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Action film The Painted Skin [TS Edition] Actors:, Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Qi, Sun Li,.

Painted Skin (2008)

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Director: Chen Jiashang Chen Jiashang

Starring:

Zhao Wei ... Pei Rong.

Chen Kun ... Wang Sheng

Donnie Yen ... Pang Yong

Zhou Xun ... Xiao Wei

Sun Li ... Xia Bing

Movie genre: action/fantasy

Country/Region: China/Singapore

Dialogue language: Chinese

Color: color

Production cost: USD 65,438+USD 00 million/estimate

Date of shooting: 65438+February 2007-February 2008

Release time: September 26, 2008

Release: Shanghai Film Group Corporation

Joint investors: Ningxia Film Studio, Shanghai Film Group, Ding International Culture Media Company, Beijing Century Jiaying Culture Development Company, Beijing Xinyinglian Film Co., Ltd., New Media Xinglin Film Private Limited, Salon Multimedia Center Co., Ltd. and Hong Kong Taiji Film Holdings Co., Ltd.

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Based on China's classic Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Wang Sheng, a captain, led Wang Jiajun to rescue a stunning woman and brought her back to Jiangdu Wang Fu in the fierce battle with sand bandits in the western regions. I don't want this woman to be changed by Xiao Wei, a beautiful fox. Its skin must be preserved by people's heart, so Xiao Wei's invisible assistant Xiao Yi, a demon made by desert lizard, will kill and sacrifice Xiao Wei's heart every few days to show his love for Xiao Wei, so Jiangdu City is plunged into terror. Xiao Wei fell in love with Wang Sheng, the leader of Wang Jiajun, because he was brave and handsome. He constantly lured Wang Sheng with witchcraft and tried to replace Wang Sheng's wife, Pei Rong.

Pei Rong found that Xiao Wei was in love with her husband and realized that she was not an ordinary person, so she secretly turned to Pang Yonghe, a tramp with high martial arts skills, and Xia Bing, a cold magician, to help Wang Sheng. ...

From then on, a complex transvestite, human relations, pure love, grudges, temptations, frame-ups, struggles and life-and-death battles between men and women, brothers and demons have slowly opened. The ending was tragic and unexpected ... slowly distance yourself.

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The new "Painted Skin" lineup is unique. The actors are composed of six popular stars, including Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Sun Li and Qi. The lineup is very unique and striking. In terms of creativity, the "Presidium" lineup composed of Chen Jiashang, President of Hong Kong Directors Association and Chairman of Hong Kong Film Awards, Arthur Wong, Chairman of Hong Kong Professional Film Photographers Association, Bill Lui, former Chairman of Hong Kong Film Art Association, Wai Tung, Chairman of Hong Kong Wushu Association, and Lin Zou, Chairman of Hong Kong Lighting Association can be described as a gathering of elites. This film was rated as one of the top ten most anticipated blockbusters in 2008 by the audience. However, in order to maintain the mystery of the film, except for the collective appearance of all the actors at the film conference, there are few collective appearances, and the joint appearance of the main creator and the actors is unprecedented. James Pang, the producer, said, "The producer will make a collective appearance at an appropriate time and place with the creators and actors of the film The Painted Skin. At that time, we will also present a mysterious gift to media friends, so stay tuned. "

The origin of painted skin

The story of Painted Skin originated from Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. At the end of Ming Dynasty, a scholar named Wang Sheng met a homeless girl on the road in Taiyuan. This girl is young and beautiful. Wang Sheng takes her home, hides her in a secret room and makes love every day. Unexpectedly, this woman was changed by an evil spirit who specializes in eating people's hearts. In fact, "the face is emerald, the teeth are like saws, the skin is spread on the couch, and colored strokes are used." I have thrown a pen, raised my skin like a vibrating dress, put it on my body and turned into a woman. " Later, this demon was discovered by a Taoist priest, but the Taoist priest was kind-hearted and thought that "this thing is also good and bitter." If you can find a substitute, you can't bear to hurt its life. " Let Wang Sheng hang a dust shower at home to scare her away. Unexpectedly, the demon got better treatment, so he cut out Wang Sheng's heart in embarrassment and ran away. The Taoist priest was furious. "I pity it, but the devil dares!" "So I killed it easily with magic. In the end, he also came back to life with the efforts of his wife Chen.

The original text of the Painted Skin is less than two thousand words. The reason why it spread so widely is because of the erotic elements in the story. The story of the beautiful fairy has always been very popular among the people of China. Although there is not much description in the original text, there is a lot of room for imagination between the lines. Secondly, there is a clever character in the story, that is, his wife Chen, who knows that her husband secretly loves another woman and helps to keep a secret while coaxing her. Later, in order to save her husband's life, she endured all kinds of insults and even ate the beggar's thick phlegm. She was an earth-shaking model wife. Finally, The Painted Skin has profound implications. At the end of the original text, there is such a generous sentence that is quite "cynical", "What a fool! Obviously, the devil also thinks it is beautiful. What a fool! Clearly loyal and think it's fake. But if you fish for the color of your lover, your wife will spit on it and be willing to eat it. " Reasoning from Wang Sheng's point of view, the first half of the sentence actually doesn't make sense, because he didn't know that beauty is a demon at first, and he immediately sought a way to force it after learning the truth, and he was not a guy who wanted to be desperate. However, the last half sentence is an enduring warning. In today's era, when we read this story, it is easy to compare the demon to some mistresses with green eyes and Chen to those wives who have been married for many years. Although there are many complicated concrete situations in morality and fact, this general comparison can still make the story of painted skin have certain universal value in the new era.

Chen Jiashang's adaptation

"The Painted Skin" has been put on the big screen many times. The most famous is Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio directed by Bao Fang in 1966. Zhu Hong and Wang Chongwen, a female ghost and scholar respectively, play Wang Chongwen's wife Chen. 1979 director of "Ghost Calling Spring", Elliot Ngok, a young student of Shao generation, plays the role of general Wang and scholar at the same time, Yan Xing plays the female ghost and plays Chen, the wife of the scholar; There is also 1993 Hu Jinquan's The Master of Yin and Yang, which was Hu Jinquan's last work before his death. Adam Cheng and Joey Wong played Wang Shunsheng and the female ghost Youfeng respectively. Except Li Hanxiang's Ghost of Spring, these three works have a good reputation, but the other two failed to leave a deep impression on future generations.

This time, the shooting of the new version of "Painted Skin" experienced a small storm. At the Shanghai Film Festival last June, Donnie Yen revealed for the first time that he would remake and star in The Painted Skin. At that time, he announced that his old partner Ye Weixin would be the director and Fan Bingbing would be the No.1 female. Unexpectedly, last year 10, the film suddenly announced that the director would be changed to Chen Jiashang and the starring role would be changed to these people now. Chen Jiashang completely subverted the original script and wrote this brand-new story himself.

The investment of this film exceeds 1 100 million RMB. Before that, it was hard for outsiders to imagine that a movie telling ghost stories would be so messy. Besides, it is said that Donnie Yen decided to make such a large-scale magic movie because he was not satisfied after watching Pirates of the Caribbean. In view of this, Chen Jiashang first changed the background of the story. Painted Skin tells a folk story in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Admiral Chen Jia moved it to the Qin and Han Dynasties, and linked the western desert defense war with the original Jiangnan town of monster hunt, which expanded the pattern of the film. From some stills published at present, we can see some war scenes staged in the desert, as well as the common "lonely smoke in the desert, the long river sets the yen" in China blockbusters. Bill Lui, the artistic director, said that he should follow the historical facts to the greatest extent in his artistic design, from the big background of the times to the small items of family life, and he demanded that nothing on the movie screen should be wrong. In addition, some ancient folk designs, such as "hanging coffins", were added.

The biggest difference between The Painted Skin and other China folk ghost stories lies in the emotional line in this story. In the past, most female ghosts in ghost stories were kind and beautiful, and their biggest dream was to become human. When you really love each other, you often become the biggest victim, which makes people feel pity. Legend of the White Snake, Xiao Gan and so on are all listed here. But "The Painted Skin" is different. The female ghost inside has never had any feelings for Wang Sheng. Her only purpose is to wait for the opportunity to kill Wang Sheng. She is a real evil spirit. In order to attract the audience in the emotional part of the film, Chen Jiashang had to make the story "reasonable"-the female ghost fell in love with Wang Sheng, and love prevented her from hurting her sweetheart, so she had to eat other people's hearts to satisfy her hunger. On the whole structure, Chen Jiashang has also laid many complicated emotional lines-Xia Bing and Pang Yong, Pang Yong and Peirong, Peirong and Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng and Xiao Wei, Xiao Wei and Xiao Yi ... Now it is impossible to define how much love this is. Chen Jiashang explained that "three women are infatuated and timid, and the audience can see different views on love from them."

Almost every film and television work adapted from "The Painted Skin" is a restricted level that is not suitable for children. For the thriller part, Chen Jiashang said that he would keep some classic images in the original, such as the horror scenes of female ghosts killing people and eating people's hearts, but "The new painted skin is not scary, and" Scare "is far from expressing the feelings that Painted Skin wants to convey. The new "Painted Skin" is magical and contains reasoning elements. The plot will take the audience to find out who is the murderer and who is the devil. " But during the filming, Zhao Wei was scared to cry by her horrible image. Later, Chen Jiashang made a compromise and made some changes to Peirong's image. Zhao promised to continue filming, which shows that he still wants to inherit the thriller elements in this theme. However, considering the censorship in the mainland and the image problems of big-name actors themselves, it has to be weakened to some extent. In addition, in order to meet the needs of the market, there will be many kung fu scenes in the film.

Choice of actors

Donnie Yen decided to star in The Painted Skin early in the morning, and he is also one of the producers of this film. As for the three actresses Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei and Sun Li in the film, considering the scene and the long-standing competitive factors, it is really not easy to get these three top Hua Dan in China film and television circle to star in a film together. In addition to going all out in terms of film remuneration, Chen Jiashang's golden mouth and jade words honed by years of wandering the rivers and lakes also played an important role in it.

Zhou Xun is a woman with extremely delicate feelings. She never allows herself to play some casual and meaningless roles. According to her personality, Chen Jiashang chose to meet Zhou Xun in a restaurant. He told Zhou Xun that the fox she played was not an ordinary demon, but a fox demon who had practiced for thousands of years. She is not the kind of fox demon who distorts her charm and only discharges in traditional thinking. She always believed that she was a person rather than a demon ... and Zhou Xun was soon persuaded. Through a sentence by Zhou Xun, we can know Chen Jiashang's talent in language: "At that time, I drank yellow wine with the director and talked after drinking. The director expressed his views on love, which I think is novel ... Through this exchange, I feel that the director is a very communicative and amiable person and a real film expert. "

Zhao Wei's film achievements in recent years are not particularly outstanding, so he is very cautious in choosing films. At first, the communication between Chen Jiashang and Zhao Wei was very difficult. "Because we didn't have time together, when I was in Beijing, she went to other places to shoot, she came back, and I was not in Beijing." No way, Chen Jiashang can only invite Zhao Wei to the airport. "Once she went back to Beijing from other places, and I went back to Hong Kong from Beijing. The two of us took this opportunity to meet. She is eating noodles in a noodle restaurant at the airport. After I talked with her for half an hour, she was full of interest in this film, mainly aimed at the tragic elements of her role. " Tragedy is always the death of an actress, which Chen Jiashang knows too well.

Chen Jiashang and Sun Li discuss shooting The Painted Skin in a tea restaurant. At that time, Sun Li had just had her hair cut. Many people saw her new look and worried that it would be difficult for her to take on the show. But Chen Jia came over and said, "Short hair is good, it shows your personality." Chen Jiashang also said, "Most people think that long hair is gentle, and beautiful women must have long hair, especially in costume dramas. But in this movie, I don't want to portray Sun Li as a gentle girl. She is a little boyish in the play because she wants to exorcise demons, which just reflects her boyish character. "

Do you believe in Chen Jiashang?

Chen Jiashang used to be the names of Tsui Hark, John Woo and Du Qifeng. 1994 collaborated with Jet Li on Hero of Jason Wu, which combined martial arts, philosophy of life and feelings of home and country almost perfectly. So far, for many fans, there is no other martial arts movie that can surpass it. 1998 "The Beast Interpol" almost madly exposed the dark side of the Hong Kong police and opened up a new direction for the Hong Kong police film. Several works co-produced with Stephen Chow in 1990s are good memories in the memory of a generation.

But in recent ten years, Chen Jiashang has hardly produced any influential works, and there are many big productions, such as AD 2000 starring Aaron Kwok, Mouse in Love with Cat starring Andy Lau and Dragon Rebirth starring Jackie Chan. However, in these films, Chen Jiashang's talent is hardly revealed, and the box office and word-of-mouth are also average. In recent years, works such as "The Supreme Rogue" and "Mr. Three Minutes" almost turned him into Jing Wong. Incredibly, the director who made Hero of Jason Wu has now made such a vulgar and bad film. Chen Jiashang is currently the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards. He attributed his depravity to his love for Hong Kong movies. "I desperately want to take back the Hong Kong stock market. If I want to become Jing Wong, I will change the Hong Kong stock market, so I made a movie like The Supreme Rogue. But this explanation is really difficult to convince the public. The market needs an audience, but the audience needs high-quality movies to cultivate.

Looking back at Chen Jiashang's films, we can also find another feature-but he has first-class partners in all the more brilliant works, such as playing truant with Wei Long, Duke of Lushan, and Su Qier, the champion of Wu, by Stephen Chow; There is Jet Li in Hero of Jason Wu; The Beast Interpol was directed by him and Lin Chaoxian. Of course, it is unfair to doubt the true level of a director, but if a director leaves some partners, he will immediately become a second-rate, and these partners can still achieve great results without him. Can this explain some problems?

When Chen Jiashang first came to the mainland to climb the Great Wall of Wan Li, he couldn't help crying, because he thought, "China people have suffered too much, and they have suffered for thousands of years, and they are still so bitter!" This shows that Chen Jiashang is a Hong Kong person with strong feelings for home and country. How to organically combine this feeling with his own works is the biggest problem facing Chen Jiashang. "The Painted Skin" is about to be released, and Chen Jiashang's success or failure is at stake. We will wait and see.

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The first news of the movie The Painted Skin was directed by Ye Weixin and starred by Fan Bingbing. However, a few months later, the director was replaced by Chen Jiashang. As for the heroine, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei and Sun Li were preferred as accessories for the time being.

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