Mom, an 18-year-old girl raised by a single mother who runs a photo studio, has her life changed when she meets Boss Meng. She becomes a star, and at the same time becomes pregnant with Meng's child, which was in the 1930s in the old Shanghai; soon after giving birth to the child, Mom is abandoned and loses her star's splendor, and she names her illegitimate daughter, Li, who is bent on leaving her gloomy home. home and marries Zou Jie, a cement factory worker.
Leigh decided to have a child, but she was unable to bear children, and could only carry a girl from the orphanage, named Flower, Leigh is still extremely dissatisfied with life, and even suspected that her husband was having an affair with her adopted daughter, who chose to commit suicide by lying down on the railroad tracks, which is the 1950s and 1960s; Leigh schizophrenic ran away from home, and Flower found a boyfriend, Xiaodu, and soon after the marriage and pregnancy, discovered that Xiaodu was having an affair, and she Firmly filed for divorce and gave birth to the child, which has been the 1980s ......
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi a person to play a triangular
young "Mal", "Li" and "Hua". All three women have had a sweet moment of love, but also have a character torn, gloomy, violent life process, "flower" also has a kind of originated in the deep maternal explosive force. Hou Yong thinks that Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi are the ideal candidates to play them. Now, Zhang Ziyi is the perfect person to realize these three roles. After half a month of filming, Hou Yong has already taken the pill, "Ziyi is good" is one of his on-set comments....
Lu Yi as Zou Jie
is Li's lover. When he was young, he was very ambitious, and then he was wrapped up in the sinking marriage life all the way to the end of the road. Healthy, generous, lack of heart, handsome, Zou Jie's youthful qualities, almost Lu Yi himself left an impression. The middle-aged Zou Jie's despair, nervousness, confusion and discouragement, by the appearance of the sunshine Lu Yi to play, adding the role of a "sitting ducks in life," the breath of helplessness.
Production: two sets of scenes, two memories
Scene one: Huilong Photo Studio, one more than the other
This is where the story first began: in the studio lived Mal's mother, who had lost her husband, and where Mal met Mr. Meng, who then set out on the road to stardom; and that's how Mal became pregnant with Leigh, and how Leigh adopted Hana ... ...Scene is hitched in the Shanghai suburbs of the Chedun film base, in the whole film only a dozen scenes of Jiang Wen, most of the time the main drama all in the photo studio. 14th morning is a photo studio he walked into the first hook Mal scene. Just see the light makeup Jiang Wen from the far outside to come, dark skin, a moustache, a long light-colored trench coat, the 1930s bowler hat, reminding everyone of the Road to Ruin in that Tom Hanks, photojournalist Wang Yishu went up to the front while grabbing a shot while saying: "This trench coat is really wearing like Tom Hanks that look it." Jiang Wen laughed and retorted, "Then you have to look at who is wearing it!"
Chang Ziyi acted young Mal, green woolen sweater, light-colored skirt, white socks, combed with two high braids, a young and innocent. Shooting Jiang Wen walked into the photo studio to seduce Zhang Ziyi acted Mal, the reporters present were bent over with laughter, Zhang Ziyi acted like a stargazer, Jiang Wen acted Meng boss is also like a great drama, he reversed his feet and twisted his waist into the photo studio, a mouthful of a sentence of English is also divided into two kinds of elevation, "NO" (elevation), "" (elevation), "NO" (elevation), "NO" (elevation), "NO" (elevation), "NO" (elevation), "NO" (elevation), "NO" (elevation), "NO" (elevation). NO" (descending tone), "Certainly". Chen Chong later teased Jiang Wen, "When I changed to use Chinese acting, you use English acting!" Hou Yong was amused, "We don't stand a chance of competing for Best Foreign Language Film anyway." The film's English-language lines were changed by Jiang Wen himself to express the character's personality.
The scene in which Meng introduces himself to Mal as a movie company owner and wants to take some pictures of her, Zhang Ziyi's Mal, in her extreme excitement, asks her mother, Chen Chong, who is coming down from upstairs, for advice, and Chen Chong says impatiently, according to the script: "What's there to shoot!" Jiang Wen finished a shot and suddenly muttered in mock anger, "What kind of mom is this?" As if he was really aggrieved for Mr. Meng.
The scene was shot many times in different camera positions, from morning to afternoon, the actors' performances are getting more and more vivid, Chen Chong played the mother in this scene is only a supporting role, so she was almost watching Zhang Ziyi and Jiang Wen acting rivalry, she couldn't help but say, "How can you all be so slutty?" Jiang Wen's turn for a close-up, originally the entire article to be shot from Jiang Wen outside the photo studio until he walked into the photo studio to shoot a few times because of the various departments to cooperate with the total dissatisfaction, Hou Yong afraid of trouble Jiang Wen let him half of the article to start again, did not think that Jiang Wen said: "half of the article will not be shot, or to shoot the whole bar."
Scene two: the old Jinjiang Hotel - the biggest scene
15th crew from the Chedun to the old Jinjiang Hotel to shoot the film's biggest scene of the film, that is, the happiest and most glorious moment of Mal's life - after she became a star! The moment of being favored by all. Zhang Ziyi's costume is also one of the prettiest in the movie: a green beaded, backless cheongsam with a fine handmade design by a Shanghai master that makes Zhang Ziyi's slender figure even more curvaceous. Wearing this set of cheongsam, Zhang Ziyi is a bit like in the interpretation of their own star style, she made a wish in front of the birthday cake at the moment, her face overflowing with excitement for the first time in the movie industry, excitement and the future of the beautiful vision, beside her a group of beautiful crowd of actors and actresses are the stars. Lili Gay plays a past her prime actress, sexy and bright but out of fashion. Everyone's performances were spot on, it was just that because there were so many characters in this scene, there was a dance party and a band to go with it, and the camera had to be moved around at the right time, the director wasn't happy with it after shooting it several times.
This is the last day of Jiang Wen's film contract, Hou Yong because of the pressure to catch up with the scene muffled, the past two days he threw the most tantrums in his life, yelling lights, yelling photography ...... Jiang Wen saw his anxiety. More than ten o'clock at night, Hou Yong said to him, "Jiang Wen, today may not be able to shoot your scene." Jiang Wen immediately took the initiative to say, "It's okay, I can wait a little longer, in case you are free again." The venue regulations can only be used until eleven o'clock in the evening, there was a scene Hou Yong would like to shoot more detailed, but a look at the time is too late, first advised Jiang Wen to leave. Jiang Wen was a bit reluctant to leave, bought two bottles of wine to drink up, the crew to find him a photo of people one after another, he was happy to sign for others to leave a phone number, joking, the feeling of happiness. This time the reporter sat on the sidelines to observe, private Jiang Wen seems to be not as terrible as the media wrote.
When watching a replay of the scene, the assistant director came up to Jiang Wen and said, "You old slut!" Jiang Wen smiled and laughed. The scene he was playing was the one in which Meng sneaks a peek at "Mal" at the ball and is moved by her singing. Jiang Wen smokes a cigar and peeks out from behind a pillar, staring at "Mal" on stage with a mesmerized look in his eyes. Zhang Ziyi to ride the scene is full of twisting waist to a mineral water bottle fake singing it. Zhang Ziyi see Jiang Wen's performance heart straight smile, deliberately make a seductive posture, the results of Jiang Wen nothing to react according to his original design good that set of performance; later asked to know that he was originally myopic, Zhang Ziyi in this side of the small movements he did what did not see!
The downtrodden young master of ShuiXi, who lost his own sword ......