This article is LensWeChat “WeLens” (ID: we-lens)Authorized reprint, interview: Chu Chu. Lens is a cultural communication brand dedicated to discovering creation and beauty, exploring the value of life, and conveying the warmth of humanity. Cover: The movie “You of the Boys”
After the college entrance examination, this is the most suitable period for “You of the Junior”. Because the film is about a story that happened during the college entrance examination;
The starring Yi Qiann, also happened to be in the year of shooting, participated in his college entrance examination, and entered the crew in the summer vacation. When he came out, he walked into the university gate and said goodbye to the boy.
Zhou Dongyu is returning to a crew she is familiar with, but finds that “the past (acting) method no longer works.”
She needs to re-experience growth in a girl who is the opposite of her.
Director Zeng Guoxiang said that this is a film about the transition of teenagers to adults.
And outside the show, the boundaries between youth and adults are much more confusing.
Here are the stories they told Les to explore together.
More pauses
The hands are close together, and you can take the book published by Lens. In the face of unfamiliar reporters, they are cautious.
When the first half of the sentence was finished, when he could not find a suitable word, he cast a pair of eyes that I hoped you understood, and faintly swept the tail of the last sentence.
There are few words, but you will feel more language in his eyes than you say.
After the interview, nodding his head, he got up and left, like writing a test paper.
In the face of being a stranger, Yi Qian’s millennium is often silent.
An entertainment reporter who has contacted him many times remembers that at the dinner party, he did not say a word, did not play with his mobile phone, and only sat quietly, “seeing people panic.”
In this polite manner, come out and exit.
We met in Shanghai on a Sunday afternoon, and the next morning, he would fly back to Beijing to go to school.
He is re-experiencing how to be a student. Like most of my peers, I enjoy the school time “luxury”.
“This kind of regular life has not been experienced for a long time. Every day school-home, school-home, there is no such life from the beginning of junior high school.” Yi Qian said to Lens.
Now, he only works out in his spare time, such as the weekend and a small number of school days.
“The last two years have been much better, you can arrange your own time to get up.”
He talked about the time when he was in junior high school, and getting up was the most difficult thing – always returning to Beijing on a very late flight, and going to school the next day.
Since I was two years old, I came to Beijing with my parents, from being arranged to various interest classes, to entering the entertainment industry, and prematurely “adult”.
Now all of this, like the compensation that Yi Qianqian earned himself.
It is also a young fame, and Zhou Dongyu also gave himself a relatively complete university time.
After “The Love of Hawthorn Tree”, she was able to film her, and she plunged into the campus. I lost a lot of drama, made good friends, talked about love, and completed things that were forbidden by parents before I was 18 years old.
Being out of work, she still has a certain amount of freewheeling. The team once “complained” and felt that their artists were too fond of strolling on the street, and the masks were not worn, but they could not be persuaded. Many characters have been evaluated to be full of “girlish feelings.” Zhou Dongyu said that he has no concept about this.
“More is that I did one thing. Everyone thinks ‘She is like a little girl’, but I don’t know what’s different now. Everyone said, I think: Oh. This is the side of the little girl that everyone thinks,” she said to Lens.
She feels that she is probably adolescent in her personality and does not want to live honestly.
No longer “follow the feeling”
Last year, Zhou Dongyu only filmed the movie “You Are You”.
The last work of the same class is to “July and Ansheng” after she won the Golden Horse Shadow. In that scene, the director allowed her to magnify the most appealing part of her character.
But this time in “You of the Boys”, the past method did not work.
The new character is the opposite of her.
She said to Lens: “ I have always been very awkward in this scene. Chen Nian is completely opposite to me. I didn’t understand the role at first. I don’t understand why she did this every day. I feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable at the scene.”
In the opinion of the film producer Xu Yuezhen, Zhou Dongyu’s pressure is not limited to this –
“She must be better than “July and Ansheng”Otherwise, it is a failure.
The blow is uninterrupted.
Two cooperations, Zhou Dongyu and the team have established a high degree of trust. Sometimes, after a performance, she relaxes and goes to the monitor to ask everyone, “How is my performance?” p>
The director has only one sentence, “No.”
Over time, a play, the director and the producer will ask her: “Zhou Dongyu, how do you feel about yourself?” She turned and walked back silently, and then came again…
In the movie, Chen Nian is a girl who suppresses and forbears.
At the scene, the director repeatedly emphasized a sentence: “I don’t want Zhou Dongyu, I want to recite it.”
Not only expressions, reactions, but also subconscious little moves.
One is not paying attention, and Zhou Dongyu walks up again when he walks. The director immediately stopped calling.
“What I just saw is that Zhou Dongyu is walking, not Chen Nian.”
Zhou Dongyu is crashing. The first half of the show, she is done in this state.
It is difficult for her to understand the girl who is being bullied by the campus. “Why should I be so tolerant?” “If I encounter bullying, I have already slammed against the table.”
The most scene of NG is the examination room on the second day of the college entrance examination.
On that day, Chen Nian learned before entering the examination room that the police had found clues and was about to trace the murderer.
She can’t calm down, but she must be calm–taking the college entrance examination well is the only hope for her and her widowed mother.
“In that case, you will not be able to concentrate your attention in the examination room. Your whole person is very chaotic. Your mind will always flash back a lot of pictures. Your eyes will always drift, sight. It will be vague.” The director said to Zhou Dongyu.
Zhou Dongyu could not find the feeling. She wants to give up and feels that it is better not to play hard.
” Change the various methods to force her and marry her. I was a bit fierce that day. In the end, she really fell a bit. Instead, she entered that state.” The director told Lens about Zhou Dongyu when filming.
In the director’s opinion, this character and Zhou Dongyu have the only point that is similar to each other – barely.
“You don’t want to watch Zhou Dongyu’s usual haha, ghost horses. In fact, the inside is a very strong person and has experienced a lot.”
At the end of the show, Zhou Dongyu regards this as an extra-sex growth. “I really felt this role.”
Card in the gap between juvenile and adult
Yi Qian Qian is 18 years old when he was filming this movie. Almost at the same time as Xiao Bei, who plays in the film, he experienced an unknown life, a process of jealousy between teenagers and adults.
Since 2017, the main team has seen a lot of actors. Until the summer boot last year.
The first time I met with Yi Yi, the director liked him very much. “He has very few words. If you ask him anything, he will only return you two sentences. But even if he doesn’t look at you and doesn’t answer you, you also I can feel a lot of things in his heart.”
But that side didn’t knock down the cooperation, because I felt that Yi Qiann looked too young.
After another half a year, the director accidentally saw a photo of Yi Qian, and found that he suddenly changed. The boy suddenly felt like a man.
Therefore I have a goodbye and try again.
The director found that Yi Qian’s millennium was awkward, and the whole person’s momentum was different.
“That feels like it has been two or three years.” The director said that he suddenly remembered that he was also in a summer, suddenly smashed ten centimeters and grew up in a flash.
Beyond the heights, Yi Qian is also trying to figure out how to become an adult – this is in line with Xiaobei in the film.
He began to have awkwardness and ruthlessness, and he had repeated temperament with the external world, and at the same time he had pain and compassion.
Xu Yuezhen likes what Yi Yiqian really reveals at this age. “If you change to a bigger actor, you may not have it.”
The uncertainty of the transition period is fleeting.
After the official start of the shoot, the first time I walked into my own “home” in the play – a board room in the ruins under the bridge, Yi Qiann has been in it for a long time.
He went to every corner, flipped over there, looked there, and lay down on the bed, imagining his life in this home.
“If you are not tired, we will not lie on the props bed. It is particularly dirty, and the staff are stepping on the bed,” the director said.
After getting along, the director thinks that Yi Qian is a sensible person. When he understands what the character has experienced, the director has not said that he wants to cry, and he will cry.
There was a scene where Xiaobei and Chen Nian first talked about how they became an orphan and became a punk. When it comes to the mother who left her leaving, he has no resentment, only hope.
When he said, Yi Qian’s expression was still as tight as usual, but the tears flowed down.
The scene of Xiaobei’s family was finished, and Yi Qian asked the crew to move the furniture of Xiaobei home.
The supervisor remembers a lot of such details. “Millions of hearts may have a lot of things. I can’t, I can’t tell you, but his sensitivity, his abundant emotions, you can feel it slowly.” Strong>
For Yi Qian, the most difficult thing to do, it is some very daily drama.
For example, the punk group communicates with the same people, what is the tone of the speech? What should be the body movements? That is a blank in his life experience.
A play in the mobile phone shop to “tweak” the girl, Yi Qian thousand NG dozens of times.
That was the first in-depth exchange between the two protagonists in the film..
A street fight has just ended, and Xiaobei is stunned.
“I hope he has a little bit of teasing her feelings, occasionally yelling at her, but saying something sweet, going back and forth. On the other hand, he has to work hard to cover up his embarrassment after being ganged. There are a lot of subtle things in it,” the director said.
The sequence of filming is followed by the timeline of the story, which is the second day of the meeting between Yi Qian and Zhou Dongyu.
Just meet, I have to play a girl, I don’t know what to do.
The director told Zhou Dongyu to tell jokes, “Let’s talk, let him relax.”
Later, “relaxation” became a very important thing that Yi Qiann learned in Zhou Dongyu.
The play after that is getting smoother and smoother.
The play went to the later stage, and the whole crew accompanied Zhou Dongyu and Yi Qianqian to shave their heads, regardless of gender.
Supervisor Xu Yuezhen thinks that Yi Qianqian should be very eager to do Xiaobei.
In the interview, Yi Qianqian told Lens why he liked this character: “What attracts me is his living environment and his tenacity.”
He felt that the tenacity touched something in his heart. “Xiaobei has hope for the future. Although he lives on the bottom, there is an upward and very small kind of strength in his heart.
Xu Yuezhen thought that Yi Qianqian should find the role of empathy in Xiaobei’s life.
One time, after a short play in the middle of the mountain, the crew is ready to turn, and the next place is at the bottom of the mountain. Everyone is preparing to take a bus. When I hear Yi Qian asked, can I walk?
The road was quiet, no one. Finally, the assistant accompanied him and slowly walked down and disappeared into the eyes of the people.
“Millennium is about twelve or three years old, and there is almost no freedom in everyday life. Maybe, he hasn’t walked quietly for a while like this in a week. Maybe he plays every day. Yi Qian Qian Qian, can not relax.” Xu Yuezhen analysis of Lens.
Since childhood entered the entertainment industry, Yi Qiann was too early to “adult”. The aura separated him from his peers. He rarely had the opportunity to observe others like his peers. growing up.
You can only find your own methods, such as going through some life in acting.
The actress is a long-cherished wish of Yi Qian.
In this film, he can be willful, disobedient, and burst into many unexploited energies. He said, “In this play, emotional drama, drama, and down are very cool.”
The supervisor also feels that this silent child has a strong heart, and he is not trying to hide, just waiting for an opportunity.
“He is slowly looking for an exit now, exuding his beliefs.”
Unclear sense of inactivity
“You are a young man” is the second feature film directed by Zeng Guoxiang. The last one is “July and Ansheng”.
The history of his director can be said to have grown up in the eyes of Chen Kexin and Xu Yuezhen.
Zeng Guoxiang and Xu Yuezhen at the studio
At the earliest, in Chen Kexin’s film studio, Zeng Guoxiang started almost all the trivial work from the translation of documents, posters, and order delivery.
Chen Kexin once commented on him: “This is a very stable young man, and the rebellious things will be wrapped up, much like the age of himself.”
Later, he also worked as a production assistant, a reporter, and played dozens of “green leaves” – nothing more than a ghost, a hacker, an unemployed, a thief, a “waste youth” who didn’t learn anything, swearing… …
Zeng Guoxiang, who is rich in “scorpion experience”, demonstrates action at the scene for Yi Qian Millennium
Father Zeng Zhiwei did not give him a fast forward button.
“He always said that everyone has to fall and climb up to understand how to grow up. Every time he encounters a problem, he will give advice, but he will not really help you because he knows himself. This is also the case, I will know when I hit the South Wall.” Zeng Guoxiang said.
The “Youth of You” project touched Zeng Guoxiang, and this is the exploration of growth.
As Xu Yuezhen said, “They (the protagonists in the film) feel that the world should have hope, so they are fighting against difficulties every day, but parents can’t help them, the school can’t help them, and everything seems to have no hope. They It’s floating there, I don’t know where I can go, during which they only know one thing: don’t want to be the adult I’ve seen.”
The adaptation of the script has plagued them for the longest time, how to let the audience understand: Why does Xiaobei help Chen Nian? What did Chen Ning give him?
There was a scriptwriter who asked if two people would marry.