Nandu News Reporter Cai Liyi Intern Sun Jianwen The urban love drama "Don't Move on Me", directed by Zhongzhong and Li Qingrong, starring Lin Yi and Zhou Ye, is currently being broadcast on Youku. Gu Xun, the "school tyrant" played by Lin Yi, and Yue Qianling, the "cool school belle" played by Zhou Ye, brought a "two-way secret love" love story to the audience while laughing and scolding. The popularity of the series has continued to increase since it was aired. Lin Yi and Zhou Ye's "four-corner love" is light, smart and unique, making young viewers very happy.
Recently, Li Qingrong, the director of "Don't Touch Me", accepted an interview with a reporter from Nandu. Why did you choose the script "Don't Move on Me"? What view of love do you want to convey to young people through this story? Compared with the classic "The boss is in love with me" and the popular "two-way" type of sweet pet dramas, how can "Don't Fall in Love with Me" have its own unique characteristics and highlights? Director Li Qingrong, who has directed popular sweet dramas such as "My Villain Boyfriend" and "Can't Hide Secretly" shared her experience with us.
The story setting of "Don't Move on Me" has a special setting.
"Two people's love triangle" is light and lively, which can be fully substituted when directing.
In "Don't Move on Me", the male and female protagonists are college classmates who are not familiar with each other. In the virtual world, the two are good teammates fighting side by side. Yue Qianling has a secret love for the cold and ascetic Gu Xun offline, but Gu Xun is obsessed with his online friend "Little Mahua". When Gu Xun rejected Yue Qianling's confession, he was surprised to find that the "little Mahua" he had been secretly in love with for a long time was Yue Qianling himself - as the saying goes, "Refuse to be happy for a while, chase your wife in the crematorium", a ridiculous story From then on, the long road to pursue his wife lay in front of Gu Xun...
When talking about why she chose the story "Don't Move on Me", Li Qingrong said bluntly that the setting of "two-way secret love" between Gu Xun and Yue Qianling online and offline gave her a He left a deep impression: "Two people in the virtual world and two people in the real world are actually the same person. (This) feeling of 'two people's love triangle' was something I photographed before. It has never been seen in the movie before, so I feel it is very special." She said that compared with the scripts of her previous stories such as " Dear, Love " and "Secretly Can't Hide", "Don't Be Tempted by Me" itself It is more lively and lively, and the content is more light comedy.
The creation of the "four-corner love" not only made the plot ups and downs, but also caused a group of netizens to call out that they "feel sorry for the heroine": the male protagonist Gu Xun's attitude towards Yue Qianling in the early stages of the plot seemed a bit "too cold" - not only in He usually ignores the heroine, and even "blatantly" rejected Yue Qianling's confession at the graduation ceremony. Director Li Qingrong expressed his understanding of this wave of comments from netizens, but wanted to explain Gu Xun's logic in the plot - Gu Xun's indifferent refusal stemmed from the superposition of various misunderstandings and oolongs, and he himself was actually I'm very sorry for this.
The youthful and sweet pet elements in "Don't Move on Me" are reminiscent of the director's other popular work last year, "Can't Hide Secretly". How do you make a difference in the sweet drama genre that you are good at? For Li Qingrong, a play cannot simply be divided into specific genres. Every character in every story has something unique about them that cannot be easily categorized. Only by returning to life, focusing on the true emotions of the characters, and investing in empathy and imagination without sparing any effort can we achieve the desired effects. In the story "Can't Hide Secretly", Li Qingrong said: "Only when I fully immerse myself in the character can I know how this character will interact with each other emotionally. So for me, every time I shoot Basically, I have to feel a story, enter the whole story and characters, and experience what changes will happen to my body and my emotions when I become them."
Lin Yi, Zhou They also have cute personalities
The two interact naturally and have a full sense of cp
In the opinion of director Li Qingrong, if a comedy "follows the script", it will be difficult to show the rhythm of the comedy and the unique sense of joy.Therefore, in order to allow the "love comedy" of "Don't Move on Me" to naturally and smoothly show a sense of joy and CP, Li Qingrong asked the leading actors to become good friends with each other in daily life at the beginning of filming. "I hope that the actors can communicate more easily and naturally, both in performance and in life, and throw and catch each other more naturally." The performance of
starring Lin Yi and Zhou Ye also surprised the director. "Lin Yi and Zhou also got into the mood quickly. Maybe we made the scene very happy, and everyone got into a very happy state quickly. They also had a lot of fun at the scene, so they performed better than me during the performance. It is more natural and vivid than expected." After having in-depth contact with the two leading actors, director Li Qingrong commented that Lin Yi and Zhou are both "people with lovely personalities": "I think they are both super cute. They have their own personalities. They are very cute and complementary. I think they can put some parts of their own personalities into this character to make the character more flexible."
Director Li Qingrong also praised the "CP sense" displayed by the two leading actors. Juekou: "They match well, and the way the two interact with each other is supernatural." She believes that whether the male and female protagonists can show a unique sense of camaraderie and "show the charm of a romantic comedy to the fullest" is a youth idol movie. An important part of the play's success. "I have always firmly believed that the sense of CP is the emotional interpretation of two actors, putting their real emotions into the characters and every scene, and using real interactions to let the audience feel the presence of the two people when they perform. The flow of emotions. If this process is smooth and makes people feel comfortable, I think the cp feeling will appear. I look forward to doing this every time."
Secrets for creating sweet pet dramas
Hope for love in the drama , Comedy elements can eventually return to human nature
Sweet pet dramas are a fiercely competitive track in the current film and television market. When talking about what kind of feeling his work hopes to bring to the audience, Director Li Qingrong appears to be particularly serious. She sincerely said that when filming, she most hopes to make the audience feel real emotions, use true feelings to fully shape the character's image, and allow the audience to follow the story and invest in the emotions of any character in the play, and interact with them. The character laughs with them, or cries with them. The prerequisite for realizing this expectation is that as a director, I can empathize with any scene or character in the play - "This is what I expect from myself in any scene I shoot."
So, compared with the classic "Boss Falls in Love with Me" and the popular "two-way" sweet pet dramas, how does "Don't Move on Me" create its own unique features and highlights? "Return the love and comedy elements in the play to human nature" is the answer given by director Li Qingrong. She said that when it comes to the use of comedy plots, many "stalks" come from life. "I myself am also very funny in my daily life... In fact, I think the use of comedy should return to my own life, tap into my own or the actors' daily life experiences, and dig out lively and lovely comedy elements from there. "
As for the love scene, the director said bluntly, "Falling is a very beautiful thing." She hopes to make this relationship closer to every audience: "No matter the age is 15 years old, 25 years old, 35 years old Love is something that everyone has in their heart. Our story is the same as many love stories. We want to bring the audience a beautiful feeling or empathy." She believes that "Don't Treat Me" The love in "Temptation" is a "brave love" - Gu Xun and Yue Qianling are both bravely pursuing the love they want. "They will not be pretentious in this love, but just be true to themselves. I hope to give the audience a concept that love should grow together, work hard together, achieve together, and finally move towards the common dream they want. Move forward."
"I think no matter what type of love story I shoot, for me, all elements must return to the essence of human beings, their true emotions, and their perception of life.Returning to life, returning to true feelings, no matter what the tone of each film is, it is the same to me. "
Director Li Qingrong works on the set.
