·Chen Kaige made up his mind to invite Leslie Cheung to appear in Die Yi because at that time, "Outside the Numbers" magazine took a series of photos for Leslie Cheung "Odd Shuanghui". A friend sent the photos to Director Chen Da to see: "Have you moved?" Chen Kaige really immediately" Be tempted", made a special trip to Hong Kong to have an interview with Leslie Cheung. The photos in the "Odd Shuanghui" series were made to commemorate Mei Lanfang. The style is similar to "A Dream in the Garden". The shots are really beautiful, but compared with the "Farewell My Concubine" movie, they are inferior to each other and not only inferior to makeup. Song Xiaochuan, Leslie Cheung's own figure, hands, and eyes are also very "amateur", which is very different from the performance after worshiping a famous teacher.
·Millions of rewards Leslie Cheung: Leslie Cheung came to Beijing like a string. On the one hand, it is necessary to learn the hands, eyes, body, and footwork of Peking Opera. On the other hand, it is necessary to learn the authentic Beijing dialect. This is difficult enough for Leslie Cheung, who can't speak Mandarin well. The filming is non-stop, entering the booth at 10:30 in the morning and leaving the booth at 11 or 2 in the evening. A long time can be described as fatigue fighting. However, his millions of wages are beyond the imagination of domestic actors. The film crew closely controlled Leslie Cheung's whereabouts. Even the actor who played with him didn't know when he came and when he went. He really came and went without a trace, playing hide-and-seek with everyone. It seems that Leslie Cheung is not easy in Beijing. Who makes him so famous?
·Many audiences in mainland China started to understand Leslie Cheung from Cheng Dieyi, so they have an impression of him as feminine and charming. In fact, Leslie Cheung has always been a heroic image of a niche, which is very different from Cheng Dieyi. In order to transform him into this The male Huadan, the crew and himself have done a lot of work: shaved his eyebrows, because they were too thick and straight, this time they had to be trimmed into a slender shape; he was asked to maintain a thin body shape, so Leslie Cheung, who worked out all the year round, In "Farewell My Concubine", the whole person is thin... and his beard: Leslie Cheung's beard is thicker than the average person, half of his cheek is full, and he shaves twice a day (Leung Tow Wai once said enviously: "Why Leslie Cheung I can grow a beard, so I can only grow a goatee?”) This time, in order to meet the temperament of the butterfly clothes, the makeup artist shaved him not enough. He had to apply powder to cover up his face, but some shots could still be used. See a cyan fibrous root. In addition, Leslie Cheung changed his walking and sitting posture during the filming of "Farewell My Concubine". During that time, the photos of him sat down with his legs tight, and his usual habit was to sit with his legs wide open. That was the case, and it went back to that after the filming of "Farewell My Concubine".
·Serious brother: Leslie Cheung, who is hailed as the "superstar of the emperor" by Hong Kong people, "lived" the "Yuji" Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell My Concubine". Leslie Cheung on the scene twisted her horns, talked sweetly, laughed sourly, and acted like a well-trained old actor. The crew admired his acting skills and joked in private: "You are such a fairy!" Leslie Cheung was also very proud of his performance. Although he has filmed many film and television dramas, he still thinks this movie will become his. Masterpiece. Leslie Cheung is also very easy-going. He is the actor who arrives most on time for filming, and never delays everyone's time. If he catches up with the shots of footsteps, arms, legs, etc., and insists on not asking for a substitute, he believes that every part of the body is connected to the heart and has feelings, and the partial shots are also the transmission of certain emotions and certain information. The degree of his dedication can be said to be "abstracted."
·From the novel "Farewell My Concubine", only two groups of actors are needed: juvenile and adult, but Chen Kaige felt that it was not enough, so he chose another group of young actors. Those children are from the theater school, they are very cute and very dedicated. They really suffered a lot, because all the scenes where they were beaten were really beaten. Chen Kaige said: Instead of failing to pass the fake fight several times, it's better to do it again, so that the child doesn't know how far the fight will be. It's very real. The director cried after playing.
When Zhang Fengyi recalled the scene where he was beaten by the master, he said: "Originally, the director said that he was hitting in clothes. I think a man who had to behave like he was a child, exposed his butt and let the master hit him. That's right, so Advocating to take off his pants. Leslie Cheung said: I'm not just my ass. I said:'I don't care, I'll come.'" When it was time to shoot, the board was hit, Zhang Fengyi's face changed and his voice trembled because of the pain. After the filming, others came up to comfort him. He smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay..." Later, someone said, "Why don't you go to the infirmary and take some medicine." He was nervous. No, I'm really a little anxious. I turned around and shouted at the old man: "You beat me to blood..." There is also a description of a Hong Kong reporter in this scene: Before shooting this camera, listen to Chen Kaige's "Now hit Zhang Fengyi's ass" "The author mistakenly made a joke, Leslie Cheung immediately clapped his hands in applause. Zhang Fengyi stated that women under the age of 40 can only leave the scene to start filming. Chen Kaige only asked people present not to take pictures, which caused a lot of laughter. The actor who played the teacher's biography raised the "torture instrument" heavily and dropped it lightly on Zhang Fengyi's body. Everyone laughed and felt that the beating did not look like, so they did it again. Chen Kaige didn't stop until he thought he was qualified. Leslie Cheung quickly put down the "senior brother"'s gown, and he said with a distressed look: "You can't fight anymore, it's bleeding!" It can be seen that the two are also very tacit and friendly outside the scene.
· In the section of "The Drunken Concubine" in the movie, Gao Lishi is a famous Peking opera artist, known as "the first ugly princess in Liyuan", and he is said to be very proud. On the day of the filming, he played with Leslie Cheung, and after the filming, he quietly asked the staff: How many years has this person studied filming? The staff replied: I haven't learned drama, Hong Kong stars are coming. The old man was taken aback, and immediately approached Leslie Cheung to befriend Leslie Cheung, full of praise, and asked him to have a chance to perform an excerpt together. Leslie Cheung happily agreed. But the old man probably doesn't know yet. Leslie Cheung took only 15 minutes to film the performance of "The Drunken Concubine".
·In the section about Japanese soldiers entering the city, Leslie Cheung watched the replay after shooting the rest of his life after the catastrophe, and suggested that the makeup of the butterfly should be messier to have the effect of being ravaged. Chen Kaige agreed. Leslie Cheung asked his assistant to come over and kiss him, but the assistant didn't dare. So Chen Kaige personally took Leslie Cheung and gave him a savage kiss, smearing the rouge lipstick on his face into a mess, just like a few blood stains. After the filming, the effect was better. .
·After Leslie Cheung called out this sentence of "Senior Brother, don't go", Chen Kaige called to stop and walked over to tell him the drama. From the tidbits, you can see that both Zhang Fengyi and Gong Li stopped and looked at Chen Kaige to listen to the lecture, while Leslie Cheung's eyes were full of tears, staring at Zhang Fengyi motionlessly. When Chen Kaige finished speaking, he stretched out Chen Kaige to continue the performance, his eyes never left. Zhang Fengyi.
·According to the Hong Kong media description, when filming Gong Li spitting on Leslie Cheung’s face in the trial scene, Gong Li just slobbered randomly. When it was officially filmed, Gong Li's expression was so lifelike and her saliva squirted over. Chen Kaige said that Gong Li played the role. Good, realistic enough. Leslie finished the play of Gong Li smiled and said: "how do you so much saliva ah, like a fountain." I'm sorry Gong Li, wiping the face immediately got up to help Leslie, Leslie said: "! As I do not wash it tonight,"
Small Lou and Dieyi performed a section in the theater and asked all the extras to applaud, but one girl didn't, just waving a piece of paper and waiting for Leslie Cheung's signature. Leslie Cheung watched it on stage. After the performance, he asked his assistant to find the girl, and while signing his signature, he said: The signature is okay, but you have to act well when you work.
· In the Dieyi quit smoking section, Chen Kaige said it was OK after the first filming. Leslie Cheung was not satisfied and wanted to shoot again. After several consecutive shots, he smashed the glass too hard and cut off a piece of meat from his fingers. Everyone was nervous. He smiled and said it was okay. This time, the shot was finally done.
·In order to save money, movies are usually scheduled according to scenes, and the scenes of the same scene are arranged to be shot together. "Farewell My Concubine" is arranged in chronological order for emotional coherence, which means that the first scenes in the movie are shot first, the latter scenes are shot later, and the final scenes are shot last. You can clearly see that Leslie Cheung was still unnatural at the beginning, a bit pretentious, and then he entered the drama deeper and deeper, and the interpretation became more and more exciting. By the second half of the movie, Chen Kaige said that his performance has exceeded his imagination. , No longer guide him, let him play by himself.
· During the filming break, "Yuji" Leslie Cheung and "Juxian" Gong Li joked. The two were intimate and intimate. Sitting there, you talked and laughed. Standing next to Zhang Fengyi, there was no overlord's might, but several soft-spoken interruptions were not answered. Seeing that there was no one next to them, the King of Chu slammed into the fire, "Don't tell me, we are a family." The two turned to look at Zhang Fengyi who was staring, and laughed. It turned out that Gong Li and Leslie Cheung designed to anger him deliberately. Speaking of Gong Li, Leslie Cheung was full of praise, praising her for acting quickly and adapting quickly. Gong Li also appreciates Leslie Cheung, but it is a pity that it is less than Zhang Fengyi to play with Leslie Cheung. Leslie Cheung joked:'That's because they are afraid that you will fall in love with me. "
· Leslie Cheung and Zhang Fengyi the same age, the film" Farewell My Concubine "at the time takes a brotherly, They that year is the year, which Zhang Fengyi Leslie deliberately sent a red belt, taught him" evil. "
· Ge has been Thinking that Leslie Cheung was younger than himself, he later learned that he was one year older than himself, and said in surprise: "How does he grow up?" After Ge You won the international movie star, Leslie Cheung invited him to dinner, congratulated him warmly, and said to him: "I think Dieyi should choose Yuan Siye, because Yuan Siye knows more about art, Peking opera, and more than Xiaolou. Die Yi. "
·" Farewell My Concubine "in several guest roles: to spend a full House clients is Huang Lei, a small Red Guard leader is David Wu, an umbrella attendant to Junqing engine is Song Xiaochuan, the trial judge is Zhang war.
· Chen Kaige find Gong Li came to play Juxian to take care of the international market to a large extent, because at that time Gong Li was one of the most influential Chinese movie stars in the world. "Farewell My Concubine" greatly increased her role in Juxian, the overseas version of the DVD Most of the cover is the portrait of Juxian.
·Many people know that Cheng Dieyi used to play Zunlong, but what is less known is that Li Bihua's first promising candidate for Duan Xiaolou is Jackie Chan, and Jackie Chan is also a troupe. Jackie Chan declined because he was afraid that the gay color of the film would affect his image.
· Zhang Fengyi is bold, guarded, sincere, and free. Chen Kaige's unique discernment selected him to play the "Overlord" in "Farewell My Concubine", and said to him: "Your temperament matches your character." Li Bihua was also quite satisfied with Zhang Fengyi. She described the impression of seeing Zhang Fengyi for the first time. Said that he fits the image of Duan Xiaolou, not only rough and tough, but also "a little peach blossom at the corner of his eyes." In the middle of the play, Xiaolou changed from "pure" to "vulgar". He was a good and bad person. Zhang Fengyi said: "I like acting in this play. I haven't cried after acting for more than a decade. This drama has already made me cry twice. You think it’s not easy to make a dignified five-foot man really cry! Speaking of Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi said more: Leslie Cheung is very chic, not as tired as the mainlanders. Usually when he is happy to talk, he twists the body of the horn. He has good acting skills and a good personality. In short, except for smoking, he is good. They
cooperated tacitly, they were partners in the play, and friends in life. ·The filming of "Farewell My Concubine" was Leslie Cheung’s first trip to the north. Hong Kong friends all sweated for him and worried that he would go to Beijing to live an "inhuman life". Leslie Cheung was also very nervous. He brought a large box of medicines, which became the crew’s public drug storehouse during filming. He was really ill when he arrived in Beijing. He was not comfortable with the water and soil, had a high fever, nosebleeds, and had diarrhea. He lost weight quickly, he said. This is very good and more in line with the character image.
·The scene of the critique was very hard. It was filmed for two consecutive days. At that time, it was the hottest season in Beijing. Leslie Cheung was wearing a full set of costumes and hanging a big sign in the heat, kneeling beside the brazier with tears. Acting and acting again, the result was a serious illness after the filming.
·Many times there was no Leslie Cheung in the scene. Chen Kaige gave him a holiday and allowed him to go back to Hong Kong to rest. He did not leave, saying that he wanted to maintain the emotions in the scene for fear of being distracted. At that time, the whole crew knew that he had a "girlfriend for many years" in Hong Kong, and he called at least once a day. He paid for the cost and didn't ask the crew to take a penny.
· It is very hard work to shoot a Beijing opera scene. Le Leaving the head for a long time will cause vomiting. Leslie Cheung is used to vomiting and vomiting. He wears a phoenix crown weighing several kilograms for a whole day. After he is dressed up, he can’t eat because the muscle activity on his face will cause the patch to fall off. Leslie Cheung And he didn’t want to toss the makeup artist to put on makeup again, so he was often hungry regardless of his stomach problems. Even drinking water had to be controlled because it was inconvenient to go to the toilet. Leslie Cheung had to go to the toilet when filming the imperial concubine, for fear of messing up his cumbersome outfit , Didn't dare to enter the men's bathroom, and ran to the women's bathroom to try, but as soon as he entered the door, he ran out again: "It turns out that the women's bathroom is more dirty..."
·The dirtyness of public toilets in the Mainland has long been known. Hong Kong reporters who went to the crew of "Farewell My Concubine" were not willing to go to the bathroom on the set. They had to go back to the hotel by car every time. They had always been obsessed with the cleanliness of Leslie Cheung and the rest of the crew. I also went to the public toilet to express my admiration. Some special places don’t even have public toilets and need to be solved in the wild. A Hong Kong reporter asked Leslie Cheung: “Have you said hello to the ghosts and gods passing by?” Leslie Cheung smiled: “Yes, I always say, “I’m sorry, let’s take a light” Ah."
Leslie Cheung would always pay for the staff to eat out of his pocket when filming, and "Farewell My Concubine" was no exception. It was in the middle of summer. He also arranged fruit and cold drinks for the crew, and happily brought them with him when he was not in the scene. Watermelon went to the studio to give condolences. In late May, it was catching up with the rare high temperature in Beijing. The studio is as high as 40 degrees. Leslie Cheung saw all the crew members sweating profusely, and it was inevitable to feel distressed. During the filming, he took advantage of everyone's attention and walked out and bought a box of popsicles for 300 yuan.
· Leslie Cheung has a deep affection for the crew of "Farewell My Concubine". He gets along well with all the staff and often plays together. The staff said, "He is a nearly perfect person", "The work attitude is first-rate, hardworking, willing "Cooperation, no airs", "I have never seen a big-name star who cares so much about him", "The requirements for himself are stricter than those of the director"... At the end of the filming, he reluctantly gave up, and once again acted as a host to invite the whole crew to dinner, and was sad during the dinner. I couldn't help crying. I drank three glasses of Maotai and twelve glasses of liquor with everyone. After he had never been good at drinking, he vomited for four hours after returning to the room and couldn't climb up. Both Zhang Fengyi and Gong Li persuaded him that there would still be a chance to get together in the future. Leslie Cheung said: It's different. Even if I see you again, I can't find this mood...
·In early 2003, Leslie Cheung, who had been suffering from depression for a year, made a special trip to Beijing to visit. The old friends of the crew of "Farewell My Concubine" met one by one, had dinner, and Yin Zhi, who played Xiaodouzi, did not see him at the time. Leslie Cheung called him after returning to Hong Kong: "I am your eldest brother Guorong. I have a chance. I'll see you again..."
Chen Kaige said that a few years ago, Hong Kong asked him to shoot "Farewell My Concubine", but he didn't take it. After a few years, he felt that he could master the subject before he took the shot. Chen Kaige is extremely attentive to "Farewell My Concubine", and is meticulous in many unobtrusive details. For example, in the theater before the liberation, there are often young masters holding eagles. If you look carefully at the movie, you will see a passing shot. Watching the eagle on the arm.
In the film, Cheng Dieyi was dubbed by Yang Lixin. Although Leslie Cheung went to Beijing to practice Mandarin three months in advance, he was able to communicate with everyone in fluent Mandarin during the filming process, but in post-production, he still found that the Cantonese flavor was too strong. However, in order for Chen Kaige to show Leslie Cheung’s efforts in the play, when Cheng Dieyi’s voice was in a "distorted state", there were still two scenes that retained Leslie Cheung’s original sound: one was Cheng Dieyi’s delirious smoker. There is another scene when he was drunk when he danced with Ge You's Yuan Siye in the back garden. Since international film festivals require the use of actors’ soundtracks in films, Yang Lixin has truly become a behind-the-scenes hero without a name in the subtitles.
·This is the first film in mainland China to win the Palme d'Or in Cannes. It is indeed a pity that Leslie Cheung lost the actor by one vote at the Cannes Film Festival. Even the jury expressed regret to him. It is said that it is inconvenient to win both the Palme Award and the Best Actor Award for the highest bonus. The first reaction of the actors who were nominated for Best Actor in the Golden Horse Awards was to ask if Leslie Cheung was nominated, saying that if there was him, they would not have any hope. In the end, due to various reasons, the film did not participate in the Chinese film festival, and the film king was unable to comment, but Leslie Cheung himself never complained about this situation.
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