Chapter 602. Yu Feihong's director's heart and Liu Yifei's careful thoughts [two-in-one]
The movie "Beijing Meets Seattle" is a rare good film in the domestic romance film genre with extremely serious homogenization in later generations, although it has nothing particularly novel in the plot, but at least there is no routine, full of sincerity, director Xue Xiaolu has made a literary and beautiful little fresh style, and has achieved success at the box office and word of mouth.
Especially the male and female protagonists of the movie. The brave goddess Tang Wei and the handsome uncle Wu Moubo simply became the representatives of the best on-screen couple during that time.
I have to say that this movie is indispensable.
This is also the reason why when Sister Yu took the script and reported it, Sun Yi approved it without saying a word, he only had one request, if he needed to obtain his consent to greatly modify the script, Sister Yu agreed at that time.
Sun Yi thought so.
This is a typical commercial script, as long as it is revised on a large scale, Sister Ren, a literary and artistic young man, will not make any big mistakes.
As it turned out, he was right.
Most of the movie was screened, from the plot to the rhythm, as well as the lines, there were no obvious flaws in all aspects of the actors, judging from Sun Yi's experience, the movie was basically stable.
He also relaxed and watched from the perspective of an ordinary movie fan.
The movie is not complicated, and the plot is simple.
is the love adventure story between Wen Jiajia, played by Yang Mi, who came to Seattle alone to give birth, and Frank, the driver of the confinement center played by Zhang Songwen.
Wen Jiajia used to be the editor of a food magazine, and she is full of romantic fantasies about love like the movie "Sleepless in Seattle". For his so-called love, despite the dissuasion of relatives and friends around him, he became the "junior" of a successful man and became pregnant.
In order to earn her child the status of an "American citizen", she traveled thousands of miles to the confinement center in Seattle to give birth.
In the confinement center, Wen Jiajia's style of showing off her wealth aroused the disgust of the landlord and other pregnant women Zhou Yi and Chen Yue, and she could only confide in the driver Hao Zhi, also known as Frank, who felt lonely.
And Uncle Frank, who looks a little down, is not a mediocre person, he was a first-class cardiovascular surgeon in China. Because of her personality as a strong woman with her family and ex-wife, she chose to give up her career and came to the United States with her wife, but she didn't expect to be divorced when she landed.
One is a rude and willful girl who barely knows English, but is proficient in makeup and dressing, and knows all kinds of brand-name luxury goods.
One is honest, wooden, doesn't understand romance, can't talk sweetly, only is everywhere, meticulous second marriage with a baby.
Two people who are missing in their respective outlooks on life melt each other in contact with each other, gradually understand the meaning of love and life, and finally come together.
Yu Feihong didn't have a dress like Yang Mi and Liu Yifei tonight, but a very neutral dress.
The upper body is wearing a double-breasted white long-sleeved shirt, the neckline is ruffled with ruffles, and the lower body is wearing black trousers.
This will sit in the front row with Sun Yi, looking as if he is watching a movie normally, but in fact, his heart is far from being as calm as it seems, but he is paying attention to the state of the fans at the scene all the time.
is different from the first "Love Has an Afterlife", which she has been preparing for many years, and she has changed from a regret of hearing about the death of a friend to a work that must give herself an explanation.
When the movie was released, she didn't care anymore, it was to fulfill a long-cherished wish in her heart for many years.
And this "Beijing Meets Seattle" is completely different, how to say that this is the first chapter of her definition of herself and the opening of her career as a director.
So at this time, just like when Sun Yi's first "Those Years" was released, I felt more or less suffering from gains and losses, and I couldn't help but think of it
Are the audience dissatisfied with my work? What do you think? Will you like it? And so on and so forth.
Every exclamation and laughter from the audience will make her react immediately, and after learning that it is all positive feedback, the heart that mentions the throat and eyes slowly falls, and the normal premiere, she is in this way, the heart is lifted and fallen, and then raised. In the process of falling, reincarnation repeats.
It's very tiring and tiring, but when she sees the audience's happy or excited expressions, it makes her feel a strange feeling.
More exciting than the climax, full of a sense of accomplishment.
At the same time, there are still some people who have figured out their mood, which is Yang Mi who is sitting next to her.
Looking at her first big screen work after joining the starry sky, and the first big screen work after cooperating with Sun Yi in "The Nameless", the joy in her heart is beyond words.
What kind of money worshipper, junior or something, it doesn't matter, it's just a character.
Before the movie started, Sun Yi told him.
The heroine of this movie, the background of the characters has some small grooves, although the back is also whitewashed, but after all, it is also black history.
But Yang Mi doesn't care about this, not to mention whitewashing in the later stage, even if she doesn't whitewash, she is not afraid.
Actors, roles are roles, people are people, if this can be confused by fans, then she has to be happy, which shows that her acting skills are exquisite, just like Li Mingqi's Mama Rong, it is not because she acted too similarly, but she was substituted by fans.
However, to tell the truth, Yang Mi's performance in this movie is indeed remarkable.
Compared with the goddess Tang, who has her own literary fan and is a little hateful, Yang Mi, a big girl in Beijing, played a proper "gold worshipping girl" in the early stage of Wen Jiajia vividly.
After the scene at customs, a broken English and the visa officer's donkey's lips were not on the horse's mouth, and the fans laughed at the scene.
The first time I came to the confinement center, I looked down on this because I had money, and I looked down on that arrogance.
all made the fans in front of the screen uncomfortable.
It's so annoying.
Don't say it, Yang Mi is dressed in brand-name clothes, just stand there, carrying a bag in one hand and taking off her sunglasses with the other, her bewitching face is slightly raising her chin, and she looks at you with disgust, and anyone has to hate it.
But don't care how uncomfortable you feel about this. It's also talent.
It is also the so-called actor's ability to attract empathy from the audience.
There is no vanity under the fame, no matter how popular it is, if it can be popular, you have to have some ability.
It is precisely because Yang Mi played Wen Jiajia's arrogance and ignorance and lack of outlook on life very well in the first half of the movie, and when the plot began to take a turn in the middle and late stages of the movie, the characters were slowly whitewashed.
Fans will find out that she is also a weak and helpless woman, and she will subconsciously feel distressed.
The turning point of this paragraph, Sister Yu handled it very delicately.
Yang Mi is arrogant and domineering, but she is also very lonely in her heart, she went back and took the initiative to chat with Frank, because of the lack of outlook on life, she thought that as long as she had money, everything was fine, and it was Frank who told her that money is not everything.
Zhou Yi, a pregnant woman in the confinement center, broke her amniotic water, she mistook it for urine, but her life was at stake, so she still endured the discomfort, cleaned up for her, called an ambulance, and even ran a block with her stomach in order to find someone to help.
After accidentally learning that Frank's daughter Julie has asthma and is allergic to stuffed things, she will silently take off her favorite fur coat and wear it backwards, ruining the image she is most proud of.
For the sake of Frank's face, he even made a big fuss about his ex-wife's wedding banquet with his stomach, just to give him a breath of air.
Yes, she is rude, she worships money, but all kinds of details also show the kindness in the bones of this character, after the so-called child's father lost power and even cut off her money supply, she would rather sell the clothes and accessories that she regarded as treasures before, but also insisted on giving birth to the child, and even made the decision to raise him independently.
Here, everyone also saw the strong and beautiful side of Wen Jiajia's character.
In the end, she grew up on her own, understood the true meaning of love, returned to China to deal with everything, and after being self-reliant, she went around and around to meet Frank again, and the lovers eventually became married.
At the end of the movie, the scene erupted in applause.
Sister Yu's face was full of red light, and she took Yang Mi and Zhang Songwen to bow to the fans at the scene, and walked on the stage to prepare for the next link.
Liu Yifei stood in the audience and applauded, she had just finished watching the movie, she was very touched at this moment, and flew Sun Yi with a deep gaze.
"What's wrong?"
Sun Yi is still in a loss, and hurriedly asked his "little daughter" what instructions he had.
Liu Yifei was a little unhappy, and after sitting down, she pouted and said.
"It's been a long time since you've made a movie with me."
I added another sentence in my heart, it's been a long time since I've played a couple together.
Long?
Sun Yi silently calculated in his heart, "Pacific Rim" has just been acted, and it has been more than half a year and a half. It's only half a year.
Perhaps, the time in the eyes of women is not consistent with the time that men know.
Just like when a man squatting in a pit, he said that he would come out immediately, and he didn't know which horse it was.
Actually, Liu Yifei didn't want to interfere in Sun Yi's career, but she couldn't help it.
She loves the profession of actor, that kind of simple love, and at the same time, she also loves Sun Yi deeply, in her opinion, if she can act with Sun Yi, it will be the most beautiful thing in the world.
From "Hidden in the Dust" at the beginning of the year, to "New Century", which has just completed filming, if you count "Disappeared Guest" filmed in the United States and "Inception" in which she participated, the two have not been together in four movies.
If you follow her algorithm, it will indeed be a long time.
In "New Century", she actually didn't have many scenes, although it was very difficult and she acted very well, but it didn't take two days in total, and the role she played had nothing to do with Sun Yi, so it couldn't be counted in Liu Yifei's heart at all.
When Sun Yi was thinking about this question, the reporter on the stage began to interview.
"Director Yu, first of all, this is a very good-looking movie, I personally like it very much, but I also noticed that the heroes and heroines in the movie belong to the category of relatively failed people in real life, I want to ask you, what is the reason why you chose such two characters."
The first reporter to ask the question was very level, and directly locked the question on the background of the character, which looked a little tricky.
Yu Feihong has debuted for many years, and he doesn't know how much he has seen in the wind and waves, but after getting used to the title of "Director Yu" a little, he picked up the microphone and replied to the reporter who asked a question in the audience:
"Thank you very much for liking it, if I'm not mistaken, what you want to ask is why I chose the junior, and the middle-aged gesture man, such two characters."
"Actually, for the question of Xiaosan, let's put aside the moral level, there are many things in this world, there is no right or wrong, only different. For me, the most important thing in a romance movie is "whether there is love or not", not "whether it should be loved". ”
"In my opinion, the former is the basic discipline of a love movie, and the latter is the director, oh, that is, the problem of whether I and the audience's three views are compatible. If it does, of course everything is fine, and if it doesn't, my attitude is to seek common ground while reserving differences. ”
Yu Feihong seemed to answer, but in fact, he cleverly avoided the question.
The reporter was a little helpless, and suddenly had an idea and turned to Sun Yi's side,
"Director Sun Yi also attended today's premiere, can you please talk about your views on this film?"
Sun Yi was sitting in the audience, and he was suddenly named, although it was a little unconventional, but he couldn't refuse on this occasion, so he had to stand up and take the microphone.
"The view of the movie must be very good, and as for the question you just said, I can also answer you from my point of view."
"For the role of Wen Jiajia, I think many people will have the same preconceived notions as this journalist gentleman."
Sun Yi came up and defined the character of this reporter who did not play according to the rules, which can be regarded as a small punishment.
"A lot of times, we hate a person and often can't tell whether it's the person we hate or the person's identity."
"I hate all the officials because of corrupt officials, and I hate the junior because of the second wife, which is a kind of psychological extremism and narrow-mindedness. A person's good or evil lies in his essence, not in his camp.
And the character of Wen Jiajia, although she worships money, is exaggerated, and the princess is sick, but her heart is kind after all. Giving birth to a child for love, not caring about fame or money, this is the courage that only a truly loving and kind woman has. ”
"She just took a wrong step at an age when she was easy to make mistakes, and when she came back, she found the right person, I think Director Yu also wants to tell girls through this movie that the love you imagine now may not be real love, and people should still mature."
"What this movie wants to convey is a kind of mutual love concept. When two people are together, the important thing is not money, not identity, but companionship. What about the junior, what about the down-and-out doctor, what if I have an ex-wife and you have a son? What's the use of worrying about so much?
"Love is about having someone who can hold each other tight and feel each other's warmth. And the most precious thing in this world is that it is raining continuously outside the window, and there is a person standing in the window to accompany you to see the scenery. ”
Sun Yi's words were reasonable, even deeper than the original film's director's understanding, and even made a round of applause on and off the stage.
(End of chapter)