Director Chen Kaige said when promoting "Chosin Lake": Such a warm reaction from the audience is the greatest affirmation of the work. However, in addition to a good work, in addition to a team that can tell stories and tell history well, it is also inseparable from the blessing of good actors' acting skills. Especially Wu Jing, he is not only the top pillar of the Wu family, the main backbone of the Seven Lian, but also an actor with excellent acting skills!
Subsequently, Chen Kaige's painting style changed: "But even if the box office of "Chosin Lake" is high, Xu Ke and I will not use Wu Jing again." Chen Kaige also said: Wu Jing is now both an actor and a director, and every time he looks for him to shoot a scene, sometimes it feels like we are "redundant"
Although it is a joke, but a lot of truth is sandwiched in the joke, is this really a joke to praise Wu Jing's great role, or do you have an opinion on Wu Jing's interference in the director's affairs?
In many of Stephen Chow's early films, the director was not Stephen Chow.
Taking 1992 as an example, this year was named the Year of Stephen Chow by the Hong Kong film industry, and the Hong Kong box office Zhou Xingchi alone occupied the top five, and there were seven Stephen Chow movies in the first fifteen miles!
The director of "Death Judge" is Du Qifeng;
The director of "Happy Things at Home" is Gao Zhisen;
The director of "Deer Ding" is Wang Jing;
The director of "Truant Weilong" and "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er" is Chen Jiashang;
The directors of "Comics Veyron" are Zuo Songsheng and Yuan Kui.
Of the seven films, none of them were directed by Stephen Chow, not even screenwriters. But these movies are called "Stephen Chow" movies.
It is because Stephen Chow shows a strong personal style in these films and dominates the filmmaking process. This is also the reason why many people hate to cooperate with Stephen Chow.
You are obviously not a director, but you have done the work of a director!
This is the case in the film and television drama industry, who is strong and who is dominant. Many american dramas are led by screenwriters, and the director can be replaced every episode, a proper tool person.
When we talk about "Let the Bullets Fly", "One Step Away", and "Evil Does Not Pressure the Right", we definitely say that this is Jiang Wen's film, do you say that this is Zhou Runfa's movie, Ge You's movie, Peng Yuyan's movie?
When we talk about Zhang Yimou's "Shadow", do we say that this is Deng Chao's movie?
This is the normal style of painting in which the director's style is stronger than the actor's style.
Chen Kaige came to shoot "Chosin Lake" and it is not easy to say that there are some components that he is completely willing to do. And it is a co-production with people, and in the end, everyone discussed Wu Jing's "Changjin Lake" with Chen Kaige's temperament, I can only say hehe.
As the old saying goes, call mu xiu in the forest, the wind will destroy it.
Too many people are stronger than most people are always lonely. With Wu Jing's volume and performance in the film world, he can only play by himself and take others to play in the future. It is not that Chen Kaige and the like can cooperate casually, and Director Chen can rest assured that no one will rob him of the limelight anymore, because Director Chen's films can be predicted, and it will be difficult to reach the top of the box office in his lifetime.
First, Chen Kaige's belly is extremely narrow, and the steamed bun incident of that year and the blogger of the B station last year can be seen.
This time he cooperated with Wu Jing, compared to other actors Chen Kaige can command and control each other by seniority, Wu Jing's position and ability as an actor and director, it is difficult for him to make Wu Jing obedient.
Of course, this is not to say that Wu Jing plays a big name and does not follow the director's arrangement, but Wu Jing, who is also a director, even in the case of shooting action scenes, experience, ability, and control are more than Chen Kaige, he also hopes that the film will have a better presentation, so it is inevitable that there will be different opinions with Chen Kaige on the scene because of certain problems.
The key in this regard, Chen Kaige is not Xu Ke who has filmed "Wise Tiger Mountain", not Lin Chaoxian who has filmed "Red Sea Action", these two directors have proved their professional ability, but Chen Kaige can direct this action drama itself, not because he has experience in shooting this kind of war film, but because he is an elderly director who belongs to the mainland, if Zhang Yimou has no time, this title will naturally fall on him.
This is the decision of the above assignment task to pat the head, Chen Kaige also likes to "on seniority", holding chicken feathers as an arrow, this time he yin and yang weird ridicule Wu Jing, rather than Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian ridicule Wu Jing, not Wu Jing really play a big card, but in many shooting details, some of his ideas and arrangements are difficult to convince Wu Jing.
Of course, as for the second reason why Chen Kaige ridiculed Wu Jing, the key is that Chen Kaige is not so good at using actors.
Those who really know how to control actors and know how to give actors performance space and creative space are generally habitually called "a certain girl", such as "Feng Girl", "Mou Girl", "Star Girl", and the habitual "Girl" itself is an affirmation of the director's ability to adjust the actor, and many actors are eager to become "Mou Girl", and they are also rushing to the award.
But when making Chen Kaige's films, both men and women, will often become vases and props for presenting a movie.
Of course, this is not a satire that Chen Kaige does not give actors space, because many big directors in film history are like this, such as hitchcock, Kubrick, Kurosawa Akira, etc., there is no problem with this kind of "driving actor" director, after all, generally this kind of director is a very genre director, and the actor's choice to play his work is wishful thinking.
But the shooting of "Chosin Lake" is not the same, this is a mission-style movie, there is no wu jing to rub Chen Kaige, there is no one to control whom, Chen Kaige and Wu Jing itself is a very important part of the completion of this movie, but Chen Kaige has been a big director for a long time, the genre is becoming more and more serious, but also immersed in the world where others are also famous for him, with a strong desire for control.
Even if he didn't know so much about war movies, even if Wu Jing was right to discuss with him, he would still tell him very strongly, I have to shoot like this, that's how I make movies. Here I am the director.
This is not now, Chen Kaige directly put the words in his heart into the face.