"Broken Bridge" revenge, Li Yu continues to fight

Ten days of release, the debate around the movie "Broken Bridge" was one after another. Director Li Yu can predict and accept all the voice: "I have to face it when I do it."

Most of Li Yu's past film works are the state of pain and confusion in the dilemma, "saying difficulties in the predicament", but the new work "Broken Bridge" tells a story of a woman brave revenge.

From being trapped to resistance and revenge, Li Yu, now forty -nine -year -old, has been able to stab a "knife" from the dilemma. In addition to the women in the movie, she also hopes that women outside the movie can have direct and piercing pain. Courage and strength.

"I am very energetic from the first movie. Just like Jiang Wen said to make wine, I do n’t want to make grape juice, do n’t make sweet water.” Li Yu said to poisonous eyes (ID: domoredumou). After 22 years of film, Li Yuxue didn't want to be gentle.

"I am a very rebellious person. The more like this, the more I pierced like a knife, and I will revenge."

From dilemma to the next difficulties

Li Yu, who first made a movie, was not so strong, more than heavenly sensitivity, strong perception of the environment and others, and fully expressing desire.

After resigning from Shandong TV to entering CCTV's "Oriental Time and Space", Li Yu's first documentary "Sister" won the 1996 China Documentary Association Award, becoming a model for documentary creation in textbooks. She was going to shoot a policeman, but found that in a pair of dragons and phoenixes of the policeman, her sister's existence was very special -the family was heavy men and women, and her sister was not liked.

Documentary "Sister"

"Why is my sister, I have to let my brother everything?" The little girl in the film can be captured because Li Yu on the other side of the camera naturally brings a keen perception of women's situation.

"You say I am a feminist? Actually I am not very conscious. I am not a conscious feminist, because my natural eyes are a woman's eyes, and I can observe the situation and dilemma of women more sensitively." Yu said to poisonous eyes.

Her first plot "This summer" is also the first story film in the Mainland with lesbian life. Originally, Li Yu wanted to tell in a documentary, but in that era, homosexuality would be regarded as a spiritual spirit. Disease, Li Yu was afraid that the camera would make this lover criticize the world.

"I suddenly thought that it can be written as a movie script, because the movie is true, everyone thinks it is edited." The documentary is too close to real, which may hurt the women Li Yu want to pay attention to and bring trouble to their lives, so Li Yu Starting the road of her plot creation.

"this summer"

The mother's dilemma also runs through all the creations after Li Yu. Xiaoyun, a Sichuan opera actor, who is 16 -year -old in "Hongyan", Xiaoyun, who is tortured by men in "Apple", and the south wind of Li Yu in "Guanyin Mountain" jumping on the train to escape from his hometown -Li Yu movie, The most intense resistance they can always do in the play of fate is nothing more than escaping.

Li Yu described her creation at that time as "predicament", because she was also in the predicament, and she did not have the power of penetrating pain. "The movie is indeed a mirror. Every time I shoot, I can look at myself and look at my relationship with this world."

Of course, Li Yu has not tried the world reconciliation she saw. In her early movies, most of the sources of women's pain came from men. Men appeared in Li Yu's lens in a vague way, and were always full of twisted and violent. Li Yu thought about it, do you want to understand men?

In 2015, Li Yu's "The Growth of Everything" was released, and the audience found that the film was adapted from Feng Tang's novel. In the eyes of women, Feng Tang wrote a scumbag who felt good and all women surrounded him. Li Yu tried to understand the mentality of this male and wanted to discover what this kind of man province was.

But she didn't find it in the novel, and she could only add a line that "I was the original I was myself." "I actually try to understand men, but to be honest, I can only understand here."

It was not until this year that Li Yu's movies had a clear and positive male image.

Many men in her movie before, either lacking, or non -positive, blurred, "a bit of a shadow feeling." The childhood family was broken, and her mother lived in the harm brought by her father for a long time. Li Yu hated his father for many years. "So I am confused about feelings, and there is confusion about the relationship between men and women. It's in the movie. "

But in "Broken Bridge", the heroine Wen Xiaoyu's father is a male full of idealism. Li Yu said that there may be a shadow of her father in it. Last year, Li Yu had a re -understanding of the relationship between herself and his father, "or called, reconciliation."

When relatives got married, Li Yu returned to his hometown and talked with his father for a long time. His father talked about his drama in the university. When he said that his daughter was absent, Li Yu suddenly found that his father was a talented and kind person. "And he loved me very much . "The daughter in her forties, in the face of the 70 -year -old father, only knew the talent and genes of filming for the first time, may be derived from the father. "Children in many families know who I follow, I know that day."

Li Yu at that time was very sad because she realized that the gap between her and her father could not make up. "From the age of 20 to now 40 years old, I finally knew that it was not just my father who was facing me. At the same time, I know that I have put down a lot of things before. "Therefore, there will be in the" Broken Bridge ". Although absent but justice, the father Wen Liang, and the Meng Chao played by Wang Junkai. In Li Yu's opinion, Meng Chao is a chivalrous teenager -for the first time in her movie, there is a "man like angel".

Although this man was not flawed, he saved Wen Xiaoyu with his classical "righteousness" with his classical "righteousness".

Calling, but it does not hinder revenge

But "Broken Bridge" is not a story that women can only wait for being rescued by men. Wen Xiaoyu wants to revenge.

This time, Li Yu did not let the women in her movie only stay in the predicament. She wanted to bravely resist and want to grow through the power that can cross the pain. The two starring two starring Wang Junkai and Ma Sichun were because Li Yu saw the power she wanted on them.

When I saw Wang Junkai at first, Li Yu didn't talk too much about Meng Chao. When talking with Wang Junkai's experience with Wang Junkai, she found that Wang Junkai had a understanding of performance and movie under the silent idol shell. Those understanding It is "thorn". "I think there is a fire in his heart. This is critical to me." Li Yu didn't like the actor who likes pure rationality and analyzes the characters. She can see Wang Junkai's impulse, and this impulse is just Meng Chao What this character needs.

When Wang Junkai really became Meng Obun, he began to express himself naturally, and Li Yu found that "the encouragement came out." When filming, Wang Junkai and Li Yu said, director, I was anxious. "His very wild thing came out."

Ma Sichun also has this "impulse". After watching the script, Ma Sichun cried for a long time and wrote a long letter to Li Yu with her own experience and her understanding of Wen Xiaoyu. This understanding is not a rational analysis in performance techniques. "The feeling penetrated from the bones". Li Yu felt that Ma Sichun was so strong, and the revenge in "Broken Bridge" itself was a very strong obsession.

Throughout the shooting process, Li Yu and Ma Sichun trusted each other. When they encountered difficulties, Li Yu wanted to carry with her. "I told her that you must be firm, to be strong in spirit, and the active performance of the show requires physical strength. We will carry it together. We are not afraid." Essence

Li Yu used this power to make movies. When doing the first long film, selling a house and borrowing money must be shot. When you find investment, you look at it from top to bottom. "It seems that women can't make movies". From then on, Li Yu knows that making movies What does this mean. "Everyone mentioned that I still refute the female director. Why don't you say it alone and say it is a male director?"

In the early years, she did not have much voice as a director. When watching the clothes needed in the film with the staff, she felt that green and the environment were more matched. The other party said, "Because you are a woman, you feel green." Later Some young female directors cooperated and found that this phenomenon still exists. "The director wants the lens, the photographer can't achieve it. They have a sense of superiority, thinking that women's vision is narrow, naive, and little girl -like. He doesn't know what your angle is."

Li Yu's way is to make a straightforward resistance.

"I would say, this is my movie, not your movie. If you think this is not good, then you can make your movie yourself." Li Yu always told the other party's insistence as soon as possible. But not all women can make such a reaction. The dilemma of women has always existed, and this is why Li Yu wants to make a movie that will stab the audience.

"Society is paying attention to the dilemma of women and what they do, and some audiences have asked why they do not call the police. It is enough to have such thinking." In Li Yu's view, movies that make people feel pain can cause thinking , Without avoiding this pain to defeat it.

Therefore, Li Yuxian's discussion and controversy on "Broken Bridge" is also her attitude towards women's dilemma. And Li Yu's problem of solving the problem is only one: continue to shoot.

When she was in elementary school, Li Yu wrote a little white rabbit to find a lovers and constantly raped children's stories on the road. After reading it, the teacher thought that it was not what she could write at this age. He questioned her plagiarism story. But Li Yu did not change because of this and gave up what she wanted to write, and so far.

"I still want to insist on making a movie I like. Maybe the cinema does not lack mild sweet water, and I don't need to do those things."

Soft thorns

Since the long film of the first sex theme, Li Yu, as a director, often placed herself in controversy.

The previous courtyard movie "Sunshine Relief" also suffered a lot of degradation and doubts, but Li Yu himself did not regret it. At that time, Li Yu was in the special period of life. In the late stage of her mother's cancer, she experienced the fact that she was crying and was at a loss, and tried to accept the fact that her mother would leave. At this time, Li Yu wanted to be a warm fairy tale.

It's just that in the fairy tale of "Sunshine Relief", with obvious sadness. "I like" Sunshine Robber ", but I don't like the audience," Li Yu said that the movie did not lose what she had been talking about before, "just lost." During the shooting "Broken Bridge", Li Yu's mother's mother was during the shooting of "Broken Bridge". After dying, Li Yu continued to shoot, and Li Yu continued to shoot, and did not want to affect the progress because of her influence. Until the film was released, she talked about life and death. Li Yu said that she felt that her mother lived in parallel time and space.

In the memo of Li Yu's mobile phone, there are many small things she observes the caught life. One of them happened not long ago. One of the old ladies who saw the back of the back on the road, and went forward to help. The old lady was scaring the other party. Li Yu also sent this incident to her mother, and she would continue to send a message to her mother: Mom, I saw a person like you today.

"I don't really have passed, I still can't talk about it." This is Li Yu's weakness.

These delicate and soft parts are the other side of Li Yu in the movie world. More often, she is only willing to show her as a "fighter". "Because it is difficult to make a movie, especially in the current environment."

Li Yu saw the movie's position is being entertaining and recreational. What she wanted to do was to go forward, even if she could only move forward, she still had to stimulate her "thorn".

"In this world, movies that need to be encouraged to be good, and there must be movies standing in the dark to look at the darkness. There must be different movies." At present, women with a single female role, lack of rebellious and powerful women. As a creator, Li Yu has always wanted to do something. "We live under the perspective of men and men. I have always wanted to shoot a story of a female revenge."

What she wants to shoot is a movie with the awakening, resistance and revenge consciousness of women, like "Mad Flowers in the End", wants to use some extreme cases to show women's resistance, and use this resistance to metaphorize women's suffering to themselves to themselves. Repression, dilemma resistance. "I have talked about dilemma in the predicament before, and there is still no pain, and the pain is still there, but now we can penetrate it."

Li Yu likes a powerful person. He wants to continue to be a powerful person, shoot a strong movie, stretch out the "thorn" a little, and then pierce. "Being more deep and deep, we may have broken blood in this process, but people have lived so short, so fighting is important."

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