Chapter 692: Li Yu and Tang Wei

The last award, Best Picture, was won by Toei's film "The Undertaker", and when Oliver Stone handed over the Best Film trophy to Yojiro Takida, the director of "The Undertaker", the third Asian Academy Film Awards also came to an end. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The domestic media was a little surprised by this result, many people thought that "Tangshan Earthquake", which won the best director, had already won the best film, but they didn't expect that "The Undertaker" would be upset at the last moment. However, this is also because media reporters have not watched "The Undertaker", but anyone who has seen it is surprised by this result. "Tangshan Earthquake" has a lot of new things in film techniques, it is a breakthrough for a disaster film, and it is not surprising that it won the Best Director Award, and the film "The Undertaker" is more balanced and calm, and it is natural to win the best picture.

As with all film award ceremonies, there is also a celebratory reception after the Asian Film Academy Awards.

As the dean of the Asian Film Academy, Zhang Ran is naturally highly sought after, and many people took the initiative to come over to greet him, even Li Yu brought Tang Wei, the heroine of "Lust and Caution", over.

After saying hello to Zhang Ran, Tang Wei left with interest, while Li Yu pulled Zhang Ran aside and chatted: "Director Xie Jin entrusted you with Chinese films, and from now on you will be the new standard-bearer of Chinese films!"

Zhang Ran smiled bitterly and said: "Director Xie Jin just praised me casually, don't make fun of me!"

Li Yu said very seriously: "Now many people think that martial arts films and literary films are traditional Chinese films, but in fact, the real traditional Chinese films are popular dramas, metaphors, touching scenes, and the films of Hu Jinquan and Li Hanxiang's generation brought to Hong Kong and Taiwan from the mainland, as well as the mainland director Xie Jin and those who are connected with them." The fifth and sixth generations of directors learn from Europe, they started from anti-Chinese traditional films, and they are separated from the tradition of Chinese films, and you are trying to get the tradition of Chinese films back, and you are continuing with Xie Jin and the traditions of Chinese films, so it is not surprising that Director Xie Jin entrusts Chinese films to you!"

"The movies you make are all popular dramas, if you want to inherit the tradition, you do it better than me!" Zhang Ran sighed and said, "But seriously, some things are easy to lose, but once they are lost, it is very difficult to get them back, and it may take generations of efforts!"

"Yes, there are some things that can't be lost and shouldn't be lost!" Li Yu asked with a smile, "How are the preparations for your new film?"

Zhang Ran replied easily: "I haven't filmed for nearly two years, I'm about to suffocate to death, and then I'm going to shoot a big shot, and now I have two dramas advancing at the same time, a feature film and a science fiction film." The sci-fi film has a relatively long preparation period, and it will go the year after tomorrow, and the feature film is relatively simple, and it can be started at the beginning of next year. What about you, what have you been up to lately?"

"You're really energetic to work on two movies at the same time!" Li said with admiration on his face, "I was recently working on 'Making Woodstock', a comedy film about music. ”

Li Yu is a very interesting director, after filming the family trilogy, he often makes movies that are both good and bad. After the filming of the masterpiece "Lust and Caution", it was naturally the turn of the bad movie "Making Woodstock". Zhang Ran said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to shoot Woodstock, this is a purely American story, it's really unexpected, but if you come to shoot, you will definitely shoot something different from American directors, I am looking forward to this movie." ”

Li Yan smiled: "The filming of "Lust and Caution" is too hard, so I plan to shoot a relatively relaxed story, I have filmed six tragedies in the past, and this time I want to make a comedy. It's not easy for me to make comedy, and it took me thirty years to confirm that I can do it, take it easy, and be a happy person. What genre is your feature film, and how are the preparations going?"

Zhang Ran said: "It's a crime film, this time I want to make a movie with a black temperament, I haven't made it before, I want to try, and now I'm still making preparations, and it's almost time to choose actors in December, and it will probably start in March next year." ”

Li Yu coughed lightly and said, "I haven't chosen an actor yet, you can try Tang Wei, she's pretty good." Seeing Zhang Ran looking at him with a little surprise, Li Yu smiled awkwardly and said: "I used to use actors as consumables, and I used them, but this time the situation is special, Tang Wei's sacrifice in "Lust and Caution" is particularly large, and now the situation is relatively bad, I feel that I should do something for her, and I don't want her to become a sacrifice in "Lust and Caution". I'm a pure director, and my ability is limited, and I can't find any good way to help her, so I can only ask you friends. ”

When Zhang Ran heard that Li Yu asked him to help Tang Wei, his head was big. Tang Wei is the kind of actor who is particularly woody in acting, he has no talent and no aura, and it is not for nothing that he has not been admitted to the Chinese Opera Performance Department for three years. The biggest problem with Tang Wei's acting is that she must make the movie scene very real before she can enter the play, the blasting scene must really explode around her, she must really pick the child with a flat pole, and she must really throw her into the sea when she jumps into the sea, only in this way can she feel that it is real and can enter the play.

Tang Wei is also self-aware of her acting methods, she said, I really don't think I have any acting skills, what I feel, I can act, what I can't feel, I really can't act. I have no skills, no shortcuts, I can only go into the inner world of the character and feel her joy.

Because of this, when filming "Lust and Caution", Li Yu was about to be driven crazy by her, and she couldn't perform anything, so she could only come to the real thing in the end. For this reason, Li Yu collapsed and cried on the set. Finally, with the help of a friend, Li Yu went to Sweden to meet his idol Bergman, and under Bergman's guidance, he opened his heart.

Tang Wei's acting method is too fatal for actors!

Zhang Ran glanced at Tang Wei, who was talking to someone not far away, and shook his head gently: "She can't play the role in my play, the heroine is a barber shop clerk, and she is a mute, and the requirements for the actor's ability are particularly high, and it will be more difficult for Tang Wei to act." But you've said hello, I'll definitely pay attention, and if our company has the right role, we will definitely use it. He looked at Li Yu and said, "I heard that Jiang Ziqiang is going to arrange for her to go to the UK to study drama?"

Li Yu nodded and said: "Yes, Jiang Ziqiang plans to send her to the UK to study drama, one is that Tang Wei feels that his acting skills are not enough and needs to be studied;

Now the above requires Tang Wei to be treated coldly, her advertisements have been withdrawn, this time at the Asian Film Academy Awards, she was nominated for Best Actress, and the movie channel did not give her a shot when it was broadcast. It's right to say that it's blocked, but it's not an absolute ban, and her news can still be reported from time to time.

Sending Tang Wei to the UK to avoid the limelight, by the way, gilding is indeed a good choice!

However, sending Tang Wei to the UK to learn acting is really to worship the wrong temple gate!

Zhang Ran couldn't help but say: "If you want to learn acting, you shouldn't send her to the UK, but you should send her to the actors' studio in New York!"

Li Yu was stunned: "Why?"

Zhang Ran explained: "The training of the Shakespeare system received by studying drama in the United Kingdom is a bit similar to that of Peking Opera, where the actors have special rhymes and syllables for reciting their lines, and there are rules for how to deal with the lines, and it takes a while to master this rule. Similar to Peking Opera, Shakespeare training is ineffective without long-term accumulation. Moreover, Shakespeare's training can't help people open their hearts, and Tang Wei's training in Shakespeare's opera is completely useless. And the New York Actors Studio was founded by Strasberg, what they are best at is emotional memory and emotional substitution, there are many ways to discover the inner life of actors, and receiving their training can allow Tang Wei to learn to discover emotions similar to the characters from his own memory, and then find the state of the characters, which is the most suitable for Tang Wei!"

Li Yu nodded slowly: "You're right, she really should go to the actor's studio for training." But you can see that the actor is really accurate, and you can see the crux of Tang Wei's problem at once!"

Zhang Ran chuckled and said, "I'm a genuine acting teacher, I can't see this problem, then I should find a piece of tofu to kill me!"

When Li Eucalyptus and Zhang Ran were talking and laughing, Tang Wei had also been watching the movement here, she knew that Li Eucalyptus was recommending herself to Zhang Ran, so far Li Eucalyptus had recommended Zhang Yimou and Jiang Ziqiang, and Zhang Ran's influence in the film industry was greater than their combined strength, if she could get Zhang Ran's help, she would be much easier to mix in China.

Tang Wei saw Zhang Jingchu who was not far away, surrounded by a group of people at the moment, and was the object of everyone's pursuit, just like the queen, she was extremely envious, her senior sister was not particularly good-looking, but she became Zhang Ran's girlfriend, she was really lucky! If she had such a boyfriend, her acting career would not have been so difficult.

The next morning, Zhang Ran unexpectedly occupied the headlines of the entertainment pages of major domestic media, and the most talked about by the media was not the attribution of the award, but the inheritance between him and director Xie Jin!

Xie Jintuo is lonely, and Chinese films have a new standard-bearer! -- Beiping Daily

Zhang Ran succeeded Xie Jin, and Chinese films have completed a inheritance!

The seventh-generation director with Zhang Ran as the standard-bearer has taken over in an all-round way, and Chinese films have entered a new era - Beijing Times

The sixth generation was cultivated by the film festival, while the seventh generation, led by Zhang Ran, was cultivated by the Chinese film market. Not narcissistic, not compromising, and finding a balance between the individual and the market are their biggest characteristics, which is also the guarantee that Chinese film directors will be passed on from generation to generation. -- West China Metropolis Daily

Even the People's Daily published an article entitled "The Inheritance and Return of Chinese Films", which wrote: "In the eighties of the last century, critics had a very fierce criticism of Xie Jin's films, not only accusing Xie Jin's films of having a kitsch Hollywood model, but also criticizing Xie Jin's films for their aesthetically sleek and sleek character, thus asserting that the Xie Jin era should end."

The criticism of Xie Jin's model has cleared the way for the debut of fifth-generation directors such as Zhang Yimou theoretically and conceptually. A few months after criticizing Xie Jin, at the premiere of "The Child King" in the magic capital, Chen Kaige happily said to Zhu Dake, your knife stabbed into the lobe of the lung of a Chinese movie. This knife really stabbed the leaf of Chinese movies, and also stabbed Chinese movies half to death.

The fifth generation, and later the sixth generation, made important contributions to the modernization of Chinese cinema by innovating the language of Chinese cinema, but at the same time, they took the stage as anti-traditional films, severing the tradition of storytelling in Chinese films, and causing Chinese films to become more and more detached from the audience.

Director Xie Jin entrusted Chinese films to Zhang Ran because Zhang Ran is trying to find the tradition of storytelling in Chinese films, which is a return to the tradition of Chinese films!"

Under the vigorous publicity of the media, Zhang Ran was completely pushed to the position of the standard-bearer of Chinese films and became the first Chinese director.

Just when the media applauded and shouted for the rise of the seventh generation, the annual Forbes China Rich List was officially released. After the list was released, it immediately caused a sensation in China, because Zhang Ran defeated all his opponents and became the new richest man in China!