Presumably, lovers of the film should have discovered that the domestic theaters quietly released a Korean film on Friday
- "Oh! Wen Ji》
This is a 6-year period, Korean movies have once again landed in the mainland market, which is rare and rare!
The old man on the poster is not a stranger, right? Our Ms. Rowan Ji, the new work is once again starring under her real name.
The film tells the story of Wu Wenji's grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, witnesses the scene of the car accident of her granddaughter Pumei, and in order to find the hit-and-run, she strives to fight against the "forgetfulness" to recall the plot of the crime, and the story of finding the real culprit with her son Douyuan.
Released in South Korea in September 2020, Douban scored 7.2, making Alzheimer's theme interesting and warm. Comedy + detective road number, diluted the sadness of the disease, in the bondage of family affection, bitterness. Sincerely speaking, it is worth friends walking into the theater to feel the feeling.
Wu Wenji, as the only witness to the car accident, her illness is accompanied by the characteristics of memory confusion, unclear expression, and intermittent attacks, which is the support point for the film to promote the development of the plot and find clues, and Ms. Luo Wenji's performance bears most of the laughter and tears in the whole film.
When she was sick, she would call her granddaughter "Nuna", take a pusher to shave Pumi's hair of different lengths, Pumi cried out, and Munji shook her shoulders as if the prank had been achieved.
Seeing the elderly in the community engaged in literary and artistic activities, she also couldn't help but dance with the music, only Douyuan picked a flower to send her, she would obediently leave obediently, calling Douyuan "Oba" on her mouth, and her expression was like a cheering girl.
Comedy Wen Ji is always so cute, she can always mobilize the facial details to breed the vivid sense of character and funny, even if some behavior is a little "annoying", you will not hate her.
Of course, moving is essential.
Douyuan thought that Wen Ji had pulled out Pumei's intubation and was angry to drive her out of the house, while crying bitterly while counting down Wen Ji's past with Pumei's mother, Wen Ji stood in the same place, scared tears did not dare to flow, guilt did not emerge, as a result, as soon as her son turned around and left, she jumped out of the spirit and shouted "Oba" inexplicably.
The normal state of the sick elderly is not the same, confused and confused. Pathetic and heartbroken.
What touched me the most was the scene where Wen Ji tried to recall the case.
Afraid to forget, Vincent had tied bumper fragments and her favorite chocolate pie she had picked up at the scene of the crash and hid them next to the kennel. When she was awake, she forced herself to think back. Finally, when the bumper was held in the son's hand, the two embraced each other, the son was crying, Wen Ji was laughing, laughing at herself and finally remembering, laughing at herself was always useful.
Laughter sometimes touches the softness of the heart more than crying. This grandmother has no lines, but her performance is better than using words.
Ms. RowanJi, it's amazing!
Oh! "Wen Ji" is a work born at the age of 79 by Luo Wenji. In the film, the emotional ups and downs are actually quite large, and there are several places in the strong emotional outbreak plot, which is not an easy life for the elderly.
Physical work is not easy than mental.
Wen Ji has a lot of running around scenes, to hang Weya, but also to stand on a tree more than ten meters high, Grandma said in the tidbits that she was actually very scared. There is a clip that is particularly impressive, Wen Ji and her son went to the abandoned car yard to find a bumper, and then the object was picked up by Wen Ji and easily thrown out, more flexible than her son, and the painting style returned to "Funny Family" "moving the sofa" in a second.
"Hercules" has long become a label of Luo Wenji, in fact, her own physical strength is not good, she was exposed by her girlfriend Jin Yingyu's grandmother, and she was tired of walking the mall just two steps away, and she had no choice but to complain, "Stinky girl, this can't stand it." ”
But when filming, Luo Wenji had infinite vitality and asked her what was the most interesting thing on the set, and she said that the action scenes were the most interesting.
Luo Wenji is not only the national grandmother of South Korea, but also the grandmother loved by many people in China.
Goodwill mainly comes from "Funny Family", "Living as Luo Wenji" is regarded as the ultimate dream of contemporary young people, and no one knows how to enjoy the happiness of "mixed eating and waiting for death" better than her.
But Rowan Ji herself is a very "positive" person.
She is not a film and television actress, in 1961 through the MBC voice actor recruitment became one of the best voice actors in the first period, the main job is to dub foreign movies, at that time most of the foreign film heroines such as Mia Farrow, Marilyn Monroe, etc. were covered by her, the workload is large, the pace is fast, but Rowan Ji enjoys it.
After more than ten years of dubbing, Luo Wenji realized that she might not be able to improve anymore, so she became interested in the performance of the actors on the screen. At the age of 46, it is not a pleasing age, and Luo Wenji's appearance is not dominant, but she still confided in the leader her desire for performance.
Not surprisingly, this road is not dubbed smoothly, Luo Wenji can only play some small supporting roles with few lines, and she has begun to play the mother or grandmother of young people in her 40s, such roles have been disliked in the past, so directors also tend to find actors like Luo Wenji who are not famous and eager to act.
Out of cherishing the opportunity, Luo Wenji has been willing to be a green leaf for decades, until she really enters the middle age, And Luo Wenji waits for the opportunity to play the heroine.
Luo Wenji has a popularity in China in fact, the phenomenon-level Korean drama "My name is Jin Sanshun" ("Funny Family" is 2006), playing Xuan Bin's mother, the image is more rigid, is the kind of person who will say to the heroine "take away 5 million and leave my son", in a later interview, Luo Wenji said that this role is the most difficult for her, why, the role of the rich person is not enough to land, there is no real sense of acting.
She prefers to play ordinary people, "I will perform naturally in roles with strong life." ”
Therefore, in Luo Wenji's many works, the image of the daily woman accounts for the majority, which makes people feel more intimate and warm, and when they see her, they will unconsciously think of their grandmother in their minds.
Many people do not know that Luo Wenji in real life is also a lovely old man. Last year's recording of the reality show "Omniscient Intervention Perspective", Luo Wenji came out with a curly hair tube, the bubble noodle head is her symbol, the guest thought it was done by the stylist, Luo Wenji's proud face, every day is my own whole, fun.
Wanting to be photogenic and beautiful, she began to wear lipstick after getting in the car; there was music in the car, and Luo Wenji sang along the way; during the preparation, she was worried that the staff was bored, and she said that we were better than staring. In terms of mentality, it is particularly young and energetic.
The point is that she doesn't have a star shelf at all.
"Funny Family" has been more than a decade old, and still maintains close contact with his grandson Yoon Ho (played by Ding Yiyu), and during his military service, his grandmother personally sent the yellow croaker to him.
When it was time to record the show, she said to the film crew, you hurry to dinner. The camera crew couldn't leave, and she immediately pulled out a bank card and asked the agent to buy bread for everyone.
At the end of the work, hand the change in her bag to the makeup artist and ask her to take a taxi home. Like a grandmother who presses the money for the New Year, it is difficult not to love.
Luo Wenji did it from the bottom of the film and television circle, so she also fully understands the hardships of others and is very enthusiastic about the juniors and staff.
Under normal circumstances, the audience is easily aesthetically tired, but it does not exist at all in Luo Wenji.
Thanks to the Korean film and television environment is willing to give old actors a chance, so in order to break through herself, Luo Wenji is also like a young actor, constantly trying new challenges, how old and how, "Quanshun Pink Lady Kidnapping Incident", Luo Wenji can change from a hostage to a kidnapper boss; "Grandma Bandit Group", Luo Wenji can become the leader of the bandit regiment; "Harmony", Luo Wenji can be a female prisoner...
Surprises continue, the performance is good, and the awards are not less, but the highlight of Luo Wenji's acting career appeared in 2017, with the movie "I Can Say", Luo Wenji won the best actress in the three major film festivals of Qinglong, Baixiang and Dazhong in one fell swoop, becoming a three-material film queen.
In the film, she is a broken and nosy old lady, and the person is not pleasing, but Rowan Ji's silent acting skills show the playful and moving side of the character, and in the later stage, the image is reversed, and it turns out that the purpose of everything she does is to stand in court as a comfort woman representative and ask the Japanese to apologize.
That English speech broke the big defense!
At the age of 77, he thought he would win the "Lifetime Achievement Award" and enjoy the respect and love of his descendants, but Luo Wenji did it to compete at the same level as several powerful Mesozoic actresses, and became a Grand Slam film queen, writing history.
Looking back, Luo Wenji's late success is definitely not just a simple inspirational story for the elderly, her existence belongs to the entire film and television industry has a landmark significance.
The old man, why can't he be the protagonist; the old man, why can't interpret the complex role; the old man, why can't he take the film; the old man, why can't carry the box office; the old man, why can't stand in the C position.
In South Korea, old actors are not shackled by age, and they can still shine, not only Luo Wenji.
Kim Keiko, who is the same age as Luo Wenji, has also gained a group of loyal fans in China with the sitcom "Living in Cheongdam-dong". Two years ago, she won the highest award in the television category of the Baeksang Arts Awards for "Dazzling". In the crime film "Mother" directed by Bong Joon-ho, Kim Kee-ko plays a mother who combines kindness, gentleness and conscience, and Kim Hye-ko's performance is also three points.
There are also two 6-year-old Yin Ruzhen. Yesterday I only finished watching her "Grandma Ji Chun", playing a pair of grandchildren who have not been seen for many years with Jin Gaoyin, not too sensational, and the delicate performance is meticulous. In 2016, 69-year-old Yin Ruzhen played an elderly prostitute in "Miss Dionysus", who became a murderer in order to end the suffering of customers. Last year, she became popular in the United States with the movie "Minari", and won dozens of best supporting actress awards in the United States this year, including the Oscars.
South Korean film critic Kim Hyo-jeong once said, "Yoon Yoo-jeong is the only actress in South Korea who has increased her drama with age." ”
I really admire the acting skills of these grandmothers, but what I respect even more is that they have a situation of following ideals, wearing water drops and stones, and striving endlessly.
Some people enjoy their old age in peace, they receive soft hands on the play, some people are used to staying in the comfort zone, they refresh the audience's cognition again and again, give everything for the play, pay the audience the greatest sincerity and sincerity, it is said that after Luo Wenji filmed "I Can Say", she could not get out of the role for a long time.
Non-stop acting, to some extent is a kind of consumption, but the grandmother is so cool, but whenever the role needs, she goes all out, so she shoots "I Can Say", And Luo Wenji learns English from scratch; shoots "Oh! Wen Ji, Luo Wen ji learned to drive a tractor a month in advance; as she grew older, Luo Wen Ji suffered from shingles, and in order to be able to speak her lines clearly, she maintained the habit of reading and reciting the scriptures every day.
Luo Wenji just spent her 80th birthday on the 30th of last month, and this year is her 60th year in the film and television industry. Some people have counted that in the past 60 years, Luo Wenji has starred in more than 90 TV series and more than 20 movies. Ding Yiyu once interviewed Luo Wenji and asked her what was the motivation to persist, she replied with two words, "like", asked, is there no time to feel tired, her answer is still the same, "like".
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Luo Wenji had no agent for about 30 years, and in order to shoot the scene, she drove a PONY by herself and spent 6 hours a day to and from Gyeongju.
In her 60-year acting career, Luo Wenji's rest time does not add up to more than one year, and she is dubbing with a big belly, and she quickly returns to work more than ten days after giving birth.
On the podium of the 38th Green Dragon Film, she said, "Many of my colleagues have left, but as long as I am here, I will stay and continue to work seriously." ”
People in their old age, always dedicated and productive, maintain creative enthusiasm, 80, it sounds not like spring to return to old age, but vigorous vitality.