Interview with Li Shaohong | "Seeking" in the era

As the most well -known female director among the fifth -generation film director in China, Li Shaohong always seems to have an elusive "variability".

A series of film and television dramas such as "Red Fan", "Daming Palace Ci", and "Orange Red" directed in her early years are still the classics of people's hearts that are enough to "load the historical book". But there are also several works that cause some small controversy. Not only that, Li Shaohong's identity and work style also changed a little bit. Since "Thunderstorm", she has moved from the field of film to the field of TV dramas and has become the earliest batch of "cross -border" directors. Li Shaohong, after the establishment of the old film and television company "Rongxin Da", combines the identity of art creators and company owners.

And her creation with the mark of "style" has also gradually changed from a public perspective to a more unique female perspective with her consciousness of self -consciousness. In the movie "There is her in the world" that launching the cinema line not long ago, Li Shaohong once again portrayed an ordinary family with trouble through the perspective of women, and pursued and persisted in love and hope.

As far as Li Shaohong is concerned, this "change" may be more or less to bring her some problems and influence, but it is also the best proof of her constantly crossing the comfort zone, just like she is willing to accept and try different theme works That way. "I didn't dare to shoot a lot of types, because I don't think I understand and I haven't experienced it. But later I found that the creation is not in your own experience. The root cause is telling the story of 'people'. Any subject matter is in line with this. "Li Shaohong said," So I am willing to try all kinds of new things now, as long as there is no subject matter that has not been involved, I am very interested. "

QA

Iconspro: You have cooperated with many actors. Now netizens have a point of view that the actress of 85 flowers is still performing idol dramas. 90 small flowers have some acting skills but not many. Most of the aura actors are in the post -95 generation. Do you usually feel this situation?

Li Shaohong: Actually, I think no matter which generation of actors, he will face two types (the situation), one is the state in his real life, and the requirements and needs of actors in the commodity market. The conflict is still quite large. Because the audience's aesthetic orientation and needs, I hope that the female lead, I hope that the woman seems to be everything, perfect, and suddenly everyone is the big female lead. Then I felt that the female lead seemed to be unable to work again, and she was going to be fresh. This is a large aesthetic needs, but this demand may be contradictory with the real real society. Therefore, this may change many actors' requirements for performance. When their own judgment and requirements sometimes come to more extreme, they will find that they do not know what they are like. In the tone, (performance) seems to be a gesture, and it becomes a look everyone wants. You will put yourself in the character, and in the small fresh or the female lead, it will become a stylized performance. I want to say that you can be a little bit natural? When she is stunned, she feels like naturally? You can feel from her expression that she doesn't want to, she doesn't seem to understand what (naturally).

Iconspro: Like Zhou Xun, who cooperated in his early years, it is considered a typical talent, especially aura actor, but it seems that some actors have the aura What is it?

Li Shaohong: He (likely) was objectively guided. For example, when we were creating this time, because I had no cooperation with Zhou Xun for more than ten years, she would ask me a word. Am I still like that? She always said that her performance and her acting had my brand. In fact, what is this branding? She also felt that the brand was not lost. She said that I did not change. Is this like this? I feel that this is out of feeling. Are you still able to hold on? No matter what is changing, but your performance system is still a self -perception system, a system of feeling. She thinks this system has always been insisted, and I think this moves me very much. What she told me the most was what she should feel. She couldn't figure out she couldn't play. She must understand that she must be able to understand with a fulcrum, and she feels that she can perform well, and then you will feel the accuracy and inaccurate of her (understanding) from her performance. Iconspro: A few years ago, many students may be admitted to China Opera Nortel, and they did not come out for a long time at school and started filming. In recent years, the school has a lot of strict academic requirements for students in the sophomore in recent years. What do you think?

Li Shaohong: I think the current requirements of Chinese opera Nortel are right, that is, the basic classes in the previous two years cannot be received. Just like Yang Mi signed us earlier, she signed us at the age of 16, but the first thing was to go to school. I think the performance must be a good foundation. They all endured not let her come out to work. But I think these are useful because she has been used for a lifetime. So I think she can also realize that at that time, she was holding him at that time, not allowing to pick up, and you must spend these two years to pick up the show. I think the approach of the Film Academy and the Academy of Drama is right. I think this will not delay her development, so she can go today and still maintain her performance foundation. In fact, it has something to do with this very related to this. Essence

Iconspro: So do you think you want to practice basic skills if you want to be an actor?

Li Shaohong: Basically, we found our words, including the actors of "Dream of Red Mansions". In fact, our first thing is training. It must be enough training. Because I think the actor development must have a period of development, just like wheat seedlings, you are not delicious if you do n’t have the development period, right? The rice is not delicious in three seasons. The rice is delicious in one season. At least I must have a training period for one and half a year. There may be useless training period for half a year. It may not be used for two or three months. Therefore, "Dream of Red Mansions" asked us to shoot quickly at that time. We still have a 6 -month training period. It is very difficult now. To what extent is it now? Everyone can have a siege time, and you can't sit together at once all actors. You must divide them in two or three times. The director follows different actors. Who has time to say. But reading is not. Reading is equivalent to everyone to review the script, then talk, and the director speaks.

Iconspro: When on the set, how do you generally communicate with actors? How to build the authority of the director?

李少红：我还是愿意去从我的理解上面跟大家沟通，我觉得其实演技是次要的，更重要的是有感而发，你要有感觉，你要能有体会，你能够理解这个人物， Then you naturally make any reactions. Because he couldn't resolve it into a person into a character, but instead put a character into this character, right? Many actors just tears, but he didn't feel it, and he shed tears in skills. You will not move the audience. If you want to move the audience, first of all, you have to move yourself. You really feel that you can pass this feeling, right? The audience can accept it. If you have to accept the inaccurate, you are crying, and he (audience) will feel ridiculous.

Iconspro: Do ​​you have a special kind of topic that you pay special attention to?

Li Shaohong: I am still the subject matter of women (follow). I think that for our women's creators, women's subject matter is your best advantage and the focus should be the most concerned. For the current female director, there may not be this obstacle. (But) We still have such a process, that is, the process of gradually transforming from a public and public perspective to a female perspective. Because it turned out that we were unconsciously in a public perspective, right? At that time, I had to have a little self -consciousness, and then the process of changing, I still had this process myself.

Stills of the movie "Red Powder"

Iconspro: What you just talked about is this process, when is it?

Li Shaohong: Actually, I have always been unconsciously, but after the conscious start is since "Red Fan", "Red Fan" actually experienced a large subversion in the creation. It has become a public perspective. Then do I always think you know you? I reflected before the filming. Why did I choose Su Tong's novel earlier? I found that what I am most interested in is that it is a very unique perspective. It is actually a woman's perspective. , I think I caught my interest. Talking about the changes of two women in a big era, how they choose their own destiny, not how the society transform them, but how they choose their own choices of destiny. Iconspro: In recent years, we have watched a lot of film and television dramas to describe independent and mature professional women. From your perspective, what should a mature and independent woman be like?

Li Shaohong: Everyone feels that women must be independent, and women are basically pursuing independence. Independence is economic independence, and the independence of personality and spiritual. I think there is nothing wrong with these. I think it has an independent spirit to overcome more difficulties than self. I prefer realistic themes in movies (aspects). Because I think the movie is another expression, it is more authored. The TV series is a more popular media and more focused on the public aesthetics. These two aspects may be completely different creative philosophy.

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