Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 562 Restarting work

Watching "Return" again, Zhang Yuanjun had a different feeling.

Of course Chen Daoming and Gong Li performed extremely well, but there was no sense of surprise in the story.

Zhang Yimou was too familiar with filming that period of history. Of course, the director can't be blamed for the lack of surprise. Now is not the time to film "Alive", and there is no time to reflect on the social conditions of that period of history.

"Some people will definitely say that compared to "Alive", Zhang Yimou has regressed." Without clicking on the comments, Zhang Yuanjun expected that some viewers would say so.

"Nonsense, how can we make "Alive" now?" It's easy for moviegoers to talk up and down. They will demand that every Zhang Yimou film be "Alive", and that every Chen Kaige film be "Bawang Farewell". Ji".

"But "Return" is still Zhang Yimou's best movie since "Hero"."

Liu Yifei wasn't listening at all. She muttered: "Gong Li's performance is really good. I feel like Chen Daoming has never played her before. Her state of amnesia due to old age is so accurate."

"Do you think the name Gong Huang is for nothing?" Zhang Yuanjun also admitted that Chen Daoming had never played Gong Li in the play.

Although the crew has temporarily suspended filming, it will not stop work completely. The scenes to be filmed later must be prepared in advance, the actors must prepare their lyrics in advance, and if they need to rehearse, they must rehearse under the organization of the executive director and assistant director.

The main focus is still on shooting by reporters: "We will shoot more today, and we can edit a few more films later."

Zhang Yuanjun was in the hotel today and was not on the set. Liu Yifei came over and was arranged by the crew to be interviewed by the movie channel "China Film Report".

The reporter asked her: "It's your first time working with director Zhang Yimou. What's different about it?"

Today's interview format was very relaxed. Liu Yifei took the reporter to chat while walking around the set.

"No." Liu Yifei shook her head, "Before I joined the team, I thought the director would be so strict and his temper might be a bit loud, but director Zhang Yimou will always talk to you in a nice voice and will not put any pressure on the actors verbally.

"Okay." The photographer made an OK gesture.

"It's hard work," Liu Yifei said with a smile.

Liu Yifei first walked around with reporters outside the studio and chatted.

"It's not particularly different. It's just that the director has stricter requirements on the actors and the crew."

The reporter came to the scene in the morning and saw Liu Yifei holding a script in one hand and a water glass in the other hand, and the crew was adjusting the lines. The reporter said: "I arrived yesterday. I heard you were here, so I came here specially."

"Arrived last night." The reporter said.

Liu Yifei checked her lyrics once and walked out of the studio with the reporter: "Did you really arrive yesterday?"

The crew's work is still moving forward steadily.

The crew is also happy to arrange more interviews for the actors in these days, since there are not many things going on anyway.

The media also took advantage of the director's absence in the past few days and the crew to have more time to come to interview.

"Okay." Liu Yifei took the reporter's microphone, stood next to an RV outside the studio, and said to the camera: "Hello, viewers of "China Film Report", I am Liu Yifei, welcome to "Women's "Fragments" crew." After a two-second pause, "Are you ready?"

"First record the opening for us and say hello to the audience."

"If the filming is not good, will the director scold me?"

Liu Yifei didn't accept this trick and said with a smile: "It's too fake. It's deliberately trying to get close. Haha."

"He is very patient and will help you understand the characters and plot in detail."

"The director may be reluctant to scold you." The reporter speculated.

"No," Liu Yifei smiled, "He treats everyone like this." Liu Yifei introduced the crew to reporters: "I have been shooting in the studio for the past few days since the filming started. The director only went to Cannes after shooting a set of scenes."

The reporter suddenly said: "How did you get this on your face? It's a little dirty."

"Let me take a look." Liu Yifei said and looked at the camera in front of her. The photographer really cooperated with her and used it as a mirror for her.

"Can you see it? There's something stuck on it," the reporter said.

Liu Yifei saw from the camera that her forehead was indeed a little dirty: "Maybe." She didn't care, "I just walked away and touched it."

"Then let's deal with it," the reporter said.

"Okay." He said and walked towards the shed with the reporter.

Back in the shed, Liu Yifei wiped her forehead with a tissue and that was all.

"This is my house in the movie." Liu Yifei told reporters, "Originally I planned to shoot in a real house, but after several experiments, the layout of the real house was not easy to place the machine, and the effect that the director wanted could not be achieved, so we decided to Built a house in the shed.”

The 25-minute long shot must be kept secret and cannot be told to reporters.

"Isn't Yuan Jun on the set today?" the reporter asked casually.

"He is doing an exclusive interview at the hotel." Liu Yifei said.

The reporter added: "How many times have you and Yuan Jun collaborated?"

"'The Master of Hypnosis' is the seventh time, and this is the eighth time." Liu Yifei said with a smile, "I don't know if I don't count. It's really too many."

"Are you worried that the audience won't want to watch it?"

"Yes." Liu Yifei answered honestly. She did have this worry. The two collaborated too frequently. She asked the reporter, "Do you feel aesthetic fatigue after watching so much?"

The reporter did not answer her rhetorical question, but said, "Fans are still willing to see you guys cooperate."

Liu Yifei took me around the set for a while. I got what the reporter was supposed to take and went back satisfied.

On the 21st, Zhang Yimou ended his trip to Cannes. At noon on the 22nd, Zhang Yimou appeared on the set of "Pieces of a Woman".

Zhang Yimou returned to the crew and began to organize the resumption of work. He only chatted with his colleagues about the Cannes experience during the preparation work.

I also didn’t forget to tell Liu Yifei: “I’ve watched your movie “Miss Bai”.

Liu Yifei's eyes lit up, but she was embarrassed to ask Zhang Yimou directly what she thought of the film, but how could Zhang Yimou not know what she was thinking, so he said: "It's very good-looking. There are very few people in China making this kind of movie, and it's a very meaningful film." "

In fact, from watching the rough cut of "Miss Bai" to now, what Liu Yifei has heard the most is the film critics praising the subject matter.

"The subject matter is rare", "very fresh", "very meaningful subject matter" and so on.

Liu Yifei gradually understood that "Miss Bai" is a film with advanced themes, and Chen Zhixi told her that after "Miss Bai" is released, some viewers will criticize the film's social issues of child abuse by speculators, and say that the crew has bad intentions.

She was also mentally prepared to face this.

The crew prepared for more than an hour and then restarted the filming. The studio was set up in Chen Jianyu and Zhou Ning's home, and Zhang Yimou planned to shoot all the material in this scene first.

This is also the only scene in the studio in the entire "Pieces of a Woman". The rest of the film was shot on location.

"Okay, ready to turn on, 3, 2, 1, start." Zhang Yimou sat in front of the monitor.

(End of this chapter)