After the film, Wen Suli defeated the 2000-point competition rate and exploded the "impact debut" of that year into an arrow target. Figure/A is provided
South Korean director Lee Cangdong's most classic "Mints" will be released for the first time on August 6 with a 4K digital restoration version, this film was rated as "20 Korean Classic Films" by the British "Guardian", interestingly, director Lee Cangdong can be called the strongest "Film Emperor Film Post-production Machine" in South Korea, including "Korean Grand Slam Film Queen" Quan Duyan, "National Film Emperor" Song Kang-ho, the classic work "Mints" made Xue Gengqiu, Wen Suli famous, a new generation of actors
Lee Cangdong was first known as a writer, and then turned into a film director, very rich in literary background and creative energy, each film in his directing career so far is self-written and self-directed, good at creating unforgettable and vivid characters, the classic "Mints" story structure spans a number of major events in South Korea, sharply pointing out how social turmoil has completely changed the life of the male protagonist, the film uses flashbacks to present, which tests the actor's skill in front of the camera.
Li Cangdong had a unique vision, selected Xue Gengqiu, who was not yet famous at the time, to pick the beam alone, and Wen Suli, who had no film performance experience, both of them had revealed that they had put great pressure on themselves during filming, Xue Gengqiu confessed that when he got the script of "Mints" that year, he couldn't help but read it on the way home, marveling that the script was as wonderful as a novel, decided to gamble on the film career, and finally won the Qinglong Film Emperor and the Big Bell Award Newcomer Award, and successively played "Oasis" with Wen Suli, assisting Wen Suli to win the Best Newcomer Award at the Venice Film Festival.
In a recent interview with wen Suli on the show, he also recalled his debut debut film "Mints", exposing his feelings at that time: "Many people said that I was an extremely impactful debut, because it was a selection of one-thousandth of the competition rate, and the first movie was to be the heroine, but my appearance was not very prominent, and there were actually a lot of words said at that time." Then he shared his views on the script, "I don't know if there is a chance to publish a book, but if it is published, I hope that everyone will read the director's text, I believe there will be a different feeling from the movie." 」
The authoritative foreign media "New York Times" gave "Mints" high praise. Figure/A is provided