Since its release on June 18, the film "Shoudao Man" directed by Chen Li has received numerous praises, and the film has currently reached 76 million yuan at the box office, with a maoyan score of 9.4 points and a Douban score of 7.4 points. In the film, the deep love of Teacher Wang Shihua, played by Gong Zhe, for her husband Wang Jicai (Liu Ye) has touched countless audiences. On July 2, actor Gong Zhe was interviewed and talked about the story behind the shooting, "Only by paying all the sincerity can we perform Wang Shihua's deep affection for her husband and the country." ”
"You guard the island, I guard you" for 32 years
Director Chen Li had previously seen Gong Zhe's 2005 film "The Two of Us", which was directed by director Ma Liwen, who was a freshman at the time, and after eating spicy hot one morning, she came out of the canteen and was stopped by the director and had this cooperation. With her wonderful performance, she won the Best Newcomer Award at the 13th University Student Film Festival and has since stepped into the film and television industry as a non-professional actor. Director Chen Li feels that gong zhe has a rare simplicity and nature, and Gong Zhe is the actor he wants to find.
At the end of 2019, director Chen Li took the actors to Kaishan Island in Guanyun County, Jiangsu Province to experience life. Gong Zhe remembered that when they went to Kaishan Island, it was freezing rain and wet and cold. Although I have done a lot of preparation and seen photos and videos before, when I actually stand on Kaishan Island, the scene in front of me still shocks me.
She remembers that Teacher Wang Shihua took everyone to tour the island, because she lived on an isolated island for many years, the humidity was heavy, Teacher Wang Shihua's leg suffered from femoral head necrosis, walking was limping, it was very difficult to go up the steps, director Chen Li supported her the whole time. It was winter, her hands were severely cracked, and her fingers were wrapped in plaster. All of this, Gong Zhe saw in her eyes, became part of her later creative nourishment.
Teacher Wang Shihua took everyone to see the peach trees that the couple planted before, these peach trees are now very tall and can produce peaches every year. There are also vegetable gardens, neem trees and so on. In the conversation with Teacher Wang Shihua, Gong Zhe felt more and more that this woman really loved Wang Jicai too much, and this affection made her give up her job as a decent and stable primary school teacher at that time, and desperately came to the deserted island, and since then, "you guard the island, I guard you" has achieved a 32-year love legend, "At that time, Teacher Wang Shihua had to make such a decision, it must be very difficult, and their deep affection for each other and the deep affection for the country made me moved." ”
All the showmanship shows are pretentious
In the face of such a real and noble character, all the showmanship performances are pretentious. Before shooting, director Chen Li explained to the actors that they must not act, but should naturally reveal.
"Do anything with sincerity, and there will be power." In order to play this role well, she arrived at the shooting location half a month before shooting. The actors were exposed to the sun every day in order to darken their skin as quickly as possible. They also jump into the sea to soak, and the salt can make the skin darken faster. All of this is to make yourself close to the character in appearance.
On the first day of booting, there was a strong wind of eight or nine levels on the island, and Gong Zhe stood on the "flag-raising platform" on the island, "It is not easy to stand firmly, and when you lift your feet, you feel that your legs are floating." "The tent where the monitor is placed, because the wind is too strong, it needs 4 people to hold down the four corners of the ground, otherwise it will be overturned," such weather, almost every day. ”
In the film, Wang Shihua goes to the island for the first time, she carries a quilt in one hand and a cloth bag containing dumplings in the other hand, and walks ashore from the dock. When filming, the wind and waves were big, the waves on the shore were higher than Gong Zhe, and when a wave came, her whole body was soaked, and these waves that appeared in the film were real.
As early as when reading the information, Gong Zhe couldn't help but cry, so bitter and lonely island life, the two actually insisted on 32 years, "They are much more bitter than us, compared with them, we really are nothing." ”
Every day when it was not dawn, Gong Zhe would get up to put on makeup, and as soon as it was dawn, they would set off to shoot the filming site. Filming life is very militarized, and everyone's emotions are also full. When shooting on the island, stumbling is a common thing, and injuries are inevitable, but everyone helps and encourages each other, and the shooting scene is orderly.
"I saw tears fly from the corners of my eyes"
There are several scenes in the film that make Gong Zhe remember deeply. There is a scene where Wang Shihua gives birth on the island. In the plot, it is exactly a typhoon day, the outside is stormy, the doctor on the shore can not take a boat to the island to deliver Wang Shihua, can only rely on the phone to guide Wang Jicai to deliver his wife, but Wang Shihua is difficult to give birth, and even once did not even have the strength to work hard, the situation is in danger...
In order to perform this play well, Gong Zhe, who is not yet married, humbly asked his friends who were mothers around him for advice, and also watched a large number of materials and videos, and made meticulous preparations for the performance. The filming process went smoothly, and the scene became a climax of the film, and many viewers praised Gong Zhe's performance.
There is also a scene, that is, the little bean played by Zhang Yishan in the film, brings many ships to visit Wang Jicai and his wife. In one of the boats, there stood the officers and men who had previously guarded Kaishan Island, and everyone saluted the couple standing on the lookout. During the shooting, when Wang Jicai (Liu Ye) finished shouting, "Please rest assured chief, the island and soybeans are even good!" After this line, the two turned to salute the tombstone of the soybean company commander (Xiao Douzi's father) buried on the island, at this time, the wind was very strong, and Gong Zhe saw the tears in the corners of his eyes fly.
There are a lot of scenes in the film where couples raise the national flag. Whether it is Wang Jicai raising the flag or Wang Shihua raising the flag, Gong Zhe's feelings are the same, "The national flag is a symbol of national honor, every time you see the national flag flying in the air, there will be a strong sense of honor and pride, and you can also feel their 32 years of perseverance, loyalty to the party, loyalty to the country." ”
Great beauty, no high-grade cosmetics can be smeared out
Wang Shihua, played by Gong Zhe, lives on the island for many years and has a rough appearance. At a screening, a female audience member stood up and asked Gong Zhe, "Do you have any concerns about playing such an image?" Gong Zhe replied, "No, because I think she is very beautiful, and her heart is even more beautiful." The audience replied, "Like you, I think she is beautiful, especially beautiful." ”
Gong Zhe really thinks that Wang Shihua is very beautiful, and she loves this role very much from the heart, "She abandoned the daily dress of women to accompany her lover, she intertwined love and family affection, which is a kind of great beauty, which cannot be smeared by any high-grade cosmetics." In addition, Teacher Wang Shihua is also very kind, kindness is a person's background, her beauty, great love is silent. ”
At a premiere in Nanjing, Wang Shihua herself said after watching the movie, "The little girl acted really well, just like me." This sentence made Gong Zhe happy, she felt that her efforts were not in vain, "This performance, from the spiritual and psychological level, did her best, to the heart of the character archetype to get closer, to get closer, other things will naturally be brought out." ”
"I am honored and happy to have the opportunity to play Teacher Wang Shihua, and for me, it is a spiritual sublimation." Gong Zhe said that there is a line in the movie "The Island Keeper": If you do one thing well in your life, you will not lose your heart; if you don't lose your heart, you will not live in vain. This line seems ordinary, but it is the persistence of these ordinary people bit by bit that has created our happy life and the strength of the motherland.