin giving money to Yang Dechang. Yuan Qiongqiong asked why they wanted to give money? Cai Qin said that an acquaintance got married, and she gave Yang Dechang a gift. Yuan Qiongqiong asked if your friend got married, wouldn't you participate? Cai Qin Can't tell.
"I don't know that person. "
At that time, Cai Qin and Yang Dechang were not married yet, and were still in love.
In an interview with Yuan Qiongqiong, he asked about Yang Dechang's views on marriage and sexual relations.
Yang Dechang said:
Marriage is a contract, just like any other contract. , there are obligations to abide by, but people are very emotional, this factor is mixed, and sometimes, very tired.
asked him if he believed in love .
Yang Dechang said:
One day, I went to Kenting, Only me, the beach, the sea and the sky, the four. At that time, I really believed that there was simple love between heaven and earth.
Then he said:
But we do not live in that kind of world now.
Whether Yang Dechang believes it or not Love, Cai Qin believes in love, and loves Yang Dechang deeply. When they were in love, Cai Qin had already sang "just like your tenderness", and Yang Dechang had only made two or three little-known movies.
Yang Dechang said that there were no Money, and no one is willing to invest, but every day talking about the dream of the movie.
And Cai Qin injected a lot of "vigor" into Yang Dechang's film career. In front of and behind the scenes, he took Yang Dechang to run variety show announcements to expand his popularity.
Maybe the women of that generation are both talented and dedicated.
On the variety shows in the early years, you can see Cai Qin's happy face, completely a woman living in a happy marriage.
Yuan Qiongqiong once recalled that on the day Cai Qin "forced marriage" to Yang Dechang, when Cai Qin and Yang Dechang were in love, they often sought "love advice" from Yuan Qiongqiong. Yuan Qiongqiong had written several books and was married, and was a consultant to many female friends.
Cai Qin told Yuan Qiongqiong that she couldn't stand it, and had given Yang Dechang an ultimatum. If the man didn't give her a clear position, she would probably leave.
Cai Qin asked Yang Dechang to leave the answer on the answering machine, and then she was scared to death, and when she saw the message from the answering machine, she did not dare to listen. Don't listen to me, don't listen to it.
"He must have come to reject me."
hesitated for a long time, Cai Qin didn't have the courage to listen, and finally wanted the assistant to listen to it, and wanted to wash the recording, hesitated for a long time, and kept muttering, no, if he refused what should I do. If he...then I will...
is so nervous and nervous. After
, Yang Dechang called the movie and told Cai Qin to listen to the answering machine.
Cai Qin mustered up the courage to listen to the answering machine's message, first there was silence, then a long sigh, and finally Yang Dechang's reply:
"What do you call me?"
This is Yang Dechang's answer, placed in Today, it is estimated that many women will be furious. Are you kidding me?
won't let me get down on one knee and hold the ring with both hands, how could I agree?
That night, Cai Qin went to Yang Dechang's house, "In the dark night, Yang Dechang came out to open the door, his tall, thin figure obscured Cai Qin. He wrapped the light blue girl in his arms and closed his house. The red-painted door." After
, the two got married.
After their marriage, Cai Qin and Yang Dechang once participated in the variety show "Night of the Rose" together. The two were like a model couple, and Cai Qin's face was filled with happiness. The host of
once asked: , you are a singer and a director, will the two of you be busy and affect the "production of fruit"?
Cai Qin said: The number of should be just two, and one is not too small.
Yang Dechang said: one for the audience, one for the audience.
When they were married for 4 years, Cai Qin and Yang Dechang were asked again about having a baby on the variety show "Just Tonight".
Cai Qin said:
When getting married, in addition to finding a sustenance for the relationship, it is very important to have children, right?
Yang Dechang said:
still have to be fully prepared.
It was really sweet when it was sweet, but when Yang Dechang died, he summed up his marriage with Cai Qin and said:
Ten years of marriage, a blank.
The media said it was a 10-year Platonic marriage, but a familiar friend said that it was only 8 years. In fact, the first two years of the marriage were pleasant, and the next 8 years were... The world view is different, and on the day he was shocked, he didn't even have the strength to get up."
Yang Dechang once said that his marriage with Peng Kaili was the truly happy few years in his life.
wrote in Cai Qin's open letter in memory of Yang Dechang:
, as a former partner, we were young and struggled together.
As a woman, he gave me more loneliness than sweetness.
Regarding the price of ten years of platonic marriage, Cai Qin once said that I lost an opportunity to be a mother.
How did the ten years of marriage change from the initial embrace to a blank space?
When Cai Qin listened to Yang Dechang's reply, she felt apprehensive and frightened, and her love was so real, so deep, and even a little humble.
I believe that when Yang Dechang embraced Cai Qin late at night, it was by no means for the sake of "blankness".
is a decade of two people, and it is still blank.
If life is just like the first time, what is the autumn wind and sad painting fan. It is easy to change but the old people's hearts, but the old people's hearts are changeable.
When we are young, we have nothing and desperately want to ask the world for something. It will take many, many years before we can be sure: is only the beginning of a loss.
