China's first anti-MLM movie " Grass and Trees in the World " will be released nationwide on April 3. On March 25, the film's leading actors Jiang Qinqin and Wu Lei came to Sichuan Film and Television Institute and Chengdu Jincheng University for campus roadshows. In the film
, Jiang Qinqin plays a "crazy mother" who accidentally falls into a pyramid scheme. She previously won the Asian Film Award for Best Actress for this film; He Mulian, played by young actor Wu Lei, is similar to his previous roles. Comparatively, there are certain breakthroughs. The two shared the behind-the-scenes stories of their respective characters at the road show.
The movie "The World of Grass and Trees" tells the story of He Mulian, a newly graduated college student, who sacrificed his life to save his mother Wu Taihua when she discovered that she was trapped in a pyramid scheme.
Among them, Wu Taihua, played by Jiang Qinqin, changed her character from a simple and innocent tea-picking girl to a step-by-step madness after accidentally entering a pyramid scheme, which impressed the audience deeply. Not long ago, Jiang Qinqin won the Best Actress at the 17th Asian Film Awards for this role. She bluntly said that when she took on this role, she did not plan how to play the second half. She thought that it would be too concrete and she would be scared. This That’s the beauty of acting. Jiang Qinqin said that this movie uses the "shell" of a pyramid scheme and talks about human nature.
This film is about the relationship between mother and child. Jiang Qinqin shared that in real life, the way she and her son "Tiger" get along is to "love and kill each other." When
mentioned the "mutual killing model", Jiang Qinqin said that maybe mothers want their children to do many things according to their own wishes, and in the process they will encounter a lot of entanglements, struggles and difficulties. She revealed that especially last year, when her son was taking the high school entrance examination, the relationship between mother and son was very tense. "I had never hit him, but that year I actually did it to him." But through this movie, Jiang Qinqin also learned to reflect on how to deal with relationships with relatives in real life.
In the movie, Jiang Qinqin and Wu Lei had many emotional outbursts. In one of them, Jiang Qinqin slapped Wu Lei under an overpass.
mentioned this scene. Wu Lei said that the focus of the scene was not the physical beating. The bigger impact was realizing the huge change in her mother. She suffered a lot of grievances and hoped to find herself; Jiang Qinqin said that the scene He was really beating Wu Lei, "The director kept saying in my ears, just beat him to death."
"The World of Grass and Trees" is the second part of the "Landscape Pictures" series directed by Gu Xiaogang. In addition to being more interesting in terms of story, It is better than the previous work "Spring River Water Warm", and has also made great progress in the expression of the picture. Most of the scenes in the film were shot in Hangzhou, from Leifeng Pagoda, Jingci Temple, Three Pools Reflecting the Moon, to Meijiawu Tea Mountain. The director used the characteristics of a "long scroll painting" to express the film.
Red Star News reporter Zhang Shihao intern Wu Sixuan editor Li Jie
