"Purple Butterfly" has always attracted a lot of attention due to Zhang Ziyi's joining. When the crew went to the suburbs of Shenyang to start the film before, they didn't hold any start-up press conference, but Zhang Ziyi accepted an exclusive interview with a certain media in Beijing the day before, and then it was reprinted in all major entertainment sections on the Internet.

Zhang Ziyi first briefly introduced the role she played in this movie, and then revealed that He Xin and Japanese actor Hiroshi Nakamura also joined the movie, but chose to hide it from another actor in the movie who had emotional entanglements with her, just saying that this is a famous actor in China, which the director has not really confirmed with him, and it is inconvenient to disclose his name for the time being.

When He Xin saw this report, he saw a strong smell of propaganda. Teacher Feng Yuanzheng actually decided early on that the reason for leaving a suspense was nothing more than to create a gimmick and increase the topic.

Just as the bearded Zhang Jizhong said in an interview not long ago, at present, "Tianlong Babu" only contacts Hu Jun as an actor, and is ready to let him play the role of Xiao Feng, as for the speculation in the media, Zhang Ziyi is invited to play A Zi, Zhong Liti to play Mrs. Ma, Jin Xishan to play Wang Yuyan, and Lu Yi to play Duan Yu This statement is all unreliable, the only thing that can be determined is that Zhao Wei will not act, and everyone else is still in contact.

All the most popular Zhang Ziyi, Jin Xishan, Lu Yi and others were all clicked at once, which is called forcibly touching porcelain.

It's all a routine. The same is true of Zhang Ziyi's interview, who called Mr. Feng Yuanzheng during this time because of the drama "Don't Talk to Strangers", which is very popular!

Sure enough, as soon as this report came out, the media had all kinds of speculations, some guessed Jiang Wen, some guessed Chen Daoming, some guessed Wang Zhiwen, and even guessed that it was Ge You. Think about it, if Ge You and Zhang Ziyi have emotional entanglements in the play, it really has the flavor of "The History of the Disappearance of Romantic".

When the crew finished filming the scene in the suburbs of Shenyang, Zhang Ziyi stayed in the capital temporarily because of other activities, and Teacher Feng Yuanzheng had not yet joined the group.

is popular, as long as the actor is popular, this schedule is generally tight. is not like He Xin, as long as there is no filming, there is nothing to do.

The Japanese actor Hiroshi Nakamura returned to Shanghai with the crew. When the crew had dinner the day before, He Xin met with him, with a very typical Japanese face, very handsome and polite.

It is said that the reason why Lou Ye chose him to play the role of Itami is that on the one hand, he can speak some simple Chinese, but also because he has starred in several popular Hong Kong movies before, and mainland audiences are familiar with his face.

Nakamura Heng was very serious, and during this time in Shanghai, he locked himself in his room almost every day to learn pronunciation and lines with his Chinese teacher, because Lou Ye required him to speak Chinese lines very fluently when filming, and a Japanese spy lurking in China should first be a China expert.

At the turn of the century, it may be due to the fact that Hong Kong filmmakers realized that Hong Kong films were about to decline, and in order to open up the Japanese market, the faces of Japanese actors appeared in many big productions, and this Nakamura Heng was one of them.

There are also Takako Tokiwa, who starred in "Star and Moon Fairy Tale" with his brother Leslie Cheung, Hikaru Ishida in "Love Destiny" with Andy Lau, and Norika Fujiwara, who is very amazing in "Thunder Police", etc.

However, these movies are also short-lived, and they still can't stop the decline of Hong Kong films, and then after the mainland relaxes the restrictions on co-production in the second half of 2002, Hong Kong films will start the operation of Hong Kong directors + Hong Kong male protagonists + mainland vases + Hong Kong production teams.

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Situ is an employee of a foreign bank, and he is a senior executive and gold collar of the company's Fortune 500 companies in the Lujiazui financial circle. Recently, he just talked about a girlfriend he liked, and he was proud of his love and career.

That's right, Lou Ye asked him to perform the feeling of pride in the spring breeze.

Before the start of filming, the first thing He Xin had to do was psychological construction, walking around the room, closing his eyes and silently reciting: "I am the most handsome, I am the most handsome......"

I put on and took off the suit on my body, and I repeatedly searched for the state of the people of that era. People of that era should be subtle, and their expressions and movements should not be exaggerated, otherwise they will look greasy.

Subtle, or sincere, yes, that's what it should feel like. He Xin paced and thought about it, and took off the woolen suit he had just put on.

One more thing to say here, the most criticized domestic film and television dramas in later generations are the service of the Tao, especially the film and television dramas with ancient costume films and modern themes.

Costume films are not mentioned for the time being, the kind of costumes that do not conform to the characteristics of the dynasty are the category of experts, and ordinary audiences still don't understand it.

But in modern times, it is different, the kind of slim-fitting suits, all kinds of structured shirts, trousers, and jackets, dresses and so on with very modern characteristics.

In his previous life, whenever He Xin saw this kind of thing on TV, the first feeling was that people before liberation were really rich and wore better clothes than today, and the other feeling was that there were such clothes in that era?

You must know that the wide suit was still popular in the eighties and nineties, and this kind of various styles of clothes that became popular after two thousand years can't be crossed to the pre-liberation period, right?

The behind-the-scenes team of the "Purple Butterfly" crew did not invite any big names from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and all of them were the production team of Shanghai Film Studio. And this group of behind-the-scenes teams who are generally over the age of thirty or forty are basically locals, they have a kind of pride in their hometown, and they have a clear understanding of the ten-mile foreign field in the twenties and thirties.

For example, the clothes He Xin is wearing now, the shirt is soft, and the pants are not as straight as the seams, and they are also wilted. This is because the materials of clothes in that era were only cotton, wool, linen, and silk. The kind of synthetic textiles made of chemical fibers extracted from petroleum and so on, which made very crisp clothes, did not become popular until the 50s, and the kind of good shirts that were once sought after in China were also after the 60s.

In the twenties and thirties, including before liberation, it was this kind of soft and unfashionable clothes. He Xin watched "Spring in a Small Town" directed by Fei Mo before the liberation of China Opera Small Theater, and the suits worn by the characters in it were similar to those he was wearing now.

Just like what He Xin saw in the costume room, the cheongsam specially made by the crew for Zhang Ziyi is a conservative style with slits that open up to the upper calf at most and have two buttons.

As for the kind of cheongsam that appeared in later film and television dramas, which longed to open to the crotch and could expose the entire thigh, it was specially worn by dancers in the decadent capitalist society in Hong Kong in the fifties and sixties.

When He Xin walked around the room to do psychological construction, the behind-the-scenes staff who had already prepared for photography, lighting, radio, and field work were all present, and they all seemed to be used to it, and the expressions on their faces were not shocked, and there was no impatience at all.

"Sting!", the walkie-talkie in the hand of the on-site executive director rang, and Lou Ye's unhurried voice came from inside: "Almost, right?"

The executive director looked at He Xin.

He Xin took a deep breath and nodded at him.

"That's it, Director. The executive director said into the intercom.

Then I heard Lou Ye say: "Well, let's start then." ”

There is no such thing as "Action" now, and the shooting is already underway.

At the beginning, He Xin was very unaccustomed to this way of shooting. I remember the first time I filmed, Lou Ye also said on the walkie-talkie, "Let's start." Then he waited, waited for a while, didn't hear anyone shouting "Action", and couldn't help but turn around and ask photographer Wang Yu: "Can you start?"

As a result, Wang Yu looked confused and said, "I'm shooting!"

At this time, He Xin found that the indicator light on the camera on Wang Yu's shoulder was on.

And during the filming process, Lou Ye rarely interrupted the actors' performances, stammered when he spoke, and fell when he walked, even if he suddenly forgot the words and was embarrassed for a second or two, he allowed it. In short, as long as you're performing, he won't shout to stop.

And then you'll be on the intercom and say, "Good, very good, can you do it again?"

So this kind of repetition is often a dozen times, or even more than two dozen times.

Slowly He Xin got Lou Ye's intentions, he always wanted the most authentic side of the actor, it didn't matter what lines or script, he would block out all the details, and refused He Xin's proposal to go to the monitor to watch the replay, just said: "You think you are right, that is the best." ”

This will have two consequences, one is to repeat the same scene, He Xin sometimes feels very irritable, and he plays worse than he does over and over again. And sometimes it's very exciting, if you have seven or eight ways to act, you can show it to your heart's content.

And in this process, He Xin suddenly found that he didn't know when he began to learn to use skills to act, and the kind of wholehearted devotion when he filmed "Bicycle" and "Lan Yu", and the sense of substitution was gradually disappearing.

And what Lou Ye wants is precisely the most realistic performance you can show when you put aside all your skills. Many times, He Xin's improvisational performance or subconscious performance during the performance process often wins praise from the director.

So he has to do psychological construction for himself before every time he starts filming, so that he can try to substitute himself into the role as much as possible. And he also found that since he learned to use skills to act, the difficulty of substituting himself into the emotions of the characters is being magnified little by little.

This is probably the so-called performance has begun to become oily and patterned. This was the case with the Houston actress who allegedly grew up on the set.

This made him wary.

Why do you feel irritated in the repetition over and over again, and you will be worse than the performance over and over again? It is because I have not really substituted into the emotions of the characters, and the purity and persistence that I had just started to do is being lost.

He has to get that purity and persistence back, well, this "Purple Butterfly" is a great opportunity.

As Lou Ye said on the intercom: "Then let's start." ”

He Xin turned around and faced the mirror in the bathroom, he turned on the faucet and splashed some water on his face first, and then looked at himself in the mirror, neatly trimmed his hair, because his hair was not long enough, he temporarily brought a hair cover at this time. But I don't see it at all.

In the play, Situ is looking at himself, and at this time He Xin is looking at himself and his eyes.

Fortunately, my eyes are still clear, and I haven't had time to be polluted by those messy things, which have become complicated, cloudy and unpredictable.

His heart suddenly relaxed, and the two eyebrows that had been neatly trimmed by the makeup artist were slightly raised, and there was a smile in his clear eyes, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up.

His mood became excited again, he turned on the faucet again, lowered his head to wash his face, and couldn't help but blow a whistle in his mouth.

These are all his improvisations.

There are no lines in this scene, and there is only one sentence in the script, Situ washed his face, dressed, opened the window, looked at the busy street outside, and lit a cigarette......

Wang Yu carried the camera and kept shooting at his back, and saw him wash his face in the mirror, take off the towel from the shelf next to him, and carefully dry the water on his face.

Then he leaned in front of the mirror again, wiped the corner of his left eye with a towel, it seemed that there was a piece of eye feces that had not been wiped clean, and then looked carefully in the mirror, and then he propped up his body, and a slight smile appeared on his face.

The smile was still clean, and with a little shyness, he was satisfied with his current state and nodded slightly to himself in the mirror.

Then, he turned around and walked back to the living room, which was not large, seven or eight square meters, and could only fit a square table and four chairs, he took the woolen suit that was on the back of the chair, turned back to the mirror in the bathroom and put it on, and carefully adjusted his collar.

He couldn't help frowning, walked over again, turned on the faucet, slapped some water into the palm of his hand, carefully wiped his sideburns in the mirror, shook his head and looked at both sides of the hair, found that it was solid, and then straightened his head and stared at himself in the mirror for a second.

Well, the lad is in good shape!

There was a noticeable relaxation of the tense muscles in his face, and he turned and walked towards the closed window opposite.

The windows are old-fashioned wood-framed windows with frosted glass that lets in light but cannot see the scenery outside.

He pulled the latch underneath and pushed it halfway open, and the noise outside rushed in instantly.

It was a rainy morning, and it was drizzling outside, and he looked up at the gray sky, looked at the windowsill, and saw that there would be no rain coming in, so he opened all the windows.

At this time, the tram "jingled" past the street next to it, and the pedestrians outside were hurrying, some with umbrellas and some without umbrellas running in the rain, and there were people taking shelter from the rain on the street corners chatting.

I have to say that the extras outside were trained very well before, and there was no dullness and drama at all.

He Xin stood at the window and looked at it for a while, then turned around, leaned on the windowsill, and took out a cigarette from his pocket with no expression on his face. The cigarettes are specially customized by the props to the cigarette factory, and the cigarette box is printed with the trademark of the beautiful brand, and the matchbox is the same, both of which are products of that era. Unlike the anti-Japanese dramas of later generations, it is often the ZIPPO lighter of the Yankees.

He struck a match, folded his hands and lit a cigarette. The taste of the cigarette is similar to the Double Happiness he usually smokes, probably because there is no filter, and it is a little rushed.

casually threw the extinguished matchstick out of the window, looked down and patted the folds on the clothes, looked again, and then raised his head, held a cigarette in one hand, held it in front of his chest with the other, and leaned leisurely on the windowsill.

At this time, the voice of a newsboy selling newspapers shouted outside the window: "Outside! Outside, please see the Japanese occupation of China......