In the movie "Inception", the important roles are: the dream thief played by DiCaprio, the dream builder played by Ellen Page, the outpost played by Joseph, and the pretender played by Tom Hardy.
Marion Cotillard plays the Phantom, Ken Watanabe plays the tycoon, Sillian Murphy plays the Target, and Dilip Law plays the pharmacist!
Now Wu Jianye has confirmed that Chen Daohuan will play the dream thief, Zhu Xi will play the phantom, Zhou Gongzi will play the dream builder, Jiang Xi will play the tycoon, and Huang Xiaochu will play the target!
As for Huang Xiaochu, Wu Jianye is not worried at all that he will refuse such an invitation!
In other words, there are still three unconfirmed main characters left: the Outpost, the Pretender, and the Pharmacist!
What Wu Jianye is more troubled about is actually the role of the pretender.
In fact, at the beginning, Wu Jianye preferred Sun Honglei to play the role of the pretender.
After all, the actor Tom Hardy himself is a character who is both good and evil, and in the early days, Sun Honglei had not yet completely cultivated his image as a social big brother.
At this time, Sun Honglei has already won the national break dance competition championship and is considered a celebrity. If there are no accidents, Sun Honglei will apply for Chinese drama this year.
However, Wu Jianye thought about it and felt that Sun Honglei's height was a bit inappropriate. Chen Daoxuan's height was 1.78, while Sun Honglei's height was 1.80. If they stood together, Sun Honglei might attract some of the audience's attention, resulting in a lack of priority.
Possibility of points!
When considering this factor, Wu Jianye had no choice but to give up Sun Honglei's role as the pretender. Sometimes, as is the case, the director chooses a role not because his acting skills are not up to par, but because of some other reasons that cannot be changed.
After removing Sun Honglei as an alternative, Wu Jianye is left with two alternatives. One is Duan Yihong, who was admitted to the Chinese Theater Academy last year. Duan Yihong's height of 1.77cm is slightly shorter than Chen Daoxuan, but it is within the acceptable range.
Duan Yihong was a late-blooming actor in another time and space. After graduating from Chinese Opera, he directly joined the National Theater. After a few years of ups and downs, he did not become famous until "Soldier Assault" in 2006. Later, he starred in Wu Jianye
It seems that the number one anti-Japanese TV drama "My Captain, My Regiment" has become a quasi-first-line star in China, and finally won the Best Actor Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival with "Scorching Sun"!
Then in 2017, he won the best actor award at the Tokyo International Film Festival that year with "The Blizzard Is Coming"!
Another candidate was Liao Fan, who was in the 93th drama class. However, Wu Jianye didn’t know much about Liao Fan’s height, so after thinking about it, he sent an audition notice to Liao Fan. He was probably arriving in Yanjing by this time.
Got it!
Liao Fan has a more outstanding resume than Duan Yihong. At the same time, Liao Fan has played more good and evil roles. Coupled with his image, he is actually more suitable for the role of pretender than Duan Yihong.
He made his debut with the first domestic youth romance drama "Love to the End", and subsequently starred in classic film and television works such as "Half Seawater Half Fire", "On the Line of Life and Death", and "Let the Bullets Fly".
In 2014, he won the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival for his role in "Fireworks in the Day"!
It can be said that Liao Fan will be synonymous with acting in later generations!
"Where did you find this information? That Duan Yihong can be said to be my junior brother. I didn't even know there was such a person in China Drama, but you actually knew about it?" Jiang Xiu asked very curiously.
Naturally, Wu Jianye couldn't tell Jiang Qian that he only knew this because of his rebirth. In fact, even if he was reborn, Wu Jianye might not be able to remember which year everyone attended the film and drama school!
"Tangting Culture compiles a statistical summary of freshmen from the three major performing schools in China every year. It contains detailed information about each person. This will also help Tangting Culture find actors on its own!" Wu Jianye explained.
"This kind of work has probably never been done by domestic film studios, let alone film companies!" Jiang Xi sighed.
Wu Jianye laughed and said, "Do you think it's that easy to be a film company? It doesn't mean that you only need a great director and a few great actors."
The situation of later generations has proven to Wu Jianye many times that if a film and television company completely relies on a certain director or a few actors, then the probability of problems for the film and television company will be very high.
Huayi Brothers relied on Feng Pants, but as Feng Pants began to let himself go, no longer focused on New Year movies, and began to play in depth, Huayi Brothers' stock price fell again and again, and it fell directly from the first rung of domestic film and television companies.
come out.
New Picture Film Company was even worse, because its business was single, with only Zhang Yimou, so when Zhang Yimou left New Picture, New Picture Film Company disappeared directly from the public's eyes.
"What I hope is that after I stop making movies, Tangting Culture will have more directors and actors to step forward. Directors like you have nothing wrong with it except that the filming process is time-consuming!"
"By the way, you have to be careful to restrain your talents!" Wu Jianye joked at the end.
But at this time, Jiang Xiu didn't understand the meaning of this joke. He laughed when Wu Jianye said this, but still said seriously: "I am also responsible for the movie."
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "Actually, the movie story is divided into two parts, one is the story of the movie, and the other is the lines of the movie. Sometimes the lines are even more important than the story. Movies do not just rely on stories to solve problems. This is actually
The reason why many movies fail is that the story is just an idea, but there are no details and no lines. The lines are not necessarily for the purpose of narrative. Narration is too simple for us directors. Isn’t that what happened in previous silent films?
Is that so? The lines are exactly about finding the corners of the character’s heart that he himself has not discovered. Sometimes, just for a moment, the audience can see into his heart. Such lines are meaningful!
So a good story can come out of nowhere, but good lines need to be honed more seriously!"
Jiang Qian was also interested upon hearing this. At this time, Jiang Qian had only filmed one film, "Sunny Days", and had not yet formally formed his own style. However, he had already vaguely felt the importance of lines, so when
When Wu Jianye said the lines, Jiang Qian also agreed very much, and even felt that Wu Jianye opened a door for himself that he had always wanted to find but couldn't find!
"Teacher Wu, can you tell me more specifically?"
Wu Jianye was also fine and said with a smile: "The interesting part of the movie lines is how to expose the characters and personalities in the movie, and how to make the characters have the behavior of turning on the left light and walking right. I think people actually...
.... Especially for people who are more educated, in modern society, language is already a kind of clothing, a kind of dressing up, and a kind of fashion. How can you understand the meaning behind it through his language, or
It’s a very interesting process to tell what he is really like!”
"What kind of lines are interesting and good lines?" Jiang Xi couldn't help but ask.
Wu Jianye stretched out his hands and gestured to draw a river out, saying: "For example, there is a river in the middle. There is a deaf man on one side, let's call him A, and there is a deaf man on the other side, let's call him B. Two old men, deaf A is carrying a pole.
Let’s go, the deaf person B on this side shouted to him on the other side, what’s the matter, are you going fishing?”
"The deaf person A here didn't hear it, but he thought, I can't let B think I'm deaf, so A said, no, I'll go fishing!"
"B didn't hear what A said, but B also thought, I can't let A think I can't hear, so he replied, I thought you were going fishing!"
"So, you see, across a river, these three sentences are actually about fishing. What a wonderful line. The hearts of these two old men are so vividly here, but their lines are all denying and covering up.
It was exposed in the process.”
Jiang Xun nodded seriously: "Yes!"
Wu Jianye said: "This is the wonder of good lines, otherwise you would say..."
"Please have a cup of coffee!"
"I don't drink coffee."
"Is this a little cold?"
"No, it's not too cold!"
"What's the point of such a line?" Wu Jianye finally concluded.
Jiang Xiu felt that the door she had been looking for was finally opened by Wu Jianye. The excitement on her face was clearly visible and she said, "Yes, that's what I thought sometimes, but I just couldn't put it together.
Now that I hear what you say, I completely understand!"
Wu Jianye laughed and said, "Then you have to pay tuition!"
Jiang Xian smiled and said: "It's necessary!"
But what Wu Jianye didn't expect was that it was precisely because of this conversation with Jiang Xi that it actually caused Jiang Xi's extremely slow filming speed!
The two looked at the time, and Jiang Qian asked: "Will the other interviewees come today?"
Wu Jianye shook his head and said: "No way, their time has been arranged to tomorrow morning!"
"Let's go and have something to eat at Lao Dai's place. I still have many questions to ask you!" Jiang Xi said excitedly.
Wu Jianye did not refuse, and the two came to Dai's Restaurant.
Of course Jiang Yu paid the price!
In fact, after Wu Jianye made some remarks about the lines, although Jiang Xiu felt that she had opened the door that had been hidden in her heart, she still had many problems, so she kept dragging Wu Jianye to talk about the lines that afternoon.
things.
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"Have you really received an invitation from Tangting Culture?"
On the campus of China National Theater Academy, the winter vacation was about to begin, so there were not many classmates in the college. Several young people surrounded Duan Yihong, looking very envious.
Duan Yihong also had a reserved smile on his face and said: "It's just an invitation to audition. It's not certain whether I can become an actor in Director Wu's new movie!"
"Please, it's not easy to receive an invitation from Director Wu. I've met Director Wu once. He's actually very talkative. Being able to invite you already shows that you have great potential. I'm not wrong about you."
!" Xiao Taohong said, patting Duan Yihong on the shoulder.
Duan Yihong blushed slightly. At this time, Duan Yihong's aura of both good and evil had not yet been developed. In addition, his family background was somewhat difficult, so he seemed a little inferior.
As for Xiao Taohong, it's not actually a secret love as he said in the interview. It's just that Xiao Taohong has a more cheerful personality and gets along very well with the classmates in the class. In addition,
Xiao Taohong also starred in Jiang Xian's "Sunny Days" and was the most famous girl in the class, so Duan Yihong admired her more.
When Jiang Qian was filming "Sunny Day", Wu Jianye went to visit the class and happened to see Xiao Taohong and others filming the swimming pool scene.
"I hope it will succeed!" Duan Yihong was thinking that the fastest way to become famous in China now is to be associated with Wu Jianye's movies.
At first, Li Yapeng was selected into the crew of "Eternal Night" and took on the position of male lead. Although he lost this opportunity in the end because of his own injury, even so, Li Yapeng became very popular. Now he is reluctant to take roles.
ah!
Duan Yihong also hopes that he can have such an opportunity, but he is really short of money!
"By the way, has Tangting Culture notified you when to audition?" Xiao Taohong asked.
Duan Yihong nodded and said: "Tomorrow morning."
"Then do you know who your competitors are?" Xiao Taohong continued to ask.
Duan Yihong shook his head and said, "I don't know about that."
Xiao Taohong then asked her classmates: "Has anyone else in our school received the notice?"
Everyone looked at each other and then shook their heads.
"What about the film school?"
As a director who came out of the film school, Wu Jianye has always taken great care of the students of the film school, which is the envy of these Chinese drama students, so that's why Xiao Taohong asked this!
Gao Fu shook his head and said: "No, the film school just said that it was confirmed that Huang Xiaochu will star in Director Wu's movie. Since he has confirmed it, he probably won't compete with Lao Duan for a role!"
Gao Fu is actually the one who starred in the bearded version of Xu Zhu in "The Legend of the Dragon", and he is Huang Bo's nobleman. Before Huang Bo became famous, he always supported Huang Bo. He was supposed to have a bright future.
However, his successive suicide attempts ruined his acting career, so that when Wu Jianye was reborn, news about him was rarely heard.
Xiao Taohong said curiously: "Who else could it be?"
"Could it be a student who goes to theater or someone who doesn't study in an acting school? I heard that the female lead in Director Wu's new movie is such a person!"
Xiao Taohong, said Yin Xiaotian, another classmate of Duan Yihong.
This is also a tragic figure in the entertainment industry. Because of a knife scandal, he was originally known as the new four niches in the mainland together with Nie Yuan, Huang Jiaozhu, and Tong Dawei, but in the end he also disappeared from the entertainment industry!
"This is strange, who is it?"
Everyone was curious, but just when everyone was curious, Liao Fan walked out of the train station with his senior brother who was also auditioning for another role in the movie "Inception"!