In the summer of 2018, Gui Lunmei was in the film crew of the movie "The Gathering of Southern Station" (hereinafter referred to as "Southern Station"). He was confused by the appropriateness of his performance and was troubled by the sweltering weather in Wuhan. The five-month filming period Most of them were night scenes. After she gathered up her emotions and cooperated with the director's complicated schedule to complete the filming, she let out a long sigh, "This night is really hard." Hu Ge by her heard her breathless breath. Voice. In the summer of 2019, as the only Chinese film shortlisted in the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival, the creator of "South Station" walked on the red carpet. Gui Lunmei held the director and Liao Fan’s hands with mixed feelings, proud and full of respect. I have red eyes several times.
Back in the summer of 2000, Gui Lunmei, who was still in high school, was discovered by the casting director to become the heroine Meng Kerou in the movie "Blue Gate". The immature and pure face and youthful campus became the best for everyone in summer. Interpretation.
It seems that one is floating in the air and the other is barefoot on the ground. When the audience regards Gui Lunmei as a representative of a youth film and a representative of a young literary girl, she put herself into the Wuhan City Village and entered the companion swimmer Liu Ai'ai. In the role, he adds a different memory to his summer.
It’s even harder to get into Liu Ai’ai’s body
Gui Lunmei was aggrieved and confused. Up to now, she is not sure whether the audience can accept her performance.
In "South Station", Gui Lunmei plays Liu Ai'ai, a swimmer who accompanies the men. Director Diao Yinan said that there are many groups of Hubei actors in this movie, and the characters are ordinary people in the bottom society. If the actors speak Mandarin, it will be very difficult. In violation, speaking Wuhan dialect will help improve the quality of the movie. Gui Lunmei learned Wuhan dialect two months in advance and required that he could fully master the language. Even if he changed the performance temporarily, he would not hinder his performance due to the language.
Even more difficult is to get into the body of Liu Ai'ai. Although Diao Yinan's consistent shooting method is very helpful to actors in terms of mood and interpretation, the personal lives of Liu Aiai and Gui Lunmei from the bottom of society are very different, and she has never been able to find the best way to interpret.
The director requires actors to have more physical performances instead of psychological changes. This is another new and uneasy attempt for Gui Lunmei. "Each scene is just to complete what you want to express in a single scene. It is a dotted and incoherent performance, which is finally assembled by the director. Each scene has a tone and a central axis, but around this central axis there will be different Interpretation, for example, the director would say that you are a little black and the next one has less edges and corners. Use such abstract adjectives to let me express it on the spot."
In the movie, there are many scenes of Liu Aiai walking down the street with complex emotions. Gui Lunmei spent a long time walking around the streets and alleys when preparing for the role-staying in the tube building for a week, listening to the residents' ways of speaking. In the dark and greasy lanes of the village in the city, you can experience the emotions of a single woman Liu Ai'ai.
The director felt that her body shape easily exuded the familiar temperament, so he kept reminding her to break down a little bit, and then break down a little bit. Gui Lunmei was very aggrieved and confused. He felt that he had already stuck to the ground, why he still couldn't express the feeling of collapse. It wasn't until a period of time that I slowly found the feeling in the duck walking style and body posture I designed. Up to now, she is not sure whether the audience can accept such a performance, but feels that this is the only way she can find at the time.
The sweltering weather and anxiety in Wuhan caused her body to continuously send out warning messages. She was often feverish and shot against the sun. Looking back on the summer of 2018, "Maybe like the director said, this tenaciousness to life is just a manifestation of it. On Liu Ai'ai."
There are also countless beautiful moments.
In the whole movie, Gui Lunmei thinks the most beautiful is the erotic scene on the boat. It is the same as the erotic scene of Liao Fan on the Ferris wheel in "Fireworks in Daylight". The director pressed the overall style to be very clean and rational. Gui Lunmei did not hesitate to put in the erotic scene. In the feeling. "That scene is very important. It is not only an expression of lust, it is the interweaving of the two people's bodies, but the inner activities are very rich, as if they are handed over to the other party, and it seems to be just a transaction. It contains a lot of content. , A kind of complexity is naturally revealed in the deduction process."
After filming "South Station", Gui Lunmei joked to the director that we have finished filming the cold winter and sweltering summer. Why don't we make up the Four Seasons series like Hou Mai? Next time we will shoot an autumn movie, a movie full of autumn mist. .
Say goodbye to "Summer Girlfriend" and let the performance return to purity
"Sometimes I wonder if I should change my understanding of movies and get closer to the so-called mainstream."
In October last year, the swimming pool of the High School Affiliated to Normal University was to be demolished for the important scene in "Blue Door". The school invited Gui Lunmei and Chen Bolin to come back for the last outdoor screening.
That night Gui Lunmei wrote on Weibo: “We used to spend a hot summer here and had the most youthful dream. We will come back here 17 years later, with the audience and memories, with mixed feelings. A clean movie, Simple original intention, green look."
Gui Lunmei clearly remembered that on the day when the filming of "Blue Door" ended, she had never cried so sad, thinking that she would never meet the friends of the crew who had been with the crew for months. "At that time I felt so sad, so sad, and kept crying. It's strange why there were such naive thoughts back then."
"This is one of the most important works in my life. It is the beginning of my career as an actor, and even the beginning of my career as a film. It is also because of this movie that I began to know myself and I began to ask questions about myself. At that time, I was only 17 years old, and I seemed to be following all the systems and expectations, because the role of Meng Kerou and the director Yi Zhiyan opened up my understanding of people. I didn't seem to have a framework for a person's established appearance before. Carrying her (Meng Kerou) is very beautiful, and I also look forward to the appearance of a role with the same weight as Meng Kerou in the future. I am very grateful for this movie. It has laid my respect for the profession of actor and pure love for movies. This is me For the first film, I still look forward to being full of pure love and respect in the state of work. I don't use any opportunity at will. I respect my work very much." Gui Lunmei said.
"Blue Door" carries the youthful time of many viewers. Meng Kerou's youthfulness, stubbornness, stubbornness, and shyness are vividly interpreted by Gui Lunmei, in which she has her true qualities.
The film that also made her unforgettable was "Fireworks in Daylight", which was the first collaboration with director Diao Yinan. In this crew, Gui Lunmei spent his thirtieth birthday, and also bid farewell to the inherent image. The “Summer Girlfriend” in the Taiwanese literary film grew into a silent but deadly seductive Northeast “femme beauty” ".
"Fireworks in the Day" was filmed in Harbin. The minimum temperature was minus 30 degrees Celsius. In the film, there is a scene of Wu Zhizhen, played by Gui Lunmei, skating on the ice rink. With a crystal light, Gui Lunmei raised his face, it was a cold and transparent face, but he also hid the endless complex heart behind. Gui Lunmei, who lives in Taipei, described the cold nights in Harbin, which often made her muscles stiff, and she couldn't speak her lines, but it just made her miss it.
During the filming, it coincided with the film "Girlfriend·Boyfriend" starring him that won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress. From the icy and snowy Harbin back to the golden award ceremony, Gui Lunmei wanted to integrate himself into the atmosphere of the award ceremony, but All I was thinking about was really wanting to return to the Northeast to continue filming.
"At that time, most people would do a lot of interviews after winning the award. I was very fortunate that I could go back to film. I think that is really important as an actor, and it just so happens that I love the crew and the role very much." Things didn't seem to be implemented in Gui Lunmei's life, floating in mid-air all the time, and it had nothing to do with her.
""Fireworks in the Day" to me is really like what Liao Fan said. It was a very happy shooting process and a great gift. This film made me meet the staff who are dedicated and passionate about movies. Although the conditions are difficult, they often It hurts from the cold, but because of love, all of us completed it very purely and attentively together. It seems that there is no interest-related idea, it is a very simple artistic creation process. Sometimes I wonder if I should change myself. The knowledge of movies is closer to the so-called mainstream. But then I found out that I met a group of like-minded friends and found that they could spend five or six years preparing a work. At that time, I knew, um, I can go on. this road."
My current self is like a glass of boiled water
"Very light, almost tasteless. But you may experience a little bit of sweetness and a little bit of salty from something that seems tasteless. It's a matter of calming down."
At the age of 17, Gui Lunmei, who was wearing fat pants and tangled hair, transferred to the MRT in Ximending. He was stinking because of a fight with his boyfriend, but he was caught by the assistant director of "Blue Gate". Become Meng Kerou. Later in movies such as "Secrets That Cannot Be Said" and "Girlfriend·Boyfriend", Gui Lunmei played countless kinds of female students and quiet girls.
Many viewers know Gui Lunmei through Meng Kerou in "The Blue Door" and Lu Xiaoyu in "The Secret That Cannot Be Said". The fresh role of transparent texture established Gui Lunmei's identity as a youth film and a young literary girl in the eyes of the audience. The opposite of Xiaoqingxin’s route is her unique and even neurotic roles: in "Huge Calls", she plays the villain liar, cruel but also believes in love; in "A Beautiful Accident", she plays Ouyang Nana My mother, without the restraint and unwillingness of an actress, taught Ouyang Nana how to act in a crying scene with instant noodles; "Flying Armor of Dragon Gate" is painted with weird tattoos and murderous faces.
Gui Lunmei described these diametrically opposite and self-consistent roles as self with different proportions. There is always the same thing in it. "The fresh image is the accumulation of my past roles. I am very grateful to the audience for staying because of some of my roles. I actually didn't want to erase it, but I am still a curious actor. I’m still very interested in the role of. So I always say that I don’t want to put myself in a frame. Instead, I expect my audience to go on adventures with me and experience new characters together, just like playing.” There are not many films, and Gui Lunmei feels that each role is as important as a baby to her. She spent a long time getting along with them, and she did not want to deliberately bid farewell to each role.
The father who was able to shoot the kiss scene in "The Blue Door" was accompanied throughout the entire filming, and the father, who asked the director to only be able to shoot up to three shots, watched his daughter show his work one after another, and cut off at a certain time. Li suddenly discovered that Gui Lunmei really liked acting, and gradually understood the choice she made, understood that she was not an actor who had no reason to interpret such a scene, and understood the reason why erotic scenes are so crucial in movies, and finally became unnecessary now. The total trust reached after too much explanation.
The line "What kind of adults do we want to be" in "Blue Door" was quoted by many people. To answer this question, Gui Lunmei said: "I am still thinking about this question. If you don't define yourself as an adult, you still I think about what kind of adult I can become in the future, and always ask myself at different times. Maybe you will gradually become what you want to be."
She described her current state as a glass of boiled water, very weak and almost tasteless-halfway through she couldn't help but laugh and said, "Is it a bit arrogant if I say this way-but it is necessary for some people." of".
"I will still follow my personality. This is also a trait. It's not that everyone has to have a special taste and a certain taste. You may experience a little bit of sweetness and a certain taste from things that seem to be tasteless. A little salty, that is to calm down."
After leaving the role, Gui Lunmei was immersed in a quiet state, asked himself a lot of questions, and then had a judgment closer to his own when he made the next choice.
This article first appeared in the Beijing News and is the author himself
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