One day in 2010, director Zhang Yimou sat in front of the computer, and thousands of beautiful photos of beautiful women were played on the screen, only to see Zhang Dao's eyebrows locked, a serious face, and a sigh from time to time.
The other staff stood on the sidelines, looking at each other, the atmosphere did not dare to come out, and the temperature of the whole room dropped to the freezing point.
"China is not short of people, my requirements are very simple, under 18 years old, good looking, temperamental, find such a girl, is it so difficult?"
No one dared to answer the phone, thinking: It's difficult.
You know, in order to find Jing Qiu, the heroine of "Hawthorn Tree Love", tens of thousands of photos were taken alone, but to Zhang Dao's here, it is all three words: not off.
Just when everyone was worried about what to do, the latest photo was sent over, Zhang Dao continued to select, suddenly, someone noticed that the director's mouth showed a smile.
Is there a play? In any case, the hanging hearts of the crowd finally relaxed a little.
In 2010, Zhang Yimou, who had already won the superstars such as Gong Li Zhang Ziyi, suddenly wanted to change his taste and planned to make a small fresh movie, and also let the audience change the misunderstanding that he would only have one style.
With the efforts of many parties, Zhang Yimou's team obtained the adaptation rights of the novel "Hawthorn Tree Love" and quickly began preparations.
Zhang Dao's "small fresh" idea this time was first reflected in the choice of the heroine Jingqiu.
From the beginning, he put forward his own casting requirements: under 18 years old, pure, green and beautiful.
After understanding the "purpose", the assistant director of the team acted separately and went to the major art colleges across the country to select, before leaving, everyone was full of confidence, what is not easy to find, beautiful girls are not easy to find.
However, is Zhang Dao's standard so simple that it can be understood?
After the assistant directors arrived at their destination, they organized the selection through various means, took tens of thousands of photos before and after, and after comparison, more than 6,000 photos were selected and sent to Beijing for Zhang Yimou to make a final decision.
Pick one of the thousands, I can also choose it, did not think, Zhang Dao looked at the photo over and over again, the face is getting more and more ugly, the expression is more and more serious.
"It's just not beautiful enough, to have temperament, to be special, to be innocent."
Abstract requirements, so that the staff can not start, in the end what is the standard temperament beauty?
At this time, Zhang Dao accidentally saw a post on the Internet that "Brothersan did all his belongings to ask for this woman", only to see that in the photo, a girl holding milk tea, smiling sweetly, and small stars flashed in her eyes.
Zhang Yimou patted his thigh, and his heart was ecstatic: "Stepping on the iron shoes is nowhere to be found, and it takes no effort to get it."
He quickly arranged for his assistant to contact the girl in the photo, which is what we know, the first generation of Internet celebrities "milk tea sister" Zhang Zetian.
Being selected as the heroine by Zhang Yimou, this is an opportunity that many people dream of but can't ask for, but Zhang Zetian, who was studying in his second year of high school at the time, first politely thanked him after learning the news, and then politely refused with academic emphasis.
Although Zhang Dao felt extremely sorry, he also greatly appreciated Zhang Zetian's sobriety, and Zhang Zetian's refusal made the entertainment industry less of a new star, but let the business empire have more of a Jingdong boss lady.
The Hawthorn Tree team had to get back into casting. By chance, the heroine Zhou Dongyu finally broke into the team's field of vision.
On this day, the assistant director who was sent to nanjing art college spent a day walking around the campus, finding nothing, and when he was ready to leave, he suddenly noticed Zhou Dongyu in the crowd of people queuing for the exam.
Only to see her small, emaciated, with a simple pill head, from time to time forward probe, beautiful and insufficient, but ignorant and cute.
The staff hurried over and reported to the door: "I am the assistant director of Zhang Yimou, can I take a photo of you?" ”
Zhou Dongyu's first reaction, who had never been in the world, said: "You won't be a liar, will you?" ”
The deputy director cried and laughed, and after patiently explaining, he finally took a photo and sent it to his colleagues in Beijing at the first time.
When zhang dao saw it with anxiety, his eyes immediately lit up: "Bring this little girl to see me." ”
After the meeting, Zhang Yimou looked at it carefully and asked two questions: Are you in love? Do you usually wear makeup?
Zhou Dongyu shook his head and said: No.
Zhang Yimou was excited: "Just set you, the heroine of the movie "Hawthorn Tree Love" Jing Qiu, the film remuneration of 150,000", Zhou Dongyu was stunned on the spot, and he became the female number one?
But as soon as the news came out, the voices of opposition rose and fell.
The biggest opinion is the original author of the novel, Amy, who has been writing for several days complaining about dissatisfaction with the selection of the heroine, and even rose to the disrespect of the film screenwriter for the original work, almost causing a scolding war.
People who have read the original work know that The JingQiu described in the novel "feels that her thighs are very thick, her chest is too large, she can always hide it, and she can cover it", which should be a relatively plump girl.
Obviously, Zhou Dongyu's "one-horse Pingchuan" figure does not conform to the character setting.
But Zhang Yimou insisted that compared with the proximity of the appearance, the greenness and innocence on Zhou Dongyu's face was the effect that the film wanted to express more.
As time went on, the shooting proceeded as scheduled, and the voices of opposition gradually weakened.
The image temperament is there, but after all, it is a newcomer actor, and during the shooting process, Zhang Yimou has worked hard.
When filming a kiss scene, in the face of so many staff and camera machines on the scene, Zhou Dongyu always couldn't let go, and Dou Xiao, who played the third oldest, just came up with her mouth, and she cried out in fright.
In the end, there was really no way, Zhang Dao emptied the scene, "hidden" the machine, and completely adopted the "secret shooting" method, Zhou Dongyu relaxed and successfully completed the shooting task.
In terms of shooting techniques, Zhang Yimou has also made great adjustments.
The emotional expression of his previous works is bold, warm, and externalized, but this time, the director's entire line of thought is trying to "collect".
For the two newcomer actors, Zhang Yimou gave them a lot of free space to play, sometimes without shouting to stop after starting the camera, letting them follow their feelings, and then selecting the appropriate clips according to the situation.
What Zhang Dao wants to grasp is that kind of state, some shyness, timidity, and introversion, which is also an important reason for choosing Zhou Dongyu, so many of the shots we see are actually obtained by chance.
The emotional interaction between Jing Qiu and lao San is also very subtle, and until the point is reached, this is very different from the original work, but it is more in line with the background of that era, people's love state.
"Hawthorn Tree Love" is not an idol film, more like a slow-moving documentary, such as a clip of two people riding a bicycle, and the photographer also took a lot of beautiful and brilliant shots, but most of them were cut in the later stage, in order to feel realistic.
The whole process, precisely because Zhou Dongyu is a newcomer and has no acting experience, so there is no need to deliberately pinch it, it is natural.
After the movie was released, a large number of stars walked into the theater to support, Sun Honglei after watching it, his eyes were red, saying that he had not seen such a quiet and good film for a long time, and Yan Ni cried from the beginning to the end, unable to extricate herself.
The love of Jingqiu Laosan is known as "the purest love in history", which has earned the tears of the audience, and Zhou Dongyu, who debuted on the screen, became a hit and became a popular hit, with the aura of a new generation of "Girl Seekers", becoming a representative of purity, cleanliness and youth in the hearts of the audience.
Compared with the rave reviews of the movie, the drama version of "Hawthorn Tree Love" broadcast two years later was unexpectedly cold, which caused the director to be very "aggrieved".
The film was released in 2010, and the drama version was only broadcast in 2012, and the audience naturally believed that the drama version was a "remake", and director Li Lu could not help but "cry out for his own injustice".
In fact, as early as 2007, Li Lu's team got the right to adapt the novel, earlier than Zhang Yimou's team.
The road to adaptation is difficult and long, and it takes halfway through the work to change the screenwriter temporarily, and it takes three years before and after completion. At this time, because Director Li was nervous about filming "The Happiness of the Boss", he could not get out, so the start time was also delayed again and again.
The matter is indeed the real thing, the actor of the drama version of the old third Li Guangjie revealed that very early on, someone looked for him to play the third old, said that the good script came over, the result was no news, three times in a row, he almost thought he was being played.
However, the director does not regret it, he firmly believes that good things are more grinding.
After the official casting began, many people were interested in the role of Jingqiu, Jiang Wen's wife Zhou Yun, and the popular actress Jiang Yiyan were eager to try, and finally missed for various reasons.
At this time, Wang Luodan ran to the interview on the recommendation of a friend, and did not expect to succeed at once, in her own words: this role was "cheated".
On that day, she put on light makeup and wore a dress with a green print on a white background, and her fresh temperament was immediately revealed.
Wang Luodan is usually a very talkative person, but when talking to the director that day, she deliberately slowed down the speed of speech, and the director asked ten sentences, and she only answered one sentence.
In this way, it left a pure impression on the director and became a drama version of Jingqiu.
The director was satisfied, but the audience did not pay the bill, and some people proposed: Wang Luodan is black and thin, and there is no feeling of pure and pure love at all.
To this end, Director Li deliberately found the prototype of the "sister-in-law" in the novel, Xu Jinxiu, and as soon as she saw Wang Luodan, she said excitedly: "It is like this, very similar to her, thin, a little dark, more than the Jing Qiu statue in the movie." ”
After "Jing Qiu"," the leading teacher of the year, Teacher Luo, saw it, he also said that this actor was more in line with Jing Qiu's temperament.
Wang Luodan herself is also very hard, in order to make herself conform to the original image, in addition to four meals a day, she also eats a variety of snacks to gain weight.
She temporarily turned off Weibo, pushed away other jobs, pulled the elders around her to understand the stories of that era, learned the accordion, learned to dance, learned table tennis, and strived to make herself close to Jingqiu.
During the shooting process, Wang Luodan was also meticulous, and when she was slightly dissatisfied, she took the initiative to ask for a reshoot, and sometimes the director was satisfied with it, and she herself had to strive for better.
The scene effect is also good, the crew often cries together, Li Guangjie said, he shed more tears than in the past three years combined.
But even so, after the TV series was broadcast, it was still questioned a lot, and the audience inevitably compared the two versions of the protagonist.
In the film version, the youthful aura of Zhou Dongyu and Dou Xiao overflowed the screen, while Wang Luodan and Li Guangjie in the drama version were too mature and did not seem to match "pure love".
Director Li Lu believes that he does not want to simply express "pure feelings", Jingqiu is not pampered, she has endured a lot, and her heart is strong; the third elder has certain social experience, and is Jingqiu's spiritual mentor, and both should have a mature side.
Director Li spoke highly of Wang Luodan's performance by Li Guangjie: "They performed a sense of age, which is very real. ”
The directors have said so, and there are always some good people who pick bones in the eggs.
In an interview, the host directly asked Wang Luodan: "Have you seen the movie "Hawthorn Tree Love"? ”
Geng's straight Wang Luodan replied "without a brain": "No, there is no time to see." ”
"What do you think of Zhou Dongyu?"
Geng Zhi replied again: "To be honest, I have not seen what she looks like, I know that the Internet says that she is not good-looking, and there are some things, I was at the time, I also glanced at it, did not take it seriously." ”
As soon as this remark came out, some good deeds took it out of context, and then Wang Luodan said that the topic of Zhou Dongyu's ugliness spread throughout the Internet, and Wang Luodan also offended people because of his own Geng Zhi.
But in fact, Wang Luodan was originally a big grinning girl, and there was no malice. The reason why she can star in the drama version of Jingqiu is also carefully considered by the director.
The drama version is not only a love line, the addition of other supporting roles makes the emotional line more abundant, and Wang Luodan's acting skills support the plot and will not be thin.
It's just that the turnip greens have their own love, and different people play the same role, which is definitely a different look and feel. Audiences like Zhou Dongyu, probably more because of preconceived notions about movies; at the same time, there is no shortage of audience friends who like Wang Luodan's version of Jingqiu.
Nowadays, the two "jingqiu" have developed very well, Zhou Dongyu has climbed all the way since his debut, his career has risen all the way, his works have continued, and some time ago, he even became a jury member of a film festival, which really fought for the post-90s actresses.
And Wang Luodan has also created many classic roles, and in addition to filming, she knows how to enjoy life and enjoy time.
Two versions of "Hawthorn Tree Love", each with its own advantages, which version do you prefer?
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