Everyone is naturally familiar with the story of "Man in New York", but Chen Qi just wanted to hold a meeting to tell it again.
He came up and marked the key point, saying: "My father's setting is the executive chef of the Shanghai Peace Hotel. There is no past in the story, no persecuted during the turmoil, and then reborn, these are not important."
The opening sets the tone.
Because according to the routine of domestic scar movies, this part needs to be written in a big way.
"He was just old and had a sense of taste failure and retired to the second line as a consultant. His wife died early, with a son and a daughter. His son was very talented in cooking and was trained as a successor.
As a result, his daughter fell into the water once, and his son drowned to save her. The father knew that this should not be blamed on his daughter, but he felt depressed, and he didn't know how to express it and how to get along with his daughter normally, so he had to remain silent.
After her brother died, the heroine initially wanted to please her father and actively cook. She was also very talented in cooking, but her father forbidden her from entering the kitchen. The heroine thought that her father was blaming her and even hating her, so she began to remain silent.
This is a very twisted but easy-to-understand father-daughter relationship.
They have no relatives in Shanghai, and they have an aunt, the mother's sister.
When my aunt was young, she followed a man to Hong Kong, and then passed on to the British, French, and American, and got married four times."
"Hey, I almost got together Wu Chang?" Zhang Junzhao said.
"Oh yes! I wrote it according to Wuchang!"
Chen Qi smiled, and there was a chuckle below. He continued: "My aunt is a Shanghai succubus, with a clever method, and the Americans are devoted to it. She often sends back some foreign exchange, and after the reform and opening up, she sponsors the heroine to go abroad.
The heroine wanted to escape from the suffocating family environment, so she agreed.
My aunt arranged for her to go to school, met her husband, then graduated, got married, and had children. Both of them worked in medical work and lived a good life.
At the beginning, we Chinese were cheap laborers in the United States. Do you know how to build railways? There were countless white bones of Chinese workers buried under the railroad tracks in the United States. Later, there was an anti-Chinese bill, which prohibited naturalization. Chinese in the United States could only live in Chinatown, working as low-end service industries such as tailoring, restaurants, washing clothes, and haircuts.
During World War II, China-US alliance formed, and later the civil rights movement emerged... The social status of Chinese people has improved in the past decade, and some people have begun to engage in high-end professions such as doctors, finance, and technology.
My aunt's American business was not going well and went bankrupt, so she often came to the heroine's house to play Qiufeng. My aunt's personality is like this: When I have money, I will treat you well, and when I have no money, I can eat and drink you without any psychological burden.
I came to visit the set, and everyone praised Sister Pepe for her performance. I saw this during the day and I had to watch every show in the future."
"Hey, there's one more tomorrow!" Zhang Yi said with a smile.
"Oh, you've put too much pressure on me!" Zheng Peipei shouted.
"Sister Pepe, you can do it!" Gong Xue smiled.
"Show mercy, don't scratch my face." Wang Bozhao also supported him.
Everyone laughed again, Chen Qidong told them a play like a chat, and then said, "The above is all background. Our story begins with the father's illness. The heroine who has not returned for several years returns home. She suddenly realizes that her father is old and wants to take him to the United States to take care of him.
The father was a little hesitant, but he agreed. He actually missed his daughter very much.
The heroine's husband is a standard Westernized second-generation immigrant. He did not understand why the heroine tolerate her aunt everywhere, nor did he understand why she brought her father, so the two had a conflict.
My father was a new arrival and was unfamiliar with the place and liked to walk around, which caused a lot of jokes and trouble.
But remember! These are just adjustment products for the whole film, not the core elements. What we want to express is not how yearning for tall buildings, modern technology, and developed material conditions after a Chinese came to the United States."
Chen Qi knocked on the table and emphasized this.
"The heroine feels guilty of being injustice. She pleases her husband, takes care of her father, looks at her children, and works, and is exhausted.
And she regretted taking her father, one was to disturb her original life, and the other was to have a knot.
When the father got into trouble again, the heroine couldn't stand it, so her husband discussed with him to send him back to the country or to a nursing home. Unexpectedly, when his father heard the conversation, he ran away from home in a heartbreaking manner.
So there is a plot of a Chinese restaurant.
After retrieving her father, the heroine gradually realized her feelings for her father and was unwilling to mention the nursing home. Later, she discovered that her husband cheated on her.
She wanted to get a divorce, but she didn't dare because she was pregnant again.
Her income is not as high as her husband, and she has to sue her if she divorces. She can’t imagine how she lives in the United States after the divorce?
But the husband became more and more excessive. During an argument, the heroine couldn't help but shake out the cheating incident. The husband was so angry that he attacked her and fell into a coma. The role of his aunt was reflected, and it was aggressive!
Tick ​​him when you go up!
In a mess, the heroine was sent to the hospital.
When she woke up in the hospital, she found that her father had taken care of her for a night, the two were still so silent and didn't know how to communicate.
The father said stumblingly: ‘If you want to give birth, you will give birth, and if you don’t want to give birth, you will get rid of it. New York allows abortion. If you want to get divorced, you will get divorced. I am still useful in the United States at the age of my hand, which means I can still make money. The dishes I cook are very popular with Americans.
I raise you, just like when I was a kid…’
The heroine cried!
The last scene was the Spring Festival, and she finally got to cook. Her father, Aunt Lu, Aunt, and her cousin spent the New Year together."
Chen Qi followed the story and said, "So what do we focus on in this drama? On the surface, it is immigration, but in fact it is father-daughter relationship and spiritual redemption, and it also contains the traditional Chinese family concepts.
That’s the question, do you think Americans can understand it?”
He asked.
"Of course I can understand it, there is no incomprehensible cultural barrier. Western movies also like to show the relationship between father and son. "The Golden Pond" starring Jane Fangda and her father is about father and daughter, and people say it."
"I think Westerners like several elements very much: religion, medieval court struggles, and Hamlet-style father-son relationship."
"Yes! They like to discuss the father-son relationship and are obsessed with resisting patriarchy!"
"Isn't that Nezha? He cuts his flesh and returns his mother to his bones to his father?"
"So it is said that human natures in the East and the West are common!"
Listening to their talkative discussions, Chen Qi was quite pleased and did not send them to study in vain. If the movie wants to enter the international community, the first thing is to disgrace Western culture.
"It's right! Americans can definitely understand it, because they used to be like this..."
Chen Qi said: "There is no country in the world that does not advocate family harmony and warm family affection. The United States has developed its current trend of thought after a series of social changes. After Reagan came to power, conservatism revived, and everyone missed this traditional family warmth.
I also have a movie called "Rain Man" this year, which is also a similar theme.
It is very simple for us to shoot this one, we must win the Oscars and make a fortune with this trend of thought! Don’t think it is utilitarian. If you want to win the award, you must understand the current ideological trend.
By the way! Add some of our own private goods, such as orthodox Chinese and American Chinese, such as the Chinese view of family affection and the American view of family affection today, such as American women who also have to be named husband... These are poked with American ribs, but they will not cause any big fight.
So do you understand now?
Why do you want to film "Man in New York"!"
Chen Qi knocked on the table.
Leng Knowledge: In the 1970s, states in the United States gradually abolished the law of mandatory husband's surname - yes, it was forced before. And it was difficult to implement it. By the 1990s, nearly 90% of women still had husband's surname.
After he sorted it out, everyone really felt that it was different.
Chapter completed!