After the fire with the romance drama "Want to See You", Ke Jiayi's other youth love movie "Your Love Song" was released on August 20.
In fact, "Your Love Song" is not a standard new film. The film was already released in Taiwan in January 2020 and won the annual Chinese New Year box office champion. Directed by An Zhujian and starring Ke Jiahui, Fu Mengbai and Xie Bo'an, the film tells the love story of a music teacher who has experienced emotional injuries and wandered to Hualien, Xing Zhiyuan, a wandering teacher, and Li Dongshuo, a student who carries heavy memories.
It is not difficult to see from the plot that the movie is a standard "love triangle" love story. The first half of the film is smoothly paced, telling music and love stories, and at the end of the line, the "dog blood" sections such as abortion and car accidents in the romance film begin to be staged intensively.
However, "Your Love Song" is not exactly a work made up of old bridges, and its novelty lies in the use of songs to connect the entire plot. Recently, the "youth love +" that combines the theme of youth love with other elements is not uncommon, and the "Sky of the Burning Wild Boy" and "Midsummer Future" released in the summer are all works that combine the theme of youth love with musical elements.
Unlike the above two works, "Your Love Song" is more warm and healing. In the words of the lead actor Ke Jiayi, this is a music healing film, a genre she has never been exposed to before, and the reason why she chose to participate in this film.
Music lover Ke Jiayi also prepared for the musical scenes in "Your Love Song". For the shot of playing the piano in the movie, she braved the heavy rain to go to piano lessons, hard to memorize the position and order of the keys. But the film's character playing the piano for only two seconds and not singing makes her a little unfinished.
In addition to the plot, whether it is an idol drama or a love movie, this theme work also relies on the appeal of the actors themselves. One of the biggest attractions of "Your Love Song" to the audience is Ke Jiayi herself.
The fresh literary and artistic appearance and the temperament of the girl next door make it easy for the audience to associate Ke Jiayi with Taiwanese idol dramas, and she has indeed starred in a large number of love-themed works: Ke Jiayi has won the Golden Bell Award twice with the idol drama "Must Marry a Woman" and "Want to See You", and "Want to See You" for her to open up popularity among mainland audiences is also a love theme work. The "Your Love Song" film side publicity also put the three words "want to see you" in the promotion, and the willingness to borrow the actor's representative work Dongfeng is very obvious.
In Ke Jiayi's understanding, in "Your Love Song", her character Yu Jing is not hesitant among the two men, but more is exploring and sorting out her emotions. Coincidentally, acting is also a journey of self-exploration and healing for her personally. She enjoys the acting itself, and the film's word-of-mouth doesn't affect her too much.
"Every play has its own destiny. What we actors can do is actually to do our best in the process of acting. There are too many others to control, so try not to think about it so much. ”
<h3>Interface entertainment dialogue Ke Jiayi</h3>
Interface Entertainment: What was the biggest challenge with this show?
Ke Jiayi: The biggest challenge should be playing the piano. You should find it strange, why do you say playing the piano? There are two seconds in the play. But I had taken several piano lessons before that, and I was still in the middle of the heavy rain, and it only took two seconds to broadcast. I originally didn't know how to play the piano, so I had to follow the teacher to memorize the position and order of the keys of those pieces, and I had to keep practicing memorizing them.
For only two seconds, the director said no, you're going to class, and I'll shoot you playing the piano. But I didn't expect to say that when I was shooting on the spot later, the final operation of the mirror was like that, so there was no way, which was a pity.
Interface Entertainment: Is there anything similar about Yu Jing and yourself?
Ke Jiayi: I think it is relatively small, if there is a similarity, I think that I and Yu Jing belong to the kind of people who may look weak in appearance, but in fact, they are quite strong in their hearts, and I think they are not as soft as they look. Although Yu Jing is soft, I think her decisions are very brave.
Interface Entertainment: What is the biggest difference between Yu Jing and you?
Ke Jiayi: The difference is very large. Can play the piano and can't play the piano. It's a lot worse place (laughs).
Also, I think she's a little over-obsessed in love. Sometimes things happen, and what the details are, it may not be so important anymore. But Yu Jinghui was very persistent and wanted to make things very clear. This attachment can tire you out.
Yu Jing is also a more disciplined person. She's someone who can plan, but I probably can't do it. So she will feel that after the incident, she will find a way to solve it, we are going to come to treat the emotional injury, we have to find a way. I was quite surprised that she was so persistent.
Interface Entertainment: Let's extend a little bit to the youth love movie. Now after the release of many youth love works, the audience will spit on the works "dog blood" and "not my youth", why do you think this is?
Ke Jiayi: I think it is that the audience is getting smarter and smarter, more and more able to watch plays, coupled with the current audio and video platform, there are more and more types of dramas to choose, and I feel that everyone is doing some new attempts, so the audience will watch more and more.
Whether it can impress the audience, I think the most important thing is this story. In fact, the story is good, and then there is a good team and suitable actors, there should be a good creative result, but the main thing is that the audience will see more and more.
Interface Entertainment: What are the characteristics of the kind of youth romance that attracts the audience?
Ke Jiayi: In fact, I don't think sometimes it is necessarily limited to youth romance films, as if this is the case with any drama. If I watch it myself, I will feel that a drama is the most important. Having a good script, it feels like the play is halfway through. The most basic is still the script, the script is the most important.
Interface Entertainment: What are the characteristics of a good script?
Ke Jiayi: A good script should be able to be very integrated and engaged when you watch it, or it can cause some resonance with you, arouse some emotions in your heart, and touch you. When you watch it, you know that it's an engaging story, just like you're reading a novel.
Interface Entertainment: For love movies, will the audience's sense of substitution be important?
Ke Jiayi: The audience's sense of substitution?
Interface Entertainment: Or, from an actor's point of view, how can you make it easier for the audience to substitute their emotions?
Ke Jiahui: I didn't think about these things when I was acting. When I was acting myself, I didn't actually think of that.
Interface Entertainment: So how will you get into the character yourself?
Ke Jiayi: You read the script, you like and believe in this story, plus makeup, change clothes and go into the scene, in fact, it has helped a lot, you feel that you are already in the story. This is more important to me. There is also the need to believe in these episodes that are happening in front of you, these emotions and reactions that this person has.
Interface Entertainment: Do you care more about the word-of-mouth of the movie?
Ke Jiayi: The word of mouth of the movie? I'll cut out the wifi at home on August 20th after the movie is released (laughs). Just kidding. I feel like every play has its own destiny. What we actors can do is actually to do our best in the process of acting. There are too many others to control, so try not to think about it so much.
Interface Entertainment: Will your mood be affected by the word-of-mouth of the movie?
Ke Jiayi: The impact is not big. I may wish I could still have new attempts and new challenges in the play or role I played. Will it affect the mood? I think it's okay, because I didn't think about it so much when I was acting, and I felt that it was good to try my best at the moment.
If it can be liked, seen, and have a good result, it is like a gift. It doesn't matter if it's not good, because I've tried to have experiences in the moment, at least I don't regret it, there are no regrets.
Interface Entertainment: So you are an actor who is very much enjoying the performance itself.
Ke Jiayi: I count. I feel like I'm able to keep performing because I've been moved and grown a lot in the process. Every time you can find your progress, you are quite happy. Acting for me is also more like a journey of self-exploration and self-healing, which is the biggest motivation for me to continue to perform.
Interface Entertainment: What is your personal favorite type of movie?
Ke Jiayi: I watch everything, but I don't watch horror movies very much, I watch everything. Horror movies don't watch much and don't want to scare yourself.
Interface Entertainment: Do you want to challenge any other types of characters in the future?
Ke Jiayi: In "Your Love Song", there is no opportunity to sing, and I said to the director that I will sing next time. It's a musical film, but I don't seem to have any musical performance on my side, which is a bit of a pity. If I could play more musically, I would be very interested.
Interface Entertainment: Ever wanted to challenge other types of videos?
Ke Jiayi: Reasoning. I like to read speculative fiction, so if I can have a lot of speculative genre films, such as thrillers, case-handling films.
Interface Entertainment: So what kind of role would you like to play in a mystery movie?
Ke Jiayi: I haven't thought of such details yet. As long as it makes me feel that the role has a new challenge for me over there, I think that's fine.