"Long Confession" director Zhang Lu: Love a person's performance, there is no standard answer ｜ Cover living room

Cover news reporter Zhou Qin

What will it look like to love someone? The love movie "Long Confession" starring Zhang Lu, Ni Ni, Zhang Luyi, and Xin Baiqing was released nationwide on August 12. There is no youth pain, and there is no mandatory sensation. The film focuses on the emotional relationship between middle -aged men and women or plain restraint or romantic reality, and tells a period of emotional entanglement that spans 20 years.

Recently, the film director and screenwriter Zhang Lu were a guest cover living room. Some clips of the film were accused of "male gaze". He admitted that he was not sure of this approach, but he just thought about it and thought for the people who saw it. When asked about the feelings that have not been expressed for 20 years in the film, it is not in line with the judgment standard of "not proactive or not" at the moment, Zhang Lu also said that he loves a person's performance without standard answers.

"Long Confession" stills according to "Long Confession" official Weibo

Talk about actors:

"Ni Ni has a elegant thing"

The story of the film revolves around Li Chun (Xin Baiqing) and Lidong (Zhang Luyi) a pair of brothers with different personalities. After entering middle age, although both of them lived in Beijing, they were tired of their own life trajectories. Suddenly, his brother Lidong proposed to his brother to travel to Liaoyuan, Japan to find the woman Achuan (Ni Ni) who admired the two people in his teenagers. The story that occurred in Liaoyuan was unfolded.

More than ten years ago, the director Zhang Lu went to Liuchuan for the first time and left a deep impression. "Local saying (Liugawa) is the Venice of Japan. The waterway is criss -crossed, beautiful, but very lonely. So when you walk around that space, you will become quiet when you take a boat or in a daze. Will feel what is still moving. "

There are touches and pictures in my heart. "What would a girl named Liuchuan come to the same space as her name?" And this has also become the prototype of the story of "Long Confession".

Achuan played by Ni Ni is undoubtedly beautiful. From many years ago, from the unsuccessful goodbye, to London and Liugawa, England, she was used to wandering and free. In addition, Achuan still has many flash points: the whispering of the bar, the tango and fluent English of the vending machine the night before, left a deep impression on many people.

Zhang Lu admits that the reputation of the actor is not in his consideration, and it is more about whether the feeling of the actors and characters is integrated. After seeing Ni Ni for the first time, Zhang Li felt that she met her imagination of the character Achuan. "She has a elegant thing, and Liu Shi is also elegant, which is a texture."

Ni Ni jumps tango. According to the "Long Confession" official Weibo

Zhang Lu is willing to make the characters and actors of the movie overlap in the body. "When expressing emotions with limbs, it is more moving than other performances and lines." He seized Ni Ni to get the national standard. The dance champion was added to the role, so the film was praised by Ni Ni in the film, which was praised by the audience to "see 100 times". In order to shoot this play, the crew found the teacher of Tango for Ni Ni and Xin Baiqing in Beijing. "Soon Ni Ni's memory returned, and Xin Baiqing had no foundation to train more," Zhang Lu said with a smile. "I told Xin Baiqing, you should not jump better than Ni Ni."

Zhang Lu, who has been filming in South Korea for many years, admits that it is not familiar with the domestic situation. Later, I found that Ni Ni has a lot of fans. "During the process of shooting, even if it was Liuchuan, someone knew her. It was a good thing for a movie to see more people. Good. Thank you very much. "

Male stare?

"Just take the reality and then reflect on it."

The two brothers in the film and Lichun are also very different. Brother Lichun is cynical, his brother Lidong has a subtle personality and is introverted. Lichun and Achuan were lovers when they were young, while Lidong always loved Achuan silently and never confess to her. After getting sick, I decided to see the people who kept remembering in my heart.

The conversation and interaction between the two brothers will give some audiences, especially female audiences. For example, Lichun's opposite Dong said, "You can also touch her now, Chuan'er is very casual." Lidong will also ask Achuan in a straightforward manner, "What do you like my big brother? So you slept with him again?" In Zhang Lu's view, there are many men like Lichun. "No matter whether there are women around you, women are there, whether there are women around, or whether there are women around, or whether there are women around, whether there are women around, or whether there are women around, whether there are women around, or whether there are women around, whether there are women around, or whether there are women around, whether there are women around, or whether there are women around them, whether there are women around them, whether there are women around, or whether there are women around them, whether there are women around them, whether there are women around, or whether there are women around them, whether there are women around them, whether there are women around them, whether there are women around them, women are there, they are there. These straight men are many when they speak unpleasant. I am not encouraging. This is a part of reality. We can't avoid it. After shooting, we will have some reflections. "

"Are these men really so confident?" In Zhang Lu's view, they also had a lot of helplessness, cowardice, and poor. In the film, Li Chun, played by Xin Baiqing, has long been unhappy, but he still has to go to Achuan's room stubborn every night, and he sleeps in one corner, just to create an image of his brother who is still perfect in front of his younger brother. Zhang Lu said, "The true helplessness of a person has all the things on Lichun. I think Xin Baiqing performs very well."

"Long Confession" stills according to "Long Confession" official Weibo

Don't like it if you don't take the initiative?

"It is difficult for everyone to summarize, there is no standard answer"

Compared with the free and easy and greasy, Zhang Luyi played the gentle and restrained, and never expressed it in Lizhu, but it will use action to make some changes: such as changing the accent of Beijing dialect, remembering the small happened between them The story, and to see her through thousands of miles through the 20 years ...

But at the moment, there is a saying that "like", "I don't like it without active". If you look at it with such standards, it will inevitably be puzzled. Does Lidong really like Achuan? If you like it, how can you hold back your initiative? In Zhang Lu's view, it is difficult for everyone to summarize and have no standard answers. People like Lidong must exist in life. "I have never seen people who live according to the standard answer ... just say that we are all people, how can we slowly treat our feelings slowly and slowly treat the future life. Disappearing, I am quite pessimistic about this part. "

The movie has its own destiny

"Regardless of whether the harvest is good or not, it will be spring plowing next year."

Director Zhang Lu's picture According to the "Long Confession" official Weibo

Zhang Lu, born in Jilin in 1962, is a Korean. When filming the short film "11 years old" in 2001, Zhang Lu was nearly 40 years old. His films have been shortlisted for the world's top film festivals such as Venice, Cannes, and Berlin in the past two decades, most of which are Korean films. "Long Confession" is the first time that Zhang Lu's film works have been released in China.

"Long Confession" has been filmed for 23 days. Zhang Lu said, "This is also related to the budget, the volume of work, the way of work, and the degree of fit in the team. It does not mean that 10 days are not good, nor said it is good for a year. It's long. "

Talking about the satisfaction or regret during the shooting process, Zhang Lu did not answer directly. In his opinion, a movie was promoted from the end of the brewing and filming to the later period. When there was almost no rest, "so after the filming, I wanted to forget it quickly." In addition, he also believes that after the film was filmed, there was His destiny, "how long it is to walk is its fate", and you need to go forward and start the creation of the next work. "So the old words are just working, not asking for harvest. You work honestly. This year, the harvest is good, the harvest is not good, but this is the difference. It will be spring farming next year."

For those who love the expression of film and television, or have the director's dream, Zhang Lu's past experience is like an atypical sample. "No matter who can copy it, just when the fate arrives." In his opinion, it is not too late at the age of 40. "As long as there is a need for emotional expression, the audition is sensitive enough to start."

At the end of the exclusive interview, I was asked how to promote the "Long Confession" of his director and screenwriter in one sentence. Zhang Lu said, "This is a bit sensational." One or two seconds later, he smiled and said, "Life is short, love is long, let's watch a movie."

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