This Tuesday was still a very meaningful day for me, because I finally met Uncle Liam Neeson himself.
This tall man has always been a male star that I like very much, in addition to having "Schindler's List", "Dr. Kinsey Sexology", "Proud of the Sky", "True Love Supreme", "Hurricane Rescue" and so on, the love between him and his deceased wife has also always touched me.
This time he came to Beijing, but also for the new film "Commuter Rescue" released on the 30th to carry out a series of publicity, and I, as a guest of the film critic, made a brief exchange with him, which is also very satisfied.
Perhaps one of the most important implications of Commuter Rescue is the creation of Liam Neeson's "rescue" universe — yes, it's his fifth "rescue" film.
From the "Hurricane Rescue" trilogy that laid the image of the father, to the later development of the rescue business to the sky, to today's train office worker rescue... I boldly guess that maybe the next part will be a deep-sea rescue (in fact, I heard that it may be a car rescue or something).
Commuter Rescue
Air Rescue
Hurricane Rescue trilogy
In fact, since the earliest famous work "Schindler's List", Uncle Liam has been playing the image of the savior.
Schindler's List
He has played the father countless times and the mentor countless times.
Whether it's the Jedi Kiggonkin in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, or the Old Warren in Gangster New York, Kinsey in Kinsey Professor sexology, the ninja master in Shadowy Mystery, Father Ferreira in The Silence...
His face was always full of perseverance, courtesy, love and compassion.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Gangsters in New York
"Silence"
In fact, Liam Neeson did indeed appear in various literary films in his early years with a naturally melancholy and handsome face. The tough guy face that we've become more familiar with in recent years has instead started with Hurricane Rescue.
But this time we were invited to the Beijing premiere of Commuter Rescue, met Liam Neeson himself, and heard a very interesting anecdote from him.
Success and Uncle Lian in the same frame, a book of satisfaction
That is, Liam Neeson's career turning point began in China!
Here's the thing.
In 2005, he first came to China, met Luc Besson at the Shanghai Film Festival, and got the script for Hurricane Rescue from him.
We all know the story later, Hollywood has one more tough guy and good dad.
After all, who could be more suitable for this image than such a tall and nine-meter-tall Northern Irish man who was a boxer when he was young.
Hurricane Rescue
Even when I saw him at the press conference, I was really handsome, and I couldn't believe that this was a sixty-six-year-old actor.
Tall, dignified, polite, and will definitely look into each other's eyes when speaking. Even as a bystander, you can feel his charm completely. Hey, born with a deep look of melancholy buff, probably the same look will kill you.
But I've seen an interview about him before, probably at the Toronto Film Festival, where he said Commuter Rescue might be the last action film of his career.
"Although there are still a lot of investors who come to me with a lot of money to play a lone hero, I thought to myself, who wants to watch a 65-year-old fight?"
No, we can look another ten years!! Begging for .jpg
In addition, also share a small tidbit, Liam Neeson received a big seal with his name written on the scene from the official gift, so he instantly played the essence of the body and began to perform, I did not expect this cool uncle, there is also a humorous side Oh.
Feel the stumbling, wobbly Liam Neeson
Speaking of "Commuter Rescue", in addition to Liam Neeson himself, who once again starred in a tough guy action movie (he was still fighting hard in the film), the director of this film, Zomi Sheila from Spain, is also a highlight of this film, which is also his fourth cooperation with Liam Neeson.
Speaking of Zomi Shira, the most famous movie is definitely "Orphan Complaint", Douban 200,000 people evaluated, as high as 8.1 points.
Truth be told, for thriller horror genre movies, that score is frighteningly high, and sure enough, better than 93% of thrillers.
After watching this movie, everyone should have a psychological shadow on children.
Another of the more famous thrillers is Shark Beach. While most people's focus may still be on queens' good stature, directing skills are just as important.
It's not easy to make a good small- and medium-cost disaster film in this kind of enclosed space, and we know how many precedents have failed. But it is a theme of such a routine, but the director completely captured the audience's heart. Short and concise, the rhythm is very well grasped, basically the audience has only one idea after watching it, "cool"!
This is the fourth collaboration between the director and Uncle Liam, and the previous "Air Rescue" was also from him.
At the press conference, Uncle Liam said that they not only cooperate tacitly, "like coordinated dance partners."
The director's style is to start doing a lot of preparatory work before shooting, so that the work rhythm of the whole set is very tight and effective, and even Mneeson himself likes this working state very much, and the more cooperative they are, the more comfortable they are with each other, so they have established a very close professional cooperation.
Set photos of "Air Rescue"
The plot of "Air Rescue" is actually somewhat similar to this "Commuter Rescue".
Both protagonists are lying on their way out (one by plane, one by train) and have to find one person out of a large crowd of passengers, otherwise everyone's life is in danger.
The situation in "Commuter Rescue" is that when Uncle Liam's character is riding in the car to work, he suddenly comes across from a mysterious lady who takes the initiative to talk to him, asking him to find a passenger in the car and get a large amount of money.
The mysterious lady is played by Vera Famiga, the heroine of Orphan Grudge.
We also know that Ms. Vera also starred in The Conjuring. Interestingly, Patrick Wilson, the actor who played her husband in The Conjuring, also starred in the film. So...... This movie is not only the fifth part of "Rescue", but also probably the third part of "Summoning Spirits".
At the press conference, we also asked about the experience of Uncle Liam and Vera working together. The English gentleman was of course full of praise for her. Not only is she praised as "Hollywood's top actress", smart, professional, beautiful, and most importantly, she has a pair of "enigmatic eyes" that are very charming.
I have to say that this description is really too accurate, Uncle Liam really understands women.
The most unique thing about Vera Famiga is really her eyes, which are like whirlpools, dazzling.
We also asked a few interesting little questions.
The first is whether there are more favorite Chinese movies, and his answer is Wu Yusen. He said that he liked Wu Yusen's action movies in the 1980s, and later Wu Dao came to Hollywood, which also brought these Chinese characteristics. He especially named "Changing Faces".
Next, which Chinese actor do you want to work with, he does not hesitate to answer that it is Gong Li.
In fact, this is not the only time that Gong Li has been cue in the whole conference. When the host asked him if he wanted to try a new film style, he jokingly said, "Better to make a romantic romance film." After a while, I suddenly thought of something, and quickly added, "Shoot a romance film with Gong Li, this can be." The tone gradually became serious.gif
In addition, we also asked a long-standing magic brain hole: Suppose Liam Neeson wants to save a person, Matt Damon's Jason Bonn wants to kill a person, two people set off at the same time, is that person dead or alive?
After all, we also know how deadly Dumb is in the "Spy Movies" series.
Uncle Liam, after laughing, answered the question very seriously: "First of all, because Matt Damon is younger than me and more physically fit than me, he should let me a few times; then, I think, with my experience and wisdom, I should still win." ”
Again, what's your misconception about your physical strength? No one thinks you're old!
Don't believe it, look at the stills.
That night, we watched "Commuter Rescue" with everyone at the movie group event, and we had the honor of inviting Uncle Liam to interact with everyone after the screening.
When he sees me, he will still slander in his heart, how can he be this person again!
Many viewers of this movie group could not wait to meet Liam Nissen after grabbing the quota, and after the screening, everyone was like a little fan who had been waiting for a long time, clapping and cheering Liam Nissen.
The same asked Liam Nissen a small question, what preparations for these action scenes when shooting the film, Even Mneson and the fighting action director have cooperated in 18 films, and have had some previous exchanges with the action director, actors, etc., and indeed made a lot of preparations, but Liam Nissen said that he has never been injured.
Liam Nissen was pulled by the audience to ask questions, really affinity, and had a dialogue with the fans.
The following group photo is sent.
Very happy, this is also the first time that the Peach Movie Group has made an appearance of a big Hollywood name, and I hope that more stars can appear in our movie group after that, come on.