The mention of Gong Li is always a beauty that cannot be ignored in Chinese movies.
Although she is 55 years old, 56 years old soon, but the sense of age has long disappeared in her, there is her film, there will always be a powerful presence, but also written into the history of Chinese film is a very iconic actress.
At major international film festivals, she is still the dazzling queen of the red carpet.
Director Lou Ye is a unique presence in Chinese films, as the sixth generation of directors leading figure, from the early "Suzhou Creek", insisting on the 2018 "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind" released in the cinema, the director who has always confronted commercial films is stubborn enough to even choose "404" for the release date of the film.
Such two filmmakers, who have attracted much attention, finally collaborated on a new film "Lyceum Theatre", and what is more innovative is that Gong Li starred in the film as a female spy with a gun, the film has appeared at the Venice Film Festival as early as 2 years ago, and after 2 years of delay, it was finally released on October 15.
值得一提的是，在电影首映礼上，出现了一点点的技术问题，虽然很多观众看不出来，但巩俐认为这给观众的观影带来了不好的体验。 放映结束之后，巩俐上台就给大家鞠躬道歉，说非常对不起大家，让人感受到她的真诚和精益求精。
This is a film wrapped in espionage elements, the story is set in 1941, telling the story of a multinational intelligence war that occurred in Shanghai before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but in fact it is still the core of the literary and artistic film that Lou Ye is good at, presenting the fate of the individual characters under the big era, the fragmentation of human nature, the entanglement of love and hate, and the unspeakable ending.
In the film, Yu Yan, played by Gong Li, is extremely eye-catching, she has the dual identity of star and spy, and continues to appear as a queen:
While circling with a variety of relationships, calm and restrained, on the other hand, he fell into the swamp of emotions, and Zhao Youting had many kiss scenes, stoic and emotionally complex.
Especially when the shooting was fired in the film, she was so cool and handsome that people could not open their eyes, and could only say that it was worthy of Gong Li.
It is worth mentioning that this time Lou Ye's new film has a great difference, the elements of the spy war film are integrated into a large number of gun battle action scenes, and many sudden gun battles in the film are shocking.
The overall reputation of the film is good, the Douban score is 7.2 points, the audience who likes Lou Ye's film has a high evaluation of the film, and gong Li is also a variety of praises, and even some people use the "Chinese Best of the Year" such a very high evaluation.
"Lyceum Theatre" is still a very director Lou Ye's personal style of the film, the whole film uses black and white images, many shots are still the violent shaking of handheld photography, but also some viewers are uncomfortable, feel very dizzy.
This has also caused the polarization of the film's reputation, and those who don't like it are very disliked, and some people even say that "they escaped without watching it in the movie theater."
In fact, this time,"Lyceum Theatre" has more commercial elements than Lou Ye's previous films, espionage battles, gunfights, love, and drama-in-play, but it still can't escape the cold fate of "niche".
Although there is an international lineup starring Gong Li, including Zhao Youting, Oda Chejang, Pascal Gregory, Tom Rasziha, Huang Xiangli, Nakajima Bu, Wang Chuanjun, and Zhang Songwen, the schedule of "Lyceum Theatre" is not optimistic, with a box office of less than 5 million on the first day of release.
On the same day, the top two domestic box office blockbusters were blockbusters that were released for more than two weeks, one "Chosin Lake" continued to break through 100 million, and the other "My Father and Me" also exceeded 10 million.
Unfortunately, the international superstar Gong Li has not been able to save the box office of Lou Ye's new film.
Nevertheless, it is still necessary to praise Gong Li's performance in the film, in addition to her dual identity as a star and a spy in the film, there are other triple identities such as ex-wife, lover, and adopted daughter, which makes the role of Yu Wei more mysterious and complicated.
Therefore, even when Gong Li herself played this role, she sighed that "I have acted in more than 30 movies and have not played such a role", and it is precisely because of the complexity and mystery of this role that Gong Li is also fascinated.
Yu Is a spy, and in the film, Gong Li has a large number of English, Japanese, and French lines, and at the same time, she also has to learn to shoot to star in a large number of gunfight scenes in the film. Another point, which many people may not think, according to the needs of the plot, Gong Li's character has a hypnotic bridge section, so she also learned hypnosis.
The black and white images require higher performance of the actor's lens, because the color and light are ignored, and the audience will pay more attention to the facial expression of the actor himself, which is very delicate in The body of Yu Yan, played by Gong Li.
It is no wonder that when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2 years ago, the famous overseas film magazine "Total Film" spoke highly of the film and Gong Li in the film, saying that "Lyceum Theatre" is "a new work of Lou Ye, the sixth generation of Chinese director, a combination of action, romance, espionage and betrayal", and said of Yu Yan, "This is the most outstanding role of Gong Li in many years".
Lou Ye's films have always had a threshold for watching movies, even if this time is properly integrated with commercial elements, and superstars like Gong Li join, there is still a gap between them and commercial movies.
When Gong Li talked about the movie "Lyceum Theatre", she also put aside the traffic and hoped that the audience could quietly watch "a pure movie".
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