(I posted it on Weibo many years ago, so I can easily move it)
Shahrukh's new thriller "Fan/Fan" tells the story of a fan who is crazy about his beloved star and eventually crosses the line and becomes a monster. Apart from King Khan, this film really doesn't have any promotional points. The schedule is unpopular, the director is new, and the most terrible thing is that there is no singing and dancing. Even when the trailer first came out, I thought the production team just found a special actor to play the lead role, and the real King Khan was just a cameo. In the opening ten minutes, I stared at the "twenty-year-old Khan" face and kept on acting, wondering if it was really Shah Rukh himself, the makeup effect was too amazing. It turns out that the makeup effect is just that amazing. In order to create the appearance of a 20-year-old, the crew not only hired a Hollywood Oscar-winning makeup artist to shape the appearance, but Shahrukh also went to the United States to do a 3D digital facial scan. And in order to highlight the different image from the "actor" in the film, he also specially did some dental correction to create a different way of speaking. It's not new to tell stories, and the most compelling thing here is actually the performance. The first protagonist of the film, the number one fan of Gaurav, debuted with a simple and cute personality, but the madness that occasionally revealed made people shudder. Friends who are familiar with Shahrukh should be able to see many shadows of his early works from this character: the innocent, kind and courageous side corresponds to the image of the lover on which he became famous (typically such as "Break Your Heart" and "Break Your Heart"). "), it seems normal, but the distorted character erupts without knowing when is the various petty people and morbid characters when he first debuted (the most classic example is "Love of Evil" in cooperation with Mudhuri, yes, it is Like Dresssmaker, who has complained about the direction of Shenma's plot before, moni's sadomasochistic novel). The second protagonist, actor Aryan. It is not the first time that Shahrukh has played this kind of "actor" stalk that alternates between reality and fantasy. He has played it in "Bollywood Legends" and "Biru" before, but both times were more cheerful and comedy. And this time, the "Emperor" is obviously an old man, hard-hearted, ruthless, not cold-blooded but also ruthless. I think this role corresponds to the screen image that Shahrukh has played in recent years: a tough guy in action or a man with a deep past, such as the "Don" series, "R. One" and "Love Never Ends" and so on. The transformation of roles is sometimes reflected in the transformation of the actors themselves. Although I know that on-screen and off-screen must be separated, I am filled with emotion when I look at the various connections in the film and think about the off-screen connections. Because of the connection between these two characters, I liked the first confrontation between the two in the courtroom the most in the first half. In a trance, I feel that sometimes Shah Rukh's past characters are communicating with the future screen image, and sometimes I feel that the actor himself is standing in front of him talking to his former self. Shahrukh himself started out as a small person, and "Born A Couple" and "My Name is Khan" also prove that he can restrain his emotions and act well without the exaggeration of Bollywood. So I'm not surprised that Gaurav slowly darkened, but I was even more surprised by the intersection of his star face and his true personality when he played Aryan. When the second half starts, the performance is even more interesting. In order to destroy his former idol, the heartbroken Gaurav imitated from the beginning, and then completely turned into Aryan himself as a public figure; and Aryan, who was forced to go back by fans, gradually released the darkness in his heart, revealing The street kid's ruffian in the past, and even finally had to play the role of a small fan in order to catch Gaurav. The boundaries are becoming more and more blurred, fans have become the self they always wanted to be, but the actor is slowly returning to the lost past. These performances with misplaced identities occasionally make the audience feel that their hair is upside down, because sometimes you really can't tell who is real and who is pretending. I think that there was a scene where I went crazy and broke into a house without a close-up. Shah Rukh stood there silently and didn't speak. At that moment, I really couldn't recognize who was who. Of course, there are not no shortcomings: in such a film that is actually very realistic, I don’t know if it is for the box office or something, and a few action scenes with obvious special effects are interspersed, which is very damaging to the atmosphere. It's not that you can really perform Bollywood stunts in real life if you are an actor. It's okay to interspersed with a paragraph at the beginning to adjust the atmosphere (that part of the residential building jumping out of the window really thinks of Aite's "Kung Fu"), but it's not good to have a large paragraph after that. Of course, the entertainment and stimulation are quite good. After all, Shah Rukh's own special effects company produced it, which is considered to be the top of the Bollywood industry (I want to cry again when I think of the martial arts of "Empire Double Wall"). Finally, I suddenly remembered a detail. At the beginning of the first half, Gaurav tried to imitate Aryan in an amusement park parody to amuse his neighbors and his beloved girl, and behind the scenes, his doting parents were busy doing "special special effects"; the second half began with Aryan at a strutting Indian party Dancing on a show, a lot of work Personnel raced against the clock to set up the costumes for the scene, because the slightest inattention was a reputational damage. Aryan's life would be fine without Gaurav, but Gaurav couldn't live without Aryan. [Oh, by the way, this film also went to the capital of Croatia to shoot in the middle... Yes, it is in the same location as GOT. I have seen the grand staircase of the Baelor Cathedral and the Immortal Temple visited by the Dragon Girl in the second season. The film crew also wants to touch it. The scenery of GOT? 】
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