When Luc Besson visited Pingyao two months ago, he was surrounded by a young Chinese audience. Although most of these audience members were born after the release of "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", Luc Besson was moved to tears by their enthusiastic applause and the light of his mobile phone flying all over the sky. He expressed his gratitude to the fans at the Pingyao International Film Festival.
Now, two months later, Luc Besson has arrived in Shanghai with his new work "The Dog God", and his itinerary is full.
Yesterday, he even participated in eight post-screening meetings held by Shanghai Film City in a row, from the "Wenying Cinema Class" at noon to the Chinese premiere at 10:30 p.m., he stood the whole time, with a little apprehension and nervousness, answering questions from the audience.
In an exclusive interview with the evening newspaper, he confessed: "This time I filmed a story about 'pain'. ”。Luc Besson admits that "The Dog God" is very different from ordinary movies about animals, it is full of intense and heavy pain.
The film tells the story of Doug (played by Caleber Landry Jones), who is injured by a cruel father, spends years in a dog cage, and is paralyzed in the lower half of his body after being shot, and his life of snuggling up to hundreds of dogs. However, fate did not stop destroying him, and he also experienced love, survival, and a series of pains and blows.......
The director once read a report about a son who was thrown into a cage by his own father and lived in a cage for four years. This story shocked him and couldn't help but wonder: when this child grows up, when he is 15, 20, 25 years old, what kind of person will he become?
This is also the prototype of the character image in "Dog God". "For Doug, he's been through almost all the bad things, and yet in this case, he chooses to face it with kindness. ”。
Luc Besson said that in fact, there will be some unsatisfactory or painful things in each of our lives, we may lose our jobs, we may lose some very important people. Everyone has to face 'pain', and this movie is about how we should face all kinds of pain and suffering in life.
Doug, the character in "The Dog God", faces his pain with kindness and evasion. At the age of 12, he met an actress who told him that if a person did not know who he was, he could play someone else, so in the rest of his life he escaped his painful life by playing different roles.
Luc Besson told reporters that the theme of his new film ** is about playing someone else rather than being himself, so the person who plays the role is not important, and gender is not the key, the key is to be able to play someone else authentically.
He knows everything about his new work and when asked how many dogs he used, he didn't hesitate to reply that it did"124 pcs"He explained in detail how to select different breeds of dogs, saying, "We have a dog selection team, and the process is the same as that of the actors."
When talking about the signing of the "Best Actor" Leber Landry Jones at the Cannes Film Festival, he tried to start with the scene of coffee with the actor two years ago: "We spent six months preparing before filming started, and we met every day to think and discuss the details of this role. ”。
Every detail was so meticulously crafted that just a few days after filming officially began, Jones' stunning performance made the director feel like he could lie flat.
Luc Besson smiled and made a "paralyzed" pose, then sat up straight and said: "He is one of the most talented and hard-working actors I have ever met, and Jones spent almost all of the five months of filming in the wheelchair that he brought from the United States.
Luc Besson, 64, who devotes more than half of his time to writing and directing films, admits that "wanting to be remembered" is still his motivation.
He said that every film has a life of its own: "Every film is released with a variety of voices, some praise and some questioning;But some movies are made for time, and they can last a long time, and after 20 years, they will come out, and there will be audiences who recommend it to others, 'If you haven't seen it, you have to watch it.'"
This killer is not too cold" Douban score 94, ranked fifth in the "Douban Movie TOP250" list. The film has been in theaters for 29 years, and generations of viewers have passed it on by word of mouth, making it higher and higher on the charts of various classic films.
Luc Besson said: "I rarely watch it myself, but my son just turned 12 and begged me to show it to him, because his friends have already seen it. At that moment, I was still very moved.
Luc Besson focuses on creating a new movie "Dog God" Recently, the well-known film director Luc Besson revealed in an interview that although he is full of uncertainty about whether his new work "Dog God" can achieve the perfect effect in his heart, he has deeply enjoyed the life of focusing on film shooting in the past two years.
Maybe I think about it every day, how to make the movie better, and it becomes an inseparable part of my life. This news comes from the stills of "Dog God" released by the new performing arts studio, in which Wang Kai and Sun Jiayin can be seen, and partly** from the Internet. ——From the Cultural Department of Xinmin Evening News.