Throw the pot to Ma Sichun? Xu Anhua didn't understand, she had to shoot Zhang Ailing as Guo Jingming!
Of course, it has nothing to do with the actor, the actor takes the film remuneration to do things, but the actor's reputation will also be affected to a certain extent.
One of the most influential is the heroine of the film, Ma Sichun.
Zhang Ailing's Ge Weilong is a Shanghai girl with a "plain and beautiful little convex face", with long and beautiful eyes, a slender nose and a small mouth. The most important thing is that the figure is thin and petite, can't support the aunt's clothes, use a pin to close the waist, and the aunt said that the legs are too thin.
Ge Weilong, played by Ma Sichun in the film, appeared in a light blue student outfit. Along the winding path, when walking in a verdant field, it is still close to the characters. In the scene with his aunt and Situ Xie, the simple and neat short hair, the cramped and dodgy eyes, and the face that can look less round at the right angle also have a bit of a shadow in the novel.
But on the other hand, the casting of the film has been criticized by various people from the beginning. Everyone will say that Ma Sichun is too strong to fit the role of Ge Weilong.
"The First Burning Incense" is a drama romance film directed by Xu Anhua, written by Wang Anyi, and starring Ma Sichun, Yu Feihong, Peng Yuyan, Zhang Junning and so on. The film is adapted from Zhang Ailing's famous work "Agarwood Crumbs • First Burning Incense", which tells the story of the female student Ge Weilong being used by her aunt Mrs. Liang to start a love tug-of-war with playboy Ge Qiqiqiao.
In fact, from the time "First Incense" was announced, it has been accompanied by various controversies. As the heroine of this film, the role of Ge Weilong should have been a very complex role. She is not exactly a simple little girl, she has her plans, her love and desire, all these emotions and thoughts will drive the choice of this role.
But from the current point of view, the character state presented in the film may still be too lacking in depth, and it is difficult for you to enter this role. Without understanding her desires, it is even more impossible to understand her choices and "depravity".
In terms of the actor status of the whole film, in addition to being inferior to old actors such as Yu Feihong and Fan Wei, even Peng Yuyan, who is also criticized, is actually slightly better in performance, or fuller than her role.
However, the director team did not hear the voice of netizens and resolutely chose these two actors.
Although netizens do not buy it, but director Xu Anhua's reputation is obvious to all, her filming of "Running to the Fury Sea", "Ketu Autumn Hate", "Woman, Forty", "The Day and Night of Tin Shui Wai", "Sister Tao", "Golden Age" and other films have left too deep an impression on the audience, the Golden Horse Award for Best Director, the Academy Award for Best Director, these awards are not enough to describe her career, the audience is more willing to call her the first Chinese female director.
In addition to the epoch-making director, screenwriter Wang Anyi, the super luxurious lineup composed of photography Du Kefeng, music Sakamoto Ryuichi and others seemed to let the audience see hope. Perhaps under the tutelage of such a strong team, Ma Sichun can burst out a different spark.
Xu Anhua said in an interview that if she had known that the power of netizens would change roles, at the same time she felt that Ma Sichun was not easy, was scolded for two years, the pressure was so great that she had insomnia, and still insisted on performing as hard as she could.
A film of more than two hours can make the audience fall asleep. Disorganized, confused, completely lost Zhang Ailing's delicacy and spirituality, the emotional point that went straight to the ends of her hair, Xu Anhua, who was also a woman, did not grasp it at all.
Ma Sichun is a window, the real problem with the film is that she has made a literary masterpiece into pain literature, and she has filmed Zhang Ailing as Guo Jingming!