Halfway through "The World of Grass and Trees", Wu Mosshua, who has gone mad on the evil road of pyramid schemes in the film, has completely entered a state of madness, she is wearing a red wrinkled top, her messy hair is wet from the rain, the lipstick that has been wiped off the corner of her mouth is like a blood-colored scar, and her eyelashes have fallen off under the thick eye shadow......
At this moment, the picture of the clown standing on the steps in "Joker" played by Joaquin Phoenix automatically jumped out of Yi Feijun's mind.
With her wonderful performance in "The World of Grass and Trees", the 49-year-old Jiang Qinqin won the Best Actress at the 17th Asian Film Awards.
Gu Xiaogang's second film "Grass and Trees in the World" is simply tailor-made for Jiang Qinqin.
Yi Feijun's impression of Jiang Qinqin is still stuck in the 2003 version of the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" as Mu Nianci. Some people say that Jiang Qinqin's version of Mu Nianci is the most beautiful, surpassing Meng Qiu, Yang Panpan, Qiu Shuyi, Guan Baohui, Liu Shishi, and Meng Ziyi. Especially Jiang Qinqin's crying scene, which interprets Mu Nianci, who has suffered countless grievances in the emotional world, is heartbreaking.
In fact, Mu Nianci's personality is really a bit similar to Wu Moss in "The World of Grass and Trees".
Mu Nianci, who was born poor, fell in love with Yang Kang, a handsome but ambitious and unscrupulous nobleman, because of a martial arts competition. Mu Nianci has a gentle personality and beautiful appearance, she knows that Yang Kang is a wild wolf on the grassland, but she still loves humbly and has no regrets, which is also doomed to her tragic end. Wu Moss in "The World of Grass and Trees" is not it!
Wu Moshua was born poor, but she is an out-and-out village flower with countless suitors. Her marriage to her husband He Shan, who has been missing for 10 years, was a tragedy from the beginning, and in the film, Moss Hua complained to her best friend Jin Lan: "Every time I have a relationship with my husband, I feel like I am begging him." Contacting the information later, He Shan first coexisted with "Uncle Deaf" for a long time, and then ran away with Uncle Ah Liang, the meaning of which is self-evident.
Moss Hua has long been dead to her husband, but she can't stand her son Mulian (Wu Lei)'s eager "father" mood. Moss Hua lived a depressed life, but fortunately, she had a heart-to-heart relationship with Master Qian (played by Chen Jianbin ), who sold tea, and also tried to ask her son's opinion, whether she could agree to live with Master Qian? In addition, Master Qian's mother came to the door, which made her unable to gain a foothold in the village, so she had to choose to go to Hangzhou to live and work with her son.
Beautiful, docile, depressed, and humble, this is the background color of Wu Mosshua's character, which is simply a simplified version of "Mu Nianci". This does not pose any challenge to Jiang Qinqin's performance, but if there is no such background, there will be no strong contrast effect in the future.
After "entering the demon", Wu Moss is the most exciting.
The beginning and end of "The World of Grass and Trees" are full of poetry and Zen, but the middle part uses a very realistic approach to capture the process of Wu Moshua gradually being brainwashed by the pyramid scheme organization "Butterfly International" and finally going crazy. Just like the internal training videos of MLM organizations found by many viewers on the Internet, "The World of Grass and Trees" artistically reproduces these pictures, and some viewers may think that these MLM techniques are a bit old-fashioned, but Yi Feijun does not recognize it, because it still captures the main psychological characteristics of these brainwashed people, that is, they hope to get ahead and become "independent and confident" people.
As the line says: We can fail, we can fall, we can be ignored, we can be ridiculed, we can be betrayed, we can be penniless, we are riddled with diseases, our families are ruined, we are desperate, we can even go crazy, but we will never accept our fate!
The focus of the film is on Wu Mosshua's psychological transformation. There is a scene in the film, Wu Mosshua, who began to enter the role, was rowing with her son with heavy makeup, and her son felt very strange when he saw his mother for the first time, but Wu Moss Hua was obviously used to this kind of life, and she also gave the remaining "foot sticker" products to the female worker who rocked the boat, everything was very calm and natural.
What is so good about Jiang Qinqin's performance? Yi Feijun believes that first of all, she has accurately interpreted the psychological transformation process of Wu Mosshua, there are many close-ups in the middle, and her expression and eyes convey the psychological transformation of the character, how she went from doubting at the beginning to doubting it, and then entering the role later, which is commonplace, and finally enters the state of madness.
The most explosive scene is that when she was secretly called by her son during internal training, although the police did not arrest her after arriving at the scene, she felt betrayed by her son, so she threw her son to the ground and slapped him a few times, and then there was this personal monologue similar to "clown" in the rain. The camera of this scene is almost all in front of Jiang Qinqin's face, and she needs to perform it in one go, this kind of hysterical performance really requires the actor to have the courage to go out, and she did a pretty good job.
Of course, Wu Mosshua's success is not small due to the actor's performance, but also the makeup artist's credit. Wu Mosshua's simple dress from the tea girl at the beginning to the exaggerated makeup and clothing later hinted at her inner transformation. In addition, the director also put a lot of effort into the body language of the actors, including the posture of walking and the movements of the hands. These factors add up to make the character of Wu Moss come alive on the screen.
For an actress, it is not easy to completely let go of acting, but Jiang Qinqin really did it this time. "The World of Grass and Trees" is not a perfect movie, but the role of Wu Moss Hua is very realistic and educational. With this role, Jiang Qinqin can be regarded as completely stepping out of the shadow of "Mu Nianci" and achieving a higher level in performance.
Benefit time
Yi Feijun will give you 40 redemption codes for the movie "Grass and Trees". Please forward this WeChat to the circle of friends, and take a screenshot to the background, and leave a message [grass and trees in the world + name + phone]. We will randomly select 20 lucky fans and each will receive 2 redemption codes.
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