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Wen Allo. Since the official announcement of the movie "Sauce Garden Lane", it has attracted much attention from the outside world.
As early as 2016, director Chen Kexin said that he wanted to start preparing for the project, but he was not satisfied with the script, and then experienced the filming of "Alone, on the Stage" (formerly known as "Li Na") and "Winning the Championship", and finally 7 years later, it was decided to start filming and officially announced that Zhang Ziyi would play the heroine.
For a time, the casting of "Sauce Garden Lane" became the focus.
As early as June this year, at an event, Zhang Ziyi even asked for a role from the director Chen Kexin for Shen Teng next to him. It's just fun to play, and the public is looking forward to the final cast.
Recently, the film released its first concept poster and posted on social platforms, saying, "Due to the large number of characters in this film, the difficulty of filming is not low, and it is still in the process of matching and combining, in order to ensure that all the leading actors and creators in front of and behind the scenes go all out to focus on shooting, we will wait for the lineup to be complete, and then choose the opportunity to share more film information with you, the official announcement of the full lineup, and the ranking of the leading actors will be subject to the order of appearance of the characters they play." We hope to live up to everyone's expectations. ”
Director Chen Kexin also talked about the project at the event before, "Although this is a story of a woman killing her husband, this will not be a thriller movie, nor a suspense film, but a relationship movie that I am most familiar with and good at, and I care more about why this woman decided to do it in this marriage." ”
In addition to the dramatic tension of the story itself, another reason comes from director Chen Kexin himself.
From the film to the present, Chen Kexin can be called the "actor and actress making machine", whether it is a director's work or a producer's work, he can always be accurate in casting, and even his old partner Zhang Ji is full of praise for this, "He is really talented when choosing an actor to play a role." It's not a technical problem, it's an experience. ”
Even Huang Jianxin, a famous Chinese director and producer who is accustomed to seeing big scenes, praised Chen Kexin with great praise, "He has the ability to use actors, and the actors have become brilliant in his hands." ”
Compared with Zhang Yimou, who always boldly uses newcomers in casting, and gets attention with "Mou Girl" or "Mou Man" in recent years, then Chen Kexin's casting is to dare to use every star well.
In this regard, he did not shy away from it, "Of course I want stars." Without stars, there is no investment, there is no movie. It's just that as a director, he is eager to find the characteristics of stars who have not been filmed, "No matter how strong the actor and actress are, they must have a sense of vulnerability, which is what the audience likes." ”
Looking at the Hong Kong film industry, Chen Kexin is a little "alternative", he is different from the "New Wave" directors such as Tsui Hark and Xu Anhua, and he is not a typical group of people who slowly go from scene notes to directors on the set. Perhaps it is this situation that allows him to output content more accurately in the Hong Kong circle with upward interests in the last century.
In his first film "A Tale of Two Cities", he boldly let Zeng Zhiwei, who is known for comedy, play a tragic and serious character. At the same time, Zeng Zhiwei's friend Alan Tam was invited to play another male lead, and in the end, although the box office of the movie was not as expected, Chen Kexin had a foothold at that time, and it brought Zeng Zhiwei the first Academy Award for Best Actor.
The advent of "A Tale of Two Cities" also laid the foundation for Chen Kexin's later creations, especially in the selection of actors - he does not look for actors who are too obedient to the role, but he will always shape the role according to the characteristics of the role itself.
Especially before the filming of "Sweet Honey", Liming was criticized for having no acting skills, but Chen Kexin took advantage of this feature instead, and even bluntly said, "The movie was made according to Liming, and after he agreed to star, we started to work on the script." ”
At that time, Liming was already the "Four Heavenly Kings", but he often introduced himself on various occasions, saying that he was born in Beijing and came to Hong Kong when he was very young, which also led to the image of a mainlander in the hearts of many Hong Kong people. So, Chen Kexin set this role as a migrant worker in Tianjin, and after this adjustment, Liming's temperament and Li Xiaojun fit perfectly.
Chen Kexin is not only good at selecting and using actors, but he can also find details in the communication with actors, and then use these details of life directly in the movie. For example, McDonald's appears in a large section of the film, because Dawn said during the audition that the most desired thing when he first arrived in Hong Kong was to eat McDonald's.
Outside of dawn, the biggest surprise is Huang Xiaoming of "Chinese Partner".
Huang Xiaoming was once criticized for his spoken English for a sentence of "making too much trouble", and his external image was too handsome in the eyes of the public, and even when Chen Kexin found him to star in "Chinese Partner", he thought of another role at first. But after Huang Xiaoming read the script, he felt that he and Cheng Dongqing had been looked down upon since he was studying, so he practiced his lines hard, showed his strength in front of Chen Kexin, and subverted the previous image of "rich and handsome" with the help of Fuhuadao.
Throughout the creation, Chen Kexin also let the camera give Huang Xiaoming more space, allowing him to perform as Cheng Dongqing. In the end, it turned out that this role became Huang Xiaoming's masterpiece in the future, and he also won many trophies for Best Actor including the Golden Rooster Award, the Hundred Flowers Award, and the Huabiao Award.
Not only that, Du Juan, who was electrocuted for the first time in this film, has also been nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer at the Golden Rooster Awards, Academy Awards and so on.
This mode of finding a fit in the opposite direction is also directly manifested in the "July and Ansheng" and "Like You" produced by it.
Before "July and Ansheng", Zhou Dongyu was the "Jingqiu" of the "good girl" professional household in everyone's eyes, and Ma Sichun was the rebellious and flamboyant Li Bar. But in the auditions and meetings again and again, the former will ask him and director Zeng Guoxiang all kinds of absurd questions, but the latter is more quiet and restrained, and finally before the start of the film, the team is decided, and Ma Sichun will perform in July, and Zhou Dongyu is a big grinning Ansheng.
In the end, there is no need to repeat too much about the historical moments of the double shadows, and Chen Kexin found more possibilities for Zhou Dongyu from them. After winning the Best Actress, Zhou Dongyu's first reaction was not to be happy or anything else, but to say to Chen Kexin, "I have increased the price."
This direct expression made him realize that there is a kind of post-90s actor in him, "No matter who you are or how authoritative you are, I can ignore fearlessness". This characteristic is Gu Shengnan's personality.
And in Chen Kexin's opinion, if Takeshi Kaneshiro is asked to match a goddess-level person, it will not be so good-looking, and it will be an ordinary love movie. After all, in the early days of the creation of this movie, the first male protagonist in Chen Kexin's heart was Takeshi Kaneshiro.
In the movie, Lu Jin is a picky person, and Chen Kexin found Takeshi Kaneshiro because, "He is very picky in appearance and can play a person who has requirements for life." Including his choice of movies, he is also very picky, adding a lot of extra work and trouble to us. ”
Chen Kexin always tries to make the actor fit the character.
"Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" is his first proposition essay - to make a movie for Leslie Cheung.
At that time, he gave two plans, "The first one is down-to-earth, which belongs to the content I am familiar with, but it is not suitable for Leslie Cheung, and the other is "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", which is tailor-made for him, which has a lot of entertainment industry content, I have a deep understanding, and it is an old-school Hollywood movie route, which can reach the greatest common divisor among the audience. ”
Leslie Cheung, who just borrowed the movie "Farewell My Concubine", played the gold medal ** producer in "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", with Anita Yuen, who had not been in the industry long at the time, and in the end, this film became Chen Kexin's highest-grossing film in Hong Kong so far, Anita Yuen also won the Academy Award for the film, Leslie Cheung was nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards, and even Chen Xiaochun was recognized for Best New Actor.
Compared with the casting of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", in Chen Kexin's opinion, the process is the most difficult, but in the end, the most suitable is "Winning the Championship".
When it was decided to make this movie, everyone's first reaction was who would play Lang Ping, and there were 1,000 Lang Ping in a thousand audiences, but this is a feature film, Chen Kexin can only judge from his own perspective and character needs, "Gong Li is the only candidate for Lang Ping, and when I decided to shoot "Winning the Championship", I decided to let Gong Li play Lang Ping. ”
Chen Kexin knows very well that among the existing actresses, from qualifications to age, to appearance and aura, no one is more suitable than Gong Li. Facts have proved that Gong Li's stubborn appearance is Lang Ping standing there, "As for imitating Lang Ping's movements and demeanor, that is Gong Li's requirement for herself." ”
Not only that, but he also found Lang Ping's daughter Bai Lang to play the young Lang Ping, and Chen Kexin took a fancy to her temperament that was in line with the sunshine of athletes in the 80s. As for letting the athletes play themselves, it was definitely his biggest challenge, and he had also found professional actors in various places, but there was never a suitable one, so he set his sights on the athletes, who had just finished winning the battle at that time, and they had strong self-confidence.
In Chen Kexin's view, they themselves are stars, and they play themselves, and they will change their lines according to their Xi, so that the audience can see the most essential of them. Not only that, Gong Li, as a professional actor, can also take them to perform on the spot.
Gong Li and Bai Lang were nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the 40th Academy Awards respectively, which is also the best recognition of Chen Kexin's bold casting.
All kinds of cases have proved the success of Chen Kexin's casting. In addition, in the directorial work "Dear" and the executive production "October Siege", he showed the group portrait control of the whole star lineup, and the success of these films has made the movie "Sauce Garden Lane" more possibilities.
Every director has his own casting secrets, and behind different works, there is a corresponding ruler, and when this ruler meets the right actor, the chemistry that is generated is what makes the movie charming.
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