In the past few days, there has been a lot of discussion around the casting of director Xu Anhua's " first incense ".
, a movie adapted from Zhang Ailing's novella "Agarwood Crumbs·The First Incense", has released its first trailer recently. Everyone is not optimistic about the actors and actresses and thinks that Director Xu has failed in casting.
From the official announcement of the film, the release of stills to the release of the trailer, Ma Sichun and Peng Yuyan do not match the people in the two books, Weilong Ge and Qiao Qiqiao. "Huniu", "Runtu", "Camel Xiangzi", "First Furnace Steel"... these adjectives are just the impressions and complaints made by netizens after watching these two leading actors. The words are associated with Zhang Ailing's "Agarwood Crumbs·The First Incense".
However, there is also a voice that believes that it is too early to say that the casting fails. Because of the powerful director, the actors can be reinvented. For example, Ang Lee coached Tang Wei, Wang Jiawei coached Zhang Ziyi, Tsui Hark coached Lin Qingxia...
But there is a prerequisite for training, that is, the director's own understanding of the work. If the director
wants to tell the actors, he must relay his understanding of the works and characters to the actors, and the actors will perform them. Once the director has a misunderstanding, the casting really fails.
is more suspicious that Xu Anhua is not Zhang Ailing's friend. Although she said that she likes Zhang Ailing's novels very much, she is not as good as Li Ang in terms of understanding.
Xu Anhua has already made two films and a drama adapted from Zhang Ailing's novels, plus "The First Incense" is the third one. The first adaptation of
was "Love in the Allure" shot in 1984. Frankly speaking, the adaptation failed. In addition to her immature director skills at that time, the main reason should be the aesthetic gap between her and Zhang Ailing.
As everyone knows, Zhang Ailing was the most fashionable figure in Shanghai. She would go to other people's weddings in a wide robe and big sleeves with flowers in front of the trousers. She would make clothes out of bright country cloth and dress everywhere, muttering to herself "as if wearing a famous painting in a museum." Hu Lancheng went to see her for the first time. She was wearing sapphire blue silk trousers and glasses with bright yellow frames, thinking about the delicate beauty.
In the few photos on the market, her clothes either have a tall stand-up collar and a gooseneck, or a tight waist just pinches a thin waist.
"Love in the Allure" describes the thinness of white tassels: always a slender waist, baby-like budding breasts. Just like Zhang Ailing's description of herself, she was also thin on her chest, but she was unique and unforgettable.
She also wrote in the novel that Fan Liuyuan commented on Bai Liusu: You have a lot of small movements, and you have a romantic atmosphere, much like singing Beijing opera. This little action of
can actually be felt in Zhang Ailing's photos. She rarely took photos seriously, either holding her arms or pinching her waist. When taking a photo with Li Xianglan, she lowered her eyebrows and looked down. In the most famous single photo, the chin is raised and the eyes are raised diagonally. Every move is full of charm.
With the cooperation of these small actions, Bai Liusu's "didijiao, delicate eyes of clear water" will have the fatal temptation to catch the playboy Fan Liuyuan who is lingering in the flowers.
But looking at the white tassels under Xu Anhua's lens, I have changed many sets of clothes, and none of them are outstanding. With Fan Liuyuan in and out for a month, his body movements are always rigid. What is the scheming style of Bai Tassel that is sure to win against Fan Liuyuan?
does not mean that you have to pounce on it. You must know that in the style of Chinese women, there are not only the delicate fragrance of "the fragrance when walking, and the beauty when sitting down" that Zhang Ailing admired in "Jin Ping Mei", and the kind of Li Qingzhao "Leaning at the door and looking back, but sniffing the green plum," the desire to leave was left.
But Zhang Ailing is good at tasting these ambiguous gestures, Xu must not be able to get them. Because her aesthetic is more "straight" haha!
Zhang Ailing writes that Bai Liusu is good at bowing her head, and Xu Zhimo's poem has the description of "the gentleness of bowing her head is the most, like the shyness of a water lotus flower that can not beat the cool breeze". But in the movie, the white fringed head bowed, it was the little wife who was wronged.
God knows how such a white tassel caught Fan Liuyuan's heart. Did it save the banking department in the previous life? In the
novel, Zhang Ailing writes that white tassels light mosquito coils, "After polishing the foreign fire, watching it burn away, the small red pennant is swaying, moving, moving in the wind.When she reached her finger, she blew it out with a pop. "
, in Director Xu’s shots, are just a few movements, unremarkable.
, but the same movements, in the hands of Wong Kar-wai, are the thousands of styles of Ye Wen’s wife played by Song Hye Kyo in "The Great Master". Matches and mosquito coils are swaying.
includes the last sentence in the novel, "She just stood up smiling and kicked the mosquito smoke tray under the table. "
read this sentence when I read novels, and gave birth to a lot of imagination about Bai Liusu's mentality and posture. The kick of Miao Qian in the movie is not ugly, but it does not have the graceful feeling in the book.
actually looks like Miao Qian. Quite temperamental, I searched a few old photos of her on the Internet, and they can be both charming and charming, not just the kind of stubbornness in "Love in the Allure".
Therefore, liking and understanding are two different things. Xu Anhua" The aesthetic of "straight men's", the unpretentious temperament and the grand style, doomed her to be incompatible with the energetic atmosphere in Zhang Ailing’s works.
Even Director Xu thinks that the film was a failure, just like a comic strip. She faithfully reproduced the scenes described in the original work, but the form of artistic conception in the novel has never been found.
Looking further, Xu Anhua’s interpretation of the spiritual core of Zhang Ailing’s works has not reached the level of a friend.
She said of Zhang Ailing’s works Here, she likes "Half Life" the most. So in 1997, she filmed the movie "Half Life". At that time, her skills were mature, so "Half Life" no matter from the storyline, character performance, lines In terms of daily life, they have improved a lot. With excellent casting, the completion of the film is very high.
But "Half Life" is not a typical Zhang Ailing novel, it can only be regarded as a very popular novel.
Zhang fans know that Zhang Ailing has always been full of tragic consciousness about social life. Her writing habits are: anti-grand, anti-climax, anti-dramatic, and her characters do not have extreme good and evil. But "Half Life" treats her The writing stance that has always been insisted on has been reversed. In this novel, although the story is still a tragic story, the main tone has become clear and no longer gloomy. The conflict in the drama is strengthened, various misunderstandings and misses are superimposed, and the characters are good. The polarization of evil... Why does
contradict her original style? At that time, Zhang Ailing could not help it.
"Half Life" was originally called "Eighteen Spring" and was written in the early 1950s. When it was published, Zhang Ailing used a pseudonym, It was called Liang Jing. Many of the literary and artistic works that were admired at the time had a clear and optimistic tone. In order to earn a living, Zhang Ailing had to cater to the readers’ preferences in style. After
"Eighteen Spring", she wrote another "Little" with the same tone. "Ai". Later she admitted: I don’t like this novel very much. So you see, Zhang Ailing herself doesn’t like the tune, Xu Anhua likes it. This difference in understanding may prevent her from interpreting Zhang Ailing’s obvious personal stylization. .
Xu Anhua said that she was sensitive since she was a child, like observing people, and can see many problems at home. On this point, she may think she resonates with Zhang Ailing. So she said that she likes the desolation in Zhang Ailing’s novels.
But in the final analysis , Zhang Ailing’s desolation is deep, Xu Anhua’s desolation is desolate.
Zhang Ailing is willing to make efforts to fall in love with her little love, and Xu Anhua’s goal is Dajiang. The sea. I get used to the big-hands, and then come to dig out the small details, it is really a bit overhanging.
Xu Anhua said in an interview with the domestic filmmaker Wang Zun: The biggest lesson of "Love in the Fallen City" is that he failed to grasp the spirit of the original work and failed to add his own understanding.
But it is doubtful that Xu Anhua can really understand Ge Weilong?
When talking about the adaptation of Zhang Ailing's novel "Lust Caution", Li Ang said: Wang Jiazhi is too confused for him, why did she let Mr. Yi go?
In order to deconstruct the character’s psychological motives, Ang Lee and Tang Wei and Leehom Wang each suffered a serious illness after the filming, and only recovered in nearly a month.
Understand, it is also a painful thing.
Xu Anhua later said that it was too difficult to adapt a novel that is known for its psychological portrayal, so if you have nothing to do, you should not adapt a good literary work. But now, she started playing "The First Incense" again.
This novel is actually better than "AllureThe adaptation of "Love" is more difficult. Ge Weilong's psychological curve is more complicated than Bai Liusu, even Zhang Ailing's words are difficult to describe, let alone the camera.
Although this drama is being ridiculed by the group because of the casting problem, think about it seriously, casting is not the biggest problem.
You must know that Ge Weilong described in Zhang Ailing’s novels: his face is plain and beautiful, the skin is fair, the eyes are long and charming, the deep scars of the double eyelids sweep straight into the sideburns, the slender nose, the fat round mouth, The facial expression is slightly sluggish, so there is a kind of gentle and honest classical mood.
In fact, Ma Sichun's appearance fits the character's appearance. As for her misunderstanding of Zhang Ailing's works, it is nothing. The Ge Weilong in the novel also has no deep thoughts, otherwise, she would have the strength to hold on to herself.
Zhang Ailing once wrote: People with complicated thinking will never fall.
Her fatness is not a problem. In order to win the role of Li Bara in "Left Ear", she could lose more than 20 kilograms in a month. This time, she must be able to afford it.
Peng Yuyan is accused of being too fit to play the feminine Georgie Qiao, but Peng Yuyan's handsome and handsome appearance is still convincing, especially the childish confusion in his eyes, which is really a fatal temptation for women. As for a good figure, you can use clothing to hide it. Don't be too handsome in his suit.
Although Yu Feihong has a face that has a clear heart, but if he really needs to be trained well, he can also be evil.
Think about it, Zhang Ziyi, who has always acted ambitiously in all eyes, is still in the second half of "The Great Master".
To sum up, in fact, with regard to the prediction that "The First Incense" might be Waterloo, the biggest question lies with Director Xu Anhua.
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Editor: Jiang Fang
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