The new film "Sneaking" starring Andy Lau, Lin Jiadong, Peng Yuyan, Liu Yase, etc. is currently being screened, and Peng Yuyan's Superintendent Fang Xing of the Cyber Investigation Bureau is the mainstay of three generations of police.
Even so, the police have repeatedly returned in vain and been contemptuous and provoked by the villain Lin Zhen'an, who is cautious and law-abiding, and the undercover agent sent by Fang Xing was brutally tortured and killed by Lin Zhen'an, which also made Fang Xing begin to re-examine his "desperate for not achieving the goal" case-handling creed. After bidding farewell to his comrades-in-arms, Superintendent Fang, who was even more determined, led three generations of police officers to bite drug lords, which was shocking and moving.
Peng Yuyan, who has played a policeman in many movies, joked that compared with "Cold War" and "Operation Mekong", the young and promising policeman Fang Xing played this time is more "regular".
Previously, Peng Yuyan and Andy Lau had participated in two movies together, but in fact, in "Sneaking", he finally had a formal rivalry with each other, "He is a very hands-on person, he will guide me how to do movements on the spot, and I have a lot Xi of things to learn from him." ”
"I want to play a different kind of policeman"
Peng Yuyan has not made a movie for more than a year after filming "Dog Formation", and when he received the script of "Sneaking", he saw that the director of the film, Guan Zhiyao, had worked together in "Cold War", and the starring Andy Lau, Lin Jiadong, and Ren Dahua were also seniors he was very familiar with.
In his opinion, "Stealth" is a pure police and bandit Hong Kong film, fighting wits and courage to pursue drug dealers on the Internet, allowing the audience to understand the harm of drugs, and the film also reflects the different working methods and inheritances of three generations of police, such as young police officers who are light and have long been Xi to using tablets, and senior people may also write reports by hand.
"Senior police, Mesozoic police, and young policemen, the collision, update and inheritance of each other's concepts, I think this is actually a phenomenon that exists in every industry, for example, we are actors, there are two or three generations in a crew, senior actors and Mesozoic or younger newcomers, so how do we cooperate or inherit, is a problem to think about. ”
Before, although Peng Yuyan played a policeman in "Cold War", he was actually a villain, and the anti-drug undercover agent played in "Operation Mekong" has many different images, and it is not the policeman that everyone knows in the conventional sense, this time in "Stealth" is a more orthodox and young image, he and Andy Lau played the villain and Lin Jiadong played the undercover, in three different areas: black, white and gray.
What attracted Fang Xing to Peng Yuyan was that this character had a process of slowly growing and changing, and he was more comfortable acting.
"Because he's a police officer in a more conventional sense, he's more confident and ambitious, and he thinks I can do anything, as long as I decide. He would feel that the old-school way of handling cases should turn the page, and we young people would just come in the future, but then he found that he still had a lot to learn in the process, especially after the sacrifice Xi of his companions, including the departure of his own brother, which hit him hard. ”
As the producer of the film, when Andy Lau invited Peng Yuyan, he kept telling him, "You just use you like this." Peng Yuyan, who loves fitness, has always maintained a professional figure, but he himself felt that he needed to be stronger, so he added a lot of weight gain training, and also shaved an inch, which made it more neat.
"This time, I want to play a different policeman, and Andy Hua thinks that my own appearance and this feeling are especially suitable for showing what it is like for people of this age to be a normal policeman, rather than acting. I think this idea is very right, the real policeman can't always be like in the movie, he is also a normal person, and he will also have a life-like side, just because his profession must face the public and arrest criminals, these things are his profession, and he must do them. ”
"Andy's willingness to communicate and share is very precious"
Previously, Peng Yuyan and Andy Lau had both participated in the movies "Cold War" and "The Great Wall", but in fact, "Sneaking" was the first time that the two had a real in-depth cooperation, and the first time they had a real rivalry.
Peng Yuyan revealed that Andy Lau, as the producer and starring actor, will stay on the set when he has no role, sometimes adjust the script, ask the actors what they think, and give some suggestions.
"He gave me the impression that he knew exactly what he was going to shoot and that he had a very positive and close communication with the director. For example, if he thinks that my character should add some more violent and angry states, so that the change in the character's personality will be more obvious later, then I think he has a point, and I will try to do it. ”
In Peng Yuyan's eyes, Andy Lau is a very diverse actor, "He seems to be able to do anything, he has filmed more than 100 dramas and has been in the industry for 40 years, so he is very experienced." ”
Just like the collision of different generations of police officers at work in "Stealth", the seniors are very experienced, and the juniors may have their own new ideas, Peng Yuyan learned the performance experience of the seniors, which became his harvest.
"Andy is willing to share all his things, I think this is very precious and worth learning Xi. Sometimes it's hard to really communicate with actors, because I have my own set, he has his own set, but Andy is very willing to share his set, if I am willing to listen, I will learn. Playing them in their way might be more in line with the role, because I only have the way to think of what I think, then they may be looking at things from a higher perspective, and their suggestions can also broaden my imagination of myself, so I will try to see if I can do what they want me to be, or maybe I can blend in with what I want to be. But there may be times when I feel like I have to be myself, and he's all for it. ”
During the filming of "Stealth", the actors' performances had a lot of room for discussion and adjustment, which made Peng Yuyan open himself up more and see his different appearance, and he always hoped that the audience could see his different images on the big screen, such as in the previous "Once Upon a Time in the Tropics", he played a guilty air-conditioning master, and in the upcoming new film "Dog Formation", he is a member of the folk dog fighting team who is gradually aroused love, " I wanted something different to come out of, and I wanted it to be something that didn't seem obtrusive to the audience, and I'm constantly experimenting. ”