Lu Xia, who came from a print advertisement background, first entered the big screen and cooperated with the two major film emperors of Taiwan and Japan, Nagase Masatoshi and Li Kangsheng, to shoot "Iris Hotel", and the film also met with Taiwanese audiences for the first time at this year's Kaohsiung Film Festival. After the premiere of the male film, both the work and the performance of the actors received a lot of positive reviews.
Among them, we will look at this movie again through the perspective of the heroine, and perhaps we will have a deeper understanding of this movie.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > the soul of the performance with no way back</h1>
Adaptation of the novel of the same name by Japanese Wasagawa Award winner Yoko Ogawa, "Iris Hotel" starred Japanese actors Masatoshi Nagase and Lu Xia, and the Golden Horse Film Emperor Lee Yasusei made a cameo performance across the knife. The whole film takes the exploration of women's true lust and moral boundaries as the starting point, and uses a literary story to lead the audience into a dreamlike journey of desire.
Recalling the original intention of taking over the role of "Iris Hotel", Lu Xia said that he originally held an idea of "no way out" to fight. High school advertising design, college communication department, but after leaving the society, Lu Xia realized that he liked to act, so he tried behind the scenes dubbing, before participating in the audition of "Iris Hotel", Lu Xia even cast many auditions. Although she was initially given the job of taking pictures of the plane, the idea of performing was always in her heart and never faded.
Just after turning 25 years old, Lu Xia accidentally saw the audition news of "Iris Hotel", and after learning about the relevant information of this movie, Lu Xia resolutely submitted her resume, because she thought:
"I think 25 is no smaller for a young actress, and if I don't take this opportunity again, I will lose a role that suits me."
In this way, Lu Xia held the idea of "unsuccessful, then become a ren", participated in the audition of "Iris Hotel", and after several rounds of auditions, Lu Xia became the heroine of the film with her enthusiasm and dedication to performance.
However, whether it is the original book or the adapted movie, there are many large-scale scenes, for the first time starring in the film to challenge the difficult works with both lust and emotion, Lu Xia also shared the mood after seeing the script for the first time:
"For a newcomer, or for a person, there is a certain degree of fear of nudity."
But Lu Xia believes that whether it is a novel or a movie, lust is only a manifestation of the heroine breaking through the psychological cage. So if you can make the audience feel the emotions outside of nudity, for her, it is already the idea that the film wants to convey, and pass it on to the audience.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > Lu Xia's empathy for the character</h1>
Lu Xia's interpretation in "Iris Hotel" is a Taiwanese-Japanese mixed-race Mary who runs the hotel with her mother.
In the film, she is a young girl who is not deeply involved in the world, constrained by the time and space background and family factors at that time, living under the norms of the system, under the seemingly deep and quiet appearance, what is hidden is a restless soul. Such a role, even for experienced actors, may have a certain degree of difficulty, but for Lu Xia, it can find resonance from the role, and then live the Mary in the story as it should be.
Lu Xia said that in fact, someone had asked her if she felt that she and Mary had any similarities. Although she believes that both herself and Mary are independent souls, Lu Xia also feels:
Between her and Mary, they all live under a kind of norm because of society and because of the system, but at the same time, they also have the same courage in their hearts, a courage to explore the world and express themselves, which makes her feel more empathy for the role of Mary. But she also said that her restlessness is not like Mary's need for an uncle, but will drink a tea or arrange a flower to soothe the uneasy heart.
Although she found resonance with the characters, Lu Xia admitted that she still has many differences with Mary, one of which is "execution", she said: "Because I am a person who wants a hundred points, but only one point." In Lu Xia's eyes, Mary is the complete opposite type, she believes that Mary is a person who has begun to act even if she has not yet clearly understood what she thinks in her head, but her body has begun to act, and this contrast makes Lu Xia also have deep feelings in the process of interpreting the role.
In addition to finding empathy and helping herself to get closer to the role, Before filming began, Lu Xia also helped herself to more accurately grasp the atmosphere similar to "Iris Hotel" through other works such as "Lady Daisy", directed by the controversial gold medalist Roman Polanski in recent years, and the Japanese film "Drift Ice Forbidden Love" starring Tadanobu Asano and Fumi Nijido.
Lu Xia's interpretation of Mary is a very three-dimensional character, the audience will be deeply immersed in the charm of this girl's mystery, curious about her choice, curious about her next step, curious about her emotions and thinking, for a woman who can interpret Mary, who seems to be simple, but is actually full of layers, Lu Xia owes it to the help of the original novel.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" > delicate observations deepen the acting skills</h1>
From the soul of the performance to the empathy of the characters, "Iris Hotel" is appreciated through the perspective of the heroine.
In the film, Masatoshi Nagase plays Kanichiro, the son of the translator and well-known Japanese actor Hiroshi Sato, who plays the nephew of the translator, while Lu Xia develops a relationship with them in the film that crosses the moral line, and Lu Xia analyzes through his own point of view: "It is love for the translator, and maternal love for the nephew."
The first is Mary and the translator, she believes that due to Mary's background setting, her father died very early, coupled with the estrangement from her mother, she does not know how to properly love, and even a little closer to the state of "Stockholm syndrome", Lu Xia explained: "She may project her love for her father onto the translator."
For the nephew, Lu Xia analyzed the relationship between Mary and her nephew, from the initial jealousy, to later learning about the nephew's story, and then produced a little maternal love; but more, Mary expected the translator to punish her. Because Mary hopes to return her attention to herself by snatching away the translator's favorite things, and thus achieving the perfect result of being loved by the translator, for Mary, her nephew is just a pitiful outcast.
"I think Mary's relationship with the translator is more complicated, because she is a little bit immersed in this pain, and the behavior is not the first element of intimacy with Mary, but surrender to him, or the emotional and power game between the two." 」
Behind this, Mary will have such feelings about the translator who does not know whether to be right or wrong, or can be blamed on her father. Because the father's power and image overlap with the translator to a certain extent.
Being able to interpret this intricate triangular relationship from her own point of view, you can see Lu Xia's dedication and delicate observation of the role, she not only plays the role well, but also deepens her performance by analyzing the emotions and interactions between the role and the role. And this kind of intention is indeed reflected in the work.
The audience can feel the different feelings through the entanglement of the three people in the movie. Although he starred for the first time, Lu Xia was able to leave a footprint in the hearts of everyone who watched the movie in a way that was deeply rooted in people's hearts.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > learn from those around you</h1>
As a new actor participating in a film performance for the first time, he has the opportunity to cooperate with two powerful actors, Nagase Masatoshi and Lee Kang-sang, and for Lu Xia, he can not only observe their acting skills up close, but also learn a lot.
Lu Xia said that although "Iris Inn" starts with women, it actually contains many ideas that the director wants to convey, and director Hiroshi Okuhara also uses some "Japanese ambiguous" narrative methods to talk about the story in the movie:
"We try our best to convey a worldview that doesn't exist, and if the audience can immerse themselves in this worldview and believe that there really is an Iris Hotel, I think it's a big, big affirmation." 」
In addition to "Iris Hotel", Lu Xia expects another movie "Hot Air Balloon on the Mountain" to be released this year. I believe that in the future, she will definitely pay more beautiful results on the road of acting.