The most "desired" female star: often talks about money, but after meeting Wong Kar-wai, she became popular
The finale of "Flowers" on Tuesday, Uncle Meat finished watching it for the first time.
The slap in the face is for sure, but I am grateful for this slap in the face, so that I and I can have a feast of light and shadow at the beginning of 2024.
It is indisputable that this drama has stirred up the increasingly tired national drama circle and renovated Wong Kar-wai's aesthetics.
I held my stomach and wanted to say something. The shots are beautiful, the shots are steady, and the characters are worth savoring.
The first thing I want to say can only be her:
Li Li (Xin Zhilei).
I have to say that when I first came out, there were the most rouge mysteries in the north of the Yellow River Road, and because of the wavy red lips, the style was charming.
The more she goes to the back, her face is not as vivid as Lingzi and Miss Wang, and the more Wang Ling doesn't love it, the more festive she is, and her life is high-spirited.
Li Li is more and more sad, this is a person who has been left in the past forever, strength and tenacity are all appearances, the more they are peeled off, the more broken they are, and at the end of the strong crossbow, they finally escaped into the empty door.
Thank you Wong Kar-wai, Xin Zhilei's face of desire was burned by Li Li once.
The more than 1,300 times in the book have not sounded, and there is the most thrilling edition.
01
Nobuyoshi Araki wrote in the book "People with Good Expressions":
The face is the most naked...... As soon as I look at his face, I can tell how that person has come to live.
Li Li's face drama may be the most and heaviest in "Flowers" (because the story is the most mysterious and the mystery is solved the latest).
Her round face is a bit square, and the most important props are eyes and lips.
Just like this cover, the eyes are knives, and the lips are flattering.
The cover of the magazine "Men's Fashion" in collaboration with the French haute couture brand Alaia
For Li Li, Mei is the ticket to the business field, and the knife is a weapon to recognize people.
The appearance shot is a quick cut.
The shadow of the brim of the hat obscured most of the face, and the shadows were full of shadows, the most striking of which was a red lip.
A mysterious beautiful woman.
Delicate figure, how attractive. Especially in Shanghai at night.
It wasn't until the words "Yellow River Road" appeared that she raised her head to reveal her eyes hidden in the shadows.
The eyes are raised, and the weight is lifted.
The stiff light hits the contours of the cheeks, just like a plum leopard looking at its prey.
"Bright eyes and good eyes", in the original novel, Jin Yucheng described Li Li as having bright and flexible eyes and being able to speak.
The upper shape of the eyes is pointed, the eyeballs are slightly convex, and the slight lower three whiteness and pupil occlusion bring a sense of aggression and alienation, which is often described as "not easy to mess with".
"Breaking the Sky" is the same ruthless
Her eyes are not beautiful in the traditional sense, but they are very easy to convey emotions and show strong emotions.
And the reason why Wong Kar-wai chose Xin Zhilei to play Li Li is because she can play "ruthless" with her eyes.
In "Embroidered Spring Knife 2 Shura Battlefield", Xin Zhilei played the heroine Ding Baiying, and cut off Shen Lian (played by Zhang Zhen) with one sword.
Resolute and ruthless.
Wong Kar-wai said I will always remember the look in your eyes when you cut off other people's knives, and Li Li can also have this kind of look.
The initial type of Li Li and Mr. Bao, they don't say a word, don't move, they all rely on their eyes.
When the hotel opened, Li Li invited Mr. Bao to attend the Zhizhen Garden, and set up a bureau to rob Mr. Bao's business, and was snatched back by Mr. Bao at a low price.
Three reversals back and forth, bringing out three changes in the pitching relationship, three eye contacts, and the last one covering the mouth, I don't know if it was an impromptu play or the director's instructions.
The movement of raising his hand is visible to the naked eye, and he is thinking.
I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, covering Mei Yuan (lips), but putting the power of temptation to the maximum.
Wild and exposed, as agile as a beast.
When filming first started, Wong Kar-wai asked Xin Zhilei to watch "Animal World" to learn what cheetah hunting looks like. She was also asked to wear a leopard print and snakeskin skirt.
From the sharpness of the first test to the fun of the opponent in chess, he has always observed Mr. Bao and everyone on the Yellow River Road like a cheetah, waiting to attack, conquer and control.
This is also the reason why Xin Zhilei received the most praise when it was first broadcast.
In the midst of the delicate flowers, Mandarin is loud, full of aura, mysterious background, unknown story, and preemptive.
02
is from the same director, and the northland rouge who goes south, there are always people who can't help but compare Gong Er of "The Grandmaster" with her.
It's actually hard, or it's very different.
Gong Er's hole card is the palace family's sixty-four hands, stubborn, always straight. Crazy with capital.
Although Li Li is strong, his foundation is empty.
Her predecessor was Chen Zhen, one of the escorts of the Shenzhen fleet led by her teacher Mr. A. Hand fast, never missed.
You can refer to the securities trading hand brought by Mr. Qiang from Shenzhen later, the small wavy head, according to the instructions to orderly order the companions to buy and sell, each time after success, the hands are crossed on the waist, the head is slightly raised, and the pride is not good.
The hands are happy, the eyes are bright, he is a securities old bird, this is the real ability of Li Li's real body, but it is a pity that a fake identity, the real ability cannot be seen.
The momentum and arrogance earned in the business war, with 30 million chips, turned into Li Li, the proprietress of Huanghe Road.
On the Yellow River Road, she is the most invisible.
Even at the end of the story, we only know a rough idea.
I came to Huanghe Road to open a restaurant in order to make money to pay off debts and pay off A's innocence.
Because of Bao's intrusion, she hesitated to make money, and her methods were not as ruthless as expected. It leads to a dreamlike sense of detachment in the whole person.
"All this is not a dream, it is a reality that cannot be woken up".
Love has become her background.
The adaptation of the drama version is still merciful.
In the novel, Li Li's father is a senior engineer, his parents believe in Buddhism, and his younger brother committed suicide after being beaten and scolded by his father for becoming a monk. Later, he was deceived by the little sister of the dance hall to Macau, and almost went to the sea, and his stomach was tattooed with a very rough and insulting word, and a bloody rose. After Mr. Zhou immigrated overseas, he got a good reward, eliminated the tattoo, and opened a hotel in Shanghai.
Her room was a mess, full of broken dolls that had been collected from the room where they were being sold to Macau, sprayed with pesticides and mixed with cologne. There is a statue of Guanyin in the corner of the wall, which is weird and reasonable.
In the novel, Li Li and Ah Bao had a one-night stand, knowing that it was impossible for the two, they only regarded him as a relative.
The love scene has gone through a few times, but the bloody rose still can't be extinguished. Finally, in a nunnery on the outskirts of Shanghai, he was ordained in a basket of fiery roses.
The last words left in this earthly world are: Mr. Bao, please take care.
This is the first time in the full text of the novel that Li Li called him "Mr. Bao", and Ah Bao stopped ringing, and immediately froze.
Interestingly, the drama version of Li Li never called him Bao.
"Chen Zhen and Li Li are missing an ID card, and Ah Bao and Bao are always missing a Zhizhen Garden. ”
In a way, she is another Po, a sentient footless bird.
The two must have sympathized with each other.
They all knew that the third wallet was empty, but they dared to open their teeth and claws to break out. They all cherish love and righteousness, and do not take reality as the purpose of life.
For the help of Mr. Fan, Mr. Wei, and Miss Wang, there must be the consideration of "leaving a line in everything", but later the sentence "I am on Mr. A's side, and I will stand when he dies". Even if this conscience kills her lover, she supports and follows it.
"Flowers" is a business war drama of the times on the surface, but in its bones it is a martial arts of the rivers and lakes that is happy and vengeful.
Li Li, who is just starting to emerge, becomes more pitiful the further he goes.
This ambition is nothing but the last vigorous fire of her vitality.
After burning, the rivers and lakes are gone, and the red dust is gone.
03
Li Li was burned out of her life by desire, but Xin Zhilei came out precisely because of desire.
My father was sick and needed money.
In her junior year, Xin Zhilei dropped out of school and went south to make her debut as a model in Guangzhou.
Co-starred with Tony Leung in a suit commercial
Later, at an event, Xin Zhilei was favored by her agent, and then signed a contract with Donnie Yen's company and became an actor. Three or four years after signing the contract, I received the first TV series "Painted Skin".
My career was just starting out, and I didn't make much money. My father's condition deteriorated, and my grandfather was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer.
A computer that never goes out, and a roast duck that can't be eaten at a time, has become a clarion call for her to charge into domestic entertainment again.
My father especially wanted a computer in the hospital bed and wanted to chat with his uncles on QQ. But Xin Zhilei, who was very financially constrained at the time, had to refuse her father's request. After her father's death, Xin Zhilei could only burn her father's paper computer every year to make up for that regret and self-blame.
Grandpa came to Beijing for treatment, and Xin Zhilei very much wanted to take him to eat roast duck once. Also because of lack of money, grandpa was reluctant to order, and no one could eat that meal in the end.
Without fame, there is no money.
If you want to be rich, you can only be famous.
During the casting of the TV series "The Moon Embracing the Stars", Xin Zhilei found the director twice and asked for a chance in front of everyone; in order to get the role of An Lu in "The Yangtze River", the "landlubber" said that he could swim and jumped into the Yangtze River in the cold winter.
Ding Baiying in "Embroidered Spring Knife 2 Shura Battlefield" is a descendant of the Qi family's knife and fights with a big seedling knife. The Miao knife is slender in shape, five feet long (about 1.6 meters), which is an extreme test of waist and back strength, and she practiced until she cried.
Finally became famous, and he didn't engage in modesty.
Because you are humble, there will be no more opportunities.
She can certainly be proud of her lustful face.
I'm proud to have a face full of desire.
But internal entertainment, which is dominated by "white and thin" and girlish aesthetics, is difficult to control this desire.
Xin Zhilei once had no scenes to film.
Even when the popularity was at its peak, it was also the Chinese version of the meal replacement for the pure beauty Song Hye Kyo.
After all, it was the sweet woman who was the leader of 85 flowers and took over the baton after 90 and 95.
When it comes to this mature and wild temperament, what can be thought of is already the last Tsing Yi: Shi Ke, Siqin Gaowa, Gong Li, Ning Ning and other post-60s and post-70s actresses.
This time, Wong Kar-wai made a sample for domestic entertainment.
When Xin Zhilei began to suffer from age anxiety after filming "Flowers" for three years, Wong Kar-wai said that now is the best time for you.
He had the confidence to say this.
Nowadays, when the hot money is gone, the aesthetics of young children, and sweet dramas are prevalent, we always applaud conscience dramas that respect the needs of normal audiences.
They have their own insistences, they belong to different types, but they do not compromise.
The persistence of "Flowers" (Wong Kar-wai) is to retain the beauty of Shanghai (people) in the 90s.
10 years of preparation, 3 years of shooting, and grinding one scene after another.
Don't choose the fastest, choose the right one.
insisted on shooting with a single camera, and Xin Zhilei was not allowed to laugh.
要她像豹子。
Forced her to walk like a dance.
Don't let her learn Shanghainese.
A look, a twist of the head angle is strictly limited.
He even killed it four times.
Just as Zhang Yimou taught Ni Ni to be angry, the scoring system made Zhou Dongyu confident, Ang Lee asked Zhang Ziyi to practice swords, calligraphy, etiquette, and walk at the bottom of the flower pot; Chen Kexin and Liming chatted about the script all night.
Is the director willing to spend a lot of time working with the actors...... In the past, people didn't bring out this kind of performance of Dawn, which had nothing to do with the director or anything, because of a lack of communication, just to spend time with him and stay by his side for days on end.
于是，欲望不响，响了《繁花》。
Today's workers: good blueberries, bad blueberries