Iron hit the camp of flowing soldiers.
Generally speaking, movie crews are like this, where a bunch of actors get together, finish a movie, and then separate again.
One of the key factors in the success of a film is that there is a powerful cast, not just one or two, most of the actors succeed, and it is difficult for the film to succeed.
"On the Cliff" is a film that most of the actors are powerful and successful.
This article talks about the actors in "On the Cliff" and the topics related to the actors.
First, the actor's place of origin is very important
The screenwriters of the TV series "Cliff" and the movie "On the Cliff" are Quan Yongxian, who is a native of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, and the stories depicted are also set in the northeast during the puppet Manchukuo period.
However, the director of the TV series "Cliff" is Liu Jin, who grew up in the compound of Xi'an Film Studio, so he likes to use Shaanxi actors, so we see Zhang Jiayi (Zhou Yi), Sun Hao (Liu Kui) and Ji He (Ren Changchun) who are also Shaanxi in the TV series "Cliff", and later several of them also cooperated in "One Servant and Two Lords".
Most of the other major characters are northeasterners, such as Xiao Song Jia (Gu Qiuyan), Xu Cheng (Lao Wei) and Cheng Yu (Gao Bin) in Shenyang.
Therefore, the TV series "On the Cliff" should be the product of the cooperation between the northeast actor and the northwest actor.
Interestingly, Zhang Yimou, the director of the movie "On the Cliff", is also a native of Shaanxi and an old man from the Xi'an Film Studio, but he made a different choice from Liu Jin when shooting the film, and most of the main actors in "On the Cliff" are northeasterners.
Zhang Yi (Lao Zhang), Harbin, Heilongjiang
Yu Hewei (Lao Zhou), Fushun, Liaoning
Qin Hailu (Wang Yu), Yingkou, Liaoning
Liu Haocun (Xiaolan), Changchun, Jilin Province
Ni Dahong (Senior Section Chief), Harbin, Heilongjiang
Lei Jiayin (Xie Zirong), Anshan, Liaoning
Sha Yi (Lao Feng), Changchun, Jilin Province
Among the other main actors is Zhu Yawen (Chu Liang) in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, although he is not from the northeast, but his famous work and representative work is Zhu Chuanwu in "Breaking into the Guandong", which is quite familiar with the northeast and Harbin.
The selection of so many northeast actors to star in "On the Cliff" is also a kind of respect for the rigor of art, after all, one side of the water and soil to support the other side, people's temperament and adaptability to the environment are also different in subtleties.
Second, why not use Zhang Jiayi?
In various film reviews, there are two main topics discussed about the actors of "On the Cliff", why not let Zhang Jiayi continue to play Zhou Yi? Why not let Cheng Yu continue to play Gao Bin?
For Zhang Jiayi, some netizens think that he seems to be unable to carry the box office, this view is debatable, after all, the big director's films generally carry the box office by the director himself. Moreover, Zhang Jiayi and Zhang Yimou are not only fellow countrymen, the two have also cooperated in movies, and there is no relationship problem.
The author believes that Zhang Yimou is right not to choose Zhang Jiayi, because "On the Cliff" does not clearly tell the audience who is who the various characters from the beginning, and the audience can guess the high section chief, but Li Naiwen, Yu Haolei and Yu Hewei who is Zhou Yi is not obvious, or Zhou Yi has someone else? This at least guarantees some suspense.
As for the candidate for the head of the high section, Ni Dahong is Zhang Yimou's old team and also a Harbin native, and he is certainly assured of his acting skills Zhang Yimou.
The most crucial point is that "On the Cliff" and "On the Cliff" are two stories in themselves, although Quan Yong first said that "On the Cliff" can be regarded as a prequel to "Cliff", but it will not be contrary to the sense of harmony to put aside the characters and change their names.
Therefore, "On the Cliff" is considered to be "rubbing" "Cliff", which itself is a double-edged sword, on the one hand, there is a word of mouth guarantee, on the other hand, the audience is prone to preconceptions (it turns out that some audiences are indeed like this), if the lead actors of the positive and negative sides still choose the original "Cliff", the preconceived problem will be more serious, and even directly affect the viewing experience of some audiences.
Although the background and framework of the two stories are similar, there is no continuity, so it is wise to maintain a certain degree of independence in addition to "rubbing" word of mouth.
If I'm not mistaken, moviegoers who haven't seen "The Cliff" may have a better overall movie experience than those who have watched "The Cliff."
3. The Art of Personal Names
The core selling point of "On the Cliff" is tension, suspense and rhythm, the whole process of no urine point is the biggest feature, in order to achieve this purpose, Zhang Yimou made a drastic deletion of the movie, some details were cut off or brushed over, which caused some viewers to shout that they could not understand, but also ensured the high energy of the whole film, many viewers have reflected, two hours, unconsciously passed.
One of the directions that Zhang Yimou cut is the name of the character, and if you recall it carefully, you will find that the name of the character in "On the Cliff" is simply simplified to a "crazy" degree.
Most of the characters' names in the film are double-character, even the three-character Zhang Xianchen and Jin Zhide, most of the time they are called "Lao Zhang" and "Lao Jin", and others are also "Lao Zhou", "Chu Liang", "Xiao Lan" or whatever.
The more tragic is Li Naiwen, until the end of the film, the author does not know what the name of this role is, after reading the information, I know that Li Naiwen plays Lu Ming. The more sassy female agent, the name is also relatively simple "Xiao Meng".
On the one hand, this practice of simplifying the name of the character will indeed cause trouble to some viewers, and after watching it for half a day, they can't remember what the character is called, and simply call people "Zhang Yi", "Yu Hewei" and "Li Naiwen".
On the other hand, this simplification does speed up the pace of the film, which is the art and detail of the personal name.
Fourth, the accent problem
Some viewers may have some misunderstandings about the Northeast dialect, thinking that the lines in "On the Cliff" do not have a Northeastern flavor?
In fact, on the one hand, the movie should still be mainly in Mandarin, but on the other hand, there is also a reason, the dialect of Harbin itself is very close to Mandarin.
In the general audience's impression of those "Gaha" and "what do you see" and other Northeast dialects are actually Liaoning accents, Liaoning the more north the accent is lighter, to Harbin is simply like Mandarin, almost comparable to the Standard of Mandarin in Beijing and Hebei, so all the actors in "On the Cliff" can also be regarded as realistic.
Speaking of this, the author has to pick a thorn, one is that Zhang Yimou finds Sha Yi to play the secret agent Lao Feng there is a certain risk, that is, Sha Yi's variety comedy image is exposed too much, which is easy for some viewers to have a feeling of jumping drama, and they want to laugh when they see it, but fortunately, he hung up within a few minutes of opening.
Second, Sha Yi and Zhang Yi seem to have a sentence of "external flower arrangement" when they play the code at the beginning of the film, which is Zhang Yi's sentence "go to Sujiatun to collect the skin".
This line is not a problem for most viewers in the country, but for many audiences in the northeast, especially in Liaoning, it may be a jump, because Sujiatun is not only a very important district under Shenyang, sometimes it is still a stem like Tong Erbao and Tieling, and you say in the deep mountains and old forests near Harbin that you go to Sujiatun to collect skins and play.
Of course, Sujiatun must have more than one in the northeast, but obviously the handling of this line is somewhat arbitrary.
Fifth, the problem of the film's costume
Some viewers complained, saying that whether it is a spy or an underground party in "On the Cliff", its conditions of food, clothing, shelter and transportation are also too good, a water of leather coats, boots, top hats, cars running all over the ground, red wine steaks to eat casually, feeling better than the conditions on the beach in the 1930s, is this true?
You don't have to say, in a certain sense this is really a restoration of history, because Harbin began to prosper as early as the beginning of the twentieth century with the construction of the Middle East Railway, and then experienced two large-scale influx of foreign capital, one was the fleeing White Russia, the other was the fleeing Jews, by the early 1930s, Harbin had 160,000 foreign expatriates from thirty-three countries settled, and the funds and business opportunities they brought made Harbin the top bustling city in the country at that time, and Paris in the East was also.
Finally, with the popularity of "On the Cliff", I also hope that the film can drive the boom of northeast spy wars and anti-league theme film and television dramas.