After the fierce competition of the "May 1st File" came to an end, several joys and some sorrows, and there may not be a work like "Looking for Han Ji" that lost so badly at the box office, but it did not prevent this film supported by Ren Suxi, Li Baotian, and Wang Zichuan from becoming a high-quality work.
In this film, actress Ren Suxi played a different role, a Beijing girl named Wang Zhao divorced because of the breakdown of her relationship with her husband, and her grandfather (played by Li Baotian), who has been living with her, has a heart attack and is old, in order not to let her grandfather worry about her marriage, Wang Zhao, played by Ren Suxi, conceals the actual situation.
However, with Wang Zhao's unexpected pregnancy, her husband no longer wanted to cooperate with Wang Zhao to act in front of his grandfather, leaving a mess that Wang Zhao could not clean up. The child is always innocent, and in desperation, Wang Zhao had to find a way to find someone to take over the disk without the knowledge of the other party.
Before that, Ren Suxi challenged some of the roles that were relatively spicy and charming, but this time she broke through the drama and played a cowardly, timid, habitual and obedient "fool" with a flattering personality.
Such a contrast is not abrupt in Ren Suxi, her plasticity is vividly displayed in this movie, and people will instantly forget her classic Image of Zhang Yiman in "Donkey Got Water".
Ren Suxi, who came from a drama background, has a deep stage foundation, acting skills and line skills are very solid, it can be said that Ren Suxi may be one of the best actresses in this age group in China, as long as she eats the script thoroughly, playing a normal level is basically foolproof.
The same rare acting skills come from Wang Zichuan, an otaku with a beard and a "mo" who interprets the image of a low-level Beijinger in a beautiful way.
Don't look at him in the play without any sense of violation, but when he first came to audition, he was not like this, his head was a little sad, he had a few dirty braids on the back of his head, he was very punk, and he spoke very literaryly, like a rock musician.
At this time, the director Tang Danian also made a vague remark, saying that this whole artist is an artist, which is the opening of "Mo".
But a good actor is a good actor, the appearance is good, as soon as the camera is aimed at him, the role is immediately on the body, and the nasty energy comes.
On the one hand, his pocket is cleaner than his face, on the other hand, you can't see a little inferiority complex caused by nothing in him, a look of "Grandpa is like this, what's the matter?" I can't get used to holding back" that virtue. I never check out when I go out, but I don't feel that I am climbing you at all, and I am still a little lonely and self-congratulatory, hanging on to lang dang, feeling good about myself.
Wang Zhao, played by Ren Suxi, is the receiver fished from the Internet.
The two met for the first time. Wang Zhao asked him: Do you have a girlfriend?
"Nothing"
"Why not?"
"No why, why did I have it?" I don't love that stuff."
Seeing the BMW parked outside the window, he was even more energetic.
"Look at your high-end car, I didn't dare to go to the front, I can't afford to scrape you with my thick skin."
Three or two sentences choked Wang Zhao to the point of losing his temper.
Don't look at your own turtle, but he doesn't look at the upper class at all, and from time to time he mocks this material and vain behavior, and that kind of self-confidence belongs to the characteristics of Beijing boys. This description is somewhat of the taste of Wang Shuo's lepers, right? Don't worry, in the system of Tang Danian's structure, there are still wonderful lines like Wang Shuo.
Grandpa went to the park to walk his feet, and was just bumped into by this otaku who drove a "motorcycle" and was taken to the hospital. After all, the paper still can't contain the fire, this time and two, the granddaughter and husband of this matter were known to the grandfather, the disheartened grandfather did not have the consent of the granddaughter to return home privately.
As soon as he entered the door, Wang Zhao asked his grandfather, "How did you sneak out of the hospital?" ”
Grandpa looked up: "Then how did you sneak up and get divorced?" ”
Typically concise and neat lines, people enjoy it.
In director Tang Danian we can see some operation models similar to martin scorsese, Sergio Leone and or domestic director Ye Jing, who spend a long time in the early stage to polish the script, to select actors, to shoot scenes, to let the actors experience the role in advance, but the actual time used in the shooting process is very small. The film took two years to prepare before it started, while the on-set shooting took just 45 days.
In fact, this is not difficult to understand, if all the imaginable difficulties are concentrated before the start of shooting, then what needs to be done after booting will not have too many accidents.
After all, as soon as the machine on the site is running, it is money. Good steel used on the blade is a skill that directors of today's small and medium-cost films must master, which will affect the final quality of the film after the film is completed, which Tang Danian did not disappoint at all.
It is not easy to invite Li Baotian, and now Li Baotian lives a fairy-like life, locking himself in the house every day to paint, and has rarely asked about the affairs of the film and television circle, and when Li Baotian appeared in "Looking for Han", many people were quite surprised.
Previously, Teacher Li's agent and Tang Danian met, and the other party said that Teacher Li had recently pushed out millions of dollars. And what impressed Li Baotian and allowed him to go out of the mountains again and return to his old business?
In the face of many reporters' questions, Li Baotian's answer has always been simple: "I don't come out to act because there is no good script on the market, and the roles given to old actors are either the end of life such as nursing homes, or the elderly dementia, and none of them have written the wonderful old people."
This is probably Tang Danian's wife's favorite words, many people may not know, in fact, this movie is a husband and wife file, Tang Danian's wife Zhao Zhao is a writer, and the script is from her handwriting. I would rather not act without a good script, so if he can come out and act, it shows that Li Baotian recognizes Zhao Zhao's creative ability.
Li Baotian is a notoriously difficult actor to work with, he is one of the most difficult actors in the entire film and television circle, and in the early years, he was called "drama bully". In fact, understanding Teacher Li Baotian is not a negative news, which is completely out of Teacher Li's excellence in work. Choosing between offending his peers and offending the audience, he is always inclined to offend the former, which is the self-cultivation of an old artist.
After entering the crew, Li Baotian really found the feeling of acting, he enjoyed a creative atmosphere created by Tang Danian, Wang Zichuan and Ren Suxi, everyone acted when they acted, and when they did not act, they did not pull other miscellaneous idle pieces, and all the topics revolved around creation and performance.
In the film, Li Baotian played Ren Suxi's grandfather, and everyone called him that on the set, so that the scene was finished, and everyone could not change their mouths.
Li Baotian is also quite devoted in "Looking for Han Ji", especially the sense of joy when Grandpa accidentally sees his granddaughter's inspection report, which is too well acted. And the audience watches the movie from the perspective of God and has long learned that the child has lost his biological father. Therefore, the more happy the emotions performed by Li Baotian, the more the audience will be lost, and this contrast is very clever.
Many people see Li Baotian played by the grandfather in the film are sighing, time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like shuttles, in the blink of an eye, Teacher Li has grown up like this, in fact, this is also the sacrifice of Teacher Li Baotian in the play, because the Wang Zhao character in the film is set at 35 years old, so her grandfather who is two generations older may have to run 80 up. In fact, Li Baotian in life is not so old, all thanks to the makeup artist.
Young actors like to dress themselves up young, but the old drama bones are not too old, and they are indeed worthy of respect when they are old.
Speaking of the biggest advantage of this movie, in addition to the fact that several starring actors are very reliable, the sense of reality created by the director is more important, and many movies are also known as era dramas and urban dramas, but no matter how you look at it, you can't see which era this is, nor can you see which country's city this is, as if it is a family in the model room, not grounded.
But "Looking for Han Ji" perfectly avoids this problem, from the characters, scenes can see that the main creators are very attentive, the people in the play speak authentic Beijing dialect, eating fried sauce noodles, fried peanuts and rice, drinking two pots, the audience's reaction to the sense of reality is actually the strongest.
Although the overall performance of the film is good, but from the box office point of view, "Looking for Han Ji" is definitely far from the expectations of the main creators, becoming the most inconspicuous movie in this period, but the inconspicuous movie does not lack its value, inconspicuous does not mean that it can not impress people, as Ren Suxi said: "In fact, most of us are obscure, but each of us is moved in life."