Time Contributor | Joe Apple
Movies and life are won or lost with the aftertaste.
We didn't expect Jiang Wen to appear in the movie like this.
Playing a "proud emperor" with a cute double ponytail, he also had to personally fight with the big villain played by Hu Jun, and the result was that he was slapped and cut off, vomiting old blood...
Such a magical scene can only appear in the annual magic drama "Turandot".
There seems to be no need for superfluous development of "Turandot", and Time Jun just wants to remind everyone that -
This is Jiang Wen's second appearance as an "actor" in other people's works after five years since "Star Wars Story: Rogue One".
Today's Jiang Wen is often mentioned as a director. But in comparison, Jiang Wen has been an actor for a longer time, and often brings different "surprises".
When director Jiang Wen is sought after by various people, does anyone still miss the actor Jiang Wen?
"In the Middle Drama, such a person is recruited"
"Actually recruit such a person in the Chinese drama?"
This is Ma Weidu's evaluation when he first met Jiang Wen.
At that time, Jiang Wen was about twenty years old, in the pile of handsome men and beautiful women in the Chinese opera performance department, his appearance did not appear outstanding: he was tall, flat-headed, and old-fashioned.
As a result, with this thick and old appearance, he directly skipped the troubles of the same age actor "Cream Xiaosheng" and "Vase", and even Liu Xing in "Family with Children" joked: "I don't want to be a cream xiaosheng, I want to be a tough guy Xiaosheng, Jiang Wen." ”
In the eyes of his old friend Yingda, Jiang Wen has always been a genius actor.
As early as middle school, he showed a very good talent for acting.
According to Yingda's recollection, at that time, Jiang Wen was able to recite the lines of the drama "Tea House" backwards like a stream, and he could imitate the timbres of different actors beautifully.
Once, Jiang Wen imitated the tone of Yingda's father Yingruocheng on the phone, and scared his own son into a stunned state.
Yingda did not want Jiang Wen's acting talent to be buried, and recommended Jiang Wen to take the chinese opera.
In the examination room, Jiang Wen surprised the four seats with a recitation of Chekhov's "Chameleon", and in the eyes of the examiner Zhang Renli, Jiang Wen's performance revealed a blandness, but also a faint irony.
And this also seems to have set the emotional tone of Jiang Wen's works more than a decade later.
The fertile theatrical soil and strong artistic atmosphere of Chinese opera have greatly explored Jiang Wen's performance potential, and also made him identify his lifelong ideal - to become a good actor.
In the case of the appearance is not outstanding, Jiang Diploma has achieved excellent results through his fascination and sweat for performance. A year after graduation, he was favored by director Chen Jialin and starred in the film "The Last Empress".
That year, Jiang Wen was 22 years old.
"Just believing in talent is harming yourself"
Compared with the actors of the same era, Jiang Wen's acting path is much smoother and more brilliant.
The directors he has worked with have run from the third generation to the sixth generation, including many film giants such as Xie Jin, Xie Fei, Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Zhang Yimou; the roles he has played are more diverse, from the imperial family and nobles to the rogue bandits.
The shape of "Turandot" is nothing compared to before
For Jiang Wen, his acting career can be summed up in three words: serious, domineering and changeable.
Many people have misunderstandings about Jiang Wen, thinking that he shoots drama shafts and loves to compete, but Jiang Wen does not think so, "Since it is a movie, it should be filmed as well as possible."
This serious spirit of pursuing the ultimate has been hinted at from his first film, The Last Queen.
In order to interpret the role of Puyi, Jiang Wen consulted a lot of historical materials related to Puyi.
Later, Jiang Wen also went to visit Puyi's younger brother Pujie, and under contact, Jiang Wen impressed Pujie. Before leaving, Pu Jie left a note: This person is very similar to my eldest brother.
However, it is also this stubborn and serious spirit that makes Jiang Wen fall into a bad reputation of "overbearing".
Many newcomer actors will put their posture very low in the face of the director, even if they say the wrong sentence, they will make the director angry. Jiang Wen is not biased, full of stomach ideas, he often quarrels with the director on the set, and sometimes even wants to cross the line.
Many directors are "deeply affected by it.".
Jiang Wen did not think so, in his own words, he did not worship the director, he worshipped the film.
When filming "Furong Town", director Xie Jin asked the actors to give opinions on the lines, and one day Jiang Wen made a lot of comments, which directly annoyed Director Xie.
The same "tragic case" also happened to another Xie Director, Xie Fei.
When filming "The Year of The Life", there was a scene in which Li Huiquan, played by Jiang Wen, smoked a cigarette and watched the girl sing.
This time, Jiang Wen was not satisfied with only giving advice, and simply directed it on the set: "Is there a pillar here?" ...... Hey, can you please stop directly patting me like this, go around from behind the pillar to shoot, and shoot the song as well. ”
Xie Fei looked at him and said, "You always give such opinions, and you will be able to direct the play yourself in the future." ”
Coincidentally, Zhang Yimou also said this.
In 1987, Jiang Wen collaborated with Zhang Yimou, who was a director for the first time, to play The uninhibited, love-hate Yu Zhan'ao in "Red Sorghum".
Who knew that the two quarreled from the beginning of the shooting to the end of the shooting, and sometimes the quarrel caused others to pinch a handful of sweat for him, but Jiang Wen himself was like a person who had nothing to do.
Afterwards, it turned out that Jiang Wen's interpretation of Yu Zhan'ao's role was extremely outstanding.
Some commentators even praised: "The color of the picture of this film belongs to Zhang Yimou, but the strong sense of fun drama comes largely from Jiang Wen." ”
In the face of this "thorn head", Zhang Yimou also said from the bottom of his heart that Jiang Wen will definitely be a good director in the future.
Not only is he very assertive in acting, but Jiang Wen also has his own set of principles in casting.
Actors are afraid that they will fall into a certain kind of role template and can't extricate themselves, and Jiang Wen is also afraid.
Therefore, when filming "The Last Empress", Pan Hong said to Jiang Wen, "You can become an actor like Sun Feihu in the future and specialize in Puyi", Jiang Wen made up his mind not to play Puyi again in his life.
In the face of "Red Sorghum", when the newspapers and periodicals were overwhelmed with praises such as "manhood on the Chinese screen" and "masculinity", Jiang Wen smelled the atmosphere of danger like an alert hunter.
Therefore, he made an unexpected choice - to play Li Lianying.
In the film "Grand Eunuch Li Lianying", Jiang Wen breaks everyone's stereotype of him as a "male hormone spokesperson" with a brilliant performance.
Although the appearance conditions determine that Li Lianying, who he plays, cannot have too much fat powder, he also reverses the public's paranoid imagination of eunuchs, perverts, and slaves to a certain extent, adding width and thickness to Li Lianying's role, as well as the humanistic thinking that belongs to Jiang Wen.
After "Li Lianying", Jiang Wen seems to have opened the door to a new world, and seems to be obsessed with playing a feminine role.
The producer of the movie "Overlord Farewell" found Jiang Wen and hoped that he would play the role of Duan Xiaolou of the Overlord Duan, but Jiang Wen had to play Yu Ji Cheng Butterfly, and the reason given was that "once the horn like me is long, it is also very good, and the dan corner is not necessarily so beautiful."
He even took a set makeup photo:
In this regard, fans have commented that if Jiang Wen's audition was successful that year, Cheng Dieyi's painting style would probably become the following painting style:
"Lao Tzu TMD is a female petite!"
"You TMD explain to Lao Tzu what TMD is for a lifetime!"
"Today I came to this stage for three things: Peking Opera! Beijing opera! Or TMD Peking Opera! ”
Ginger, still old spicy
Later, after transforming into a director, Jiang Wen soared all the way, successively with several "divine works" such as "Sunny Day", "The Devil Is Coming", "The Sun Also Rises", "Let the Bullets Fly", etc., laying the foundation for his status as a "ghost director" in the hearts of film fans.
In his own works, he still continues his love of acting, and transforms this love into the tuning and appreciation of actors.
Filming "Evil Does Not Pressure the Right", many people remember Jiang Wen touching and shooting at Peng Yuyan's abs, and also boasting about the "sexy" Qingqi scene.
This is really related to him being called Wenwen by fans, complaining in the car, someone actually called me Wenwen! "The image of a straight man of steel is very different.
Someone asked Jiang Wen why he wanted to shoot Peng Yuyan's nude in the film, and Jiang Wen even said: "His body is even more beautiful than ancient Greek sculptures, why don't I shoot it?" ”
And when asked why he wanted to pat Xu Qing's buttocks, Jiang Wen sighed without thinking: "Because of beauty!" ”
This is Jiang Wen.
While everyone else looks at the various shots in his work with a worldly eye, he always maintains the purest gaze and the deepest fascination with the beauty of good actors and films.
Today's Jiang Wen seems to have no intention of challenging himself in his early years in his performance.
Whether it is Zhang Muzhi in "Let the Bullets Fly", Ma Zhaori in "One Step Away", or Lan Qingfeng in "Evil Does Not Pressure the Righteous", Jiang Wen is more and more keen to play the same role, that is, himself.
In other words, Jiang Wen has become an idealized male symbol on the Big Screen in China, and it is the third path that has been carved out in addition to the Wu Jing-style family and national atmosphere and the Yi Qianxi-style youthful spirit - jianghu qi.
It is a collection of serious family and country spirit and prosperous youthful spirit, but also add a touch of cunning, a little extravagance, and a wandering mentality of game life.
This is a gift from the years to Jiang Wen.
When he said on the big screen, "I want to stand, and make money", who can refuse the charm of this old handsome guy?
And now starring in "Turandot", perhaps for the sake of director Zheng Xiaolong's personal feelings when they filmed "Beijingers in New York" together.
Unfortunately, whether it is a fan of director Jiang Wen or a fan of actor Jiang Wen, you should only want to scratch your head and persuade each other, you should continue to make your own movies!
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