Title: Tao Jie
Director: Xu Anhua
Starring: Ye Dexian / Andy Lau / score: Qin Hailu
2012Release time:
In the beginning, the screenwriter Li Enlin took the story "Sister Tao" written by her own experience to Xu Anhua, hoping that she would make it into a movie, but Xu Anhua was unable to invest in it. Fortunately, Andy Lau made a timely shot and voted. Thirty million people made this movie, and it became a classic. In order to balance the cost, Andy Lau also personally appeared in the battle, saying that even if it loses money, it will only lose my pay. Coupled with the influence of him and Xu Anhua, many big names appeared without pay, such as Sammo Hung , Tsui Hark , Cen Jianxun, Ning Hao and so on.
Some netizens said that they dare not watch: People are terrible when they are old. I don’t want a stroke, no incontinence, or a face age spots , don’t live and take care of yourself, don’t live in a nursing home! Why do people resist so much? It's just because the film explains birth, aging, sickness and death, and it is recommended that the elderly do not watch it.
Basically all the plots of this drama are adapted from the real events in life. For example, there is a movie where Yu Dong, the owner of Bona, was combined by the producer played by Andy Lau and director Sammo Hung and Tsui Hark to deceive him for additional investment. It is true, but it is just a trick for Yu Dong. The person at is not Andy Lau.
There is another scene in the movie where Roger Lee, played by Andy Lau, takes Tao Jie to see his movie premiere.Sister Tao said that she saw a lot of people leaving the stage, and Andy Lau said, because my play was too ugly. This is also true, and the play is called "Heaven's Mouth".
"Sister Tao" focuses the camera on the elderly homes in Hong Kong, and tells the touching story of a pair of masters and servants that is not affectionate but rather affectionate. There is no strong drama conflict in the whole film, and all the details of life like firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are shown.
The performance of the ugly phenomena in the film and television circles in the movie, such as Andy Lau, Tsui Hark, and Sammo Hung three directors and producers acting together to defraud the boss of Yu Dong’s money, as well as the TV station’s visit to the nursing home to condolences, the face immediately changed before and after the shots. Changing to another director may degenerate into a kind of ruthless flogging and thorough criticism, but Xu Anhua only presents them without making too many comments.
People believe that Xu Anhua’s attention to social reality is the integrity she has always maintained since the New Wave era of Hong Kong films, especially when the directors of the same generation are either retiring or transforming into business, she still Adhering to the title of "box office poison" and insisting on his own way, even Marco Muller also said that "Peach Sister" is the swan song of the new wave of Hong Kong movies.
According to the "No Regrets" documentary about "Sister Tao", Sister Tao was originally named Zhong Chuntao and was born in Taishan. She was raised in a Macau family since she was a child. When life was the hardest, I met Roger's grandmother and was taken to Hong Kong to become the little servant of the Li family. At the time, she was only 13 years old. Sixty years have passed, raising the Li family for five generations.
When Xu Anhua photographed sister Tao, it seemed that he was photographing herself. What I said is nothing more than: people have a lifetime, and one thing is slowly managed to the end, why should there be regrets anymore.
What's scarier than death is that no one cares about your life or death. You walk in the world like a lonely ghost, unable to perceive the tenderness and beauty that the world has given.
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