"Lust Caution" is my deepest and most passionate film. The shooting process is like a trip to hell," Li Ang once described.
12 years ago, "Lust Caution" was released with numerous awards and critical acclaim. It ranks among the Top 250 Douban movies, better than 94% of romance movies. Won the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, and won 7 awards including best feature film, best director, and best actor at the 44th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. This achievement is undoubtedly the best in the film. The movie
reminds us of Wang Jiazhi, who is full of charm on the big screen, and Tang Wei, who is still a newcomer, stepped onto the stage of the Golden Horse Awards and attracted much attention.
But the gift that fate gave her was secretly marked with a price. Soon, she was blocked as the number one female.
12 years later, she shed tears on the camera because of the partner's incomprehension.
This feeling is extremely similar to when Tang Wei was not understood 12 years ago.
At that time, many people said that she was "getting fame".
No one noticed what she was doing behind her back.
In order to play Wang Jiazhi in "Lust Caution", Tang Wei threw away all of her true self, and became Wang Jiazhi completely.
Art Director Park Ruomu is responsible for giving Wang Jiazhi a body, and Li An is responsible for giving Wang Jiazhi a soul.
learns Suzhou Pingtan every day to cultivate temperament, learns to play mahjong, wear cheongsam, wear high heels and Shanghai accent.
practiced for 3 months before Li An decided to sign a contract with her.
In fact, there were many hopes to play the role of Wang Jiazhi in addition to Tang Wei.
However, to play Lust Caution, two conditions must be met at the same time. These two conditions of
were made very clearly at the beginning of the audition. The so-called bait, if you can't accept it, you won't try it at all.
However, there were still many actresses seeking this role through various means. The reason for
is that Ang Lee's coffee rank was already very high. After winning the Oscar for best director, any film he made will be of international level, and being able to play the leading actress in such a film is a step-by-step. For any Chinese actress, it is a great temptation.
Of course, after the news that Tang Wei was selected, the female celebrities who had auditioned basically all posted drafts, saying that they did not want to shoot because the scale was too big. To cover up the embarrassment of not being selected, the so-called inability to eat mutton, and arouse a commotion.
At that time, Director Ang Li also had a very favorite heroine, Zhang Ziyi.
But Li An did not make up his mind to use Zhang Ziyi. He said, "I don't think Zhang Ziyi looks like a girl who can happen this kind of story."
means that Wang Jiazhi is a stupid woman like Wang Jiazhi who is dying for her life in a muddle, and the clever and rational Zhang Ziyi is nothing like that.
Therefore, after the film "Lust Caution" is finally completed, the most unwilling and depressed person is Zhang Ziyi.
She even lost her mind. Without Ang Li's invitation, she attended the film meet-and-greet. Moreover, she wore a more expensive dress of the same brand and series as the heroine Tang Wei.
But let people not haveWhat I think of is that Zhang Ziyi, the most unwilling and most depressed, said this after watching the movie:
"On the third day after watching "Lust, Caution", it is still hard to forget the emotions between Wang Jiazhi and Mr. Yi The world. Long time gone, such a romantic, shocking and thrilling love story. Their love is like a cone of ice, dripping into crystals; sharp and condensed, but the instantaneous eruption is almost a meteorite! The gentle and elegant Li An is really a fire. "Lust and Caution" are almost perfect!"
indirectly expressed recognition of Tang Wei's performance in the play.
In addition to Tang Wei, Tony Leung, who was regarded as a god-level actor by Wong Kar-wai, and Li Ang called a "Xianxian", was still tortured by the director over and over again.
Tony Leung gave up the image of an idol, lost 8 kilograms, painted eye bags, statutory lines, powdered eyeshadow, combed high hairline to fit Mr. Zhang Ailing’s "rat look".
In addition, Tony Leung, the protagonist of "Lust Caution", is a top actor called "Xianxian" by Ang Li. Tang Wei was still a newcomer at the time. Ang Li said that the director’s important job is to reconcile different actors and different performance methods in one In the movie, there are two directions to guide actors, one is inspiration and the other is capture.
Just like that, Ang Lee grinds Tony Leung to the point where he has no energy to act, and to the 13th time, Ang Lee asks if Tony Leung has the strength, and he nods. Ang Lee said, OK, let's come again. After polishing it over and over, Mr. Yi's sense of hierarchy finally came out.
Li Ang believes that Tang has only its moving parts, but Tony Leung is more difficult to polish, "He is not just a actor, he is a fairy. The method of acting is learned one day to lose. Tony Leung is the actor in every director's dream , The performance is very hierarchical. But to grind him to the point where he is unable to act, to grind him to look like his first acting, perfect to imperfect, even if he can't control it, it's very touching.
Li An said that he was afraid of filming recently. Therefore, I often get stuck in my emotions and can’t turn it out. “I remember one day when I was crying, Tony Leung comforted and said: Director, I’m just showing my skin, you have to take care. "In the film, Tony Leung, Tang Wei, and Leehom Wang are all as dedicated as him. After filming three large-scale scenes, Tony Leung and Tang Wei were so sad that they cried with each other. Tony Leung confessed that he did not dare to think back, and psychological barriers have been created. Afterwards, the cast members suffered a serious illness.
From the audience’s discussion, the large-scale drama is still the most concerned part of the movie. Is it necessary for such a large-scale drama to exist?
because each large-scale drama implies the trend of character relationships and emotional changes The
film is set in Shanghai during the War of Resistance Against Japan in the 1940s. It tells the story of a female college student Wang Jiazhi who used her beauty to approach Mr. Yi, a traitor who wanted to assassinate. So the newsletter allowed Mr. Yi to escape, but Mr. Yi decided to kill them all. The love between Wang Jiazhi and Mr. Yi is beyond doubt in the eyes of most true movie fans. For them, this is a fake. Love is really love. The combination of
Ang Lee’s male perspective and Zhang Ailing’s female thinking makes the whole film present a unique charm of cruel, warmth, restraint and sensibility.
Lust Caution is about Zhang Ailing’s sad and beautiful life. Zhang Ailing said, “Love is Don’t ask whether it’s worth it or not.” This is about Wang Jiazhi, and even more about himself. Wang Jiazhi and Mr. Yi in lust are corresponding to Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng’s legendary romance.
likes a comment on Douban: in the movie It looks like nothingness at all-love is absurd, friendship is hypocritical, a country where family affection is barren is torn apart, and revolution is speciousYes, revolutionaries are even more unreliable... Only sexual pleasure is real, and this only truth is just unspeakable.
