BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhua)-After the carpet publicity of the new film The Sun Also Rises, at the end of September, the director Jiang Wen, who returned from Hong Kong, finally recovered from the uproar. In his "Joy" studio at the east gate of the Forbidden City, Jiang Wen accepted an in-depth interview with the program Phoenix Extraordinary Road, a new phoenix media.
The box office was not high, and the audience shouted and couldn’t understand it. Obviously, this reality didn’t stimulate Jiang Wen. Sitting in his most familiar studio, he still blinked symbolically, and he was still the radiant Jiang Wen. In fact, he doesn’t think that this "flirting" with the audience has failed. On the contrary, many viewers are "intoxicated" and can’t forget it if they want to. He jokingly said that the current situation is exactly what he wants to see. "The Sun is a fire reconnaissance, which shows me the mentality of the current social crowd."
Jiang Wen said that he actually loves life, eats well and sleeps well, and is not as tough as everyone thinks. "I can’t be anxious. Being anxious is not a good attitude. When I was young, I was always anxious with others." He even bluntly admired Chris Lee, calling her the Li Tiemei of the new era, and "Fast Man" is a good thing, because "even nannies love to watch it".
This is a Jiang Wen who is still "energetic". He believes that "strong imagination creates reality" and thinks that director China should abandon the route of blockbusters and stubbornly pursue his own accent. This is a changing Jiang Wen. He has become high-profile, open and secular, and doesn’t mind playing the role of "fashion man" in various magazines to boost the box office.
The director who only directed three films, but created a strong "personal accent", intervened in the secular world and made peace with it in a softer and more reasonable way when middle age came, in order to fly higher and higher in imagination. He has more possibilities.
Responding to "I don’t understand": "The Sun" is intoxicating. After 70, people really have obstacles in watching movies.
The "atypical" success of Sunny Days and The Devil Comes has made people realize that Jiang Wen’s imagination and narrative style are different from those of any director, and gained great reputation. The new film "The Sun Also Rises", a personal dream work, made the audience shout "I don’t understand". Jiang Wen responded by saying that according to his own observation, "infatuation" is the main reaction of the audience. "In my view of film, I forget it halfway through it. I don’t think it can be called a good movie. No one who has watched The Sun at present can forget it. "
Is there a misjudgment of the taste of the current mainland audience? Jiang Wen denied it. He said that the audience was really crouching tiger, hidden dragon. At present, the audience’s various statements made him very happy. "This is called controversy. Controversy shows that everyone is involved." He even joked that "The Sun" was his own fire reconnaissance. "Through this fire reconnaissance, I probably know what the audience is like now. It is richer than I expected, very high, naive and very naive, and those who twist the bar are very extreme and wide-ranging."
The only thing that Jiang Wen can’t understand is that it is almost impossible for the post-80s, post-90s and even post-60s people to accept The Sun, but the post-70s people "can’t understand it". He guessed that this generation has neither the purity of the post-generation nor the reserve of the previous generation, and it is this "embarrassment" that caused the obstacles to watching movies. However, he doesn’t mind, "take a train and a car, ride a bike, whatever. You don’t have to fly. A movie will definitely not be caught in the net."
"The Sun" didn’t win the prize. Jiang Wen: "A film that doesn’t hurt people’s self-esteem is easy to win the prize."
"The Sun" entered Venice with a high profile, but returned empty-handed. Many people speculated that Jiang Wen would be depressed. Jiang Wen laughed at this. "Just like going to war with you, how can you not die?" Film Festival? I think it is a fair, which can make things more lively. At that time, they asked me, and he said, what if you don’t get one? I said it was more lively, so why not? We can talk about this, it doesn’t matter. So now I think the situation is the best. You don’t have to make a mess, just shave your head, and it’s very cool to shave with one knife. I think this situation is also quite good. "
Jiang Wen, a former judge of Cannes Film Festival, also revealed his experience. He said that the Cannes Film Festival stipulated that the best film and the best director could not win prizes at the same time, but he and the judges just broke this "heaven rule". Speaking of what kind of films are easy to win prizes, he said meaningfully, "Anyway, films that don’t hurt people’s self-esteem are easy to win prizes."
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Jiang Wen uses "accent" to define the existence value of a director. As a director with a strong accent, he appreciates directors Stephen Chow and Wong Kar-wai who have unique accents. He said that China’s film industry is now in the stage of rural urbanization. "I think it is precisely the time when we have the opportunity to speak with different accents and let everyone watch it fully.".
Speaking of the wave of "blockbusters" in China in recent years, Jiang Wen thinks that there are no blockbusters in China. "If you don’t have a film machine and a film industry, how can there be blockbusters?" Let Americans shoot blockbusters and commercial films. "What do you call Transformers? Don’t say that China people can’t shoot it, and it can’t be filmed anywhere except the United States. There’s no need to feel inferior. Can I shoot in Japan? Can the whole EC shoot? Africa, Oceania, can’t shoot, just this place in the United States. It has more than 100 years of film accumulation, where filmmakers all over the world have accumulated. I am also very willing to succeed in China. Dreams are ok, but they don’t shine into reality! "
"Change" Jiang Wen: "I have been making up lessons for seven years and I am desperately mature."
Some media said that before The Sun, Jiang Wen gave people the impression that he was domineering, lofty and difficult to cooperate. When The Sun came out, Jiang Wen seemed to suddenly become amiable. He played a "fashionable man" in various magazines with unusual high profile, and even showed his love and affection with his wife Zhou Yun on various occasions. After the media’s "indiscriminate bombing", Jiang Wen said that the bombing was not enough. "We lack air support, and now we are basically infantry. Air support is to turn the whole street and TV into advertising signboards or something. I think that’s right. " No wonder he envied Zhang Yimou for having Zhang Weiping as a good "propagandist".
Nowadays, Jiang Wen has to directly face many specific affairs other than movies, and even be responsible for the box office of his own movies, so he said, "I can’t be anxious. Being anxious is not a good attitude. When I was young, I was always anxious with others." He said, "when you go to the United States, you see many people are older children, and his society allows him to do so." When you are 40 or 50 years old, you are out here, and I almost got out several times, just because I matured late. Therefore, I have to make up lessons in these seven years and try my best to mature. "
"Open" Jiang Wen: Appreciating Chris Lee and "Fast Man" are willing to try New Year movies.
Jiang Wen is by no means so inaccessible or "awkward" as the outside world imagined. In fact, his attitude towards new things is quite open. He has a special affection for the post-80s young people. In the conversation with the staff after the interview, he modestly exchanged his views on "The Sun" and specially left an email address for everyone to recommend good movie ideas and literary works to him.
What is even more surprising is that he even revealed in the program that he likes Chris Lee. "Li Tiemei was Chris Lee at that time!" As for the "fast man" who represents pop culture, Jiang Wen also feels good, because the nanny at home likes to watch it. "Our aunt wants to see it, and she doesn’t cook. She said she wants to watch the fast men’s final. I said, I cook and I wash the dishes. I think they are so happy. They are so happy! This is good. People are very involved, very active and very independent in intervening in people they want or like. This is good. "
He Dong, the host of "Extraordinary Way", asked in the program, is there any problem with making a New Year film with the second part of "The Sun" which is super hilarious? I didn’t expect Jiang Wenlian to say "yes" and "how nice". "I’m actually very good at making movies that make everyone happy from beginning to end. In fact, the devil has been having fun." It seems that director Xiaogang Feng will have an opponent in the future.
Editor: Li Dan