Adapted from the short story of the same name by writer Zhang Ailing, set in Shanghai during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the 1940s, "Color Ring" tells the story of Wang Jiazhi, a female college student who uses beauty to approach the traitor Mr. Yi with the intention of assassinating, and when Jiazhi successfully seduces Mr. Yi and prepares to attack, she finds that she has moved the truth, so the ventilated letter lets Mr. Yi escape the disaster, but Mr. Yi decides to kill them all.
However, the heroine Wang Jiazhi is far from being like Yoshiko Kawashima, and is a character who can do her best. She is naïve, simple and simple, and she is a virgin before using her hue task, which makes her seduction and adultery action full of non-professional self-torture. Due to its meticulous shooting, vivid and shocking performance, and the entanglement of lust and human nature in the chaotic world, the film finally won the Venice Film Festival Grand Prix, and was known as a classic of spy war erotic films.
Now, after many years, we have also come to see through the data how director Ang Lee and the main creators talked about "Color Ring" when the camera was started!
Ang Lee's new film "Color Ring", which has been making cars behind closed doors for months, was finally unveiled for the first time yesterday, and on Nanjing Road in 1942 at the Shanghai Chedun Advertising Base, Ang Lee, Liang Chaowei, Wang Lihong and the heroine Tang Wei made their debut in front of the media. Yesterday, Ang Lee admitted for the first time that Zhang Ziyi had taken the initiative to ask Wang Jiazhi to be rejected by himself. "It's useless to use her mainly because her image temperament is not like this role, and it has nothing to do with the remuneration."
Liang Chaowei: This role is too brutal
Ang Lee, based on Zhang Ailing's novel of the same name, started in Malaysia and secretly filmed in Shanghai for more than two months, and is expected to shut down in early February this year. During the period of "Color Ring", although many media went to Shanghai to dig up materials, they did not leak a single still because the film was fully enclosed.
Yesterday, Ang Lee, Liang Chaowei, Wang Lihong, and Tang Wei, the main creators of "Color Ring", all attended, and this media conference became the only exposure of "Color Ring", attracting hundreds of reporters from Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland and Malaysia.
When Ang Lee appeared in black overalls with the words "color ring" written on it, it immediately caused a commotion. He first came on the scene and invited three actors one by one. Liang Chaowei, who appeared first, was dressed in a gray suit yesterday, and his shiny back looked miserable, and this time similar to "Wounded City", he still played a bad guy.
Liang Chaowei, who claimed to have been tortured by "Color Ring" and was schizophrenic, said at the press conference that Mr. Yi, played by himself, was a brutal traitor, and in "Color Ring", he not only had to often scold people, but also beat and kick people very fiercely, and even he himself felt that this role was too brutal.
Fortunately, Liang Chaowei finally came over, he said, this role is completely different from his own introverted gentleman image, suddenly became very publicity, is his biggest challenge. However, for Liang Chaowei's bottomlessness, Ang Lee's evaluation of him is quite high, "The cooperation with him is a miracle, and I have absolutely nothing to say about his performance." ”
Tang Wei: It is enough to have Wang Jiazhi in one lifetime
PK off Zhang Ziyi's heroine Tang Wei was invited out by Ang Lee for the second time, the black top hat blocked half of the forehead, a beige trench coat and skirt, and the dress of black high heels made this unknown drama actress even more mysterious.
In addition to expressing his luck, Tang Wei directly affirmed his cooperation with director Ang Lee with "one Wang Jiazhi once in a lifetime is enough". Lee Ang hurriedly introduced that this is the absolute heroine of the play to seduce the traitor Mr. Yi and try to kill him.
Wang Lihong: Ang Lee is the light of the Chinese
The third Wang Lihong who was invited out was dressed in a striped suit, with a small head shape, 1. The 8-meter tall man stands out in the main creator. Wang Lihong first sincerely complimented director Ang Lee with "too lucky, very honored, the best director, the best teacher" and praised Ang Lee as the light of the Chinese.
For Wang Lihong, who was once accused of not being able to enter the play and filming very unhappy, Ang Lee said: "He is singing." It's normal to be on the road in the second half, and now his appearance is my biggest surprise. ”
Yesterday there was a small situation on the scene, in order to show the best state, when sorting out clothes before the group photo, the lock was not obedient, could not be pulled down, could not be pulled up, Ang Lee bowed his head and pounded for half a day without success, the heroine Tang Wei on the side reached out to help, the lock immediately became very obedient. Ang Lee was a little embarrassed.
Ang Lee: Zhang Ziyi is not like Wang Jiazhi
When interviewing Ang Lee, his gentle demeanor and kind face made people feel no pressure, but when answering the reporter's sharp questions, he still showed a superior Tai Chi pusher, and the reporter's questions were often inexplicably blocked by Ang Lee's similar nihilistic language, and he felt that he was not embarrassed.
Adapting a screenplay is the most headache
Yesterday, the reporter obviously felt that in order to shoot "Color Ring", Ang Lee was haggard a lot, before there was a media that the film should have ended shooting at the end of December last year, but in the middle because of the pier construction site, there were some situations that did not meet Ang Lee's requirements, and went back to overhaul, and the noise at the construction site continued to delay the shooting process. However, when asked about Ang Lee, he admitted that he was indeed tired, but mainly not for time reasons, but for mental torture.
How to turn an extremely challenging gray ending into a promising, the adaptation of the script became Ang Lee's biggest headache. "This film is indeed too murderous, and there are some very different things from my personality, but how to get out soundly is not an easy thing, people should still have hope, how to make the characters in the play slowly step by step out of despair is very difficult." 」
After revisiting Zhang Ailing's original work, the reporter found that although Mr. Yi, played by Liang Chaowei, had a subtle "chemical reaction" with Wang Jiazhi, after Wang Jiazhi exposed her true purpose of being close to herself in order to assassinate herself, she still sent someone to kill Wang Jiazhi. For such an extremely cruel and tragic ending, Ang Lee reiterated that he would be completely faithful to the original work, and the end of his film also ended with Wang Jiazhi being killed by Mr. Yi.
Dissatisfied with Wang Lihong's rumors are untrue
At the beginning of filming, "Color Ring" was exposed by the media that Wang Lihong could not enter the role for a long time, and often NG caused Ang Lee's dissatisfaction. In this regard, Ang Lee rebunked the rumors: "He is indeed on the road in the second half, but it has brought great surprises to the crew, and I am very pleased with the cooperation with Lihong, I don't mind that he can't get into the state soon, because he is a singer, but now I am satisfied with his performance." ”
When asked about Zhang Ziyi's failure to be selected as the heroine of "Color Ring", Ang Lee admitted: "She did take the initiative to find the heroine I wanted to play in "Color Ring", but I think she did not have a problem with her acting skills, but her image temperament was not like Wang Jiazhi in the film. Ang Lee also repeatedly clarified: this time there was no cooperation with Zhang Ziyi, and it had nothing to do with the film remuneration.
The title of the film is very knowledgeable
This time there is a separator in the name of "Color Ring", Ang Lee said that there is a separator in the middle of "Color Ring", the learning is very large, it increases a lot of imagination space, color is emotional to me, ring represents reason, color has feelings, erotic and impulsive feelings, ring is reason, abstinence and restraint, this name represents the conflict between two emotions. Source: Beijing Entertainment News Author: Zong Shan